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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1949
Page
2
A campus fashion survey mockingly assigns outfits to students by majors. Dramatic speech majors wear knee-length jackets with strong shoulders, while English majors carry book bags and horn-rimmed glasses. The piece concludes that distinguishing students from professors is nearly impossible.
Gloria Donnelly reports on campus pranks and antics across Ohio universities. Wittenberg in Springfield proclaims April 1 to 8 as Leave Us Alone week while Akron U engineers celebrate by cannons and mischief. At Pitt a DJ arrives with a police escort to a junior tea dance, reversing old norms. Eugene V. McPherson vows a cross country bike trip from Los Angeles to New York in 20 to 21 days.
Big news from the record department notes price cuts for Columbia 10 inch popular discs to 60 cents and Masterworks to 85 cents. Columbia unveils a Micro-Certer enabling 78 rpm players to hear the 33 1/3 rpm disc on offer.
An ironic survey lists brands and rituals in a spoof of mass consumer ads. The narrator mentions Ovaltine, Seeley mattress, Blue Jay gear, Sears dentures, Pepsodent, Schick blades, Lifebuoy, Camay Lux, Palmolive, Luxies, Lucky Strike, Mayo Clinic, Camel, Kools, and a folding car marketed as different.
Kent State maintenance crews operate in a dim tunnel under Kent Hall housing supply, machine, carpentry, and plumbing shops. C L McKay runs the machine shop overseeing door and window work and the 62 foot observation tower built from surplus shell casing metal. Rev Wizner leads carpentry with assistant Richard Gray while blinds are repaired by Sfil Bohning. Plumbers Ken Smith Charlie Zabrucki and Lou Ward handle steam and pipe fitting as crews manage miles of pipe and ongoing repairs.
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