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...members of the three families began to arrive at the mountain hamlet of Mayking, in Letcher County, Ky. They parked their cars around the schoolhouse and, laden with hampers and bulging boxes of food, made their way up the hogback ridge to the old cemetery. It was the annual reunion of three fertile and ancient mountain clans that go back to the beginnings of Kentucky, There, and throughout the nation, the alfresco political season was beginning. With the Fourth of July weekend the season would be in full swing...
...Mayking reunion was tailored to Cooper's measure. As he mounted the platform he looked every inch the mountainman he is. His 14-minute speech was packed with platitudes ("I hope that in these times of trouble we can, like the ancient Greeks, draw upon the wisdom, the heart and soul, of those who went before us"), which the sophisticated Cooper could chuckle over later, still recognizing and reverently respecting their basic truth. Afterwards, Cooper drifted among the patches of family groups, diligently shaking hands. He ate a huge helping-fried chicken, cornbread sticks, deviled eggs, stringbeans and bacon...
...morning there will be sports for all three groups of reunion children, either in the Blockhouse pool or on Soldiers Field...
...case of rain again, the class luncheon will have to move indoors to the Eliot House dining room, which will not accommodate all reunion children. Under these circumstances, junior and intermediate reunioners will lunch in the Union...
...angered and favored Yale varsity baseball team, which was upset by the Crimson before a large reunion crowd in New Haven Monday, will seek to return the favor at 3:15 this afternoon at Soldiers Field...