UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PACE FOUR
MAY 7,1946
Yucca Yucca Emcee Isn't Mike-Shy
TERRY HERRIOTT
Ringmaster for the war memorial show, "Yucca Yucca," to be presented Friday night in Hoch auditorium, is Terry Herriott, a veteran of stage and radio experience and editor of the Bitter Bird.
Herrriot started his career with professional radio, moved out to the University of Wisconsin for a little schooling, and shortly after joined the army and later received a commission as a bombardier. He flew on combat missions until one day over Austria a bullet through his spine finished Terry's flying days.
Sent back to the States, he was put on public relations duty, speaking at bond rallies and before defense workers. After this came a period in the Hollywood studios of NBC.
So. Friday night when Herriott is emcee for the Memorial drive show, the sea of faces out front will be no novelty to him. He may even find time to hawk a few copies of the Bitter Bird.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
May 7, 1946
Students interested in the U. N convention who have not previously registered may do so this week at the Student Organization window of the Business office.
Law Wives meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday in lounge of Law library.
Union activity members; We're having a picnic 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Dr. and Mrs. Lawson's, 2215 Vermont street. It's for all those who have had any connection with Union Activities this year. If you can be there let your chairman know tonight or Wednesday.
Tau Sigma will meet Wednesday and Thursday nights in Robinson gym as follows: Group I at 7 p.m. and Group II at 8 p.m. There will be no Tuesday night meeting.
K. U. Dames bridge group will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at 2317 Massachusetts. Those planning to attend have not signed up should notify Frances Kolski, 1131R.
Kappa Eta Kappa semi-annual Smoker 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Kansas room. Union. All electrical engineers invited.
Sunflower K.U. Dames will hold their regular meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Sunflower clubroom. All Sunflower K.U. wives interested in becoming members please attend.
All Student Council will meet at 7 tonight in the Pine room of the Union. Please note change in time.
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Let's All Live in a Merry-Go-Round ---This Post-War House Is a Dream
Washington. (UP)—Do not pinch me. Or make loud noises. I'm dreaming about my dymaxion house of the future and I don't want to wake up.
The Beech Aircraft Corp. is tooling up in its Wichita factory to turn out 50,000 two bed-room, two-bath houses of aluminum and plastic next year. They've got air-conditioning, dish-washing machines, built - in vacuum cleaning systems, electric garbage choperoos, and other things to make you blink, including a price tag of $6,500, delivered, erected, and guaranteed.
I'm drooling. Or brickmasons, take warning; there'll be no $14-a-day jobs involved in building the circular house, first projected in 1927 by R. Buckminster Fuller, redesigned by him and redesigned again over the years, and now making folks like my bride and me moggle-eyed.
Fuller houses, Inc., and the airplane company opened their first showing of a scale model in the congressional room of the old-fashioned Willard hotel. One of my fellow reporters was so impressed he ordered a house for delivery next spring.
No termites, no ashes, no paint.
That got him. He put his name on
the dotted chair. I fidgeted on a gold-
legged chair while inventor Fuller
told about the house that's shaped like a merry-go-round, built like an airplane, and serviced like an automobile. The idea is, if the drain gets plugged or the lights won't work, the mechanic rushes over and fixes it free. All you do, according to Fuller, is sit there, feeling smug.
He is a citizen, round in shape and dynamically balanced, like his houses. His white hair and mustache are clipped closely, because he does not believe in extraneous decorations. He figures if a thing is efficient, like his house, it doesn't need any fringe to make it pretty.
He made his house round because a circular wall encloses more space than a square one of the same length. Furthermore he said it's stronger and what he needed was strength; his house weighs only four tons complete. He said this compares with 150 tons for houses built brick by brick.
The whole business rests on a hollow steel mast anchored in the ground. Inside the mast is the machinery which makes things tick, such as the ventilators, the vacuumes, the heaters, the dehumidifiers and—hold tight—the hidden drawers that slide up from somewhere with your winter clothes when you touch a button.
I must report that a house glistening like a B-29 and built in the
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shape of an over-sized mushroom looks peculiar. Fuller says you'll get used to the looks; he says you'll really appreciate it when time comes to clean up the exterior. You don't do it with paint brushes. You use water from the garden hose.
The windows are plastic. Let them down and plastic fly screen automatically slides into place. The baths are deluxe, the front door looks like it came off an airplane and the inside doors—hold tight again—don't open. They fold, like an accordion. So much for the house.
"And maybe you'd like to know why we're in Washington," said Herrman Wolf, president of the concern. "We're not here to ask the government for anything. We just came in to let the housing authorities know what we've got."
I still say, don't wake me. No until the new day actually gets here
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NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE!
Grandma looks calm and collected as she poses for posterity, but she wasn't—not on your tintype! Getting her family ready for this picture was a long, weary business.
The day this photo was snapped, Grandma was up at dawn, wrestling with the old wood stove, coaxing the kettle to boil, cooking breakfast. And the day before, she ironed the mountain of clothes that had needed such hard scrubbing. The day before that—
But that was Grandma's life. She didn't know any other kind. Her way of housekeeping took lots of time, lots of elbow grease. In Grandma's gayest dreams she never imagined the time would come when a woman would have dozens of electric servants daily for the cost of a bar of soap.
Electric service—ready and willing around the clock and calendar—is a modern miracle Grandma missed by being born too soon. But electrical dependability (and cheapness, too) didn't happen by accident. Not on your tintype! They're the result of plenty of hard work and practical experience on the part of your neighbors who operate this company.
- Hear NELSON EDDY in "THE ELECTRIC HOUR" with Robert Armbruster's Orchestra, Sundays, 4:30 p.m., EST., CBS Network
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