Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contribution to the war" is the citation given by the Council on Books in Wartime. "Incredibly honest-a triumph of free speech," says the Dallas Morning Times. "Hersey has circumvented censorship by putting his observations into fiction form. One of the most inspiring books of the season," writes the Portland Oregonian. The Army Times calls A Bell for Adano "a tough book, slashing and cutting at a system personified by one of the Army's most publicized generals." And the Atlanta Constitution says: "It makes you proud to be an American," but "it may well be the basis...
Hobby Horses. In Portland, Ore., Mayor Earl Riley got a letter from a woman in Canton, Ohio: "I have a hobby collecting horses and try to get one from each state as a souvenir. . . . Would you please oblige and send me one, any kind, as I have all kinds. Send C.O.D." Witness. In Bayonne, N.J., the late Dr. John Jay Hunt named "God Almighty" as witness to his will, bequeathed his patients' unpaid bills to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross, requested that his ashes be cast into the sea. The will was declared invalid because the signature...
...appreciate any information if there are. Unique in the annuals of U. S. armed forces is the situation of Bob and Dick Carney, both midshipmen in the junior class. These fraternal twins (reference: Life of a couple of weeks ago) have been together all during their naval career. Leaving Portland (Oregon) University last June, they entered V-12 together at Willamette University; then stayed together for temporary duty at the Seattle air base; and continued on to Harvard...
...these steps are directed against Ontario's "wheedle whackers" -high-pressure speculative mining-stock promoters who sell by direct mail and long distance telephone. They have been riding Toronto's current stock boom. Complaints about their operations have poured in all the way from Portland on the Pacific to Halifax on the Atlantic...
Blue-eyed, thirtyish Jean Muir used to write club and society notes, found them "so much drip." Nineteen months ago she asked for and got another assignment: writing about the 125,000 workers who make her native Portland one of the shipbuildingest centers of the U.S. Her "By the Ways" column is crammed with names of men & women pipe fitters, torch-scissorers, crane wanglers, and with what they...