UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1948
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Golden Cuckoos Go To Winners Of New Contest
Hollywood, Dec. 21—(UP)—This being the season for those "best-of the year" lists, a movie producer came up today with the "most impossible" events of 1948. He's handing out solid gold "cuckoos" to the winners.
And with each award goes a loud prayer that this will choke off the year-end selection fever once and for all.
Leonard Levinson is the boss of a cartoon factory. He calls it Impassible Pictures, Inc., and that is why he isn't naming the "prettiest elbows" or "curliest eyelashes" of 1948.
He just clips the newspapers for Goofy goings-on. Here are his "golden cuckoo" winners:
The Boston police department: For rescuing two castaways in Boston harbor, rushing them to the hospital, nursing them to health, sending them about their business, and then finding out they were two escaped prisoners. They'd been looking for them all the time.
George Brown, Fraser Valley, B.C. farmer: For "impossible achievement" in agriculture. Farmer Brown's cows got pie-eyed eating fermented apples and had to be milked lying down.
Peter Lund, of Kenosha, Wis: For inventing a paper napkin which is positively guaranteed to stay put. Mr. Lund made it out of sandpaper.
Kenneth D. Lagsdorf, English professor of Lancaster, Pa.: For turning down a rent increase, getting booted out on the curb, and nonchalantly tossing a "house-cooling" party.
John Ford, of WTCN, Minneapolis; For broadcasting daily comedy show all year without one mentioning; Jack Benny's toupee, Petrillo, Eddie Cantor's daughters, Bing Crosby's toupee, La Brea tar pits, "which twin has the Toni," Charles Boyer's toupee, Durante's nose, Jolson's age, or George Jessel's toupee.
United States To Get Tough
Paris, Dec. 21—(UP)—The United States has adopted a tough attitude toward Dutch actions in Indonesia and is taking the lead in drawing up a resolution calling on the Dutch to retire to their previous positions, an American spokesman said today.
The United States clearly considers the Dutch government the aggressor in Java and Sumatra, informed quarters said, and is prepared to declare the situation a threat to peace if the Dutch refuse to retire.
The resolution, which is far from his final form and which might be modified considerably according to the reaction of other delegates, will be presented to the United Nations security council when it meets tomorrow to consider the Indonesian situation.
The resolution in its rough outline would say that the Netherlands government had not kept faith with the U.N. Good Offices commission, which had been trying to settle the dispute. It would propose a withdrawal to positions before the Dutch attack, which in effect would be a Dutch withdrawal.
If the Dutch refused to retire, the U.S. would favor treating the case as a threat to peace. Under this treatment, the party found guilty of a breach of peace could be liable to sanctions by U.N. members.
However, the Netherlands delegation delivered a Dutch government memorandum last night to Fernand Van Langenhove, council president, informing him that the Dutch government would continue to follow its course of action in Indonesia.
The memorandum said it hoped "all friendly nations" would understand the position of the Netherlands. The Dutch government has assisted that the Indonesia dispute is strictly a domestic affair and that the security council has no jurisdiction.
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
Oh Bub, Are We In The Wrong Field?
Expansion of the air force has lead to a "great need" for aeronautical and mechanical engineers, William M. Simpson, chairman of the aeronautical engineering department, said today.
"A representative from one aviation company said that he wished we had a graduating class of 150 who could go to work immediately," Dr. Simpson said. "We will graduate 35 in January."
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Merry Christmas To All, From UDK
Since this is the last University Daily Kansan you'll be reading this year, it seems like an appropriate time for us to wish you all ar extremely Merry Christmas and the best of everything for the coming year.
With the new year comes a fresh start for everybody, including the Daily Kansan. We've made plenty mistakes during 1948, and chances are that our inadequacies won't end there—in short, we'll probably make a few more. But we'll do our best in '49 to give you a mighty good paper and if mistakes crop up now and then, remember we're only learning, too.
Thanks ever so much to all of you for your co-operation and patience. We hope we, the University Daily Kansan, and you, the reader, will continue to be the best friends in the future.
THE DAILY KANSAN STAFF
Library Schedule Set For Holiday
The schedule for Watson library during the Christmas holidays will be:
Dec. 22, close 6 p.m.
Dec. 23, open 9 a.m., close 5 p.m.
Dec. 24, open 9 a.m., close at noon.
Dec. 25 and 26, closed
Dec. 27 through Dec. 31, open 9 a.m., close 5 p.m.
Jan. 1, 1949, closed.
Jan. 2, open 2 p.m., close 10 p.m.
The hours for the Western Civilization library will be 9 a.m. to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 5 on all days except Dec. 24 when it will close at noon. Dec. 25, 26, and Jan. 1, New Year's day, it will be closed.
ASC Dines In Palm Room
All Student council members will have a dinner at 6:30 p.m. today in the Palm room. Christmas gifts will be exchanged.
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