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...PORTLAND OREGONIAN : The election was a crazy quilt stitched on personalities and local issues. The Democratic-Labor coalition hit the question of unemployment with everything it had, tied it up with administration indifference to tax relief for working people and "giveaway" of natural resources. The Eisenhower administration failed to put together a power program for the Northwest...
There was also the Oregonian who was in such bad shape in 1952 that Chief Cardiologist William Likoff doubted that he could survive surgery. He and his wife insisted on it, and he had a tricky double operation. Now he spends eight or nine hours a day on horseback. There was also a Pennsylvanian who startled the doctors by saying that he had gone back to work in the coal mines. "Hell," he said, "that's the only job I know." In schoolgirl high spirits and 40 pounds heavier was Judith Schmidt, 12, who had been chilled...
...mother, 90-year-old Maria ("Ria") Jackson, named General Manager William W. Knight, 44, the new Journal boss. Spry, autocratic Ria Jackson, who ran the paper for years and still keeps an eye on it, also scotched rumors that Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse, owner of Portland's morning Oregonian (circ. 225,421) and nine other dailies, was going to buy the Journal. Said Mrs. Jackson: "I want Portland and all the world to know that the Journal has not been and is not for sale...
Portland's Ernest Boyd MacNaughton was a man of many affairs: president of the daily Oregonian, chairman of the board of Portland's First National Bank, lay moderator of the American Unitarian Association. When he took over the presidency of Reed College in 1948, he firmly announced that he would serve only pro tempore. "I am a businessman," said he. "Any time you find an academic man qualified, I'll step aside." Last week, at a sprightly 71, "Mr. Mac" did step aside. The academic man who takes his place: Duncan Smith Ballantine, 40, associate professor...