Word: bryants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cincinnati heard another Carmen that night-on a showboat moored near the city's public dock. Captain Billy Bryant plies the Ohio River, playing melodramas straight for West Virginia hillbillies in the spring, pulling for sophisticated hisses and catcalls in Cincinnati in the summer. Raised on a showboat (his father, in his 80s, still plays in the family troupe), Captain Billy is a hard-voiced, articulate showman who wrote a book about the Bryants, sounds off on the theatre in the Sunday New York Times. He got the idea of doing Carmen long ago, when he found a Spanish...
Chairman Clark pointed out that the bill was a strictly military measure which contemplated no labor battalions or forced work in industry. Harvard's President James Bryant Conant approved, provided the bill deferred training and service for medical and scientific students and other technicians more useful outside a conscript camp. Wartime Generalissimo John J. Pershing testified by letter that such a bill would have saved the U. S. men and mon ey in World War I, reserved approval of the eight-month period (Army men would like at least a year) and the home defense provisions...
...Harvard, reunioning alumni, by special request of President James Bryant Conant and in the interests of national unity, agreed to give up their annual gibes at Alumnus Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Class Day parade...
...Senior at Phillips Exeter Academy, James Bryant Conant, Jr. has not yet, according to the Admissions office, made any application for entrance to Harvard. It is believed that his first preference in a college is Michigan, with the Universities of Wisconsin, California, and Indiana also numbered among the possibilities...
Marriage Denied. By Cinemactress Arline Judge, 28, and Cafe Socialite James McKinley Bryant, 31, who announced his marriage to her "somewhere in Kentucky" after the Derby. Protested Mr. Bryant later: "How could I marry her when I'm still married to Mickey Flynn?" Sighed Miss Judge: "It's all so ridiculous." Divorced. Kent Cooper, general manager of Associated Press; by Marian Rothwell Cooper; after 20 years of marriage; in Miami...