The Press: Uncle Tom Steps Down

The liberal Louisville Courier-Journal (circ. 167,727) and its breadwinning sister, the afternoon Times (168,858), have two links with the good old days of fire-breathing Editor "Marse Henry" Watterson. One is their old-fashioned home on Liberty Street, where another local monopoly—the post office—once dwelt. The other is doughty, ice-blue-eyed Tom Wallace, editor of the Times, whom Marse Henry hired to get a youthful viewpoint into his crochety editorial page.

Last week the papers prepared to break with their past. In mid-September, they will move to an ultramodern new building (ten blocks below the Mason-Dixon...