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Qualifications. In Portland, Ore., an Oregonian advertiser offered to rent a "newlyweds' dream house" to a couple with "no children under...
...thus "a better product" for readers. Among newspaper tycoons, little (5 ft. 3 in.) Samuel I. Newhouse is growing fast. A month earlier, he had bought complete control of the money-making Journal (he had held half interest since 1946), only eleven months after he bought Portland's Oregonian. He is still looking for more papers. Says Newhouse: "Publishers can make up for rising costs by increased volume...
...Syracuse Herald-Journal, Post-Standard, Long Island Press, Star-Journal, Newark Star-Ledger, Staten Island Advance, Harrisburg News, Patriot, Portland Oregonian, Jersey Journal...
...last week. In 1851, first Editor Asahel Bush wanted the territorial capital moved from Oregon City to Salem, characterized those who disagreed as "Lickspittles and toadies of official whiggery." Such Statesman invective soon became known as the "Oregon style" of journalism. Wrote Bush, about his bitter opponent, the Portland Oregonian: "There is not a brothel in the land that would not have felt itself disgraced by the presence of the Oregonian of week before last. It was a complete issue of gross profanity, obscenity, falsehood and meanness...
...whom all Portland, Ore. knows as Mr. Mac marches into the First National Bank, seats himself at the desk tagged Chairman of the Board and settles to work. At 10:30, Chairman Ernest Boyd MacNaughton marches out again and takes over his second desk as president of the Portland Oregonian (circ. 224,314). Finally, after a quick lunch at "a grab and grunt stand," Mr. Mac heads for his third and favorite job-president of Reed College (enrollment...