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...biographies tackled subjects from the great age of exploration and produced fresh material and absorbing stories: Bradford Smith's Captain John Smith (no kin) and Kathleen Romoli's Balboa of Darien. Two frequently misunderstood figures were straightened out again: Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, in Fletcher Pratt's combative Stanton, and a queen of England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were...
This leaves the brothers very little free time. They even have to take turns going to the Sunday Syrian concerts at the Hotel Bradford where the oriental harp, the big lute, the darpaka and tambourine spew forth the "greatest music you ever could hear, Hollywood not excepted...
Freshman proctor Bradford P. Colcord 2L celebrated Columbus Day by sinking a 212 yard hole...
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH (375 pp.)-Bradford Smith-Lippincott...
...comes Biographer Bradford Smith* with information that seems to give the truth back to Captain Smith and the lie to his detractors. In the past, critics of Smith have only had to point to his autobiographical book of True Travels, a tangle of yarns as wild and incredible as any medieval romance. Author Smith offers strong evidence, culled from 17th century Hungarian records by his associate, Dr. Laura Polanyi Striker, that even the tallest of John's tales were probably true, and that he was, in fact, not just in fancy, one of the greatest of the Elizabethan adventurers...