Word: bryants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slender and mild-mannered man, with a Boston twang and a lively spring to his step. Everybody knew him all right: he was James Bryant Conant, the first Harvard president ever to give a course at the summer school. What happens when a president turns professor? By last week, his students agreed that U.S. faculties would do well to have more men like Teacher Conant...
...Peet Co. ($350,000); A. A. Somerville, vice president of Manhattan's R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Inc., which distributes chemicals ($319,398); Seton Porter, president of National Distillers Products Corp. ($310,000); Theodore Seltzer, president of Bengue Inc., which makes Ben-Gay ointment ($295,613); and G. A. Bryant, president of a Cleveland building firm, Austin...
High-scoring honors went to Ed Bryant of Eliot, who fired 87 out of 100; Jim Barry of Lowell was next with 83. The competition was sponsored by the Pistol Club and did not count toward the Straus Trophy...
...Then Cal Bryant, Master of Ceremonies and representative of the National Red Cross, introduced a Miss Margaret Hutton. Miss Hutton, a member of the '49 Aquaparade, smiled broadly from the edge of the pool, adjusted her blue bathing suit in a few strategic spots, and slipped under the water. Her specialty is swimming without the feet. Holding her legs rigidly together, she made, respectively, like a porpoise, a shark, and a submarine. She got a good hand on the way to the dressing rooms. The fellow on my right explained that it was "good for the Aquacade...
Even for a greaseball, however, there were Harvard compensations. In Cambridge, Marquand lived in the same rooming house as young James Bryant Conant, now Harvard's president. Marquand remembers him as a brilliant student who invented the "two-drink dash," a simple game in which a prize was supposed to go to the man who could get by subway to a wine shop in Boston, bolt two drinks and get back in the shortest time. "We spent a good deal of our time doing the two-drink dash, but I don't remember that anybody ever...