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...Frankfort, Ky., a divorce was awarded to Charles R. Barnett, who charged that his wife had refused to kiss him because his mustache tickled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 3, 1944 | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls so big that you could a-throwed a cat betwix them without tetching a hair." Emmy's parents were hillbilly sharecroppers. She was christened Joy May Creasy. Says she: "I started strippin' tobakker when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cousin Emmy | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Divorced. Herman Frederick Willkie, 53, Wendell Willkie's elder brother, Distillers Corp.-Seagrams Ltd. vice president; by Gerri Baker Willkie, 41; after five years; in Covington, Ky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 11, 1943 | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Colonel Ed has seen things in the company he has kept that, would burn and illumine the pages of history. But his memoirs, if he ever writes them, would probably lack the acid, gossipy trivia that make such memoirs bestsellers. To this native of Hopkinsville, Ky. the world contains two kinds of men: gentlemen and others. In his rougher dealings with possible assassins (the legend is that Starling can "sense" a crank in a crowd), gentlemanly Colonel Ed has been known to address a suspicious character as "pahdner." Ambassadors, foreign potentates, Supreme Court justices, Congressmen, newsmen and other citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Changing the Guard | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Camp Breckinridge, Ky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1943 | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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