Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denver's new Better Business Bureau went into action. Wholesalers cooperated in the fight against shoddy merchandise. Manufacturers urged people to wait patiently for 1953 models. Said one TV executive wearily: "It's Denver now, but we'll have it all over again in Portland, Spokane and El Paso...
...years, barring inflation, similar houses may cost less. But so far as many architects are concerned, price is not quite as important as spaciousness and freedom. With its glass walls, the successful modern house "encloses" the whole outdoors. Said the owner of a glassy palace outside Portland, Ore.: "A rainstorm used to depress us. Now it's a show...
...started parceling out licenses for new TV stations last week, only a few days after it began going through its backlog of more than 500 applications (TIME, July 14). Nine TV-less cities got the go-ahead: Portland, Ore., New Bedford and Springfield-Holyoke, Mass., Youngstown, Ohio, Flint, Mich., Bridgeport and New Britain, Conn., York, Pa. and Denver. But Denver is still in for a wrangle. The FCC has ordered hearings for the two rivals who want channel 4-station KMYR, and the new Metropolitan Television Co., of which Bob Hope is a major stockholder...
...young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Even when Gene Howe took a job on the family's paper, his father agreed he was an "impossible" newspaperman, summarily fired him. After four years working as a reporter on the Portland Oregorian, Gene went back to the Globe. Later he borrowed $25,000 from friends and took over the paper when his father retired...
...Portland Art Museum on its 60th birthday last week: a collection of 27 Renaissance paintings, including masterpieces by Botticelli, Bellini, Ghirlandajo and the 13th century Florentine Giovanni Cimabue...