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...tiny (pop. 500) Bradfordsville, Ky., one morning last week, Principal B. H. Crowe of the town's combined elementary-high school sat in his office, trying his best to look busy. Elsewhere in the building, five teachers puttered about their empty classrooms or gathered in the corridor for leisurely chats. As the entire staff knew, its presence was a mere formality. Not a single pupil has come to school in the last eleven weeks...
...Paris, Ky., on the day the Gallant Fox Memorial Handicap was being run at Jamaica, Belair Stud's great bay stallion Gallant Fox died at the age of 27. One of the few thoroughbreds ever to win racing's Triple Crown (The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1930), the Fox of Belair also was the first such winner to sire another; his son, Omaha, turned the trick...
...utility business since he became a clerk for the Electric Bond & Share Co. after his graduation from high school in 1922. Among other business connections, he is a vice president of Electric Energy, Inc., which is building a steam plant to supply the AEC's Paducah, Ky., installation. Yates, an engineer (Rutgers '02), worked for five years on two railroad tunnels under New York's East River, since 1911 has spent much of his time in the South. As vice president of Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern, he helped Willkie with the fight against...
...Truman Administration negotiated power contracts for AEC plants in Paducah, Ky. and Pike County, Ohio with regional utilities (without calling for competitive bids) for the same basic economic reasons: as AEC's power requirements rise and fall, local power companies can supply the added demand by production in their other plants or can absorb excess power through their network to other customers in the area...
...Houston horsewoman (winner of ten of eleven firsts for harness ponies in last year's National Horse Show), heiress to a $50 million Texas oil fortune; and H. Burnett Robinson, 36, manager of the Abercrombie racing stable; she for the third time, he for the second; in Versailles, Ky...