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This year, with about 700 yearlings up for auction, turfmen expect some $2,000,000 to change hands. Largest group, as usual, will be those from the famed Claiborne and Ellerslie studs (59 this year), owned by Kentuckian Arthur B. Hancock, biggest commercial breeder in the U. S. Next largest group will be 44 put up by Willis Sharpe Kilmer, another famed breeder who, unlike Hancock, keeps some of his stock for racing under his own silks. A small string, however, that always commands attention are the dozen or so offered each year by the Belair Stud of Collington...
Each issue of the new Messenger will print a resume of the old. The Lynchburg (Va.) Advance thinks that "present day writing will suffer poignantly by contrast." But except for a sketch by Kentuckian Poet Jesse Stuart, the revived Messenger shows few signs of outraging the traditions of the old; on the contrary smells a little too strongly of lavender...
Congress. First reaction of Congress, one of stunned amazement, did not last long. Second reaction was a frantic effort by Administration leaders to forestall a muckraking committee investigation. In the House, TVA appropriations are under the Military Affairs Committee, whose new chairman, Kentuckian Andrew Jackson May, is a crusty opponent of the TVA power program and willing to rake all the muck possible. Best thing Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could do under the circumstances was to trust his fellow Texan Maury Maverick, who had introduced a resolution calling for a joint House and Senate investigation of all charges...
Nobody knows how old a story ragtime is to the Negroes of the South. But the first man to write ragtime down on paper was a slick-haired Kentuckian, Ben Harney, whose songs Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose and You've Been a Good Old Wagon, but You've Done Broke Down were hits in the gay 'nineties. Last week 66-year-old Harney, forgotten in the era of swing, died of heart disease in a Philadelphia rooming house...
...Ellis Albaugh shares not in this profit. He sold out for $600 cash. The promoters who bought it sold stock in the Dixie Cotton Chopper Co., then absconded with the money. One of the salesmen of this first company was a Kentuckian named Lawrence W. Leeper whose wife had an independent fortune. In 1927 Lawrence Leeper bought the rights to the chopper, patented it in 1932. Engineer Dent Parrett improved the machine and wealthy oldtime Rancher John Scharbauer and friends put up $200.000 to establish Dixie Cultivator Corp. in 1936. Lawrence Leeper retained a controlling interest and has given...