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...opening with joy. Its nearness to downtown Portland threatens the livelihood of many of the city's oldest merchants. Last year they formed Downtown Portland, Inc. to attract customers by putting potted trees on downtown sidewalks, devising plans to give customers parking rebates. But many downtown merchants-including Meier & Frank, Portland's largest department store-covered their bets by opening branches in the center. Some 595,000 people in the Portland metropolitan area live within a 20-minute drive of Lloyd Center...
...Your article quotes my father very accurately. However, his name is Louis H. Fritzemeier, not Fritz Meier. It is true, his colleagues call him Fritz, but I do not believe that TIME has the prerogative to be so familiar-you hardly know him! MARY FRITZEMEIER Lawrence, Kans...
...invariably, last week's chosen few with average academic ability had other qualifications: an offbeat talent, a semifinalist rank in the Merit Scholarship competition, a drive to become something specific in life, a glowing recommendation from high school teachers. The Ivy League makes few "fuzzy" choices, says Fritz Meier, boys' counselor at suburban (Chicago) Oak Park and River Forest High Schools. "They've been involved in selective admissions for a long, long time, and they've become rather skillful...
...partners built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors and guests: Russian Novelist Maxim Gorky, Critic Julius Meier-Graefe, Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil von Mannerheim, Composer Jean Sibelius...
Ever since a bomb exploded in the big Meier & Frank department store (TIME, April 25), Portland, Ore. has been keyed to a high pitch-somewhere between a laugh and a scream-by fake bomb threats. Last week another bomb exploded in Portland, this time with fatal results. The victim: Oliver Kermit Smith, 35, a prominent lawyer who lived in the highly respectable Alameda district with his wife, Marjorie, 34. After an evening of gin rummy at the Columbia-Edgewater Country Club, he called his wife to say he would be home in 10 minutes; he went...