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...elder Dickey ran the morning Journal from 32,647 circulation to 155.463 in the first 18 months of his ownership. In 1928 he combined it with the evening Post, which he had bought from notorious Publishers Bonfils & Tammen of the Denver Post. He operated the properties as a personal enterprise until 1929 when, weary of the drudgery, he formed a trusteeship consisting of himself...
Between the office of Publisher Frederick G. ("Bon") Bonfils of the incredibly yellow Denver Post and the office of his sly, genial partner, the late famed H. H. ("Tarn") Tammen, there used to be a desk to which each partner would send the kind of orders that great publishers send to their Men Friday. At that desk for many years sat Louis Levand, patient, portly, devoted. Brother John Levand was in the Post's circulation department. Brother Max, too, was on the staff, more driving and hard-boiled than the other two. "Bon" and "Tarn" sent him to be business...
...Levands' Beacon soon jolted Wichita like a battering ram. It sprouted all the loud, flamboyant labels of the Denver Post. It applied all the high-pressure business technique of the adroit and powerful Bonfils & Tammen. The Brothers Murdock at first affected to ignore the newcomers but rural Kansas editors have found that an almost certain way of getting themselves quoted in the Murdocks' Eagles is to take a crack at the (to them) unspeakable Levands. Some of these cracks, which the Brothers Levand say are "inspired" by the Brothers Murdock, are too much for even the Mur docks to reprint...
Glad indeed was Moses Koenigsberg. half of whose 51 years have been spent as a Hearst executive, to enter such a promised land. He became, last week, the paper's general manager. Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils?who bought the Post for his partner Tammen and himself in 1893 with some of the money he made out of operating the Little Louisiana Lottery (TIME, Nov. 19, 1928)?had specially made the new job for his longtime friend Koenigsberg...
Rotund, big-voiced, bad-land-bred, city-smoothed, General Manager Koenigsberg will not seem out of place around the office of the Denver Post, where once trod fleshy, practical-joking, hard-boiled H. H. Tammen. Nor will a Hearstman be any novelty to Publisher Bonfils, who imported a setting of them in the Yellow '905 when he first began to make his paper a hissing to indiscreet Denver citizens...