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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...
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...
...interested witness to the Colonel's drastic surgery was young Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, the Oregonian's sharp-eyed managing editor. Last week, having left the streamlined old lady for Denver's "hussy of Champa Street" (TIME, Feb. 18), Ep Hoyt was warming up to a doctoring job of his own on the Denver Post...
...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...
...Newspaperman? He had revitalized one paper before. A Baptist minister's son, he spent 18 months in France with the A.E.F., worked his way through the University of Oregon's Journalism School (whose dean told him he would never make a newspaperman). Married while still in college, Ep Hoyt did janitor work in churches, sports correspondence for the Oregonian, spent summer vacations lum-berjacking in eastern Oregon...