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...this and a 'dash' of that." Some papers provide their editors with elaborate test kitchens, but most food writers try their recipes at home, must be ready to answer the phone at all hours to rescue a distraught hostess trapped in mid-soufflé. Says Louisville Courier-Journal's Cissy Gregg: "They call me sometimes at 2 or 3 a.m. and say 'Look, I'm making such and such and this is where I am. Now what's next...
...most high-pressured culture drive Kentucky had ever seen. Alben Barkley was in on it, and so were Happy Chandler, Senators Earle Clements and John Sherman Cooper, Novelists A. B. Guthrie and Robert Penn Warren. Chairmaned by Mrs. Barry Bingham, the energetic wife of the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the campaign was out to put Parnassus on wheels, get no bookmobiles circulating through the state. This week, in Nelson County, the first one was about to go into operation...
...report, dated April 4, 1944, noted that 28 detectives and policewomen had become dues-paying members of the party and had supplied daily reports on its inner workings. "So deeply did some of our investigators bore into the party," it stated, "that one of them acted as a courier between the American Communist Party and an agent in Portugal...
...annual $10,000 contest, Charles Dawson's portrait of Elizabeth, for United Press, came in third ($200). Top honors went to a picture of a more universal and more timeless theme-a soldier coming home from the wars (see cut). James N. Keen of the Louisville Courier-Journal won the $500 first prize for his shot of Captain Darrell J. Putnam, after 18 months in Korea, greeting his wife and the daughter he had never seen. In second place ($300): another Courier-Journal photo (by Lucie Becker), of a church picnic...
...Greenglasses finally confessed their part in the treachery. So did Harry Gold, the courier who transmitted to Yakovlev the Greenglass A-bomb data (he also passed on information from Britain's Klaus Fuchs). There were other corroboratory witnesses. But the Rosenbergs denied all, though confession might have won them a lesser sentence, through the three weeks of their 1951 trial and through two subsequent years of appeal and judicial review. In prison, Ethel sang folk songs, and such melodies as the aria One Fine Day from Madame Butterfly and John Brown's Body (also the tune of Solidarity...