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When Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt left OWI last week, he had faithfully kept his three promises of last June: 1) to serve as "a people's advocate" inside the Government; 2) to squeeze real news out of the war agencies instead of participating in the fancy hide-&-seek game of domestic "propaganda"; 3) to go home after six months...
...circumstances. He had become chief of OWI's domestic branch, succeeding Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., Des Moines publisher, just after the House of Representatives had torpedoed the bureau by withholding its funds. The Senate had not yet acted, but there was stormy weather ahead for OWI. Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt had a right to be nervous...
...newsman asked about Ep Hoyt's politics. Hoyt's answer: "Lifelong Republican." The brittle, 15-minute conference broke...
...newsmen could not yet tell how successful Ep Hoyt will be in his new job (or even whether he had one); many a man successful in private business has sunk in bureaucracy's quicksands. But they did know that Ep Hoyt, the up-from-the-ranks editor and publisher of the popular Portland Oregonian is patient, smart, has a rare knack of making and keeping friends. They felt sure that, given half a chance, he could click...
...audience: some 5,000,000 listeners to the Town Meeting of the Air. Big Palmer Hoyt, onetime city editor, now publisher, of the Portland Oregonian, was listened to with respect, for his paper has a reputation for fair dealing. Said "Ep" Hoyt...