Word: tammen
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That woman is Mrs. Helen Bonfils Davis, a 20% Post stockholder and elderly daughter of the late Frederick G. Bonfils, who with Harry H. Tammen, his partner, built the Post into the gaudiest and most successful daily west of the Mississippi. Before Mrs. Davis' outraged eyes, Outsider Newhouse had committed two unpardonable sins. One was to covet her father's paper, about which Mrs. Davis harbors a passionate sense of proprietorship. The other Newhouse sin was to buy his 15% from Helen's older sister, May Bonfils Stanton...
Died. Gene Fowler. 70, flamboyant Boswell for flamboyant figures; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Fowler's Timberline (1933), a classic for sentimental journalists, told the story of the Denver Post and its rascally bosses, Fred Bonfils and Harry Tammen; The Great Mouthpiece was a lurid biography of a lurid, turn-of-the-century lawyer; and Good Night, Sweet Prince loyally and lovably concentrated as much on John Barrymore's peccadilloes as on his superb acting...
Inimitable to Dependable. A struggling frontier-town daily until 1895, when it was bought by Harry H. Tammen, a onetime Denver bartender, and Frederick G. Bonfils, who reaped an $800,000 fortune by fleecing Kansans in a lottery, the Denver Post bloomed under their cultivation into the wildest flower in the Wild West. Its front page was a crazy quilt of blaring headlines, many in red ink, and along the order of DOES IT HURT TO BE BORN...
Despite an impressive contingent of crack newsmen-among them Damon Runyon, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Burns Mantle and Gene Fowler-the paper read like a circus flyer. For an editorial page, Tammen and Bonfils substituted invective, raked up so much scandal-a good deal of it true-that they kept a loaded shotgun in their office to discourage reader complaints. As the Post grew in power and prosperity, its proprietors branched into other fields; the Post became the first and last U.S. daily ever to own a circus (Sells-Floto), run a burlesque house and sell coal...
Irresistible Offer. Bonfils and Tammen had scattered their estates among a handful of bank-administered trusts and Bonfils' two daughters, Helen and May. Lacking effective leadership, the Post, which had netted more than $1,000,000 a year under Tammen and Bonfils, fell on lean times; of late it has been paying stockholders-Bonfils' daughters and the bank trusts-less than a 3% return. This combination-low yield, diversified ownership -is just the situation that Newhouse likes to exploit. He has had an eye on the Post for five years, but paid his first visit to Denver only...