1932-A Look Back 27 Years
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Ever take a look back a few years and note the popular events and means of living that still strike chords of living today?
Garry Moore and his television cast recently gazed at the bleak, but boisterous days of the late depression. Going back to 1932, a time that people under 27 years old will find hard to remember, Mr. Moore revived memories of things, once household words, that are still popular in today's idiom.
1932—the citizens acted strangely under depression's wet blanket. They were a jovial lot. The League of Nations had fallen, the country was in a financial mess, but few worried because FDR was to save the world with his New Deal. They would only have to wait another year or two, but they didn't know that yet.
Bread lines crawled around street corners, rum-mage sales were held in every neighborhood, and the only sure business enterprise was the pawn shop, but Americans continued to develop their society, senses of humor and imaginations.
Somebody invented an electronic brain and started a procession of mechanical wizards. Emily Post began enforcing her counseling upon hapless Americans—a moral and ethical device which leads to the present Amy Vanderbilt.
Arthur Murray began teaching the fox trot.
wnen after 21 years has developed into the half-shuffle-half-sex of the modern step.
Teen-agers coined words like "jerk," and Walter Winchell blessed the country with the term "hooey."
Radio was becoming the "big time" in American entertainment, and the rapidly-improving movies were replacing vaudeville. Still, the Radio City Music Hall in New York raised its first curtain and 48 Rockettes stepped out their first dance, soon to become an institution. On the stage, unfunny jokes rolled 'em in the aisles and the cigarless comedian was sure to sweat his coffee—and...
Marquees heralding shows like "The Gay Divorcee," "Of The I Sing," "Music in the Air," and "Call Me Madam" were lighting the Great White Way and stars like Rin-Tin-Tin and Tarzan began appearing on the screen with Greta Garbo, Paul Muni, Charles Laughton, George Raft, Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper.
New songs were produced, and some have lasted. "April in Paris," "Shanty Town." "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee." "I Told Every Little Star," and "Forty-Second Street" were in the hearts and throats of gay blades and their jills. Tin Pan Alley flourished, as did many hack-jacks with a happy song to sell.
1932—quite a year. Its products have developed into a mood apparent and compelling today, only 27 years later.
Official Bulletin
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ATTENTION FOREIGN STUDENTS.
Scholarships available for Travel in the U.S. Through the program, Farewell week booklets and materials are available for $50 for summer travel. A descriptive brochure, is obtainable at the office of Clark Coan, 228 Strong Hall on write to the Council on Student Tralel, 175 Broadway, New York 7 N.Y.
TODAY
Petry Hour. 4:00 p.m. Walter Meserve Professor of English, will read New England poetry in the Music and Browsing Room of the Union.
Kuku Meeting. 7:00 p.m., Pine Room of the Union. Wear uniforms, pictures will be taken in Ballroom at 9:15 p.m.
Bring back dues.
Korean Foreign Students meeting at 7:15 p.m.
presentation plans for 1959
Foreign Student Festival
Undergraduate Psychology Club. Hypnosis in Psychology, Speaker. Dr. Erik Wright. Union, 7:30 p.m. Open to the public.
KU Faculty Club, Dinner Bridge. 6:20
and 7:30 p.m. Hosts: Mr. and Mrs. W, D. Wadoff,
M. O. Strepe, V. I. Göring, and Mr. and Mrs.
O. Strepe, V. I. Göring,
Christian Science Campus Organization,
7:30 p.m., Danforth Chapel.
ASCE Student Chapter, 7:30 p.m. Kami-
cation, Gaylor Gaylor "Civil Engineers in Forestry."
University Theatre, 8:00 p.m. "An Italian Straw Hat."
TOMORROW
Business Placement Bureau Interviews. Mr.H. C. J. Austun, Sheffield Steel, Sales. Production, Maintenance, Construction, Purchasing, and Accounting.
Newman Club Mass, 6:30 a.m., S John's Church, 11th and Kentucky.
Thursday, Feb. 12, 1959 University Daily Kansan
Episcopal Morning Prayer. 6:45 a.m.
at the Community
breakfast following
Canterbury House
Courtroom Robes
Courtroom Robes
Inter-Varsity Bible Study
Bible Study, discussion
refreshments
International Club, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Lecture: 9-11 p.m. Social Squash, Room
9 Strong "Soviet Satellite Countries"
"Distinguished Norman Pounds, Distinguished Lecturer."
KU Faculty Club, Beginner's Bridge
Dessert at 7:30 p.m. Bridge at 8:00 p.m.
Hosts. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Sapp, VI 2-0013
and Mr. C. M. Gardner, VI 2-0067.
University Theatre, 8:00 p.m. "An Italian Straw Hat."
Don't Worry
Committee OK's Kansas State U.
A bill to change the name of Kansas State College to Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science was approved yesterday by the Kansas House Affairs Committee.
about
about
—Black Cats
—Friday the 13th
—Broken Mirrors
—Spilling Salt
—Opening Umbrellas Indoors
Seventy-six per cent of the school's student body favored the change in a letter read to the committee. A special campus vote was 4,682 for the change and 379 against it. The change has been pending for some time.
—Car Troubles!
LET US WORRY FOR YOU about your CAR TROUBLES
There were 2,883 loans made to students last year which totaled more than $398,000.
Lubrication, Car Wash, Kool Motor Oil and Milemaster Gasolene
Phone VI 3-4321 8th and New Hampshire Downtown—Near Everything
FRITZ CO.
The steel I-beam, seven feet nine inches long and weighing about 250 pounds, was found beside the track. Railroad, police and FBI investigators said it apparently had fallen from a passing freight car. They were attempting to locate the train from which it fell.
Pickett Talk Postponed
32 Hurt as Beam Derails Crack 80-M.P.H. Train
tilted precariously across three of the four tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad's New York-Washington main line.
MIDDLE RIVER, Md.—(UPI)—A steel beam fell from a passing freight, buckled a track and derailed an 80-mile-an-hour Washington to New York passenger train today, injuring 32 persons.
The Humanities Forum scheduled last night has been postponed indefinitely. Calder M. Pickett, assistant professor of journalism, was to discuss "The New York World 1883-1898: Culmination of the Mass Press."
Only one truck of the locomotive left the rails. The sleeping car behind it stayed on. The remaining 10 cars of the train derailed, tore up more than half a mile of trackage and came to rest still upright but
Engineer T. L. Winsey of the Pennsylvania Railroad's derailed "Fotomac" said he saw the buckled track as he rounded a bend into the straight stretch where the wreck occurred. Winsey said he applied the brakes but the train immediately began to wobble out of control on the bent track.
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"I Want to Live"
from
The Sound Track
Bell's Music Co.
925 Mass.