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...Mary Lamb threw a fork at a domestic, missed the girl, but harpooned her feeble-minded father. Then she killed her mother with a carving knife. Such behavior was considered extraordinary even in literary circles that included Cole ridge, Godwin, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt and De Quincey. While friends hushed up the tragic affair, Mary Lamb was sent away to a private asylum (Charles had already passed six weeks in the Hoxton mad house). Coleridge wrote her letters of metaphysical commiseration, which baffled Charles and may have enraged Mary. One day after her release she was quietly talking to Coleridge. Suddenly...
...hospital service"-so Breathitt's only hospital is closing. The hospital doctor is going away, leaving only two physicians and young, overworked County Health Officer Frank K. Sewell to cope with the trachoma (eye inflammation), syphilis, gonorrhea in Breathitt's remote mountain shacks. To get to Morris Fork for a clinic once every six weeks, Dr. Sewell has to ride mule-back or walk the last five miles across two mountains...
Miss Sheridan claims she's an actress. She claims she has even played in a movie or two,--an unconfirmed statement. But if Lampy is to be foiled, Miss Sheridan has got to fork up the goods. Harvard must see this Texas heat-wave in action...
...Cumberland is formed by the junction of Poor Fork and Clover Fork of Cumberland at Baxter, in Harlan County, Kentucky, some 200 miles upstream from Celina where the Obey flows into the Cumberland...
...people who swelled attendance at baseball games and football games, the millions of vacations that led everywhere: to picnic groves along the Missouri, where the sun coming through the cottonwood and maple gives them a coppery, luminous glow; to ranches in Wyoming, where the Sweetwater and Clark Fork curve through the rocky canyons; to the dunes of Cape Cod and the bayous of Louisiana. It was exploratory, adventurous, inventive, inquisitive, it was the acceptance of struggle and hazard-it was anything except a resigned or a bitter acceptance of a real or a mythical fate...