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They can tell me Clean Gene Bartow stories until I die, but I won't believe that Kentucky lost yesterday...
...just can't be true. Bartow's employer, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has only been fielding a basketball team for three years. Its first NCAA tournament game ever was way back on Friday night, a 93-68 blowout over Western Kentucky. That was Western Kentucky--a noble team, to be sure, but the accent is on the Western. This was the U of K, the fearsome Wildcats, the squad with the longest tradition of quality basketball in the country. UCLA is a come-laiely compared to the Blue and White...
...Bartow Monterey, Calif...
DIED. Charlie Smith, reputedly 137 and the oldest U.S. citizen on Social Security records; of heart and kidney failure; in Bartow, Fla. Smith claimed that he was born in Liberia, was lured onto a slave ship in 1854 and sold to a Texas rancher named Charlie Smith. Freed under the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Smith said he became known as "Trigger," a gun-slinging acquaintance of Billy the Kid and Jesse James. The spry, loquacious centenarian recounted tales that jibed with historical documents. One secret of his longevity: "I never drink green [plain] milk...
...BARTOW, Fla.--Judge Oliver Green last week ordered a 28-year-old mother of two not to get pregnant or marry a man with children while she serves ten years of probation for aggravated child abuse...