Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invitation to come to Denver to pick up the other one. Twelve times during the month Cowboy Fenwick and his pony (carted around in a truck) repeated the stunt at other state capitols in what Post Editor and Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt likes to call the "Rocky Mountain Empire...
This week, with assorted governors, senators, mayors, newsmen and Denverites on hand, Emperor Hoyt formally opens his new court-a gleaming $6,000,000 plant in downtown Denver. The 5,000 guests will wash down Rocky Mountain trout with a river of bourbon, admire the electrically heated sidewalks (guaranteed to melt snow in a jiffy), and watch as cosmic rays start the giant new presses rolling off copies of the Post...
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...
...Pacific Coast from Pasadena to Seattle, the little maestro took to the outdoors. At Sun Valley, he lolled on the grass, watched his grandson, Yale Sophomore Walfredo Toscanini, play tennis, then sat himself in a ski-lift chair for a trip part way up 9,200-ft. Baldy Mountain. Was he scared? Not a bit, scoffed Toscanini. He had been a mountain climber in his youth-which was a good 60 years ago. Up & down the lift, he gaily applauded members of his orchestra as they passed, crying "Bellissimo," with the enthusiasm of a small Italian...
...Mountains, by William O. Douglas. Trout fishing and mountain climbing in the tall Northwest, served up with a garnish of mountain-made philosophy (TIME, April...