Word: ep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than a year, "Ep" (Edwin Palmer) Hoyt had changed the raucous Denver Post from a brawling journalistic hussy to a newspaper (TIME, Feb. 18). Facing his staff the first day on the job, he looked at his watch, announced that, from that moment, the common scold of Champa Street "ain't mad at nobody." By last week, having cleaned house on Champa Street, he got set to move the Post from its squat, gaudy old building. The Post bought the Home Public Market and an adjoining five-story office building, ordered 24 new high-speed presses. Hoyt announced...
Calm & Clean. Ep Hoyt, who climbed from lowly copyreader to publisher of the conservative Portland Oregonian in twelve years, was changing the Post's ways slowly, but in one year he had done a lot. His single concession to the old gaudiness was the Post's pink-paper Page One; otherwise the sideshow days were over. By shaking down the crazy-quilt make-up and flamboyant headlines, Hoyt saved 98 columns of space weekly, used part of them for better news coverage, loaded the rest with advertising. Even though Hoyt had increased its editorial staff from...
Legs for the Empire's Voice. Ep Hoyt had adopted Bonfils' proprietary feeling about the Rocky Mountain area (the Post calls itself "The Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire"). Soon he will have legmen in all of the empire's 13 states. Come the days of unlimited paper, Hoyt expects to reach unimpeded as far as Canada to the north, Mexico to the south; east until he bumps the Kansas City Star, west until he shares newsstand space with the workmanlike Salt Lake City Telegram...
First stop was a testimonial banquet to another publisher: "Ep" Hoyt, of the Portland Oregonian, with whom I worked in OWI. He was leaving to take over the Denver Post (TIME, Feb. 18), and some 500 of Portland's leading citizens got up the banquet to show that they were sorry to see him go. West Coast citizens certainly have a tremendous personal interest in their communities and a deep sense of civic responsibility for them...
...rival News promptly blurbed back. The News bragged that it had "the only complete editorial page" in town. Nobody who knew Ep Hoyt thought he would be without an editorial page for long...