FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Famous Writer Home
Meet Dadd\
While Vincent Sheean is not a complete stranger in his own house, any prolonged presence there on his part is certain to arouse the curiosity of his young daughters.
"Mama," queried 5-year-old Linda Susan recently, just after her celebrated father's return from bomb-strewn London, what is daddy doing so much in this house?" Two-year-old Ellen Gertrude was born while?
her father was away on a lecture tour.
From the days of the Rif Rebellion in Morocco in the early 20's, through the Lausanne Conference, the Fascist march on Rome, through momentous events in Russia, Palestine, Persia, and China, through the civil war in Spain, the blitzkrieg on the Western Front in 1940, and virtually all of the history-making events of the past two decades, including the tense situation during recent months, Vincent Sheen has been roaming the news fronts of the world.
Sheean Likes Parties
On those comparatively rare occasions when his career has permitted what is for him the luxury of home life, he makes the most of them. He loves people, likes to entertain and be entertained. He especially likes small parties, and likes nothing better than drawing out other people, checking and re-checking their thought on all kinds of problems against his own. For that reason he has come to like lecture tours, despite an earlier prejudice against public speaking. He appreciates the chance to meet so many kinds of people all over the country.
He likes to dance, and according to Mrs. Sheean is an excellent dancer. He used to play a little tennis, but now finds little time for exercise excepting that frequently involved in making plane and train connections in a tightly - booked trans-continental lecture tour.
A Music Lover
Next to people, music and reading are his chief diversions. He is passionately fond of music. Wagner is probably his favorite composer. Last winter he attended all the "ring" performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and frequently goes to symphony concerts. He himself sings German lieber quite well, which he learned while singing in pre-Nazi Berlin.
His reading taste is quite catholic. He keeps up with current publications in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, as well as in English. He speaks as fluently as he reads, in all of these languages. A speaking knowledge of foreign languages, he says, is one of the most useful tools a foreign correspondent can have. Detective stories he finds useful on the long waits he sometimes has while on tour.
He is also something of an authority on art. His wife, whose English upbringing included a thorough grounding in art appreciation, says that a visit to an art museum with Mr. Sheean is an "unforgettable experience."
Like many other writers, Mr. Sheean prefers to work at night when his household is asleep. He
sits down to his typewriter before the open fire in his book-lined study in the 14-room dwelling at Bronx-ville. It is the same study in which Sinclair Lewis has written several of his novels; it was planned and built especially to meet a writer's needs for seclusion and quiet. Nokia Take Over
Most of the Sheans' own household things are still in their apartment in Paris—at least they were there until the Nazis came. They have now relinquished all hope of retrieving them. They expect to make America their permanent home, however, no matter what happens, and to rear their two daughters as Americans.
Nazis Take Over
Mrs. Sheean is the former Diana Forbes-Robertson, daughter of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, famous British actor, and niece of the late Maxine Elliott, celebrated American actress. A typical English beauty and very youthful in appearance, she is much saddened by the catastrophe which has overtaken her native land, but she is glad that she can watch her little daughters play under the still bomb-free skies of America.
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Scientists Study Pacific Seal Habits
Coming — Tiny Hill — March 17
The "guinea pigs" were brought to Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo from the rocky coast of St. Paul island in the Pribiloff group, home of thousands of fur seals off the Alaskan coast. The purpose of the experiment—the first of its kind in history—is to determine the eating habits of the seals.
Seattle, Wash. —(UP)— Before the watchful eyes of scientists from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of Washington, a herd of seven seals are the main actors in a bit of biological research.
The investigators would like to know the amounts and kind of fish the seals consume in an effort to find out what effect seal appetites have on Pacific fisheries.
As a result, scholarly biologists from both the service and the university show up at meal times to take notes on what kind of fish the seals turn up their whiskered noses at and what delicacies they relish.
Last year the federal biologists started a vast project. They tagged 10,000 Pribiloff seals in an attempt to study their migrations during the months they are absent from their birthplaces.
Another thing they would like to discover is just how much fish a seal can gulp down in the course of a day—something which science so far has never determined.
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A new idea for Hill denes will take hold at the Fan-American Casino, hot spot and gambling club for-a-night, when it opens for three hours in the Memorial Union ballroom at 8:30 o'clock next Friday night.
Tables will be set up in the main ballroom, and the wings will house the gambling equipment. Students who think that they have a lucky streak may try their hand at the crap table, chuck-a-luck board, black jack game, and other games of chance with script money.
Cokes and soft drinks will be served at the tables to those who wish to buy them. Music for dancers will be furnished by Clayton Harbur and his orchestra.
Other entertainment includes a floor show to add more of the night club atmosphere to the party. Cigarette girls and flags of the Pan-American countries will carry out the theme. If possible the organizations hope to have an exhibition of the rhumba, conga, and other South American dances put on by the several exchange students.
The University Daily Kansam's All-Big Six Conference first and second teams with honorable mention lists will be presented in Sunday's Kansam.
This dance is one of the first to be sponsored by the combined Independent Students' association, and men's and women's Pan-Hellenic groups, but if the idea goes over, plans call for more activities of this nature. Admission will be 25 cents plus tax for everyone.
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Kansas Serves Its People Extension Division In 37,593 Helpful Services
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More than 37,000 items of service to the people of Kansas last year were listed in the annual report of Harold G. Ingham, director of the University extension division, to the University senate this week. The 37,593 figure included formal enrollments in correspondence study, extension classes, special salesmanship classes, institutes, clinics, short courses and conferences, all conducted under the direction of the extension service.
Include Formal Enrollment
A total of 8880 formal enrollments were included in it. Of these, 3691 persons were engaged in correspondence study and enrolled in extension classes conducted at various points in the state. Classes in salesmanship supervised by the department enlisted 1,813, while 3,376 enrolled for institutes, conferences, clinics, and short courses.
Residents Not Included
These figures do not, of course, include the more than 5,000 students in residence on the campus last year, nor the approximately 14,000 young men who completed or were enrolled during the year in the Engineering Science Defense Training program sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education and administered by University authorities. 15,000 Films Distributed
15,000 Films Distributed
Through the department of visual instruction, the total number of motion picture films, both silent and sound, distributed in 578 Kansas schools, was 15,768. The bureau of general information of the extension division, supplied a total of 11,842 loans to schools and study clubs, of packets of library materials, club study programs, copies of plays and operettas for school and community groups, and art exhibits containing prints of famous pictures.
Eleven hundred programs were supplied through the lecture bureau. This number included 162 lectures by University staff members arranged by the Extension service, and did not include a great many appearances which were arranged directly between staff members and the groups served.
"Not enough people realize the large number of hidden services to the people of Kansas through this division." Mr. Ingham pointed out, "They are paying for this service and it is available to all who desire it."
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