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Kentucky's bluegrass country is a fertile region, some 80 miles across, in the rolling foothills of the Alleghenies. Official spokesmen of the bluegrass country are the Lexington Herald and Leader. Both owned by rotund, ribald little Publisher John George Stoll, 62, who distilled a fortune out of bluegrass whiskey, the morning Herald (circulation, 18,876) is for Roosevelt, evening Leader (22,119) for Willkie. But on one question Publisher Stoll's papers are agreed: that bluegrass horses nave no peers...
Fortnight ago the Herald in its pride made an announcement: on every day that some bluegrass-bred horse failed to win a race on a recognized mile track, the Herald would give away free its entire edition. Approximate cost to the Herald: $400. Publisher Stoll's pledge had stood for seven days at days at last week's end- and the Herald had given away no papers...
There are three Tennessees. There is East Tennessee, the home of shrewd mountain traders, Republicans, the Great Smokies, Knoxville and the TVA. There is Middle Tennessee, the Cumberland plateau, a land of bluegrass, rich farms, horsey squires (who keep a fighting-cock in the tobacco barn), of Nashville, "Athens of the South." There is cotton-growing West Tennessee, flatland of "red-necks," of Memphis, and Beale Street, Mistuh Ed Crump and the Mississippi...
...exception) and Crestonians are proud of its up-and-comingness. Crestonman Elmo Roper of FORTUNE Survey needs take no poll to know that. And you'll hear more about Creston if Crestonman Frank Phillips is successful in his present quest for a rich oil pool beneath the famous bluegrass (and corn) fields of this area. Creston even had three daily newspapers when Crestonman Gerald P. Nye was behind this very desk...
...which he had three mortgages) and a truckload of chickens. Chased by deputy sheriffs to Nashville, the sculptor abandoned his car, ran across country, got away, leaving a lawsuit between the three finance companies and his statues of horses and dogs, to mark his strange passage through the bluegrass country...