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...many a U.S. community, stocky Curtis Bryant, 44, would be considered a model citizen. A crane operator for the Illinois Central Railroad, he is head of his union local, a Baptist Sunday school teacher and deacon, a Boy Scout committee chairman. But he is also president of his county's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-and that, in McComb, Miss, (pop. 12,020), can apparently be enough to put a man behind bars...
Wilbur J. Bender '27, former Dean of Admissions, said last night he was surprised by James Bryant Conant's assertion that "prestige colleges" such as Harvard should concentrate on preparing students for graduate and professional schools...
...these distinguished early contributors, the Review has added many more. Henry Adams, Winston Churchill, Max Beerbohm, Leon Trotsky. Robert Frost, Andre Gide, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Mann, Rebecca West, Aldous Huxley and Dr. James Bryant Conant, former president of Harvard, have all appeared in the Review. The Review's range of interest is wide, running all the way from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter ("Law and Order") to the late Humorist Robert Benchley ("The Typical New Yorker"). The Review was one of the first U.S. publications outside of little poetry magazines to publish the singular verses of French Poet...
...challenged her on the point, the 31-year-old London librarian insisted: "If he did call himself 'Peeps,' he was the first member of the family to do so and none has done it since." Asked for his ruling, Britain's leading Pepys authority, Sir Arthur Bryant, admitted that although he stuck by "Peeps," there was evidence (in the phonetic spellings of Pepys' contemporaries) supporting not only "Pepp-iss" but also "Paps" and "Papys...
Also, Edwin E. Moise and John B. Carroll, Education; Dr. George Nichols and Dr. Peter B. Dews, Medical School; Douglas W. Bryant, Library; Thomas J. Wilson, Harvard University Press; Benjamin Kaplan, Law School; George W. Gibson and Robert N. Anthony, Business School...