Word: bryson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yassmeen's Belly Dance Bazaar in Los Altos, Calif, Performer-Proprietor Jakkee Bryson uses one of the 11-lb. desktop devices to keep track of her inventory of exotic costumes and records. An oil company depends on one of the little wonders to operate a rig off California; others keep track of election statistics for politicians, control light in theaters and synthesize music for rock stars...
...novel goes down smoothly and with just the right amount of bite. The identity of the killer is revealed in the opening pages: Tommy Bryson, a young homosexual whose attempt to go straight results in the sex slaying of a Glasgow girl. The question is whether the police can get to him before two rival bands of killers, for reasons of their own, run Bryson to earth...
Whatever Nixon said or did not say, we recognized, this first lengthy explanation by Richard Nixon to the American people would have considerable historical value. Thus we approached Frost last winter and arranged with him (though not for a fee) to have a TIME correspondent cover Operation Nixon. John Bryson, who took the pictures for our cover plus the album of color shots that accompanies the story, was the only still photographer allowed at the taping sessions. To John Stacks, our Washington news editor during the Watergate period, went the assignment of living for six weeks with the Frost staff...
...cover photograph and color pictures that accompany our King Kong story were taken by John Bryson, former assistant picture editor of LIFE magazine, who was on the set for much of the last year. Richard Schickel, who wrote the story, is a movie historian as well as a critic. In fact, he has just completed a nine-month stint as coproducer and writer of Life Goes to the Movies, a three-hour TV retrospective of movies made between 1936 and 1972, which will be shown on NBC Oct. 31. "I saw hundreds of old movies for the LIFE project," says...
...texts that are not written out of desperation because nothing has been published in the field, like the Ho-Bryson work, are usually written out of dissatisfaction with what has been rolling off publishing house presses. The way Lynn Loomis, whose new book "Calculus" replaced George Thomas's leading work in the field as the Math I text-book, explains the procedure. "You set out to write the definitive textbook. I taught the course [Math I] for a number of years, and never liked any of the books we used. So I tried to write the best," Loomis said recently...