Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This telegram from TIME'S correspondent in Portland, Ore. refers to the lady pictured above. She has had a stormy career in recent months, and I'd like to tell you how TIME helped bring about a happy ending to her story...
...member of this committee was Thomas Colt, director of the Portland Art Museum. He hoped-as TIME reported-that "some patron would buy Salem's scorned Venus for Portland's museum, where...her rich beauty would be appreciated...
...recent months, however, business began to go slack. One evening last week, the partners climbed into a new demonstrator and headed north to discuss financing with a Portland bank. They finished the 100-mile journey, registered at a tourist camp, ate a steak dinner and dropped in at a nightclub. Then Thomson announced that the company records, which they had thrust into the dashboard compartment of the car, were missing. At his insistence, they made a long night drive back to Newport, got duplicates, and then, just as dawn was breaking, headed for Portland again-and for violence at Cape...
...Even in the Midwest," he complained, "it is necessary to explain that we do not live in Maine, while on the Atlantic Coast it is taken for granted that anyone from Portland means Maine's." On top of that, he pointed out, there are more than a dozen other Portlands in the U.S.* The committee suggested an Oregon Indian name first noted by Lewis & Clark: Multnomah...
...Though Portland is already used to the word (it is in Multnomah County, and has both a Multnomah Hotel and a Multnomah College), most of the citizenry showed boredom or open hostility to the idea. Local officials seemed genuinely horrified at the prospect of the expense and bother involved. Cried another Portland writer, Richard L. Neuberger, in summing up the general reaction: "I think Neuberger is a hell of a name, too, but . . . I'm not going to change...