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Thursday, Feb. 28.1963 University Daily Kansan
Singing Lawyer Gives KU Platter
Go back 41 years, to 1922, to when a young and enthusiastic professor of law convinced a dean that a lawyer could direct a men's glee club.
Follow that young professor through his years of teaching and retirement.
THE TRAIL ENDS with a large silver platter which will be displayed soon in the Kansas Union.
The professor of law was Thomas A. Larremore, who persuaded D. M. Swarthout, then Dean of the School of Fine Arts, that Larremore could handle the problems of a glee club.
Larremore's wife, Amy, helped. She received a degree in voice from KU, and gave lessons to the men who wanted to sing for her husband.
His glee club won, and earned a spot in the national contest in New York. The only problem was getting there.
IN 1926, Tom Larremore's enthusiasm paid off. He took his glee club to the Missouri Valley contest, which he had helped organize.
KU had more enthusiasm then, said Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni Association, and people set out to get the money for the trip.
The School of Fine Arts auctioned off three pairs of tickets to a concert during halftime at a basketball game, Ellsworth said, and students went from door to door soliciting funds.
"WE RAISED $4,500 in a few days," Ellsworth said, "and $4,500 was worth more than it is now." At national. KU's glee club was named one of the top three men's groups in the country.
The men who sang for Tom Larremore never forget him, and every five years they came back for a reunion.
At the 1951 reunion, the 25th anniversary of the New York trip, the men gave Tom and Amy Larremore the large silver platter which will be displayed at the Kansas Union.
ON THE PLATTER. which is 22 inches long and 15 inches wide, are inscribed these lines from Vachel Lindsay's "Kansas":
"For all men dream in Kansas, By noonday and by night, By sunrise yellow, red, and wild, And moonrise wild and white."
Mrs. Larremore died in September, and this year Larremore, who lives in New Jersey, sent the platter to Ellsworth with instructions that the platter be used on state occasions.
Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union, said state occasions would include such events as those which state officials attend and senior receptions.
NATO Cool to US Plan
PARIS — (UPI) - The Western allies today showed a general coolness toward President Kennedy's plan for a multi-nation nuclear force within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Kennedy's special nuclear envoy, Livingston T. Merchant, placed the proposal before the permanent NA-TO council yesterday.
INITIAL REACTIONS were reported to be unenthusiastic. Only West Germany, Italy and Belgium among the United States' 14 partners in the defense alliance showed any real interest in the plan.
France is openly opposed, Britain disagrees with certain details and
The People-to-People Discussion Group, which consists of five American and seven foreign students, will meet once a week and exchange ideas and cultures.
P-t-P Discussion Group Organized
Patsy Price, Bartlesville, Okla., senior and membership chairman of P-t-P, said the main purpose of the group is to get American and foreign students acquainted with each other.
If the group becomes larger then the planned 12, it will be divided into small sections.
Meetings will be held at Roberto's, the Din-A-Mite cafe, and several other public places where students can meet on a very informal basis.
Present group members are Girish H. Kothari, Ahmedabad, India, graduate; Sudhir Banker, Ahmedabad, India, graduate; Norair Ghazarian, Basra, Iraq, junior; Ayseli Usuata, Istanbul, Turkey, graduate; Engin Artemel, Istanbul, Turkey, senior; Maung Than Tun, Myingan, Burma, senior; Miss Susana Raquel Enoch, Argentina, freshman; Patty Koos, Mission sophomore; Clay Blair, Joplin, Mo., freshman; Martha Lauterbach, Colby freshman; Miss Price, and Lawrence Morgan, Lawrence junior.
Merchant and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Thomas K. Finletter will fly to Rome Sunday for two days of talks on the proposal with top Italian leaders. Trips to West Germany and Britain will follow.
other nations have made no commitments.
The sources said the main points were the creation of a seaborne nuclear striking force within NATO that would be based on the Polaris missile.
THE TWO MEN outlined Kennedy's nuclear plan yesterday without any effort to push the allies, American sources said.
The missiles would be carried on surface vessels initially because of costs and then later possibly transferred entirely to nuclear submarines.
THE UNITED STATES would undertake to sell the missiles without nuclear warheads to NATO nations participating in the program, assign three nuclear submarines to the force in the near future, and place the force under control of an executive committee of the top NATO powers.
It was made clear, however, that the United States would retain a veto of the use of the missiles and that the President of the United States would say when they could be fired.
SIR EVELYN Shuckburgh, Britain's permanent NATO delegate, was reported to have told the closed council meeting his government agrees with the broad outlines of the plan.
A four or five member executive committee has been suggested.
But he was said to have made it plain Britain favors basing the Polaris force on submarines and giving control to a committee of 10 leading NATO nations.
French President Charles de Gaulle has rejected Kennedy's plan outright. He opposes European dependence on the United States and insists that France will build its own independent nuclear force.
Laird Views Soviet Farm Problem
Khrushchev is treading on dangerous territory when he suggests the Soviets might learn from American farm administrative practice, according to Roy D. Laird, professor of political science and specialist in Soviet agriculture at the University of Kansas.
These statements were made in a recent issue of "Your Government," published by the KU Governmental Research Center.
The efficiency of the individual American farmer's operation when compared to Soviet practice must be a function primarily of his own freedom of decision, Prof. Laird said.
Prof. Laird said the danger in Khrushchev's view is that the strength of U.S. agriculture lies primarily in the fact that crucial everyday decisions are made by individual farmers.
But Khruschev's philosophy "cannot allow him even to consider the possibility that freedom of individual initiative might be the prime cause for the greater productivity on the private plots."
Anything more than the "most abbreviated glimpse" as such Western practices may set into motion "the most significant post-Stalin
move away" from Communist totalitarian, Prof. Laird said.
Book Drive Set
The Interfraternity Pledge Council and the KU-Y will sponsor an "Asian Book Drive" on campus, March 1-8.
The object of the drive is to obtain books for use by college students in Asia. Especially desired are texts printed since 1945, and works by major authors.
Students wishing to donate old books may leave them in any library on the campus, or with any member of the KU-Y steering committee.
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