Word: elkinses
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"Going out of the classroom Elkins (the Society man) and myself moved on O'Neill. His diffidence seemed to have gone. We repaired to one of the Shamrock bars... We drank ale. We continued drinking ale until four in the morning, feet on the rail, one hand in the free...
"We piled finally into a decrepit hack. We fell into O'Neill's room some time about five. I had just purchased that day a copy of SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. When the dawn broke, I was sitting on a trunk, Elkins sprawled across the bed, O'Neill reading in his...
After pocketing a passel of prizes for its series exposing a Teamster-led conspiracy to take over Portland's rackets (TIME, April 8), the Portland Oregonian (circ. 232,338) sprouted a new Page One slogan: "Grand Slam of American Journalism." The Oregon Journal (181,210), which doggedly argued that...
Crosby's acquittal tasted particularly sweet to the Journal, since it had broken out 180-point type earlier this month to banner the acquittal on perjury charges of Mayor Terry Schrunk (TIME, July 8), another key figure named by Elkins. "The vaunted truthfulness of Elkins," crowed the Journfal, "was...
With the indictment last week of Schrunk and Langley on charges of accepting bribes from racketeers, every conspirator named by the Oregonian was facing criminal action. (Langley, who had filed libel suits for $2,000,000 against the Oregonian and several individuals who supported its story, quietly dropped them.) Still...