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Cryptic Brevity. A native Kentuckian (born in a town called Hurricane), Tom Wallace joined the Times, at no pay, in 1900. He was 31 when Watterson made him the youngest member of the Courier-Journal editorial-page crew. Thirteen years later, when Marse Henry quit in a huff (because Owner Robert Worth Bingham came out for the League of Nations), Wallace switched to the Times as chief editorial writer. He has been there ever since, driving at dawn from his 150-acre dairy farm to fire his pungent editorial missiles through the composing room tubes...
Most gawked-at conferee: 21-year-old Barbara Jo Walker, a Memphis Sunday-school teacher who also happens to be Miss America of 1947. Fellow delegates hung on her every good word. Typical was a freckle-faced Kentuckian who fell into step beside her as she was leaving one of the meetings. "You're so important and all," he said, "I was wondering what you think is the big job we boys and girls have to face up to." Replied beautiful Barbara Jo: "I think we've got to find a way to lasting peace...
...little farm town of Vandalia, Ill. just about doubled its population in one day. Some 4,000 newcomers, almost all of them blind, deaf, lame or incurably ill, were there to be healed. The self-styled healer: William Branham, a bald, narrow-shouldered, shiny-eyed Kentuckian and ex-power company lineman. As each patient walked or was carried past, Branham prayed over him, felt him to see if he vibrated with demons. When the last hallelujahs had died away and the collection had been taken, one young man announced that he had flung away his hearing...
...proceeds of private business transactions, funds to pay off notes he had signed to help the Garssons get a little ready cash. He had never made a dime out of the Cumberland Lumber Co. He had posed as Cumberland's owner, he said with a smirk, because no Kentuckian would work in the mill "if it were known that this company was owned by outside people who were Jews...
...narrative of the violent Kentuckian's search for his love has the poetic improbability of something that might actually have happened. He finds her and joins her tribe, the Piegans, in the mountain valley of the Teton River, "winding, busy but unhurried, with a mind and time to have a look at things as it went along." Living with the Indians suits Boone. "A man could sit and let time run on while he smoked or cut on a stick with nothing nagging him and the squaws going about their business and the young ones playing, making out that...