Miami Hurricane, December 04, 1959

              Richter Gift Swells To $6 Million
WEEKEND
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Life Features Hicks Story
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How Publications Adviser Found Cartoonists Capp, Canifl
Interest W ill Be Used For Faculty Pay Hike
By SCOTT YATES
Last August, when the will of the late Otto Cl. Richter was probated, UM inherited what it thought to be about $3,000,000. This was the largest individual bequest in the University’s 33 years.
Last Saturday the executors of the estate took another ook, and came up with an even bigger figure—$6,000,000.
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After $100.000 in individual be-
? ; quests are paid out, the remain- !
, der of the Richter assets will bo j ¥ bequeathed to UM
Groups Out For Blood —Together
The first annual campus campaign for blood donauons will la-held in the Lower Lounge of the Student Union Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday it will move to the armory for ROTC donations.
In past years many groups have held separate drives This is the first time that all campus organizations will carry on the blood drive simultaneously
Honors must be between the ages of 1ft and 65 and must weigh at least 115 pounds. Anyone under 21 who wishes to give blood must pick up a form for parental approval at the Student Union Information Booth.
By BYRON SCOTT Nanican *m Uttar
"It's nice to know that after 25 years they still remember," said Wilson Hicks, supervisor of student publications, reclining in his chair.
He was speaking of the days 25 years ago when he gave two of Anverica’s top cartoonists their start in the bigtime And he was speaking of a six-page article in this week’s Ufe magazine in part authored by himself, and featuring Hicks and his two cartooning finds: A1 Capp. of “Li’l Abner" fame, and Milt Canifl. creator of "Steve Canyon" and "Terry and the Pirates"
Canifl. as Hicks remembers him. is “a stickler for details ... a producer of literate dialogue . . . the first cartoonist to bring glamor to comic strips.”
Although Hicks, then executive editor of the Associated Press Feature Service, had been warned that young Canifl was "a splendid artist, but temperamental.” he was im-
to Boston and "dre w his heart out." Six months later, Capp was hack on the AP art staff
"Capp began with an offbeat. wild idea.” Hirks recalled, “and he's never let up on it." Capp currently grosses more than $256.000 a year.
Capp. on the other hand, does not remember Editor Wilson Hicks as a sage adviser, hut as a "splendidly vested man in a shirtsleeve world " Contrary to the Life illustration (see cut), Hicks says "those were the days of vests . and mine were always conservative."
Hicks kept wearing his vest and soon became executive editor of Life.
THE IDEA for the article lauding the two artists’ silver jubilees was thought up by them last year The article itself was liegun last June when Life staffers and Hicks, Capp and Caniff met in New York to discuss the idea
The culmination is in this week's Life, with the renter article carrying the byline “by Wilson Hicks "
Unfortunately, the University won’t he able to get its hands on the six million in one
Since most of the money is invested in stocks and bonds, the University will receive only the annual dividends accumulated during the year — an estimated *160.000
At present, the Richter estate is being administered by Security Trust Co. and Thomas R. Reese, UM vice president in charge of University development.
Sustaining Fund Jumps Fifty Pet.
Gifts to UM’s Sustaining Foundation for the first 11 months of 1959 have hit $92,354. a .50 per cent increase over last year’s total.
Members of the foundation are
business groups and individuals who pledge a minimum of $250 support each year to the University. The fund is used to meet current expenses.
t A spokesman for the-Citizens ! Board, which promotes the foundation. called the record increase “a good sign for the University/’
President of the Citizens Board is Rov A Perry, local hanking j executive.
Sigma Nu Pulling Big Snow Job
A snowstorm is predicted for the Sigma Nu fraternity house tomorrow night—and the public is invited
At 5 p m. an ice truck will | cover the front lawn of the house with $100 worth of finely chipped
I Ice.
Then, about 8 pm , during the fraternity’s annual Christmas party, snowball fights and bellv-whopping cont.sts will break out Everyone is invited to participate
“Sigma Nu's got enough snow for everybody,” said A1 "Abominable Snowman" Kraiger of his fratrrnity’s project.
The man who wrote the highly controversial book, “On the Natural Superiority of Women," will speak Monday at the second of this semester's lecture series The scries is jointly sponsored hy Delta Theta Mu, Arts anil Sciences honorary, and the Under-. graduate Association
Dr Ashley Monague, world-; lamou- anthrof iligist and social i biologist, will speak on "Myths, Monkeys and Men.”
The lecture, open to all students and faculty members free of charge, will be at 3:30 Monday afternoon in the Beaumont Lecture Hall.
Tickets may be obtained by presenting a UM ID card at the Student Union Information Desk or at the College of Arts and Sciences office in the Ashe Building.
BK. MONAGUE is well known for his work in the area of race relations. He has written "Man’s Most Dangerous Myth, The Fallacy of Race.”
Two other lectures have been scheduled so far. On Jan 15, Dr J B Rhine of the Duke University Parapsychology Department will speak on “Extra-Sensory Perception: What Sense Can Be Made of It?"
And in March, Or. Arthur
Bcstor, University of Illinois historian, will speak on "The Intellectual Struggle for Men’s
Minds.”
First speaker of the series was former United States Senator from Florida, Claude Pepper, who spoke on Red China
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All students are invited to a public sketching session in Room 111 of the Arts Building tonight from 8 to 10 o'clock A life model will pose for the student artists. Admission is 50 cents.
We Were Left In The Cold
The John Elliott Blood Bank, which administers the University’s accounts, will have facilities (o take care of 200 donors a day. , Contributors may specify that the blood they donate go into any of four divisions:
Fraternity - sorority: general University fund (faculty and w staff personnel), general student fund and the ROTC combination Army and Air Force fund.
FACULTY WIVES, members of the University Women's Club, under the direction of Mrs. E. J. Moulton, will assist the Blood Bank personnel in keeping records. scheduling appointments and providing donors with orange juice and coffee
Supervised by Dr. M. Eugene Flipse, director of the UM
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IHE TEMPERA TURF, in Jacksonville dived -and with it went the hopes of UM cheerleader l\nn Vinocur The full story of the
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football game with Florida is in pictures and words Pages 0. |6 A color story from two writers’ angles also is on Page I ft
pressed by his talent and personal appearance and hired him.
CANIFF. now with 50 million daily readers and working for the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate. remembers Hicks as the man who lent him $25 eating money during the lean Depression years. The face of his ben-
efactor. however, he remembers "less clearly "
The man who now advises aspiring UM journalists was impressed by Capp's "completely different, irreverent, ribald" style However, the “earnest young executive," as Hicks terms himself, advised "Alfred G Caplin" to go home
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HI t Al l IM; IIIUKS. Capp (Icftl remembers editor as splendidly vested man, while Caniff (right) remembers the face less clearly than the $25 in eating money that Editor Hicks lent him
The grant will be used to hike faculty salaries, according to Eugene E Cohen, UM vite president and treasurer.
"The money will be placed in an endowment fund," said Co- j hen, "and spread out among the
University's instructors."
Richter, who came to Miami 20 years ago from Pittsburgh, amassed a nine-millon-dollar | fortune in stocks and bonds, lie died early this year.
DR. ASHI EY MON AGUE
Ih Knows Women, Too
Man, Myths n Monkeys In Lecture