Word: portland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after purchasing Cora's kennel, Edward of Wales attended a luncheon in his honor, presided over by the 71-year-old Duke of Portland...
Died. Fred L. Boalt, of Portland, Ore., onetime editor of the Portland News; at Portland. While serving the United Press in London in 1910 he penetrated to the innermost corridors of Buckingham Palace by saying mysteriously to polite guards and chamberlains: "I am the U. P. man!" Finally he met King Edward VII.'s physician and obtained a world "scoop" in these four words: "The king is dying...
Died. Edward Payson Weston 90, of Brooklyn, N. Y., able pedestrian; in Brooklyn. His U. S. records: Boston to Washington, D. C., 443 mi., 208 hrs.; Portland, Me., to Chicago, 1,345 mi., 25 days; Manhattan to San Francisco, 3,500 mi., 104 days (aged 71); Santa Monica, Calif., to Manhattan, 3,500 mi., 77 days (aged 72). In a race in England he walked 550 mi. in 141 hrs., left his nearest competitor 100 mi. behind...
Engaged. Glenn Hunter, actor of boy-parts (Merton of the Movies, Young Woodley, Spring is Here); to one Babe Egan, vaudeville violinist, leader of a female orchestra (Hollywood Redheads), daughter of a Mr. & Mrs. Jack Egan of Portland, Ore. Immediately following the announcement, Miss Egan sailed for Europe, Actor Hunter remained in Manhattan...
Patriotic Britishers were fearful, last week, lest the famed Portland vase be sold across the sea to some wealthy U. S. art collector. A ten-inch cinerary urn found during the 16th century in an old Roman tomb, long owned by Dukes of Portland, the vase had been announced for auction by the present Sixth Duke, "owing to the exigencies of the present times." For 119 years the Portlands had loaned it to the British Museum. But last week, as it stood on display in Christie's London auction rooms, many a Britisher went for a last look. Everyone supposed...