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...William Bradford Hubbell...
Cloth-capped, grey-skinned Barnsley coal miners tumbled eagerly out of their special train for the long ride through Bradford's grey streets to '"t Coop" (the football Cup Final). Bradford textile workers watched the football fans, shouted angrily: "Wheer's 't coal? Slacking again?" The miners replied: '"T coal's in Barnsley. Go and help thysen...
...Scat to the Catskills. He was born David Daniel Kaminski, son of a Russian-born garment worker named Jacob Kaminski, on Brooklyn's Bradford Street. He soon learned that the only laughter in tenements is self-created, joined "social clubs" which put on amateur theatricals. Then he and a friend named Louis Eisen formed a harmony team...
When Maurice Bradford, a schoolteacher, was 28, and four years out of college, he killed a woman. He was sentenced to life in prison-but never lost his interest in education. He became librarian of the state penitentiary at Concord, N.H.; his 200-odd fellow inmates came to him for advice on correspondence-school courses to take and books to read. The library he built up (and was allowed to sleep in, instead of a cell) became the envy of other prisons...
Last week, after 29 years in jail, Lifer Bradford was being considered for a pardon. In his favor: his classmates ('13) at the University of New Hampshire had just voted Maurice Bradford the alumnus who "has done most for his fellow...