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Most of Oregon's Willamette River was shaded to the water's edge by a vast and unbroken Douglas fir forest in 1845, but two optimistic New Englanders who had just decided to found a metropolis on its west bank paid little attention to this awesome sylvan roadblock. They had a more important problem-picking a name for their dream city. Neither wasted a moment considering any local Indian words. Massachusetts-born Asa Lovejoy insistently cried: "Boston!" Maine-born Francis Pettygrove stubbornly cried: "Portland!" Finally they tossed a big, old-fashioned copper one-cent piece. Petty-grove...
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...prizes in the field of History and Literature. Walter Kaiser '54 won the Barrett Wendell Prize of $25 as the sophomore making the most notable progress in the field this year. The History and Literature Prize of $50 was shared by Charles P. MacVeagh '53 and Sylvan R. Weiner '53 as the most promising juniors concentrating in the field...
...weekly drawing of the French National Lottery one day last month, the winning ticket was No. 301,207. To the holder of that stub went 13,000,000 tax-free francs ($37,143). The lucky man was a Roman Catholic priest, Sylvan Grandmougin, 52, Abbé of Attignéville...
Artist Browning, 28, the daughter of a British general, went to her first art school at 15. By the time she was 17, she was so good at painting willowy maidens in sylvan settings that some of her work was displayed at London's Royal Academy. After more art school, she gave up her Royal Academy style, but she stuck to her interest in scenes with a generous horizontal sweep to them. In Harlem she learned to paint in verticals...