Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHARLES H. PORTER...
...conference room at San Francisco's Langley Porter Clinic, half a dozen men sat around a table and talked, it seemed, about everything under the sun. Was it a good idea for one of the men to take his wife out to dinner soon after she came home from the hospital? Should a man take a job at lower pay, but with better chances of promotion? What is marriage really for, anyway...
Editor Arabel Porter's prize catch is a chapter from an unfinished novel by Michael Seide. a Brooklyn story writer with a rare feeling for the depression years. Some other standout pieces: a story about an Italian P.W. in a U.S. hospital, by Giuseppe (The Brigand) Berto; a grisly novelette about a tubercular who marries to escape a domineering mama, by the 21-year-old French prodigy, Jean-Baptiste Rossi; a lively critical comparison of Mickey Spillane and Georges Simenon by Charles Rolo. If half the 110,000 copies of New World Writing are sold, the publishers will break...
...delegates are solidly committed (seven for Eisenhower, six for Taft). But in Texas, where delegates will be chosen at a state convention May 27, and in California, where the delegation is still in Earl Warren's pocket, Eisenhower supporters struck one shrewd blow last week. H. J. (Jack) Porter, head of the Eisenhower-for-President Club of Texas, said he wrote Ike asking him whether he favors "state or federal ownership of the 'tidelands.'" Ike's reply (which pleased oil-rich Texas and California alike): "Once again, I agree with the principle that federal ownership...
...York at Philadelphia--Raschi vs. Kellner; Boston at Washington--Parnell vs. Porter field; Cleveland at Chicago--Wynn vs. Pierce; and St. Louis at Detroit--Garver vs. Trout...