University Daily Kansan, November 8. 1982
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To the crowd's amusement, the 10 of clubs was in the toast.
Armstrong said he had been interested in music for the first time.
In strong sand he had been interested in magick for three or four years but did not work. He kept memories of members of the classes that graduated during the war years were bittersweet.
JANE MLLEN, president of the class of 1944, wrote in a letter that "it is rather painful to pull up some of those memories."
Betty Alderson spoke for the class of 1946. She is the widow of the late Donald Keith Alderson, who was the dean of men at KU for 30 years and president of the class of 1946. She remembered what her husband said about the 1940s when the invitation asked him last year to speak at the dinner.
"And he said, 'Those were austere times.' And I thought, that sounds familiar — these are ausentimes."
Happier times emerged after the war
Sally Ward, speaking for the class of 1947, recalled that although some couples necked in the back seats of cars, the 1940s was a more peaceful time than years. She said she was glad of that innocence.
"Here's to the class of '47. We paid our due to get to heaven," Ward said. "And if we arrive before you do, we'll throw down a rope for the rest of KU."
AFTER THE DINNER program the alumni swung and slow danced to the big band sound of the band.
"Do you recognize the guys in the band?" one alumnus asked another. "They're so damd old," the other responded. "Everyone at the reunion is old." The first man said, smiling.
Barbara Dunlap, class of '50, listened to the music with Rita Olson, class of '54.
Dunlap commented about the GIs who returned, lowering the 3-1 ratio of women to men her freshman year.
"I would say we enjoyed the prosperity," she said.
Saturday was sunny and mild. The alumni returned to their fraternities, sororites and schools. The football team treated them to a 24-17 victory.
TEX BENEKE, a former player with the Glenn Miller Band, played Saturday night in the Kansas Union Ballroom before about 1,500 people. The evening of swing dance drew KU students past and present together in the celebration of homecoming.
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Larry David, Topeka, class of 1940, kept a close eye on his director as he marched with the Alumni Band during Saturday's halftime show. More than 160 alumni, the largest alum band ever assembled at KU, performed during the Homecoming show.
Despite efforts to pull the country together, sporadic fighting continued yesterday in Lebanon.
THE ISRAELI military command in Tel Aviv said that in Lebanon's Bekan Valley, a Soviet-made anti-tank missile was fired from inside Syrian lines at an Israeli position, causing no casualties, the Israeli military command in Tel Aviv said.
Mideast
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Security sources said new factional fighting erupted in Lebanon's Shaout mountains, with Druze and Christian militantism fighting limited after the militants killed the first time since the rivals declared a pro-war
Israel Radio reported that to the south, near the Lebanese coastal town of Sidon, Israeli troops fired shots in the air to quell a riot by a Palestinian Islamist prisoner at the Ansar detention camp.
Magic
The magicians could not define magic, although a few tried.
professionally. The Julia Child act was one that he said he had created for a friend's wedding.
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Eobmide Rodriguez, Kansas State University
sophomile. said "Miae is a vanishing art."
RICHARD GUY, Topeka, gave a more serious definition to the group. He took three individual ropes with knots entangled and formed a linking network across the ropes, passed the knotted ropes through one another.
"Magic is taking the impossible, adding a new possibilities, and then doing something that can't
Larkey said that if someone would practice magic for two years, he would be hooked.
The convention gave the magicians a chance to trade secrets, learn new acts or perfect their
showmanship. But non-magicians in search of secrets were out of luck. The pros weren't telling.
ONE MAGICIAN said that when someone learned a trick, the fun and awe vanished.
Larkey, who has been in magic for 38 years, said he had never tired of it.
"After 28 years people say I must know it all. If I did, I'd get bored," he said.
Mike Meyer, also of Topka, said, "Everyone wants to believe in magic. It stays with them all the time."
"Once you know how it is done, you say,
'That's it?' and you are disappointed. It’s more
fun not knowing because you can believe it," said Kevin Hula. Topeka
HAMMET SAID that people performed magic for different reasons. Many people never use magic as a profession but are interested in it as a hobby, he said.
Alumni executives believe in Reaganomics
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
At the mid-point of President Reagan's first term, Reaganomics is still the answer to the nation's economic woes, several corporate leaders who are KU alumni said recently.
The leaders, whose companies' profits have been reduced by the current recession, predicted
The nation's unemployment rate is now 10.4 percent.
"I think that it is probably bottoming out," said Edward Burns, who retired in June as president of Beech Aircraft Corporation, Wichita. "Now that we're going to rise out of it very rapidly."
BEECH HASIAD off 11,000 employees -- about
20 percent of its work force.
Most of the executives said Congress needed to balance the federal budget.
Former KU Chancellor Franklin Murphy, chairman of the board of the Times Mirror Co., Los Angeles, predicted that the president would
"I think there is a reasonable limit in all areas of spending, including defense," Brizzendine
John Brizendine, president of Douglas Aircraft Corp., Long Beach, Calif., said his company's profits were down 40 to 50 percent. He said if the federal budget was not balanced by cuts in spending, inflation would "absolutely eat us alive."
Voters sent 26 additional Democrats to the House of Representatives in the Nov. 2 election.
MURPHY WAS chancellor from 1951 to 1960.
MURPHY WAS chancenator from 1951 to 1960. He said a decline in classified advertising sales at Times Mirror newspapers had leveled off, but the recession might be reaching the bottom. Classified advertising sales is the best gauge of a newspaper's financial health, he said.
Times Mirror newspapers include the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Times Herald, the Denver Post and Newsday.
Despite encouraging signs from classified advertising, the company's Oregon lumber mills have been operating one-fourth of their usual time, Murphy said. The slowdown in the lumber mills has forced the newspapers to publish somewhat smaller editions than usual, he said.
Robert Malott, chairman of the FMC corporation, Chicago, predicted that the economy would show modest improvement in the first half of 1984. It would be less as construction, would not pick up until 1984.
FMC SELLS a wide variety of products, including organic chemicals, construction equipment and automated guided missile landing systems.
Unlike Murphy and Brizendine, Malott said that although balancing the budget was worthwhile, it was not necessary. Japan and Germany's deficits both are a higher percentage of their gross national products than the United States' deficit, he said.
FMC has laid off 18 percent of its employees and product orders are down. he said.
However, Malott said he had not lost faith in Reaganomics.
"We've been living beyond our means for 20 years," he said. "You're not going to see it turn out that way."
The executives said they were encouraged by the recent drop in interest rates and the bullish stock market.
WILLIAM MUCHINIC, a member of the board of directors of Rockwell International Corp., Pittsburgh, said of the stock market's performance. "It's a bit mystifying to me."
The stock market's strong performance will give people confidence in the economy, he said. The signs of a turnabout at Rockwell are "very, very feeble," Muchnic said. Rockwell's sales to the Department of Defense and to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have increased, but its commercial sales have declined.
Robert Wagstaff, chairman of the board of Coca-Cola Bottling of Mid-America Inc. Lenexa, said the sensational performance of the stock would have made people thought the economy was turning around.
He also said the decline in interest rates was an encouraging sign.
The Federal Reserve Board has lowered the discount rate to 9.5 percent. The discount rate is the rate it charges on loans to financial institutions.
Wagstaff said, "The interest rate probably has abated. I think that started the trend in the right direction."
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