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French Cork Smellers Like To Find a Few Bad Bottles
Rheims, France — (U.P.)— This has been a bad season for cock smellers.
That was what Georges Norois, a professional cork smeller, was saying down here in the bowels of the earth. All day long he does nothing but smell corks for the Charles Heidseck Champagne people.
"Every time I smell a bad cork,
Georges said. "I get a 30-cent bonus
MILTON HOWARTH
Milton Howarth has joined the University faculty this year as technical director of the University theater and assistant professor of speech.
Artist Joins KU Faculty
Mr. Howorth is a graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh, Pa., and attended the American School of Fontainebleu in Paris in 1947. While in Paris, he also studied painting under Andre Plason and Chaplain-Midi at the Academie Julian from 1947 to 1951, and under Maurice Briarchon at the Ecole de Beaux Arts from 1950 to 1951.
Mr. Haworth was in the service from 1941 to 1945. During the first two years he designed for Broadway shows at Ft. Meade, Md., where he worked with such stars as Marina Cornell, Helen Hayes, and Impulse. In years of his service were spent in Europe with the Third Division.
From 1946 to 1947 he designed for Theater Incorporated and Theater Guild in Mexico City. There he worked on such productions as "Pygmalion" with Gertrude Lawrence and the Katherine Dunham show.
He was a prisoner of war in Germany for six months. While in the German prisons he did many sketches of prison life, which he painted in oils and water color when he returned to the United States.
These paintings now hang in the War Department museum of the Pentagon in Washington.
Prize Pictures To Be Shown
One of the first public showings of the Eastman Photographic salon of prize winning pictures will be displayed in the William Allen White Historical center in the Journalism building tomorrow, in connection with the annual Kansas State High school journalism conference.
The pictures are selected from the 1954 high school photography contest of the National Scholastic Press association.
The conference will include sessions on high school newspapers and yearbooks led by members of the KU faculty, high school journalism advisors, and representatives of Myers and Company of Topeka, publishers of high school yearbooks. Over 200 students are expected to attend.
The Army has approximately 45,000,000 square feet of space tied up in 147 maintenance shops in the United States and overseas.
But the cork-makers are too good this year. I only average three or four bad cooks a day. That doesn't bother me more than a couple of yards of bread."
Going into a wine cellar is a full day's job for a leg-weary American reporter who is used to the luxury of riding up and down in elevators. It's enough to give a man aching shanks, which your faithful one is wearing at the moment.
I asked Georges, incidentally, if he belonged to the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Cork Smellers so that I could tie him in with the A.M.B. of the L.S. (Amalgamated Brotherhood of Lose). Amalgamated Smellers in the Bourbon Bins of Smellers in it didn't work. The cork-smellers are on their own. No union.
Up a few flights was Charles
half a million, their
10.7 million, fifth of champsa
Young Charlie does a lot of finger work with the books, making out the payroll and all that. But one of his main chores is lapping the tongue to the bubble of champagne.
"It is all in a day's work," he said,
"and sometimes us tasters come out a little woozy. But when we find one bottle that doesn't meet the tongue, that does not mean that the whole year's crop is bad."
Since he sells the stuff, it kind of hurts inside when he has to turn a bottle down.
I sat in with the young man for a few minutes of testing and it looked like nice work if you could get it.
Math Meeting To Be Oct.15
What's the matter with mathematics instruction in K a n s a schools? Why is the supply of mathematicians so far behind the demand? Why are not more college students preparing themselves to be mathematics teachers?
To provide some answers, a group of persons representing industry and education has been invited to a conference on Mathematics in Informatics. Of the sessions are the mathematics department and University extension.
The conference also will be concerned with the study of mathematics as a professional field in its own right rather than just a service subject.
Dr. G. Bailey Price, chairman of the mathematics department, believes a critical situation exists in mathematics instruction through the entire school system, and that it requires careful preparation creased study of this basic subtitle.
Dr. Price said his department repeatedly is called upon by industrial concerns to supply graduates and that the current supply of trained personnel is far below the demand.
He added that the number of KU students preparing to teach mathematics is almost at the vanishing point.
Historian to Give Lecture on Greece
An illustrated talk on Greece by James Seaver, associate professor of history, will be given at the Faculty club at 5:45 p.m. Sunday. Prof. Seaver took the pictures of Greece while on a Fulbright grant in Europe last June. His talk and illustrations will center around the two great national shrines of Greece. Olympia, home of the Olympic games, and the Oracle of Apollo, at Delphi.
Business Education Is Conference Topic
The first annual business education conference sponsored by the University will be in the Pine room of the Student Union tomorrow. Purpose of the conference is to promote better teaching of business subjects in the state.
The addition of 19 University alumni to the advisory board of the Greater University Fund was announced today by Ray Evans, Kansas City, chairman of the alumni fund program started at KU last year.
The new members bring the board membership to 48. The appointments mark the first step in a program to broaden the scope and activities of the Fund, which is sponsored jointly by the KU Alumni and Endowment associations, Evans said.
Alumni Named To Fund Group
An exhibit of office equipment and textbooks will be shown in the Pine room, and Miss Elizabeth Melson and Dr. Arnold Condon, directors of business education at the University of Illinois, will speak in the morning and afternoon sessions.
"The Greater University Fund was started in the spring of 1953 to give all alumni and friends of the University an opportunity to help KU provide services for which state colleges have paid for." "To date, more than $50,000 has been contributed by some 2,000 alumni and friends."
Life of an Army parachute under normal conditions is between four and five years.
Scholarships, student housing and loan funds, research, library enrichment and unrestricted gifts are the major objectives of the program.
Evans listened the new members of the advisory board as Dolph Simons Jr., and Mrs. H. J. Getto, of Lawrence; Dr. Galen Fields, Scott City; Mrs. Melvin F. Lindeman, Wichita; Glee Smith, Larned; Floyd Krehbiel, Moundridge; harry Valentine, Clay Center; Mrs. E. Bert Collard, Davenwood City; Wendlinghey-Kiley City; Frank Willemor; John C. Dunsford Jr., Dodge City; Milton Isern, Ellinwood; William A. Martin, Topeka; Andrew Glaze, St. Joseph, Mo.; William Townsley, Great Bend; E Ned Embry, Omaha, Neb.; Stanley Learned, Bartlesville, Okla; Robert Larrabee, Liberal; and Miss Mary Turkington, Topeka
Friday. October 8,1954
Interviews
Personnel representatives from companies interested in employing engineering students will hold interviews Monday through Friday.
The Schlumberger Well surveying corporation is interested in students majoring in electrical, mechanical, and petroleum engineering who will be graduated in February and June. The interview which will be held Monday, will concern a student engineering training program preparatory for work in the engineering or sales divisions.
The Wagner Electric company will interview students majoring in electrical and mechanical engineering Tuesday, Oct. 12. Positions will include a student engineer training program preparatory for work in the automotive engineering division.
Other interviews are:
THURSDAY
Chance Vought aircraft, mechanical aeronautical architectural, civil, electrical, engineering majors, and advanced graduates in mathematics.
Owens-Corning Fiberglas corporation, mechanical, industrial civil, electrical, architectural, and chemical engineering majors.
Mallinckrodt Chemical works, mechanical, electrical, civil, chemical engineering, and chemistry majors.
FRIDAY
Mallinckrodt Chemical works.
Halliburton Oil Well Cementing company, electrical, mechanical.
--petroleum, chemical engineering, and chemists with advertising degrees.
The evening of June 23 is a holiday for Norsemen, set aside to welcome the warmth of summer with bonfires. It is called St. John's Eve, (Sankthansaften), or Mid-Summer Eve.
Creole Petroleum corporation, mechanical, chemical, electrical, and petroleum engineers, also physi- ieists.
Phi Mu Alpha Holds Smoker
Interested persons should sign interview schedules and fill out applications in the School of Engineering office, 111 Marvin.
Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity held its smoker for new rushes recently in the Oread room of the Student Union. Bob Johnson, publicity chairman, announced that plans were underway for recital programs this fall and in the spring. The pledge meeting for the organization will be held next week.
Saccharin is a chemical compound 300 to 500 times as sweet as ordinary sugar. It was first prepared in 1879 by Remsen and Fahlser, chemists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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