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Bradley is certainly more than a figment of a good press agent. He connected on 11 of 22 shots; his passing and ball-handling were fantastic. In fact, they're probably too good--Tiger Coach Bill van Breda Kolff must wish that Bradley would shoot more and feed off less to his lacklustre teammates...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quintet Stuns Princeton, Ties for Ivy Lead | 2/8/1964 | See Source »

...period. Trailing 64 to 40, they whittled Harvard's lead to 68-57 in two minutes. At this point Bradley drove in and bucketed a dazzling layup, which would have out the lead to nine, but the All-American was called her charging and the two points nullified Van Breda Kelff had conniptions on the sideline, and the look in Bradley's eyes meet have resembled the expression of the Boston Strangler when he has a nylon stocking in his hand...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quintet Stuns Princeton, Ties for Ivy Lead | 2/8/1964 | See Source »

...islands by driving out the Spaniards, who didn't even put up a fight. When the Dutch also tried to push the British out of the part of Guiana now called Surinam, the British countered by seizing New Amsterdam (Manhattan). Later, in the 1667 Peace of Breda, the Dutch traded off New Amsterdam (bought from the Indians for $24) for 55,000 square miles in Guiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLONIES: Looser Reins | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...Nothing. 32. Breda and Frank could not complete the fairy tale; and so ended the romance that began: 1. In a little theater off Union Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Other reporters brazenly asked her if she was going to marry Frank. After that, said Frank, "she got to be more shy." Frank seldom got to see her alone at all. When Frank left after two weeks, Breda was not even there to bid him goodbye. She was in the fields of her beloved farm. "If God had wanted us to be married," mused Frank Hayostek, "that's how it would be. The way it happened, maybe God tried to tell me something I don't yet understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND.: End of the Affair | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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