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...late notorious Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, owner-publisher of the Denver Post, said that he wore his yellow journalism with a difference-as protective coloration over an armor of blackmail. Few men have received such audibly frank obituaries. Last week Denverites were forcibly reminded of the "Old Dragon of Champa Street" when newsboys, billboards, burgees, street ballyhoos and all the paraphernalia of a high-pressure sales campaign launched The Great I Am, a thinly-veiled story of Publisher Bonfils' rackety career...
Denver's Champa Street shrilled one day last week with the din of hundreds of urchins pushing their way to the front of the Denver Post building. At the head of the line each youngster was given two ice cream cones, a handful of cakes, a hearty invitation to come up the line again for more. This was the Post's Annual Free Ice Cream & Cake Party for Denver's children. The Post that day front-paged hot weather reports from other parts of the U. S. under the big, black headline: COLORADO IS COOLER. ... It announced...
Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, 72, had visited the Post office on Champa Street for the last time a week before. Troubled by pain in his left ear, he went home to his ornate white stone house on East Tenth Avenue. To the house came doctors, then nurses. Few days later an oxygen tent was brought. That night came a Catholic priest. Before dawn Publisher Bonfils, baptized on his deathbed, succumbed to encephalitis (brain inflammation), result of the ear infection...
...night some missing Navy flyers were found in the Pacific, he wrote the eight-column banner himself: BLESS GOD! THEY'RE SAFE! He scorned foreign news on the front page. Said he: "A dog fight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." He noisily offered the late Calvin Coolidge the job of editor at $75,000 a year. He permitted the picture of his daughter Helen to appear on the front page of the society section over the caption...
...speech, as reported by the News, charged the Post and Publisher Bonfils with foully thwarting the Governor's chances of renomination. Mr. Walker's sentences bristled with epithets reminiscent of Denver's newspaper wars: "vulture," "rattlesnake," "vilest man who . . .", "public enemy," "slimy serpent," "contemptible dog of Champa Street," "foulest, dirtiest, vilest piece of newspaper work. . . ." Publisher Bonfils took no action against Chairman Walker. Nor did he-as he would have done a few years ago-loose a withering blast at the News from the gaudy pages of his Post. Instead he marched into court, demanded...