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Manhattan Prospects. Ruefully, Rue admits that most of his calls are for current race results, but any day is sure to bring other momentous questions. What was the largest football score ever run up? (In 1916 Cumberland University lost to Georgia Tech 222-0.)* What was the largest crowd ever to watch a water polo game? (In 1932 10,000 at the Los Angeles Olympic games.) S.I.R. will answer any reasonable query, but once refused to give Pro Wrestler Lord Carlton's address to an irate female fan who wanted to take him apart after watching...
Mountain Dynasts. When Kentucky was becoming a state, a pair of tall, silent brothers from South Carolina crossed Daniel Boone's Wilderness Trail and settled in the foothills beyond Cumberland Gap. Ever since, the descendants of Malachi and Edward Cooper have been prominent in the affairs of Pulaski County...
Bertha put in four years at the Missionary Training Institute in Nyack, N.Y., cramming all the medical-aid courses she could find. Three times she was set to leave for Africa when the trip was canceled at the last moment. Finally, she wound up in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains, nursing the sick, teaching the Bible, and making clothes for the dirt-poor cabin dwellers...
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...plan was for the hikers to take a train to the canal terminus in Cumberland, Md. and walk from there to Washington, D.C. Two days and 43 miles after they left Cumberland, Bookman and fellow walkers arrived at the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club, where they were to spend the night and where a TIME courier was waiting to take Bookman's copy to the nearest telegraph office. This done, Bookman relaxed and followed a home-remedy suggestion to ease aching muscles: he drank a tumbler of heavy saltwater solution. The next night, by the time he had bedded down...