Word: portlands
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High & Lows. In Portland, Ore., Weather Forecaster Alan Jones made a request in a local newspaper: "Often I have some arthritic or rheumatic person call me during or after a heavy rain to say that his pains or lack of them warned him that the storm was coming. I should like to have those persons call me before the indicated weather occurs-call Capitol 1132 when you feel stormy or clear weather coming...
Every year, with ceremonial flourishes, U.S. colleges and universities hand out some 1,500 honorary degrees. Who gets them? To answer the question, Teachers Stephen E. Epler and P. H. Putnam of Portland, Ore. examined the records of seven major campuses,* last week published their findings in School and Society...
Others nominated for the Board of Overseers are: Arthur W. Page '05 of New York, Welles V. Moot '08 of Buffalo, William W. Bodine '10 of Philadelphia, Elliott Dunlap Smith '13 of Pittsburgh, Lewis H. Mills '15 of Portland, Oregon, Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. '27 of Cincinnati, and Theodore Parker Ferris '29 of Boston...
...Place Like Home. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Hattie D. White, suing for divorce, complained that her husband not only saw ghosts, but continually kept her awake at night talking to them. In Memphis, Mrs. Mae W. Butler charged in her divorce suit that her husband repeatedly blamed her for "mistakes of the National Administration." In Boston, Mrs. Betty Applebaum Weiner got a divorce after telling the judge that her husband whacked her with a Sunday newspaper when he caught her reading the classified ads to see if she could find...
...Boss Wasn't Interested. Sam Newhouse plans to make few changes in the paper. Ernest Boyd MacNaughton, liberal president of Portland's Reed College (TIME, May 3, 1948) as well as chairman of the board of Portland's First National Bank, will stay on as president. The editorial staff will be virtually unchanged. As is his custom, Democrat Newhouse will keep his distance from most editorial decisions (most of his papers are independent Republican), but will keep close tabs on everything else as he does on his other papers...