Lyricist Returns to KU With Praise
Harold Adamson presented his first major attempt at show-writing 34 years ago in Fraser Hall, but Murphy Hall drew all the rave when he returned Tuesday to tour the campus.
Adamson, the lyricist, for "Around the World in 80 Days" presently playing at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, attended KU from 1926-28.
In 1928 he presented a satire on Hollywood entitled "You Tell 'Em Sam," in Fraser.
Adamson, his wife and 18-year-old son Drew, who plans to attend Michigan University this fall, toured Murphy Hall and praised its fine facilities.
ADAMSON, a native of Larchmont, N. Y., came to KU at the suggestion of a Topekan, Tom Woodward, with whom he had attended school in the east.
Adamson said the facilities are much better than many professional theatres and called it "a great addition to the University."
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FROM KU he went to Harvard where he wrote productions for the Hasty Pudding Club shows.
From there he teamed with songwriter Jimmy McHugh to write songs for many Hollywood productions. Among his better known works are "Time On My Hands," "Everything I Have Is Yours," "Smile." "I Love to Whistle," "Chapel Bells," "A Serenade to the Stars," "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer," "Did I Remember?" "Tony's Wife," and more than 200 others.
His new songs include "I Hate to Travel," "This Little World," "Once I Wondered," "Barbary Coast," and "Way Out West."
HE HAS DONE lyrics for Universal pictures and was once staff lyricist for Metro-Golden-Mayer Studio. He now heads the lyrics staff at Warner Brothers, where he is working on two pictures "Mr. Limpet" and "Not on Your Life," the latter a comedy being filmed in Greece and starring Robert Preston.
"Around the World in 80 Days" is his "most gratifying work," the lyricist said.
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Congress Speaks Out And Tongues Often Trip
By Dick West
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Shakespeare once wrote that actors should speak their lines "trippingly on the tongue."
This is a good rule, not only for the stage but for all types of public declaiming. It is, for instance, closely observed by members of Congress.
Seldom a day goes by that one of them doesn't trip over his tongue.
There have been some truly classic examples of Congressional tongue-trips. One of the best to come forth recently was produced by Rep. Elford A. Cederberg, R-Mich.
Santangelo declared that such a thing was "morally repugnant to millions of people, not only in the United States, but also in the 24th Congressional district." Chicago, too, probably.
Speaking on the floor of the House, Cederberg made reference to a young lawyer, who, he said, was "still green behind the ears."
EVEN SO. Cederberg was hard pressed to top the tongue-tripper of Rep. Alfred E. Santangelo, D-N.Y., who became indignant the other day over a proposal to organize a national lottery.
IT IS generally agreed, however, that the all time champion Congressional tongue-tripper was the late Sen. Kenneth Wherry, R-Neb. There are many cherished "Wherryisms," including his reference to "Indigo China."
Wherry once addressed Sen. Spesard Holland of Florida as "the distinguished senator from Holland." He and former Sen. Tom Connally, D-Tex., habitually referred to Chiang Kai-shek as "Shanghai Chek."
Among connouisseurs of tongue-trippers, Rep. John Dent, D-Pa.ranks high. I particularly admired the way he once pictured a group of people who were confronted by some dilemma.
They were, said Dent, "torn between two fires."
William Stafford, an alumnus of KU now teaching in Portland, Ore. is the author of a collection of poems to be published Aug. 15.
Among present members of the
Alumnus' Poetry To Be Published
Stafford, who received his A.B. in 1337 and M.A. in 1946 from KU, is a teacher of English and composition at Lewis and Clark College. His book titled "Traveling Through the Dark" will be published by Harper & Row.
Stafford received his Ph.D in 1954 from the University of Iowa. His poems have appeared in several anthologies and national magazines.
Senate, Sen. Homer E. Capehart, R-Ind., is regarded as an ace tongue-tripper. Nearly matching Wherry, Capehart once addressed a colleague as "the senior senator from junior."
ON ANOTHER occasion. Capehart got so carried away by Senatorial courtesy that he referred to himself as "the distinguished Senator from Indiana."
This sort of thing is not, of course, confined to lawgivers. Tongue-trips also can occur among Congressional witnesses, as evidenced this week by Donald A. Russell, an agriculture department official.
Testifying at the Billie Sol Estes inquiry, Russell neatly summed up the department's position by observing that "unfortunately, we are not equipped with hindsight in advance."
My own favorite tongue-tripper is the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's famous "most unheard of thing I ever hear of."
That's what I call hitting the nail on the head in a nutshell.
Students Flock to School During Summer Months
Time was, a youngster would go to school in the summer only because he'd flunked a subject and had to make it up.
Right now, however, hundreds of thousands of boys and girls are taking summer courses entirely on their own volition, reports the Institute of Life Insurance. Among them are:
- Students who take extra courses they cannot fit into the regular school curriculum.
- Gifted pupils concentrating on a particular field of study, such as language, mathematics or science.
- Students who for reasons of their own want to speed up their graduation.
- Those who want courses (such as driver education) which cannot be scheduled for all pupils during the regular school year.
While many summer schools still provide only the traditional makeup and remedial courses, the emphasis is definitely shifting, so that most school systems now speak of "enrichment," "advanced work for the gifted," and "acceleration" as major goals.
AMONG THE summer courses now offered are Russian and other languages, Great Books, rapid reading and creative writing; college-bound students obtain special benefits from such subjects as pre-college English and "brierhand" for note-taking and languages. In many schools talented students may take advanced courses in mathematics and science. Some places welcome students from outside the school district.
Educational authorities are generally agreed that more school systems are operating summer programs than ever before, with more young people participating. And, although there are no statistics for the nation as a whole, one eastern state that maintains such records reports that nearly 180,000 students attended summer school last year, compared with 50,000 ten years earlier.
Not long ago the National Education Association, following a survey of summer school programs, came to the conclusion that about half the city and suburban school districts in the United States have summer schools.
Senior Receives Mobil Scholarship
"Many of these will expand their programs in the near future, and a number which have none at present will add to them soon," the association reported.
Roy M. Knapp of Gridley, Kansas, has been awarded a Scony Mobil scholarship at the University of Kansas where he has completed his junior year. Mr. Knapp is majoring in mechanical engineering.
Socony Mobil scholarships are awarded to college students entering their senior year. The scholarships cover specific areas of study such as geology, petroleum engineering and other subjects pertinent to the oil industry. When scholarships are granted, the college or university involved selects the recipient from qualified applicants, administers the funds, and reports on the student's progress.
The one-year scholarship totals $1,208. A grant of $500 in conjunction with the scholarship goes to the University of Kansas.
SOME EDUCATORS see the growth of summer school programs as the forerunner of a year-round school for all students. The prospect of 11 or 12 months of school for everyone has alarmed many people, not all of them children, but from all appearances, there is no immediate danger.
In a very real sense, the expansion of summer schools across the nation stands as testimony to a great national thirst for knowledge, and a desire by many boys and girls to get
ahead in life, with the encouragement of parents and educators. Students who choose to go to summer school sacrifice some or most of their summer vacation; an elementary summer student spends between six and seven weeks at school, while high school students spend more than seven weeks, on the average.
HERE AND THERE, schools design their courses to permit students something of a vacation during the summer. For example, in one suburban school district, pupils in advanced mathematics are in class from 9 to 12 in the morning for the month of July. This schedule provides time for both instruction and homework, and still gives them July afternoons to themselves, as well as the entire month of August.
Of course, summer school has been a long-time tradition in the nation's colleges where undergraduates and graduate students have gone for many years, to improve their knowledge. For example, some 600 teachers who work in elementary and high schools across the country are attending college workshops in family finance, where they are learning about budgeting, life insurance and other insurance, savings and investments, and Social Security.
They are studying these subjects in order to pass along the information to students in their classes back home. This particular program of summer workshops is being given at 16 universities under the sponsorship of the National Committee for Education in Family Finance.
Ballet Recital Tonight Ends 6 Weeks of Work
Six weeks of work will come to an end for ballet students in the Midwestern Music and Art Camp with a recital at 7:30 p.m. today in the University Theatre.
"This is going to be the finest ballet program in the division's 10-year history in the camp," said Prof. Russell Wiley, camp founder and director.
The program is open to the public without charge. It will be the climax
Communist Bloc Maintains Steady Attack Against Common Market
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
Since Soviet Premier Khrushchev started the ball rolling last May, the Communist countries have maintained a steady attack against the European Common Market.
Khrushchev himself has applied various epithets to the six nations—France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg—which have bound themselves together economically and which in four years have become an economic force rivalling either the United States or Russia.
of the campers' summer here. The six-week camp will end Sunday.
AMONG THESE epithets have been "unnatural marriage," "collective colonialism" and "state monopoly."
Khrushchev's anger possibly springs from three sources:
- The success of the common market was not anticipated in the Communist timetable of conquest predicated on a divided Europe.
- A real fear that tariff walls erected by the six within the common market may choke off the sale of Communist goods to Western Europe.
- This latter point would account for Khrushchev's attempt to frighten the new and under-developed nations by describing the common market as a former of "collective colonialism" designed to keep them in bondage.
- A fear of the effect on underdeveloped countries of the increasing flow of foreign aid from Western Europe.
On their side, the Communists are in great need of western industrial equipment which they can purchase only with hard western currencies. Only in this way can they fulfill their own ambitious plans for industrial expansion.
IT IS ALSO true that the Communist-bloc nations depend more upon the West than the West upon them. Poland, for example, counts on Western Europe for nearly a quarter of its foreign trade. West Germany on the other hand sends only one-twentieth of its foreign trade product to the Communist nations.
Following is a country-by-country survey prepared by Radio Free Europe:
Albania—since its isolation from the Soviet bloc, it is seeking new markets in the West. Up to now 95 per cent of its foreign trade has been with Communist countries. Albanian propaganda describes the common market as a "weapon of aggressive imperialism."
Bulgaria—seeks to boost its foreign trade with non-Communist nations by 158 per cent this year. Fears the common market effect on its shipments of fruit and vegetables.
Czechoslovakia — Western Europe is its most important export market.
The regime describes the common market as a "power to be used against the socialist countries, a neocolonialist force."
East Germany—terms the common market a "conspiracy of the billionaires."
Hungary—fears that its agricultural products will be shut out of the common market and has taken steps to raise counter-tariffs.
Poland—regards the integration of Western Europe as an accomplished fact and is seeking new markets elsewhere.
Romania—fears for its oil, agricultural and timber exports and threatens "defensive measures."
Prof. Dance Visits Ft. Riley ROTC
Cadets from the institutions are currently in six weeks' intensive training at the Kansas post.
Frank E. X. Dance, assistant professor of speech and drama, is among educators from 33 midwestern colleges and universities observing ROTC cadets this week at Fort Riley.
After briefing by officers the educators will observe their students taking the physical training test and see various field problem exercises. They also will have an opportunity to meet with most of their students.
THE STUDENTS are under the direction of Marguerite M. Reed, who has been choreographer, ballet director and first dancer of the Tulsa Opera ballet company since 1949.
Mrs. Reed has been working with the students during the summer.
"The students seem to have unlimited ability to get the instruction," she said. "We've given them considerable technical training on a professional level. We demanded they take a professional's attitude and they have.
"The students have received classical ballet training." Mrs. Reed said, "and as far as physical fitness is concerned, there is nothing finer for them than classical ballet."
Music for the program will be provided by a special orchestra under the direction of Prof. Gerald M. Carney and a special chorus conducted by Prof. Clayton Krebhiell.
Civil Service Exams Soon
Kansas civil service examinations for a group of social welfare, employment service, board of health and institutional positions will be held in several Kansas cities in August.
Positions for which examinations will be given include Social Worker, Interviewer, Counselor, Welfare Director, Case Supervisor, Child Welfare Worker, Psychiatric Social Service Worker, Public Health Nurse, Dietitian, Medical Technician, X-ray Technician, and Histological Technician.
Examinations are scheduled in Chanute on August 8, Wichita on August 9, 10 and 11, Hays on August 15 and Salina on August 16. Examinations are also held in Topeka each Friday, except holidays.
Examination announcements and applications can be secured from the State Personnel Division, 801 Harrison Street, Topeka, or from Kansas State Employment Service offices.