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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Responsibility for Truth | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...there was much truth in what Publisher Hoyt said, there is also much truth in the assertion that the press itself has often been far from realistic about the facts of war-regularly overplaying small victories in too big headlines and burying unpleasant news where it gets little attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Responsibility for Truth | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Great Man's Lady (Paramount) was designed to give belated credit to the women who never get it: those who helped make their men great. Unfortunately, the great man (Joel McCrea) chosen for this bow to womankind wasn't worth the effort. His name is Hoyt, a romantic frontiersman of 1848 who dreams of building a great Midwestern city. His idealism persuades a Philadelphia Main Line girl (Barbara Stanwyck) to go West with him. Some 60 years later he is a dying U.S. Senator, silver rich. He had apparently got his city built (on land he owned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 25, 1942 | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...Canada's dashing Wurtele twins, Rhona & Rhoda, who have finished one-two in every downhill race they have entered this year, failed to lead their side to victory. Winner of the downhill, with spectacular runs of 1:02 and 1:01.4 (for the ⅜-mile course) was Dorothy Hoyt of Schenectady, N.Y. Two U.S. teammates were clocked close behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Down Rim Rock | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...first three marriages were all to the same man, Playboy Morton McMichael Hoyt, brother of the late Poetess Elinor Wylie. Hoyt attracted attention in 1928 when, on a dare, he jumped off the liner Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic. Another Hoyt stunt: chopping up a whiskbroom, eating it with cream and sugar. He and Eugenia were divorced, twice remarried and divorced between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 16, 1942 | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

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