3,500 HEAR CAPOTE
'Lion of American Literature'speaks
By Elizabeth Rhodes
It was a few minutes after 7 p.m. when the first of the vanguard came.
They got the good seats—the ones on the hard bleachers directly in front of the raised and flood-lit basketball court on which he would read aloud to them for an hour and a half.
They, and the estimated 3,500 persons who filled one side of Allen Field House, came to hear Truman Capote, described by one critic as "the current reigning literary lion of American literature."
CAPOTE WAS returning to the state where the current interest started, to the scene of the crime, so to speak. For it is in Holcomb, 400 miles west of Lawrence, that the Clutter family was murdered, and Capote formulated the book that has made him the most soughtafter author in the country, "In Cold Blood."
But those who came specifically to hear the work had to wait; he left it until last. Instead he read a personal memoir entitled "Christmas Memory."
Capote apologized for the inappropriateness of the season, but said, "It's so darn cold out I don't think you'll know the difference." Rarely taking his eyes off his text, he told the story of a young boy and his sixtyish kite-flying cousin who baked fruitcakes for President Roosevelt, "strangers and merest acquaintances."
Capote followed with another short story about "a short, disastrous trip through Spain." His description of a robbery which lacked robbers, but not humor, brought laughter from the audience.
FROM COMEDY Capote switched to tragedy as he read the precode to his chronicle of the 1959 Clutter family gunshot slayings. Preceding the selection, the
author introduced "the five men who solved the case and made the book possible"—the five Kansas Bureau of Investigation men most directly involved with the Clutter case. Included was Alvin Dewey, Garden City agent, who plays a prominent role in the book.
Other KBI agents included Logan Sanford, director; Harold Nye, assistant bureau director; Clarence Duntz, agent; and Roy Church, retired agent.
After five minutes of "In Cold Blood," Capote stepped from behind his podium, and with a short salute disappeared into a locker room. The "literary lion" had spoken, and slowly the 3,500 persons filed out.
Capote planned a return visit to Garden City, near the setting of his book, late today. He spent many weeks there while gathering material for the book. "I am returning to visit friends," Capote said.
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Thursday, April 21, 1966
Quiet prevails on AWS rules
By Emery Goad
Results of the secret senate meetings of the Associated Women Students (AWS) concerning their check of the results of the AWS convention in March will probably be released Tuesday.
"At this time I see no reason why the senate will not release their finished product," Emily Taylor, Dean of Women and AWS senate advisor, said.
Originally it was stated the Council on Student Affairs (COSA) would release the information when they receive it on Tuesday. Laurence C. Woodruff, Dean of Students and council chairman, said the information would not be released through COSA.
SENATE MEMBERS would not release the possible changes they made in the revision of the proceedings of the AWS convention because, "Elsewhere, outside of the campus there are mistaken ideas and this public pressure caused us to withhold them until they are worked out," Susan Hartley, Atwood senior and AWS senate member, said.
"Keeping decisions quiet is not good," Jacke Thayer, Ellsworth senior and newly elected AWS senator, said. "This does nothing except hurt the AWS image. Public opinion has already been formed and any changes made should be public because the local university students are the most concerned and have a right to know."
Dean Taylor said she thought withholding the information was perfectly appropriate procedure. When asked about secret pledges the senate members might have made, she said, "Of course they did not. What do you mean personal pledges? It is purely a matter of procedure."
MERRY SUE CLARK, Wichita freshman and president of Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, said, "Everyone wants to know what changes were made over the decisions of the AWS convention."
Ann Peterson, Shawnee Mission senior and AWS president, said their decisions were kept secret, "Just for convenience." She said that she would talk with other members about releasing the information.
Houston Physician inserts artificial heart in patient
HOUSTON —(UPI)— Famed surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey today inserted an artificial heart into a human being for the first time in a last-report effort to save his life.
The artificial heart, a pump with tubes that are inserted into the chest to take over the pumping function of an ailing heart, was kept on a standby basis as DeBakey and a team of surgeons
Surgery was to replace a valve in the aorta, the main artery leading from the heart. Shortly after the surgery began, the hospital announced that DeBakey was hooking up the artificial heart.
exposed the heart of a patient at Methodist Hospital.
The hospital did not identify the patient.
SEVERAL CHANGES
Football ticket sales to begin next week
Student season football tickets, priced at $5, will go on sale Monday, May 2, for a four day period. Transferability of student tickets will be the major innovation in next fall's seating program.
A letter explaining reservation procedure which has been mailed to all KU students outlines the procedure through which students can reserve seats in priority sections. Students who fail to apply in the spring will have the same priority as new students in the fall.
A RECENT AMENDMENT to the ASC seating bill provides for student transfer of tickets. A student wishing to transfer his ticket to another student must do so for each game through a procedure to be explained later.
Another seating innovation will be the right of a student to sit in any seat in the stadium unless he is requested to move.
Most student seats are located in the new addition to Memorial Stadium. According to Jim Klumpp, Coffeyville sophomore and chairman of the Student Athletic Seating Board, most of the new seats are better than the old ones.
"The Athletic Department explanation has been that the hardest seats to sell are those in the old, not the new, section," Klumpp said.
"THE SEATS IN the new stadium are actually better seats than those in the old part, with the possible exception of the 50 yard line seats."
Klumpp explained that procedure, for admittance of students at games will be changed next fall.
"The tickets will be a single card with a place in which the student will sign his name and ID number," he said. "It will need to be accompanied by his ID card at the gate.
"If a student wishes to transfer his ticket, it must be done at the Athletic Ticket Office by a procedure that will be explained next fall at the time the tickets are picked up," Klumpp said.
All of the seats in the new section are guaranteed in the building contract to students. For the first time, there will be no public season tickets sold for the east side of the stadium.
RESERVATION OF seats will take place for four days. The first day, seniors will reserve seats; graduate student reservations will be taken the second day; and juniors and sophomores can reserve
seats on the third and fourth days respectively.
Anyone not receiving tickets during the four day period will be given the same priority as new students next fall.
Group application within a priority classification will be limited to 25, except for especially large pledge classes or classes within men's or women's residence halls.
After all ticket applications have been made, a drawing will be held within each priority group to determine seat locations.
Buddhists protest Viet election plan
SAIGON—(UPI)—Shooting broke out today in the resort town of Dalat between armed anti-government students and soldiers, reliable sources reported in Saigon. The reports said three Vietnamese civilians were killed.
The reported violence broke two days of relative quiet in the nation's political scene.
Government sources said details for the election would be outlined in a series of decrees which will be issued soon. No definite time has been set.
THE GOVERNMENT had no official comment on charges leveled Wednesday night by Thich Thien Minh that Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and the ruling military junta were planning, with American connivance, to doublecross the Buddhists and find ways of remaining in power.
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"As far as I know, there may be a coup d'etat soon," he said, explaining that through such a "false" maneuver the military might hold onto the government even though Ky is ousted.
"The Buddhists at the present time should be ready to fight because the Buddhists believe the government is plotting something and is not sincere about doing what they have promised," Minh said.
HE SAID AMERICANS opposed the free elections because they feared Communists would enter the country and they would be asked to leave the country, and he hinted that they were encouraging the military in their devious schemes.