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...would like to be one of the first to thank you for your story covering Preston Bradley's 25th Jubilee [TIME, April 26]. Although I've never had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Bradley I've listened with great interest to his Sunday broadcasts off and on for many years. With the possible exception of Mr. Roosevelt and the late Huey Long he has more power, more "radio personality" than any public speaker I've heard...
...somewhat shocked when I read your account of Dr. Preston Bradley's 25th anniversary celebration in Chicago. You so completely misquoted me, as to have made nonsense out of what I said. I am wondering whether you can help...
...before breakfast, walks an hour a day, spends his vacations piloting his 30-ft. cruiser on the lakes of northern Minnesota. An able angler, he became president of the Izaak Walton League of America in 1930, was made president emeritus when his four-year term expired. Fond of publicity, Preston Bradley gets it not only by preaching, reviewing books in his pulpit every Wednesday, making speeches nightly-his schedule for paid appearances extends into next March-but by such activities as serving on Illinois library, prison and school boards. Last year 10,000 Chicagoans signed a petition requesting...
...last week he was given a check for $2,000. Catholicism was represented, unofficially, by his good friend Judge John McGoorty, who, though a devout Catholic, is often called "assistant pastor of Peoples Church." Spokesman for Jewry was popular Rabbi Mann, who rejoiced that Adolf Hitler declined to allow Preston Bradley in Germany last year. Prayed Rabbi Mann, in Hebrew: "May you go on, dear Preston, from strength to strength. May your dust continue to serve even unto your 100th year...
Outcasts of Poker Flat (RKO). Pay dirt was running thin at Poker Flat, Calif. in 1851 until a dance hall girl gave birth to a female child in the backroom of Gambler John Oakhurst's saloon, Mr. Oakhurst (Preston Foster) acting as midwife. Because a gold strike coincided with the birth, Oakhurst called the baby "Luck" (Virginia Weidler). His whim of allowing her, at 10, the status of a poker dealer in his place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried...