Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many another U.S. city, Portland (pop. 77,000) worries about its people's failure to take much interest in town affairs. Only 25% of its citizens bothered to vote in recent elections. In their search for a cure, Portlanders recently reinstituted an old down-East tradition, the town meeting. They began holding three a year, each in a different section, with the idea of covering the city's twelve chief districts in four years...
...haired 84-year-old Councilman Billy O'Brion afforded the meeting some rare advertising. "That section," he cried, "is well taken care of by yours truly. There are just a few windbags up there who want to explode. All these town meetings are a frame-up." After calling Portland's City Manager Lyman Moore and the rest of the council "a bunch of crooks," O'Brion announced that the meeting would have to get along without...
Smiling Irishman. The city's snow plowing, Holland said, in a rich Irish brogue, "is a disgrace to Portland. I shovel out my driveway and the city plows fill it up again. I called the city garage and told them to clean it away. The garage said, 'Billy, you're overweight. Clean it out yourself.' " The crowd roared with laughter. Billy added good-naturedly, "We can drive you out of power on that issue alone...
...majority at the meeting had come in a serious mood. They wanted to talk about improvements, not politics, and demanded them in no uncertain tones. At one point, when City Manager Moore noted that Portland had two garbage collections a week, the men & women of Munjoy Hill hooted with delighted sarcasm. "Once, Tuesday mornings," piped a little man in the third row. Moore seemed startled, and promised to correct...
...operatic version in 1933. Met Conductor Artur Bodanzky saw it and liked it, but died before he could get it produced. Over the years, The Dybbuk inhabited several other composers, among them Hollywood's Dimitri Tiomkin. Two years ago, excerpts from the Tamkin work were presented in Portland, Ore. Last season the New York City Opera scheduled a production, but postponed it "for economy." Last week the Tamkin Dybbuk finally found fulfillment, and Manhattan's City Center Theater was packed for the world premi...