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James Clark McReynolds, late retired Supreme Court Justice, was buried in Elkton, Ky., as his will meticulously directed-"westward of the family monument, head near the center, feet away from it." Among the gruff octogenarian bachelor's bequests: $10,000 to a woman acquaintance, $10,000 to a friend's daughter, $10,000 to Centre College of Danville, Ky., to "promote instruction of girls in domestic affairs...
...Riley Bradley, 86, onetime bookmaker and longtime "honest gambler," who became a multimillionaire as proprietor of Palm Beach's Casino, famed & respected owner of some of America's most famous race horses (Blue Larkspur, Bimelech, Bubbling Over), only four-time winner of the Kentucky Derby; in Lexington, Ky...
Grand Slam, Declared. In Lair, Ky., the State Highway Department condemned a 200-foot bridge; 30 minutes later it collapsed into the South Licking River...
...witness produced canceled Erie Basin checks for $18,000 made out to the Cumberland Lumber Co. One of them was endorsed by "A. J. May, President." No lumber had ever been delivered, no records for the company were available. But its home office was in Prestonburg, Ky., Andy May's home town...
...remembered it (in his journal): "I had no vices but was thoughtless and pensive, fond of shooting, fishing and riding ... as active and agile as a buck." He married a girl named Lucy and opened' a general store in Henderson, Ky., which flopped from the first. Audubon had to go hunting to fill the cupboard...