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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...
...Courier-Journal stopped its presses for one minute on the 100th birthday of its founder, the late Colonel Henry Watterson. Of that fierce, opinionated, ex-Confederate cavalryman, who made the old Courier-Journal a fiery organ of Southern Democracy, Arthur Krock (onetime editorial manager of Marse Henry's paper) wrote in the New York Times: "Mr. Watterson was the last of the great personal editors. . . . His writings were more widely reprinted, quoted and heeded, than those of any other journalist; and his personality became a legend. . . ." For weeks the Courier-Journal had been in the throes of a mysterious...
Mark Ethridge, general manager, Louisville Courier-Journal; Lewis Mummentator for New York Herald Tribune and other papers; Herbert Agar, editor, Louisville Courier-Journal; and Lucien Price, '07, editorial writer, Boston Globe
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...
Author Agar, who succeeds him, studied arts at Columbia, philosophy at Princeton, spent four years in Britain, where he was literary editor of the English Review, London correspondent for the Courier-Journal. After he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for his book The People's Choice (thesis: most U. S. Presidents were "a feeble and meritless tribe") he went home, joined the Courier-Journal staff...