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...with an outrageously contrived rhyme that usually manages to contain a real groaner of a pun. When Ogden Nash died of heart failure last week at 68 in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, he left an affectionate and inventive verbal legacy. Said his friend and editor Ned Bradford of Little, Brown: "He reflected all the joys and vexations of American life in those resigned but cheerful verses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POETS: The Monument Ogdenational | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...drunken older brother, James Jr., Stacy Keach lacks something of Jason Robards' Broadwayish flamboyance but inflects the role with more guilt-racked anguish. James Naughton has the same difficulty that Bradford Dillman had in the original in suggesting the steely resolve that the tubercular young Edmund (really Eugene O'Neill himself) must have possessed to wrest his genius from these stricken souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Doom Music | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...Arts with Emily, and meets authoritarian proprietor Kane and dissatisfied employee Manny Washington I, who takes Steve's suit to wear for an employment interview and who gets the job as a part of an exhibit at the Museum, but who loses the suit to playwright Francine and actor Bradford, who get it back to the cleaner in time for Scott to wear it on his date with Emily, Got that? In a clever climax (around episode four) they all end up at the Museum of Fine Arts, where each muses over the exhibits and applies his particularly aesthetic standards...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Soap Operas Harvard Square | 3/31/1971 | See Source »

Radcliffe won five out of six races held this year by the Intercollegiate Conference, which includes Radcliffe, UMass, B.U., Bradford Jr. College, Wellesley, and Mt. Holyoke. The other race saw them lose a close contest to UMass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Skiers Win Sixth Successive League Title | 3/19/1971 | See Source »

...agreement to ensure self-government and good order for the new colony, and it was neither signed by all nor did it contain any democratic guarantees. The Separatist elite kept tight hold on the reins of government and sometimes made life uncomfortable for those not among the "saints." When Bradford permitted Anglican members of the community to abstain from work on Christmas-a holiday not observed by the Separatists-he expected them to observe the day solemnly. Finding some men playing sports, he "took away their implements" and sent them home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pilgrims: Unshakable Myth | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

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