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...less than a year, "Ep" (Edwin Palmer) Hoyt had changed the raucous Denver Post from a brawling journalistic hussy to a newspaper (TIME, Feb. 18). Facing his staff the first day on the job, he looked at his watch, announced that, from that moment, the common scold of Champa Street "ain't mad at nobody." By last week, having cleaned house on Champa Street, he got set to move the Post from its squat, gaudy old building. The Post bought the Home Public Market and an adjoining five-story office building, ordered 24 new high-speed presses. Hoyt announced...
Fiorello LaGuardia, old-scold columnist for 1) PM, 2) Sachs Quality Stores, tired of having his Sachs column rejected by Manhattan papers,* wrote something different, prayed in print: "I hope no fault will be found with it." Bulk of his column: Little Bopeep, Sing a Song of Sixpence, three other nursery favorites. That got printed-except by the Daily News...
...squad, a platoon, a company, a regiment, a brigade, a division, a corps and an army. He dislikes the lofty impersonality forced on him by his present duty-"Hell, I'd rather have a regiment." Now, he says, "I don't do much except think a lot, scold a little, pat a man on the back now & then-and try to keep a perspective...
This vast daily fountain of print is a national press. But it is also a hometown press and as such, for nine long years, it had been full to bursting with news of its own kinetic, photogenic mayor, Fiorello Henry ("Butch") LaGuardia. Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy. And the press has been good to him. Few politicians have ever received the continuous campaign support that New York's newspapers have bestowed on their bumptious little dictator and fiery reformer...
...risen 20% since the war started, because Britain requires not only more oil but also the tankers which formerly carried crude oil to Canada. But Canada's move was not rationing. It made gasoline only a little more difficult to buy. Like Secretary Ickes' efforts to scold the eastern U.S. into using less gasoline, it may have to be followed by real rationing...