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Publication Days Published daily except Saturday and Sunday by Students of the University of Kansas
Daily Kansan
Weather Forecast Rain tonight, cloudy tomorrow, little change in temperature.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1944
NUMBER 131
first YEAR
Szigeti to Give Violin Concert Tonight in Hoch
Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist, will present his recital at 8:20 this evening in Hoch auditorium as the major musical event of the Music Week festival and the closing event on the University Concert Course. Szigeti will be assisted by Andor Foldes at the piano.
500 School Children Participate
Five hundred Lawrence school children performed before an appreciative audience in the Public School Music Vespers yesterday afternoon in Hoch auditorium. Enthusiastic parents were not lacking in the group.
The "hit of the show" was the Pinckney School Primary Rhythm Band with their little toy-soldier-like hats, colorful tunes, and the primary age directors. The youth of the little performers added to the enjoyment of the audience.
high School Band Performed
"In Liliae Time March" (Engelman) was the most difficult and complicated of the pieces played by the primary group. However, they handled it well as also the fast, rhythmic "Gavotte" (Gossee) and "La Czarine" (Ganne). The youngsters were able to feel and re-act to the strong rhythm.
The program opened with a hymn medley played by the Liberty Memorial High School band. With such numbers as "Rock of Ages," the hymns were dedicated to the former L.M.H.S. boys who have lost their lives in this war. The black and red uniformed band also played the "United Nations Rhapsody" (David Bennett), with the Russian and Chinese musical characteristics especially distinguishable.
The fifth and sixth grade school chorus sang five numbers as the
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Hungarian Violinist
JOSEPH SZIGETI
Societies Accept Math Proposal
A recommendation that a full unit of mathematics be required for graduation from accredited Kansas high schools was adopted by the Kansas section of the Mathematical Association of America and the Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics, Saturday in Topeka. The two mathematical societies met in affiliation with the Kansas Academy of Science which held its 76th annual convention Saturday at the sight of its first meeting, Washburn Municipal University.
Fiddlers Luck' Follows Eminent Violinist
Summer before last, Sizgeti escaped from the plane crash that killed Carol Lombard, 14 army officers, and others. The violinist was asked to leave the plane an hour before the crash in order to make room for an army officer. The season before, his plane, coming from Mexico where he had been on concert tour, hit an air pocket and made an emergency landing. Though badly jarred, Sizgeti was not seriously hurt.
George Ulmer, assistant to the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was chairman of the committee which presented the recommendation to the joint meeting. He pointed out that it was not a wartime proposal, although the need for additional mathematics in
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Numbering among his friends and backstage visitors such celebrities as Duke Ellington, Hildegarde, Benny Goodman, Princess Juliana, and the Duchess of Athlone, Joseph Szigeti, world-famous Hungarian violinist, will appear in recital at 8:20 p.m. tonight in Hoeh auditorium, as the final attraction on the University concert course, and one of the major events of the Music Week festival at the University.
Szigeti has had a full career, as pointed out in a recent article in Collier's magazine, the first ever devoted to a violinist in that weekly. They attributed the term "fiddler's luck" to the famous violinist. Escaped Plane Crash
The violinist has, discovered and
Szigeti's name should be pronounced to rhyme with "hot diggety" but the American public insisted on having it rhyme with "spaghetti" so that is the way it is now. The violinist took his first cigarette from Queen Elizabeth of Belgium backing up the custom that anything offered by a queen is taken.
given first performances to many of the great names in music. Many years ago he insisted on recording the first Prokofeff violin concerto, which became one of the most popular albums issued. He has also fought for the American composers, Charles Ives and Ernest Bloch; his fellow Hungarian, Bela Bartok; and the Frenchman, Darius Milhaud.
How to Pronounce Szigeti
Receiving hundreds of letters from every part of America, Szigeti answers personally all of his correspondence, which includes an occasional letter from Thomas Mann, Edward G. Robinson, and Raymond Cram Swing. The violinist's interests take in such a variety as miniature furniture collections, a victory garden, and a wild bird aviary.
Co-op Delegates Exchange Ideas; Plan for Future
Realizing that decreased college enrollments and more money in students' pockets are two factors against cooperative housing, delegates to the campus co-op conference held here this weekend, resolved to keep their houses running as models for an expanded program after the war.
Delegates from the Universities of Missouri, Nebraska, Wichita, and Baker and representatives from the Consumer's Cooperative Association of North Kansas City spent the weekend exchanging ideas and making plans for the Central League of Campus Co-ops.
It was decided that next year's conference would be held at Baker University and two of the members of the Board of Director's were chosen from there. Besides Neil Heidrick and Doris Gabriel of Baker, Donald Koontz, of the John Moore Co-op; and Dorothy McKelvey of the University of Missouri were chosen for the Board of Directors. The Nebraska representative is still to be chosen.
Next Conference at Baker
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Faculty Members Barely Meet Quota For Blue Cross Plan
With only 200 applications for membership in the Blue Cross being returned out of "the 532 sent out, Karl Klooz, secretary-treasurer of the Teachers and Employees Association of the University, stated that the University faculty barely met the required quota of one-third of its members necessary for the group to participate in this group hospitalization insurance plan.
As the applications must be sent in to the Kansas Hospital Service Association in Topeka by April 20, it will be impossible for any other faculty members to join the organization at the present time. The deadline for joining was last Saturday. If the state board accepts the University's applications, the insurance will go into effect on May 1, Mr. Klooz stated.
This Blue Cross plan, he explained, is a non-profit organization, which entitles members to 30 days of hospitalization at a minimum cost, routine laboratory examinations, medications, drugs, and dressing, use of operating and delivery room, anesthetic material, and nursing care all free of charge. For these benefits members pay 65 cents a month if they are single, or $1.30 a month per family regardless of size.
Naples, (INS) — Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio has tendered the resignation of his cabinet to King Victor Emmanuel it was learned on good authority today.
Badoglio and His Cabinet Resign
Students Eat Lab Work
Home economics students at the University of Oklahoma attend a two-hour lab period and then eat their lab for lunch.
Reserve Trainees Will Arrive July 1 To Enter ASTRP Program Colonel Pumphrey Announces
Pianist to Play Here Wednesday Night
SIDNEY FOSTER
68 Pass English Proficiency Test
Sixty-eight students passed the English proficiency examination given March 18, the College office has announced. The next examination will be May 13, according to Miss Veta Lear, assistant to the Dean. The examinations are given at the beginning and end of each semester.
Persons who passed the last examination are:
Doris Bixby, J. Roderick Bradley,
Frank Brosius, Reva Brown, Betty Carey, Virginia Carter, Frances Clay, Virginia Cochener, Louise Cochran, Thomas Conroy, Phyllis Cooper, Virginia Davis, Ann Detlor, Don Diehl, Betty Jo Everly.
Sally Fitzpatrick, Patricia Foster,
Tex Fury, Geraldine Gentry, Donald
Germann, John Giesch, Eileen
Giles, Myrtle Glover, Wendell Good,
George Gray, Barbara Hall, Jeanne
Harris, Ruth Herndon, Robert
Holmgren, Waldo Holt.
John Jacks, Dorothy Kirtley,
Kathryn Krehbiel, Wilbur Landrey,
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Stanford Men's Dean, KU Grad, Visits Today
Dean Bunn was entertained at noon today with a luncheon in the Memorial Union building, given by Chancellor Deane Malott.
John Bunn, dean of men at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., a graduate of the School of Engineering in 1921, visited the University today on his way back to California from Chicago where he has been attending a convention of men's advisers.
At the University, in addition to being a member of a number of honorary engineering societies and a letterman, Dean Bum was president of the class of 1921.
He will leave Lawrence tomorrow for California.
A few hundred AST reserve trainees will be sent to the University on or about July I, to enroll in the University ASTRP training program, according to Lt. Col. Fred H. Pumphrey, member of the war department curricula board of the AST program, Washington, D. C.
Colonel Pumphrey was on the campus Thursday and Friday, conferring with Chancellor Deane W. Malott, heads of the various departments, and Lt. Col. Watson L. McMorrish, commandant of the University AST Units. He also attended several of the ASTP, ASTRP, and medical AST classes and interviewed many of the trainees.
"Colonel Pumphrey expressed that he was well satisfied with the University program as it has been and is now being conducted," said Colonel McMorris. "He was particularly impressed with the training facilities of the new Military Science building and the barracks facilities of Lindley hall."
A plan to establish a research institution to serve industry in this section of the country was proposed before a group of 130 civic leaders of the Kansas City territory at a luncheon in Kansas City Saturday. Attending the meeting from the University were Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Professor R. Q. Brewster, J. C. Frye, J. O. Jones, E. E. Ambrosius, and E. A. Stephenson.
Niles to Sing Early American Folk Tunes
The exet number to be sent to the University will necessarily be contingent upon the total number of 17-year-old candidates who qualify for the program, said Colonel McMorris.
Civic Leaders Hear Plan to Establish Research Institution
This plan, as explained by Harold Vagtborg, director of the Armour Research Foundation in Chicago, will make available all manner of scientific research for the industries in this section of the country, making it possible for them to keep their products up to date and incorporating the latest invention and discoveries on the market. It would
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A program of love songs, work songs, folk ballads, and nursery rhymes will be presented by John Jacob Niles, lecture-recitalist, at 8 pm. tomorrow, in Fraser theater, as a feature of the Music Week festival which opened Sunday.
The American folk music to be sung by Mr. Niles comes from the southern Appalachians, from the early pioneers of English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish descent who came to America in the 17th and 18th centuries and settled in the mountains of Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.
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