As he would throughout his life, he struggled with reading. He was blackballed from the Gas (now the Delphic) after drunkenly kicking a pay telephone to the ground, and though he rowed varsity crew, in his senior year he would be demoted to the third boat. Despite his family’s Harvard legacy, Bingham encountered failure. Like the patrician Kennedys, the Bingham dynasty was devastated by a series of deaths, even while ruling Louisville’s television and newspaper properties. “I always compare it to the Kennedy family.” Bingham’s grandfather had served as a judge and ambassador to France, and his father was well-loved as the publisher of The Courier-Journal. “Ben” Post Jr., The Courier-Journal’s managing editor.

DYNASTY ON THE DECLINE “To understand Barry Bingham Jr., you have to understand a little bit about the family and the newspaper itself,” says Arthur B. This morning, his friends plan to row on the Charles River. to row his single-the cheapest that could be bought-along the Ohio River. “With your mustache and straggly beard you were Don Quixote on horseback, heroic, dreaming the impossible dream, sometimes tilting at windmills, yes, but fighting for causes, slaying dragons.” Until near the end of his life, Bingham rose each day at 5:45 a.m. Shands of the Christ Church Cathedral in Louisville delivered the homily. But after his family’s loss of its Louisville media empire in 1986, Bingham refocused his life. The man who went by “Barry Jr.” made his name as a hard-nosed newspaper publisher, a generous philanthropist, and a pioneer in journalistic ethics. One month after that dinner, he contracted pneumonia, and he died on April 3 at his Louisville, Ky., home. At the January dinner, friends were “relieved” at the state of his health. Two years earlier he had suffered a heart attack and received a pacemaker, and in the seventies he had battled Hodgkin’s Disease. ’56 proposed the impossible: a Charles River row in a lightweight eight-oar shell to take place this week. 27, at a Boston Ritz-Carlton dinner table with his friends of 50 years, George B.

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