Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Braves: Outfielder Sam Jethroe (TIME, March 20, 1950), the National League's "rookie-of-the-year" and leading base, stealer (35); Rookie Luis Marquez, 25, Puerto Rican-born outfielder who hit .311 for Portland last year, led the Pacific Coast League in stolen bases...
...papers' "early" editions had already headlined a story by U.P.'s White House Correspondent Merriman Smith that President Truman had decided against any rebuke to MacArthur (headlined the New York Daily Mirror: WHITE HOUSE WON'T CENSURE MACARTHUR). A.P. had put out a similar story. The Portland Oregon Journal had to yank its editorial that "Truman couldn't fire MacArthur even if he wanted to . . ." Apparently, only NBC's Earl Godwin emerged as a prophet with honor. He had broadcast: "President Truman is not going to let MacArthur get away with...
...Portland, Ore., William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice and sentimental mountaineer, announced his summer plans: a 400-mile hike along the Tibetan border in the Himalayas. "It will be a pack trip," said Douglas, "but I'll probably be walking most of the way. Those porters up there have sort of a union. They'll go only ten miles a day and carry 65 pounds. For this they get 75? a day apiece and they furnish their own food...
...luncheon last week. In 1851, first Editor Asahel Bush wanted the territorial capital moved from Oregon City to Salem, characterized those who disagreed as "Lickspittles and toadies of official whiggery." Such Statesman invective soon became known as the "Oregon style" of journalism. Wrote Bush, about his bitter opponent, the Portland Oregonian: "There is not a brothel in the land that would not have felt itself disgraced by the presence of the Oregonian of week before last. It was a complete issue of gross profanity, obscenity, falsehood and meanness...
Selected to come here next fall are: Denham Sutcliffe, professor of English at Kenyon College, Cambier, Ohio; Aaron J. Ihde, associate professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin; and Frank Ikle, instructor in Humanities and History at Reed College, Portland, Oregon...