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Died. Mack Garner, 36, one of four famed jockey brothers (others: Guy, Lambert, Wayne ["Skeets"]), rider of the 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade; of a heart attack, after riding in four races and bringing in one winner at River Downs (formerly Coney Island) ; in Covington, Ky. In 22 years he rode more than 2,000 winners, earned $2,425,320 for the owners of his mounts...
...farsighted, he was an accomplished painter who had studied under Jacques Louis David in Paris, but remained at ease with tough woodsmen and trappers. In 1808 he married a pretty, well-born English girl, soon after failed at a variety of business ventures in New York City, Louisville, Henderson, Ky. He could do sleight-of-hand tricks, was a dead shot and a good fighter, claimed Daniel Boone as his friend. Wandering down the Mississippi after his Kentucky failures, he painted portraits, taught, was at the lowest point of discouragement when the cultivated Pirrie family befriended him, provided his career...
Fred Welch Peel, Jr., '39, of Danville, Ky., a Prize Fellow in Harvard College, is winner of one of the oustanding awards to Freshmen, the Haskins Prize Book in the History 1 course...
Humbler and bigger Kentucky Military Institute ($950 tuition, 225 enrollment) was established at Franklin Springs, Ky. in 1845. It moved to Lyndon, Ky. a half-century ago, went on the move two years ago when its headmaster Colonel Charles Blair Richmond bought a Depression-crippled resort hotel and a block of stores at Venice, Fla., whither K. M. I. repairs every January...
CHRISTINE A. REISING Louisville, Ky...