Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retiring Undergraduate Manager of Football Francis N. Millett, Jr. '54 of Chappaqua, N.Y. and Dunster House, announced last night that he will be succeeded by Charles W. Bingham '55 of Portland, Ore., and Leverett House next season...
...TIME, Nov. 16), Smith changed his mind. "There is nothing wrong with the Daily News," said he, "that more circulation would not cure." Then he announced that the sale of the paper was called off because the buyer, Publisher Sheldon F. Sackett of the Coos Bay (Ore.) Times, had "failed to put up financial and collateral requirements as specified...
Faced with a price war in Portland, Ore., the Safeway chain last week hit upon a surefire way to fight competitors selling coffee and cigarettes at cut rates. "Does your P.T.A., church, lodge, club, or charity need money for Christmas?" asked Safeway in five-column newspaper ads. "Here is your chance to make easy money." Safeway offered to pay $1.57 a carton for cigarettes, which could be bought at $1.45 at price-cutting stores, and 83? a Ib. for coffee, which the price cutters sold...
...were interested have been scared off by one grim fact: the ailing News is losing an estimated $75,000 or more a month. Last week the News turned up with a buyer who appeared not to be afraid of that fact. Sheldon F. Sackett, publisher of the Coos Bay (Ore.) daily Times, offered to pay $1,525,000 for the News. Sackett paid down a $20,000 deposit and got the signature of News Publisher Robert Smith on an "agreement for purchase" of the paper. To meet the terms of the contract, Sackett must, among other provisions...
...make new teachers feel at home, Portland, Ore. has a special welcoming program. A housing office provides the newcomers with drivers and cars to help them hunt apartments; the P.T.A. throws parties for them and so do members of the school board. Meanwhile, Minneapolis has hit upon another device for making the profession seem attractive: an "Apple for the Teacher Day," on which all 2,500 women teachers receive - not an apple -but an orchid...