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ROSE MORGAN HOUSE—This four-story brown house will be the home of visiting professors at the University for many years to come. Dr. Nabih Amin Faris, professor of history at Beirut university, Lebanon, is the first Rose Morgan visiting professor to use the house.
By ELIZABETH WOHLGEMUTH
Visiting Professors May Use House for Campus Stay
A four-story brown house at 1101 Missouri st., stands on the side of Mt. Oread overlooking the city and the stadium and affording a fine view of the University skyline. This is the residence of visiting professors at the University of Kansas which was made possible by the gift of her home by the late Rose Morgan, teacher of English for 34 years.
Before putting the residence into use the University Endowment Association, which had charge of the gift, redecorated and refurnished the house. An open house was held and the building was presented on Feb. 22 of this year. Dr. Nabih Amin Fari, professor of history at Beirut university, Lebanon, is the first Rose Morgan visiting professor.
The work on the house was done by University workmen under the direction of George Beal, head of the department of architecture and his staff members. Mrs. Robert Calderwood, associate professor of English, planned the redecoration and chose the new furniture for the home.
Except for the dishes and silver few of Miss Morgan's furnishings were kept on the first floor which consists of hall, living room, dining room, study, kitchen, and pantry. The second floor has many reminders of the former owner. Using birch furniture in sturdy and graceful lines, Mrs. Calderwood achieved a bridge between the original oak woodwork and the old pieces of furniture left by Miss Morgan.
The basement and third floor have not been changed and probably will be unused except for storage or playrooms.
Surrounding the house on two sides are woods, which Miss Morgan asked to be left intact. During the winter she fed the animals which made their home in the woods.
The house, built in 1910, was designed for Miss Morgan by the late Prof. W. A. Griffith.
Miss Morgan's home was always filled with students to whom she rented at a nominal cost. Her aid both in a financial way and with friendly counsel, became legendary
MacMurray Is Star of 'Mutiny'
Hollywood—(U.P.) Everyone loves a good guy, but sometimes it pays to be a heel.
Skin The Tigers
For almost 20 years Fred MacMurray had been seen on the screen as a good, solid, lovable character whom film audiences throughout the world have identified as the co-star with more top ranking feminine players than practically any other man.
Yet, after 50 big movies and playing opposite such female "names" as Claudette Colbert, Madeleine Carroll, Dorothy Lamour, Susan Hayward, Paulette Goddard and many others, Fred won his best critical plaudits as Barbara Stanwyck's partner in murder in "Double Idemnity." In spite of this successful demonstration of playing a villain, few such roles have come his way.
Now, for the second time in his career, Fred again plays a stinker, and loves every minute of it. Cast as Lieut. Keefer, the novelist-intellectual turned Navy officer, he sparks the trouble aboard the destroyerminesweeper in the film version of Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize novel, "The Caine Mutiny," for Columbia. And MacMurray is showing that he's one of the finest dramatic actors in films.
"I've got a long list of good comedy roles behind me," said the handsome six-foot-four actor, "but it takes a role like the part of Keefer to really show what you can do."
MacMurray cuts a sharp figure in his Navy uniform but reluctantly admitted his personality in the picture isn't one that will set many female hearts thumping.
"The laughs that movie audiences have given my past films have kept me in pictures," he said. "But this time, the more they dislike me the happier I'll be."
According to one authority on vital statistics, Dr. Louis I. Dublin, the greatest age attained by a person in modern times for which the records seem reliable is that of a Dane named Christen Jacobsen Drakenberg. He was born Nov. 18, 1626, and died Oct. 9, 1772, so he almost completed 146 years. In 1737, at the age of 111, he married a 60-year-old widow, who died a few years later.
Harvard Head Says Students Not 'Taken In'
Cambridge, Mass. (L.P.)—This generation of college students is "perhaps too wise, too close to those recently burned" to give itself quickly to easy enthusiasms President Nathan M. Pusey told Harvard freshmen in his first talk before a student group since becoming the 24th president of Harvard.
Excerpts from remarks of President Pusey, follow:
"The millennium will not seem quite so close to you perhaps as to some generations of college students. You are perhaps too wise, too close to those recently burned. And yet it will be a tragic lack, and a very unwise kind of wisdom, if your generation feels no compelling urge to make the world over after its own heart's desire.
University Daily Kansan
"Harvard is not a college limited in the reach of its influence, and entering here you become citizens of no mean city. This university is now organically related to all parts and sections of our country—indeed to the whole world—and it touches almost every aspect of its life. Having chosen to come here, and in turn been chosen, it follows that our careers must grow patiently but steadily into commensuration with a vastly enlarged perspective. And it follows, too, that they must deepen.
"Harvard never subscribed to the heresy that you can learn without books. On the contrary this university can be said almost to be built on books. Witness the manifold library resources that exist everywhere you turn, and witness, too, the many excellent bookstores that cluster about Harvard Square as about no other business center in the United States. Our interest here is to read books, not to burn them, and if only you can learn to read books regularly, you will buy books whenever you can, your education will progress in a proper fashion and you will grow in spirit and understanding.
"It is still true, if community life is to prosper at any level, that from him to whom much has been given much will be required. . You do not come to Harvard to exploit her for your own use; you come here to get knowledge, to find fellowship, at a high level."
Friday; Nov. 20, 1953
Files at NATO Contain Top Secret of Europe
Paris—(U.P.)—Secrets the public didn't hear at Britain's Farnborough air show are locked in NATO's most spy-proof "file"—five-foot, eight-inch Alfred Maxmillian Gruenther, 54, supreme commander of the allied armies, fleets and warplanes in Europe.
Thrust figures on jet engines which may not be fully developed for months are stacked neatly, accurate to the tiniest decimal point, in the photographic mind of the American general.
An aide who suggested the supreme commander should refer to the European ally as the Netherlands rather than Holland received a famous "Gruenthergram" in reply, referring him to a 500-page volume and directing him to turn to page 287.
Plane performances, cost estimates and production rates on Britain's aviation industry are locked behind the smile on Mr. Gruenther's favorite "file," his head, along with the ages of the Italian defense minister's six children, the pass in northern Norway he looked at for a few seconds and can draw from memory on a blackboard, and more hard statistics than any other single general can remember in the Atlantic coalition of 14 allies.
The general also is a lover of "gadgets." One of these is known as Gruenther's "eight ball" which is on his desk. It was given to him by Clare Boothe Luce, U.S. ambassador to Rome. Mr. Gruenther "consults" this cloudy crystal ball when asked important questions and laughingly passes on the "answers" he "finds" in it.
Mr. Gruenther can remember notes he scrawled on the margins of memos written in 1948—and recall the date he scribbled down his ideas as well as the date the note was written.
He has squelched French complaints about lagging British coal production with replies detailing tonnages mined per month in Welsh coal fields, where the coal was shipped, and whether it was stored.
On that page of a book Mr. Gruenther had scanned years before was this sentence-"if you call this country Holland the people do not mind at all."
Then there are the scarlet toy grasshoppers that leap as tall as Nebraska corn from any desk to which they are attached.
By carping around a carton of the grasshoppers, he has won the hearts
of moppets and the occasional title of "Uclele Al" throughout Europe. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Pella's 12-year-old daughter, Vanda, is the proud owner of a Gruenther-hopper and his defense minister's six children received pens and jumping toys as well.
The child of a Greek officer attached to Mr. Gruenther's staff is popping his way to recovery with the toy gun Gruenther sent when the youngster's poliomyelitis crisis had passed. There is not a single birth, death, marriage or engagement in the allied headquarters about which Mr. Gruenther fails to learn and appropriately recognize.
The typical "brass hat" might have been furious if his star-studded auto were halted in a Roman street by a misguided woman who screamed he was a "Russian general" and should get out of Rome. But when it happened to Mr. Gruenther recently, he got one of his biggest laughs.
Newspapers in Oslo tagged him with a rhyming headline—'Muntre Gruenther" (Smiling Gruenther)—on his recent visit there when he relaxed between a gruelling series of conferences by handing out toys. That was the trip on which he charted Norway's defenses mentally during a brief plane flight.
George More of Buffalo, N.Y., owns a gate that more than 100,000 persons have passed through to their deaths. Now blocking an alley, it was brought in 1902 from England where it once swung open to the gallows at London's Newgate prison.
The Michigan conservation department plants approximately a quarter of a million legal-size trout in the state's streams prior to the opening of the trout season every spring.
Probably the first musical society in America was the St. Cecilia, organized in Charles Town (Charleston), S.C., in 1762.
You'll Be the Best Dressed Man at the Game Tomorrow