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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1955
Anagrams Tell Them
Did Shakespeare Do It?
WASHINGTON — (U.R.) A world-defined code expert has completed a scientific study expected to throw light on whether Shakespeare's works were written by Shakespeare or 20 other fellows.
With his wife, William F. Friedman has written a book now in the hands of a publisher. Its tentative title: "The Cryptologist Looks at Shakespeare."
Mr. Friedman has retired from the National Security Agency after a career, dating back to World War I, which earned him international fame as an authority on secret codes.
For reasons which historical scholars have trouble pinning down, each generation produces skeptics who refuse to believe that William Shakespeare, "the butcher boy of Stratford," wrote all those plays and poems published under his name.
They Find Anagrams
By now more than a score of candidates have been nominated as the real authors of the works of Shakespeare. Their disciples usually are gifted at spotting in the published plays hidden codes, anagrams, cyphers, and cryptograms proving their nominees to be the true author.
Mr. Friedman painstakingly examined several thousand alleged "cryptographic proofs." He will not, in advance of publication, give the book's verdict on them. But it can be guessed.
Cryptograms Cast No Light
Last April the Folger Shakespeare Library awarded the Friedmans a $1,000 prize for their manuscript.
Dr. Louis B. Wright, director of the library and one of the world's foremost students of Shakespeare, said the Friedman study disclosed "not a scintilla of evidence of any anagram or cryptogram casting any light" on the plays' authorship.
Dr. Wright has his own opinion about the claims advanced for persons other than Shakespeare. He thinks "they're nonsense."
I know of no scholar learned in the social and intellectual history of Elizabethan England who gives the slightest credence to them," he said.
Argentine Explains Downfall Of Peron
"Bribery and suppression of freedom were some of the reasons which helped wean Argentina from Peon's government," Cesar Piana, graduate student from Argentina, told the El Ateneo club last night.
Fiana said Peron's politics were based on the slogans "labor's friend" and "anti-imperialist" but he forgot his aims.
Pliana explained that Argentina enjoyed a high standard of living and education under Perou's government but transportation and population problems were not solved.
Jets To Link Principal Cities
CHICAGO—(U.P.)—United Air Lines has ordered 30 jet airlines which it says will wish passengers from New York to Los Angeles in 44 hours and from New York to Chicago in 90 minutes.
The jet service between principal American cities will start by November, 1959. They will be the first jet flights on U.S. domestic airlines.
The aircraft will carry from 115 to 140 passengers at altitudes of 30,000 to 40,000 feet and will average between 550 and 575 miles an hour.
The new jets will cut three hours and 10 minutes from the Los Angeles flight and a full hour from the Chicago trip.
The only previous attempt to carry passengers in jet airlines was et airliners were grounded after a bandoned by Britain. The Comet series of accidents caused by metal attique.
Maser To Read Paper On Museum
Edward A. Maser, director of the Museum of Art, will fly to Fort Worth, Tex., tomorrow to speak at the Mountain-Flains Museum conference, a branch of the American Association of Museums.
He will read a paper, "The Art Museum and Its Role in the University," to a group representing museums in the Midwest.
Mr. Maser will talk about the KU art museum in particular. He said that the museum is a "culural museum," and it comes not just to see painting.
It has lecture series, guided tours, films, and its function as a "cultural center" for the pleasure of University students, he added.
After the conference, Mr. Maser will visit museums in Dallas and Fort Worth.
German Club To Meet Nov. 3
The German Club will meet at 5 p.m.. Nov. 3 in the Museum of Art lecture room, instead of tomorrow. Dr. Edward Maser, instructor of Art History, will give an illustrated talk on Vienna, Austria.
Hoecker Reports On Geneva Talks
The exhibit at the Geneva atomic energy conference revealed that Russia is pursuing its same atomic energy policy except more vigorously, Dr. Frank Hoecker, professor of physics, told an audience in the Javakh Room of the Student Union last night.
"Russia is training twice as many scientists as we are."
He pointed out that with the exchange of information, even the small countries are becoming interested in atomic energy. The United States promised to build for any country a complete nuclear plant while Russia made this offer only to satellites.
"However, this trend posed a disposal problem as radioactive wastes would cause somatic and genetic harms to human bodies," Dr. Hoecker explained.
He expressed concern over the problem of disposing of radio-active wastes. "What are you going to do with it? Bury it in the ground—dump it in the ocean? The United Nations has a real problem on regulating it."
Dr. Hoecker predicted the major part of our power may be produced from nuclear power. In 1952 the United States needed 3.6 billion tons of coal and in the year 2000 it will need 20 billion tons. But one pound of uranium through the process of fission, would release the energy equal to 1,000 tons of coal, he explained.
Stateswoman Club Elects Officers
Sammie Marble, Fort Scott sophomore, was elected chairman of the Stateswoman Club and Janis Hartell. Plattsburg, Mo. junior was elected chairman at the meeting yesterday.
Other officers elected were Mary McGrew, Wellington sophonore, secretary-treasurer; Eleanor Youngbear, Lawrence freshman, and Barbara Chadborn, Kansas City, Kan. freshman, publicity chairmen.
The Stateswoman Club consists of former girl staters throughout the United States. It has 71 members.
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NEW YORK—(U.P.)—Margaret Truman, a self-styled sleepyhead, is bracing herself for a tangle with the alarm clock.
'Weekdays,' She'll Rise Early
Beginning Nov. 7, Miss Truman will help launch NBC's new five-a-week radio program, "Weekday." The show will resemble NBC's "Monitor." It will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and dish up an assorted platter of news and entertainment.
"I don't know too much about the show yet," confessed Miss Truman in her Manhattan hotel suite, "But we'll do all sorts of things—there will be music and interviews and service things for housewives and mothers. Mike Wallace and I will be on 3½ hours a day—from 10 to 12 and from 2 to 3.30. That means that I'll have to be at the studio around nine in the morning and frankly, Margaret just hates to get up."
Miss Truman, made her debut as a radio network singer with the Detroit Symphony in March, 1947.
Miss Truman said her radio commitment will not interfere with her television work. In the past, she has clowned with such entertainers as Jimmy Durante, Tallulah Bankhead and Fred Allen.
Quill Club To Meet Thursday The Quill Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in 303 Fraser. The meeting is for members only, since judging will be done on contest entries, and final decisions will be made on membership manuscripts.
A Name That Sticks
POTTISVILLE, Pa.—(U.P.)—The Tower City High School Band Mothers' Club voted recently for a name that would stick. The organization is now the Band Aides.
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KU Grad Aids In Atom Discovery
A University graduate, Mrs. H. Louise Smith, who received her master's degree in chemistry in 1952, has participated in the discovery of elements 99 and 100.
Discovery of the elements was announced in a joint publication by scientists from the University of California, the Argonne National Laboratory and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Mrs. Smith is a member of the Los Alamos group.
Prof. Jacob Kleinberg, of the KU chemistry department, said the names Einsteinium and Fermium have been suggested for the new elements. The source of material in which they were discovered was a hermonuclear explosion set off in November 1952.
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