Monday, April 18, 1955 University Daily Kansan
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Debaters Leave For West Point
John Fields, second year law, and Hubert Bell, college senior, will leave tomorrow for the National Invitational Debate tournament at West Point to be held Wednesday through Saturday, April 20-23, to defend the national title won by William Arnold, college senior, and Bell last year.
Kim Giffin, debate team coach,
is sending Fields this year in place
of Arnold because the law student's
record in debate wins the past year
is better.
Thirty-two teams will be competing this year. There will be eight preliminary rounds of debate. The top 16 teams qualifying will enter an elimination tourney.
Fields has won 25 out of 33 debates to Arnold's 19 out of 30. Coach Giffin started Fields and Bell as a team in February. Since then they have won 10 out of 15 debates.
Abilene Visit Offered 151
One hundred and fifty-one foreign students from 53 countries attending the University have been invited to attend the Abilene International Open House May 7 and 8. Don Alderson, dean of men and foreign student adviser, said today.
Abilene families will open their homes for the weekend to the visitors.
R. O. Gemmill heads the host committee in Abilene. Other members are John Benson, representing the Rotary cub; Walter Brennan, Lions club; Ben Fitchett, Kiwanis club; Mrs. L. E. Garrison, Junior League; and Wilton Thomas, Dickinson county farm agent.
Similar University - sponsored field trips have been made in previous years to Hiawatha, Osawatomie, and Clay Center.
Enroute the students will stop in Manhattan to visit Kansas State college and have lunch in the Student cafeteria.
The foreign students will visit the Eisenhower family home and museum.
Engineer Gets National Prize
Dwight W. Harrison, mechanical engineering senior, received a medal for outstanding achievement in engineering and science, last week at the Diamond Jubilee anniversary meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in Columbia, Mo.
The presentation was made by David W.R. Morgan, national president of the ASME.
Harrison was one of five students to receive a medal of achievement at a convention which was attended by 450 persons from Washington university, University of Missouri, Missouri Schools of Mines and Metallurgy, Kansas State college, and KU.
Harrison, a Summerfield scholar, is a member of Pi Tau Sigma, honorary mechanical engineering fraternity, and is also a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternities. In addition, Harrison has been on the dean's honor roll every semester since coming to the University.
Dr. Price to Lecture At Oklahoma A&M
Dr. G. Baley Price, chairman of the mathematics department, will be a guest lecturer at a 6-week summer institute for college mathematies teachers at Oklahoma A&M college. He will lecture on "A Universal Course in Mathematics," which he and other mathematicians have developing. The National Science foundation made a grant to assist this institute for the improvement of teaching.
Wisconsin once had more than 2,000 cheese factories.
Pulpwood is produced in nearly every forested section of the United States.
WILLIAM INGE
Williams Submits Winning Design
The department's display will include sculpture, models of buildings, water color paintings, working drawings, and a duplicate of a room from a 19th century house.
Leo Dean Williams, third year architecture student, has been awarded first prize in a design contest sponsored by the department of architecture. His winning design will be used in the Engineering Exposition.
Williams submitted the floor plan of the architecture department's display as an entry for the exposition. Approximately 140 architecture students took part in the contest.
Second and third place winners were Warren Bates, fourth year architecture student, and Allan Selders, engineering junior.
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When William Inge came to Lawrence Saturday, he might easily have found himself somewhere near the locality of his latest play, "Bus Stop."
By GENE SHANK
His play, now a smash hit on Broadway, tells the story of a group of persons who take a bus from Kansas City to Topeka. Along the way they stop at a luncheonette, Grace's Diner, where most of the action takes place.
Inge Visits 'Bus Stop' Area
"Actually, I never taken a bus from Kansas City to Topeka." Mr. Inge said Sunday. "The diner is entirely fictitious."
The playwright, a '35 graduate of the University, explained that he was stopping off at Lawrence for the week end before moving on to Hollywood, where he will write the screenplay for the Twentieth Century-Fox production of the play.
Dressed in a tan spring suit and brown bow tie, the 42-year-old playwright smiled and explained that "Bus Stop" missed winning this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle award by one vote. Tennessee Williams" "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" won the award.
Although many drama critics are heralding "Bus Stop" as Mr. Inge's best play, the dramatist already has won a Pulitzer prize and a New York Drama Critics award for "Picnic," selected by most critics as the best play of the 1952-53 theater season.
Although he said he has little to do with the forthcoming filming of "Picnic," he is planning to stop in Hutchinson for a few days where the picture will be produced.
"For one thing, I'm trying to find a home," the 42-year-old play-wright said, explaining his recent cross-country tour which started in
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"I'm tired of living in New York," he said, "and I'm scouting around for a new locality."
In the last few weeks he has been covering that part of the United States he had never traveled before.
"I always wanted to be an actor." Mr. Muller instructed in speech and drama at KU, with
the full intention of being an actor,
I never thought I'd be a writer."
After being graduated from the University, Mr. Inge received an M.A. from George Peabody College for Teachers at Nashville, Tenn., before teaching English and dramatics in a high school at Columbus, Kan. From there he went to Stephens college, Columbia, Mo., where he taught English composition and dramatics until 1942.
Mr. Inge will be interviewed on the Bookstore hour on station KDGU at 7:15 p.m. today.
LOVE IN REVERSE
She nodded-lithe,young,vibrant.
They were at the campus swimming pool. She was standing on the diving board—lithe, young, vibrant. He came swimming over. "Hey," he called, climbing up on the board, "was it you who made that dive a minute ago?"
"Whew!" he whistled. "That was some dive! A back jackknife two and a half twist full gainer swan. Where did you learn to dive like that?"
"I fell off the board," she explained.
"Oh," he said. He looked at her—lithe, young, vibrant. "Let's go steady," he said.
"But I don't know anything about you," she said.
"What's there to know?" he said. "I'm a typical American college man - young, healthy, and broke."
"That's good enough for me," she said, "for I am not interested in money. I am a girl of simple tastes—lithe, young, vibrant."
Dad! he whispered.
"Crazy!" she breathed.
Their lips met. Their arms twined. They fell off the board.
"Search no more," she said. "My tastes are simple; my wants are few. Just take me riding in a long, sleek, new yellow convertible, and I am content."
"If you only know," he said later, as he applied artificial respiration, "how long I have been looking for a lithe, young, vibrant girl of simple tastes, for though my heart is large and full of love, my purse is lean and meagre. My cruel father sends me an allowance barely large enough to support life. So I have been looking high and low for a girl of simple tastes."
But lying on his pallet at the dormitory, he could not get her out of his mind and finally he knew that whatever the expense, he had to have her -lithe, young, vibrant.
So he sold a few things—his textbooks, his overcoat, his hi-Y pin, his roommate's truss—and soon he had accumulated a goodly sum. He went to place that sold automobiles. "How much does it cost," he said, "to buy a yellow convertible automobile?"
"Goodbye," he said and ran away as fast as his chubby little legs could carry him, for he knew this girl was not for the likes of him. He had neither convertible nor hardtop, nor the money to buy one, nor the means to get the money, short of picking up his stingy father by the ankles and shaking him till his wallet fell out. No, there was nothing for it except to forretr this girl.
The man told him. He collapsed in a gibbering heap.
"Ten dollars a day, plus seven cents a mile," said the man.
After a while he stirred and shambled home. But on the way he passed a place with a big sign that said: RENT A CAR—DRIVE YOURSELF. Hope came into our hero's eyes. He went inside. "How much does it cost," he said, "to rent a yellow convertible automobile?"
"Done and done," said our hero, and soon he drove away in a long, sleek, new, yellow convertible.
"Oh, goody!" said the lithe, young, vibrant girl when she saw the car. "This suits my simple tastes to a T. Come, let us speed over rolling highways and through bosky dells."
And away they went. They drove north, they drove south, they drove fast, they drove slow, they drove east, they drove west, they drove and drove and drove and, finally, tired but happy, they parked high on a windswept hill.
"Philip Morris?" he sai
"Yum, yum!" she said.
They lit up. She snuggled against him. "You know," he said, "you are like a Philip Morris - mild and fresh and relaxing."
are like a Philip Morris business and treat and care.
"But there is a big difference between me and Philip Morris," said she. "They're available in king-size and regular, and I am only available in regular."
They laughed. They kissed. He screamed.
"What is it, dear man?" cried she, alarmed.
"The speedometer" he said. "I just noticed. We put on 200 miles tonight, and this car costs seven cents a mile, and I have only $14 left."
"But that's exactly enough," she said.
"Yes," he said, "but we still have to drive home, and that will put a lot more miles on the car. Where will I get the money to pay for that?"
"Gee. I don't know." said she.
"Me neither," he said glumly. He started the motor and backed out of the parking place.
"Hey, look!" said the girl. "The speedometer doesn't move when you're backing up."
He looked. It was true. Mileage only registered when the car was moving forward—not in reverse. "Eureka!" he said. "That's it!"
"Exactly!" said he. "I will drive home in reverse. Then no more miles will register and I'll have enough money to pay!"
"I think that's a George idea!" she cried, and she was right. Because today our hero is in the county jail where food, clothes, and lodging are provided free of charge, and his allowance is plilling up to take him out riding again, it is ended, he should have enough to take his girl out riding again.
$ \textcircled{c} $Max Shulman, 1954
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