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...PORTLAND OREGONIAN'S DAILY CIRCULATION IS NOT 92,500, BUT OVER 104,000 AND INCREASING: AND WHEN YOU SAY I LOOK ''SOMETHING LIKE A PELICAN" YOU GROSSLY LIBEL THAT MASTERPIECE OF NATURE...
...What Oregonian readers did not know was that the eruption of the Oregonian's 84-year-old complexion was due to violent internal disturbances. Viskniskki & Associates were in Portland...
...Rumors have been circulated-from sources plainly self-interested and unfriendly-that The Oregonian has been sold. Some of the rumor mongers have identified the supposed purchaser variously. Most of them have said that Mr. Hearst is the purchaser. . . . The Oregonian has not been sold. . . . No sale is in negotiation or pending...
...last fortnight the venerable Portland Oregonian felt obliged to print the foregoing "plain statement of facts'' in a two-column box on its front page. It may have helped squelch a false rumor, but it could not make the Oregonian's 92.500 readers understand what had happened to their newspaper in the past month. Still dazed were they from that November morning when they saw. for the first time, a picture at the top of Page One. It illustrated not a world calamity but an ordinary sob-story...
Gone from the front page was the customary offering of foreign news, the cartoon, the Washington column. Their place was taken by a slew of local stories, mostly short, and all written with a forced gaiety that would have made the Oregonian's late, great Editor Harvey Scott writhe in angry protest. Headlines were blacker, shallower. Inside were more and bigger pictures than Oregonian readers had ever seen. A banner headline glared across the sports page, and there were awful rumors that one might soon stream across Page One. Crowning horror was a Bible contest, with fat cash prizes...