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...Cross, got a lift from a passing skiff which promptly sank under him. Before a boatload of cameramen would rescue him they made him turn his profile so they could take his picture (see cut). A few miles farther down the sloshing water seemed to have no shore. In Paducah, Ky., at the mouth of the Tennessee River, the Coast Guard reported that 30% of the town was flooded and all families were ordered out of the city. Mound City, on the Illinois shore, stood as a snow-covered rectangle until the yellow waters filled it up. And down...
...winners are David F. Aberle, cl. St. Paul, Minn.; Joseph R. Beever, of Mt. Vernon, O.; Hugh C. Bertsch, of Dayton, O.; Parke N. Bossart, of Owatonna, Minn.; L. King Cooperrider, of Columbus, O.; Jesse W. Croach, Jr., of Paducah, Ky.; William H. Daughaday, of Winnetka, Ill.; Samuel M. Fahr, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Otto W. Fick, Jr., of Oak Park, Ill.; Robert W. Harvey, of Kansas City, Mo.; Leonard C. Holvik, of Elbow Lake, Minn.; Donald F. Hornig, of Milwankee, Wis.; Ben F. McCamey, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn.; Phill C. Neal, of Oak Park, Ill.; Robert L. Peasok, of Peninsula...
...fulfill Reader Rothschild's request, TIME let a member of the staff, blindfolded, stick a pin in a U. S. map. The pin pierced the name of Paducah. Ky. TIME then asked Paducah's most eminent citizen, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, to nominate a beneficiary in his town. Result: To Paducah's Riverside Hospital, one year's subscription to TIME. To Reader Rothschild, hearty thanks...
...southwestern Kentucky. A 16-year-old girl had her neck broken when a car turned over hurrying through the dawn to get there on time. A professional executioner had been brought in from Illinois. And William Thomas De Boe had dressed himself as if he were going down to Paducah for a dance when he marched up the 13 steps to the scaffold to become the first white man hanged for rape in Kentucky's history. What took place between the time he reached the gallows and the time the trap was sprung made news from coast to coast...
There are other aspects of the gay nineties or frivolous eighties than those depicted by Mae West. In "Judge Priest," we see a small southern town, actually, Paducah, Kentucky fifteen or twenty years after the Civil War. They are clearly defined. There is the villain, a golden-tongued, politician. There are the heroes (1) Judge Priest, (2) Ellie May's ex-convict father, (3) Jerome Priest (young love interest). There are minor villains and a heroine and of course a supporting cast of half heroes. For most people, though, whether they are southerners or not, the best performance is that...