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When the call came through to her Louisville home last week, Emma Clarissa Clement was off at a district church conference in Springfield, Ky. Her daughter took the message. Mrs. Clement had just been elected American Mother of 1946 by the Golden Rule Foundation. Said the citation: "A mother of children who are devotedly serving their country and their people, a partner in her husband's ministry in his lifetime, a social and community worker in her own right...
...months it had handled about 5,000 cars, worth $4,000,000 at ceiling prices, sold them for $7,000,000. The technique: buying from individuals in auto-jammed Detroit, selling to the auto-hungry mid-South through auction outlets in sleepy Cairo, Ill., and sleepier Murray, Ky. The indicted ringleader: dark, stocky Ben Fishel of Cairo, whose business ran merrily on while he served in the Army...
Last week, after waiting around to see which of several mounts he wanted in the Derby, 30-year-old Jockey Eddie ("Banana Nose") Arcaro, who has ridden the winners of three Derbies, climbed up on Lord Boswell in the 1⅛-mile Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. What happened reminded oldtimers of such valiant past performers as Display and Exterminator. After almost getting left at the post, Boss Man got going when the race was nearly over, charged hell-for-leather through & around horses in the stretch, won by a neck. Said amazed Eddie Arcaro...
Fort Knox, Ky...
Though Colonel Starling kept a sporadic diary, in general he distrusted the written word. But his mother in Hopkinsville, Ky., treasured some 11,000 letters (one every day for 30 years) that her son wrote her. As the basis of this book, they provide a rich chronicle of White House life, a distillation of Colonel Starling's thoughts on politics, morals and religion...