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...Courier-Journal stopped its presses for one minute on the 100th birthday of its founder, the late Colonel Henry Watterson. Of that fierce, opinionated, ex-Confederate cavalryman, who made the old Courier-Journal a fiery organ of Southern Democracy, Arthur Krock (onetime editorial manager of Marse Henry's paper) wrote in the New York Times: "Mr. Watterson was the last of the great personal editors. . . . His writings were more widely reprinted, quoted and heeded, than those of any other journalist; and his personality became a legend. . . ." For weeks the Courier-Journal had been in the throes of a mysterious...
Martha Blair's copy for next day was already written. Meanwhile, volatile Cissie Patterson had suffered a change of heart: the column stood. But Martha Blair (who is also the wife of the New York Times's Arthur Krock) had had enough of Cissie's whims...
Martha called up Eugene Meyer (no friend of Cissie Patterson), who owns the Washington Post. Gleefully the Post printed on its own society page: "Mrs. Charlotte B. Nast, Ian Wilson-Young to wed - Mrs. Arthur Krock receives word of betrothal in London...
...charming Mrs. Krock and the intense Mrs. Patterson had met socially several times last week since they parted professionally. There were no eruptions. Some of her friends thought they heard Mrs. Krock say one evening: "Well, thank God, I've still got Arthur Krock...
...York Times pays Pundit Krock over $25,000 a year, so Martha Blair can get along without her job. The Times-Herald supports so many female reporters, columnists, critics that Washington newsmen call it "Cissie Patterson's henhouse." Cissie has a weakness for firing her columnists in a fit of temper, then hiring them back at a bigger salary. By week's end, knowing her own failing, Mrs. Patterson had fled to Nassau...