Word: kentuckian
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AFTER A SUMPTUOUS repast not long ago, some writers sitting around a table in the corner of a large dining hall got on the subject of the coming depression--always only coming for most Harvard students. Amid the gossip of what's being written in other parts, one Kentuckian, amber-voiced and somnolent, got to talking excitedly about a book about poor back-hills people commissioned by the Louisville Courier Journal "in the style of Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Another Southerner quipped smilingly--not wanting to disparage such excitement but with full knowledge of Agee--that...
...explained. Not so long ago they used to practice that art in this city. Harry Truman, with all his independence and gutsiness, went through exhaustive consultations with Pentagon and State Department officials, down to the third levels of authority, before he committed forces to Korea. Alben Barkley, the mellow Kentuckian Senator and Vice President, was heard to rip into a Democratic colleague who kept attacking Republican leaders. Night after night Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson would go down to Eisenhower's White House breathing partisan fire, but something magic always happened when the old General uncorked the bourbon...
...weather was cold, the wind was stiff, and Dorwart was both. He allowed a hit and walked three batters before he found anything resembling control. With one run in and the bases still loaded, the tall Kentuckian finally looked as if he had found some of his stuff. He got, M.I.T.'s Jim Cole to hit an easy double-play grounder. Second baseman Phil Smith took the throw from short-stop Jeff Grate for the first out, but threw the ball far over first baseman Joe Ignaclo's head. Two runs scored on the error and the M.I.T. lead...
...Guinn's uncle, William Adkins, who began to doubt his nephew's death when the family received a letter from him dated two days after he supposedly died. Adkins had the corpse exhumed; Army fingerprints showed that the dead soldier was not Guinn but a look-alike Kentuckian, Private First Class Quinn W. Tichenor, also 23 and also with the 4th Infantry. He had been killed just a quarter-mile from where Guinn was fighting...
Dick Howe recovered from a cold night, sprinted out with the leaders, but fell back to 71st place. As with everyone but Baker. Howe's time was off his Hep's mark. Tim "Spider" McLoone dragged himself in 80th and Kentuckian John Heyburn crossed the line 107th, consigning Harvard to its lowly finish...