In January, David Bradley died at the age of 92. David Bradley was the son of Harold Bradley, the first owner of the Louis Sullivan-designed Bradley House in Madison, Wisconsin. David Bradley briefly lived in that house before the family moved into a Prairie Style home designed by Purcell & Elmslie (George Grant Elmslie had worked for Sullivan and assisted in the design for the first Bradley house as well).
David Bradley, a competitive skier at Dartmouth College, graduated with honors in English. He was the the US champion in the Nordic Combined (ski jumping and cross-country skiing), chosen for the 1940 US Olympic team, went to Finland was a war correspondent in 1939 after the Russian invasion. He then attended Harvard Medical School and subsequently entered the army and served as a medical officer.
His 1948 book, No Place to Hide was an early warning of the potential horrors of atomic warfare, and was praised by E. B. White in a New York Times review (White said Bradley had “eyes and ears of a poet”).
He served in the New Hampshire state legislature, taught, worked with the US Nordic ski team for the 1960 Olympics, and wrote more books (on Finland, on skiing and the work of Robert Frost).