SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
49th Year, No.6
Friday. June 30. 1961
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FINAL SCENE—Erwin Towbridge, played by Steve Booser, Kansas City, Mo., senior, brings the curtain down on the final scene of "Three Men on a Horse" with a poem in tune with the general comical spirit of the play. Those in the photo are from left standing: Bob Strack, Lawrence senior; Karen Saad, River Forest, Ill., junior; Nancy Haley, Austin, Colo., special student. Front row: Don McCory, Lawrence graduate student, Booser; and Roger Brown, Topeka graduate student. Tonight will be the last performance of the play.
All Readers Are Alike Digest Editor Contends
Karl Detzer, roving editor for the Reader's Digest, told an audience last night at the Kansas Union that "all people, no matter whether they are herding reindeer in Lapland, harvesting rice in Japan or working in the Kansas City stockyards have the same interests and aspirations, the same hopes and fears."
Mr. Detzer explained that this fact has been revealed in a monthly readership survey conducted by the Reader's Digest.
He is at KU participating in the 11th annual University of Kansas Writers Conference, which runs until noon today. He was speaking at a session of the conference which was open to the public.
"The Reader's Digest is the country weekly of the world," he said. "People of all colors and creeds on all continents look to it to find what their neighbors across the seas are doing.
"This requires us to find the common denominator of the varied interests of our readers everywhere," he said.
"We have a poll which enables us to know just what the average reader here at home and the average reader far away consider the most interesting articles in each issue. We find this poll remarkably accurate.
"The poll proves that what interests the man or woman in New York City, in Kansas, in San Francisco, in New Orleans and St. Paul and Toronto, also interests people everywhere. Month after month the story that gains first place in America stands first nearly everywhere
else, and the one that stands last here at home also stands last around the world."
This month's Digest in America, with minor changes, becomes next month's Digest in some 35 countries.
Mr. Detzer is just one of the many nationally known writers who have been here since Tuesday for the conference. Others include Edsell Ford, a poet whose works have appeared in many magazines; John Alexander, feature editor for the Kansas City Star; Susan Kuehn Boyd, a contributor to Harper's and Mademoiselle magazines, and Mary Francis Shura, a children's book editor.
The conference was directed by Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism.
Holiday Hours Set For Library, Union
Here's the holiday schedule for the Library and the Student Union.
The Union building will be open during the regular hours. Its schedule:
Hawk's Nest: closed Saturday through Tuesday.
Prairie Room: open Saturday,
Sunday, closed Monday. Tuesday.
Cafeteria: regular hours.
Horse - Racing Comedy Opens
Book store: closed Saturday through Tuesday.
Library: open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, closed Tuesday.
Jay Bowl: regular hours except for a brief closing during the fireworks display in Memorial Stadium Tuesday evening. Bowling will resume following the display.
A recess from the drudgery of writing poems for a greeting card company sets the scene for a series of events which end in enormous profit for almost everyone.
A mild mannered greeting card poet, whose horse-doping skill is sought by a ring of down-and-out gamblers, triggered almost continual laughter at the opening performance of "Three Men on a Horse" last night at the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The performance marked the beginning of the summer play season.
"Three Men on a Horse" provides an insight into the rolling atmosphere of the roaring 20's. Its mood is pure fun.
Cast members:
Edwin Trowbridge-Steven Booser, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Audrey Trowbridge-Nancy Haley, Austin, Colo., special student; Tailor-Bill Summers, Haysville graduate student; Clarence Dobbins-Dan Hahn, Gypsum graduate student; Delivery boy - Russell McNaughton, Tulsa Okla., freshman; Harry - Roger Brown, Topeka graduate student; Charlie - Robert Strack, Lawrence junior; Patys - Sidney Berger, Brooklyn, N. Y., graduate student; Frankie - Bert Meisel, Mankato Minn., special student.
By Ron Gallagher
Mabel-Karen Saad, River Forest,
Ill., sophomore; Buehal - Barbara
Wilson; Jetmore graduate student;
Gloria-Jerilyn Ann McGee, Butte,
Mont, special student; Al - Bruce
Thompson, Alliance, Ohio, graduate
student; Hotel maid-Edith Bogart;
Lawrence freshman; Mr. Carvey-Don
McCory, Lawrence graduate
student.
Expert Has Doubts On Economic Help
Tom Noone, of the office of information of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, said that it is going to be hard if not impossible to make appreciable economic progress in some of the underdeveloped areas of the world.
"Economic progress is not held up so much by lack of money as by lack of ability of these countries to develop faster," he said.
Football Ticket Purchases Up
Kansas football for 1961 is headed for another ticket-buying records after establishing an all-time high of 12,000 season-book purchases last year.
Athletic business manager Earl Falkstien said Wednesday 7041 season pasteboards have been bought or ordered for the five-game home schedule compared to 6488 at the same time last summer. This does not include student season purchases.
Furthermore, tickets for the traditional match with Missouri, here Nov. 25, are rapidly approaching the sellout stage.
Athletic Director Dutch Lonborg warned . . . "I sincerely urge all 1960 season ticket holders to reorder immediately to protect their priority for the future and be assured of seats for the BIG GAME."
The Jayhawkers open here against Wyoming's Skyline conference co-champions, and follow with Big Eight tests against Iowa State, Oklahoma State, and Kansas State, ahead of the Missouri finale.
Mr. Noone was speaking before a group at Summerfield Hall Wednesday afternoon. He also discussed international finance and the World Bank before business and economics classes Wednesday.
He said that just one of the problems the underdeveloped countries have to face is that of a rapidly increasing population. By 1975 there will be 280 million more people in India to add burden to their already slowly growing economy.
"This is the cold war," he said, "And foreign aid is the major weapon of the cold war."
He said international finance plays a very large part in preserving stability in the world.
When you see thousands and thousands of people standing around in some of these countries waiting for work or something to do you realize that it would not take much of a salesman to enlist their support and torple the government."
He commented that South America is in a particularly precarious situation. "Everyone who has been in South America is aware that the point of no return has been passed as far as the present social order there is concerned."
Mr. Noone emphasized that every one must be made aware of the existence of poverty and political unrest in the world.
"I am afraid that there is not as much time as everyone would like to think. Yet there is enough time if we work hard."
He said that diplomacy is the most challenging field left for young people. And that only through diplomacy can the world's problems be solved.
He also explained the organization of the World Bank and its function in international finance.
Tom Noone