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Major General Bryant Edward Moore was a soldier by profession but a sailor by avocation. A down-Easter by birth (Ellsworth, Me.), he spent as much time as he could aboard his big sailing yacht or his Star Class racer...
Last January he left the Academy for Korea, to command the IX Corps engaged on the bloody central front below the 38th parallel. Last week Bryant Moore flew over the front in a helicopter. Above the Han River, near Yoju, he told his pilot to go down for a closer look. The plane's rotor hit a cable. It crashed...
...Corps: West Point, 1916, M.I.T., 1922; with U.S. Army engineers in France during World War I; organized construction of Alcan (Alaska-Canada) highway, 1942; commander 9th Armored Division unit which captured Remagen Bridge, 1945; this week took the post made vacant by the death of Major General Bryant Moore (see above) whom he had succeeded in 1948 as U.S. commander at Trieste...
...fired. When it stayed bad in 1950, the head of an athletic director of 25 years' standing could hit the basket. But defeat and disgrace for the Crimson debating team! That's a debacle of a higher order. Whose head is left to roll but that of President James Bryant Conant? --From the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, February...
...uneasy feeling that the Administration, and perhaps the U.S. itself, was not fully alert to the common danger showed also in the formation by a group of distinguished U.S. leaders of a Committee on the Present Danger. High in its ranks were Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research & Development. Dr. Bush complained that while Russia strengthened its radar defenses the U.S. was busy completing television networks...