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...noticed in your issue of TIME, June 25, on p. 53, an article stating that 7,000 children had been vaccinated against tuberculosis with BCG in Louisville, Ky...
Chicago will not be the first U. S. city to try this system of immunization against tuberculosis. Louisville, Ky. has vaccinated 7,000 children. Both learned their technique from New York City, where for each of the past seven years Dr. William Hallock Park has treated 200 children. His results are promising, but the city is not ready to use B. C. G. vaccine on a large scale...
Bugles hushed 5.000 persons assembled in the hills near Ashland, Ky. last Sunday afternoon. Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon bade them all a deep, drawling welcome. His wife uncovered a bronze tablet. And a rude little log cabin was officially christened "Traipsin" Woman...
...have any of the 30 cases of quintuplets reliably reported during the past five centuries lived long after birth. Longest lived, before the Dionne sisters hung up a new record, were those of a woman of Mayfield, Ky. After 4 days, 17 hr. Death began to pluck them...
...racing classic of the American continent also has the distinction of having seen every Derby ever run. In 1875, 14-year-old Matt Winn sat in his father's grocery wagon and watched Aristides win the race. Grocery Boy Matt Winn became Matt Winn, merchant tailor of Covington, Ky. Twenty years ago, Tailor Matt Winn became Colonel Matt J. Winn, racetrack manager. In 1914 he upped the Derby's purse, steadily began to ballyhoo the race into a social and sporting extravaganza. Now, 73, Colonel Winn as president of the American Turf Association operates not only Churchill Downs...