Word: bryants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Anne Moen Bullitt, 19, fetching daughter of Philadelphia's socialite-Democratic candidate for mayor, William Christian Bullitt, ex-Ambassador to Russia, France; and Marine Corps Lieut. Daniel Baugh Brewster Jr., 19, peacetime Princetonian of Brooklandville, Md.; in Philadelphia. Her mother, the late Anne Moen Louise Bryant (widow of Soviet Hero John Reed), became Bullitt's second wife in 1923, was divorced by him in 1930, died in France...
...Being "taken to see the pigs" means a trip to a little shack near the camp hogpen. There "Big Jim" Bryant, a 7 ft. 2½ in., 300-lb. guard, holds the door shut while Warden Clay administers a whipping-up to 50 lashes-with a rubber hose...
After the convicts finished, Big Jim Bryant and everyone else on the prison staff blandly denied the stories. Warden Clay, who used to be a farmer before he got his $160-a-month job, said...
...Georgia's prison system out of its antiquated, sadistic, scandal-ridden past. Georgia's Governor Ellis Arnall, trying hard to erase the black marks of the Talmadge regime, turned the Cartersville investigation into a study of all State prisons. First step: suspension of Warden Clay and Guard Bryant. Second: a tour by legislative leaders, to learn what other State prison systems had been up to since Oglethorpe first brought his oppressed debtors to the New World...
Though Dodd works with movie people intimately, no big stars are active members of his parish. Some who do attend: Bryant Washburn, Jonathan Hale, Monte Blue, Marjorie Gateson. Dodd likes movie people, feels he has some influence on their lives just by working with them. And they think he is tops. Wrote Beverly Hills' late Editor Rob Wagner (Script): "Without doubt Father Dodd is the best-loved character in movieland. ... He has never 'preached' nor pointed the finger of superior virtue at his erring sheep...