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...Globe's overnight switch was duplicated by many another U.S. newspaper last week. From New York to Los Angeles, there had not been such an impressive near-unanimity of editorial reaction since Pearl Harbor. Editorialized the Fair Dealing Nashville Tennessean: ". . . face the issue now . . ." Agreed the Republican Portland Oregonian: ". . . no choice in honor or in duty...
...This case is really one for history," said the Portland Oregonian. "But not for the radio program, This Is Your...
Pickett's successor as Service Committee executive secretary is 33-year-old Oregonian Lewis Hoskins, who worked in China for the committee from 1945 to 1948, has served as its personnel director since last July. Pickett has been appointed "Honorary Secretary" with the understanding that he will continue to do special jobs for the committee. One current assignment: exploring new approaches to peace between the U.S.S.R...
...Baptist minister's son, Palmer Hoyt was a sergeant major in World War I, then a successful writer of westerns (one Hoyt hero: a buckaroo with a revolving glass eyeball). He joined the Portland Oregonian in 1926, in twelve years rose from copyreader to publisher. In 1946 the Denver Post's owners hired him away on a fat, longtime contract...
...most wanted" list last week. He was Orba Elmer Jackson, 43, who had been serving a 25-year term for robbing a Missouri post office and brutally beating up the postmaster. When Jackson was captured on an Oregon ranch after an I.N.S. story about him appeared in the Portland Oregonian (circ. 214,916), I.N.S. gave itself a cross-country pat on the back and the Portland paper crowed: OREGONIAN STORY AID TO CAPTURE. The fact: the tip that led to Jackson's capture came to the FBI four days before the I.N.S. story appeared in the Oregonian...