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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...
...Wattersonianism was more of a boast than a lament. In his own rambunctious time, which lasted 50 years, Marse Henry's paper was branded as a tool of the Freedmen's Bureau, of the Gold Bugs, of the brewers and distillers. Never batting his one good eye, Watterson roared right back at his accusers...
...head." Quiet, modest, gentle, nevertheless "in her underslip, the translucence of pale flesh shone on her arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality, headlight eyes, "neither Negro nor half-breed," possessing "a fierce magnificence of Indian-colored flesh, high cheekbones that had been heavily rouged and then powdered over, big, bold, red dened mouth." She wore a transparent dress...
...last of a generation: a personal journalist with more power in his own country than Dana, Greeley and Watterson had had in theirs. For 42 years in the Free Press he fought fiercely for the things he believed in: the survival of the individual, free trade, a liberal British Commonwealth, the League of Nations. At the end, a tired old lion of a man, he knew, as Canada did, that he had influenced the thinking of an Empire...
...late, great Adolph Simon Ochs started at 15 as a printer's devil on a Knoxville paper, worked for a while on Watterson's Courier-Journal, acquired the Chattanooga Times in 1878 (when he was 20) with $250 of borrowed capital. In Chattanooga, Publisher Ochs amassed the fortune with which he bought the New York Times 18 years later...