Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oregon. In his 18 bedridden years, George Nelson's main diversion had been the trains going by his house in Canby on the main Portland-San Francisco run of the Southern Pacific railroad. In the daytime he would wave from his window to trainmen; at night he blinked his bedroom light and the engines whistled back. Last week George Nelson, 32, and his mother boarded the Southern Pacific's Cascade as guests of the trainmen, who had passed the hat, raised enough money to pay for a week's sightseeing in San Francisco-by ambulance...
Died. Ernest Haycox, 51, "the Somerset Maugham of the western," spinner of some 300 published Wild West yarns, including Union Pacific, Stagecoach; of cancer; in Portland...
...government for the most part ignored these suggestions. Last week, New York Times Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi summed up ECA's complaints in a dispatch to his newspaper. When the Italian press picked up the story, Italy's able ECA Chief Leon Dayton, former president of a Portland, Ore. super market, held a press conference in which he called the Italian government policy "too damn cautious...
Evangelist Billy Graham, 31 (TIME, March 20), was still preaching to the biggest congregations in the U.S. Winding up a six-week revival meeting last week in a specially erected tabernacle in Portland, Ore., he had run up an amazing record: 632,000 attendance, 8,000 conversions. It seemed to be the biggest evangelistic campaign since the late Billy Sunday drew 1,500,000 people in New York 33 years ago. Next Graham vineyard: Minneapolis...
...Portland, Ore., which takes new teachers on automobile tours of the city, sponsors get-acquainted picnics and teas, entertains them at concerts and the theater...