Papers, 1982-1986.

Lerude, Warren, 1937-

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Warren Lerude joined the University of Nevada, Reno, journalism faculty in 1983. In 1986, the University of Nevada Press published American Commander in Spain: Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a biography written by Marion Merriman and Warren Lerude. Robert Merriman and Marion Stone, both students at the University of Nevada, married on graduation day, 1932. Merriman, accompanied by his wife, attended graduate school at the University of California; went to Moscow, Russia, t...

Merriman, Robert Hale

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Robert Hale Merriman (1908-1938) was a graduate student in economics at the University of California at Berkeley when he became interested in Russian economics. He had met his future wife Marion Stone when both were undergraduates at the University of Nevada; they married on their graduation day, May 9, 1932. The Merrimans moved to Moscow in January 1935. An excursion to Vienna gave Robert and Marion a firsthand view of Nazism and motivated Robert, who had received some basic milita...

University of Nevada

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College Bowl began in 1953 as a radio program under sponsorship of the General Electric Company, moving to television in 1959. Each week two collegiate undergraduate teams would compete to be the first to correctly answer a variety of scholarly questions. The winner would return the following week, and the school would receive a General Electric scholarship grant. In 1963, the University of Nevada was invited to compete. Traveling to New York City with team coach Harold Kirkpatrick, the Nevada t...

Merriman, Marion, 1909-

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Stone, Marion, 1909-

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