The Coolidge examiner., 1938-03-10
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Free Course IL might De DetleE
ot HARVARD if they would go to
school to John
Stewart Bryan, handsome. fluent,
and erudite head of the committee
which will pick the candidates for
the Harvard sabbatical years.
Mr.. Bryan is publisher Of the
Richmond News-Leader and preSi-
dent of the College of William and
Mary He talks rapidly and inter-
estingly on poetry. politics. history,
philosophy, the classics and humani-
ties. If Mrs. Nieman had engaged
him to do 81 .000,0 900 worth Of travel
ing and talking to newspaper men.
instead Of giving the money to Har-
ward, the light shed in the dark
caverns of journalistic minds surely
would have matched any possible
Harvard effulgence. And. like
Erasmus, Mr.. Bryan loves to travel
and talk.
The glow in Mr.. Bryan's own
mind was impaired partly by Har-
ward and partly by the University
of Virginia. OF the southern aristoi,
he practiced law in Richmond and
then engaged with his father. the
late Joseph Bryan. in energetic CO.
management of the family newspa+
per, then the Richmond Times. The
elder Mr. Bryan had established
tradition Of independence which his
son has maintained.
With the passing Of such free
swinging journalists as Halstead,
Greeley, Waiter
Example of son, and. more re-
Spark Plug Gently, Fremont
Journalist Older, Mr.. Bryan
remains one of the
few distinguished eXemplars of that
kind of spark-plug newspapering.
He was president of the American
Newspaper Publishers association
from 1926 to 1923.
Sixty-six years old, he still keeps
up with his horsemanship, taking
all the jumps until a few years ago.
He is caught UP in an incredible
whirl of directorates. public and civ
ic posts. clubs. philanthropies and
social and political activities-al-
ways with time to talk.
NINE. PAUL DUPUY. whose
ANl French chateau is now occu-
pied by the duke and duchess of
Windsor, was the first publisher to
introduce Amer
Mime. Dupuy ican comic strips
GaOe French in France. The
the Funnies French liked the
comics, but they
wouldn't take the columnists. Nine.
Dupuy found they liked to do their
own interpreting and SHE'D away
from omniscience in all forms.
She is the American-born widow
of Paul Dupuy. When M Dupuy
died in 1927, he left in her hands
the biggest string Of newspapers and
magazines in France.
In the French tradition, in which
the widow quietly assumes COM
mand of the cafe or shop. she picked
up the vast publishing business.
managing it at first from a sick
bed, as she was convalescing from
a long illness.
The publications included the
Daily Petit Parisien. with a circula-
ton of 1 300, 600; Dimanche Illustre,
a Sunday newspaper in which Nine.
Dupuy introduced the first Sunday
supplement in France; La Science
ct la Vie, comparable to the Scien-
tific American; Omnia, an automo-
bile journal: LIE Republican, des
Hautes Pyrenees, provincial
daily; Nos Loisirs, a women's mag
azine; Agriculture Nouvelle, a
weekly, and several others.
Nine. Dupuy was Helen Browne,
blonde and beautiful daughter of
William H. and
Met Editor Mary c. Browne
as Student of New York. She
in Paris attended the Anne
Browne school for
young ladies at It's Fifth avenue.
New York. Studying in Paris, she
met M. Dupuy, son of the founder