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Kennerly made it to the White House on brashness, guts, high-speed hustle and talent. The son of a salesman, he grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Roseburg, Ore., and was briefly married in 1967. After quitting Portland State University to take pictures for the Oregon Journal, he went on, at the age of 20, to United Press International. UPI sent him to Saigon in 1971, and the next year, his photos showing the desolation of war won him a Pulitzer Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Clicking with Ford | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...BAILEY Roseburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

Most of the evening, Truck Driver George Rutherford paced nervously around his room in Roseburg, Ore.'s Umpqua Hotel. Once he walked the three blocks to the Gerretsen Building Supply Co. to look over the blue 1959 Ford truck he had parked on the street after a 290-mile drive from his home plant, Pacific Powder Co. of Tenino, Wash.. Cause for his worry: his cargo consisted of two tons of dynamite and 4½ tons of Car-Prill (a highly explosive mixture-ammonium nitrate and oil) that he was to deliver to customers at dawn. About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Overnight Parking | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Minutes after the blast, Roseburg began to rally. From the Rumblebees Motorcycle Club to the National Guard, volunteer forces backed up police and firemen, sealed off the 23-block danger area, hauled the 52 injury cases to hospitals, kept out looters. Damage estimates ran to $12 million, but the count on the dead was harder to come by. The coroner's deputies accounted for twelve bodies, then sent off for lab tests samples of lighter ashes that might be eight or more transients in transient apartments. Five blocks from the crater lay a bent axle, the biggest piece left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Overnight Parking | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...honeymoon would not last forever. Sure enough, he soon began feuding with Richard Neuberger. In 1957 Neuberger voted for a civil rights bill that Morse had dismissed as meaningless. Later, Neuberger committed the sin of sponsoring a trivial bill to turn over some public lands to the town of Roseburg, Ore.-without consulting Wayne Morse. That did it. Morse killed the bill, which required unanimous Senate consent. There followed a truly remarkable exchange of letters, begun by Neuberger in an attempt at reconciliation and answered by Morse in these words: "You have a lot of guts to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Wrecker | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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