Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland, an Oregon Journal photographer excitedly ran eight blocks to the Civic Auditorium where Margaret Truman was about to start a concert. Panting, he momentously told her the news. She sweetly replied that she had known it. In Chicago, the Sun-Times spread across its centerfold two pages of pictures of Truman from cradle to Jefferson-Jackson banquet. Many a paper, -e.g., the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, had taken a chance and gone to press with stories based on the advance text (PRESIDENT DOES NOT INDICATE PLANS), and shifted to a new banner and the big news before their press...
Select & Cut. Fortunately for much of the rest of London, Sir Christopher Wren did know the stone he used. As royal custodian of the splendid quarries in the Isle of Portland, he supervised the selection and cutting of every block. This Portland stone "was to spring up in the rich variety of Wren's towers and steeples . . . As its greatest glory, the stone was to grow, to blossom, into St. Paul's." For that job, Wren never used a block "unless it had been exposed for at least three years...
Today, says Jacquetta Hawkes, Britons are not so lucky. "The fatal discovery of Portland cement [no kin to Portland stone] was made about a century ago. I am aware that steel and concrete building can be good, that it puts all kinds of possibilities before us-such as houses wider at the top than at the bottom . . . [But] it represents that terrifying new phenomenon, man mechanized and living cut off from his land, from the rock out of which he has come...
When the settlers reach Oregon, the blood really starts to flow: a pitched battle in Portland, a running fight up the Columbia River, an ambuscade on the slopes of Mt. Hood. Having eliminated most of the badmen on the Pacific Coast, Stewart and Kennedy start taking potshots at each other, and stage their final death grapple in a mountain torrent. At intervals in the gunfire, Stewart and Gambler Rock Hudson make sheep's eyes at Julia Adams and Lori Nelson. Funnyman Stepin' Fetchit, after a movie absence of 15 years, is back in Bend of the River...
They never made it. Caught in the turbulent waters off Portland Bill in the south of England, Reliance was sent crashing on the rocks. For a whole night the Davisons clung to a tiny cork float in the freezing seas. Through pure luck, Ann was flung ashore, climbed away from the sea's reach with her last strength. Frank's adventure had ended sooner; his drowned body was found among the rocks...