Another Godfrey To Go on TV
University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 20.1954
New York —(U.P.)— New York is going to have another Godfrey working in television come Saturday night-Kathy Godfrey, younger sister of Arthur.
She's no newcomer to the business. She started in radio about 25 years ago.
"As a matter of fact," she said, "I was working for a radio station over in New Jersey before I ever realized that Arthur also had started in radio. He had left home as a young man while I was still a little kid and our contacts were infrequent."
The network is familiar with her abilities because for the last three years she has been conducting children's shows and two interview programs on station KPHO-TV, ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Ariz., where she has made her home for several years.
Kathy has been brought to New York by the ABC network to do the interviewing on a quiz program called "On Your Way," which has John Reed King as master of ceremonies.
She is married to Dr. Robert Ripley, a Phoenix pediatrician whom she met while she was an influenza patient in the hospital where he was interning. They have a daughter, Nanev 16, and a son, Robin 9.
"I went to work at a microphone when I was 16 years old." Kathy recalled. "I was paid $35 a week for training." She站了 the station at Englewood, N.J.
"I was getting along fine until I contracted polio two years later and it took me four years to get over that. I just decided there was no point to being an invalid in a walking world and made up my mind to get well."
'Racket' Charge Denied by DAV
Washington—(U.P.)—An official of the Disabled American Veterans to-day termed a "vicious, distorted and completely unwarranted attack" to give it a "black eye," a charge that the DAV is a "charity racket."
Vivian D. Corbly, DAV national adjutant, vigorously denied charges aired last December by a New York State Legislative committee. He said the DAV was "stunned by the committee's charges and was at a loss to understand this malicious attack unless it is part of a general insidious attack by selfish groups against our national disabled veterans" program."
Mr. Corbly and other high-ranking officials of the veterans organization were granted a hearing by the House Veterans Affairs committee to answer the state group's charges.
ASCE Elects Officers
Jack Shears, engineering senior,
was elected president of the University
chapter of the American Society of
Civil Engineers at a meeting last
night. Other officers elected were
James McClure, engineering junior;
vice president; Lawrence Merrigan,
engineering senior, corresponding
secretary; Stanley Wilson, engineering
senior, recording secretary, and
Robert Bruce, engineering junior,
treasurer.
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—Kansan photo by Frank Jennings
DON'T DROP ME—Robert Bell, Dick Laptad, and Shirley Hughes present a handstanding act at the Faculty club while Ann Laptad
looks on.
Ike Faces Rough 2nd Year Celebrates 1st Anniversary
Washington, Jan. 20—(U.P.)—Dwight Eisenhower faced a year of personal and party crisis as he celebrated the first anniversary today of his inauguration as 34th president of the United States.
Mr. Eisenhower became President at 12:32 p.m. one year ago today, the office technically having been vacant since 12 noon when Harry S. Truman's term ended.
The new president favored a hamburg lid over a silk topper for the big show and a hamburg boom was widely predicted. Nothing much came of it.
The Administration devoted the following 12 months to a firming-up of United States foreign policy, to ending the shooting war in Korea and to a broad study of domestic problems and policies. Mr. Eisenhower used a year to chart his course.
Today his administration is engaged in unfolding for Congress' election year action a controversial domestic program which will make or break his administration.
Mr. Eisenhower has chosen to fight a political war of many fronts in the critical months ahead. The 1533 policy studies substantially covered the field of domestic problems and the first few of a series of many messages already in 1954 have gone to Capitol Hill.
Messages on Taft-Hartley amendments, social security, farm relief and public health insurance followed the all-inclusive State of the Union message. A budget loaded with disputed proposals will be presented to Congress tomorrow.
As the fateful year begins, there is trouble in the farm belt and on the labor front. There is talk of recession and fear of depression. The Senate alignment is: Republicans 47; Democrats 48; Independent 1. The House: Republicans 219; Democrats 215. Independent 1.
Republicans have technical control of Congress, no more. They need half a dozen more Senate votes and 25 or so in the House to claim a reasonable working majority. Under such circumstances and with the Senate weakened by the loss of Robert A. Taft, Mr. Eisenhower is in a distinctly uncomfortable and unpromising position.
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Gymnastic Students Familiar Sight at KU
By SAM TEAFORD
Ever hear of a team without a coach or official sponsor?
Well, those characteristics apply to the gymnastic team which performed at the halves of the Oklahoma and Missouri basketball games and Sunday at the Faculty club.
Bob Bell, graduate student, call, hinself the "spokesman" for the team, but he's not the coach. The group doesn't have a sponsor, either, since the University is one of the few Big Seven schools which does not have an official gym team.
Saturday the University gymnasms entered a meet at Kansas State college, but they competed as the Lawrence athletic club. The University of Nebraska won the meet. The Lawrence club scored six points, all by Dick Laptad, education freshman.
More familiar to University students is the balancing act, presented for half-time activities at two basketball games this year.
Members of the act, in addition to Bell and Laptad, are Shirley Hughes, instructor in physical education; Ann Laptad, education sophomore, and Duane Houtz, business junior.
Perhaps the most spectacular of their stunts involves the use of a table, four bottles, and two chairs. The bottles, standing on the table, serve as supports for the first chair. A second chair, with two legs out in space, rests on the first chair.
When all the props have been arranged, Miss Hughes and Dick Laptad climb upon the second chair, where Dick does a handstand with one hand on the back of each of the two chairs.
When the stunt was performed at the half of the Missouri game, one of the supporting bottles fell out from under the chair. Asked if it were part of the act, Bell said this was done "accidentally on purpose."
From the standpoint of practice,
Bell said the table act was easy. All it takes, he said, is confidence and good balance.
Bell said the "French roll" was one of their most difficult acts. Miss Hughes stands in the hands
of Houtz, who is lying on his back. Houtz turns over on his stomach and then returns to his original position, holding Miss Hughes aloft all the while.
The "high hand-to-hand," in which Dick Laptad, held high in the air, does a hand-stand in Bell's hands, was aso called a difficult stunt.
Pyramids are easy to do, according to Bell. He said all that is necessary is to keep the weight vertical to the floor, putting the center of gravity in the right place.
In the pyramid routine Bell stands on the floor and Houtz sits on his shoulders. The two girls, Miss Hughes and Mrs. Leaptad, each put one foot on one of Bell's thighs and hold the other foot out in mid-air.
The success of the act depends on Houtz, in Bell's opinion. He has to balance the two girls. "If they aren't balanced, I can't hold them," Bell said. "Otherwise, it's easy."
University gymnasts meet regularly in Robinson 101 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and on Sunday afternoon to practice and develop new routines.
Bell said that members of the balancing act practice more on their own time, averaging about two hours a day.
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