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Youthful Army Major Boasts Mustache, Fascinating Career
By Don Black (Managing Editor)
If someone tells you the KU military science school has an Englishman on its staff, pay him no attention. That tall, slender, deep voice Army major with a walrus mustache is really a Kansan.
With a name like Ramsey, owning a green Jaguar car, you could get ideas that he might be an Englishman.
Maj. Phillip Ramsey, professor of military science, is a Kansas State University graduate who was dropped into the rival school after tours to Hawaii, San Francisco and Germany.
TO ADD ANOTHER illustration to the continuing proof that the world is indeed shrinking, the major and I were stationed in Germany two years ago, across the hall from each other. I was a photographer for the Seventh Army Public Information office and he was the commanding officer of the 12th History detachment.
Maj. Ramsey had what he called the "smallest detachment in the U.S. Army." His command consisted of himself, one enlisted man, one jeep and trailer, one desk and typewriter and two chairs. He also pointed out that his command was highly mobile.
The major's young appearance and his mustache have gotten him into a lot of trouble. When Ramsey was commissioned into the Army, in 1953, he was assigned to the 53rd training battery in Indiana. He and another second lieutenant were in charge of the company. Ramsey was made executive officer rather than commander because he was out-ranked by one day.
"The trainees about us were about as young as we were, so we grew mustaches," Ramsey said. The younger men had to shave and we grew mustaches to distinguish the officers from the enlisted men. The mustache stayed but not without controversy.
FOR A SHORT time, Maj. Ramsey was almost under the command of Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker, commanding general of the 24th Infantry Division in Germany. Walker was ousted in a flurry of heated attacks for his John Birch affiliation and the program initiated for the troops on voting.
Maj. Ramsey said he was strolling on post one day after changing from Gen. Walker's command and happened to pass by the general. The general looked at him and continued, but he stopped and called after the lieutenant.
"Lieutenant," he growled, "Are you in my command?" "No, sir," Lt. Ramsey meekly answered.
"That's a dang good thing," the general barked, "because if you were, that . . . stuff under your nose would have to go."
FORTUNATELY the young lieutenant left the post before the general got another good look at him.
Ramsey described his career in dered him in college. He decided as a senior to run for the representative position of the 42nd district in Riley county at 20 years of age. He was the youngest ever to file for the seat.
Ramsay was too young to vote for himself but he was legally eligible. All he needed was the $15 registration fee and he decided to chance it. He was defeated.
"THAT WAS A bad year for the Democrats," he said smiling. "I didn't feel too bad though, Stevenson lost too."
Tom Heim, director of the KU Governmental Research Center, was campaign manager for Ramsey.
Ramsey described his career in the military as "challenging and fun."
In the KU military system, Maj. Ramsey is the executive officer of the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps. The Army school has five officers who switch on teaching subjects. Presently the major is teaching junior classes. Next semester he will instruct sophomore military history classes.
In civilian clothes, the major would be easily mistaken for one of his students, buzzing around the campus in his Jaguar with his mustache flowing in the breeze.
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On Campus with Max Shulman
(By the author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boyst" "Dobie Gill," etc.)
THE BEARD OF AVON
Topic for today is that perennial favorite of English majors, that ever-popular crowd pleaser, that good sport and great American—William Shakespeare (or "The Swedish Nightingale" as he is better known as).
First let us examine the persistent theory that Shakespeare (or "The Pearl of the Pacific" as he is jocularly called) is not the real author of his plays. Advocates of this theory insist the plays are so full of classical allusions and learned references that they couldn't possibly have been written by the son of an illiterate country butcher.
To which I reply "Faugh!" Was not the great Spinoza's father a humble woodcutter? Was not the immortal Isaac Newton's father a simple second baseman? (The elder Newton, incidentally, is one of history's truly pathetic figures. He was, by all accounts, the greatest second baseman of his time, but baseball, alas, had not yet been invented. It used to break young Isaac's heart to see his father get up every morning, put on uniform, spikes, glove, and cap, and stand alertly behind second base, bent forward, eyes narrowed, waiting, waiting, waiting. That's all—waiting. Isaac lovely sat in the bleachers and yelled "Good show, Dad!" and stuff like that, but everyone else in town sniggered derisively, made coarse gestures, and petted the Newtons with overripe fruit—figs for the elder Newton, apples for the younger. Thus, as we all know, the famous moment came when Isaac Newton, struck in the head with an apple, leapt to his feet, shouted "Europa!" and announced the third law of motion: "For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction!"
Figs for the elder Newton, apples for the younger.
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But I digress. Back to Shakespeare (or "The Gem of the Ocean" as he was ribaldly applauded).
Shakespeare's most important play is, of course, *Hamlet* (or, as it is frequently called, *Macbeth*) This play tells in living color the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, who one night sees a ghost upon the battlements. (Possibly it is a *goat* he sees; I have a first folio that is frankly not too legible.) Anhow, Hamlet is so upset by seeing this ghost (or goat) that he stabs Polonius and Brer Bodkin. He is thereupon banished to a leather factory by the king, who hollers, "Get thee to a tannery!" Thereupon Ophelia refuses her food until Laertes shouts, "Get thee to a bearnery!" Ophelia is so cross that she chases her little dog out of the room, crying, "Out, damned Spot!" She is fined fifty shillings for cussing, but Portia, in an eloquent plea, gets the sentence commuted to life imprisonment. Thereupon King Lear and Queen Mab proclaim a festival—complete with kissing games and a pie-eating contest. Everybody has a perfectly splendid time until Banquo's ghost (or goat) shows up. This no unhinged Richard III that he drowns his cousin, Butt Malmsey. This leads to a lively discussion, during which everyone is killed. The little dog Spot returns to utter the immortal curtain lines:
Our hero now has croaked,
And so's our prima donna.
But be of cheer, my friends.
You'll always have Personna
@1965. Max Shulman
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