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First stop was a testimonial banquet to another publisher: "Ep" Hoyt, of the Portland Oregonian, with whom I worked in OWI. He was leaving to take over the Denver Post (TIME, Feb. 18), and some 500 of Portland's leading citizens got up the banquet to show that they were sorry to see him go. West Coast citizens certainly have a tremendous personal interest in their communities and a deep sense of civic responsibility for them...
Colonel Guy T. Viskniskki is celebrated as a newspaper doctor, an efficiency expert. He is tough, ruthless, and almost as bald as a hard-boiled egg. Called in to operate on the frumpy Portland Oregonian in 1934, Efficiency Man Viskniskki took one look and laid about him with his cleaver. Deadheads rolled, deadwood was chopped away, and the "old lady of Alder Street" woke up with her face lifted...
...interested witness to the Colonel's drastic surgery was young Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, the Oregonian's sharp-eyed managing editor. Last week, having left the streamlined old lady for Denver's "hussy of Champa Street" (TIME, Feb. 18), Ep Hoyt was warming up to a doctoring job of his own on the Denver Post...
...insisted on divorcing news from opinion, a major operation for a paper steeped in the personal-journalism tradition of the Oregonian's founder, Henry L. Pittock, a goat-bearded tyrant of pioneer days. Under Hoyt the Republican Oregonian gave labor, Democrats, Japanese-Americans an even break - something the Denver Post never...
...tireless joiner, public speaker and partygoer, Palmer Hoyt gets around like no other Oregonian. He drinks his whiskey and gobbles his vitamin pills with equal gusto. His appetite for civic wheelhorsing has never been sated. He helped bring Henry Kaiser to Portland. As Oregon's first War Bond director, he put the state at the head of the U.S. in sales. His methods became the pattern for the national bond drives. In 1943 Hoyt slaved for six months as OWI's domestic director, fought hard to keep war news flowing free from needless and petty censorship...