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...first U.S. "basket case"* of World War II was home last week. Master Sergeant Frederic Hensel, 26, of Corbin, Ky., got his crippling wounds from a mine on Okinawa. He was walking ahead of his companion to protect him from mines when he stepped on one himself. The explosion blew off both legs above the knee, his left arm above the elbow, mangled his right hand so badly that it had to be removed on the ship home...
Jewel. In Lexington, Ky., answering an ad which offered to sell a "Beautiful Man's Genuine Italian Heavy Cameo Ring," one eager woman wrote: "I don't care anything about the ring, but I'd like to bid on the beautiful...
...owner of this somewhat startling face likes to startle strangers by announcing that he was born in jail. He came close to it. His father was the county jailer in Louisa, Ky., a tiny town in the Big Sandy Valley just across the river from West Virginia. When Fred was born in 1890, the Vinsons lived in a red brick, tree-shaded house with the jail in the rear. There was a sign outside which to a casual observer might have applied to home and cellblock alike: "$10 fine for talking to prisoners...
Married. Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, convivial ex-U.S. Army major and multi-uxorious automobile heir whose previous tries at matrimony have cost him a reputed $3,000,000 in settlements; and Lieut. Clara Tinsley, 27, U.S. Army nurse from Louis ville, Ky. ; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Windsor, England...
This story of how Lexington, Ky. became the first town to be christened by free Americans is one of hundreds in this fascinating 418-page "Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States" by George R. Stewart (Bret Harte, TIME, Dec. 21. 1931 ; Storm, TIME, Dec. 1, 1941). Its 2,000-odd place names run from Adam-and-Eve Alley to Zigzag...