Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel H. Kress, 89-year-old dime-store tycoon, is one big collector who would rather spread his masterpieces around. In 1939 he gave 375 Renaissance paintings to Washington's National Gallery of Art (TIME, July 24, 1939). Since then, museums in Philadelphia, Tucson, Birmingham, Honolulu, Portland (Ore.). Seattle and Kansas City (Kans.) have been quietly handed some 200 masterpieces from the Kress treasure-trove, with no strings attached. Two of the latest beneficiaries on the list are Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and New Orleans' Isaac Delgado Museum of Art (see color pages...
Pure Havana. In Portland, Ore., Thomas Crawford told police that two strangers had hypnotized him by blowing cigar smoke into his face, then got him to draw $1,100 from his bank account and give them the money...
...Hoosier-born Princeton man, Barbe conducted at Milan's La Scala when he was 19; after he came home from World War II he conducted the Portland (Ore.) Symphony for three years. Today 44-year-old Barbe broadcasts his programs from a $40,000 studio built into his Houston home. Because he feels that "our audience is at least as intelligent as we are," he treats advertisers as they have rarely been treated before: he puts on their commercials only when he sees fit, edits and cuts them. Barbe is busy planning an elaborate Easter week program including Marcel...
...Tribune gave its readers only a small test sample of the changes Farrar prescribed, but the Call-Bulletin put on its new dress all at once, just as the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Portland Oregon Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Houston Post and scores of others had done after Typographer Farrar redesigned them. Farrar, whose clients often call him "the Deacon" because of his evangelical zeal for tidy typography (i.e., his own), bases all his prizewinning designs on a simple theory: "There are more eyes among readers than intellects...
Lois Dickson '54 edged out Nancy Fisher '54 for the post of Radcliffe Student Government president last night. Miss Dickson, of Briggs Hall and Portland, Me., collected 431 votes, and Miss Fisher, of Moors and Washington, D.C., only other candidate for the post, gained...