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Show ' Dixie Miss Feels Blue - As Christmas Nears "1 if V"0;; - ( w i I LONG WAY FROM HOME ON CHRISTMAS Evelyn Ansley...Hai Birmingham bluet I Alabama Coed Hopes to See Friends at ' Rose Bowl Game Since She Can't Spend Holiday at Home By BETTY WAUGI ' A picture of a homesick girl and a sentimental story always makes good copy around Christmas time. So Tuesday the city editor sent Carl he's a photographer and tne to round up' one. " We found Evelyn Ansley at the Phi Mu sorority house up at 1415 Butler avenue. Evelyn's from Birmingham, Ala., and she's not going home for Christmas, so she was feeling pretty blue. "I'd give snything to be home hsving a real southern Christmas," she sighed; "firecrackers 'n' everything." every-thing." Evelyn's doing the next best thing, however. She's going to Pasadena, Cel., to see the Rose Bowl gam. Her face lit up when she mentioned it "There'll be three special trains in Pssadena from Alabama, ao I'll see plenty of folks from home. Isn't that grand?" This Is the first time Evelyn, who is taking graduate work at th University of Utah, has ever crossed th Mississippi, and the first Christmas she's ever spent away from home. Howard college In Birmingham is only two blocks from her home. "Once I went up north to summer sum-mer school," she said, "but it was only for a couple of months" Carl and I didn't ssy much until we got outside. But listening to Evelyn sorts did something to us. "Too bad shs can't go home," 1 muttered. "Yeah." said Cart Seems hke that stuff about Christmas caught up with us, too. |