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Afterward he indulged in no romantic retreat into the Lost Cause. Life at Glen Lily, the general's 1,000-acre estate near Munfordville, Ky., went on in much the same spacious ante-bellum way. But the general hustled out to enlarge the fortune he had made speculating in Chicago real estate, get himself elected Governor of Kentucky, belabor the reformers. At 62 he took a 28-year-old bride, and fathered the present lieutenant general...
...members and has a sorry history of schisms and Communist infiltration, is the only nationwide teachers union (though C.I.O. has recently set up a National Teachers Division of its State, County and Municipal Workers of America). As public servants, teachers are not protected by the Wagner Act. In Covington, Ky., a Kentucky colonel who had taught a high-school class for 17 years was demoted recently to a fourth-grade job largely because of his A.F.T. activities. In Arlington Heights, Ill., 14 of a total of 28 teachers have been fired or asked to resign in the last year...
...regularly, never allowed morphine to disturb his meticulous planning. Nevertheless, drugs were his undoing. To get his supplies, in a tight wartime dope market, he forged the signature of a Chicago physician. That was careless. He was arrested (as Major Maclay), sent to a Federal Narcotics Hospital at Lexington, Ky. For months nobody suspected that he was Mr. X, the fabulous forger. After painful checking, the FBI identified...
...amid all the quackery and superstition, two western doctors made great and lasting contributions to the science of medicine. In his office in Danville, Ky., Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first operation for ovarian tumor on a brave, unanesthetized woman who lived 31 years thereafter. In Mackinac, Mich., peering through a hole in the stomach wall of a half-breed Indian named Alexis St. Martin, Dr. William Beaumont made his momentous discoveries about the action of the gastric juices...
After the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Krueger and his fellow high-school students went over to Fort Thomas, Ky. to watch the 6th Infantry drill. The military bug bit them. On June 17, Walter Krueger enlisted; he reached Santiago, Cuba a few weeks after the Battle of San Juan Hill. Mustered out of the volunteers in February 1899, he still was not dedicated to the military life. By now he wanted to be a civil engineer. But many of his comrades were re-enlisting for service in the Philippines. After four months, Krueger was back...