Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unbothered by blustery Florida weather, California's Barbara Romack, 24, relaxed and thought about her approaching marriage to Golf Pro Buddy Porter. She also played the best golf of her career, beat Florida's Ann Middlemas, 16, by an easy 5-and-4 in the Florida East Coast women's amateur at St. Augustine...
...Jazz Great (Bethlehem). Ten selections by one of the most durable of contemporary trombonists, accompanied by such seasoned players as Edmond Hall on the clarinet and Jo Jones on the drums. Among the selections: a sultry Bad Acting Woman, followed but not improved by an adenoidal Teagarden vocal, King Porter Stomp...
...slightly crippled at birth, so Pat goes out for the football team and damages his right knee. This test of manhood merely inflames his ego; he enrolls in a creative-writing course. A story about his "true friends" and eccentrically named roommates, David Tall Man and Snowjob Porter, convinces the professor that Pat is a "born writer." But daddy Kingsgrant, a Yankee lawyer with a Park Avenue penthouse and a mind like a safety-deposit box, is not so easily hurdled. Pat scoops up his Brooks Brothers suits and heads for a Manhattan hovel to finish the Great American Novel...
ALONG Broadway this week theatergoers were pushing their way into packed houses offering an assortment of musical comedies that ranged from the sparkle of George Bernard Shaw to the gurgle of Al Capp (see color pages). Despite the absence this season of such magic names as Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hammerstein, the box-office boom for a show with a lilting tune and a hearty joke has continued to thump as loudly as ever...
...history of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard has been one of development from the fraternity which met regularly at Porter's Tavern in the early years of the 19th century to the more formal honors society of today...