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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 25, 1944
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“Sleepy” Bryant, Class ’31, Earns
New Nickname In Normandy Fighting
His Aggie nickname is “Sleepy”
but he earned something different,
according to one of the feature
stories of the war recently re
ported by famed War Correspond
ent Clark Lee covering the French
invasion.
Lt. Col. Garland R. “Sleepy”
Bryant, '31, Temple, was the story’s
hero and it’s a fantastic yarn
which Sleepy and Mrs. Bryant may
have trouble convincing his grand
children unless they save some
documentary evidence.
Colonel Bryant’s jeep took a
wrong turn in Normandy and ran
into a German strong point where
the Colonel,, S/Sgt. John W. Zvon-
check, of Marion Heights, Pa., and
Pvt. Arthur Evans, of Wheeling,
W. Va., were captured. They were
placed in the basement of the
strong point where they found 23
United States paratroopers also
captured and under guard. Using
Sgt. Zvoncheck as interpreter,
Bryant went to work on the Ger
mans and talked his guards into
surending and turning over their
guns. The paratroopers were arm
ed and as additional Germans came
into the strong point they were
themselves made captives. The
final bag was 172 German officers
and men. When they ceased com
ing into the strong point, Bryant
and his little group of Americans
started escorting them toward the
American lines where they ran into
considerable difficulty convincing
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their own side that they had cap
tured so large a number of Ger
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Col. Bryant has been awarded
the Silver Star for gallantry in
action and the Bronze Star for
meritorious service. Mrs. Bryant is
living at 619 West French Ave.,
Temple, Texas. Several of Bryant’s
old Cavalry friends, particularly
“C” Troopers declare that the early
training he got in the Cavalry is
responsible for his successful and
astonishing coup.
Former Aggie
Catcher Now
Pitching In China
Jack K. Doran, star Aggie base
ball catcher during his college da^s
is a pitcher now. He is flying one
of the new B-29s in the India-
China-Burma theatre and the Japa
nese are doing the catching. Cap
tain Doran writes that he never
realized how much fun it was to
pitch.
He reports in that area are Lt.
James E. McCall ’42, who is a
B-29 Navigator, Lt. John Fuller
’41, Major Burt Burns ’40. He
also reports seeing Lt. Col. J. T.
L. McNew ’20, on leave from A.
& M. as Head of the Civil Engi
neering Department.
Doran has an added incentive to
get home—the birth of a son who
he has not yet seen. He sends re
gards to his classmates and friends
from APO 215 NYC.
The average height of land above
sea level is about 2300 feet.
NEATNESS COUNTS
Keep looking your best every day
by having your clothing cleaned and
pressed often at the Campus Clean
ers. Having clothes properly cared
for helps you keep neat and military.
CAMPUS CLEANERS
TWO LOCATIONS
Over Exchange Store Next to George’s
Books Received By
College Library
General Reading
Shall not perish from the Earth,
by Ralph Barton Perry.
Jacob’s Room, by Virginia Woolf.
This Side of Glory, by Gwen
Bristow.
How To Thing Straight, by I^pb-
ert H. Thouless.
The Journal of Gamaliel Brad
ford, 1883-1932, by Van Wyck
Brooks, editor.
The Guermantes Way, complete
and unabridged in one volume, by
Marcel Proust.
Darkness at Noon, by Arthur
Koestler.
Robert Dale Owen, a biography,
by* Richard Wiliam Leopold (Har
vard Historical Studies 45).
Maxim Litvinoff, by Arthur Up-
ham Pope.
Admiral of the Ocean Sea; a life
of Christopher Columbus, by Sam
uel Eliot Morison.
Makers of Modern Strategy;
Military thought from Machiavel-
li to Hitler, edited by Edward
Mead Earle.
Autobiography of John Stuart
Mill (world’s Classics No. 262).
Joseph and his brothers, by
Thomas Mann.
U. S. A. The 42nd Parallel Nine
teen Nineteen; the big money;
all three volumes complete and un
abridged in one, by John Dos
Passes.
Cross Creek, by Marjorie Kin-
nan Rawlings.
Dragon Seed; a novel of China
today, by Pearl S. Buck.
Liberal Education, by Mark Van
Doren.
Lord Ellenborough; a biography
of Edward Law, Earl of Ellen
borough, Governor-General of Ind
ia, by Albert H. Imlah (Harvard
Historical Studies 43).
J. J. Thomson, by Lord Rayleigh.
Anthony Trollope, by Hugh Wal
pole (English Men of Letters New
Series, edited by J. C. Squire).
The Greenwood Hat; being a
memoir of James Anon, by J. M.
Barrie.
The Last 12 years of Joseph
Conrad, by Richard Curie.
The Early Years of The Satur
day Club, 1955-1870, by Edward
Waldo Emerson.
How to Feel Better and Look
it, by Frank T. Kimball and Abbott
W. Allen.
The Book of Canadian Poetry;
a critical and historical anthology,
edited with an introduction and
notes by A. J. M. Smith.
Der Fuehrer; Hitler’s Rise to
Power, using sensational new ma
terial, the world authority on Hit
ler tells the whole story of the
Nazi road to chaos, by Konrad
Heiden.
Man and His Body, by Howard
W. Haggard.
ABBREVS. (A Dictionary of Ab
breviations ( compiled by H. J. S.
(Herbert John Stephenson).
Religion and Health, by Seward
Hiltner.
Flying Men and Medicine, by
E. Osmum Barr.
AStudy of the Functions of Phy
sical Education in Higher Educa
tion, by Louise Staples Cobb.
Mental Health in College, by
Clements C. Fry, with the colla
boration of Edna G. Rostow.
Play Gymnastics, by L. L. Mc-
Clow and D. N. Anderson.'
The Diagnosis and treatment of
Postural Defects, by Phelps-Kip-
huth.
Body Poise, by Walter Truslok.
Beloved Scientist; a guiding spir
it of the electrical age, by David
O. Woodbury.
McQuillen Speaks
To Dallas, North
American Aggies
E. E. McQuillen, president of
the Former Student Association,
has just returned from an inter
esting trip to Dallas where he
addressed the Dallas A. & M. Club
and the North American A. & M.
Club. While attending the meeting
of the latter, McQuillen was per
mitted to go through the plant.
He stated it was like seeing some
thing as gigantic and interesting
as Grand Canyon.
Composed of some seventy-five
members, the North American A.
& M. Club is presided over by O.
G. Rivoire, president. The club
publishes its own monthly paper,
“The Fighting Aggie”, edited by
R. H. Kinkel. The paper keeps the
members up to date on the hap
penings of the club and the
achievements of its members. The
club is one of the most unique
of the many Aggie clubs.
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