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Died. Harrison Robertson, 83, editor-in-chief of the Louisville Courier-Journal who in 1885 was given charge of the editorial page by the late famed publisher Colonel Henry ("Marse Henry") Watterson; of a heart attack; in Louisville...
High, Wide and Handsome (Paramount). The night in 1859 that Peter Cortlandt (Randolph Scott) takes his grandmother down to Titusville, Pa. to see a medicine show, the show-wagon burns and they take the proprietor's daughter back to their farm. Pretty Sally Watterson (Irene Dunne) is a great help around the barnyard. It takes her longer than it should to make Peter propose but that is because Peter is a trifle backward. Eventually they marry and plan a house on the hill above the cow pasture. All this, told with a maximum of apple-blossoms, old songs...
...LYLE B. WATTERSON...
...Arthur Krock, able chief of the New York Times's Washington staff, went the $500 award for distinguished Correspondence. A newsman for 29 of his 48 years, bespectacled Arthur Krock first covered Washington for the late great "Marse Henry" Watterson, whose Louisville Courier-Journal he later edited. In 1923 he joined the New York World's distinguished staff of editorial writers, thence to the Times. Four years ago he reluctantly returned to Washington, which he disliked, to succeed the late Richard V. Oulahan as Times chief of staff. Remaining severely on the sidelines, immune to official blandishments, Arthur...
...from abroad, the leading organs of American opinion, through the interplay of haste, ignorance and their own psychological necessities, had begun to distinguish in the German Empire a vast, malignant power which alone and for its own atrocious ends had plunged the world into this stupendous catastrophe." "Marse Henry" Watterson. fiery editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, voiced U. S. opinion early in the War (September, 1914): "May Heaven protect the Vaterland from contamination and give the German people a chance! To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs!" From this sentiment to the feeling that all Germans were barbarians...