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Show Ii i mi,. WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK I I By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. A bequest of $1,000,000, left to Harvard university uni-versity by Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, will make it possible for newspaper men to go to Scribes Get school at Harvard. Free Coarse It might be better of Harvard u the5r 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 president presi-dent of the College of William and Mary. He talks rapidly and Interestingly Inter-estingly on poetry, politics, history, philosophy, the classics and humanities. humani-ties. If Mrs. Nieman had engaged him to do $1,000,000 worth of traveling travel-ing and talking to newspaper men, instead of giving the money to Harvard, Har-vard, 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 imparted partly by Harvard Har-vard 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 co-management of the family newspaper, 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 free-swinging journalists as Halstead, Greeley, Watter-Example Watter-Example of SOn, and, more re-Spark re-Spark Plug cently, Fremont Journalist 01der' 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 horsemanship, taking all the jumps until a few years ago. He is caught up in an Incredible whirl of directorates, public and civic civ-ic posts, clubs, philanthropies and social and political activities always al-ways with time to talk. jVf ME. PAUL DUPUY, whose J.Y1 French chateau is now occupied occu-pied by the duke and duchess of Windsor, was the first publisher to introduce Amer-Mme. Amer-Mme. Dupay jcan comic strips Gave French in France. The the Funnies French liked the comics, but they wouldn't take the columnists. Mme. Dupuy found they liked to do their own interpreting and shied 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 command com-mand of the cafe or shop, she picked up the vast publishing business, managing it at first from a sickbed, sick-bed, as she was convalescing from a long illness. The publications included the Daily Petit Parisien, with a circulation circula-tion of 1,800,000; Dimanche Illustre, a Sunday newspaper in which Mme. Dupuy introduced the first Sunday supplement in France; La Science et la Vie, comparable to the Scientific Scien-tific American; Omnia, an automobile automo-bile journal; Le Republicain des Hautes - Pyrenees, a provincial daily; Nos Loisirs, a women's magazine; mag-azine; Agriculture Nouvelle, a weekly, and several others. Mme. 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 715 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. VVNU Service. |