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...people in "Bloody Breathitt" (pronounced breath-it) County, Ky., homicide has a purely clinical interest. They ask: How big was the gun? How big a hole was blowed in him? There is also a certain social distinction ("There goes the man who killed Little Jack Combs. He did it with a big, shiny .44. It made a big, round hole in Little Jack's belly. And Little Jack laid there on the ground, talkin' before he died...
Long inured to the newsroom cry: "Shooting at Jackson!", Reporter John F. ("Sunny") Day of the Lexington, Ky. Herald-Leader scented a deeper story in Bloody Breathitt. Armed only with a camera, he spent two days among Breathitt's "483 square miles of scraggy mountains and lean, infertile hollows." Last week the Herald-Leader printed John Day's noteworthy report, suggesting some reasons why life is cheap and pride is dear in Breathitt County...
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...
...reputed agent of King Carol II, was in Rome, where he gave the Pope a Rumanian carpet and mosaic of the Virgin, gave Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano King Carol's regards. Hungarians, viewing this visit with suspicion, let it be known that Count Csáky himself would soon go to Rome...
...another Budapest announcement made it look as if Count Csáky's diplomatic visits are not always what they appear. During the past six months Count Csáky made frequent trips to Germany which were interpreted as meaning that Hungary was drawing closer to Germany. Last week the suave, ambitious, reckless, 45-year-old Count's engagement to beautiful, 28-year-old Countess Anna Maria Chorinsky was announced. Those trips to Germany, it appeared, were just to court the pretty lady at her family castle near Graz...