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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, December 8. 1976
Death claims noted figures in '76
By WARREN TODD
Along with the emergence of many new faces with their just blooming careers, there came in 1976 the end of many well-known people who had succeeded in making their place in history. These prominent names come from many different areas—politics, journalism, sports, music and films.
American political figures included Paul Douglas, who for 18 years was one of the Senate's most imaginative liberals; Howard Smith, a Southern Democrat, who presided over legal legislation his entire 38 years on the Hill, from the New Deal to the Great Society.
In the business world there came the death of two of its rich masters: Jean Pakey, an oil tycoon, and Howard Gershwin who hadn't been seen in public since 1988.
IN CHINA came the report of the death of Mao Tse-tung, chairman of the Communist Party and leader of the People's Republic of China since 1949. Chou En-lai, the Premier of China since the Communist victory, also died.
Other notable figures were Monroe Jackson Rathbone, former president of Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, who made "Jersey," as he called it, the most international of the oil companies, and Robert L. May, a Midwest adman, who sat down in the chair of the National groomry Ward and Co, and came up with the story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
IN FINE arts there were Kermit Bloomgarden, producer of such Broadway hits as "The Muscle Man" and "The Diary of a Broken Heart," screenwriter and one of the Hollywood Ten
who refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947; and Dame Agatha Christie, the prodigious mystery writer.
Also to be remembered are Jim Robinson, the gutsy Bourbon Street trombonist; Marjorie Main, the durable Hollywood comedienne best known as Ma Kettle; Salt Minneo, a writer who wrote theatrical plays he earned the nickname "The Switchblade Kid," from such roles as the psychotic youth in "Exodus"; and Paul Robeson, the superbly talented singer-actor, best known for his role in "Show Boat"; and Rosalind Russell, the superlative comediene-acactress.
MANY WILL RECALL the journalistic talents of Leonard Lyons, the Broadway columnist who chronicleled the murres of New York in 1928. Robert Bankhage, who announced the start
of World War II in a historic broadcast from Berlin; and Charles Gerry, the AP photographer whose picture of Lyndon B. Johnson lifting his pet beagle by the ears brought cries from animal lovers throughout the country.
Avoid sports fans will always recall these names: Earle Carle, the Hall of Fame centerfielder from the great years of the New York Yankees; Max Carey, former Pittsburgh Pirate and Brooklyn Dodger outfielder who stole a place in the Hall of Fame by swiping 738 bases in 20 years; and Thomas Austen with the beovelyly goodness of the Boston Red Sox. Another great athlete was Ernest A. Nevers, the thundering backfill at Stanford and an early star for the Duluth Eskimos and Chicago Cardinals. Nevers once scored 40 points in a single game, still a professional football record.
Celebration marked . . .
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American Bicentennial T-shirts. Munich sponsored an American style rodeo show with real live imported American Indians. The event included a competition in Friendship Week," and American flags were displayed throughout Austria. Orchestras all over Europe performed special concerts featuring the works of such artists as Toni Chan, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Sousa.
Shunners of the Bicentennial will be
But the British topped them all. They didn't turn up their British noses at the Bicentennial and did not hold a 200-year grudge.
happy to know that the London Times did
that this was mildly snappy in its
attitude toward men.
The story read, "Of course, if the 13 colonies had not rebelled, the world might have escaped a number of inflictions: the tea bag, the Klu Klux Klan, formula television, chewing gum, funeral habits, confected salad dressing, the phrase, 'Have a nice day,' bread like cotton wool, and second-hand auto salesmen."
But the same story also added, "We can be proud that no other nation, not even Imperial Rome, produced so great and nobile independent an offspring."
The faculty and staff of the Integrated Humanities Program extend to its students, friends, and benefactors--who are weak in number and mighty in distinction of mind--Christmas greetings:
May they live always in the presence of God
May they see themselves and all things under the aspect
of eternity
May they love the light
May their hearts leap up
May they choose something like a star
May they not neglect Minemosyne and her children May they remember home and filial piety May they forget themselves
May they be merry
May they be merry
May they be grave and bear their burdens
May they learn the wisdom of the turkey
May they refrain from newspapers and other forms
of iniquity
May they not backslide into the worship of Dame
Fortune, otherwise named Success
May the world be not too much with them
May they assail windmills
May they unto themselves say, this is my own my native
land
May they visit the aged, the sick, and the poor
May they pray
May they pray for us
May they be so good that God will hear their prayers
And as for our enemies:
May they learn to love their enemies.
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