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Thanksgiving Vacation Lets Us Forget World Troubles
Thanksgiving is just three days away, and all Jayhawks are looking forward to the few days away from school that are called vacation. Winter is descending upon us as we go our varied ways home to rest, eat and be thankful. The mid-semester flunk list is out, and we've decided to hit the books and catch up before we return, though no one ever does.
But in spite of it all, there's good reason to be thankful. We have our cars to drive home for vacation, and there'll be a big dinner with all the trimmings Thursday. Our newspapers and radios will bring us the truth about the news, and we can still say anything we please without being thrown into a concentration camp. We can go to school where we please, and study what we please, and best of all, we live in the good ol' United States of America.
UNIVERSITY DAILY
48th Year
No.47
Monday, Nov. 20, 1950
Lawrence, Kansas
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—Kansan Photo By Ed Chapin
Three of these 13 women have been chosen as finalists for queen of the military ball to be held in the Military Science building on Dec. 1. Marcia Horn, Nancy Lichty, and Virginia Nalley will reign at the ball, one as the queen and the other two as attendants. The final selection will not be announced until the night of the dance.
Shown in the picture, left to right, top row, are: Shirley Piatt, Marcia Horn, Nancy Lichty, Milary Seymour, and Betty Thies; middle row: Shirley Broady, Virginia Nalley, Sue Taylor, and Frances Hoyt; bottom row: Barbara Pack, Margery Waddell, Barbara Bruflat, and Jerre Mueller.
When questioned about his choice of adjectives he said, "I use the word 'greatest' like a musician would.
Jazz At The Philharmonic Has Soloists, Not Stylists
By BOB SANFORD
"I never know what the band is going to play when it goes on the stage," Norman Granz said backstage at the Municipal auditorium in Kansas City Sunday night at Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic concert.
"After all, this thing started as a jam session and that's the way we try to keep it," Granz said. "When you tell a band what to play and how to play it you don't have jazz anymore, you have commercial music."
"The only thing I tell the band is to alternate slow and fast tunes" he said. "We have a definite schedule of sets and feature different groups at different times in the evening, but when they get on the stage they're on their own."
"We are selling the greatest thing in jazz today in Oscar Peterson," Granz said.
Granz, who wore a conservative dark blue suit and a mild tie, looked out of place among his zoot-suited fans. He looked more like a college professor than the manager of a jazz group and wore the expression of being occupied with abstract thought.
"I hire my men for ability," he said. "It is nice to have a lot of big names working for you.
He has some definite opinions on jazz, however. He gave some of these opinions between pauses to autograph programs and announce the sets of the concert.
Suppose a man was overjoyed with a steak he was eating, he would say 'This is the greatest.' That doesn't mean it is the only place he has ever eaten."
"When you hear a stylist, you like him because of his particular style of playing. But that one style is all you need to get the job. The pianist can play anything," he said.
"Peterson is the only major jazz pianist to appear since Art Tatum," Granz explained. "He is a musician in the true sense of the word, while other late piano men are stylists."
"This is a tough job for a musician to play. He can't be lazy like he can when he plays with a dance band. He has to be thinking and playing well all the time because there are some terrific critics on the stand with him and they know it when he drops a note."
Granz said an organization like Jazz at the Philharmonic can't use stylists effectively. "We can't build a style around one soloist because our whole group is made up of soloists," he said.
Regents Sell Bonds For Enlarging Union Building
Revenue bonds totaling $1,300,000 were sold by the K.U. Board of Regents for the addition to the Union at a meeting in Manhattan Friday.
Several buyers represented by Stern brothers of Kansas City, Mo., bid on the bonds on which the average interest will be 2.6 per cent.
tract work with a bid of $44,680.
The Natkin company of Kansas City, Mo., was low on heating and plumbing with $389,980, and Arthur Tucker of Topeka was low on electrical work with $94,518.50.
A ballroom nearly twice the size of the present ballroom is provided
The addition will include five-story south wing, and the one-story Hawk's Nest will be raised to the full five stories. The addition will house student activity offices, recreation rooms, meeting rooms, and an addition to the cafeteria. This latter addition will free the ballroom from use as a cafeteria.
for in the plans. Bowling Alleys, ping-pong, card, music and browsing rooms will be included in the new wings. A large lounge will be built on the main floor.
The bonds for the Union addition, which will double the size of the present structure, will mature over a period of 30 years. They carry coupon rates of $21 \frac{1}{2}, 2 \%$ and 3 per cent.
The main lounge will be extended to the south. Opening into this extension will be a new entrance, twice the width of the present doorway. A northwest terrace is to be built off an enlarged Kansas room.
They will be redeemed by a special $5-a-sementer levy on student activity fees. Approximately $200,000 has already been collected from the activity fee levy. The addition will cost $1,500,000.
Bids for the addition were received last Tuesday and the low bids will be formalized into contracts this week. The total for the low bids will be $1,410,308.50. The B. A. Green Construction company of Lawrence was low bidder on the general con-
Student craft rooms, dark rooms for photographers, and private dining rooms will be added on the cafeteria level. The Union bookstore will be enlarged on the basement level and several student offices will be added. A sub-basement will include bowling alleys, ping-pong tables, and storage space.
A freight elevator will be installed and a passenger elevator will be built near the present main stairway.
A sketch of the new Memorial Union complete with north and south wing additions.
YWCA Supplies Needy Family
A turkey, canned goods, bread, milk, and other food supplies worth about $30 were contributed to a needy Lawrence family by Y.W.C.A. members through the community service commission.
A Thanksgiving project, the basket of goods will be delivered to the family Wednesday morning. Nov. 22, by the store from which they were bought.
The Lawrence Family Welfare board assisted the community service commission in selecting the family. Money was collected through Y.W.C.A. representatives in organized houses and commission members purchased the food Thursday.
Kansas—Fair tonight and Tuesday.
Not so cold northwest tonight,
warmer Tuesday. Low tonight near
20; high Tuesday 45-50.
Anne Snyder, commission chairman, said the joint Y.M.C.A. and the University of Colorado will deepprivileged children will be held at 4 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 14.
WEATHER
Kansan Will Be Early Tuesday
The University Daily, Kansas will go to press at noon Tuesday. Students leaving the campus for Thanksgiving vacation in the afternoon can get copies beginning at 12:30 p.m.
3 Lawyers To Compete
Three law students will compete in the national finals of a moot court competition before Robert H. Jackson, supreme court justice; Harold Medina, district judge; and three other judges of national fame in New York City next month.
Wallace B. Foster, Richard C. Harris, and Keil Wilson, third year law students, won the regional contest held in St. Louis Nov. 16 and 17. Their final opponent, Kentucky university, will also go to the national finals. The University team also defeated St. Louis university and Washington university, St. Louis, in the preliminaries.
This is the first year for the competition sponsored by the American Bar association. Regional winners each year are given a key for themselves.
Religious Week Plans Started
Religious Emphasis week chairmen have been announced by Mary Lou Fisher, general chairman of the inter-faith program which is sponsored by the Student Religious council.
the week, which will last from Sunday, March 11, through Thursday. March 15, will include an all-student convocation, faculty speaker luncheons, classroom, seminar, and organized house discussion groups, and an inter-faith dinner meeting.
Chairmen apointed by Miss Fisher are Carolyn Ash, seminars; Robert Bell, organized houses; Patricia Cameron, secretarial; Caroline Crosier, finance; Haywood Davis, personal guide for the main speaker for the week; Jane Heywood, speaker schedules; Donna Hull, classroom discussions; John Kassebaum, convocation; Denny King, faculty luncheons; Janith Lewis, contests; Evelyn Millison, worship; and Mona Millikan, publicity.
Miss Helener Currier, associate director of Wesley Foundation, is general advisor of the project.