Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lexington...
...University of Alabama, Hazel Brannon arrived in Holmes County in 1936, borrowed $3,000, bought the weekly Durant News (circ. 1,475). She was doing well enough by 1943 to take over the county's only other paper, the Advertiser (circ. 2,800), in the county seat of Lexington (pop. 3,198), put them both to campaigning against gambling and bootlegging in the dry county...
...Lexington, the nation's top three-year-old trotter, Scott Frost, winner of the Hambletonian and Yonkers Futurity, came on, after losing the first heat, to win the $62,702 Kentucky Futurity...
...honored for wartime services. Alexander the Great named a city after Bucephalus, his favorite mount. The Roman Emperor Caligula caused Incitatus, his stallion, to be elected a priest and a consul. The skeleton of Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveler, still stands near Lee's tomb at Lexington...
Most outstanding among the Redmen sophomores is quarterback Ronnie Blume of Lexington, Mass., who sparked the 1954 UMass freshman team last season and earned his reputation as the "Lexington Minute...