Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Equipoise, 10, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's chestnut stallion; of enteritis (inflammation of the bowels); at Lexington, Ky. Second only to Sun Beau among the world's top money winners, Equipoise brought home $338,610 in his six racing years. Sun Beau's earnings...
...parents in Corydon, how his mother left his father in 1902 when Happy was four,* how he sold newspapers and did odd jobs while getting through high school. A 170-pounder, 5 ft. 10½ in., compact and fast on his feet, enormously cheerful and energetic, he arrived at Lexington to enter Transylvania College with "a red sweater, a $5 bill and a smile." He got a job in a laundry, played football, basketball and baseball (captain), charmed the campus by his grin and his singing...
Defense Attorney Dawson complained of cramp. He asked Judge Ford to transfer the trial to a larger courtroom at Lexington, where the defendants would not have to squat behind the jury box. Agitated, Mr. Dawson pointed out that the jurors could not view his clients, among whom were such prominent Harlan citizens as Coal Operators Robert W. Creech, Elmer Hall, Bryan Whitfield. At this time, Mr. Dawson did not mention that his clients also included such characters as ex-Deputy Frank White, who, at the La Follette hearings, was accused of trying to murder ex-Deputy (and codefendant) Hugh Taylor...
...Lexington. Ky.. President Gilmour Nunn of American Broadcasting Co. revealed that, at a Kentucky Derby party, Elliott Roosevelt had challenged a stranger to a fist fight for remarks that "besmirched the President's name...
Commencement exercises. (All invited; first time open to wives and children.) Optional: Sightseeing trip on river and to Concord and Lexington...