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...boys from across the railroad tracks. Now they were dead, somewhere far away, or captured, or-worst of all-"missing." In some towns nearly everyone had lost a relative or a friend. Salinas, Calif, (pop. 11,586) had nearly 150 men in a tank company on Bataan. Harrodsburg, Ky. (pop. 4,673) had given 76 men to Bataan. In the anonymity of the big cities, the stories were hidden behind the walls of apartments. But every number on the lists meant somewhere the sense of loss...
...Fermentation of both molasses and grains can be speeded up 1,000%, announced four scientists of the Seagram distilleries of Louisville, Ky. Molasses is now fermented in batches in 50 hours, but the Seagram chemists have devised a continuous five-hour cycle in which fresh molasses enters a single fermentation vessel while fermented material is constantly withdrawn at the other end. But pilot-plant operations must be studied before this laboratory technique is adopted by distilleries...
LYNN H. SKEAN Ary, Ky...
...ever a U.S. horse attains the immortality of Bellerophon's Pegasus or Don Quixote's Rosinante, surely it will be Samuel D. Riddle's Man o' War. This Sunday, at Faraway Farm in Lexington, Ky., "Big Red" reaches the grand old age of 25-an age comparable to three-score and ten for a man-and without a grey hair to show...
Died. Alice Hegan Rice, 72, author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, wife of Poet Cale Young Rice; in Louisville, Ky. Published in 1901, the gently humorous story of a down-at-heels widow and her five children stayed among the leading-best-sellers for years afterward. It was Mrs. Rice's first novel. Dramatized, it became a longtime stock-company standby. The book was translated into half a dozen foreign languages...