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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1961
NO. 44
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Jewish Professor To Discuss Scroll
DR. YIGAEL YADIN
. . . archeology professor
Debate Team Will Compete In Fresno Tilt
Trojan speakers will aim. for their tenth consecutive sweepstakes award when they travel to Fresno this weekend to compete in the annual Western States Speech Tournament.
A leading contender for honors again this year is Boyd Lemon, who brought home three first place awards last year in debaie, impromptu and extemporaneous speaking. Two other returning winners include Lacy Sparks and Bron-wyn Anthony. They took seccnd place honors last year in debate.
Promising Team
Another promising team representing USC is that of Chuck Marson and John Deacon, who took first place honors in the annual Southwest Speech Tournament last spring.
Entries in senior level debate competition include the teams of Ned Taylor-Ken Moes and Mike Thorpe-Boyd Lemon. Miss Sparks and Miss Anthony will compete in senior women's debate and debaters in junior level competition will be Deacon and Marson.
Entering contests in oratory are Deacon, Thorpe, Linda Frye and Sharon Kathol. Entries n extemporaneous speaking will include Lemon, Taylor, Miss Anthony, Miss Sparks and Marson, who will also compete in the impromptu division.
Interpretative
Representing USC in contests in interpretative reading will be Deacon, Miss Frye and Miss Kathol.
USC's Director of Forensics James H. McBath and assistant varsity director John Fraser will travel with the teams.
The Western States Tournament will be the first major regional competition this season, Dr. McBath reported.
The De^d Sea Scrolls and writings of an ancient Jewish leader will be topics of a public address by Yigael Yadin, i professor of archeology at He-I brew University in Jerusaleum, Sunday at 3 p.m. in 229 FH.
I Tne lecture, "The Dead Sea Scrolls and The Bar Kochba Letters,’’ is being co-sponsored jby the Graduate School of Religion and the American ! Friends of the Hebrew Univer-j sity.
Professor Yadin, former chief of staff of the Israeli defense forces, is regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The scrolls were discovered by Professor Yadin’s father, the late Prof. Eleazer Sukenik, who brought them to the attention of the world.
Judean Caves
Currently, Professor Yadin is engaged, with a number of other archeologists, in explorations of the Judean Desert I caves.
I The diggings have yielded I many historically valuable dis-j coveries to date, including documents, coins and household | items.
At a recent news conference, Professor Yadin described the new find as a collection of legal documents relating to a group of Judean refugees who had fled to the caves after Pvoman Emperor Hadrian’s forces crushed a three-and-a-half-year revolt led by Israeli Prince Bar Kochba in 135 AD.
Legendary Man
“These documents actually established the existence of Bar Kochba, a legendary figure of Jewish history whose existence has been questioned,” he said. “They establish that the Bar Kochba rebellion was not just political, it was also religious.”
He added that 64 documents, including two Bible fragments found recently in a cliff-side cave near the Dead Sea in Israel, made no mention of Jesus ior the early Christian church, although the documents dated from 88 to 135 AD. Professor Yadin said he found the omission “strange.”
Tells of Scrolls
He authored “The Message of the Scrolls,” which was published in 1957. In the w-ork Professor Yadin recounts his role in securing four of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which together with the three others are now at the Hebrew University.
He is co-author with Hebrew University archeologist Dr. Na-iham Avigad of “A Genesis Apooryphon,” a work based on research cn the “Seventh” Dead ■Sea Scroll.
During the Arab attack on Israel in 1948, he was appointed chief of operations and played a key role in creating the Defense Army of the new state. Later he was given his own command and directed an attack against the Egyptians
Daily Trojan Best Worst, To Take 'Five' Critic Claims
Of Production
The Daily Trojan will only be published Monday and Tuesday next week due to the Thanksgiving vacation, Editor Barbara Epstein said yesterday.
Campus organizations planning events for the remainder of the week were reminded to bring information of their activity’ to the Daily Trojan City Room, 432 SU, today or Monday before 2 p.m.
Publication of the student newspaper will resume on Tuesday, Nov. 28.
Accountants, Teacher Win Cash Awards
By KEN HORN
The “Best - of - All Time” proved to be just about the worst of all time as USC drama student William Dau-phine's original one-act play hit j the beards at Stop Gap theater with a dull thud last night. The play was offered on a triple : bill with "The Browning Ver-jsion” by Terence Rattigan and I “Red Peppers” by Noel Co-i ward.
j The “Best-of-All Time” deals with what love is and where it can be found. It proved to be an inadequate but well-acted attempt at drawing room melodrama.
Wayward Wife
Janie, the wayward wife who has left home on Christmas
Homecoming Group Holds Closed Caucus
Body Refuses Entry On Chairman Vote
Eve because she is tired of her
Five accounting students and husband’ is adePlly Portrayed one assistant professor received Pogo Peiotti. awards last night at the annual j The “Best - of - All Time ’ Beta Alpha Psi honors dinner sounded as if Carleton Morse in Town and Gown Hall.
The awards, ranging from $100 to SI,000, were presented by firms in the Los Angeles area at the accounting fraternity’s dinner.
A $100 American Women Accountant Award was presented to Gwen Olson. Senior accounting student Courtland Johnson received a S500 Arthur Young scholarship, and the §500 Haskins and Sells Student Award went to David Hodgkinson, junior accounting major.
$500 Grant
Price Waterhouse & Co. awarded $300 to Joseph Mona-ly. The grant is given to an accounting major selected from the top five students of the past semester’s Junior Gass.
Swedish student Rune Pearson, senior, received a $500 Ly-brand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery award. - ■—
The Haskins and Sells Faculty Assistance Award of $1,000 was given to Charles Purdy, assistant professor of accounting.
The accounting department of the School of Business Administration received a $2,000 TROBAB grant to be used in research, and an additional $500 grant to be used for general purposes at the meeting.
Diuner Talks
Principal speakers at the dinner were USC alumni William Miller, from Price Waterhouse & Co., and Robert Sandison, from Arthur Anderson and Co.
Dinner guests included faculty members and students from Compton, East Los Angeles and Fullerton junior colleges and from Long Beach, Los Angeles and Pasadena City Colleges.
Firms sponsoring the dinner include Arthur Anderson &
Co.; Arthur Young and Co.;
Haskins and Sells; Price Waterhouse and Co.; and Peat,
Marwick, Mitchell and Co.
Other firms were Lybrand,
Ross Brothers and Montgomery; Ernest and Ernest; and Tourhe, Ross, Baily and Smart.
1960 USC Music Student Premieres Work in Boston
COMPOSER—1960 USC music graduate Michael Fink (sitting) is shewn discussing his choral work, which was inspired by a quotation from Revelations with two associates. The wcrk premiered last night in Boston.
A choral work by 1960 USC graduate Michael Fink received its world premiere last night in Boston’s Jordan Hall. It wras performed by The New England Conservatory Tour Chorus, directed b y Lorna Cooke deVaron.
Fink, who is a candidate for the MA degree in composition at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston studied at USC under Profes sors Ernest Kanitz, Halsey Stevens and Ingolf Dahl.
While a student here, Fink held the Alehin Scholarship Award and wrote the choralc ode settings and background music for a production of Euripides’ “Medea" which received a trophy from the National Collegiate Players.
The student composer's work presented at the premiere war “Septem Angeli” for chorus, celesta, strings and piano. It wa^ inspired by a quote from Revelations describing the last judgment, quoted in Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal.”
“The music proceeds in great blocks of sound,” Fink explain-e d. “The instrumentation is used primarily percussively.”
was consulted as a dialogue director. The constant repetition of lines to make sure not a word was missed, failed in the long run and proved to be more tiresome than helpful.
During most of the 20 minutes the production was on stage, one was overwhelmed with the impression that things in the Packard family were once much better than at present and that the truly “good old times” really did exist.
Big Problem
The Packard family to whom Janie has run with her problem and her children were portrayed with sometimes strong, sometimes weak emotion. It is safe to say they came across with exactly what they were — unsatisfactory. Bruce Johnson played a strong Mr. Packard and Penny Stur-ges, a competent Mrs. Pack-
It might be good for William Dauphine to look once more at what he has done and ask himself the question that Goethe once asked, “Was it worth doing?”
Triple Bill
As part of the Drama department's second triple bill of one acts at Step Gap, Terence Rattigan’s “The Browning Version” was presented with command performances by Murray Rose, Marsha Moode and Gordon Hcban as Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Crocker-Harris and the student, John Taplow.
Rounding out the fare was Noel Coward’s “Red Peppers,” with adequate performances by David Ackles, Kitty Farren and Robert Bilheller.
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Engineers Will Attend Celebration
More than 250 School of Engineering graduates are expected to return to campus for their annual Homecoming banquet in the Foyer of Town and Gown this evening at 7.
President Topping will speak on “Some Notions on Higher Education and the Engineer,” and a film on the Master Plan will be shown at the banquet.
Dean Alfred C. Ingersoll of the Engineering School, will give details to the alumni, group on the $2.2 million gift for construction of Olin Hall of Engineering from the Olin Foundation. Construction o f the building is expected to begin early next year.
The new building — which
will house electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering classrooms and laboratories, a library, the Engineering Center and an auditorium — will rise on the east side of Mc-Clintock Ave. between W. 36th Place and W. 37th St.
Graduate Douglas Bothwell will preside at the dinner, at which officers of the Engineering Alumni Association will be elected.
Los Angeles businessman Howard Pyle, who heads the Engineering School’s board of councilors now being formed, will introduce members of the new group.
Richard Farr, president of Archimedes Circie, a support group being established for the School of Engineering, will introduce members of the organization.
Daily Trojan Photo by Frank L. Kaplan CINEMA CRITIC — Saturday Review film critic Arthur Knight (I) is shown donating the manuscript of his latest bock, “The Liveliest Art," to Doheny Library. Maynard Smith of the USC cinema department looks cn.
Film Critic Raps Movie Technique
By DAN SMITH
Modernized methods of film production give the motion pictures of today an assembly line appearance, cinema professor and film critic Artnur Knight said yesterday.
Knight, associate professor of cinema and reveiwer for the Saturday Review, noted at the public presentation of the manuscript of his book “The Liveliest Art,” to Doheny Library that new production policies have dampened the creativity of the industry.
Referring to a section of the manuscript deleted from the published edition that appeared in 1957, Knight said that the film industry had experienced a transition from originality to conformity.
“There was a time between the birth of the motion picture and the beginning of the 1950s when you could tell from just watching and listening to a film what studio it was from,’ Knight said.
He explained that this “corporate entity” has been lost t o assembly line technique which makes a film look t’o.e same as the one before it. Even the actors remain the same from picture to picture, he said.
Knight stresses in ’ his book that the motion picture is essentially an art form with its own laws and fulfillments. He said that its quick development and immediate acceptance have been responsible for the failure of many to recognize it as an art form at all.
Knight wrote the first draft of “The Liveliest Art’’ without notes while in Switzerland. It took three years of revision and documentation before it was published by MacMillan. A year and a half later it was put out in pocket book form by Mentor.
“I feel it appropriate that
the manuscript end up here at USC where cinema is taught as an art and approached with creativity,” Knight said as he presented his work to Dr. Lewis Stieg, university librarian.
The film critic first came to USC for a six - week summer session in 1960 and has remained ever since.
He has been a Saturday Review film critic for 11 years and has contributed articles to many other magazines. He wras recently appointed curator of film for the new Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum.
By HAL DRAKE
Two students were reported chosen chairmen of next year’s Homecoming yesterday by a secret vote of the Homecoming Committee during a restricted afternoon session.
A Daily Trojan reporter was ejected from the
meeting as a vote supposedly electing Bob Frinier and Wendy Beshonden to the committee positions was taken.
Earlier, Bob Sangster, head of the student activities department that supervises the Homecoming Committee tolu the Daily Trojan that the meeting was not open for public attendance.
No Reason
Sangster gave no reason for the closed meeting, and ASSC President Hugh Helm said upon inquiry that he was "surprised” at the apparent secrecy.
Helm was one of four ASSC leaders who responded to a Daily Trojan editorial earLer in the year that called for a campus “Brown Act” to guarantee the public’s right to attend student government meetings.
Helm and the other student officers said that student committees do not conduct closed meetings, meaning that enactment of such legislation would be aimed at unofficial underground political organizations and would be unenforceable."
Yesterday Helm opposed the practice of closed meetings by student committees.
Open Meeting*
“I feel that any meeting held by a student activity organiza-
to the public,” the student leader said. “In cases where large masses of people would be ineffective, it should be open to a representative of the people.”
“In many cases, this shoild be the press,” Helm claimed.
A representative of the Homecoming Committee said following the meeting that the function was not closed to spectators except during voting and that Department Head Sangster had spoken “without any authority but his own.” The spokesman failed to indicate why voting had to be conducted in secret.
Routine Critique A report of the committee’s actions released by the spokesman claimed that the session was held for a routine critique of the recent Homecoming activities and had as a purpose the development of suggestions for improvements in next year's festivities.
ASSC President Helm spoke at the session, presumably to recap the suggestions for improvement made during Tuesdays’ Executive Cabinet meeting.
The cabinet members complimented the various Homecoming - committees at the Tuesday meeting.
Researcher Awaits Help On Ice Floe
USC biologist Donald Robinson is one of 11 men waiting on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean for an Air Force rescue squad scheduled to pick them up at daylight today.
Robinson, an employe of the biology department’s arctic marine biology research project, was stranded on the floe when an R4D Navy transport carrying the 11 men was forced down when its fuel line reportedly became fouled by contaminated fuel.
Forced Landing
The scientists were forced to land 30 miles south of their takeoff point, U.S. ice island research station Arlis II. which is presently located about 300 miles north of Russian-owned Wrangell Island, according to United Press International.
The plane was en route to Point Barrow, Alaska, America’s northermost settlement, to return some of the scientific research personnel to the mainland. — - -Robinson, the first Negro tion or group should be open marine biologist to be stationed
on an American drift station near the North Pole, has worked for the USC project more than a year.
Reiiearch Director
The university has conducted Arctic marine biological research for the past 10 years under the direction of Dr. John L Mohr, head of the department of biology.
Also on the flight was Max C. Brewer, director of the Arctic Research Laboratory at Point Barrow, who was on campus visiting the biology department a little more than a year ago. -
A spokesman for the Air Force said no one was injured in the forced landing and the ski-equipped plane is intact. He said the search plan which located the men dropped an additional survival package, but has decided not to risk picking up the men in complete darkness.
Twilight Zone
At this time of year, there is only a twilight between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the area.
The plane, on loan to the laboratory from the Navy, had left the ice station at 4 p.m. AST yesterday carrying six hours of fuel for the four-hour flight.
Visitor Sees Speaker Row
By JERRY WILCOX |old House Democratic leader Sam Rayburn’s death may from Massachusetts who has result in a serious struggle for been most frequently mention-the Speaker of the House post, !ed to succeed Rayburn, a visiting Syracuse University J “Kennedy and McCormack political science professor pre- arg 0j^ Massachusetts political dieted yesterday.	foes,” the professor noted. “And
‘Rep. John McCormack, w ho • McCormack, who was instru-is Rayburns heir-appaient, and mentaj jn defeating the Presi-President Kennedy lepiesent cjent-s propoSed legislation on opposing factions of the Demo- federaj aid to education, may cratic party, Dr. Fred Krinsky jwan^ to bjock other Kennedy explained. “Since the President programs/» has considerable influence in i
the selection of the Speaker, i Dr. Krinsky s opinion has there mav be quite a fight for been shared by a number of po-the position.” '	j litical analysts. Leon Burnett,
“The Speaker is the Presi- j writing for United Press Interdent’s chief lieutenant in the national, reported that McCor-House and Kennedy will want mack is not the most popular someone who agrees closely man in the House, but pre-with his policies,” Dr. Krinsky j dieted his colleagues will elect saj(j	jhim in January to succeed Ray-
“Rep. Richard Bolling from burn.
Missouri seems to be Kennedy’s! “There is no doubt that Ken-choice, but McCormack is a nedy’s legislative program will powerful man in the House and suffer from the change in has a lot of support for the of- leadership,” Burnett wrote, fice,” he added.	! “The House nowadays is far
McCormack is the 69-year- more conservative than the
Senate, and neither McCor- j Roosevelt, Vice President Lyn-
don Johnson, Richard Nixon, e.v-GOP Speaker Joe Martin,
House Republication Leader
C.iarles Haileck. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.
The 79-year-old Texan died at 4:20 a.m. PST yesterday, marking an end to an unprece-a~j dented career as Speaker of the House. He served for nearly half a century under eight different Presidents.
iaybum, who had been ill with cancer for several months died “a very easy death for a very great man,’’ according to his doctor.
Rayburn’s physician. Dr. A. Riser, said the Speaker “showed no evidence of pain lines in mind and heart identified (his face when he died." with the ordinary citizen.”	Rayburn died in Ri.sser Hos-
Other prominent figures who pit al in his home town in Bon-voie’ed similar reactions in- ham, Texas, where he had been eluded former F*residents Tru- moved on Oct. 31 from Bay lor man and Hoover, Mrs. Eleanor. University.
mack nor any other possible successor could wield the power Rayburn had.”
While speculation continued over Rayburn’s successor, voices from both political parties joined to mourn yesterday’s deat£ of “Mr. Sam.”
President Kennedy said, “I had a singular opportunity as a young Congressman, more recently as President, to! appreciate h i s temperament and his character. Both were bedded in rock and remained unchanged by circumstance.”
Former President Eisenhower called Rayburn “a forceful leader who was fair-minded and deeply versed in public affairs, respected by both parties, accustomed to distinction, yet