Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drills, trick riding, other stunts. They perform at San Francisco's annual East-West football game on New Year's Day, have appeared at State fairs, roundups, rodeos. Last week San Francisco's possemen were the feature attraction at the Pacific International Horse Show & Rodeo at Portland...
...Portland's rodeo fans have witnessed many an unscheduled thriller in their arena but none to equal last week's performance of San Francisco's dude riders. In "threading the needle" (forming and maintaining a figure eight at full gallop), daring climax of their 20-horse drill, one rider misjudged his horse's pace. Men, horses and white sombreros went sprawling. One rider dropped his false teeth. When the horsemen picked themselves up, one hobbled off on a sprained ankle, another required three stitches in his gashed leg, a third had to have his cracked wrist...
This year San Francisco's opera spread itself for the first time since its founding (1923). It gave three performances in Portland before playing in Seattle. After its opening in its home city this week, Pasadena, Sacramento, Los Angeles are to hear...
...Donald Grant, reporter, Des Moines Register and Tribune; Henning Heldt, reporter, Jacksonville Journal; Everett R. Holles, cable editor, United Press; Victor O. Jones, sports editor and assistant managing editor, Boston Globe; Robert Lasch, foreign news editor and editorial writer. Omaha World-Herald; Edward M. Miller, Sunday and feature editor, Portland Oregonian; Thomas Sancton, reporter, Associated Press; Kenneth N. Stewart, national news editor, The Newspaper...
...captain in the coast artillery reserves, Zimmerman is stationed at Fort Williams, near Portland, Maine, where he has charge of motor transportation for five forts in that area. His family remain in Winchester...