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...crowds were beginning to gather at the Executive Inn Rivermont, near Owensboro, Ky. Dolly Parton, 37, had come to town. About an hour before showtime, a woman phoned Owensboro police to warn of possible danger from a man who "wants to harm her, a person who can't stand her." Parton's security consultant, Gavin DeBecker, 29, recommended that she cancel the concert and three others scheduled for last week. DeBecker believes he has a line on the man, a mental patient who has been arrested "a number of times." As for Parton, who carries a snub-nosed...
Driving on back roads, the couple meandered through northern Illinois as far as Chicago, east into Indiana, south to Paducah, Ky., and then into the St. Louis area. Back in Carman township, Ill., distraught family members, unaware that the Graftons were motoring aimlessly, reported them missing...
Orthopedic Surgeon Jon Love, of Madisonville, Ky., connects the Apple in his home to both the AMA/NET, which offers, among other things, information on 1,500 different drugs, and Medline, a compendium of all medical articles published in the U.S. "One day I accessed the computer three times in twelve minutes," he says. "I needed information on arthritis and cancer in the leg. It saved me an hour and a half of reading time. I want it to pay me back every time I sit down...
Mason, 42, grew up near Paducah, Ky., and she gets the details of transition right. "Who bought these 'toes'?" says one senior citizen. "He would no longer say 'nigger toes,' the old name for the chocolate-covered creams." Unlike some writers who have moved up, Mason does not bury her past in ironic disdain. A woman who identifies a long, low dog as a "datsun" gets the same neighborly attention as a pastor's wife who plays electronic games rather than attend one more workshop like Christian "marriage enhancement." In true short-story tradition...
Florence Y. Mason Radcliff, Ky...