The Washington times., 1934-10-03

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with even 81
m ore grace #
than was Helen Essary
hers when she was a member
Of Congress from Florida. And
she has added to the gifts for
oratory and straight thinking
she inherited from her father
q certain European sophistica-
ton of manner that is fascinat-
ing.
Phyllis met her at luncheon
yesterday. She says Mrs. Owen
looked so pretty and happy she
suspects she has a new beau.
H. E. C. Bryant-H. E. c.?
For heavens Sake-folks down
in North Carolina and round
Washington wouldn't know who
in the world you were talking
about unless you called him by
his right name Red Buck
Bryant.
Well, then-Red Buck Bryant
wrote Co Henry Ford the other
day. Asked him how bout
those discontinued Model T
Fords. Said he'd heard there
We a thousand left. He'd like
to buy himself one. A Model T
was the only car he ever could
learn to drive.
Red Buck-he's a great, tall
fellow with curly red hair, most
amusing person you ever knew
in your life-iS one Of the keen
est fox hunters south of the
Mason and Dixon line. Also he
used to write perfectly swell
political pieces for the Char
lotte Observer and the Raleigh
Times, and the best Tar Heel
tales that have been done about
his own people. But he just
natchelly CANT drive a gear
shift car.
Just lately he's given up
journalism-but not fox huntin'.
and gone into Big Business.
Still CANT drive a gear-shift
car.
He says himself if he's man
aged to get along with the
sense he had in his head. But
he never did have any sense in
his feet. He can ride a horse
or a COW or walk Is miles. But
as soon as he gets himself in
side one of those gear shift
cars, he somehow puts his feet
on the gas.
And things happen.
Besides, he's got fond of the
model rs. He's had about is
Of them. He's got two now.
One of them he's sort of hol-
lowed out inside. And every
Sunday morning he loads up
his fox hounds, and carries
them out to the place where
they begin huntin'.
Buck totes his hounds any,
where in his model T. Across
Stubble fields, mudholes, and
bitches. When he comes to
water he just finds a couple
of logs. Puts them across, and
over they go.
People out in Montgomery
county, where Buck does most
of his huntin', say he can walk
q creek log with that old car
Of his.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryant (Mrs.
Bryant is vice president of the
Woman's National Democratic
Club and managed that big
card party the club had last
spring at Mrs, Dern's) live on
Wisconsin Avenue, not far from
the cath dral. But Buck
thought he'd buy them a back
yard near the Congressional
Country Club.
So he did. He keeps his is
dawgs out on the farm. That
is, he aims to. But those dawgs
do a little boarding. little
VOLUNTEER boardin g-at the
clubs round about. They've got
friends at the Burning Tree,
the Congressional, and the
Women's tional Country
Club. The only trouble about
this is the dawgs get too fat.
Buck has to have them penned
up a day or two now and then.
So he can run them a little.
And what did Henry Ford say
about the discontinued Model
rs?
Oh, yes. He wrote a neat
note to Mr.. H. E. Bryant and
explained the idea some people
seemed to have about him
wanting to sell 1000 T Models
was an error. Mr.. Bryant
would do well to consult a local
dealer and get secondhand
no, a used-car.