Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Perry Titus Wells Hale, 69, All-America fullback at Yale in 1900; of a heart ailment; in Portland, Conn. Blinded by an explosion in 1913, he learned to read Braille, became a successful inventor and insurance...
...writing either: 1) Eddie Albert Productions, 1133 North Highland, Hollywood 28, Calif.; or 2) E. C. Brown Trust, University of Oregon Medical School, Portland...
...Collier Publishing Co.; Editor Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor; Publisher Norman Chandler, Los Angeles Times; President John D. Ewing, Times Publishing Co., Ltd., Shreveport, La.; Managing Editor Lee Hills, Miami Herald; President Roy W. Howard, Scripps-Howard Newspapers; Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Denver Post; President Philip L. Jackson, Portland Journal Publishing Co.; Publisher H. G. Kern, Boston Record; Publisher Charles B. McCabe, New York Mirror; Publisher Malcolm Muir, Newsweek; Publisher Francis S. Murphy, Hartford Times; President Ralph Nicholson, New Orleans Item Co.; Publisher Paul Patterson, Baltimore Sun;, Associate Editor Robert Reed, Kansas City Star; Publisher James G. Stahlman, Nashville...
...Monroeville, a whistle stop on Indiana's frozen countryside, a bonfire crackled and popped. The celebrating went on until 3 a.m. At Portland, two counties away, the townspeople snake-danced around another bonfire. It was the same way at Crawfordsville and Jasper. All Indiana seemed to be aglow. Indiana's 37th annual high-school basketball tourney...
...known by Hoosiers as "the sweet 16"-were left. Then it was their turn to battle it out in the semifinals. Monroeville, accompanied by the prayers of the home folks, went down to Muncie and got smeared, 49 to 38. There was sorrow among Monroeville's 896 citizens. Portland High fared better, getting by Chester Township, a hotbed of basketball on the Eel River in Wabash County, only to be humbled later in the day. In last week's semifinals, all the small-town schools (the smaller the town, the higher the fervor) were eliminated. It was enough...