Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bevies of pretty young girls in white ballroom gowns were introduced to society on schedule at Philadelphia's Assembly Ball, the Chicago Cotillion, the Cotillion and Christmas Ball in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and at other smaller affairs. Cole Porter's new musical Out of This World opened on Broadway (see THEATER) , and was all but eclipsed on its own opening night when members of the audience spotted the Duke & Duchess of Windsor during intermission and swarmed around them thrusting out pencils and scraps of paper. Not all audiences were that boisterous. New Yorkers crowded Manhattan...
Ever since North Carolina-born Bank Teller William Sydney Porter fled to Honduras in 1896 to duck an embezzlement charge in the U.S., Central America has been a raffish sanctuary for some of North America's rarest wild birds. Some went there to evade U.S. justice, some were shoestring promoters brewing or forgetting get-rich-quick schemes, and some were merely fugitives from an over-mechanized world, attracted by such tall tropic yarns as Porter himself later spun under the name of O. Henry.* As a group, they answered philosophically to the name of Tropical Tramps. Since World...
...DEAN PORTER...
Eight new Chevrolets made their showroom debut last Saturday before a large holiday crowd at Porter Square. For the occasion, the management had on hand a collection of bubble gum, balloons, and General Motors comic books which it passed out to the children, and a case of perfume for the ladies. The men got no gifts, but they did get a chance to thump the sides and probe the entrails of the new Chevrolet...
...months to pay, and look at that chrome. As Pesky and Harris and the salesmen moved among the crowd wearing neat name-plates and dispensing raffle tickets the affair took on the conviviality of a bargain basement. And bargains there were, judging from numerous dark nods toward Porter Square's used car lot across the street. When trading closed for the day, only one of the new cars remained unsold and there were orders for about 100 more...