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i housed the newspaper and the yearbook offices. and the

i only real ruckus was a week!
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Sydney J. Harris to Be Speaker
For SDX-iheta Sig Matrix Table

N a t i o n ally
syndicated col
umnist Sydne
J. Harris will
be the featured
speaker at th

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next Thursday HARRIS
night in the Private Dining
Room. He will explain ”The
Perils of a Columnist” to a se-
lect group of students and
guests interested in journalism.

Harris first achieved national
recognition through his syndi-
cated column ‘Strictly Person-
al" which Originated in 1944
from the Chicago Daily News
and is now distributed to over
100 newspapers throughout the
.U. S. and Canada through the
Publishers Newspapers Syndi-
cote.

In addition to producing a
’daily column, Harris is the
author of three books, ‘Strictly
Personal," “Majority of One,”
"Last

.widely Sought lecturer at col-
leges and universities across
the country.

Harris joined the staff of the
Chicago Daily News in 1941 as
a reporter and feature writer
after receiving a B. A. in Phil-
osophy from the University of
Chicago and working for a few
years at a number of journal-
ism jobs. He published his own
magazine, “The Beacon," a
news-andvopinion journal for
the Middle West for a year
prior to joining the Daily
News.

Described by Time Magazine
early in his career as “the
most-quoted newsman in Chi-
cago," Harris has won a num-
ber of journalism prizes includ-

Things First," and a'

ing the first “Page One"
Award, annually presented by
the Chicago Newspaper Guild,
and the Friends of Literature
”Ferguson Award" for the
best column,

In 1945, Harris became drama

crltic for the Chicago Daily
News with a special theater
column appearing each Saturv
day in addition to regular
drama reviews. In 1946 he was
appointed an instructor in the
Great Books at the University
of Chicago’s Downtown Col-
lege.
I Married and the father of
lfive Children. Harris describes
his hobbies as “tennis, chess,
piagiarizing gre at thoughts
from dead authors, and playing
cutthroat bridge with men
only."

l‘Thirteen Freshmen
Named to Hermits

Thirteen freshmen men who

maintained a high scholastic
average their first semester at
Grinnell have been selected to
join Hermits. This announce-
ment came from Curt Lamb,
president of Friars.
The thirteen are
Ablett, Arthur Arnold, Nor-
dahl Brue, Timothy Dailey,
Donald Gregory, William
Hughes, David Hume, Gregory
Robinson, Charles Schnell,
Richard Schoenfeldt, Stephen

Shender, John Uhlemann, and
Dan Bucks.

Charles

King Will Give Sermon
Winston King (rel.) will give
the sermon in Herrick Chapel

Sunday, May in. His topic will
be “You Are the Man!"

 

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Freedman-Directed Play Set For
Arena Stage Showings Tomorrow

By Ann Showalter

Senior Ken Freedman will
present “The World of Sholom
Aleichem,” by Arnold Perl t0-
morrow night at 8 and Sunday
at 2:34] and 8 pm,

A trilogy dealing with .the
oppression of the Jews and util-
izing Jewish folklore, the play
increases in intensity as it pro-
gresses.

The first drama, “A Tale of
Shelm.” is a “gay, bouncy sort
of thing,” according to Freed-
man. “Though an undercurrent
of humanity and sadness runs
through it, it tends to laugh
away oppression.”

A tone of “gentle criticism"
pervades “Eontche Schweig,"
a drama» of a soul on trial in
heaven. Freedman stated, “In
this second stage of the trilogy
We see that not only does the
Che to be created, but it does

Applications Open
For Fall Semester
AP, UPI Interns

Applications for the second
internships with the Des Moines
bureau of the Associated Press
and United Press International
are now being accepted, 0, Ed-
win Gilmour and Herbert Pres-
cott announced this week,

Under a three-year grant
from the Falk Foundation, four
students are accepted each
semester and are assigned to a
veteran political reporter cov-
ering the State House, the gov-
ernor's press conference and
activities, . the State headquar-
ters of the two political parties
and the State Legislature.

The internships are not con-
fined to political science ma-
jors, but are open to students
with a demonstrated interest
in either political science or
journalism or, preferably, both,
This semester’s interns were
John Black, John TePaske, Da-
vid Baetz, and James Herzog.

Interested students should
submit applications in writing
at once and be interviewed by
Mr, Gilmour or Mr. Prescott.
who direct the program. The
deadline is the 15th, The intern-
ship may be used for independ-
ent Project credit or a cash
award. Transportation is pro-
vided. Each student works in
Des Moines two mornings a
week.

 

cho to be cerated, but it does
not realize that it nourishes
such people.” "Bontche is a
good guy,” he added The
words of the angel for the de-
fense extend the gently critical
tone,

The third part of the trilogy,
”The High School,” is a direct
statement against the oppres-
sion of the Jews. Freedman bee
lieves it deals not only with the
Jewish problem, but with prob—
lems that confront all human-
ity,

“The theme is universal; it
treats the essence of the prob-
lem rather than the outward
manifestations,” the director
stated.

Freedman has undertaken
the direction of the trilogy as
his Senior Independent Project“
The production is also an inde-
pendent project for junior Judy
Pearson,
lights, props, set, costumes and
makeup.

“This play is a challenge to
director and actors. It is really
three plays with three different
moods and most of the mem-

* A *

She is handling the'

 

bers of the. cast are in all of
them," said Freedman. “The
d; :or must help the actors to
develop different styles to
achieve the various moods,"
Among the principals in the
cast of nineteen are James F.
Frank, Dennis Rich, Tanya Ho-
vanessian, Phil Bern tein.
Bruce McConachie, William
Grenzebach, David Scott, Gail
Zivin, and Michael Arnow.

Semester Schedule
Change Announced

The following changes in
class schedules have ‘ been
made for next year: there will
be a Group 7 at nine, Mon.
Wed. Fri.: the fine arts lectures
have been moved to 11:00
Thursday; the Humanities lec-
Lure has been moved to 9:00
Friday; the first semester wrl -
ing lab has been moved to 9:00
Wednesday and chapel has
been moved to 7:30 pm). Wed-
nesday, The float of Group I»
will be 1:00 Thursday.

* * ‘1'

Mike Arnow and Gail Zlvin are shown above in final dress
rehearsals for this week-end's dramatic performances in
Arena Theatre. The play is part of an independent theatre
project for senior Ken Freedman.

 

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