Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milburn P. Akers, executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, C. A. Knight, editor of the charlotte, N.C., Observer, and Dwight E. Sargent, editorial page editor of the Portland, Me., Press Herald and Evening Express, were named...
...stepped from the presidency of the state senate to fill the post vacated by Douglas McKay, who had resigned to become U.S. Secretary of the Interior; of a heart attack, three days after announcing that he would run on the Republican ticket in November against Senator Wayne Morse; in Portland...
Died. Maria Clopton Jackson, 93, widow of C. S. ("Sam") Jackson, doughty founder (in 1902) of Portland's independent Oregon Journal (circ. 182,257), longtime board chairman of the Journal Publishing Co.; in Portland...
Count de Gastyne, Marquis de St. Maur and Viscount de Montauriant, fought with the French underground in his teens, and in 1947 came to the U.S., where his dazzling piano-playing soon won him scholarship grants at the University of Portland and the Eastman School of Music. Between studies he took a flyer at salesmanship (encyclopedias), earned enough to finance a cross-country trip by bus. In 1952 he enlisted in the Air Force, which decided that it wanted him at the keyboard of a piano, not at the controls of a plane. At Sampson Air Force Base near Rochester...
...derives rather heavily from nature." In so saying, Painter Carl Morris, 44, speaks with personal knowledge. His own nature-influenced abstractions rate one-man shows up and down the West Coast, and hang in nine U.S. museums. San Francisco Art Critic Alfred Frankenstein calls Morris "the best painter in Portland, Ore., and one of the best in the United States. Like some of his colleagues, Morris seems to be returning to nature with the very free technique of nonobjective painting." In Morris' one-man exhibit at Manhattan's Kraushaar...