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...years later Bardstown became the seat of a Catholic diocese which included Kentucky and Tennessee. Father Flaget, as Bishop, consecrated there the first Catholic Cathedral west of the Alleghenies. Corinthian columns were hewn from nearby forests and the interior was done in rich walnut...
...there any record of any of the masters painting any of the pictures at Bardstown. But whether the story is fact or fiction, Bardstown proudly exhibits its Cathedral with the pictures, gift of Louis Philippe, King of France, hanging too high for close inspection, cracking slowly against the rich walnut interior...
...ordinary living room, it was a study in green and brown. One whole wall was a bank of French windows facing on a sunny balcony. At opposite ends rose huge black marble fireplaces. Before one of them sat Mr. Farley, in a green leather armchair, at a walnut desk with a green glass top. He rose, blushing with pride, and declared: "We're certainly grateful to the Republicans for all of this." As the newshawks gaped, his pride overcame him. "Look at the bathroom!" he exclaimed. It was such a chamber as only ladies of the cinema bathe...
Trader Cutten was charged with misreporting or failing to report his long and short positions in excess of 500,000 bu. under the Grain Futures Act (TIME, April 23). He did not attend his own hearing in the walnut-paneled, air-conditioned courtroom in the Federal Appraisers' Stores building. But a band of Texas farmers trooped in when the hearings began fortnight ago to see if they could find out "what becomes of our wheat and why we got 25? a bushel." They heard that: 1) Trader Cutten had been 11,000,000 bu. short of wheat...
...larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result of the 21st annual month-long fast during which Harry Wills, walnut-colored retired prizefighter, drank only 1½ to 2 gal. water daily (TIME, April 23) was a 40 lb. loss of weight (245 lb. to 205 lb.). On one occasion "I broke my fast. I was painting one of my apartments, and I was afraid the fumes might turn...