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...journalism, Carol Sutton, the first woman to be managing editor of a major U.S. newspaper, brightened the editorial content while she successfully ran the Louisville Courier-Journal, one of the nation's best dailies...
...traditional, tough-talking managing editor. I don't go around banging shoes on desks or yelling at reporters across the city desk." So says Carol Sutton, 42, the first woman ever named to the top editorial job on a big American daily. Colleagues at the Louisville Courier-Journal consider Sutton's coolheaded style one of her greatest assets. And, says Columnist Billy Reed, "she handles copy better and has more imaginative story ideas than any other editor I've worked under here...
After graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1955, Sutton became a secretary at the Courier-Journal. Within a year, she won promotion to city-desk reporting and in 1963, by now a wife and mother, was made editor of the women's section. She turned its coverage from society-page sycophancy to provocative feature writing and investigative reporting. One Thanksgiving Day, for instance, she defied her readers' expectations by presenting to them the first installment of a series on "Hunger in Kentucky...
Nixon is also implicated in this conspiracy. The Cuban motif runs through his whole career. Nixon visited Cuba in 1940 to explore possible business connections and again in 1952 with Richard Danner, a former FBI agent and Lansky acquaintance who turned up in 1972 as the courier of Howard Hughes's $100,000 to Rebozo. Nixon acquired his Key Biscayne land at bargain basement prices from Lansky through Rebozo by laundering illicit profits from Cuban casinos. Nixon was the "secret action officer" in the White House for the Bay of Pigs and wrote in Six Crises: "The covert training...
Their editors at The Courier-Journal, a Louisville daily, agreed that something more than spot news coverage was needed, and agreed to sponsor the book. Reid and Woolley lived with roof-bolter miner Louie Stacy and hung out at Junior Deaton's general store. They recorded what the people were saying and doing, and, inevitably, empathized with them...