Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dean of the Radcliffe Institute, Robert J. Kiely, Professor of English and Master of Adams House, Richard E. Neustadt, Professor of Government, and James C. Thomson Jr., lecturer on General Education and Curator of the Nieman Fellowships will assist journalists from the WashingtonPost, the Chicago Tribune and The Louisville Courier-Journal in choosing the 39th annual group of fellows...
...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...
...news last June when he made a dramatic escape from French counter-intelligence agents in Paris. On the alert for terrorists who use Paris as the center of their European operations, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) had been alerted by Lebanese authorities that a terrorist courier, Michel Moukarbel, was on his way from Beirut with money and instructions for an agent in Paris. Moukarbel was arrested in France and led three DST agents to Carlos' apartment on the Rue Toullier, near the Sorbonne. Confronted with the informer, Carlos pulled out a 7.65-mm. pistol and fired...