Word: bradley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force research pilot who holds a Ph.D. in chemistry, was named last week to fill one of two seats in a manned orbiting laboratory. He will be the nation's first Negro astronaut. Lawrence hawked newspapers on the street as a boy, worked his way through Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and became an Air Force jet instructor and weapons-research scientist. ·The prestigious University of Chicago appointed Dr. John Hope Franklin, 52, chairman of its history department. Author-Educator Franklin holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard, has taught at Cornell, Cambridge, Wisconsin and California...
...Bradley Burg's score is very much a saving-grace, with its unswervingly melodic line and its sweet harmonies. Mayer's lyrics show signs of being dashed off, except for the last, very beautiful one, and the lyricist doesn't seem to be able to make a rhyme without using enjambement, a device which should always be used very sparingly. The score keeps the show flowing when the accumulation of gag-lines that have fallen flat start to clog...
...that slowdown, Bulova is now keeping better time than ever. Over the past eight years, the company has doubled annual sales, to $123 million, and increased earnings by 150%, to $3.8 million. Two men are most responsible for Bulova's improved fortunes. The first is General Omar N. Bradley, 74, who was brought into the company in 1953 by Arde Bulova, son of the Czechoslovak immigrant who founded Bulova as a small Manhattan jewelry shop in 1874. When Arde died in 1958, Bradley succeeded him as chairman. The following year, Arde's nephew, Harry Bulova Henshel...
...synonym for superb. No longer does the golf pro come in the back door of the country club; he may even own the club. The professional baseball player no longer travels coach on a train; he flies by jet. It is no longer a shameful act for a Bill Bradley -a banker's son, an Ivy Leaguer, a Rhodes scholar, a student of philosophy, politics and economics-to sign a pro basketball contract. Not when the New York Knickerbockers are willing to pay him $125,000 a year...
...Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, said yesterday that Harvard had no plans to raise rent, evict tenants, or otherwise change the operation of the building. Actual operation will be in the hands of the R.M. Bradley real estate firm -- the same firm which ran the building for the previous owners...