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Louisville, Ky. is a one-paper town. Barry Bingham's proud old Courier-Jour nal (with its evening edition, the Times) constitutes a virtual news monopoly in the middle Ohio Valley: it has no serious competitor nearer than Cincinnati. Both papers are healthy, with circulations (Courier-Journal, 109,361; Times, 121,854) that are still growing...
...this week's Republican primary to select a successor to Chester Bolton, his widow, Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, who campaigned for him since 1932, is unopposed. After the special election late this month observers expect the title "richest man in Congress" to pass to Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, 54, mother of three grown sons. Supposed to be even wealthier than her late husband, Mrs. Bolton is the rich and comely daughter of a pioneer Cleveland banker and industrialist, granddaughter of Senator Henry B. Payne. She gave $2,250,000 for Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Western Reserve...
Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory; Alvin H. Hansen, professor of Political Economy; William J. Bingham, director of Athletics; and Harold D. Chope, instructor in Public Health Administration, are included in the schedule of the University's international short-wave broadcasts for February...
...complete schedule for February follows: Feb. 6, "An Athletic Policy for a College," William J. Bingham; Feb. 13, "Problems of a Public Health Administrator." Harold D. Chope; Feb. 20, "The impact of the War Abroad on National Business," Professor Hansen; and "Stars, Galaxies, and the Cosmos," Professor Shapely...
...Judge Bingham, nominal editor of the Courier-Journal for ten years, doubled its circulation, upheld the national reputation that Colonel Watterson had given it. But he left the editorial page to Harrison Robertson, and in 1929 resigned the title to him. (Judge Bingham became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Great Britain, died in office two years ago.) Editor Robertson never worked for any other paper. He had been 60 years a member of the Courier-Journal staff when he died last fortnight...