Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oregon: Clarence J. Young, LL.B. '19; 800 Pacific Bldg., Portland...
Maine: Sidney W. Thaxter '37; 192 Middle St., Portland...
...Hopkins, of Cambridge, and a student in the Buckingham School, won the Departmental Award in History, and award given on the basis of competitive exams. Honorable mention went to Lois Ann Dickson, of Portland, Me. and Portland High School, Lily Emmet, of New York City and Joan Brearley School, and Martha Roland, of Drexel Hills, Pa., and the Agnes Irwin School. Over 59 students took the history examinations...
...last 115-mile leg from Tuxtla Gutiérrez to the border was unpaved. The temperature hit 105°. In the end, the race got down to two dogged U.S. drivers: 22-year-old Hershel McGriff, part owner of an auto-repair shop in Portland, Ore., driving a 1950 Oldsmobile, and Tommy Deal of El Paso, driving a Cadillac. But McGriff's six-day time was better than Deal's by one minute, 16 seconds. Victory was worth 150,000 pesos ($17,000) to him, Co-Driver Pay Elliott and their backers...
...Baptist minister's son, Palmer Hoyt was a sergeant major in World War I, then a successful writer of westerns (one Hoyt hero: a buckaroo with a revolving glass eyeball). He joined the Portland Oregonian in 1926, in twelve years rose from copyreader to publisher. In 1946 the Denver Post's owners hired him away on a fat, longtime contract...