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Hereafter in Kentucky no more barbers will be elevated to the rank and dignity of Colonel. That is the decision of Governor Ruby Lafoon on discovering that he had unwittingly made a New York barber a Kentucky Colonel in gracious but indiscreet response to the request of a New York friend...
...idea of the incongruity of Mr. Lafoon's recent appointment of the New York barber is based not on the latter's vocation but on the conspicuous fact that the only reason for the appointment was that the barber had just become a father. It strikes us that, while a good barber might make a very good Colonel, the theory that such a common experience as paternity fits a man for service as a Colonel is rather grotesquely unsound. In this appointment Mr. Lafoon apparently stumbled over both feet. But on his apologetic announcement of "no more barbers...
Kentucky. Circuit Judge Ruby Lafoon of Madisonville, old-line politician, whipped his Republican rival, Mayor William B. Harrison of Louisville, for the Governorship. Candidate Lafoon polled a 71,523 majority. At Bowling Green, election furor precipitated a shooting: a G. 0. P. worker named W. K. Dent sent five slugs in the general direction of one-time Lieutenant GovernorHenry H. Denhardt, Democrat. One bullet pierced Mr. Denhardt's lung. Worker Dent said a friend of Denhardt's had taken a shot at him the day before, that he was saved only by a pack of election cards in his pocket...
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