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...Died. Bradford Brooks Locke, 54, executive vice president of the $40,000,000 Church Pension Fund (for retired Episcopalian clergymen), one of the most candidly critical but most popular citizens (though he was a Harvardman) of Princeton, N.J.; after an operation; in Princeton...
...Bradford Young, then at Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Church (Episcopal), first tried this experiment on Lincoln's Birthday in 1925. He took a group of his young parishioners across the river to Harlem to celebrate the day with the kids of St. Philip's. It worked so well that after Clergyman Young got a new parish in Manchester, he invited the Harlem pastor, the Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, up to preach. Mr. Bishop had heard of the Harlem exchange trips of Vermont's Rev. A. Ritchie Low (TIME, Aug. 28, 1944), suggested that New Hampshire...
...Exhibit. In Bradford. England, a woman charged a Canadian soldier with biting off the end of her nose, brought the proof with her to court, preserved in a bottle...
Even in Holland, though they were "industrious and frugall," they had nearly foundered. In America they would certainly have starved without a cache of Indian corn, which they providentially and promptly appropriated. "Sure it was God's good providence," wrote Bradford. When the corn was used up, their first Indian friend and convert, Squanto, providentially appeared. Captured by British sailors some years earlier, Squanto had lived in London and spoke perfect English. He had returned to America six months before the Mayflower. Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to plant their corn in small, properly spaced hills...
...every day somebody died. When at last the Mayflower sailed back to England, the harvest came in, and a gift of corn from Squanto increased the group ration by another peck of fresh meal. But the seven acres planted by the Pilgrims themselves were a dismal failure. This, said Bradford, was the fault of "ye badness of ye seed, or lateness of ye season, or both, or some other defecte...