Word: porter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clean up after Glenn Frank, who had a feud with Governor Phil La Follette, Dykstra pacified the faculty in the same efficient way as he had handled Cincinnati's flood as its City Manager, but he has so far kindled no fire among faculty or students. Frank Porter Graham, 52, is called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally rated the ablest U. S. State university president, he has helped make North Carolina tops in the South. He fought in the trenches during the World War, still fights with the Legislature and utility interests...
...years an adviser to parents of prep school children, Porter Sargent '96 undertook yesterday to explain the reason for the large percentage of prep school cram patrons...
...Goodman style sweet. However, on the so-called "killer-diller" stuff, not even the rankest jitterbug could find much satisfaction with Mr. James playing such tricks as using the beginning of "Bach Goes To Town" and most of the famous Berigan chorus from the Benny Goodman record on "King Porter Stomp" . . . Rumor's flying around that Stan Brown's Gold Coast Orchestra may appear on Benny Goodman's Camel Hour program in June. And that the King of Swing will be given a royal welcome at Widener Library when he arrives . . . Louis Armstrong does "West End Blues" (Decca) this week...
...Commencement," concluded Porter Sargent, "has become a large scale piece of advertising, for prestige and money. . . . Commencements at the older universities are competitive as to spectacular features, speakers who will secure the headlines. and finally in the result of it all, the announcement of funds. ... If these college commencements were reduced to their former modest simplicity, if representatives of great financial houses and industries were to play a lesser role, the annual increment would probably fall...
Died. Frank Moulan, 63, veteran Gilbert & Sullivan baritone ("Ko-Ko," "The Duke of Plaza-Toro," "Sir Joseph Porter") ; in Manhattan...