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...Fred Vinson Day" in the valley town of Louisa, Ky. (pop. 2,100), and 5,000 people crowded into town for the doings. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed, Tom Clark and Sherman Minton, all the Kentucky court of appeals judges, the governors of Kentucky and nearby West Virginia were there to honor the home-town boy. They ate country ham and fried chicken as guests of cousin R. L. Vinson, a retired banker. Then came the ceremony at which a bronze plaque, bearing Chief Justice Vinson's mournfully dignified likeness, 'was dedicated. "The happiest...
Dressed in the scarlet death-cell garb, the seven condemned Nazis waited in Landsberg prison for their midnight appointment with the hangman. The hearses with the empty coffins were ready to take the bodies to home-town cemeteries. Late in the evening the men said goodbye to their wives...
...home-town audience in Baltimore last week, wealthy, socialite ex-Diplomat James Bruce described a couple of friendships he made when he was U.S. Ambassador to Argentina from...
Toronto's Public Works Commission was trying to decide whether to erect a $3,000 bronze statue of Mary Pickford. The design, already approved by the home-town girl who made good in Hollywood, is a four-foot-high, eight-year-old lass with dangling Pickford curls...
...uncomfortable in the M.E.'s high-backed chair. ("I know that even the men on the staff felt they were getting a police court managing editor," he later admitted.) But Reese was a bedrock newsman, who had started out at $8 a week on the Chief in home-town Hobart, Mo., worked on a handful of other papers before he joined the P-D in 1913. He was smart enough to capitalize on talents far different from Bovard...