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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1940
Page
2
Second night performance of Abe Lincoln In Illinois proves popular with college crowds. strong Moulton portrayal and solid supporting cast sustain interest through 42 rapid scene changes. University theater production praised for staging and overall execution.
Dean Manchester continues to write his Saturday letters to 2,600 recipients, including 800 beyond Kent State, delivering essays on freshmen and ideals and even poetry. Tony Weitzel challenges him in a public debate, while Manchester defends his prolific, widely read musings and references to education texts and children’s verse.
A reader urges Jules Bognar to detail arrangers and players in records like Tommy Dorsey’s Another One of Them Things. The letter proposes a campus swing listening group, excludes genre pests, and supports organized appreciation of Olivers swing classics.
The Daily Cardinal at the University of Wisconsin notes a satirical moment in a political science class about the 1920 Republican convention. The lecturer jokes that you cannot sue a party or a symbolic elephant and finally quips that the target would be Yehudi the pianist.
The Kent Stater is published four times weekly on Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday during the academic term with summer publication weekly. It is issued as second class matter at Kent Ohio post office and printed by P B Bonsall Printing Co. Editors include Betty Crampton Jules Bognar and Gus Chigges with Lindy Barch as sports editor and Bob Kenyon as business manager.
Bob Kenyon and Earl Vacaria survey a busy set of campus musings and hometown gossip. The column names Yale transfer Lennie Bowman, a Duchess debut in California humor mags, romance and party chatter at NTFC, and various local personalities amid holiday chatter and a premiere of the Pork Barrel.
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