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...self-righteous in their attacks against the scoundrel of Merry Mount. Perhaps one reason for their contempt of him was that he was not related to our "saintly" family. That he was well educated and an aristocrat may also have had some bearing on the fact that, with Governor Bradford, they drove him from the colony. Furthermore, trading booze with the Indians made him a total menace to the Pilgrims, who were heavy drinkers...
Other expected results were the victories of incumbents in the Fifth District, where F. Bradford Morse (R) easily defeated physicist Richard Williams (D), and the Seventh District, where Torbet MacDonald (D) routinely routed his perennial opponent, Gordon F. Hughes (R), for the fifth consecutive time...
Myles Standish, that well-known non-womanizer, accompanied by America's first vice squad, interrupted the revels, which were subsequently described by Plymouth Governor William Bradford as "the beastly practices of the mad Bacchinalians." Morton eventually was busted, placed in the stocks and returned to England in a state of mortifying near starvation...
Like its parent, graphology, graphotherapy has many critics who equate it with such pseudosciences as phrenology and astrology. Both also have their advocates. At the Santa Clara County juvenile detention farm in California, Psychologist Ernest Bradford Smith has been analyzing the script of his charges for 15 years and says that he can now spot the delinquent by his handwriting. De Sainte Colombe is widely known among West Coast behavioral scientists, some of whom are impressed by his pen-and-pencil therapy. Tested at a number of institutions, among them California's Patton State Hospital and the Santa Clara...
Even after her donation, the house in Bradford is still full to overflowing, with pictures hanging even on the staircase balustrade. She feels in no way diminished by her gift to San Francisco. Says Tullah: "I'm part of the exhibit. I am a unique and original piece of the Edward Hanley collection...