Word: branson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berman, Jim Downey, and "Bullothead" Montague swept the crucial half mile, but the real Crimson here was Dick Welskopf, who beat out ace Exeter sprinter Jim Branson to win both the 100 and 220 yard dashes...
Competition will even be stiff in the running events, the Crimson's forte. Big Jim Branson, Exeter sprinter, clocked the same times in the 100 and 200 yard dashes last week, as the Crimson's star. Dick Weiskopf...
...Shepherd of the Hills (Paramount) is homespun Harry Carey, who returns to his Ozark mountain home after a long prison term and proceeds to restore the feuding hillbillies to their once kindly ways. Pictorially superb, the Technicolored film suffers from its endless moralizing and Cloud-Cuckoo language. Shown at Branson, Mo., in the heart of the Ozarks, it so stirred one native that he picketed the local cinema with a placard: UNFAIR TO LOCAL CHARACTERS...
Since the outbreak of World War II, a hearty old Londoner named J. R. B. Branson has urged his countrymen to eat grass, save food supplies (TIME, July 1). Last week British papers published the sad fate of a zealous grass-eater, one John William Bloomfield, 60, of Harleston, Stowmarket, Suffolk. Despite the pleas of his wife, Bloomfield persisted in browsing on the village green. Finally, after stuffing himself, was taken with violent bellyache, was rushed to a hospital. He died soon afterward. Coroner's verdict: "death by misadventure...
...Branson is now at the age of "67 off." He claims that grass eating has enhanced his "activity, vitality, enthusiasm and vigor," so that he cycles "100 miles a day without any exhaustion." But he warned his readers to go slow. To an inexperienced stomach, said he, grass brings "super-purgation...