Opening Sunday for Kansas University Art Museum exhibit
The KU Art Museum will open its final major show of the year, Centennial Exhibition, this Sunday and run through Aug. 7. It features Kansiensiana art themed around Kansas past, with works in painting sculpture and decorative arts. New director Marilyn Stokstad, a specialist in Spanish medieval art, attends the opening along with curator Gerald Bernstein. The exhibit also includes gifts such as a Bierstadt painting funded by Charles V. Kincaid and a Fountain Court funded by A. B. Weaver and family. Regular summer hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and 1:30 to 5 p.m. Sundays.
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Kansas University Art Museum
Kansas
Marilyn Stokstad
Edward A. Maser
Stokstad
Santiago de Compostella
Dr. Maser
Albert Bierstadt
Charles V. Kincaid
Kansas Board of Regents
Maser
A. B. Weaver
Lawrence
Arthur D. Weaver
Colorado
Gerald S. Bernstein
KU Art Museum
Trujillos Liked This Area And Some Have Lived Here
AP reports the Trujillos of the Dominican Republic visited Kansas City and Missouri in the past six years. Rafael Trujillo came to Kansas City in 1955 for his daughter’s medical care while his son studied at Fort Leavenworth. The visits sparked lavish parties and criticism in Congress over U S aid to the Dominican Republic.
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Kansas City
Dominican Republic
Kansas
Missouri
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Jr
Com
Trujillos
Harry S. Truman
Washington
French Generals Sentenced to Fifteen Years in Mutiny Case
Paris reports on Maurice Challe and Andre Zeller each receiving 15 years for leading the Foreign Legion mutiny in Algeria two months earlier. The nine-member court spared them the death penalty, despite prosecution seeking life terms, as de Gaulle maintains power over potential clemency. Raoul Salan and Edmond Jouhaud remain at large.
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Paris
Foreign Legion
Algeria
Maurice Challe
Andre Zeller
Charles de Gaulle
Challe
Central
Europe
Zeller
de Gaulle
Polce
Algiers
Raoul Salan
Edmond Jouhaud
France
Ne Gaulle
Singer Helen OConnell seeks child support boost
Singer Helen OConnell filed a petition in Santa Monica asking a court to raise child support for her three children from Clifford Smith Jr. from 450 to 4000 dollars monthly. The petition was filed Wednesday and cites Smith as a Boston investment fortune heir.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Helen O'Connell
Clifford Smith Jr
Boston
Pacifist marchers set for Moscow from New York
Thirteen U.S. pacifists from Kansas, Missouri and elsewhere depart Manhattan on foot toward Idlewild Airport aiming to fly to Moscow for a 6500 mile nonviolent march on the Soviet capital. Members of the Committee for Non-Violent Action plan to cross Iron Curtain borders if needed without visas, as civil disobedience. The trek began six months ago in San Francisco and included stops in Lawrence, Wichita, Topeka, and Kansas City.
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New York
U. S
Kansas
Missouri
Manhattan
Idlewild
Moscow
Committee For Non-Violent Action
Russia
Iron Curtain
San Francisco
Lawrence
Wichita
Topeka
Kansas City
Prospects Good On Atomic Waste Storage At State Mine
Hutchinson Kansas AP scientists from Union Carbide and Oak Ridge tested two years at Carey Salt Co mine near Hutchinson. They used simulated radioactive solutions to gauge heat in containment and predict temperatures. Further work with actual wastes will start in 1962 at Carey mine near Lyons to study solid forms from liquids.
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Hutchinson, Kan
Carey Salt Co
Hutchinson
Union Carbide Corp
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Atomic Energy Commission
Edward G. Struxness
Oak Ridge Laboratory
Struxness
Carey Mine
Lyons
Boy Drowns in Water Bucket Accident
Jackson Tennessee AP reports a one year old boy named James Anthony Eaton drowned after falling head first into a five gallon water bucket on his parents back porch during a Wednesday incident.
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Jackson, Tenn
James Anthony Eaton
Irish Playwright Held For Disturbing Peace in Hollywood
Hollywood AP report says 38 year old Irish playwright Brendan Behan was picked up at McGeo's Pizza Restaurant after manager Jerry Brentani refused service. Behan allegedly swore and acted disorderly, swung at a patrolman but missed, and was placed in an isolation cell at police headquarters.
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Hollywood
Brendan Behan
Behan
McGeo’s
Jerry Brentani
Brentari
Charles Brewer
Brewer
Hailstorm damages cars and farms near Goodland area
Hail stones up to three inches in diameter damaged cars and broke farm house windows in a three to five mile wide by ten mile long area ten miles southwest of Goodland Kansas. A tornado was sighted seven miles south of Kanorado near the Colorado line but caused no damage.
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Goodland
Kan
Kanorado
Colorado-Kansas Line
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Dimite
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Brothers Hardware
Journal-World
CROWN
Photo Satie
POLE
Cé&H
Alka Seltzer
Wis
Tucey
CHOCK
Sink Lipsta
P.S
Mennen Baby
Menthel
Case Sale
Toni
McCall’s
McCall's
Ian
TCD
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