Word: oregonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Publisher Hoyt managed in the last two years to overcome this lead is a story of smart publishing. He boosted his out-of-town circulation by bettering the Oregonian's coverage in small...
...Oregonian also gets circulation by a means rarely effective for other newspapers: its editorial page. Surveys by the Continuing Study of Newspaper Reading rank the Oregonian's lead editorial with its best-read features. Its editorial page was the only section of the Oregonian to escape the streamlining applied by Paper Doctor Guy T. Viskniskki...
...best written editorial pages on the Pacific Coast, it is authored by three closely geared individualists, with a neat division of talents. They write in a tradition founded by such rugged journalists as the Oregonian's famed Harvey W. Scott, an erudite, walrus-faced editor who prowled the office in stocking feet for 40 years, and by Albert Hawkins, ex-cabin boy and coal-heaver, who liked best to write about education, science and Pacific Northwest history...
Publisher Hoyt entirely separated the news departments and editorial page, setting the Oregonian's editorialists entirely apart. The Oregonian now has no editor-in-chief, and Managing Editor Robert Not-son never crosses the editorialists' path. Its three editorialists...
Ronald Glenn Callvert, 68, oldest of the three, has been on the Oregonian since 1909, was assistant and managing editor until he became editorial writer in 1931. Bushy-browed, kindly, he hunts & pecks his tax and fiscal editorials at furious speed on a portable typewriter while chewing an unlit cigar. (All editorialists, like Oregonian reporters, buy their own typewriters.) The story is that Editor Callvert in 1938 was about to be fired because he was too expensive. The idea was dropped when he won the Pulitzer Prize for best editorial of the year...