Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ferber to Vladimir Nabokov, Romain Gary, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, his list of clients reads like the world's best-kept book of unlisted phone numbers. "I call myself a literary agent," says Lazar, "simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents." He also handles composers (Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers), choreographers, etc. For Rodgers, he recently sold The Sound of Music to 20th Century-Fox for $1,250,000, and for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe he peddled Camelot to Warner for the same amount. He had a hand in the $5,500,000 deal...
...clients wherever he goes. Next week he leaves for a Swiss skiing colloquium with Irwin Shaw, Peter Viertel, Anatole Litvak, Darryl Zanuck and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He never considers himself on vacation. Once, meeting 20th Century-Fox's Buddy Adler by chance in Paris, Lazar sold him Cole Porter's Can-Can for $750,000. On another occasion, he was saving money by flying tourist class when, looking beyond the partition, he saw Spyros Skouras sitting up forward in Firstville. "I could have sold Skouras $300,000 worth of stuff," he groans. That was the last time Swifty...
...They have gratefully accepted Government handouts-but they are unwilling to live permanently as public wards. "The one thing you notice." says Edmund Cummings, head of the Catholic Relief Service's resettlement division, "is their willingness to work. They just want a job, whether it be as a porter or a dishwasher. They know they have to start at the bottom of the totem pole...
...meditation, filled with elaborately balanced sentences that deserve to' be read twice, and must be if one is to understand them. But what of the egregious parson and his wife? They were an excellently burlesqued Macbeth and Lady, but they disappear halfway through the second act, leaving the porter to explain the rest of the play. Not very surprisingly, the audience wants its money back...
...stated in your article, CORE has never urged Trailways to lower their standards. We know that qualified applicants have sought employment at Trailways as baggage clerks and ticket agents. The Young Democrats' report fails to mention that present Trailways porters sought advancement but were put off by the Trailways management while outside whites were hired. The case of the one porter who finally was allowed to take an "advancement" test and then was fired is but one of many incidents; failure to file a formal charge with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination hardly should be equated with lack of discrimination...