Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he bought the Staten Island Advance for $98,000 in 1922. Since then, short (5 ft. 3 in.), stocky Samuel Irving Newhouse, 63, the son of a Russian immigrant, has strung together an empire of 13 newspapers. Among them: the Newark Star-Ledger, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Syracuse Herald-Journal and Post-Standard. The prosperous Newhouse chain is surpassed in heft and wealth only by Scripps-Howard (21 papers) and Hearst...
...selected school day in the spring, each senior girl in each high school in Portland, Ore. parades across a stage at her school, as prettily as she is able. A judging committee of six to ten teachers and an equal number of students pick the twelve prettiest. Each girl gives a short speech, and the list of quarter-finalists is narrowed. Then, amid plentiful uproar at assemblies timed to newspaper-edition deadlines, the prettiest teen-ager at each high school in Portland is named Princess of the Rose Festival, a civic promotion of considerable local sanctity...
Such legalized cutting of classes in the name of "activities"-pep rallies, assemblies, community projects or sports-has become a high school commonplace throughout the U.S. Last week school officials in Portland let it be known that they had had enough. A conference of principals and teachers agreed that school-and parent-sponsored activities had made "serious inroads in class attendance." Superintendent J.W. Edwards informed the city that this year the "three-ring circus" is not coming to town. Among changes...
...adventure and glamour of show biz; his wife (portrayed by Mason's wife Pamela), who wants him to settle down in "the little white house" and security of a teaching position on Staten Island; and their shockingly precocious nine-year-old daughter (winningly played by the Masons' own daughter Portland...
...were equally gallant. "A swell guy, that Raúl Castro," said Edward Cannon, a builder from Cornwall, Ont., as he stepped off a helicopter at the base upon being freed. "We had good food and plenty of it, and beds with clean sheets," chimed in Henry Salmonson of Portland...