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Flying back to Paducah, Ky., they repaired to Barkley's rambling brick house, "Angles." At the buffet supper that night Barkley stayed close to Mrs. Hadley, grinned when his traveling minstrels serenaded her with St. Louis Blues ("St. Louis woman . . . Pulls that man roun' by her apron strings"). Next day, Mrs. Hadley sat next to him as he dedicated the Paducah airport as Barkley Field...
...soldiers were assured a wonderful wedding gift, foreign adventuresses were so inspired that whole battalions of G.I.s came to rank themselves with Casanova and Don Juan. In all by December an estimated 112,000 brides, husbands and children had come from overseas to share the good life in Boston, Paducah, and Walla Walla, Wash...
...speech was a long, careful review of the Democratic farm record. The Democrats, he told the farmers, were responsible for their 1948 prosperity, the Republicans for their 1932 misery. After 45 long minutes, the speech was over. The applause was perfunctory. Shortly thereafter, Barkley left for his home in Paducah, Ky. Scarcely anyone noticed that he was gone...
...slender, 19-year-old marine reported for duty last week at the carpenter shop of Camp Pendleton, Calif. For one of the mightiest small fights in World War II, Pfc. Andrew Jackson ("Duke") Carter Jr. of Paducah, Tex. had only one mark to show; he had a deep red scar on his right hand...
Irvin S. (for Shrewsbury) Cobb, famed American humorist, whose last touch of humor-revealed after his death last March-was a request for a simple, "cheerful" funeral with his ashes to be buried under a dogwood tree in his hometown of Paducah, Ky., had his wish granted in every detail but one: when the dogwood tree was planted over the grave, his desire that there be "no long faces and no show of grief" went unobserved...