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University Daily Kansan
"JFK", No.1 Bestseller Is Critical, Anti-Kennedy
By Lyle C. Wilson
(UPI) Victor Lasky's book, "JFK, The Man and the Myth," has zoomed in two short weeks from last to first place on the metropolitan best-seller list of the New York Times.
The list is compiled on reports from more than 125 bookstores in 64 American communities.
"JKF" is frankly anti-Kennedy. Lasky wrote it as a challenge to John F. Kennedy's integrity and fitness for the Presidency
THE IMPORTANT QUESTION is whether the book will have substantial impact on the 1964 presidential election. It could be deadly to Kennedy's re-election chances if enough voters read it and were convinced that Kennedy is — as charged — a weather-vane politico who substitutes for political convictions and principles merely an obsessive need to win — to win at all costs.
The book is as political as a campaign speech and as one-sided as a Presidential platform. But campaign speeches and Presidential platforms have proved themselves to be enormously effective in influencing American voters. The fact Lasky has written consistently from an adversely critical point of view need not deprive the book of political impact. It could be a blockbuster. It is estimated that 40 to 50 newspapers are publishing "JFK" seri-
ally.
North American Newspaper Alliance, owner of the serial rights, is re-offering the book to newspapers because of its showing on the best-seller list. Most of the newspapers presenting the book serially are in the Mid-West. That is a moderately good break for Kennedy because he has less to lose in the Mid-West than in some other areas.
There are 20 chapters in "JFK". None is likely to soothe the young president after a tough day in the office. Chapter 2 is simply titled, "Joe." Chapter 5 is "Pol.", a derivation of politician. There are also "Courage," "Senate," "Change," "Why?" and "Gall."
The Greater University Fund (GUF) has reported a record high 12,501 contributors whose gifts total $367,352 for the 1962-63 year.
Record High in GUF Gift
H. Bernard Fink, Topeka, GUF advisory board chairman, also noted that 1,776 persons have a signed statement of intention to make annual donations to KU.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe described as "not enough" the program that during the year provided 2,660 students with $1,139,000 in scholarships and loans from private support.
"We have been forced to deny scholarships, loans and places in scholarship halls to valedictorians and others who ranked in the upper three per cent of their high school graduating classes, and to students who ranked at the 97th and 98th percentiles in national scholarship examinations." Dr. Wescoe said.
"IN THE FACE of rising enrollments, increasing costs and students better prepared than ever before, the University needs to double its present student aid funds now and triple them by 1975," he added.
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