Pa fro 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, January 17, 1963
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Have You Heard The Latest Joke About Kenned
By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON (#)—Once up-
AP Newsfeatures Editor on a time, a comedian pranced
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out and peddled his jokes, not
one of which dealt with Presi
dent Kennedy or his bustling
family.
That was long ago.
Since John F. Kennedy moved
into the White House, he and
his relatives have been imitated
more, cartooned more and joked
about more than any other pres
idential family in history.
A man in the entertainment
business points out that the pro
fessionals are simply following
a national trend.
“You don’t have to be a com
edian to understand this,” he
says. “Get into an airplane, or
just stand on a street corner, and
pretty soon a Kennedy joke will
come along.”
Political comedy has even ac
quired an official standing, com
plete with news conference com
ment.
Between one question on Bra
zil’s fiscal troubles and another
on increased aid for Chile was
lodged a query on this glut of
presidential fun-poking.
“Can you tell us,” the Presi
dent was asked, “whether you
read and listen to these things,
and whether they produce annoy
ance or enjoyment?”
“Annoyment,” Kennedy said.
But he grinned dutifully. In our
society no man ever confesses
to that cardinal sin, that he lacks
a sense of humor.
“Yes,” Kennedy continued,
have read them and listened
them and actually I listened
Mr. Header’s record, but
though it sounded more like Ted
dy than it did me—so he’s an
noyed.”
Few needed to be told that
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to
to
I
the President was referring to
Vaughn Header, a onetime pro
fessional hillbilly who hit the
jackpot with his smash record,
“The First Family.”
Header is making more out of
his Kennedy- routine than any
other imitator. Indeed, since his
take may reach an incredible $3
million, he’s making mm - e out of
the presidency than any Presi
dent ever has.
But long before Header’s as
tonishing success, every comedi
an was trying to get the Ken
nedy’s into the act.
The range is complete, from
established stars like Jack Ben
ny, Bob Hope and Red Skelton
down to club comics who hope,
like Header, that somehow their
stuff will catch, fire.
This nation has always kidded
its Presidents, sometimes good
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naturedly, sometimes viciously,
as in the cartoons that compai’ed
Abraham Lincoln with singularly
unattractive gorillas.
But the comic pace is uneven.
Franklin Roosevelt—and Mrs.
R.—were the butt of endless
jokes. So was Harry Truman.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, pos
sibly because he was rarely seen
except on carefully controlled
formal or semiformal occasions,
didn’t attract nearly so much
comedy. What jokes he did in
spire, often about his golf, were
likely to be puny.
Then came the Kennedy—and
the flood.
Personal comedy succeeds only
if the listeners can quickly iden
tify the trait being lampooned.
For example: Jack Benny has
established his stinginess so com
pletely that his slightest com
ment on money produces auto
matic laughter.
This is why the Kennedys are
irresistible targets. There are
so many of them, they are in the
news so much, they have so many
habits.
They have their own football
team. They have an endless sup
ply of relatives. They have Car
oline. They have baby John.
They have dogs and horses.
Brother Robert has a swim
ming pool into which guests al
legedly fall. Mrs. Kennedy likes
art, fox hunts and stunning
clothes and hair an-angements.
President Kennedy has an accent
and some stock phrases that
plead for imitation and comment.
The intensity of their drive
adds to the merriment. For the
Kennedys care, and in caring be
come more exposed to the hu
morists’ barbs.
A m o n g th emselves m
intimates the Kennedysi
to have a lively sensed
Justice Department Hit
party for Robert Keti»
attorney general, turnei
be a steady stream of ifii
affection and respect 1
sting here. This is:
teasing.
With strangers, it is
story. No one likes to
subject of jests by outoi
pecially the sensitive 6
The President used the
word available—one sib|
a reporter—when he:
caused annoyment 3a
Daisy Cieland, Wj
Evening Star society)
says that at a recentpaij
ert Kennedy was asked 1
listened to “The First]
“No,” said the attod
eral, and turned abiuin
to talk to someone else!
His reaction is undenj
On the record Robert
wasn’t handled as gentij
the President, appeari^
eternal kid brother, a
hates—and feels he
grown.
Although the comel]
bring annoyment, or a
more violent, the Keme
do nothing about it. XaJ
they. When directeda|_
leaders, laughter is ohK- !
most effective weapon.-jjB’ s gc
society can have. al shoo
So the fun will goi lb of
abated. 94
And comedians likeS?'® in C
Joyce from Massachusj
go on saying things I
come from the occupiedi
“Hyannis Port.”
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Sorority Make$\
Civil Rights Fo
■A at
By The Intercollegiate Press
MADISON, Wis. — Delta Gam
ma, one of the nation’s leading col
lege social sororities, in danger of
being ousted from the University
of Wisconsin on the recommenda
tion of the University Human
Rights Committee, has declared in
its national policy that “its chap
ters should elect persons to mem
bership solely on the basis of
their individual worth without re
gard to race, color, creed or na
tional origin.”
The new policy statement came
in a letter to the Wisconsin Hu
man Rights Committee which, for
months, has been working with the
sorority in the development of such
a declaration. In October, the
committee reported on the national
sorority’s suspension, last spring,
of its Beloit (Wis.) chapter aft^r
that chapter had pledged a Negro,
but sugested then, and again in
November, that banning of the
sorority from the University of
Wisconsin, in line with Wisconsin’s
non-discrimination policy, be de-
Biisinesses Plan
Holiday Saturday
Six Bryan-College Station busi
nesses will observe a legal holiday
Saturday for Robert E. Lee’s bii’th-
day.
To be closed for business are
City National Bank, First Na
tional Bank, College Station State
Bank, First State Bank & Trust
Company, Bryan Building & Loan
Association and the Community
Savings & Loan Association.
layed pending negotiafe
the sorority.
AS A RESULT of them
ity policy statement, tkif
tee is now suggesting
sorority be allowed to rf
the Wisconsin campus, a®
to it that its new policy
stated and applied by tit
organization, local chap
dividual members.”
In her letter outliningtl
Mrs. Kenneth P. Groves
of the Delta Gamma, wr
ifically, Omega chapter at?
versity of Wisconsin, and
chapter of the Delta Gat j
ternity, may pledge
according to Delta Gaffl 1 !
dure any girl on the bas |
dividual worth, without? I
race, color, creed or nab n
gin and such action is not |
not be deemed to be grot l'
any circumstance for ||
action against any meni®
chapter.”
In its report to the fa 1
Human Rights Committef
that the Wisconsin Chapt ( !
ta Gamma has urged ‘the
prompt reinstatement of !:
Mu Chapter at Beloit
and has offered “to nil
and its membership aval;
assistance and help to
chapter.”
The national sorority
that its suspension of
chapter was caused by it- :
of a Negro and has .cite"
ber of otheer charges a|
chapter.
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