Word: oregonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the eminently respectable Portland Oregonian, the Post stole solid, affable, eminently respectable Publisher Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, who at 48 is still the white-haired boy of Western journalism. The lure: around $52,000 a year. Though friends of both asked what they saw in each other, Ep Hoyt and the Post were sure it was a fine match...
...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...
...landing on the Oregonian for his second copydesk stretch, he got $45 a week, wrote Westerns for the pulp market on the side. After twelve years he was publisher, already deep in the job of restyling the stodgy Oregonian, pepping it up for a successful circulation battle with the Oregon Journal...
...American Artist Magazine says TIME'S covers have "created a sensation ... set a style"-the Portland Oregonian hails the paintings...
...Mclntire, an ophthalmologist and otolaryngologist whose specialty is sinus (Franklin Roosevelt's most nagging health problem), is a balding, relaxed Oregonian whose rosy face is younger than his 55 years. Every morning around 8:30 he parks his five-year-old Lincoln convertible in front of the White House, strolls into the Presidential bedroom, insinuates himself into the daily bedside bull session. Having done his morning chore, he becomes Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy and spends the rest of the day bossing his wartime staff of 140,000. Each afternoon, he checks up at the White House again...