Word: bryants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hurley said $10,000 of the gift has been set aside to establish a new James Bryant Conant Scholarship. The remaining $260,000 is in the form of an outright gift...
...profession that specializes in novelty, Negro Chanteuse Joyce Bryant looks startlingly different. Her poodle-cut hair is dazzling silver, her inch-long fingernails are stained to match. Her dress is a backless, spangled sheath, and as she sings every inch of her lean body writhes feverishly. Last week, at 25, she was the headliner at Manhattan's Copacabana, and reaching for a spot among the top two or three Negro nightclub singers...
With a voice that can be a shy soprano but is more often a belting baritone, Joyce Bryant seems to have trouble relaxing onstage. To her credit, she tries: after a sweltering bout with Porgy, she begins a blander number, e.g., After You've Gone or You Made Me Love You. But before the end of the first chorus, the song seems to take its own head, and her voice mounts until it sobs and gargles on the edge of hysteria. Next moment she is off again on a frenzied version of Tzena, Tzena, Tzena or Runnin' Wild...
Nowadays, she still has to revive herself after every performance with salt tablets, vitamins and warm water, still loses a pound or so every performance. But Belter Bryant thinks she has found herself, is solidly booked in the gaudiest U.S. spots, and has a European tour in the making...
...months. Dr. Pusey, president of Lawrence College, sat with his class of '28, wore the crimson weskit that was the class uniform, but soberly eschewed the blue-and-white class cap. Pusey's class earmarked $10,000 of its $270,000 contributions for a James Bryant Conant-Class of 1928 Scholarship to be awarded "from time to time" either to a foreign student to be brought to Harvard or to a Harvard student to be sent abroad...