Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after the two dailies in Portland, Ore. started cash-prize crossword-puzzle contests last November, the entries were pouring in at a tidal rate-57,000 a week to the afternoon Oregon Journal (circ. 182,956), about 60.000 a week to the morning Oregonian (circ. 233.856). Few entrants knew of the prohibitive odds against winning such circulation-promotion contests: usually more than 100.000 to one.*Last week both Portland papers took to their front pages with embarrassed confessions that some of the winners had somehow reduced the odds against winning to zero...
...some of the puzzles." The Journal's apology, which ran under a six-column head, offered more details: "Our investigations have shown beyond any doubt that at least one of our winning contestants was able to win $2,600 in prize money because of information supplied, through several Portland intermediaries, from persons operating in Detroit...
Winning by Phone. The Journal began to worry after it got a tip that the next prizewinner would be a chiropractor's wife. Sure enough. Mrs. Josephine Hill, a Portland chiropractor's wife, won $2,600, and finally told how she did it. Approached by a friend. Mrs. Hill agreed to have an entry submitted in her name-she did not even have to make it out. When it won. she banked $300 of the take and. as agreed, surrendered $2.300 to the friend-who turned it over to the fixer after subtracting $150 as an arranger...
...make him a cinch winner. Following orders, Alvich phoned Detroit, where another anonymous voice gave him the answer to the Journal's current Cashword Puzzle. Sure enough, Alvich won $2,950 and. still following instructions, wired $2,000 to one "Harry Valk'' in Detroit. Meantime, a Portland disk jockey. Fitzgerald ("Eager") Beaver, admitted that he had been similarly set up to win $1,700 from the Oregonian, had also sent the lion's share of the loot to Detroit...
...Warm Peninsula. An impish display of peninsula envy as Julie Harris deserts staid Milwaukee for glamorous Miami. In PORTLAND and SEATTLE...