Courtesy in Denver

At 5 p. m. one day last week in Denver, just as Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News was putting its early edition to press, something dreadful happened in the composing room. The gas flames under the linotype machines flickered and died. Floods had broken the Texas gas pipeline outside; the city.

Only one thing could get the News out next morning: electric linotype machines. The Denver Post had a whole battery of them: the hated, hating, blatant old Post whose late Publisher Frederick G. ("Bon") Bonfils had been lambasted by the News until he died last winter. Since "Bon's" death his vigorous spinster daughter Helen, 38, has been running the

Post. Helen Bonfils inherited $25,000 a year of her father's money but not his grudges.* Would the Post let the News use its linotypes? The Post would. Other printing plants joined the rescue. Next day the News front-paged:

"Your News this morning is made possible by the courtesy of THE DENVER POST, THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER AND THE BRADFORD-ROBINSON PRINTING CO."

*A married daughter, Mrs. May Bonfils Berryman, last week won the right to a full legacy and to her husband. The Bonfils will bequeathed her, $12,000 a year so long as she remained married to flashy Clyde V. Berryman, whom "Bon" disliked and resented; $25,000 a year if she became a widow or divorcee. A judge found that provision contrary to public policy, granted Mrs. Berryman an annuity like her sister's, with no strings.

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