Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in life, Joao Café Filho was exposed to influences that were to set him apart from most of his countrymen. Brazil is a Roman Catholic nation, but Joao's parents were devout members of the flock of the Rev. William Porter, a Presbyterian missionary from the U.S. Cafe Filho was baptized in a Presbyterian chapel,* learned to read and write in the free elementary school maintained by Porter and his wife. Joao's first teachers were Henrietta and Evangeline Green, daughters of the U.S. vice consul in Natal...
...Sunday Afternoon (Sun. 4:05 p.m., CBS). With Cole Porter...
...show in a brief series of vignettes (a determined tennis player, a fumbling fisherman, a cowardly boxer, a prancing circus horse and rider) that showed off a remarkably agile and expressive 6-ft. 4-in. body. The week's second big color feature, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (CBS), boasted Ethel Merman, but even Trouper Merman could not keep the show from becoming a busy, shapeless, cluttered mass of sight and sound...
...Massachusetts running attack will be led by halfbacks Roger Barous and Hal Bowers and fullback John Porter, who in addition to their rushing abilities are all capable pass receivers. Last week Barous averaged 5.6 yards a try on the ground and Bowers picked up 4.5, while Porter, a 209-pound senior, carried the ball 18 times for an average of 4.0 yards...
...porter system has been completely revamped. "Dormitory crewmen," earning $1.15 per hour, replace the porters of the last few years, who earned $.85 hourly. The cleanup crews will neither make beds nor dust, but will be concerned solely with cleaning floors and bathrooms in what Graham R. Taylor, Director of Student Employment, described as "heavier, rougher cleaning...