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Word: porter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shapere and S. Sale defeated R. Dowling and D. Melnick (forfeit); P. Pratt and K. Hildreth defeated T. Atkinson and H. Chwang (6-1, 6-2), T. Tully and D. Bird defeated W. Tucker and C. Hanschka (6-4, 6-2); P. Keesing and G. Kinkleman defeated W. Porter and M. Neyland (6-3, 6-1); F. Keesing and M. Keesing defeated D. Johnson and J. Neely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Players Thin Out as Tourney Turns Into the Home Stretch | 8/9/1956 | See Source »

...Philadelphia Story. Producer Sol Siegel assembled a Who's Who cast. He talked Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra into teaming in a movie for the first time, snagged the services of Grace Kelly for her last screen appearance before embarking for Monaco, paid Cole Porter a reported $250,000 for his first original movie score in eight years, and hired Louis Armstrong to blow and gravel-growl his way through it. The result, unhappily, is strictly plebeian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...first round of the men's doubles D. Keesing and F. Keesing defeated J. Baldwin and J. Joslin, 4-6, 7-5, 6-0; M. Hall and A. Eames defeated W. Porter and T. Livingston, 6-3, 7-5; D. Shapere and T. Tchen defeated D. Hall and P. Tanphiphat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquets Swing, Balls Keep Flying | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

...upsurge in highway and heavy construction more than doubled H. K. Porter's first half 1955 net to $4,000,000 in 1956. Caterpillar Tractor Co. rolled up profits of $26.2 million, 69% above a year ago. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. nearly doubled its net to $12.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Better & Better | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Mind if I Make Love to You (Len Dresslar; Mercury). A Cole Porter song, from the forthcoming film High Society, that sounds like one of the old ones, with its well-mannered melody, its discreet rumba rhythm, its inner rhymes. Only the sentiment grates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

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