Tuesday, November 19, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Devins Award winner reads poetry
Award-winning poet Edsel Ford read his works yesterday in the Kansas Union Forum Room. Ford won the Devins Memorial Award for the best poetry manuscript, "Looking for Shiloh," in the 1968 Kansas City poetry contest.
Ford, the first midwestern poet to receive the Devins prize, began his readings with "Everyman," a poem which to some would immediately bring to mind such persons as Martin Luther King Jr. or John F. Kennedy.
He included during his reading a group of family poems. Ford grew up on a small far in northwest Arkansas, and poems such as "Storm Cellar," "The Night of the Fox" and "At the County Fair" bring to mind the youth of his life. His family poetry tells a story, often about his youth—things he saw or did or things he might have experienced. "There is a vein of fantasy that an artist in any field likes to pursue," he said.
Candidates on vacation at beaches
MIAMI (UPI)—President-elect Richard M. Nixon swam and basked on the sunny beach of a Bahamian island off the Florida coast yesterday while his defeated rival, Hubert Humphrey, rested in the Miami area.
Humphrey arrived in Miami Sunday almost unnoticed after a Virgin Islands vacation, and rested yesterday at nearby Bal Harbour.
Nixon, accompanied only by Secret Service agents and his close friend, C. G. Rebozo, made the 140-mile trip to Grand Cay in the northeast Bahamas aboard a Coast Guard helicopter. He was expected to return to his Key Biscayne, Fla., retreat today.
Nixon had planned to go fishing but instead swam in the Atlantic Ocean and read in the sun on Grand Cay's beach. He was the overnight guest of Robert Ablanalp of Bronxville, N.Y., a close friend who owns the small island.
Before Nixon left for Grand Cay, he met with his White House staff manager, H. R. Haldeman, for a brief discussion on additions to the president-elect's staff when he moves into the White House on Jan. 20.
Ronald L. Ziegler, Nixon's press assistant, declined to discuss a plicy-making post in the new administration offered to Herbert C. Klein, campaign communications director, except to say that there have been "many areas of discussion" about Nixon's staff.
In Washington, D.C., Klein said he had been offered a post but had not made up his mind whether to accept. He declined to describe the job in detail.
Ziegler also refused to comment on a report that Nixon plans to replace Republican National Chairman Ray Bliss. "Nothing would be served to discuss it," he said.
The president-elect plans to return to New York late tomorrow. He has spent his time since arriving Friday mostly in seclusion in a house rented from Sen. George Smathers on Biscayne Bay.
Coral Gables Attraction
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (UPI)
—One of 103 points of interest on a 20-mile self guided tour of Coral Gables is the Musicians Club of America, a cosmopolitan club for musicians and music lovers.
The club is a shrine to the great in music where grants, gifts and bequests perpetuate their memory. Free copies of the tour map are available by writing Community Development, P.O. Drawer 1549, Coral Gables, Fla., 33134.
He also read a few short love poems: "Before the World Ends," "Honest Praise," "Lines for the First Day," "The Road to Hanoi."
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Ford graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1952. His poems appeared in The Stars and
Stripes while he served two years in the U.S. Army in Germany. He has had poems printed in such publications as Saturday Review, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor.
Dean visits seminar
Ford doesn't consider his poetry written in one particular style. "Sometimes I tell people I'm the one Ford manufactured with an automatic transmission and a straight shift so I can drive (write) in all directions," he said.
Ford's visit was sponsored by the KU English department.
Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of KU School of Education, attended a seminar on "Statistics in Experimental Design" from Nov. 13 to 15 in Silver Spring, Md. Dean Anderson was the only education leader among the 20 participants from the fields of science, engineering, industry and the federal government.
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