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...Pacific Express roared down the runway into the night, six of the bounced airmen clustered around a Red Cross worker in Colonel Platt's terminal. At Red Cross suggestion, A/1C Cole Y. Bell, trying to make it to an injured brother's bedside at Fort Campbell, Ky., tried to telephone the Fifth Air Force inspector general's office, with no luck. At that point a veteran sergeant suggested: "Why don't you call General Burns? If anyone can help you, he can. I used to serve under him, and he's all right." Swallowing hard...
...When "Ky" Ebright retires in June, he can look back on one of the most successful records in rowing. His crews have been national college champions six times, took Olympic titles in 1928, 1932 and 1948. Last week, attired in his traditional battered hat, stubby (5 ft. 6 in.) Ky Ebright was still bustling around the California boathouse on the Oakland Estuary, roaring instructions and encouragement as he drove his oarsmen through his last season...
Reading your story about Harlan County, Ky. [Feb. 23] was like reading of a favorite old relative who had died. My father, a doctor, began practicing medicine there in the '20s. A schoolteacher we knew there, rumored to have given aid and comfort to an Internal Revenue agent, went out one morning with his daughter; he sent her back to the house for their lunches, stepped on the starter of their car, and was blown all over Harlan County by the dynamite explosion...
...recommended restaurants), Lodging For a Night (4,000 hostelries), and Adventures in Good Cooking, who traveled over 2,000,000 miles tasting food, charged nothing for a listing in his books, $10-$20 a year for rental of a Duncan Hines sign; of cancer; in Bowling Green, Ky. In 1956, Duncan Hines's assorted gastronomic enterprises became a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble...
...holder at two miles, set a new three-mile record -13:37. Shotputter Parry O'Brien uncorked a heave of 62 ft. 1¼ in. to better his own world record. ¶ The nation's longest college basketball winning streak was snapped rudely at 30 in Lexington, Ky., when Auburn ran into Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats, took a 75-56 clobbering in a game made lively by fisticuffs...