Word: porter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER-Katherine Anne Porter-Harcourt, Brace...
...many writers can sustain a literary reputation on the strength of one short story. But for almost ten years that has been the achievement of Katherine Anne Porter. Probably no U. S. writer has been praised so highly while writing so little. The story that made her reputation was Flowering Judas, a sensitive, finely-grained piece of prose, but hardly a lifework in itself...
Critics threw their hats in the air, hailed Miss Porter as one of the most promising American writers when it first appeared in 1930. They tossed them again, finding her just as promising, when it was republished...
...long-term Government-bond speculation, Expert Porter is bullish: ". . . Whatever occurs, holders of Government securities may be confident that the nation's fiscal authorities will guard their interests in the market so long as the Treasury faces a tremendous program of debt refunding." When she is asked about short-term prospects, she quotes the forecast of an anonymous financier: "The stock market, sir, will fluctuate...
...Sylvia Porter herself has taken free rides on ten Treasury issues, has each year doubled in this and other ways the capital she put into the Government market. She speculates with the help of complicated graphs, for which her husband, Reed Richard Porter of Irving Trust Co., has to do the arithmetic. In what spare time remains, she plays the piano, goes to the movies, and writes fiction that thus far has impressed no publisher...