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...letter to the Portland Oregonian, 73-year-old H. G. Wells wrote: "America expects every Englishman to do his duty, and I don't think we shall disappoint...
Sirs: Whether the publications Efficiency Expert Viskniskki has worked for were (and still are) ailing may be debated. As to Portland's 89-year-old Oregonian, it may be remarked, however, that whereas the Colonel found it a journal of distinction, it is today just another damned daily paper. SlLVANUS KlNGSLEY Portland...
Five years ago, I pointed out to you the inaccuracies in an article you printed about the Portland Oregonian and me in your issue of Jan. 7, 1935, and I closed my letter with the suggestion that your publisher retain me to teach TIME the art of being accurate in its reporting...
...last two years the Scripps brothers have got rid of two of their newspapers, cutting their chain down to eight. Weakest of these has been the Portland (Ore.) News-Telegram, chief loser in a circulation war between Portland's other two papers, the morning Oregonian and the evening Oregon Journal. To boost the Journal's falling circulation, its shrewd business manager, Simeon Reed Winch, last week did the smartest thing he could do: persuaded the Scripps boys to fold their News-Telegram and took over (for a reported $600,000) its features and circulation. After eliminating duplication...
...Ornery, cocky Oregonian Wayne Sabin, 23, a career tennist who thinks he is the second best player in the U. S. and can get several tennis fans to agree with him-primarily because his steady, all-round game has defeated almost every top-flight U. S. player (including his fellow-townsman Elwood Cooke four out of five times) in the circuit of southern tournaments last winter...