Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland, Ore., Ethel Waters, 51, announced that after five more months on the road with Member of the Wedding, and one more movie, she might retire: "I'm old, I'm human and I'm tired. I'm going to see if I can live on my social security. Right now I don't make enough to pay both my bills and my taxes...
...they kept singing it as she moved westward. Mae West sang it in the Paramount film, She Done Him Wrong; then RKO did a picture called Frankie & Johnnie. Frankie Baker complained that everybody but her was making money out of her song. Her travels ended in Portland, Ore., where for the past few years she lived on relief in a ramshackle frame house. Neighborhood kids sang her song outside her window. Last week, an embittered 75, Frankie died. ¶ Theola Barton is a 15-year-old Californian who likes to go to school in pin curls. Last March the principal...
Johnny began fulfilling himself as a professional singer when he was 15, working on a Portland radio show. After that, he played smalltime nightclubs from coast to coast, developing his new style ("It's like wine that mellows with age"). His first big splash came last fall in Cleveland. Later on, in a Buffalo club, Johnny really made headway: two women fainted. In six months, his asking price jumped from $90 to $2,000. Other income: a percentage of record sales plus composer's royalties on Little White Cloud, which he wrote himself...
...Scottish ancestors turning over in their graves at the inference that Highland bagpipes are "milkcurdling." Our baby daughter Linda learned to pat the plump tartan bag on my bagpipes long before she went from mother's milk. CAPT. CHESTER A. MACNEILL JR. Champion Bagpiper of Oregon Portland...
Meanwhile, the race went on, to heightened public interest. Of the 97 starting cars, only 35-all but two U.S. models-finished out the race. Among the starters who dropped out: Hershel McGriff of Portland, Ore., winner of the 1950 race. The two foreign cars that went the route, both lightweight 1951 Italian Ferraris, came in first and second. Leading the pack was Italy's white-haired Piero Taruffi, who finished fourth last year. Taruffi's Ferrari covered the 1,933 miles at an average speed of 88.2 m.p.h., 9.8 m.p.h. faster than McGriff's 1950 mark...