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Friday, March 27, 1964
World Spotlight
(By United Press International)
Wichita U. Building Burned
WICHITA-A major fire virtually destroyed the Art Building at Wichita University today, one of the oldest structures on the campus. There were no injuries.
The cause was not determined immediately.
It was not determined immediately if six valuable paintings in the three-story brick structure were lost. The fire broke out about 3:30 a.m. and was brought under control about 6:15 a.m. Damage estimates were incomplete.
A rear wall collapsed about 5 a.m. Much of the building was gutted. Nobody was in the structure when the flames were discovered.
The school is closed at present for Easter vacation. The building constructed in the 1920s, originally was used as a library.
Ten companies of firemen, including three extra aerial units, fought the blaze.
Pope Leads Church in Mourning
The Pope, clad in the red robes of mourning, was to leave his throne in St. Peter's and walk barefoot to kiss a crucifix at the foot of the altar during an afternoon ceremony.
VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI today led the world's 500 million Roman Catholics in mourning the death of Christ in Good Friday rites scheduled in St. Peter's Basilica and among the ruins of ancient Rome.
The altar was bare and the church bells were silent, like those of all other Catholic churches throughout the world on the most solemn day of the Christian calendar.
Soviets Release Airmen
JOHNSON CITY, Tex.—President Johnson waited today to be told—and to tell the American people—that two U.S. airmen held captive in East Germany since March 10 have been freed on Good Friday by the Communists.
The Texas White House issued official word shortly after Johnson's arrival last night for an Easter vacation that arrangements had been made for release today of Capt. David I. Holland, of Holland, Minn., and Capt. Melvin J. Kessler, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Holland and Kessler were among three crewmen of an RB-66 reconnaissance bomber that was shot down by a Soviet fighter 17 days ago after straying over the East German border. American authorities insisted they were on a routine training mission and failed to receive U.S. radio warnings they were off course.
King said the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which he heads, would sponsor demonstrations if Southern senators staged a "determined" filibuster against the civil rights bill.
WASHINGTON—The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. completed a busy day on Capitol Hill yesterday by announcing tentative plans for civil rights demonstrations throughout the nation.
King Plans New Program
He said the SCLC would consider the filibuster "determined" and begin the demonstrations if the bill did not come to a vote by the first week in May.
King would not reveal details of the proposed "dramatic direct action program" but he left no doubt that the program would include demonstrations.
Cambodia Honors U.S. Loss
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—About 300 college students demonstrated against the United States today as a memorial to the Cambodians killed in a U.S.-aided South Vietnamese raid on a border village.
There was no violence. American and British officials stood nearby watching.
It was disclosed that Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian Chief of State, will decorate his pilot son whose American-supplied fighter shot down an unarmed U.S. observation plane during the raid, killing the American pilot and a Vietnamese observer.
DAWSON SAID since 1591, Shakespeare's works have been printed in more than 70 languages, but all of the printings lack accuracy.
Curator Says Work By Bard Changed
Dawson's lecture was in honor of the 400th anniversary since Shakespeare's birth. He gave his talk at the 11th Annual Bibliography Lecture.
Publishers are not wholly to blame for this fault in the accuracy since they tried to make Shakespeare works more readable. They attempted this by dropping phrases or substituting the publisher's own interpretation.
Current works by William Shakespeare are not accurate representations because of an English copyright law and the lack of authentic texts of his writings, a curator of Shakespearean works said yesterday.
Giles E. Dawson, curator of William Shakespeare's works in the Folger Library in Washington, D.C., explained the loss of accuracy to an early perpetual copyright law for publishers in England. The law stated that publisher to whom a writer sold his writings was the perpetual keeper of such writings, unless the publisher sold them to another publisher.
Stationer and Company were the first to publish Shakespeare's writings under a Royal Charter from the English Government. The charter meant that the government had censorship privileges and regulated the number of editions that the firm could print.
This 'safe' printing was Shakespeare's works. Every few years the publisher would try Shakespeare's works again and would list the books as having been revised. It is these revisions that Dawson has spent much time in tracing.
Because publishers have to guess at the possibility of a writer's works to sell, which happened often in the 16th century as well as now, the publishers printed safe or known public favorites.
After the right of the publisher's copyright on Shakespearean works had changed hands several times in the 16th and 17th century, the Enlish Government passed a law stating that copyrights were good for only 21 years unless the works had been acquired before the law was enacted or hence. The law was actually stated contradictory, but it meant copyrights were only good for 21 years.
THE BENEFITS of this type or copyright went to the publisher rather than to the writer.
The charter gave this publisher the power of complete price control. All books were registered before first prints on the Shakespeare works.
By 1730, the number of printers had greatly increased and were waiting for the copyright to run out. When it did, the small printers began printing Shakespeare's works, but the copyright holder was able to bluff the newcomers because of the
vague stating of the 1709 copyright law
BY USING THE threat of court action, the publisher was able to keep others out of the Shakespearean printing market.
In 1734, Robert Walker, an English printer, started printing the "Merry Wives of Winsor" in installments or serial form which was a challenge to Tonson II's copyright on Shakespearean works.
Tonson and Walker exchanged many threats, but no court action was taken because Tonson had become afraid that Walker could prove the copyright law did hold.
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