Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in Wichita, Kansas, the advertising war that had been in progress between the established newspaper and an interloper piloted by two brothers from Denver, flared up in an incident that is, I hope, unique in American journalism. A department store which had given its advertising contract to the newcomer was broken into in the small morning hours, photographs were taken of the empty counters, and were published by the rival print under the caption "Results of Advertising in Our Competitor." To anyone who did not know that the brothers were named Levand, and that they had served their...
...Denver Post is responsible for the most curious breed of men who have ever associated themselves with the publication of a newspaper. When Bonfils came to Denver, and recruited from the Navarre Cafe assistance in the person of Harry H. Tammen, Denver was in for it. For two decades the Denver Post did one incredible handspring after another, and opened a campaign for subscriptions and power which balked at no invasion of privacy or justice. Bonfils was shot at five times, and one lawyer whom he had attempted to blackmail put three bullets each into him and his confederate...
International's beat is verified by the time of receipt of the bulletins of I. N. S., U. P. and A. P. in newspaper offices using all of the services such as the Des Moines Register & Tribune, Denver Post and Los Angeles Herald-Express, or papers using I. N. S. and one of the other services, such as Kansas City Star, Chicago American, St. Louis Star, Boston American, Minneapolis Star, Camden Courier-Post, and many others...
...Denver, for instance, the first bulletin came from I. N. S. at 9:52 a. m. local time; the U. P. limped in with the news at 10:33 a. m. local time. Of course, I. N. S. had a corresponding lead over the opposition at other points...
...married the leading lady, Virginia Harned. They were divorced in 1910. Some time before that, began the halcyon days when he toured with Julia Marlowe in a train of twelve cars, doing Shakespeare from Hamlet to Twelfth Night. He "retired" in 1916, appeared again at intervals, collapsed on a Denver lecture platform three years ago and retired finally, denouncing the indecency of the modern theatre and predicting an imminent Shakespeare renascence...