Word: bromley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This odd inquisition was set up by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, 67, articulate firebrand of his church's liberal wing. Although the bishops talked with Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Christian Church), with Quaker-born (Presbyterian-attending) Richard Nixon, and Congregationalist (Methodist-attending) Hubert Humphrey, only Candidate Kennedy was quizzed on the church-and-state issues...
Vermont: Big Bromley, 26-40 base, 10 powder, excellent, Mad River Glen, 55-75 base, 10 powder, excellent; Mansfield (Stowe), 50-72 base, 9 powder, good to excellent; Mt. Snow, 27-56 base, 17 powder, excellent; Smugglers' Notch, 49-55 base, 9 powder, excellent; Sugarbush, 50-70 base, 8 powder, excellent...
Stowe has excellent conditions with three inches of new powder, while Big Bromley has an inch of powder with good to excellent conditions. Sugarbush Valley, Smugglers Notch, and Franconia (Mittersill) also offer premium skiing conditions. At North Conway, Mt. Sunapee, and Wildcat the outlook ranges from good to excellent...
Stepping out of a Manhattan taxi, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Methodist Church's Council of Bishops, slammed the door shut, unwarily slammed the edge of his overcoat with it. When the cab pulled away, Oxnam was felled, his head striking the curb. Momentarily knocked unconscious, the bishop was taken to the hospital with a fractured left arm and facial cuts...
...call for a "snap election" that would take advantage of the government's new popularity. But Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who refused to panic in the time of Tory adversity, was no more to be hustled in prosperity. Last week he jauntily told a Conservative rally in Bromley: "I have no intention of advising a dissolution of Parliament this winter; I hope this statement will put the Opposition out of their agony, and be a stabilizing message to the world of commerce and industry...