Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unless coach John Yoviosin has devised a plan to protect the middle of the field, Penn could turn the contest today into a one-aided romp. Tailbacks Koval and Porter Shreve are both fine passers, and if a Quaker aerial can spring fleet wingback Peter Schants loose in the Crimson secondary, it will be bye, bye, baby...
...been notably Shakespearean. But last week he made Barrymore-sized headlines after a sub-balcony performance worthy of a Greenwich Village Romeo and Juliet. At 5 a.m. he insistently rang the doorbell of his ex-fiancée, Italian Cinemactress Giorgia Moll, 21. Barrymore announced himself as the apartment porter, but Giorgia's mother, not the least bit fooled, had the cops called. When John Jr. was later haled into court on charges of housebreaking and defamation, the whole thing became clear-more or less. Giorgia, it seemed, was an old-fashioned Italian gal who believed in keeping...
...runs a bit too much to horsehair, Guthrie robustness smacks a bit too much of horseplay. But this Pinafore is Gilbert and Sullivan, not Guthrie and Sullivan. Thus, as Josephine, pretty, pleasing-voiced Marion Studholme sings her arias impeccably for the lovely songs they are; and if Sir Joseph Porter capers, he was always wont to caper, and was always meant...
...Negroes aboard. The leader and bill payer of the group was a tall, spare man, duded up in a blinding sports shirt and necktie, a sharp-lapelled suit, jaunty Ivy League cap and high-button shoes. He was no potentate from Africa, but William Tyler, 78, a retired Pullman porter, and he was relishing the fulfillment of a lifetime dream...
From Los Angeles the private Pullman rolled to El Paso, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Niagara Falls, New York and Chicago, with leisurely, de luxe stopovers in each city. This week Tyler and friends headed for San Francisco and home. The whole excursion will cost the old porter about $15,000. Said Tyler: "I've got enough money left over to last me the rest of my life. But if I hit the Sweepstakes again in October, I'll hire another car and come back...