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...form of barium sulphate, Josiah found what he wanted. Jasper ware grew so popular that the English used it for shoebuckles, chessmen, perfume vials, bell pulls, architectural ornaments, even a mortar and pestle. Most famous of all Josiah's jasper ware was his limited edition of the Portland vase, after a Greek vase supposedly made in Alexandria in 50 A.D. Last year a rare slate-blue Portland vase sold at auction for $8,600. Josiah would get $1.50 for a fine jasper cup and saucer; today it would sell for one hundred times as much...
Harvard's Tony Lynch, a favorite in the 400-meter hurdles, led the field over the last jump, but lost the dash down the homestretch and the title to dark horse Johnson of Colgate. Johnson's time 51.4; Lynch nipped Heptagonal rival Portland Gray of Navy for second place...
...best of the young pitchers is Luis Tiant, who had a 15-1 record at Portland last year, came to Cleveland at midseason, and won 10 of 14 decisions with a 2.82 ERA. Sam McDowell, who has been touted as the coming Cleveland star of the future for several years, began to live up to his press notices last season with an 11-6 record. Another promising sophomore is Sonny Siebert, who had a 7-9 mark but a fairly good 3.23 ERA. Among the veterans on the staff are Gary Bell 8-6); Jack Kralick (12-7); Ralph Terry...
...sold on abolition once more that the idea won the full support of the state's leading clergymen, newspapers, politicians, law-enforcement officers and finally the voters, who killed the death penalty (gas chamber) by nearly 5 to 3 in a referendum last November. Multnomah County (Portland) District Attorney George Van Hoomissen summed up Oregon's attitude: "The specter of an innocent man unjustly executed is constantly in my mind...
...Portland is probably the biggest U.S. city (metropolitan area population: 860,000) without a graduate-studies center, but that unhappy distinction is ending. In recognition of Portland State's rising academic standards, the Oregon Board of Higher Education gave the school the right to confer graduate liberal arts degrees. Currently the legislature is considering setting up a new state-supported graduate school. Now that the school's quiz kids have proved so bright, the chances are that Portland State will...