Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prone to Trouble. Judge Alexander, 67, a Negro who worked as a waiter, dining-car chef and Pullman porter in his teens and then graduated with honors from Harvard Law School ('23), first analyzed the question of need. He noted that the poor "are just prone to legal trouble. It is, in a sense, a way of life with them." As a judge, Alexander has "seen at first hand the helplessness and bewilderment of the poor when faced with the legalities of our complex society." The poor need lawyers not only to stay out of jail, he said...
Born. To Marina Oswald Porter, 24, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, and Kenneth Jess Porter, 28, electronics engineer and her former Dallas neighbor: their first child, a boy (each has two children from previous marriages); in Richardson, Texas...
...changing the game. While they do not all belong to the theater of the absurd, these playwrights possess that initial recognition of absurdity that, Camus argues, comes to one in the midst of deadening routines. In the opening scene of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, Jimmy Porter hurls a newspaper to the floor and says: "Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books-same reviews." What begins with the existential why is an awareness of man's incongruous relationship...
Suddenly last summer, the woman accused her husband of menacing her with a .38-cal. revolver and threatening to kill himself. A Dallas County justice of the peace patched up that fight by telling the husband, former Electronics Technician Kenneth Porter, to get the gun out of the house and go to church. The advice obviously took, for Mrs. Porter, 24, is now awaiting the birth of her third child (her first by Porter) at home in a Dallas suburb. Porter is out of work just now, but the baby bills should be paid promptly just the same. Mrs. Porter...
...University Symposium, "1941 Looks at U.S. Foreign Policy." Lincoln P. Bloomfield '41, moderator, with H. Field Haviland '41. Henry Loomis '41, Charles O. Porter '41, and Elliot L. Richardson '41. Lowell Lecture Hall...