before gaining fame as a writer in New York.

After the deaths of Tammen and Bonfils in 1924 and 1933, Helen Bonfils and May Bonfils Stanton, Bonfils' daughters, became the principal owners of the Post. In 1946, the Post hired Palmer Hoyt from the Portland Oregonian to become editor and publisher of the Post and to give the paper a new direction. With Hoyt in charge, news was reported fairly and accurately. He