Word: oregonian
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Died. Ernest Boyd MacNaughton, 79, president of the Portland, Ore. First National Bank from 1932 to 1947 and its board chairman ever since, who was moderator of the American Unitarian Associa tion from 1950 to 1952, president of the Oregonian Publishing Company from
...best-trained man in history." Glowed the Indianapolis News: "A forceful leader, a hard campaigner, and an articulate speaker." The Denver Post lauded Nixon's "political skill," the Christian Science Monitor his "depth of thinking," the St. Paul Dispatch his "ability to unify divergent groups," the Portland Oregonian his "experience, vigor, intelligence...
...sculpture. In 1939 he paid $1,900,000 for two Syracuse papers after a single telephone call from a broker. Says Newhouse: "He called and said, 'Do you want to buy Syracuse?' And I said, 'Sure.' " Newhouse paid $5,250,000 - cash - for the Portland Oregonian without ever seeing the plant. Newhouse's cash re serves are so plentiful, his acquisitiveness so indefatigable, that last year he bought a $5,000,000 controlling interest in Conde Nast Publications, which publishes Vogue and five other magazines, as a surprise anniversary present for his wife Mitzi...
Such journalism was inimitable. But after Bonfils' death in 1933, the Post began to resort to the all-too-imitable. In 1946, Bonfils' heirs hired a new editor, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, from the Portland Oregonian, where he had risen in twelve years from the copy desk to publisher. Sweeping out vestigial traces of the circus makeup, Hoyt gave the Post its first real editorial page, completed the Post's conversion into a sober, dependable and stodgy newspaper...
...Advance, Jamaica (N.Y.) Long Island Press, Newark Star-Ledger, Long Island City Star-Journal, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Post-Standard and Herald-American (Sunday), Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot and News, Jersey City Jersey Journal, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Huntsville (Ala.) Times, St. Louis Globe-Democrat...