Word: porter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From his busy little office in Boston, salty old Porter Sargent, whose sharp eyes and ears miss very little that is written or said about U. S. education, last week issued his annual report on the state of the nation's biggest business.* Mr. Sargent, prefacing the 23rd edition of his famed handbook of private schools with a 160-page sound-off,† found the state of education more than normally alarming. During the year private schools, for example, were sharply criticized-luxurious Lawrenceville's Headmaster Allan V. Heely went so far as to call them an expensive...
...Decembers, Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres's Christmas present to U. S. business has been a speech to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, forecasting the coming year's prospects. Last December the country's No. 1 bachelor economist prepared business leaders for substantially better business in 1939, especially in the first half year. He said: "The monthly average of industrial production was 110* in 1937, and it will probably be 85 or 86 in 1938. It now seems likely that its average in 1939 will be about...
...leading article by Porter Sargent emphasizing, which may possibly be worth doing, the commercial and reactionary character of the revival in recent decades of academic ritual, diploma fetichism, etc. Mr. Sargent swells his argument with some anthropological and Veblenist observations that need not be taken too seriously. The verse in this issue is good, particularly a lyric evidence of Marvin Barrett's remarkable feeling for phrase and imagery. In David Parry's translation--at least it says it is--from the Welsh, the orthography is antique, with u in place of v and vice versa. Elsewhere in the issue...
Last week she kept her promise. Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a collection of three short novels which belong with the best of contemporary U. S. writing in this difficult form. A distinctive book, elusive as quicksilver, it has the subtlety that has marked all Miss Porter's writing, none of the preciousness that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively...
Katherine Anne Porter is a newcomer to this group. Born in Indian Creek, Texas 44 years ago, the great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone, she was educated in Louisiana convents, worked for New Orleans and Manhattan newspapers, has lived in Paris, Majorca, Berlin, Vienna, Mexico City, where Calles' official cameraman used her shapely legs as models for a cinema short on shoes. In 1931 she went to Berlin on a Guggenheim Fellowship, met Göring, Goebbels, Hitler, whom she considers "detestable and dangerous," moved to Paris, where she lived for five years. Last year she divorced her first...