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...Sargent was more than a maker of period pieces has not yet arrived. "While his star appears to be rising again," Rathbone wrote in the exhibition catalogue, "critical opinion is not yet willing ... to admit that he is the artistic peer of his now more securely established American contemporaries-Homer, Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Ryder and Whistler...
When World War II ended, Dr. Homer V. Bradshaw took off the uniform he had worn as a medical officer with General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, returned with his wife to his work at the Presbyterian mission at Lienhsien in China's Kwangtung province. At that time the Bradshaws, medical missionaries in China for 13 years, were 47-strong, healthy, and hopeful that they would be able to go on serving the country they loved. Last week the Bradshaws left China, the latest in the long line of returning missionaries whose pitiable condition told the world...
...Homer Bradshaw, feeble and haggard (he had lost 40 Ibs.), helped his wife to freedom across the Lowu Bridge that separates Hong Kong from Communist China; as they walked onto British soil, Red Cross workers had to support them. Wilda Bradshaw, skeleton-thin and empty-eyed, mumbled incoherently and shrank in terror from photographers' flashbulbs...
...next four years Homer Bradshaw waited alone in prison, undergoing "a slow process of starvation." Not until last October did he hear the charges against him: espionage, "maintaining radio contacts with Hong Kong, Manila, Tokyo and the U.S." Says Bradshaw: "The greatest lies I've ever heard...
...Died. Homer ("The Musical Missionary") Rodeheaver, 75, trombone-playing musical director for 22 years for the late Evangelist Billy Sunday, composer of gospel songs (Then Jesus Came); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Winona Lake...