Word: bryants
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President James Bryant Conant and the Harvard Corporation were hosts to Mayor John H. Corcoran, City Manager John B. Atkinson, and eight Cambridge City Councillors at Eliot House last night. This dinner is the second of the annual affairs initiated last year...
President James Bryant Conant's job as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee can only be understood in the Committee's connection with the Office of Scientific Research and Development, which is in general charge of pioneering Army and Navy secret weapons...
Harvard's President James Bryant Conant dismissed the notion of teaching the humanities to "any considerable portion" of the 10,000,000 veterans. Since returned soldiers "will be in a hurry," Harvard will function all year round. Veterans uninterested in or inept at "book learning" may get a year of vocational training leading to industrial jobs...
...exception to the rule that books about movies are even duller than movies about books is A Pictorial History of the Movies (Simon & Schuster; $3.95). Its 700-odd movie stills have been assembled by Bryant Hale and Marcelene Peterson, and more conspicuously credited to Composer-Critic Deems Taylor. His touch is evident in the captions, which outline the history of U.S. films from the scandalous The Widow Jones of 1896 to Mrs. Miniver. By turns touching, noble, hilarious, incredible, the pictures in this book have the endearing dignity and fascination of a gigantic family album. Reproduced on this page, reading...
Making his first appearance here since he awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to Winston Churchill three months ago President James Bryant Conant will speak Monday night to an invited gathering at the Fogg Museum...