Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enlightened moment the Corporation designated Elmwood as the residence of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and promised to spare no expense in restoring the house to its original elegance. Certainly, there was much to restore. Elmwood's owner until 1962 had been Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter, widow of a Harvard professor of Fine Arts and a strong-willed woman who brooked no meddling with her crumbling mansion. Shunning modern comforts, she lived by 19th Century candlelight that masked the rotting timbers in shadow and made her appear so formidable that even the City of Cambridge dared...
When Mrs. Porter died a year ago, changes came quickly. Cambridge immediately put in the sewer, for one thing. Then restorations began, and Harvard set about making good on its promise to spare no expense. Before anything else, modern fixtures were installed (plumbing, electricity, heating), and the grounds were overhauled. Then the structural supports of the house were put in order. Finally, architects and artisans started the long process of finishing the house in authentic Colonial style. Magnificent flooring (wood-pegged, not nailed) was put down in the first-floor reception room and dining room. (It is singularly comforting that...
After Lowell died in 1891, Elmwood remained with his heirs, until 1925 when A. Kingsley Porter, a student of medieval architecture, purchased the house. In the same year Porter became William Door Boardman Professor at Harvard, and held his gradute classes in his private library on the top floor of Elmwood. After Porter's death in 1933, Mrs. Porter kept the door of the house open to students and Faculty friends. Reportedly, she was a generous but demanding hostess who often summoned her young guests to the somber music room and made them give good accountings of themselves. The music...
...funny take-off of the Barrymores, which she wrote with Kaufman, Louis Calhern accidentally dropped her on her bottom as he carried her up a stage staircase. In Paris during the last days of World War II, she met Mike Todd decked out in what appeared to be a porter's uniform decorated with countless rows of ribbons, medals, and stars and bars of every rank. "Any sonofabitch Nazi catches me," said Todd, "he'll give me the VIP treatment." During the filming of Giant, the picture's co-producer appeared on the set one day, ashen...
They laughed when unknown LuLu Porter, 23, went off to the International Song Festival in Sopot, Poland. But LuLu belted out a rendition of Everything's Coming Up Roses that had the Poles vaulting for joy. The press gave her unanimous raves, and, lo and behold, the new lulu was voted the festival's most popular popular singer...