Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Water Worm. Plastic garden hose which acts as a lawn sprinkler was put on sale by A. M. Andrews Co. of Portland, Ore. Holes punched along the Vinylite hose spray a 12-ft.-wide swath of lawn. Price for a 50-ft. length, which weighs only 1½ lbs. and can be rolled into a 6-in. bundle...
Just My Bill. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Bina Evans, contesting her husband's divorce action, told the judge that after a family spat he "broke my teeth and my nose, tore my ear, broke my arm and some ribs, but outside of that he's an awful good man, and there's no one in the world I love more...
...countrymen." But other papers, like the Los Angeles Times, thought Ike's firmness was just what was needed. Said the Times: At the conference he "invited the inference that policy in this Administration is not evoked by the questions of Washington correspondents." Newshen May Craig of the Portland Press-Herald and other Maine papers, who prefers to operate at a press conference like a prosecuting attorney, was disappointed. "He gave us his little lecture," said she, "then he dismissed...
Another West Coast newspaper got a new boss last week. With the death of Publisher Philip Jackson of Portland's Oregon Journal (circ. 192,249), his mother, 90-year-old Maria ("Ria") Jackson, named General Manager William W. Knight, 44, the new Journal boss. Spry, autocratic Ria Jackson, who ran the paper for years and still keeps an eye on it, also scotched rumors that Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse, owner of Portland's morning Oregonian (circ. 225,421) and nine other dailies, was going to buy the Journal. Said Mrs. Jackson: "I want Portland and all the world...
According to Court's calculations, residents of Portland, Me. will shudder in - 28° cold and swelter in 107° heat before another hundred years have passed. New York City's climate will swing between 107° and -16°, while the great plains of the Midwest will reach 115° or higher. Los Angeles, says Court, will have to face an embarrassing 23° chill, but Angelenos can take consolation in the fact that the Florida coast will feel an even colder 9°. Despite the high odds that he is correct, Court, like any experienced weatherman...