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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford, 33, descended from Massachusetts Puritans, was born in Tennessee, lives in New Orleans. During the War he was ist Lieutenant of Coast Artillery at Panama, then in France; after the War instructor in gunnery and ballistics, then newspaperman. Two months ago he resigned the Sunday editorship of the New Orleans Times-Picayune to give all his time to writing. Author Bradford's first book, Ol' Man Adam, was a success; his second, This Side of Jordan, a serious novel about Negroes, a failure...
...honorary. When I went to Savannah, Ga., in 1904, the natives couldn't call me Colonel because I wasn't an army man; they couldn't call me judge because I wasn't a lawyer so they compromised on Doctor. I'm a chem ist by profession and an inventor by inclination...
...credit Scot MacDonald resisted temptation, conferred as to means of com promise during half the night with snowy-headed Charles Alfred Cripps, onetime vicar, ist Baron Parmoor, and leader of the 14 Labor Peers who, absurdly enough, represent the largest British political party in the House of Lords...
That sort of Siwash stuff does not go at Harvard. It might be all right in some talk-town college in the middle 'Vest we are the yokels cut up to impress co-aids, but it is an indication that have crept into Harvard youngsters ist behind the ears and sadly in bibs...
...pursuit tactics to the acid test under extremely rigorous weather conditions, and to afford a very broad opportunity for testing flying equipment in zero temperatures" the ist Pursuit Group of the Army Air Corps long planned a frigid flight from Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back. The planes, 18 pursuit and four transports (one carrying short wave radio apparatus), equipped with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then...