Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George Criticos. 77, Greek-born friend of royalty and porter to the famous for more than 45 years at London's Ritz Hotel, who in 1932 chaperoned the then 21-year-old Aly Khan on a three-month American junket, and later moonlighted as his bet runner, placing more than $700,000 on the horses during the prince's last 27 years; of heart attack; in London. Criticized Criticos in his autobiography: "Millionaires are not usually very happy people, I have found. They're too full of worries about their wealth and health...
...architect of her own literary monument, Katherine Anne Porter is the most sparing of designers. The graceful, towering spire of her reputation, unwavering after three decades, rests on three volumes containing but 22 long and short stories-Flowering Judas (1930), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower (1944). Last week at 71, still pretty, witty and as talkative as ever ("It's always been my sin"), Katherine Anne Porter announced that she had placed the massive capstone of her distinguished career: a 160,000-word novel, her first, scheduled for spring publication by Atlantic-Little, Brown. Sighed Author...
...past, says Author Porter, peering through the wake of two decades: "I've survived but I certainly haven't flourished. I think Hemingway beat me to it by about twenty paces. Honestly, I am so tired." Tired or not, she still has plans for the future. "I would like to write about two wonderful old slaves who were my grandmother's companions, but someone is always giving a low name to good things and I suppose the N.A.A.C.P. would say I was glorifying Uncle Tomism...
...Princess Grace dutifully filmed her husband's moment of truth. "You should see what a terrible stare these beasts give you when you get close to them," confided Rainier breathlessly. At one dinner Elsa got one up on Hedda by taking over the piano to play Cole Porter tunes, accompanied by Rainier on drums. Then Ari bellowed the theme song (in Greek) from the movie Never on Sunday, while La Callas rattled the maracas but declined requests for an aria...
...buys the mother a drink. The boy fights back by sulking. The man counters by asking him another state capital. The boy says he does not know, and is silent when his mother, quite gay now, urges him to recite. He glares at her, and petulantly she asks the porter to put him to bed. The porter chides him: "A smaht boy lahk you not knowing the capital of Alabama." The boy scowls, trying not to cry. Then: " 'Sure I know,' he said in a listless, uneven voice that was almost a whisper. 'It's Montgomery...