Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, the Courier is far from being what the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette was in William Allen White's prime. But it is a representative, small U.S. daily; a successful, homely, friendly pillar of the community...
Lincoln last week won a new distinction, and Allyne and John Nugent, who run the daily Courier, got congratulations from the governor, scores of their 6,300 readers. The New York Museum of Science & Industry, which passes out annual awards to businesses, for the first time had picked a newspaper-and christened the Courier "America's foremost small-town daily." Reason: its talent for "promoting American life, reaching to the grass roots...
...newspaperman went to Sofia last week, as special investigator for Secretary of State James Byrnes. The U.S. envoy was Editor-Publisher Mark Foster Ethridge, on leave from the Louisville Courier-Journal. He got a reception as warm and rough as a Bulgar peasant's hand. Ins & outs, vying to impress him, battled for his favor in words and street brawls. The reason for such heated interest: U.S. recognition of the Bulgarian Government will hinge largely on Ethridge's report...
Died. Leonard Liebling, 65, longtime editor of the influential Musical Courier, critic and composer, librettist of four comic operas, concert pianist; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...mollify this crowd the U.S. Embassy sent grey-haired Commander Herbert Agar, U.S.N.R., looking like the young Dante in a Navy uniform. Herbert Agar, onetime editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, for the past two and a half years a special assistant to U.S. Ambassador Winant, has long been an eloquent interpreter of the U.S. to Britain...