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TODAY.
and still stays in touch with Jimmy Frazier
to reminisce about their adventure on the
lapstrake boat to the Florida Keys.
"Jimmy lives in Memphis," Bryan said.
"at trip and how much fun we had is all we
talk about."
Ringing the Victory Bell
Daughter Catharine said it's one of her
daddy's favorite stories.
"He gets so much pleasure talking about
it," she said, "… and about stealing the
Victory Bell when he was at Carolina and
getting thrown into the police car in the
1950s."
Oh yes, another story for Bryan to tell
from his youth.
"It was in 1954, and we couldn't win
the Carolina-Duke football game for
years when I was up there, so we went to
Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke at night,
broke in and stole the Victory Bell from the
basement," he said. "I rang it through all
the dorms at Chapel Hill. We got 10 dorms
involved and about 1,000 people."
Chapel Hill police arrived to quell the
excitement and give Bryan, the ringleader, a
warning not to ring the bell again.
"I kept on ringing it," Bryan said with a
devilish smile. "ey put me in the backseat
of the cop car. I slid off the backseat on
the other side and took off running. I lost
my loafers. We ran to the top of Steele
Dormitory and spent the night so the cops
couldn't find us."
Epilogue
ere's the fight, too, that broke out in
1956 in the basketball game between the Tar
Heels and Wake Forest, and Bryan was right
there in the middle of the fracas.
"Joe Quigg says he started it," Bryan said
about the UNC standout who now lives in
Fayetteville.
Bryan has one story aer another, but
that trip down to the Florida Keys with his
boyhood friend Jimmy Frazier is among his
favorites to tell, and he never tires of telling it.
"ose memories," Catharine Brown said,
"are what he cherishes."
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