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...foot, sandy-haired Robert Fiske Bradford, 41, ninth direct descendant of old Governor William Bradford, the Mayflower Pilgrim who governed Massachusetts for 30 one-year terms with a blunderbuss in one hand and a prayerbook in the other. Young Bradford is the kind of Harvard graduate who still sculls on the Charles twice a week, and repairs to a Maine cottage every summer with his blueblood wife and four children. But he also knows when to call a tomahto a tomayto, and he speaks with some of the oratorical grandeur of John L. Lewis; with the same effective trick...
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, about to address most of the 300-odd citizens of Brickerville, Pa., stopped short, peered into the crowd, shouted: "Henry, what are you doing here?" Beavered, 80-year-old Henry Bricker, who had come from Bradford, Ohio for the occasion, joined his second cousin on the platform...
...Damnation." The juries' verdicts are often a source of astonishment and dismay to 305-lb. George Bradford Simpson, divorced, the ex-soap-opera "doctor" and free-lance writer who thought up, oversees and half-owns the show. His score on guessing the decisions is close to zero. One decision which bothered him occurred in the case of a wife whose husband admitted that he loved another woman but wanted her to stay on while he pursued his new affair. She asked the jury what to do. They voted unanimously in favor of her staying...
...decisive but defeats are ruinous; and simple death is the least misfortune which can happen to them." Because Librarian MacLeish conceived American Story as the account of the settlement of America, North and South, his chronicle joins the two continents. Last week, for instance, he gave Governor William Bradford's record of the founding of Plymouth and Pedro de Valdivia's record of the establishment of Santiago, Chile, by the Spaniards. Says MacLeish: "I think one reason the Americas find it so difficult to get along, one with the other, is that we don't understand...
...your interest turns to Bradford, Wheaton, Connecticut, or Colby, make her come to Boston; you'll waste your time visiting her and it'll be worth paying her hotel bill. Probably she'll stop at a Y. W. C. A. have known as the Pioneer anyway, for chaperonage reasons, and there, she pays her own bill. Smith and Vassar are 'good places to visit...