University Daily Kansan
It Was A Lovely Evening, But Not A Night For Bliss
It's probable that before leaving home, Bliss read about the death of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railway king. It was the dav's big news.
At any rate, Bliss and Miss Lee made a call in Harlem and returned almost immediately, riding downtown in a Columbus avenue street car. They stopped the trolley at 74th street. Miss Lee lived on that street. Bliss on 75th.
New York—(U.P.) It was a clear, cool evening in late summer, and a fresh southwest wind was whipping across the brownstones when Henry H. Bliss left his midtown Manhattan home, never to return.
It was 9 p.m. and dark. The temperature stood at 64. The early dusk, which was to help along the tragedy that came to Bliss, had been a boon earlier that day to the league-leading Brooklyn Superbas. They beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 to 3, but the Pirates had three men on base when the game was called because of darkness.
Bliss, 68, a partially-bald, heavyset Wall street real estate broker with a drooping mustache, and his friend, Miss Lee, who has never been further identified, headed uptown to Harlem.
Bliss alighted and turned to assist Miss Lee off the car. But at that moment there was bearing down on him from behind one of the 3,200 horseslass carriages then in existence in the United States.
Fifty minutes before the elderly broker and Miss Lee took a street car for Harlem, the curtain went up at the Garrick on "Zaza," starring Mrs. Leslie Carter.
The automobile, running close to the tracks, hit Bliss, and as the
Galveston, Texas —(U.P.)— Can't sleep? Try a beer or a glass of wine.
newspapers report, "He was struck on the head by the rubber-tired wheel." The driver, Arthur Smith, said he did not see Bliss until it was too late to stop.
"Knocked down by an automobile," the headline in the New York Herald said. The date of the accident was Sept. 13, 1899.
Next day Bliss died. His was America's first automobile accident death.
That's the recommendation of Dr Judmund Magnussen, founder of the Mental Hygiene clinic at Copenhagen, Denmark.
This week end as the Christmas holidays start, the one millionth person will be killed in the U.S. by an automobile.
It Ought To Beat Counting Sheep
A specialist in sleep disturbances, Magnussen told a class at the University of Texas medical school branch here yesterday that those who wish to avoid insomnia should eat "a light meal in the evening and drink a glass of wine or a bottle of beer."
There are 171 miles of corridors in the Pentagon in Washington.
It's A New Approach Anyway
It seems that the latest service offered in Watson library is an unofficial date bureau. Apparently, three KU men have devised a new system for getting better acquainted with the studious females who inhabit the place.
"Naturally, I didn't notice him," she said.
It seems that two of his "friends" arrived on the scene and seated themselves beside her. They immediately began to disturb the peace and in general make their presence objectionable with leers at their victim, asides to each other and the first fellow about her, and remarks about women in general, she said.
As one shy education junior tells it, "I was sitting at a table in the reserve room, and this lanky blond was parked at the other end."
After a short while the two left. It was then that the plan revealed it.
The first chap came over to the
Hugh McKenzie, special student in education from Surrey, England, has been named a delegate from the University to the 16th Quadrennial conference of the Student Volunteer movement to be held in Lawrence Dec. 27 to Jan. 1.
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Some Pigeons are Inclined to Pout
Did Garcia Really Care About Getting That Message?
He will be one of almost 2,500 young men and women to meet on the KU campus for what has been described as this year's largest and most widely representative student conference under inter-denominational auries.
KU Delegate Set For Conference
young lady, sat down, and apologized for his friends' behavior.
In addition to U. S. and Canadian students from 700 colleges and universities, representing some 40 Protestant denominations, the meeting will include over 200 students from foreign lands, and 200 missionaries, student leaders and church executives who will provide the Conference leadership.
When she acknowledged the apology, she found herself embroiled in a conversation, the outcome of which was a request for a coke date.
Cost him $4.25 in quarters. When the bonging of the Coin Box stopped, all he could hear at the other end of the wire was a stutter of Sniffs. "Honey?" he asked. She sobbed more plainly.
This is the sad story of a senior who was Serious about a Girl. In the straightforward manner of seniors, he invited her up for the Big Weekend.
He sat down and wrote her a nice letter a month ahead. Then he sat back and waited. And got no answer in three weeks. Finally, in despair, he phoned Her.
"Harold," she wailed, "You used to send telegrams to invite me to Big Weekends —This year, all I get is a little old Letter. You don't love me." And hung up.
"I told him no," she said, but added that she "couldn't help admiring his methods."
Harold goes everywhere stag now. Says he prefers it that way. But when he passes a Western Union office, he sighs.
A telegram takes any message right out of the casual class. It's subtle—it flatters the person who gets it. Next time you send an invitation, or a howl home for cash or a birthday greeting to Mother—just call Western Union or head for your Western Office.
Thursday, Dec. 13, 1951
Brockton, Mass.—(U.P.)—Doctors at Phaneuf hospital had to use a flashlight to deliver a baby daughter to Mrs. George Belmore Jr. when a falling limb cut power lines. Both mother and daughter came through in fine condition.
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