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...Braxton Bragg Sawyer stepped into an Oklahoma City bookstore one day and came out with a crusade. Inside he had found a group of teen-agers giggling over nudist magazines. Baptist Sawyer was alarmed to see Satan in this unexpected quarter. "Nudists!" he said. "I had preached for 20 years without ever using the word nudist...
Devoted Readers. The Confederacy took full advantage of such readymade intelligence. Southern sympathizers and agents floated copies of Northern newspapers down the Mississippi in bottles, or simply crossed the lines with them. Shortly before the battle of Chickamauga, Confederate General Braxton Bragg was delighted to read in the New York Times a story about a scheme for bluffing part of his forces out of their positions around Chattanooga. Bragg, forewarned by one of the country's most reliable journals, refused to be bluffed...
...when he can't persuade her to switch back into banditry, and finally meets his match in a protracted barefisted bout with the U.S. marshal (Randolph Scott) after shooting it out unsuccessfully in a lonely building. The locale: the boom town of Guthrie, and the ghost town of Braxton, just before & after the 1889 land rush into Oklahoma Territory...
...postwar center of intellectual gravity. His colleague, Dean Robert De Blois Calkins, of Columbia's School of Business, predicted that foreigners will want to study in U.S. universities the business methods emphasized by the U.S. war-production record. More reserved was Columbia's Graduate Dean George Braxton Pegram, who studied at Cambridge and Berlin. He thinks Europe and Russia will still draw foreign students in special fields...
...Hicks's hero is one George Swain, a decent, middle-aged fellow of the small town of Braxton, N.H., who submits to a great doctor's experiment in "suspending animation'' for a century. Anesthetized in 1940, he wakes up in 2040 -the first, as he later learns, of eight similar sleepers (the doctor hoped at least one would get through). A research scientist assigned to study his reactions encourages him to write a book about his discovery of the world of 2040, for the guidance of the seven other antiques when they wake...