Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sylvia Porter, columnist...
With his impromptu Rodgers-Gershwin-Porter recital, Cliburn warmed up to play the last movement of the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto at a concert of the leading prizewinners on the evening his victory was announced. He was called back for three encores, finally retired to shouts of "more" in English. As soon as the hall was empty, technicians scurried in, kept Cliburn at the keyboard until the early hours of morning while they reproduced his triumph on film...
...Swing swung down the nostalgic side of the street. Besides tootling what is still the sweetest clarinet this side of the '30s, Maestro Goodman husked It's Gotta Be This or That, was spelled by such other oldtimers as Trumpeter Harry James in King Porter Stomp, Singers Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford and Ray Eberle. But it was not until Benny meshed with his old quintet (including Teddy Wilson on piano and Red Norvo thrumming the vibraphone) that Maestro Goodman seemed to hit his old stride in syncopation so well arranged that it sounded like real jazz improvisation...
Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, commented that officials were prepared to extend the area proscribed by the new University parking rule "from Porter Square to Fresh Pond Parkway," in an attempt to "clear up the parking mess...
...Broadway musicals ranging from Garrick Gaieties to Annie Get Your Gun; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Son of Slapstick Comedian Lew Fields (Weber & Fields), Herbert was the first librettist with the Rodgers & Hart team, later did such hits as DuBarry Was a Lady and Mexican Hayride with Cole Porter, collaborated on many shows (Up in Central Park, the forthcoming Redhead) with his sister Dorothy...