Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first birthday as Abby Van Buren, she was the fastest rising lonelyheart columnist in the U.S. So quickly has her Dear Abby column caught on that it now appears in some 80 U.S. newspapers, from New York's garter-snapping Daily Mirror (circ. 842,023) to the sobersided Portland Oregonian (181,910), only a dozen fewer syndicate clients than carry sister Ann Landers, whose real name is Mrs. Jules ("Eppie") Lederer. This makes Abby the fourth-ranking U.S. lovelornist, after Dorothy Dix, Mary Haworth and Ann Landers...
...Dorothy McCullough Lee, 55, of Portland, Ore., as chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board, to succeed onetime Ohio Governor Thomas J. Herbert, recently elected to the Ohio Supreme Court. Chosen mayor of Portland in 1948, Republican Lee displayed the kind of independence necessary for her new job: announcing that "sex, as such, has no place in politics," she declared all-out war on prostitution and gambling dens. Losing a second-term try in 1952, she was named by Ike to the Justice Department's Parole Board, then to the Subversive Activities Control Board last August to succeed fellow...
Hamlen, who was a native of Portland, Maine, lived at 417 Beacon St. Services will be held this afternoon at 3 p.m. at Memorial Church. He will be buried in Portland...
...PORTLAND : I'm a chorus girl. I have no character...
Fred Allen met Portland Hoffa when she was a chorus girl in The Passing Show of 1922. They were married in 1927 in the Actor's Chapel (Manhattan's St. Malachy's Church). "Portland had been a herd thespian; as a member of the chorus she had participated, unnoticed, in group singing and bevy dancing," but Allen made room for her in his vaudeville act. Portland later became the perky, indestructible nitwit on Allen's radio show. Of the early days, Allen fondly recalls that she not only fed him jokes but also quantities of salmon...