Word: bryants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frankly Speaking. In Manhattan, Arthur Singerman stretched out on. a Bryant Park bench, awaited replies to his want ad: "Lazy ex-officer, no ambition, no ability, no money, no nothing, married,* 26, desires easy job, short...
...future of James Bryant Conant on the national scene is promising but as yet uncertain. It is certain that the next months will find a world figure occupied with what might seem to be the relatively prosaic duties of running Harvard University. But the drama of the local situation must not be minimized because of the smaller stage. Though there are many extenuating circumstances, Harvard finds itself in 1946 at the same cross-roads that provided an opportunity for a new President to strike out in a new direction in 1933. Thirteen years ago it was felt that Conant...
When James Bryant Conant assumed the Presidency of Harvard in 1933, he inherited a position that had developed national significance in educational and social arenas. But in 13 years President Conant has travelled far beyond limits that once confined the energies of a University President and has grown into an embodiment of the ascendancy science holds in politics and all major phases of national and international affairs. An evaluation of the growth of this former Chemistry professor into a world figure will emphasize two conditions that lend perspective to what has happened. First, Conant is a leading chemist...
Miss Mary Varian Riblet was sitting quietly at home that evening, minding her business. Her business was mapping out her spring teaching schedule at Long Island City's William Cullen Bryant high school. The telephone rang. An excited relative reported that the name "Riblet" had just been used (as the name of a schoolmarm just like Miss Riblet) on the Duffy's Tavern program (NBC, Fri., 8:30-9 p.m., E.S.T.). But even worse, Ed Gardner, who portrays Archie and makes insult his profitable stock in trade, had slurringly called this character "Old Pianolegs...
...wrote a script about a schoolteacher and my scriptwriters used the name of Harcleroad. At the last minute, it was called to my attention that we had used the name Harcleroad previously . . . so in searching for a substitute name, my memory reverted to you and the old days at Bryant...