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...onetime General Manager Emanuel Levi, who a month ago departed to take charge of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (TIME, March 9). New Courier-Journal and Times boss was Mark Foster Ethridge, famed Southern newspaperman. In Richmond, Va., where he had just resigned as publisher of the Times-Dispatch, Mark Ethridge's associates sorrowfully declared that what was Louisville's journalistic gain was Richmond's loss...
...Times-Dispatch reporters especially mourned Mr. Ethridge's departure, remembering that when he arrived in Richmond in 1934, one of his first official acts was to raise editorial salaries. Publisher Ethridge further endeared himself to his staff by buying everybody Coca-Colas and encouraging colorful writing. Mr. Ethridge understood reporters because he had been one once himself...
...Editor Ethridge took a trip abroad at the expense of the Oberlaender Trust, a fund to provide German junkets for influential Americans. On his return, he took over the flabby old Washington Post. Six months later he was on his way to Richmond and the Times-Dispatch, soon raised its circulation 10%. Made president & publisher, Mark Ethridge seemed content until the Courier-Journal lured him away with a reputed $25,000 a year...
Momentary confusion resulted from an erroneous dispatch from Washington that the resolution adopted by the Senate last Friday authorized President Roosevelt to invite foreign governments and individuals to attend the celebration. In his statement on Saturday Mr. Greene had asserted that the University did not anticipate such action on the part of the government...
...Fifth Dispatch...