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...story of Bonfils and Tammen" is the subtitle for "Timber Line"; that should serve to introduce it effectively to any American reader, for the name of Bonfils, if not that of Tammen, has been blatted to the four corners with almost the virulence which the man himself would have employed in scorching a commercial enemy. Bonfils and his "Denver Post" have been held up in magazines and less full-blooded papers as the dual climax of bawdy journalism; they have been ridiculed as cranks and denounced as blackmailers their saga has been amplified and coloured even beyond its own rich...
...Tammen v. Tannen Sirs...
Whether it is a tribute to your popularity or to mine, I cannot say, but so many of my friends have mentioned the reference in your issue of Dec. 25 on p. 34 to "rascally Julius Tammen" I am impelled to drop you this note. Your contributor intended to refer to "Harry Tammen" but the surname and my own -Tannen, when the former is preceded by "Julius" and the adjective employed is "rascally Julius Tammen" suggests you would desire to make a correction. . . . JULIUS TANNEN...
This bold inscription has decorated the front of the Denver Post Building ever since rascally Julius Tammen and F. G. Bonfils bought the paper 38 years...
...Denver Post is responsible for the most curious breed of men who have ever associated themselves with the publication of a newspaper. When Bonfils came to Denver, and recruited from the Navarre Cafe assistance in the person of Harry H. Tammen, Denver was in for it. For two decades the Denver Post did one incredible handspring after another, and opened a campaign for subscriptions and power which balked at no invasion of privacy or justice. Bonfils was shot at five times, and one lawyer whom he had attempted to blackmail put three bullets each into him and his confederate...