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the House rules. One of his most famous lines was the assurance, given with a courtly bow, that he held a certain opponent in "minimum high regard."
Speaker McCormack A Poor Boy Succeeds
"I miss the debates on the floor," he said wistfully. "I enjoyed the rough and tumble of political argument. But that's not my role now."
AS SPEAKER, he cannot indulge in such badnage and he confessed that he sometimes feels rather out of things.
McCormack is now serving his 35th year in the House, and his 43rd year as a legislator. He began life as a poor boy, one of 13 children of a south Boston hod-carrier. His father died when he was 14 and he had to go to work, as a $3 a week errand boy, to help feed his big family. He never attended high school or college, but educated himself by reading books in a law office where he got a job as a clerk during his later teens. He passed the Massachusetts bar exams in 1913, and was soon combining his legal practice with politics. By 1920, when he was elected to the state House of Representatives, he was an important figure in his party. He went on to the state Senate in 1922, and in 1927 was elected to Congress, where he has served ever since.
REACHING THE top rung of the congressional ladder has had little effect on his private life, except to increase his salary. from $22,500 to $45,000 a year. He and his wife still live in a suite on the sixth floor at the Washington Hotel, where they've lived ever since they came to Washington. The McCormacks have no truck with the capital's social whirl. Most evenings, they have dinner alone together in their suite, and read or watch television.
"Politics is a strange life," he said. "I made up my mind when I started out that I wouldn't let it interfere with my married life. And I haven't. Mrs. McCormack and I have been married for 42 years, and we've never spent a night apart."
The Speaker is one of the capital's, if not the world's most devoted husbands.
Although McCormack is a teetotaler, he has been known to spend an occasional evening playing high-stakes poker with some of his Congressional cronies. He is reputed to be a consistent winner, and one oil-wealthy Senator has stated that he had just as soon pour his money down a manhole as get into a poker game with John McCormack.
When this story was repeated to the Speaker, he replied, with a perfect poker face:
"Don't believe a word of it. I'm just learning the game."
Noted Speech Educators To Lead KU Speech Program
Two widely known speech educators will lead a conference and workshop on the High School Speech Program here July 5 and 6.
They are Dr. Robert T. Oliver, professor and chairman since 1949 of the speech department at the Pennsylvania State University, and Dr. Charlotte I. Lee, professor of interpretation and acting chairman of the department in the School of Speech at Northwestern University.
High school speech teachers from Kansas and Missouri will attend the meeting, sponsored by the KU speech and drama department with University Extension. Besides hearing conference lectures, the teachers will attend the University Theatre production of "Antigone" and rehearsals for "Insect Comedy."
Dr. Oliver, author of 18 books on speech and international affairs, has been consultant to the Korean delegation to the United Nations. He will speak on "American Foreign Policy:
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A Problem in Public Relations" and "Educating the High School Speech Student in Political Responsibility."
Dr. Lee, who has appeared on television's Modern Poetry Series, will talk on "Oral Interpretation in the High School: Courses and Contests." She also will give the conference's closing presentation, entitled "In Other Words; Selected Prose and Poetry from Contemporary Writers."
Other conference speakers, all of the KU faculty, will be Dr. Oscar M. Haugh, professor of education; Dr. James N. Neelley, assistant professor of speech and drama, and Dr. William A. Conboy, professor and chairman of speech and drama.
Likes Apes Better Than Men
LONDON — The Daily Sketch,
quoting a 27-year-old coed who
spent 15 months alone in the African
jungles:
"I like apes in some respects better than men."
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'The Music Man'-
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mother. Nine-year-old Mike Murphy will play her lisping kid brother Winthrop.
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Dean Dittmann will play the role of Marcellus, the light-hearted singing-dancing friend of Harold Hill, a role he played for Broadway audiences for a year-and-a-half, and devotees of barbershop harmony will enjoy the Frisco Four's singing of "Lida Rose" and other barbershop harmony.
Dean Gorton Back From Washington
Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts has returned from Washington, D. C., where he gave the opening address for a workshop in music pedagogy at the Catholic University. Dean Gorton, who is in his fourth term as president of the National Association of Schools of Music, spoke on music education in America.
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