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'Custer's Last Stand' Has Quiet Anniversary
HARDIN, Mont.—(UPI)—Eighty-five years before, smoke and dust all but obscured the confusion of a battle that became the U.S. Army's most celebrated disaster of the 19th century.
On a wind-swept, sun-dried hill 15 miles south of here, 231 officers and men of the 7th United States Cavalry met death amid the deafening rifle fire, whoops, shouts and screams of a fading war.
The 85th anniversary of "Custer's Last Stand" went almost unnoticed at the battlefield Sunday. There were no ceremonies.
A few tourists wandered through the stiff range grass and stared at the white grave markers, the rolling brown prairie and the jagged ravines.
From those same ravines and across those same hills, between 3,000 and 4,000 Sioux and northern Cheyenne warriors rushed into a battle that caught colorful Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer by surprise.
Custer, a Civil War hero with presidential ambitions, had divided his powerful force in three in order to track down the Indians. He had led a miles-long column of men, wagons, horses and cattle westward from Ft. Abraham Lincoln, N. D., with the object of rounding up an unknown number of Indians who had strayed from their reservations.
He was cutnumbered 13 to 1 when the Indians attacked. The only survivor was a wounded horse named "Comanche" who was ridden into the battle of the Little Big Horn by Capt. Myles Keogh. (Comanche, preserved for the ages, now rests in the KU Museum of Natural History.)
None of the men who fought there lived to write memoirs or gather at reunions and argue about who did what. The slaughter was total.
Word of the battle reached the world weeks later. It set off a flood of newspaper and magazine stories, pamphlets and books about the battle and about Custer. The 7th Cavalry joined Britain's Light Brigade in history and legend.
Today, tourists search for arrow-
heads or brass cartridge casings on a battlefield that appears as it did when it was the buffalo hunting ground of the Sioux. They can see a pennant at the battlefield museum that was found three months after the battle in an Indian tepee.
But Custer's bones no longer rest on the battlefield. His body long ago was transferred to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y.
Kuhlke, Beck Run Theatre Magazine
Two KU men will take over the operations of Players Magazine, a national educational journal for the theatre arts. Gordon Beck, director of box office and publicity for the University Theatre and an instructor in speech and drama, has been appointed editor and William E. Kuhlke, director of the Experimental Theatre and instructor in speech and drama, has been appointed business manager.
Players Magazine, a member of the Educational Press Assoc. of America, has been serving directors, teachers, and students of the theatre since 1924. It is published October through May.
It will be the aim of Beck and Kuhke to continue the magazine as a significant publication of the arts of the theatre and to promote a scholarly forum for theater research.
POETRY
Unbeliever Without faith In the reality Of breakfast He could hardly Get up in the morning.
Arvid Shulenberger
A recent issue of the New York Times Book Review includes mention of at least four books whose authors have KU connections.
Four KU Authors Receive Mention
Included in "a list of 100 outstanding books for summer reading" is "A Tagore Reader," edited by Amiya Chakravarty, who was visiting professor of humanities at KU in the early 1950s.
The University of California Press in its current promotions includes "The World of Jean Anouilh." The author is Leonard C. Pronko, formerly of Brentwood, Mo., who was a graduate assistant and student in French here in 1949-50.
The Contact Editions publishing firm of San Francisco is promoting two books by former members of the KU family. "A Country in the Mind" is a selection of American writings prepared by Ray B. West, who taught creative writing here for several years after World War II and published the Western Review, which he edited for 23 years.
The other book is a coverage of life in San Francisco's North Beach with text prepared by Evan S. Connell Jr., formerly of Kansas City, Mo., and a 1947 graduate. Connell is now an established writer of novels and short stories.
P-TA Scholarships Go To Five KU Students
Five KU students have been granted scholarships for 1961-62 by the Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers.
The scholarships are given to Kansas students majoring in education who intend to teach in the state after graduation.
Elaine Haines of Lawrence received a renewal scholarship. Judith Johnson of Caldwell, Kathryn Randolph of Mission, Russell Branden of Lawrence, and Patricia Edmonds of Oskaloosa received new scholarships. All are juniors except Branden who is a senior.
Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, June 27, 1961
Students who enjoy reading Mademoiselle magazine will find a few changes in the July issue, which goes on sale Thursday.
Harvard Editors Kid Women in Magazine
This issue has been taken over lock, stock, and barrel by the editors of Harvard's famous humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon.
Clothes to be caught dead in: metallic knits. "In the belief that a woman should be well dressed on all occasions, Mademoiselle-Lampoon shows some ideal outfits to wear when jumping off a rooftop, being tied to a railroad track, and dangling over a steep cliff."
Results: a full scale parody on just about everything—colleges, careers, fashion, beauty, travel, fiction, art, and entertainment. Here are some of the highlights:
What to do about those knees?
"Advice to girls with funny knees on how to wear the new short skirt. Among the suggestions: wear wading boots."
Conflict="A story about a man with two heads" by Rhoda Rhee.
The poetry of tooth paste. "As a sequel to last November's Poetry of Perfume article, the magazine presents poems written in transports of dental-hygienic bliss as if by the guests themselves."
with two heads" by Rhoda Rhee.
Your summer job: knits to wear
for it. "A section for coeds who work
summers: how to be the best dressed
bartender, road repairer, white-
down-the-middle-of-the-street
e付ter, etc. in town.
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Room-emptying: the new campus craze. "How last year's campus craze for getting as many people into as small a room (or phone booth) has been replaced by the craze for getting as few people into as large a room as possible."
A word about beauty: "137 easy steps to a warm, vibrant and electric you."
I fell in love with vibrant, swinging Bosnia-Herzegovina. "A fascinating description of this country's history and local customs."
Painting by Green In Butler Exhibit
Robert B. Green, associate professor of drawing and painting, has an oil painting, "Three Figures," in the 26th annual mid-year national show of the Butler Institute of American Art at Youngstown, Ohio.
Two hundred-fifty paintings and pieces of sculpture accepted by the jury, along with works by 50 invited artists, will be shown July 2-Sept. 4.
This is the second consecutive year Green has had a painting accepted for this show. He has had works in several earlier shows.
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at second or even third—Cicero
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