Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college is in purpose much like the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which in fact was modeled on All Souls. The school was not always respected; the 18th century All Souls degenerated into "a charmed circle of county families," where fellowships were sold for cash and the college porter once aptly remarked that "they've no call to read books-they're all gentlemen...
...first novel, but it never is surprising to find that it comes from the South. From Harper Lee. whose To Kill a Mockingbird won this year's Pulitzer Prize, the list runs back to writers of remarkable quality. William Styron, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter are but a few whose first fiction showed them to be in full command of talents that some novelists fail to achieve in a lifetime. How do they get that way? Is it, as Author Lee has suggested, that the South is the last refuge of eccentrics in America...
There was, of course, a good reason for the improvement: the commercials were being written by some of the best songwriters in the country (TIME, May 6, 1957) Cole Porter licensed It's Delovely to DeSoto, then Richard Adler (Pajama Game) wrote seductive tunes for Newport and Kent cigarettes. Frank Loesser (Guys and Dolls) composed a ditty for Piel Bros. beer...
...PORTER JR. Atlanta...
...nobody has made a basket yet"-White House Aide McGeorge Bundy blew the whistle last week. Explaining that he had just been fending off compliments to the Kennedy Administration, had quoted Cambridge-Washington Colleague Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (who had in turn borrowed the gag from Capital Attorney Paul A. Porter), Harvard's ex-faculty dean hustled out his own scorecard: "My position is that this Administration is scoring a basket every 30 seconds by the clock...