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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 8, 1954
Will Hays, Film Morals Censor, Is Dead at 74
Sullivan, Ind. — U(P.) — Will Hays, who held a stop watch on Valentino's kisses and a tight rein on movie morals, died yesterday in the Hoosier town where he was born.
Mr. Hays was the first president of the Motion Picture Producer and Distributors of America, a job that gave him the power to censor 80 percent of all American-made movies. He held the position from 1922 to 1943.
The impact of his personality was such that the association he headed was popularly known as the "Hays office."
Like Kenesaw Mountain Landis, late major league baseball commissioner, Mr. Hays was a genuine "Czar," able to hold the men who paid his $150,000 salary in line.
Mr. Hays, like Federal Judge Landis, came to his job from an honored position in government. Mr. Hays was Republican national chairman in the closing days of World War II, elected George G. Harding President in 1920, and was made postmaster general in Mr. Harding's administration.
Mr. Hays' wife and son, Will H. Hays Jr., a Wabash college professor, were at his side when he died at noon yesterday. He was stricken with pneumonia in November, 1953. A week ago, relatives said, organic complications set in.
He resigned to take the Hollywood job after a year in Mr. Harding's cabinet.
Mr. Hays came to Hollywood when the young film industry was in trouble with reform elements across the country. There was public criticism of lengthy kisses, scanty clothing and other manifestations of the "flapper" age.
Much of it might seem tame now, but at the time most states were moving to set up censorship boards in schools, where they would wood with 48 different sets of rules.
Hays convinced the producers is would be easier, and more profitable, to regulate themselves. One of the first things he did was cut kisses to what he considered reasonable lengths.
He was responsible for the "morality clause" in actors' contracts, a clause which gave studios the right to fire an actor involved in a scandal.
When he stepped down in 1943, ne
was retained as a "consultant" at $100,000 a year. The office is now run by Joseph I. Breen.
Jorn Elected Regent Of Pharmacy Group
Wallace Jorn, pharmacy junior,
has been elected to replace Wayne
Wagers, pharmacy senior; as regent
of Kappa Psi, pharmacy fraternity.
Other newly elected officers are Charles Powell, college junior, vice regent; Jerry Matchett, pharmacy sophomore, secretary; Perry Rashleigh, pharmacy sophomore, treasurer; Robert Tebow, pharmacy sophomore, historian, and Davi Ross, pharmacy senior, chaplain.
No Attendance—No Election
Because inadequate attendance at the International club meeting Thursday, the election of officers for 1954 had to be postponed. It was agreed that Ramesh Premji engineering junior and incumbent president, should remain in office for the rest of this semester.
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William Holden Audrey Hepburn Get Film Awards
Hollywood—(U.P.)-Look magazine movie awards last night went to whimsical French actress Audrey Hepburn and actor William Holden.
Mr. Holden got the award for the "best male performance" in his picture "Stalag 17." Miss Hephurb was adjudged "best female" actress for her comedy role in "Roman Holiday."
Magazine Editor Gardner Cowles and Associate Editor Fleur Cowles, his wife, presented "best" supporting part awards to Grace Kelly for her work in "Mogambo," and to Frank Sinatra for his sympathetic portrayal of a soldier in "From Here to Eternity."
Jack Palance was honored as best among new male film personalities for his role of a gun fighter in "Shane." Best among, new female actresses was singer Rosemary Clooney.
Fred Zinnemann "From Here to Eternity" and George Stevens "Shane" were awarded directing honors.
Labor Problems of Elderly To Be Conference Subject
The problems of aged workers in the labor force will be examined in the fourth annual Kansas Conference on Aging next Tuesday and Wednesday at the University.
An entire morning will be given to small group discussions on case problems involving the aged, said George Brooks, extension coordinator for the conference. Each group will make its report of analysis and recommendations to the general assembly.
The list of principal speakers includes:
Dr. Domenico Gagliardio, professor of economics, "A Labor Economist Views the Employment and Adjustment of the Aged and Aging."
M. A. Fitzgerald, international representative of the Hoisting and Operating Engineers, Oklahoma City, "The Union Views the Employment and Adjustment of the Aged and Aging."
A. A. Knapp, industrial research director, the Coleman company, Wichita, "Management Views the Employment and Adjustment of the Aged and Aging."
Charles Odell, chief of the division of counseling, selective placement and testing in the Bureau of Employment Security, United States Department of Labor, "Counselling, Placement and Programming for Older Workers."
The departments of sociology, anthropology, and social work, and University Extension conduct the conference in cooperation with Kansas State college, the State Department of Social Welfare and the Kansas State Board of Health.
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'Who'sWho'Lists48,716 Or 3 of Every 10,000
Chicago—(U.P.)—Three of every 10,000 Americans will find their names listed today in the new "Who's Who in America," which every two years counts the noses of the nation's prominent.
The 1954-55 edition of the big red volume contains 48,716 biographical sketches, an increase of 4.102 over the last edition published two years ago.
Roosevelt Opens Congress Race
Los Angeles—(U.P.)-James Roosevelt, endorsed by the Democratic party as its candidate for Congress from the 26th district, began a campaign today to establish a political record he hopes will "obliterate the smears against me."
Mr. Roosevelt, 47-year-old son of the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, won the nomination yesterday at a party caucus attended by 350 delegates and observers.
Mr. Roosevelt, accused by his wife, Romelle, of infidelities with 12 women, delivered a three-minute speech before the voting.
He won the endorsement on the second ballot. Although 11 candidates originally were in the running for the party's seal of approval, Mr. Roosevelt's only serious competition came from lawyer Jerry Pacht.
Mr. Pacht trailed Mr. Roosevelt by 12 votes on the first count and finally lost by 14 votes on the second ballot, when Mr. Roosevelt got one vote more than the 90 required for endorsement. The finally tally was 91 for Mr. Roosevelt to 77 for Mr. Pacht.
But the ratio of notables to the nation's population, three in 10,000 is the same as it was when the first "Who's Who" was published in 1898. That first edition listed 8,602 prominent persons, including "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Lillian Russell.
Fifty-two persons listed in the first "Who's Who" are alive today and appear in the current edition. The oldest is the Rev. George Summey, 101, New Orleans, founder of the Presbyterian Quarterly. The oldsters include published Bernarr MaeFadden, 85, and beauty expert Edna Wallace Hopper.
Not all of the elite are happy about their biographical sketches. Mary Garden, the former opera star, complained that the book lists her bithdate as Feb. 20, 1877, which would make her 27. She insists she is 70, but the editors claim otherwise.
Former President Harry S. Truman wrote the editors that he should be listed as the 32nd president, not the 33rd. The dispute revolves about the fact that Grover Cleveland served two non-concurrent terms.
Newcomers to "Who's Who" are two recent Nobel prize winners, Dr Max Theiler in physiology and medicine and Dr. Hans Krebs in medicine.
Other newcomers are George Dangerfield, Pulitzer prize winner in American history, and two Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights, William Inge and Joseph Kraam.
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