In the excitement of choosing Tom Dewey over Harold Stassen (see Republicans), Portland voters did not forget that they were also electing a mayor. Last week they rose up against flashy, cigar-chewing Earl Riley, who had been picked by the OWI as a "typical U.S. mayor" and sent on a wartime mission to Britain (TIME, Sept. 13, 1943). In Riley's place they namedfor the first time in the city's historya woman.
She was grey-haired, 47-year-old Mrs. Dorothy McCullough Lee, a lawyer, onetime state legislator, the city's first Councilwoman and its public-utilities commissioner....
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