Word: oregonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after the two dailies in Portland, Ore. started cash-prize crossword-puzzle contests last November, the entries were pouring in at a tidal rate-57,000 a week to the afternoon Oregon Journal (circ. 182,956), about 60.000 a week to the morning Oregonian (circ. 233.856). Few entrants knew of the prohibitive odds against winning such circulation-promotion contests: usually more than 100.000 to one.*Last week both Portland papers took to their front pages with embarrassed confessions that some of the winners had somehow reduced the odds against winning to zero...
...have become convinced," said the Oregonian, "that certain persons have had access to advance information regarding answers to some of the puzzles." The Journal's apology, which ran under a six-column head, offered more details: "Our investigations have shown beyond any doubt that at least one of our winning contestants was able to win $2,600 in prize money because of information supplied, through several Portland intermediaries, from persons operating in Detroit...
...Paul Dispatch and the A.P. still hoped the story was legitimate, but they found it hard to answer the Portland Oregonian's Assistant Managing Editor Edward M. Miller, who had exposed the same old yarn as a fraud in 1935. He wired A.P.: THAT GAL MUST BE GETTING
...when he bought the Staten Island Advance for $98,000 in 1922. Since then, short (5 ft. 3 in.), stocky Samuel Irving Newhouse, 63, the son of a Russian immigrant, has strung together an empire of 13 newspapers. Among them: the Newark Star-Ledger, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Syracuse Herald-Journal and Post-Standard. The prosperous Newhouse chain is surpassed in heft and wealth only by Scripps-Howard (21 papers) and Hearst...
...world at Harvard is still in a fairly embryonic state and is likely to remain so until Oregonian benevolence takes full effect and provides a stimulation which has long been lacking. The exhibition of students' work at Adams House represents, to a great extent, people whose work has constituted the nucleus of whatever activity the past few years have produced. It also shows considerable growth on their part, which is in itself an encouraging sign...