Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been growing for months. Bomb shelters were on sale in Los Angeles, but hardly anyone was buying them. Californians were more interested in buying swimming pools-at the rate of 25,000 a year. Mrs. C. T. Higgins of Portland, Ore., who four years ago had the city's first private, backyard underground shelter, granted that the family had been thinking about converting it into a walk-in Deepfreeze. Oregon Journal Staffer Doug Baker made an admission in print: he had eaten the last can of sardines out of the family survival...
Ever since a bomb exploded in the big Meier & Frank department store (TIME, April 25), Portland, Ore. has been keyed to a high pitch-somewhere between a laugh and a scream-by fake bomb threats. Last week another bomb exploded in Portland, this time with fatal results. The victim: Oliver Kermit Smith, 35, a prominent lawyer who lived in the highly respectable Alameda district with his wife, Marjorie, 34. After an evening of gin rummy at the Columbia-Edgewater Country Club, he called his wife to say he would be home in 10 minutes; he went...
...Portland police decided that the wiring of Smith's car had been an expert job. Two hours later they arrested a suspect: husky, greying Victor Lawrence Wolf, 45, an electrician who lived in an apartment house owned by Mrs. Marjorie Smith. After ten hours of questioning, police charged Wolf and Mrs. Smith with plotting her husband's murder for the sake of his $21,000 life insurance policy. According to Wolf's confession, they were lovers and planned to start life anew in Alaska with the money. He said that Mrs. Smith, who divorced her husband last...
This week, with the exhausted cast and crew back in Manhattan, Home was busy planning future one-week stands. It will visit Portland, Ore. and Seattle in June, later may go to Los Angeles, New Orleans and Mexico City. One day, says Morgan, "We want to take the show to a really small town and examine it in detail from one end of Main Street to the other...
...over CAB attempts to knock two small Alaskan airlines out of their profitable Stateside routes (TIME, Jan. 3) has raised such a furor that CAB has now decided to let them alone. It will recommend that both Pacific Northern Airlines and Alaska Airlines continue to operate into Seattle and Portland along with the big lines, Pan American and Northwest...