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Harvard Scientist Wins Nobel Prize
NEW YORK — (UPI) The small, baldish man with a tiny white mustache walked into the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel and looked hesitantly around. He obviously was embarrassed already.
And he didn't know the half of it.
DR. GEORG VON BEKESY, 62-year-old Hungarian-born scientist who now carries on his research at Harvard University, was on his way to a lunch where he was going to feel a little uncomfortable. The Deafness Research Institute was going to give him an award, a gold medallion, for his research on the workings of the ear, and the attention would embarrass him.
"There he is," said an official of the Deafness Foundation.
Some other people had just announced that they, too, were going to give him an award—the 1961 Nobel Prize for medicine. But Von Bekesy didn't know it.
THE OFFICIAL AND THREE newsmen hurried down a short flight of stairs from the hotel's plush Empire Room and surrounded the scientist.
"Congratulations," the official said. Von Bekesy smiled and shook his head. "I am no good for that," he said with a slight Hungarian accent.
"When were you told about the prize?" a newsman asked.
"Oh, three or four months ago," Von Bekesy said.
"YOU WERE TOLD ABOUT the Nobel Prize three or four months ago?" another newsman asked disbelievingly.
Von Bekesy didn't say a word
"You've just won the Nobel Prize for medicine," the newsman said.
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Another moment passed. Finally,
Von Beksey said, "I didn't know
about the Nobel." He was silent again. "It's very fine," he said.
And then he asked, "Alone?"
"Yes, alone," he was told. "The prize was not shared."
ANOTHER NEWSMAN ASKED;
"How do you feel about it?"
"What can I say?" Von Bekesy said. "I know people in Stockholm who I like very much for research and I am very happy."
Later, surrounded by newsmen and photographers before the lunch even started, Von Bekesy was happy enough to ioke.
"FIRST I WANT to get it. I have been 10 years in the United States so I became practical."
When asked what he would do with the $48,300 tax-free prize, he said:
And when asked if he expected the Nobel award, he said:
"If you stay long enough alive, you'll get the prize." But he also said, "My winning was a matter of chance."
Von Bekesy lives alone near Harvard, where he came as a research fellow in 1947 after spending a year at research in Stockholm, Sweden. Until 1946, he had worked in Budapest.
Pretzels and 'The Twist'
READING, Pa. — (UPI) The week beginning Oct. 24 will be marked as National Pretzel Week, Alex (Salty) Tisdale, executive secretary of the National Pretzel Bakers Institute announced today.
Tisdale also noted in his release, with no announced motive, the increasing popularity of a dance called "The Twist," which is featured at a New York Nightclub attended by cafe society, beatniks and others.
Poet Jonathan Williams Says: 'Ein Vogal Singt im Baum—Ja'
The man in the yellow shirt and tricolor tie thumped the lecturn with his index finger.
"turn on the Bird, the Bird turns me on; even the early Bird turns worms"
The audience laughed. He raised his eyes to the ceiling, then spoke again.
"Ein Vogel singt im Baum—Ja . . .
Ja . . . a
bud said,
swelling"
Jonathan Williams, poet-publisher, was speaking at the Poetry Hour at 4 p.m. yesterday in the Music Room of the Kansas Union.
He was quoting his own poetry and that of Canadian poet Irving Leyton. He picked up another book called "A Red Carpet for the Sun" by Mr. Leyton, and read a selection called "The Improved Binoculars."
"Below me the city was in flames:
"Below me the city was in flames: the firemen were the first to save themselves. I saw steeples fall on their knees.
I saw an agent kick the charred bodies from an orphanage to one side, marking the site carefully for future speculation.
He read again from a selection called "On Being Bitten by a Dog":
For more than an hour, Mr. Williams delighted and shocked the 50 students who sat before him on chairs, couches and the floor in the Music Room.
"And the humans who would like to kill me are legion Only once have I been bitten by a dog."
At several points, laughter broke out as he read a particularly daring piece of his work. He called his risque poetry "country" poetry..
The slightly balding Mr. Williams, in his mid 30's, is the publisher of Jargon Books of Highlands, N.C., and is the author of several books of poetry. Among these are "Amen Huzza Selah" and "Jammin the Greek Scene." The latter is mythological tales retold in "hip" English.
Mr. Williams described Mr. Leyton as "the best to come from Canada ever," and "the most popular poet in Canada today."
Mr. Leyton has said: "So what I've written—besides my joy in being alive to write them—has been about this singular business of human evil."
The meeting was the first in a series of weekly Poetry Hours. All will be held at 4 p.m. in the Music Room of the Union, with the public invited.
German Department Film. "Wozk." (Correction: Tuesday, Oct. 24 instead of Sunday, Oct. 23). 3 shows* 4, 6 and 8. 3 Bailey. Open to the public. English subtitles.
Fulbright Foreign Study Scholarships, 1962-1963: Applications due Oct. 4. Reqs: Master's degree or four additional medical examinations to be made immediately at Watkins Hospital.
Official Bulletin
Hillel Friday Evening Services; 6:45 p.m. Hillel Community Center, 917 Highland Drive. Services will end at 7:10 p.m. in time for the movie.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. Will have no meeting this evening.
TODAY
Baptist Student Union; 7:30 p.m.
Building, 1221 Oread. The Role of the Christian in Politics', Earl, Earl McElc
Pastor of East Heights Baptist Church
Annual K.U. Dames Initiation of Members
b.p.m., Watkins Room, Kansas
Union
International Club: Will meet in Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union, for dancing and refreshments directly following the movie in Hoch.
Lutheran Services; 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.
and 7:30 p.m. Immunael Church,
17th, and Vermont. 5 p.m.
Wednesdays, Danforth Chapel.
Lutheran Services: 9:15 and 11 a.m.
Temple Lutheran Church, 13th and New
Hampshire
Faith and Life Seminars: 8:45-10:30
1204 Oread
Breakfast, and Bible Seminars: 1204
Morning Worship: 11 a.m. Westminster Center, 204 Oread, Speaker, Rev Dan
Catholic Club; 9 & 11 a.m., Fraser Hall,
Newman Club.
Oread Friends Worship Meeting: 10:30
we will welcome you to our
o this silent Quaker meeting.
Intramural Soccer Team: Vs Wichita
2 p.m., Intramural Fields.
Sunday Evening Fellowship: 5:15-7:30 p.m., Westminster Center, 1204 Oread. Dr. Harry Schafer speaking on "Race Relations."
Lutheran Student Association Evening Vespers: 5:15 p.m., Danforth Chapel. Dinner will follow in the Cottonwood Room, Kansas Union.
Episcopal Holy Communion and Lunch:
12 noon, Canterbury House.
MONDAY
Kuku Pep Club: 6:30 p.m., Oread Room, Kansas Union
Epicaprio Evening Prayer: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Tammany Hall ChangesName
NEW YORK—(UPI)—The Tammy Hall tiger has changed his stripes.
The famed Democratic political organization of Tammany Hall officially changed its name to Chatham Hall yesterday in its first meeting since reform elements led an election revolt that threw the old regular leaders out of office.
Tammany Hall, often pictured in editorial cartoons as a tiger, traces its name back to pre-revolutionary days when the Sons of St. Tammany was formed to oppose British rule. Tammanend was the name of an Indian chief who was famous for his wisdom and love of liberty.
The change was voted by the New York County (Manhattan) Democratic Committee which is controlled by Mayor Robert F. Wagner following his primary victory over the forces of Carmine G. De Sapio.
The new name of Chatham Hall is taken from the Chatham Building where the county Democratic headquarters have been shifted.
But a Republican wag suggested that the old Tammany tiger may now be called the "Tammany Chat."
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The Supreme Court has taken under advisement three cases involving the rights of lunch counter sit-in demonstrators.
Sit-in Cases Are In Supreme Court
Yesterday the justices put a stream of questions to attorneys arguing the first such cases to reach the high court. At issue were three separate appeals filed by 16 Southern University students, all Negroes, convicted of disturbing the peace of Baton Rouge, La.
The students "sat in" at white lunch counters in Kress's Variety Store, Sitman's Drug Store and the Greyhound Bus Station. As a result they were arrested by police Capt. Robert Weiner.
Many of the justices' questions dealt with whether the students actually "disturbed the peace."
Justice Charles E. Whittaker said
Justice Charles E. Whitman said: "You've invited me in and never ordered you with your invitation because the invitation. If I were contesting with your right to order me out, that might be disturbing the peace."
New York attorney Jack Greenberg, who represented the Negroes, said not only were none of the students ordered out but in the Sitman case the police were not even asked to come in. The officer on the beat reported what was going on. he said.
Greenberg said if the Negroes were not ordered out, their mere presence at the counter had been deemed a "disturbance." He said a state cannot thus use its power to enforce segregation.
Assistant District Attorney John F. Ward, Jr., insisted that if the students had not been told to leave the store at least they had been told to move from the particular area where they were.
He said a man in business has a right to decide whom he is to serve and the police have a duty to protect that right.
The question was not easily settled in the Justice's minds, however.
"Suppose a Negro walked into a church," Chief Justice Earl Warren suggested, "and the minister said, 'It is our practice not to have Negroes here.' But neither the minister nor the congregation made any move against the man. Could a policeman arrest him for being in there praying?"
Ward said an officer probably would not make an arrest under such circumstances, but he should have discretion whether to do so. He insisted that the Negroes were at the white counters for "an unlawful act"—demonstrating against segregation. The police must take care that such activities do not lead to violence, he declared.
"Having police there to prevent violence is one thing," Justice Potter Stewart said at one point, "but to go in and arrest someone is quite a different thing."
Justice Felix Frankfurter wanted to know why the students' actions would necessarily result in violence.
Forum on Shaw's Play to Be Sunday
A background forum of George Bernard Shaw's "The Arms and the Man" will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Shaw's play will be presented Monday evening in Hoch Auditorium. The background forum Sunday will be led by A. Carroll Edwards, professor of English. Free coffee will be served.
This forum is the first of a series to be sponsored by the Classical Music Forum, a new committee of Student Union Activities. This committee will conduct receptions for visiting concert artists, and will sponsor forums for supplying background information prior to each presentation on the concert series.
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