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Vice President Alben W. Barkley is 73 years old. In five days last week, Barkley, stumping for the Democratic ticket in a Kentucky state election, made speeches at Ashland, Pikesville, Cynthiana, Covington, Glasgow, Scottsville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Henderson, Madisonville, Princeton and Hopkinsville. Home in Paducah a day before the election, the Veep made a dozen more speeches in neighboring towns. After the campaign was over, this week he was slated to speak at Cincinnati and Columbus before whipping out to the West Coast for seven speeches in seven days...
...Ordered the construction of a $900 million factory near Aiken, S.C., a new $50 million U-235 plant at Paducah, Ky., and $200 million additions to both the original Oak Ridge plant and the Hanford, Wash. plutonium works...
...news hit Paducah (pop. 32,430) like a double shot of bourbon. Said one excited Kentucky housewife: "It'll make the whole town go haywire." The news: the Atomic Energy Commission was going to build a $500 million plant to make uranium 235 on a 5,000-acre site 16 miles west of the city, and Paducah would soon be swarming with well-heeled construction workers, perhaps as many as 10,000 of them...
...wasn't. Everybody knew about "the Veep and the Widow." Introducing Barkley at a Washington dinner last summer, Attorney General McGrath called him "the Squire of Paducah and the New Spirit of St. Louis." In September, asked by newsmen about marriage rumors, Barkley replied: "In any such eventuality, I will be chasing you to tell you." Two days later, he added: "I have no way of knowing whether I'll make the grade." The newsmen gathered in Mrs. Hadley's apartment in St. Louis' West End knew that he had. Said Barkley: "Our courtship has undergone...
That night at the gala dinner, the politicos had their happy fill of virtue, curried shrimp and good cheer. Harry Truman kidded Vice President Alben Barkley about his St. Louis girl friend, and McGrath introduced the Veep, to great applause, as "the squire of Paducah and the new spirit of St. Louis." Barkley said imperturbably that "there has always been an inseparable connection between Kentucky and Missouri and it looks like it's going to continue-I hope...