Word: bradford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Relying on sophomore strength, the varsity fencing squad downed Bradford-Durfee Saturday by a score...
...conga line. In the thin air, no one could lurch more than 15 steps without rest. The final 400 ft. were up a near-vertical snow wall; somehow they made it, and there was the slender bamboo pole that had been planted on the summit in 1947 by Bradford Washburn, a mountain-climbing geographer. Three men burst into tears. "Do you realize," gasped Buckingham, "do you realize what we've done? Four hackers-we've made a great ascent, maybe the greatest outside of South America in the world...
Strong Backing. In Zanesville, Ohio, charged with intoxication, Maynard Bradford won a suspended fine when he told the judge, "There's no one home to take care of my seven snapping turtles...
Called to the witness table, Hauling Hoods Gross, Noonan, Bitz and 28 other witnesses pleaded the Fifth Amendment. But the record was already clear-and so was the lesson. Said Senator McClellan to the Times's Business Manager Amory Bradford: "It's a very sad commentary [when] one of the greatest publications in the country ... is subjected to a situation where the publication can absolutely be closed down unless they pay tribute." Moreover, the publishers did not succeed in purchasing peace: just last December, the Deliverers' union went on strike, kept New York's nine major...
Based on Meyer Levin's novel about the LeopoldLoeb case, Compulsion is a well-wrought film which manages to steer around the usual stereotyped situations of college rebellion, detective work, and courtroom emotion. Primarily responsible are Dean Stockwell and Bradford Stillman as the paranoid Judd Steiner and the schizoid Artie Straus, and Orson Welles, who carries the latter part of the film on his sizeable bulk while playing the defense attorney (Clarence Darrow was responsible for life imprisonment sentences rather than the gallows for his clients...