Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mussolini, You're Mrs. Sweeny, You're Camembert. Back in 1935, when Cole Porter's Anything Goes was the hottest ticket in town, Margaret Whigham Sweeny was more Top than Mickey Mouse or a Coolidge dollar. Chic, beautiful and rich in her own right, the 21-year-old English beauty was married to Gentleman Golfer Charles Sweeny, for whom, the gossip columnists insisted, she had jilted the young Earl of Warwick. That same year Ian Campbell made headlines by taking as his second wife Louise Vanneck. daughter of U.S. Sculptor Henry Clews. (His first: Janet Aitken. Lord...
...Queen Looks At When She Takes a Bath" (her new "honorable bamboo" bathroom wall paper). For significance, the Mirror got the Bishop of Woolwich to warm over his controversial views on the modern world's need for a new concept of God (TIME, April 12), added a Sylvia Porter-type column of financial advice from "Our Young Man in the City." A new "With It" page offers tips on how to achieve instant sophistication (among them: "barbaric feet for summer," festooned with a "slinky gold mesh snake's head anklet" or "a creepy gold mouse toe ring...
Died. Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, 86, translator into English of Thomas Mann's works, a sprightly Pennsylvanian who wrote poetry and plays (most notably Abdication, a genteel spoof of Edward VIII) but devoted her serious labors to the German literary giant, beginning in 1924 with Buddenbrooks and thereafter translating most of Mann's books, including the monumental, 2,071-page Joseph and His Brothers; after a long illness; in Princeton...
...perches on a dune above the wild coast of Mayo; a flute and pipes keen an eerie obbligato to the complaining of the surf. Into the tavern stumbles a tatterdemalion lad, and to the landlord's daughter he says: "I'd trouble you for a glass of porter, woman of the house. I'm destroyed walking...
...amount of research is too much for him. He goes where the story is. A few weeks ago, he got on a freighter in Vera Cruz and rode with seven boring fellow passengers to Houston in preparation for his movie adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools. In Rome, between sessions with De Sica, he popped around to Miss Porter's hotel room to confer with her on the script. In Mexico, he was also collecting impressions for his script of Children of Sanchez. Soon he will be in Georgia and Mississippi soaking up attitudes...