Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time & again he thwacked Harold Stassen's ill-considered plan to outlaw the Communist Party. Such "glib proposals" and "easy panaceas," he cried, were "nothing but the methods of Hitler and Stalin ... It is thought control borrowed from the Japanese." He rode the theme so hard that the Portland Oregonian was finally aroused to a tut-tutting editorial: "Let's not have an Oregon campaign based on who hates Communism most...
...smooth sailing. In Eugene a group of student hecklers from the University of Oregon plopped down in the front row, diligently leafed through copies of LIFE with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
Past statistics are not available on the truth of the Wellesley superstition, which claims that the winner will be the first senior to wed. Carmen, who comes from Portland, Oregon, said that her present intentions offer little hope for early espousal...
...Minutest. Wedgwood spent four years figuring out how to reproduce a Roman vase in the Duke of Portland's collection, and when Sir Joshua Reynolds pronounced his copy "a correct and faithful imitation both in the general effect and in the most minutest details of the parts," he felt that the time had been well spent...
...Portland Vase" was easily the most valuable and technically impressive piece in last week's show, but it would strike some 20th Century eyes as a pointless tour de force. Moderns were more apt to be impressed by the startling modernity of Wedgwood's own early designs. As the exhibition catalogue put it, "He realized the importance of what is now termed functionalism ... he insisted that lids should fit, that spouts should pour, and that handles should be comfortable to the hand...