University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 27, 1953
Queen Elizabeth Starts First Coronation Fete
London—(U.P.)—Queen Elizabeth II presides today at a great banquet, sitting at the exact spot where a British king was convicted of high treason 304 years ago and then beheaded.
Survival of the monarchy was exemplified by having the gracious young queen's chair placed at the main table on the same position where King Charles I heard a "high court of justice" doom him.
The lunch of 750 representatives of the Commonwealth—premiers and lawmakers—and Parliamentary association was the first formal occasion leading to the 28-year-old queen's coronation next Tuesday.
At Elizabeth's side today was one of her most ardent admirers, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, along with other Commonwealth premiers—Canada's Louis St. Laurent, Australia's Robert G. Menzies, New Zealand's Sidney Holland, Southern Rhodesia's Sir Godfrey Huggins, and Mohammed Ali of Pakistan.
The queen was accompanied to Westminster hall by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, who flew to and from Buckingham palace by helicopter.
The biggest coronation rehearsal yet—with 700 persons taking part—was held in Westminster abbey today.
Great military figures and noblemen of the realm—checked by stop-watches—carried dummy regalia, including St. Edward's crown, seeper and orb, through the great church.
The coronation choir of 400 men
Medical Senior To Study Abroad
Edward James Huycke, a graduating senior in the School of Medicine, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study physiology and pharmacology next year in Denmark.
He will attend the Pharmacological Institute and Institute of Medicine and Physiology at the State University of Copenhagen. Huycke received the AB degree from KU in 1950.
The scholarship is one of 19 grants made by the U.S. State department for study in Denmark, and one of about 900 made for foreign study at the graduate level.
and boys and an orchestra of 60 players attended the rehearsal and 22 trumpeters practiced fanfares while another gigantic crowd massed outside the abbey.
An elegant group of celebritans from coronation balls and night clubs, including women in mink capes over full-skirted gowns and men in evening clothes, mingled last night with informally-dressed tourists and townsmen outside the palace hoping for a glimpse of royalty.
London was swelling to the bursting point with visitors but ticket agencies revealed that scalpers who held back the best seats along the coronation route were dropping their prices drastically.
Some scalpers had held out for as much as 80 guineas ($240) for a single seat with food and television sets, but by today those prices had dropped rapidly into line with the average range of 20 to 25 guineas ($60 to $75).
State Newspapers Hire 11 Students
Eleven journalism students will participate this summer in the William Allen White Foundation summer internship program.
Under this program, journalism students are placed on jobs on Kansas newspapers to give them practical experience. The program was started last year, with nine students taking part.
Those students accepting jobs, and the papers on which they will work are Shirley Piatt, junior, Great Bend Tribune; Susanne Berry, junior, Hutchinson News Herald; Eileen Foley, junior, Hutchinson News Herald; Dean Evans, junior, Topeka State Journal; Rozanne Atkins, junior, Kansas City, Kan., office of the Kansas City Star; James Baird, junior, Parsons St; Stanley Hamilton, college sophomore, Kansas City Times; Donald Tice, junior, Salina Journal, Clark Keys and rence Journal-World, and Velma Gaston, junior, Kansas City Kansan
Seventeen magazine and the J. B. Lippincott company have announced the second literary competition with a total price of $3,500 for the best maturely conceived novel for young people.
Publishers Open Literary Contest
An outright prize of $1,000 will be awarded to the author of the acceptable manuscript, which should be between 45,000 and 70,000 words. The remainder of the prize will consist of $1,250 to be paid by the book publishers as a cash advance against royalties for book and allied rights, and an equal amount to be paid by Seventeen for first serial rights.
The deadline for entry for manuscripts is Feb. 28. All manuscripts should be addressed to Lippincott-Seventeen Prize Novel contest, J. B. Lippincott company, East Washington sq., Philadelphia 5. Pa. Contest details may be obtained by writing to the same address.
Zuercher to Head Military Society
Bruce Zuercher, second year law, has been elected captain of Scabbard and Blade, honorary military society.
Three other officers were elected and six were initiated at the Thursday meeting. James Hoefener, engineering junior, was elected first lieutenant, Ben Phillips, engineering junior, second lieutenant, and Chapin Clark, first year law, first sergeant.
Those initiated were John Esther, college senior, Ben Phillips, Jim Hoeferman, Bruce Zuercher, and John Thomas, engineering seniors, and Donald Giffin, third year law.
KU Grants Awards To 15 Newspapers
Fifteen newspapers received awards from Dean Burton W. Marvin of the journalism school at a meeting Monday of the Inland Daily Press association, in Chicago.
The awards were presented in connection with the third annual Inland Public Relations contest, which is sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Included in the newspapers receiving awards was the Great Bend Tribune. The association, which represents 460 daily newspapers, ends the spring session today.
You Can't Graduate without one more party at the PIT!
An 83-page report entitled "Social and Cultural Features," tenth in a series of studies entitled "Economic Development in Southwestern Kansas," has been issued by the bureau of business research. E. Gordon Ericksen, assistant professor of sociology, wrote the report.
Dr. Ericksen shows that modern technology has reduced the importance of where people in southwestern Kansas live and has enhanced the importance of how they live.
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Studies Describe SW Kansas Life
"The Southwestern farmer," Dr. Ericksen writes, "while perhaps still cherishing the illusion of independence in what he plants, how he cultivates the soil, the tools he uses, and the prices he gets for his products, cannot and is not remaining oblivious to the city.
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"His well-being, his health, the education of his children, his taxes, his politics, his income, his ideas and his attitudes are shaped as much, or possibly even more, by what goes on in the near and distant cities than by what transpires in his own immediate surroundings."
Paul E. Malone, director of the School of Business' bureau, has announced that the subsequent reports will cover population resources, mineral resources and industries, water resources, manufacturing and construction industries, and a summary and policy statement.
Persons desiring copies of the published studies can send their requests to the bureau, Mr. Malone said.
Joe McGinnity of the New York Giants posted a tremendous 35-8 pitching record in 1904.
Lawrence Senior Wins $100 Prize
Joseph Robb, a senior at Liberty Memorial High school, today was the first to receive from the University section of the American Chemical society a $100 prize for achievement and interest in the field of chemistry.
of chemistry. The award is to be made annually. To be eligible, one must be a high school senior in the five or six counties forming the territory of the local section of the ACS, according to Raymond Hoppen, assistant professor of pharmacy.
Winners in future years probably will be selected from nominations made by science teachers in area high schools, he said. Acceptance of the award does not indicate the winner will study at KU, he explained.
The California company undergraduate scholarship for the 1953-54 school year has been awarded to Elbert Kenneth Stevenson Jr., of Lawrence, engineering junior.
Engineering Junior Gets $450 Award
The award is made by the company, an oil producer and subsidiary of Standard Oil of California, and consists of $450 in cash and the cost of books and fees during the year.
Stevenson is majoring in petroleum engineering and is a member of Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, and a student member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
The 21-year-old engineering student is married and has been employed as a surveyor and draftsman by the Douglas county engineer's office for three years.