Word: bradford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Junior Singles championships, rowed over the Downstream Course from Weeks Bridge to Magazine Beach a week ago Monday, Bob Bradford finished first in a field of five, about a length and a half ahead of second-placing Mike Adair...
Boss of this efficient and expensive security apparatus is Walter Bradford, 57, a onetime U.S. Justice Department agent turned private eye. Hired by the Dominican embassy in Washington last fall, Bradford put 30 detectives to work when Ramfis arrived for school. Most of the agents are off-duty policemen or sheriff's deputies, who can spot a suspicious stranger instantly. To buttress their memories, the detectives use tiny cameras to snap hundreds of pictures of passers-by for comparison at Bradford's frequent briefings. The fleet of patrol cars is linked by shortwave radio to the Ambassador headquarters...
...Ramfis' younger brother, Rhadames, 15, is well liked at Kemper Military School in Boonville, Mo., 100 miles east of Kansas City. When he overstayed leave to attend sister Angelita's wedding (TIME, Jan. 20), he walked off his twelve demerits in the yard, like any other cadet. Bradford's agents also patrol outside the school, but are not allowed on the grounds. Rhadamés' official allowance, possibly augmented by money from home, is the standard $3 a week...
...Bradford, Mass...
...cows to be found, more Puritans came from Europe, not all sparse of speech and life like the first. In South Boston, Thomas Morton came and shortly gathered up a harem of Indian women and a band of raffish followers. "They also set up a May-pole," says William Bradford, "drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women for their consorts, dancing and frisking together (like so many fairies, or furies rather) and worse practices." Morton was finally exported at twelve shillings cost, which was divided among Boston's citizens...