Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castoff Shirts. Like her father, Helen Frick has spared no expense. In 1928 she appointed Dr. Frederick Mortimer Clapp, head of the fine arts department of the University of Pittsburgh, as general editor, got Porter Garnett and later Bruce Rogers,, topflight book designers, to lay out the format. She brought dozens of art scholars to Manhattan, some from as far as Spain, France and Britain, to examine the Frick masterpieces and write the catalogue's text pieces...
...Richard W. Porter, head of "Project Hermes," as G.E. calls its rocket program with Army Ordnance, feels that the German lead has been overcome. The G.E. rocket motors, some of which were static-tested spectacularly for the visitors, are about 10% more efficient than the motors of the V-25. They are smaller for the equivalent power, and they burn commercially pure alcohol instead of the alcohol mixed with 25% water that the Germans used to hold down the heat of combustion. The improvements, Dr. Porter believes, will show up in payload-the ultimate payoff of rocketry. G.E. does...
...pretty and slim to play the role of decaying middle-aged Buttercup. To make up for this faulty casting she gives the part an interpretation that is spirited and novel, if incorrect. Robert Peters as Captain Corcoran, Roger Murphy as Dick Deadeye, and David Shapiro as Sir Joseph Porter, and all far better than average amateur performers. Nancy Ryan's Cousin Hebe is one of the finest that I have ever seen...
...Jerry Porter took 19th place in the slalom, with Houser 31st, Captain Bill Wasserman 35th, and John Hart, normally a cross-country and jump man, 49th. Harvard could field only a three-man team in the 50-meter jump. Hart jumped 110 and 105 feet to place 28th. Wasserman and Captain-elect Jim Weaver followed in 35th and 40th positions respectively...
Wasserman came in 15th in the cross-country, and Weaver, weakened by influenza, placed 33rd. Porter, normally a downhill-slalom skier was 35th, and Hart, bothered by an equipment mixup, was 40th...