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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...
...death in 1933, the Post began to resort to the all-too-imitable. In 1946, Bonfils' heirs hired a new editor, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, from the Portland Oregonian, where he had risen in twelve years from the copy desk to publisher. Sweeping out vestigial traces of the circus makeup, Hoyt gave the Post its first real editorial page, completed the Post's conversion into a sober, dependable and stodgy newspaper...
Cathy's Clown (Everly Brothers; Warner Bros.). All about a chippie named Cathy who treats her rejected suitor so scurvily that he feels like a $50-a-week circus performer. The delivery of the Brothers Everly is, if possible, more adenoidal than ever, but their righteous bleats have placed Cathy well ahead of Elvis at the top of the charts...
Thrills of the 1960 Circus (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey...
Died. Charles Holden, 84, busy British architect whose solid, conservative designs left his imprint throughout London (the handsome London Transport office building, the towering London University buildings, Piccadilly Circus subway station) and in scores of impressive World War I memorials scattered about Britain and France; in London...