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...Louisville newspaper's 40th birthday, fire-breathing, shaggy-browed Colonel "Marse Henry" Watterson penned an editorial prophecy: "The time will probably never come when the Courier-Journal will be exempt from the accusations of corrupt motives, which invariably assail it whatever it says or does...
Last week, with Marse Henry dead 24 years, his Courier-Journal was still not exempt from accusations: it was (with its afternoon sister paper, the Times) a monopoly; it was left-wing Democratic, as Marse Henry, no left-winger, never dreamed it would be. But the paper still had what Watterson had given it: the strongest, though not the most popular, journalistic voice in the South...
...years ago the Courier defeated a Lincoln mayor when he disagreed with it on parking meters. Now it is thumping away at an airport for feeder lines, a war memorial. It still puts out a lively, fortnightly tabloid, with pinups, for local boys overseas. Executive Editor Ken Goodrich prods news out of 19 rural correspondents, runs locally-written guest editorials. His five full-time staffers write on copy paper of different colors, so that he can tell at a glance who wrote what...
...Like a Housewife." Small, hard-eyed Allyne Velome Scheerer Carpenter Nugent, the boss, is a lithe and fiftyish fireball who has the respect, if not the love, of her staff. She inherited the Courier in 1925, five years later had worked herself into a breakdown. She went to Paris to get over it, met and married a young English-Canadian named John Lithgow Nugent-Fyfe. In Lincoln her new husband dropped the Lithgow and Fyfe, suspecting that midwesterners would not cotton to hyphenations. He ran the business...
...Courier's first lady says she keeps her highly profitable daily out of debt by running it "the way a housewife operates a home." Even labor unions are apt to heed when she says "Now listen, boys. I'll take care of you as long as you do what I think is right...