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Back to Roots. In the summer of 1949, Lowell married again. The bride, another writer, was Kentuckian Elizabeth Hardwick, who is now an editor of the New York Review of Books. That year he taught at Iowa State University. They spent most of the next three years in Europe, where Lowell plunged into a temporary gambling fling at Monte Carlo. After his mother's death in 1954, he took his wife to Boston and, with his inheritance, bought a big, comfortable town house in Back Bay. "The idea," says a friend, "was to recapture some roots. It was their...
Fireballing Mike Luggen won two games, and struck out the most opponents. The tall Kentuckian, who had arm trouble early in the spring, had a good curve and a moving fast ball. Gus Crimm, when he wasn't playing first base, also saw a good deal of action on the pitcher's mound...
...Kentuckian Edgar Cayce was a semiliterate health evangelist who boasted miraculous curative and prophetic powers. He died at 67 in 1945, unsung except by a few equally obscure biographers. Freelance Author Jess Stearn has rediscovered Cayce, and strains mightily to prove that his batting average was close...
...Powell from his chairmanship pending investigation, went down in humiliating defeat, 122 to 88. Then, in a thunderclap of ayes, Udall's resolution was shouted through by voice vote. The action handed Powell's chairmanship to the committee's second-ranking Democrat, Carl Perkins, a quiet Kentuckian and moderate liberal...
...Naked Ambition." From that new position, says the courtly Kentuckian who is still Mr. Krock to most Timesmen, many things seem to have changed for the worse. He deplores the powerful unions that have helped to kill some papers, and he dislikes the trend toward specialization among reporters. Not that some of the specialists are not superb, but where is "the old general-assignment man with the cold objectivity in questioning officials?" Today's reporters, says Krock, "frame questions on an argumentative basis instead of primarily to elicit information...