Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese classics, law graduate of Tokyo Imperial University, Shigemitsu grew up through the Japanese Foreign Service. He believed Japan should control important parts of China, but somehow thought the conquest could be achieved without coming into conflict with the U.S. Shigemitsu served in London, in Berlin and in Portland, Ore., and was a member of the Japanese delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in Versailles. As Minister to China (1931-33), Shigemitsu unaffectedly supported the Japanese invasions. His specious argument: "China is not properly a nation or a state." One day in Shanghai, a Korean patriot hurled a homemade...
...root fibers for baskets, and mountain-goat wool for blankets. Today the brightly colored wood carvings still bear rough adze marks, but they rank high as primitive art, ranging in style from naturalism to symbolic abstraction (see Color Pages). As demonstrated in the permanent collection of Oregon's Portland Art Museum, they are monuments to the highest level of wood carving achieved by a vanished culture...
...becomes available. To supply T.G.T., Trans-Canada will build the first 670-mile leg of its line from the fields in Alberta to Winnipeg and the border. From the Minnesota border below Winnipeg, T.G.T. will build a $100 million, 1,050-mile pipeline to its trunk line at Portland, Tenn., selling Canadian gas on the way through Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana...
...Amazed." To field their best, West Coast museum directors from Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, headed by San Francisco Museum Director Dr. Grace L. McCann Morley (TIME, Feb. 28), selected the outstanding talents in their own areas, weeded down their entries to 98 works from 88 West Coast painters, printmakers and sculptors...
...most feel deeply rooted in their communities. Says Portland's Carl Morris: "There's a determination here to find your own way, to be an individual and not get lost in a 'school.' " Besides, artists find that economics works both ways. Says the wife of a leading San Francisco abstract artist, Walter Kuhlman: "If you have to live in a cold-water flat, you'll be a lot more comfortable here than in New York...