Word: hoyt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short of Respectability. Not surprisingly, Sutton and his travel-writing press colleagues are the envy of newsmen on more prosaic beats. Every now and then, Denver Post Editor Palmer Hoyt pokes his head through the door of Travel Editor Bruce Hamby and inquires: "How does a guy get a job like this?" In the years since World War II, the travel editor has come to play an increasingly important press role. New York Times Travel Editor Paul J. C. Friedlander has a staff of five men and a secretary. Travel supplements proliferate, ranging from the Chicago Tribune, which prints...
Such journalism was inimitable. But after Bonfils' death in 1933, the Post began to resort to the all-too-imitable. In 1946, Bonfils' heirs hired a new editor, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, from the Portland Oregonian, where he had risen in twelve years from the copy desk to publisher. Sweeping out vestigial traces of the circus makeup, Hoyt gave the Post its first real editorial page, completed the Post's conversion into a sober, dependable and stodgy newspaper...
Faced with the Justice Department's complaint and request for an injunction against Terrell County's registrars, Georgia-born District Judge T. Hoyt Davis reasoned that the Constitution does not forbid racial discrimination by private citizens, and that the Civil Rights Act might permit suits against private citizens as well as state officials. Therefore, ruled he, the act is unconstitutional...
...charges came last week from Washington, where Senator Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee probed into the high price of tranquilizers -which cost up to six times as much in the U.S. as in foreign countries. One Miltown tablet costs only .7? to make, testified Carter President Henry Hoyt, but it sells to druggists for 3.3? and retails for about a dime. Why the wide spread? Into every pill, replied Hoyt, Carter figures research costs of .4?, promotion costs of 1?, profit of 1.2?. As for promotion, Carter has a blue-ribbon mailing list of 92,000 doctors, figures it spends...