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University Daily Kansan
Pershing Rifles Picks Queen
QUEEN FINALISTS — Nan Newton, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, was voted queen last night of Pershing Rifles, honorary ROTC society. Miss Newton is second from the left in the back row. Runners up are, from left in the front row, Jo
Anne McElhany, Mission, and Carolyn Goth,
Omaha, Neb. From left in the back row are
Suzanne Tinsley, Leavenworth, Miss Newton,
Colette Wells, Kansas City, Mo., all sophomores,
and Annette Basgall, Junction City freshman.
The queen was chosen from interviews last night.
Tiny's Duds are Dirty
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio —(UPI)
The Bowling Green Daily Sentinel-Tribune received a letter from a little girl addressed to Santa Claus requesting, among other things,
"some clean underwear for Uncle Tiny."
Soft Touch Preferred
ATLANTA — (UPI)—Secretary of State Ben Fortsen, who chose the colors baby-blue and petal-pink when the Georgia House of Representatives was repainted, yesterday received a lace-bordered business card from a fellow state official.
Stirring Coffee Brings Fine
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — (UPI) — Cleburne Harold Hitt, 36, was fined $21 for disorderly conduct yesterday after officers testified he used the barrel of a pistol to stir his coffee in a restaurant.
Poets' Close Friendship Seen as Clue to Works
By Bob Harwi
The spectacular mutual attraction between French Symbolist poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine was mentioned as background to the reading of their works yesterday at the Poetry Hour in the Kansas Union Browsing Room.
Mattie Crumrine, associate professor of French, said the two men met after the 17-year-old Rimbaud had sent Verlaine, by then a successful poet, a sample of his work.
The older poet encouraged Rimbaud, who as a ragged, dirty, peniless near-derelict had journeyed to the home of Verlaine. Their friendship began at once.
Verlaine left his wife to travel across Europe with the younger man, who shocked everyone with his bad manners. They lived a hand-to-mouth existence, fought, made up, and finally Verlaine shot Rimbaud and went to prison. This ended their 4-year relationship.
Prof. Crumrine said such a life seemed natural to Rimbaud. The young poet believed in a systematic derangement in the senses in order
Law Review Names Spring Editors
Associate editors are Thomas Hampton, Salina third-year, and Donald Meeker, Leavenworth second- year law student.
John Brand, Lawrence third-year law student, has been named editor-in-chief of the Kansas Law Review. KU legal periodical, for the second semester.
Other officers are Edward Larson, Vesper second-year, section editor; Donald Pearson, third-year, and James Graves, second-year, note editors. Both are from Lawrence.
The business manager is Dennis Smith, Hutchinson second-year student, and Charles Sparks, Goodland third-year student, honor committee representative.
to be creative. He felt that since a poet sees and feels more deeply, he should be beyond normal behavior.
Prof. Crumrine read Rimbaud's "The Drunken Ship," the masterpiece which indicated his genius and which was a prelude to his whole life. Rimbau gave up poetry after four white-hot years of creation.
The poetry of Verlaine, who had been encouraged by Victor Hugo, is vague, sweet and melancholy, Prof. Crumrine pointed out. She read his "Clair de Lune," which inspired the noted musical composition by Claude Debussy.
Verlaine was always known as a dissolute man. He had a considerable personal struggle between his weakness of character and his strong religious learnings. In 1870 he married into a bourgeois family.
Prof. Crumline also read poetry of Baudelaire and Malarme, explaining that any translation of poetry is somewhat like seeing embroidery from the wrong side.
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