Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Is the Army. In Portland, Ore., after evading the draft for five years, Paul Emerson Maier, 26, was nabbed by the FBI, delivered to the local induction center, where he was rejected...
Education: Public school in Monroe and Portland, Ore. Joined Oregon National Guard in 1916 "without asking the old man" because "I liked to shoot." Won the Oregon National Guard's only appointment to West Point, graduated (1918) after 18 months with the accelerated "bastard class of World War I." Graduated infantry school (1920), advanced flight training (1924), Air Force tactical school (1936), Command & General Staff School...
...kept right up with the times. Among its purchases was a $100 canvas bought direct from Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), who now ranks among the handful of masters America has produced. This week a loan show of 27 more recent paintings in Smith's collection opened at the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum. As the American samples opposite and overleaf show, the collection neatly cross-sections contemporary painting...
Halbrook's arrival at Corvallis was no accident. As a 7-ft. 1-in. Portland high-school senior in 1952, Halbrook scored 1,035 points. During the N.C.A.A. championship tournament at Seattle that year, Halbrook was a conversation stopper as he strolled past gaping coaches in the lobby of Seattle's Olympic Hotel. Turning down "dozens" of offers. Halbrook chose to go to college in his home state. As an Oregon State freshman-by then 7 ft. 2 in.-Halbrook scored a record 450 points. As a sophomore, and grown one more inch, 20-year-old Swede Halbrook...
...others: Idaho Power Co., Pacific Power & Light, Washington Water Power, Mountain States Power & Portland General Electric...