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...Ep" Hoyt said the Post was on a "shakedown cruise." The new plant had proved more expensive to operate than the old one. Also, the Post had had to continue to print its roto section in Chicago until it could shift the job to the new plant this month. Said Hoyt: "It's been like maintaining two wives and two domiciles...
...Post to its dominant position in the Rocky Mountains by wild splashes of red ink, trick headlines (DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?), a circus makeup, dancing Indians, performing chimpanzees, and stuffed elephants under glass (they kept one in the business office). In his own four years as publisher, Ep Hoyt has shown considerably more restraint, but he has kept the Post growing in circulation (now 226,866), advertising (double in four years), prestige and influence. He has done it by making the Post responsible as well as robust...
Although the Post is delivered by bicycle, burro and plane daily in every one of the 13 states in the Rocky Mountain Empire, energetic Ep Hoyt is not relaxing. He munches candy bars, swallows vitamin pills, and takes catnaps to keep going 18 hours a day. He traveled 45,000 miles last year, selling the Post to the empire. The hustle & bustle pays off. Last year's gross: $12,000,000 (net: more than $1,000,000). To Ep Hoyt and the Post that is not good enough. They share the old Bonfils motto, still published daily: "There...
Last week Crime Collector Lowall got what he called a "dream assignment." Ep Hoyt moved in Oldtimer (59) James Hale as city editor and moved 44-year-old Gene Lowall over to the new, specially tailored job of national "crime editor." His roving commission: to go anywhere in the U.S., cover any aspects of crime "likely to interest Post readers...
Divorced. Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, 52, editor-publisher of the Denver Post; by Cecile De Vore Hoyt; after 28 years of marriage, two children; in Denver...