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...queen bee at Vassar ('22). She is no beauty, but to some masculine eyes she flashes with the radiance of a "Fourth-of-July sparkler." From Vassar. Maggie marches forth to conquer Broadway, and is so chagrined by her failure that she quickly settles for marriage to Dexter Bradfield, 6 ft. 2 of Harvard muscle and inarticulateness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marquand Wife | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Novelist Howe's book is most satisfying when it careens through the sacred precincts of Holy Old Boston. She does a brilliant autopsy on Maggie's Bradfield in-laws, with their clapboard Essex County cottages named after characters in Gilbert and Sullivan and their stupefying Sunday evenings of jolly songs, recitations and parlor games. As her first husband explains: "The whole point of a family party is that you don't have to talk. It would ruin it if you had to be thinking of things to say." But once Maggie is launched into the world beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marquand Wife | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Even the guards were hot. Co-Captain Dave Bradfield connected for 18 points; five-foot six-inch Chuck Rolles, a sophomore, scored 13. Rolles has been named, incidentally, to a United Press all-American team--the small stature team for players under...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Cornell Outclasses Varsity, 85-60, As Quintet Loses Eighth Straight | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Center Ray Zelek is only a sophomore, but he is 6-4 and has totaled 115 points, and both guards, Chuck Rolles and Dave Bradfield, are accurate from "outside...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Five Meets League-Leading Cornell In Blockhouse Contest at 8:30 p.m. | 2/27/1954 | See Source »

Shepard will counter by assigning guard Ed Condon to Morton, Captain Ed Krinsky to Rolles, and Bowman to either Mattes or Buncom. Sacks must stop Zelek and Bill Dennis will be assigned to two-year letterman Bradfield...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Five Meets League-Leading Cornell In Blockhouse Contest at 8:30 p.m. | 2/27/1954 | See Source »

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