Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Putting into Portland, Ore. for repairs on his teeth, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas dropped into a dentist's chair, decided it was as good a place as any to reel off some mental floss. Samples : 1) he considers this month's successful assault of Kashmir's Nanga Parbat by German climbers a "far tougher'' feat than the Hillary-Tenzing conquest of Everest; 2) Syngman Rhee is the "George Washington" of Korea, and deserves America's sympathy and support, as does Mohammed Mossadegh, "the first great ruler in [Iran's] history...
Rogge reported that Ebey had 1) been chairman in 1947 of the California American Veterans Committee, an organization which, he charged, was laced with Communists; 2) been a member of the Portland, Ore. Urban League, and sponsor of an "intercultural program" of Negroes and whites while assistant superintendent of schools in Portland; 3) introduced in 1953 a banquet speaker who in 1945 had allegedly sponsored a dinner for Paul Robeson. Rogge claimed to represent hundreds of "taxpayers, school patrons and citizens," but refused te say who they were. Though the slur upon the non-Communist Urban League was obviously absurd...
...obscure Salem janitor who died in 1938. Janitor Moores left his life's savings (chiefly real-estate holdings now worth $34,000) in trust for "a monument . . . in memory of early Oregon pioneers." Last year the trustee chose a committee (among its members: Director Thomas Colt of the Portland Art Museum, Pietro Belluschi, dean of architecture at M.I.T.), gave it free rein to find a suitable work. Renoir's Venus Victorieuse, the committee thought, was "universal" in spirit, a true masterpiece and a bargain. Price, from a Manhattan dealer...
...anti-Venus uproar was too loud. Last week Salem heard that the committee had withdrawn their Venus before she even got to town. But Colt was still faithful: he hoped some rich patron would buy Salem's scorned Venus for Portland's museum, where, he was sure, her rich beauty would be appreciated...
Traveling Man. In Portland, Ore., missing from home for a day and a half, eight-year-old Richard Warwick was finally found several miles away when he pedaled a pilfered tricycle up to the Maynard Motel, flashed a $26 bankroll, asked for a room for the night...