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Clearest-headed comment of all came from the usually clear-headed Louisville Courier-Journal in an editorial titled "Dr. Newton Encounters Stalin on the Make." Excerpts...
...representative of the New Dealing New York Post did not want to endorse it either; he took a walk. Mark Ethridge of the Louisville Courier-Journal warned fellow publishers that it would "have a sour effect on the public, on the ground that the press was seeking special privilege...
Died. Colonel (Kentucky style) Daniel E. O'Sullivan, 88, onetime managing edi tor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, long time resident manager of famed Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby; in Louisville. He frequently boosted the Derby in verse ("Any Irishman who couldn't write poetry about a thorough bred horse ought to be chloroformed"), once said that TIME'S description of the Downs as "shabby" made him "Reach for his hip pocket...
...Pardo, the somber palace on the outskirts of Madrid. As he waited in the cold, cavernous halls hung with tapestries of medieval Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco might well have wondered if the lights of his destiny were also burning late. It was going on midnight when a motorcycle courier raced into the high-walled palace grounds, roared past the Moorish sentinels, and delivered the text of the Tripartite declaration. "It is hoped," London, Washington and Paris had broadcast, "that leading patriotic and liberal-minded Spaniards may soon find means to bring about a peaceful withdrawal of Franco...
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...