Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flaming Youth. In Portland, Ore., brought into court, the father of three-year-old Betty Quetulio agreed to try to break her habit of smoking cheroots...
...Show (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Guests: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Ed Wynn, Lauritz Melchior...
...every weekday morning, a 70-year-old gentleman whom all Portland, Ore. knows as Mr. Mac marches into the First National Bank, seats himself at the desk tagged Chairman of the Board and settles to work. At 10:30, Chairman Ernest Boyd MacNaughton marches out again and takes over his second desk as president of the Portland Oregonian (circ. 224,314). Finally, after a quick lunch at "a grab and grunt stand," Mr. Mac heads for his third and favorite job-president of Reed College (enrollment...
...Cheers. Portlanders have been wondering about Reed for a long time. It was founded (in 1911) with money left by a Portland steamboat and mining tycoon named Simeon Gannett Reed. Its first president, William T. Foster, had a knack for gathering bright scholars, and soon such men as Economist Paul Douglas, now U.S. Senator from Illinois, and Physicist Karl T. Compton, later president of M.I.T., were teaching there...
...first time in years, MacNaughton got Reed in the black. Last week, figuring on an enrollment drop of about 30%, he was out to raise an extra $85,000. For Portland's biggest citizen-the most effective champion Reed has ever had-the campaign will be a pleasure. "The liberal ideals of Reed are worth fighting for at any time," says Mr. Mac, "and by God, I'm a fighter...