Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tiny Reed College in Portland, Ore. has long had to rely on its high academic prestige (liberal arts and sciences) to sugar-coat its cut-rate faculty salaries; e.g., Reed's full professors average only $7,500 v. the $10,293 average pay of their counterparts at the state-owned University of Oregon. But Reed's hard-put faculty members had some cheering news last week: an anonymous benefactor gave Reed an endowment fund worth some $400,000 that will be used solely to raise salaries. The new gift boosted Reed's take in the last...
...Gentle Rain. In Portland, Ore., a woman in desperate need of an apartment submitted a want ad to the Oregonian, saying she would "get rid of pet chinchillas, toy poodle, Siamese cat, parakeet and goldfish, but would like to keep 9-year...
...President Eisenhower to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for general administration, filling a post that has been vacant since H. Chapman Rose left in early 1956. Born in Bath, Me., Scribner was educated at Dartmouth ('30) and Harvard Law School ('33); he first practiced law in Portland, later entered politics (national G.O.P. committeeman 1948-56) and served as vice president of Maine's Bates Manufacturing Co. until 1955, when he went to Washington as general counsel of the Treasury. Last February he was named one of four assistant secretaries, will now boss Internal Revenue, customs...
Generally fair, but slightly biased (the first two in the Democratic direction, the rest in the Republican): Milwaukee Journal (bias mainly in front-page cartoons); St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Chicago Sun-Times; Kansas City Star; Cleveland Plain Dealer; New York Herald Tribune; Portland Oregonian; Christian Science Monitor...
After pocketing a passel of prizes for its series exposing a Teamster-led conspiracy to take over Portland's rackets (TIME, April 8), the Portland Oregonian (circ. 232,338) sprouted a new Page One slogan: "Grand Slam of American Journalism." The Oregon Journal (181,210), which doggedly argued that there was more sham than slam to its competitor's exclusives, last week found much to savor when a jury acquitted Teamster Organizer Clyde Cardinal Crosby on charges of conspiracy to accept a bribe. Reason: Crosby had been charged with racketeering by Gambler Jim Elkins, who also led Oregonian...