Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring of 1938, just after he had delivered 1,200,000 words of manuscript* to his publisher, Wolfe headed for the Pacific Northwest, the only part of the U.S. he had never seen. In Portland, Ore., he met a newspaperman who was about to start on a high-speed tour of the Western national parks. The American Automobile Association was paying expenses and providing a white-painted Ford for the junket. When Wolfe was invited to go along, he jumped at the chance...
...would show a similar pattern with different centers of strength. ST. LOUIS and BALTIMORE, for instance, are considered "Princeton towns." Harvard, on the other hand, is far more active in securing the top applicants from MINNEAPOLIS and CLEVELAND, while Yale at present is attracting top students from SEATTLE and PORTLAND. Closer to home, Harvard alumni just last month organized a Harvard Club and a Schools Committee in the Massachusetts North Shore area, a section which Dartmouth has been combing for years...
...Gamma Phi lawn had been desecrated by a seven-foot fiery cross. Sorority members vowed they didn't know who had brought the Ku Klux symbol, but they knew why. One of their sisters, Sophomore Debbie Burgess of Astoria, had been dating a Negro, DeNorval Unthank of Portland, a husky senior in the School of Architecture...
EDWARD GINES Portland...
Garroway-at-Large (Sun. 10 p.m., NBC). Guests: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa...