Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-03-10
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-A bequest of
~ $1,000,000, left to Harvard uni
versity by Mrs. Agnes VAIL Nieman,
will make it possible for newspaper
a, men to go to
Scribes Get school at Harvard.
Free Course 1t might be better
at Harvard if they would 60 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, 0OO,O 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 a
tradition of independence which his
son has maintained.
With the passing of such free
swinging journalists as Halstead,
Greeley, Waiter
Example or 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 1928.
Sixty-six years old, he still keeps
up with his craftsmanship, taking
all the jumps until few years ago.
He is caught up in an incredible
whirl Of directories, public and CIV
ic posts, clubs, philanthropies and
social and political activities-al-
ways with time to talk. And now
he'll have to measure copy-readers
and reporters for college workout.
M ME. PAUL DUPUY, whose
A'A French chateau is now occu-
pied by the duke and duchess Of
Windsor, was the first publisher to
~ introduce Amer
Mme. DuPuy lean comic strips
GaUe 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 NJ Dupuy
died in 1927, he left in heg 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 circula-
ton of 100000; 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, 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 us Fifth avenue,
New York. Studying in Paris, she
met M. Dupuy, son of the founder
of the Petit Parisien.
They were married in 1907 and
have two sons and a daughter,
the Princess de Polignac. For many
years, their marriage has been cited
as one ideal international romance
"a bit of background which is, no
doubt, of interest to the duke and
duchess as they move into her
charming old Chateau de la Maye,
near Versailles.
@ Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
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