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Though Kentuckians like to bet on horses from his big Idle Hour Farm which spreads out on both sides of the Frankfort Pike near Lexington, Col. Bradley is no native Kentuckian. He was born in Bradford, Pa., and worked in its steel mills till he was old enough to go out West and become a cowpuncher. After a few years of that he went to Chicago and made money with a hotel. Presently he was rich enough to spend his winters in Palm Beach, where he started a gambling casino. How much "Bradley's," smartest gaming place...
Harvard--Stroke, A. H. Parker '32; 7, F. J. Swayze '33; 6, J. W. Peirce '33; 5, Gridley Barrows '34; 4, T. E. Armstrong '32; 3, Bradford Simmons '34; C. F. Hovey '32; bow, A. L. Nickerson, Jr. '33; cox, E. S. Litchfield...
...behind them. Then, in the last mile. De Bruyn began to work his well-muscled legs faster in their choppy stride. He was 200 yd. ahead at the finish, with Hennigan second, Kyronen third, De Mar 18th, McLeod 27th. Far behind McLeod straggled a sad marathoner named Charles E. Bradford of Lowell, Mass. He was seized by a policeman as he finished the race, hustled to court where his wife was suing him for maintenance...
...Bradford, England, so sure was bookmaker Harry Ball that a horse named Gold Meter would not win the Harewood Plate last October that he cried: "?5 a week for life to half a crown!" Snapped Frank Waite. bookmaker's clerk: "I'll take that bet!" Gold Meter won. Last week Tattersall's committee settled the ensuing dispute by awarding Clerk Waite ?5 a week for one year (about $966), or odds of 2.080 to 1. An insurance company quoted the life annuity at ?4.873 (about $17,942), or odds...
WITH the recent deaths of Lytton Strachey and Gamaliel Bradford, Andre Maurois remains as the most prominent living biographer. (Apologies to Mr. Philip Guedalla who, fortunately or unfortunately, has not been accorded notice equal to Mr. Maurois). The members of this trio had much in common: they were the leaders in the art of "modern biography" and together they stood far aloof from all their cheap, novelizing imitators. Mr. Maurois began writing biography much later than either of his late contemporaries and he probably owes much to both of them. But he has a purpose and a method...