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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Dec. 11, 1957
British Wit Spices Debate
Wit, combined with "that British air" of two English debaters, and a topic of international significance, afforded an evening of high entertainment for a capacity crowd in Strong Auditorium Tuesday night.
The students from the University of Cambridge, England, opposed KU's debate team of John Eland, Topeka second-year law student, and Lee Baird, Newton senior, on the topic "Resolved: That the United States has yet to prove her capacity for world leadership."
References to England as the "island country" and the "red coats" by KU's team and references to
"ivy league" and "sputniks" by the British team added zest to the debate.
Leadership Not Accepted
David Ritchie Fairbairn, the first to debate the affirmative for Cambridge, said the challenge for world leadership has not yet been accepted by the United States.
He said if any country is a leader it is Russia for building up Eastern Europe, China and the Middle East. James Neil Crichton-Miller, the other Englishman, said he didn't think there had been a world leader since the days of Rome.
Keep Nations Happy
strength is so great that they will not attack us or any of our neighbors." KU's Eland said.
Baird said of the United States, "We're the only nation which has gone out, conquered a country and then turned right around and built it up again."
Keep Nations Happy "We must keep the nations on our side happy and at the same time convince the Russians that our
Fairbairn appeared more serious than his partner. Both debaters from Cambridge captured the audience before they even began the debate question.
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech,
acted as moderator for the debate.
Columbus is the largest city area wise in Ohio, the city having almost 100 square miles of land within its boundaries.
U. S. exports of feed grains in 1956-57 dropped almost 20 per cent compared with the 1955-56 marketing year.
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4 KU Debate Teams To Go To Winfield
Four teams of the KU debate squad will participate in the Southwestern College tournament at Winfield Friday and Saturday.
Kenneth Iryb, Fort Scott senior, and Ray Nichols, Lawrence sophomore; Brad Lashbrook, Kansas City, Kan., and Lee Baird, Newton, seniors, will represent the senior division.
Larry Ehrlich, Russell, Alan Kimball, Derby, David Rockhold, Winfield, and Brian McCown, Hutchinson, all freshmen, will represent the junior division.
"This is a major tournament of the year," said Kim Giffin, associate professor of speech. "Some of the roughest competition will probably be Nebraska University, Southwestern Missouri State and Southern Methodist."
About 40 schools from five or six states with over 100 teams will be represented at the tournament.
Six preliminary rounds will be held with the eight best teams in each division chosen to go into the quarter finals.
Irby and Nichols won the senior division and Ehrlich and Kimball the junior division in the recent Central College tournament at Edmond, Okla.
Wilmer A. Linkugel, instructor of speech and drama, and Dr. Giffin will accompany the teams to Winfield.
The KU squad won first place in both the junior and senior divisions in this tournament in 1953, second in senior division in 1955, and first in junior division in 1956.
Speech Office Now In Strong
The move of the official office of the speech and drama department from Green Hall to 116 Strong was completed Tuesday. New furniture for the office was delivered today.
Three offices, that of E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, Kim Giffin, associate professor of speech, and Wilmer A. Linkugel, instructor of speech and drama, are now in 116 Strong.
The office of Phil Tompkins, instructor of speech, and three assistant instructors of speech, James Roever, Gary Lehman and Heywood Davis, are located in 301 Strong.
Inge's Play Called'Best'
Another play by William Inge, 1935 KU graduate and Pulitzer Prize winner, opened in New York City Thursday and has been called his best by some critics.
"Dark at the Top of the Stairs," now showing at the Music Box in New York City, "shapes up as a winner on Broadway," in the words of Louis Calta of the New York Times. Mr. Calta said in his column Saturday that the play drew the praise of all the New York critics.
Brooks Atkinson, who reviewed the play for the Times, said it was the best of Mr. Inge's works, which include "Come Back, Little Sheba," "Picnic" for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and "Bus Stop."
The play is directed by Elia Kazan, and stars Teresa Wright, Pat Hingle and Eileen Heckert. The characters are middle class people living in Oklahoma in the early 1920's.
"The scenes reveal the lonely agony of people who live together without really knowing one another, suffering in silence, communicating only when situations are desperate," Atkinson said in his review.
'King Henry IV' Film To Be Presented
The film of "King Henry IV," made by the KU television studios, will be shown at the University Theatre Christmas party at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the green room of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
The party is for the theatre staff, student actors, crew members and friends of the University Theatre. Gordon Beck, instructor of speech and drama, is in charge of the play.
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