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Eliot House's heavily-favored crew ran into more trouble than it expected from Trumbull College, the champion Yale College crew. The "fourth Varsity," as the Merryman eight is called, jumped to an early start as Trumbull faltered, but the Bulls rowed a higher, if more ragged stroke, and were closing in on Eliot when it finished the mile course a half-length winner...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Bulldog, Tiger Crews Take Crimson Wash | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Back from her final sea trials off Rockland, Me. last week, the 26,454-ton, 723-foot, 24-knot America was turned over to tall, horse-faced John Merryman Franklin, U. S. Lines president. As his pen lifted from the $7,328,140 mortgage, an estimated $750,000 worth of yearly interest and amortization charges began to tick. Shipowner Franklin had already paid in $4,396,629 for his ship. The Maritime Commission was standing a third of her cost, and the rest was a Maritime Commission loan. Now that he had her, what was he going to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Whither America? | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid is nearest in style to grand opera, gives able singers most to get their teeth into. Last week The Yeomen was the offering of the eighth annual play festival in the plushy, chandeliered, 61-year-old Opera House in Central City, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: In Central City | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...French Riviera to spend Christmas with the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, sailed the Duchess' aunt and one-time chaperon, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman ("Aunt Bessie"), from Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...sadness. Mrs. Warfield's Aunt Bessie, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman, bustled about the Chateau de Cande kitchens personally overseeing the wedding breakfast for the 16 invited guests who were to attend. Mail and wedding presents came in by the sackful, swamping the post office at nearby Tours. Explained the unofficial Press Minister, Herman Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wedding Present | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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