Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These receiving the highest honor degree Harvard can confer were: Benjamin B.Landing, Jr., South Bend, Ind., (Biology); Melvin Fields, Muncie, Ind, (Chemistry); Donald J. Patton, Cortaro, Ariz., (Geological Sciences); Jack M. Peterson, Portland, Ore. (Physics); Judson T. Shapliy, Reading, Pa., (Anthropology); and Keith R. Symon, Terre Haute, Ind., (Philosophy and Mathematics...
Baseball fans in Portland, Ore. got a hot earful one night recently when they tuned in on little KWJJ ("The Voice From Broadway") for the nightly roundup of baseball scores. What they heard was an indignation meeting held in disregard of the U.S. Censor's caution against "man in the street" programs. Its purport: that Portland police are too bloody rough...
Possibly because he comes from Portland, Ore., where the winters are rainy, Darrel Austin paints an imaginary world of endless oozy swamps and puddles, peopled with perky-looking animals and wraithlike beings half submerged in pools of water. His colors, laid on the canvas with a palette knife instead of a brush, are notable for their limpid transparency and eerie phosphorescence...
...bettered the Commission's 105-day schedule for building Liberty Ships. Bethlehem-Fairfield Yard at Baltimore announced a 75-day goal. The West Coast's hurry-up man, Henry J. Kaiser, entrepreneur, builder of dams, and now of ships, claimed a record of 81 days at iris Portland, Ore. shipyard...
Veteran Photographer James Abbe, father of Patience, Richard and Johnny (whose Around the World in Eleven Years was a best-seller in 1936), turned up in Portland, Ore. last week as that city's first full-time radio newscaster. Now 59, tiny, egg-bald Abbe began a two-a-day stint for the Oregonian's twin stations KGW and KEX. Said he: "All my life editors told me to photograph or write but for God's sake stop talking. Now I can talk...