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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 10. 1954
Real Gone Cat Missed, Had Owner in Hassle
Omaha, Neb.—(U.P.)—Midgie, the pampered Maltese cat that owns a house, munched salmon and braunschweiger in his kitchen today after being incommunicado for three days.
Where and how the feline squire spent his holiday was a mystery. But his grooming, as usual, was impeccable when he turned up yesterday.
Midgie's nurse, Mrs. Gertrude Ritner, said she had been too worried to sleep since the cat disappeared last Saturday.
Those were the terms of the will made by Midgie's late master, retired telegraph company executive Francis A. Putnam, who died in February, 1853.
She stands to inherit the cat's six-room house when he dies—provided he dies a natural death and is well cared for.
"Then yesterday morning about 3 o'clock I thought I heard a scratching sound. I couldn't sleep anyway, I was so worried. I came down stairs and there he was, walking around the living room."
The will has been held valid so it is easy to see why Mrs. Ritner would hate to see Midgie, a fat, gray lapeat, fall victim to any foul play.
"We were so worried," she said. "And we were just ready to call the lawyer and tell her the cat was gone,
Mrs. Ritner said Midgie was "warm and dry" and "didn't look like he'd been having himself a time. He never wants to go outdoors, and I don't think he did."
Mrs. Ritner, who had cared for Mr. Putnam and his wife before their death, said she, her daughter, and her son-in-law had "looked high and low."
She said that Midgid was "tickled to death to see me" but went straight to the kitchen and had a snack of salmon and braunschweiger.
That's the only kind of food he'll touch. He later knocked off for a little sleep.
Mr. Putnam's will specified that Midgie should never go outdoors.
"And I don't think he did," Mrs. Ritner said. "I think he got caught in something in the house, maybe in the basement. He's sort of a stinker about climbing into boxes and things."
Mrs. Ritner hastened to soften the word "stinker."
Society Elects 6 in Business
Two juniors and four seniors in the School of Business have been elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary business society, and Sherwood W. Newton, assistant professor of economics, was elected to graduate membership.
The juniors chosen, Harlan G. Henderson and Edward James Miller, are in the upper 3 per cent of their class.
The four seniors, who are in the upper 10 per cent of their class, are George E. Breckenridge, Henry H. Springe Jr., Jerry Clark Ivie and Frederick N. Bettage.
This group will be initiated at a banquet April 16 in the Student Union. Parents of the initiates, and the parents of the seven members initiated last fall, will be guests of honor.
Fast Pie
Tampa, Fla. —(U.P.) Mrs. Helen Porter baked a trans-Atlantic pecan pie for her Air Force captain-husband. The pie was flown by jet from MacDill Field here to Brize Norton Field in Britain where Capt. George E. Porter got it still warm from the oven.
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The 20-year-old junior was selected for the scholarship on the "basis of character, personality, scholarship, initiative, and ability to cooperate with associates."
The award is made by the company, an oil producer and subsidiary of Standard Oil of California and consists of $450 in cash plus the cost of books and fees.
Ronald Justice Gets Scholarship
An Honest Man
Justice, a student in petroleum engineering, is a member of Sigma Tau, honorary national engineering fraternity. He has an over-all grade point average of 2.48 and has been on the dean's honor roll every semester since he entered KU in the fall of 1951.
The selection was made by A. L. Vitter jr., New Orleans, chief petroleum engineer for the company, and Prof. C. F. Weinaug, chairman of the petroleum engineering department.
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Hollywood—(U.P.)-Jack Benny waved his adopted daughter, Joan, off on a Honolulu honeymoon with New York stockbroker Seth Baker today after giving her away in the most elegant Hollywood wedding in years.
Bennett, Ann Blyth, and Esther Williams were among the scores of famous guests in black tie and evening gown.
Fellow comedian Bob Hope joked the 19-year-old bride was the first thing Mr. Benny ever gave away.
The bride wore a $2,500 gown made by movie house designer Don Loper, who flew to Paris to supervise weaving of the white brocaded satin. The skirt was 35 yards around with a 17-yard train.
Violinist, 39, Parts With $50,000, Child
Onlookers applauded and smiled at stars, comedians, TV and radio executives, and movie studio guests who walked down the 50-foot red carpet to the hotel entrance.
Barbara Stanwyck, Jimmy Stewart, Jane Wyman, Claudie Colbert, Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor, Alan Ladd, Van Johnson, Bob Crosby, Ann Sothern, Ronald Regan, Joan
"It'll take me two years to pay for this, but it's worth it." grinned the nervous father of the bride. "But, after all, she's our only child. I'm just glad I don't have five daughters like Eddie Cantor."
Six hundred guests jammed the ceremony and 1000 fans crowded outside the Beverly Hills hotel. Mr. Benny, himself, had trouble getting in.
Three tiers of veiling swept from the juliet cap sprinkled with pearls. Joan and the bridegroom appeared calm as they exchanged platinum wedding bands. Mr. Benny insisted. "I'm not nervous at all." But the guests reported he was shaking at the wedding ceremony, which was closed to the press. Rabbi Edgar Magnin officiated before an altar of candles, palms and white flowers flown from Holland.
Mr. Benny, the "miser" of radio and television, put out $50,000 for the 10-minute marriage ceremony and six-hour champagne reception in the Crystal room of the hotel for stars, socialites and 75 New York guests of the bridegroom.
The bride, wearing a gray wool suit and three diamond pins, was scheduled to fly to Hawaii with Mr. Baker, 26, for a two-week stay.
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