Show WHO'S S 'S NEWS THIS Y p 4 WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON N NEW V EW YORK A A bequest of left to Harvard university university university uni uni- by Mrs Agnes Wahl Vahl Nieman will make moke it possible for newspaper newspapermen men to go to Scribes Get school at Harvard Free Course It might be better at Harvard if X they would go to school to John Stewart Bryan handsome fluent I and erudite head of the committee I which will pick the candidates for forthe forthe forthe the Harvard sabbatical years I Mr Bryan is publisher of the I Richmond News-Leader News and president president president dent of the College of William Villiam and Mary He talks rapidly and interestingly interestingly interestingly inter inter- on poetry politics history philosophy the classics and humanities humanities ties If Mrs Nieman had engaged him to do worth of traveling traveling traveling travel travel- ing and talking to newspaper men instead of giving the money to Harvard Harvard Harvard Har Har- vard the light shed in the dark caverns of journalistic minds surely would have matched any possible Harvard effulgence And like Er Erasmus Mr 1 Bryan loves to travel and talk tali The glow in Mr Bryans Bryan's own mind was imparted partly by Harvard Harvard Har Har- Haryard vard yard and partly by the University of Virginia Of the southern he practiced law in Richmond and then engaged with his father the I late Joseph Bryan in energetic coI co- co I management of the family newspaper newspaper newspaper per then the Richmond Times The Theelder Theelder Theelder elder Mr Bryan had established a tradition of independence which his hisson hisson hisson son has maintained With the passing of such free- free swinging journalists as Halstead Greeley Watter- Watter Example of son and more re- re Spark Plug Fremont Journalist Older Mr Bryan remains one of the few distinguished exemplars of that kind of spark-plug spark He was president of the American Newspaper Publishers' Publishers association from 1926 to 1928 SL Sixty six six ty-six years old he still keeps up with his horsemanship taking all aH the jumps until a few years ago He is caught up in an incredible whirl of directorates public and civic civic civic ic posts clubs philanthropies and social and political activities activities al al always ways with time to talk And now hell he'll have to measure readers copy-readers and reporters for a college workout I M A ME PAUL DUPUY whose Ivl French chateau is now occupied occupied occupied pied by the duke and duchess of Windsor was the first publisher to introduce Amer- Amer Mme Dupuy ican comic scan strips G Gave ave French in France The the Funnies French liked the comics but they wouldn't take the columnists Mme 1 Dupuy found they liked to do their own interpreting and shied away from omniscience in all forms She is the born American-born widow of Paul Dupuy When M. 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 4 th rl a MTr iron 1 n. n V J U LUU mand of ot the cafe or shop she picked up the vast publishing business managing it at first from a sickbed sickbed sickbed sick sick- bed as she was convalescing from froma a long illness The publications included the I Daily Petit Parisien with a circulation circulation circulation tion of Dimanche a Sunday newspaper in which Mme Dupuy introduced the first Sunday supplement in France La Science et la Vie comparable to the Scientific Scientific American Omnia an automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile journal Le des Hautes Pyrenees a provincial daily Nos a women's magazine magazine magazine mag mag- azine Agriculture Nouvelle a weekly and several others Mme Dupuy was Helen Browne blonde and beautiful daughter of William Villiam H. H and Met T JI Editor J E-J- Mary C a C. Browne as Student of New York She Shein Shein Shein in in Paris attended the Anne Browne school for young ladies at Fifth avenue New York Studying in Paris she met M. M Dupuy son of the founder of the Petit Parisien They were married in 1907 and have two vo sons and a daughter the Princess de Polignac For many years tHeir marriage has been cited as one ideal international romance a a bit of background which is no noI I doubt of interest to the duke and duchess as they move into her charming old Chateau de la Maye laye near Versailles d Consolidated ted News Features Service |