Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Triangle. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Marie Van Zelm, suing for divorce, complained that her husband: 1) hung his late first wife's clothes in their bedroom closet, 2) kept an urn of her ashes in the living room, 3) framed her pressed funeral flowers on the wall, 4) always bought two Christmas trees and explained, "One is for us [meaning the first wife], the other...
...Cambridge; Robert P. Davis '47, of Dorchester, Mass; Burton S. Dreben '50; Abraham Klein of Cambridge; James A. Kritzeck of Saint Cloud, Minn.; Gordon J. F. MacDonald '50, of Cambridge; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Jr. of Cambridge; George C. Soulis of Athens, Greece; and William H. Telfer of Portland, Oregon...
...Michigan State's football team, its 17th game in a row, over lowly, unrated Oregon State, 17-14; in Portland, Ore. Leading at halftime, 14-0, Michigan State was not only stopped cold in the second half but stood tied at 14-all with the ball on Oregon State's 8-yd. line and time left for one play. After a field-goal try sailed wide, the game looked finished. But Oregon State had been offside; on the second chance, with the clock run out, the reprieved Spartans made their three points good. Other notable winners: Notre Dame...
...special TV program was set up to show her paintings to thousands more; the critics gave her a hearty cheer. After a month in Toronto, the pleased sponsors announced, Berthe and her circle will take off for a two-year tour of a dozen Canadian and U.S. galleries from Portland, Ore. to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...them pro-Eisenhower-were crying for his scalp before they had heard his case. (The editorials were running 2 to 1 against him.) Notable among the prematurely disillusioned was the dean of pro-Eisenhower dailies, the Republican New York Herald Tribune. Then, when Nixon walked into the lobby of Portland's Benson Hotel, reporters confronted him with the stories that Ike might dump him. He snapped a "no comment" and disappeared into his room...