Word: whitefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long histories of the paper and nostalgic backward looks at the growth of the Northwest. Though the Oregonian and its surroundings changed greatly through the years, its ownership did not. It stayed in the hands of descendants of early (1860) Owner Henry Lewis Pittock and his longtime editor, Harvey Whitefield Scott...
Howard Leondar's "Mrs. Benson" is described as a "section of a novel." Perhaps, in the context of the entire work, this "section" has meaning; as an excerpt it does not. Mrs. Benson and the other inhabitants of Whitefield are bloodless, unfathomable creatures. Leondar's dialogue fails to give reality to his characters, and is seldom incisive in itself; occasionally a line like this appears: "What is three nights when we think of eternity? A mere ... how shall I put it ... drop in the bucket...
...speaking trip to the U.S. last week, Canada's Finance Minister Douglas Abbott had a confession to make. "Our public men [have failed] to tell our story in your country," he told a convention of bankers at Whitefield, N.H. "Today [I intend] to cast aside any restraining influence of that modesty which I hope is a Canadian virtue, and talk to you . . . unblushingly . . . of the virtual transformation which has been wrought in the Canadian economy within the past ten years...