Word: bradford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laird Ball '04, President of the Harvard Alumni Association, is to preside at the Alumni Exercises, and some of the honorary degree recipients may add a few words to the formal addresses of President Conant and Governor Bradford. In case of rain, the Exercises will retreat to Sanders Theatre, but the Spreads will still be held beneath the sheltering awnings in the Yard...
...stay ... should be sufficient." Variety was dreadfully wrong. Alexander Woollcott, guessing better in the New Yorker, said it was "the highest peak in the range of the American theater." Brooks Atkinson, in the Times, called it "the divine comedy of the modern theater." The Green Pastures (based on Roark Bradford's stories) won a Pulitzer Prize, ran for five years, played 1,779 performances in 203 cities to nearly two million people, grossed $3,000,000, was turned into a movie, and attained the status of an American folk-legend...
Summer vacation will find the Harvard Mountaineering Club in the midst of an active schedule of climbs, featuring an ascent of Mount McKinley, led by H. Bradford Watson, Jr. '33, the Club's newly-elected executive board has announced...
Individual estimates ranged from more than 350 probable spaces at the Statler to almost none at the Hotel Manger, which will be occupied by the circus company that week. The Statler, the Bradford (75 places), the Essex (40), and the Touraine (40-50) predicted the most room among the hotels questioned...
...week's end, the air was thick with demands for investigations and reforms. Newspapers reminded readers that there were 1,040 other known sex offenders whom the state had freed after they had served their sentences. Governor Robert Bradford declared that he would ask for a mental hospital for psychopathic delinquents, not now committable as insane. A special legislative commission declared that Massachusetts was 50 years behind in treatment of child delinquency...