Books: Denver Desperado

THE GREAT I AM-Lewis Graham-Macaulay ($2).

The many enemies of the late notorious Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, owner-publisher of the Denver Post, said that he wore his yellow journalism with a difference—as protective coloration over an armor of blackmail. Few men have received such audibly frank obituaries. Last week Denverites were forcibly reminded of the "Old Dragon of Champa Street" when newsboys, billboards, burgees, street ballyhoos and all the paraphernalia of a high-pressure sales campaign launched The Great I Am, a thinly-veiled story of Publisher Bonfils' rackety career.

Author "Lewis Graham" (Lou Goldberg) tells his...

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