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...Fred Vinson Day" in the valley town of Louisa, Ky. (pop. 2,100), and 5,000 people crowded into town for the doings. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed, Tom Clark and Sherman Minton, all the Kentucky court of appeals judges, the governors of Kentucky and nearby West Virginia were there to honor the home-town boy. They ate country ham and fried chicken as guests of cousin R. L. Vinson, a retired banker. Then came the ceremony at which a bronze plaque, bearing Chief Justice Vinson's mournfully dignified likeness, 'was dedicated. "The happiest...
...training camps are full to overflowing, the nearby towns small, and housing scarce, the chiselers are out. So reported the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, headed by Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson, this week, after inspecting more than 20 such localities. They issued a first report on three of them: Camp Breckinridge, Ky., Camp Rucker, Ala., Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Camp Rucker and Fort Leonard Wood were bad enough, but Camp Breckinridge took all prizes: CJ An old doll house, built by a widow for her daughter, was the home of a sergeant, his wife, mother-in-law and three children. The house...
...Ordered the construction of a $900 million factory near Aiken, S.C., a new $50 million U-235 plant at Paducah, Ky., and $200 million additions to both the original Oak Ridge plant and the Hanford, Wash. plutonium works...
Next of the "backwoods obstetricians" to win Graham's praise was Ephraim McDowell of Danville, Ky. In 1809, he persuaded Jane Todd Crawford, 47 (and a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln), to travel 60 miles on horseback to his surgery, though she was very ill. Lacking anesthesia, Jane Crawford kept up her courage by repeating the Psalms while Dr. McDowell made surgical history with the first ovariotomy - and removed a 15-lh. ovarian cyst...
...landed in the midst of his squad.* Hero Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl H. Dodd, 26, of Company E, 5th Infantry Regiment, a coal miner's son from Kenvir, Ky. On January 30, Lieut. Dodd's platoon was pinned down near Subuk by crossfire from cleverly camouflaged machine-gun nests. Dodd alone stood up, charged the first nest singlehanded, wiped it out. The Chinese started heaving down grenades. Dodd pitched them back, hollered for his men to move...