Word: ria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another West Coast newspaper got a new boss last week. With the death of Publisher Philip Jackson of Portland's Oregon Journal (circ. 192,249), his mother, 90-year-old Maria ("Ria") Jackson, named General Manager William W. Knight, 44, the new Journal boss. Spry, autocratic Ria Jackson, who ran the paper for years and still keeps an eye on it, also scotched rumors that Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse, owner of Portland's morning Oregonian (circ. 225,421) and nine other dailies, was going to buy the Journal. Said Mrs. Jackson: "I want Portland and all the world...