Word: bingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present editor made no pretense of being a Watterson. But well-mannered, well-intentioned George Barry Bingham, at 39 still boyishly handsome, had able lieutenants. The ablest of them, squirrel-cheeked Publisher Mark Foster Ethridge, is full of go-ahead schemes. The Washington bureau was expanding ; a fine new building would replace the ancient post office the papers now live in, four blocks south of the Mason-Dixon line...
Such shop talk flowed as freely as the punch at a party last week in Louisville's stately old Pendennis Club. Blue-eyed Barry Bingham was host to 107 employes who, like him (he was a Navy commander), were home from the wars.* Mark Ethridge, back from his presidential mission to the Balkans, dropped in for a drink...
From the Bottom. At any Courier-Journal family reunion, Bingham could feel at home. His father, rich Judge Robert Worth Bingham, had bought the paper in 1918-and had promptly plumped for the League of Nations, thereby losing Marse Henry as editor. The Judge wanted his son to start at the bottom, so after Harvard Barry earnestly filled a succession of jobs on both the papers and WHAS, the Binghams' radio station. In 1937 the Judge died in office as Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Britain, and Barry Bingham inherited all three enterprises...
William J. Bingham '16, H.A.A. Director, announced late last week the appointment by the Corporation of William O. Fisher '44, Thorvald S. Ross, Jr., NROTC, and David B. Wilson '48 as undergraduate representatives on the Athletic Committee, known technically as the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Activities...
...Bingham's third reason is connected with the second: when the Bulldogs played Dartmouth two weeks ago, one section of the Yalies' temporary stands collapsed. Harvard uses the same kind of stands, and the overcrowding that would have to be expected January 16 might lead to dangerous consequences...