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University Daily Kansan Thursday. March 5, 1953
Two Cambridge Students to Debate At Student Convocation Wednesday
Two men from Cambridge university are to debate Wednesday before an all-student convocation.
The two, Peter John Mansfield and Alistair Hubert Sampson, will take the affirmative side of the debate question, "Resolved: that every country needs a strong left wing."
Kent Shearer, second year law student, and Guy Goodwin, third year law student, will argue negatively for KU. Both are experienced debaters and members of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debating fraternity.
Mr. Mansfield, 24, was born in India, but moved with his parents to England when he was four. He has studied economics for three years. He is a member of the Labor party, and has served in the British army.
He likes to travel, and since the war has visited many European countries. Music, politics, and literature are his other interests.
Mr. Sampson, 23, is a "mild Socialist." This Londoner was in the English Royal Army Education corps. He received his bachelor of arts degree in history and law. Lawn tennis, billiards, the theater, and writing are his favorite diversions.
The Britishers arrived in the United States yesterday. Following the convocation here, E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, will drive them to Wichita, where they will debate at the Municipal university of Wichita. They will finish their United States tour on April 2.
The other Kansas school included in their trip is Kansas State Teachers college, Pittsburg.
"This is the first time in the history of KU debating that we've had an international debate held before an all-student convocation," said Prof. Buehler. He said that it was unusual to get a team from Cambridge.
The department of speech will entertain the Cambridge men at a tea at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Student Union. Faculty members, the debate squad, and forensic league members are invited. The International Relations club of Haskell Institute will entertain the British team that evening.
Professor Recalls Seeing Child Prodigy
Elmer Beth, professor of journalism, remembers hearing Larin Mazel, a child prodigy, conduct a symphony concert some 15 years ago in Idaho. Mr. Mazel will conduct an all-Gershwin program in Kansas Music's hall Friday night.
Prof. Beth recalls in 1938 when he was head of the journalism courses at the University of Idaho, that the then 8-year-old Mazael, prodigy of the famous Russian composer Dr. Vladimir Bakalenikoff, conducted the orchestra.
3 Education Seniors Teach Art Courses
Special children's classes in art materials are being taught by three art education seniors.
Saturday morning classes in the children's room of the Museum of Art are being taught by Rosalie Thorne. A class in mionnetettes at Pinckney school is taught by Lorraine Lovette on Tuesdays. A sketch class in Dyche museum on Wednesdays is taught by Georgeann Ankrom.
PETER JOHN MANSFIELD
ALISTAIR HUBERT SAMPSON
Art Students, Library Staff To Hear Bookbinder Friday
Edward McLean, one of the nation's top bookbinders and rare book restorers, will speak to design students at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in 316 Strong, and at 4 p.m. to the Watson library staff.
Much of Mr. McLean's work will be displayed tomorrow and Saturday at the west end of Strong hall. Mr. McLean will be present to answer questions.
Materials' used in covering the books range from satin, rattlesnake, hand-embroidered linen, python, barracuda, and Nigerian goatskin.
Recently 10,000 people saw the exhibit at the Monterey County (Calif) fair. Mr. McLean is one of the three people showing such a display in the United States.
His interest in what holds a book together began in 1934, when his stage career was halted by a fall in the Hollywood Bowl. During convencescence he met and studied with an expert bookbinder.
Since 1942, when he began restoring books, an estimated $12 million in rare and historic volumes have passed through his hands.
Mr. McLean has done everything from refurbishing original Shakespeare folios to restitching an 18th century almanac to look the way it did when Madame Pompadour curled up in bed to read it about two centuries ago.
Previous owners of some of the restored volumes include Queen Elizabeth, Henry VIII, Oliver Cromwell, and Marie Antoinette.
Most of Mr. McLean's binding tools have been adopted from the wooden tools used in London for the past 400 years. Some of his equipment originally belonged to Anne Thackeray Ritchie, one of England's most celebrated binders and daughter of William Thackeray, British novelist.
International Club Sponsors Concert
A concert of song and cello was given last night in the Museum of Art sponsored by the International club.
The program was performed by David Rosario, fine arts freshman, tenor, and Miss Oliga Zilboorg, fine arts freshman, cellist.
Rosario sang, "E Luce van Le Stelle" from Puecienni's "La Tosae", an aria from the final scene of Donzietti's opera, "Lucia Di Lammermoor," and "Veste la Giubba" from Leoncavallo's "Il Paglacci."
Miss Zilboorg, a foreign student from Mexico, played Hayden's "Concerto in D Major," Bach's "Prelude in C Major," Ravel's "Habanaer, and Weber's "Adagio and Rondo."
Miss Evelyn Deifs, college junior,
accompanied Rosario on the piano,
and James York, fine arts junior,
accompanied Miss Zilboorg.
2 Film Actors Escape Death
Hollywood, Calif. — (U.P.)—Film actors Victor Mature and Richard Burton narrowly escaped being burned when flames destroyed a canopy above them during the filming of the three-dimensional movie, "The Robe."
The canopy, erected above a pool for a Roman bath scene at 20th Century-Fox studio, suddenly caught fire yesterday. Both actors fled only seconds before it fell upon the spot where they had been standing.
Skyraiders, Corsairs and Panther jets launched from the carrier Oriskany dropped 50,000 pounds of bombs on the Kumdok zinc and lead mines, within 50 miles of the Manchurian border and northwest of the East Coast port city of Songin.
Draft Proposal Received Coldly
Navy, Air Force Bombers Set Jet Distance Record in Korea
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The Thunder jets destroyed nine buildings and damaged three, and touched off huge fires in an industrial area.
Fifteen American Thunder jets flew a 700-mile round trip to drop bombs on Chongjin, a city in northeast Korea about 50 miles southwest of the Russian border. It was their deepest penetration of the Korean war.
Washington — (U.P.)— Congress poured cold water today on Gen. James A. Van Fleet's proposal to make draftees serve up to three years instead of the current two.
Seoul, Korea—(U.P.)—Navy and Air Force fighter-bombers, some setting a long-distance jet bombing record, struck within 50 miles of the Russian and Manchurian borders today in a series of damaging raids on vital enemy targets in North Korea.
Congressional military leaders said flatly this won't be done at this time. They doubted that it would be done at any time in the near future except in event of a grave new emergency.
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They called on the Defense department and draft officials instead to plug up loopholes in draft rules through which they said thousands of students and fathers are slipping to virtual immunity.
Pentagon sources agreed with Gen. Van Fleet on the need for a longer term but disavowed the proposal as an official Defense department move. They said the Pentagon is not planning at this time to ask Congress formally for an extension of draft service to three years.
Armed Services committee Chairman Dewey Short (R-Mo.) said committee members also agree that a longer draft term would save money and simplify the military manpower problem but that other factors are involved.
Other Navy fighter-bombers from the carrier Valley Forge plastered installations at the Ch o e n N. 1 hydroelectric plant in north central Korea with 100,000 pounds of explosives.
Thunder jets from two other Fifth Air Force wings fired a munitions processing plant near Sunchin in the western half of Korea. Five buildings were destroyed.
Other Air Force fighter-bombers bombed rail lines and rolling stock in the Haeju Peninsula, damaging nine boxcars, one vehicle and one building.
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