Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week was announced a sufficient guarantee for three years, 16 pairs of concerts to begin Nov. 4; 16 pairs of popular Sunday concerts; 10 young people's concerts; 5 in the public schools. Conductors, for the regular series, all guests, will be Emil Oberhoffer (Minneapolis), Willem Van Hoogstraten (Portland, Ore.), Eugene Goossens (Rochester), Bernardino Molinari (Rome), Karl Schuricht (Weisbaden). Ethel Leginska and Frederick Fischer, associate conductor, will lead some of the popular concerts...
...Portland, Oregon, Conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten began rehearsals, for the season to begin the second week in November. Ten concerts were announced for Monday nights, seven for Saturday mornings. The orchestra, its repertoire, have been increased...
...prototype of the Whist Club is the Portland Club in London. For years the Portland Club made the laws for all of England. Other clubs complained, forced the Portland Club to call their members to a lawmaking committee. So also with the Whist Club; a few years ago other U. S. clubs grumbled at what they considered to be "unwarranted authority." Now the laws are made by a committee of various prominent card clubs. But the laws are still issued by The Whist Club...
...Into the Portland Club in London one afternoon in the last decade of the 19th Century, strode Lord Brougham with an idea. He summoned three of his acquaintances around him and called for a pack of cards. He outlined to them a game that later was to become known as Bridge Whist. That afternoon, as far as anyone can accurately tell, was the birthday of a card game which spans the civilized world, which later developed and fastened itself more firmly on the white man's leisure as Auction Bridge; and now promises to take another step and monopolize...
...chosen from the second year class are: Herman Thomas Austern, New York University '26, of New York; Nathan Allen Cobb, Bowdoin '26, of Portland, Me.; Richard Hinckley Field '26, of Phillips, Me.; Solomon Fishman, College of the City of New York '26, of New York; Alger Hiss, Johns Hopkins University '26, of Baltimore, Md.; David Miller, University of Texas '26, of Mineral Wells, Texas; Edward Cockrain McLean, Williams '24, of Hoosick Falls, N. Y.; Leon Pressman, Cornell '26, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Howard Heath Rapp '26, of Broomall, Pa.; Harry Shulsky, New York University '26, of New York; Bernard Soman...