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...Villa Ker Monique to repair pipes. He had found it barricaded with barbed wire and guarded by two fierce watchdogs. He had been locked in the room in which he worked. The village postman added the sinister fact that no mail ever came to Ker Monique. A courier on a motorcycle came there every day from Paris. With Stavisky, international spy rings, and rumors of brewing civil wars to inflame French imaginations, an official raiding party called at the Villa Ker Monique...
...Louisville Gait House in the late '60s. The manager of that famed hotel put his boot in Dickens' rear and lifted him down the great stairway, to the amazement of the world. Kentucky historians record the incident. It can be verified by files of the Louisville Courier-Journal, now owned by our Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Robert Worth Bingham. I remember the uproar as of yesterday. Dickens had indulged in harsh criticism of Kentuckians which was instantly resented as described. Get history straight, and tell it that every time a Kentuckian...
Reason for the Legislature's action was a letter published in the Courier-Journal last fortnight, signed by "One Who Believes in Honest Government, a, member of the House of Representatives." Headlined as a "Psalm of Politics" this communication roundly flayed the legislators who since its publication had been vainly trying to identify its author (TIME, March 19). The resolution asking for Ambassador Bingham's recall was only one of the tricks the House had used to pry out of the Courier-Journal a name which that paper felt honor bound to withhold...
After throwing the Courier-Journal's close-mouthed Acting Editor Vance Armentrout into jail for an hour, a special House Committee tried him last week for contempt, fined him $25 and costs. Said Editor Armentrout: "I am not guilty of contempt and I expect to find my vindication in the courts. . . . The Attorney General will have to sue me which will give me an opportunity for justice. This action was a 'face'-saving maneuver for the first committee which threw me in jail without a trial . . . and utterly without authority...