2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY. IANUARY 24, 2005
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Former 'Tonight Show' legend dies
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Johnny Carson, the quick-witted "Tonight Show" host who became a national institution putting his viewers to bed for 30 years with a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, died Sunday. He was 79.
Carson died early Sunday morning, according to his nephew, Jeff Sotzing. "He was surrounded by his family, whose loss will be immeasurable," Sotzing told The Associated Press.
He did not provide further details, but NBC said Carson died of emphysema—a respiratory disease that can be attributed to smoking - at his Malibu home.
CARSON
Carson often had a cigarette in hand in the early years of "Tonight," eventually dropping on the air-habit when smoking on TV became frowned on. But he remained a heavy smoker for some
years afterward, said a former associate who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The boyish-looking Nebraska native with the disarming grin was a star who
"Heeeere's Johnny!" was the booming announcement from sidekick Ed McMahon that ushered Carson out to the stage.
managed never to distance himself from his audience.
Carson's personal life could not match the perfection of his career. Carson was married four times, divorced three. In 1991, one of his three sons, 39-year-old Ricky, was killed in a car accident.
Nearly all of Carson's professional life was spent in television, from his postwar start at Nebraska stations in the late 1940s to his three decades with
NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson."
Carson made his debut as "Tonight" host in October 1962 and quickly won over audiences. In the '80s, Carson was reportedly the highest-paid performer in television history with a $5 million "Tonight" show salary alone.
Carson won a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1992, with the first President Bush saying. "With decency and style he's made America laugh and think." In 1993, he was celebrated by the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors for career achievement.
Nice wheels
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Stouffer Place Apartments gave away 10 bicycles to residents' children during a winter party Saturday. Lansing Correctional Facility refurbished the bicycles after Student Housing donated 200 abandoned bicycles to the Lansing recycling program last summer. Mark Kalusha, president of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association, said that the party attracted 20 to 25 families to the Relays Room in the Burge Union. The party celebrated the cultural diversity of Stouffer Place residents.
CAMPUS
Walk will honor memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Multicultural Resource Center and the upsilon chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. will sponsor "Walking the Dream," a luminary walk honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The walk will begin at 7 tonight in front of Wescoe Hall and proceed to Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tim Dupree, assistant prosecutor in Emporia, is the scheduled keynote speaker. The walk was scheduled a week after Martin Luther King Jr. Day so more students could be involved, said Santos Nunez, program director of multicultural affairs. For more information contact the MRC at 864-4350.
— Estuardo Garcia
The first Ralph N. Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry will be presented on Feb. 28 at the Pittsburgh Conference in Orlando, Fla., to Iowa State Professor Edward Yeung.
New award named in honor of deceased KU professor
The award, which includes a plaque $2,500 honorarium, and a symposium, was funded by former students, colleges, family and friends, said Lisa Boley, Adams' daughter.
Boley, also a benefits specialist in the department of Human Resources at the University, said Adams' former students came up with the idea for the award and organized it after his death in 2002.
Adams, whose nickname "Buzz" was given to him when he was a WWII pilot, was a professor at the University of Kansas from 1955 to 1992. He specialized in bioanalytical chemistry and neurochemistry.
"He was one of the fathers of bioan- alytical chemistry," said Craig Lunte, professor of chemistry. "So it is appropriate that there is an award in this area in his honor."
The award will be presented annually at the conference to a professor in analytical chemistry.
LOCAL
Lawrence theater to hold 'Enchanted April' auditions
The Lawrence Community Theatre is having open auditions for "Enchanted April" at 7 p.m. tomorrow and Wednesday at its theater, 1501 New Hampshire St.
"Enchanted April," by Kane Campbell, is about two London housewives who vacation in Italy.
The housewives re-examine their lives and find romance while they are on their holiday.
— Dani Lit
"It's a gentle drama with a vein of comedy in it," said Jeanne Chinn, director and Topeka resident.
The eight-person cast requires four men and four women.
Parts are available for people in their 20s, Chinn said. The performances for this play will be during the first two weekends of March.
Call the Lawrence Community Theatre's box office at 843-7469 for more information.
ON THE RECORD
An 18-year-old KU student reported a laptop computer and PlayStation games stolen on Jan. 19 in the 1800 block of Naismith Drive. The items are valued at $2,900.
A 20-year-old KU student reported a purse and other miscellaneous items missing Jan. 11. The purse and other items are valued at $220.
Neil Mulka
The department of geology reported a computer monitor stolen from Lindley Hall sometime between 5 p.m. Jan. 7 and 9 a.m. Jan. 11. The monitor is valued at $470.
ON CAMPUS
The Hall Center for the Humanities will sponsor a lecture by Jason Fox on "Bakhtin and Peirce: Object Relations and their Effects on Consciousness" at 3:30 p.m. today at the conference room in the Hall Center.Call 864-4798 for more information.
- The department of physics and astronomy will sponsor a lecture by Glenn Horton-Smith on "The Future of Reactor Neutrino Physics" at 4 p.m. today at room 2074 in Malott Hall. Call 864-4626 for more information.
Fredric Jameson of Duke University will lecture on "Cyberpunk and Finance Capital" at 7:30 p.m. today at the Simons Room in the Dole Institute of Politics. Contact Marjorie Swann in the English Department at 864-2570.
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