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SPORT Jim Courier is tennis' unsung, and unspoiled, champion...
...When Jim Courier won last year's French Open, one of tennis' four Grand Slams, it was pretty big news in Paris and in his hometown of Dade City, Fla. When Courier won last month's Australian Open, another of the coveted four, it was big news Down Under -- and in Dade City, Fla. Last week Courier was closing in on becoming the first American man to rank No. 1 since the 1985 dethroning of John McEnroe, who is still big news pretty much everywhere. Presumably, as Courier fought his way through a San Francisco tournament where he could pick...
Then there was the yellow bio of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (popularity rating 13%, a new record), which noted that in 1962 the would-be PM had a job as a courier for contraband bull semen...
...favored English butlers and European decor; even the family charades grew so elaborate that they were pictured in LIFE magazine. But for all this golden splendor, the Binghams of Louisville were not precisely household names, unless your household was in Kentucky, where they owned the dominant newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. The papers built, then eroded, a name for excellence; they promoted liberal orthodoxy and civic virtue, but had scant national profile. Thus it is a touch baffling that the past four years have yielded four books linked to the family feud that led to the sale...
Gartner is a former president and editor of The Des Moines (Iowa) Register and The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky. Both papers published the woman's name Wednesday...