Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-styled protector of small stockholders at corporate meetings is Xanthippe-tongued Wilma Porter Soss, fiftyish, who once showed up at a U.S. Steel meeting in a 1901 puffed-sleeve dress and ostrich-plumed hat appropriate, she said, for a management "50 years behind in its stockholder relations." With little stock (e.g., ten shares of U.S. Steel worth $831.25) but big ideas and a thirst for publicity, she has for a decade harassed U.S. Steel and other corporations, with small success...
...film only casually resembles the Broadway hit musical of 1953. To begin with, several of the songs are different. Since the Cole Porter score produced no more than two memorable tunes (I Love Paris, It's All Right with Me), Producer Jack Cummings shrewdly decided to ring in some old Porter favorites (You Do Something to Me, It Was Just One of Those Things, Let's Do It). But the old favorites don't make much sense in their new context, and, anyway, they are badly sung. Some of the dances are different, too: the cancan...
...yard butterfly--Won by Elizalde (H); 2, Worthington (N); 3, Porter (N). Time...
Billy Fisher is hardly an angry young menace, but he might be mistaken for a highly comic younger brother of Play wright John Osborne's backward-scowling Jimmy Porter. At 18 or so. he is a mortician's clerk in a scruffy little Yorkshire town, so benumbed by his surround ings that he fancies he has caught an entirely new disease, Fisher's Yawn. When his earthbound parents mulishly refuse to, understand his plans for becoming a scriptwriter in London, he retaliates in his imagination by inventing a set of properly sophisticated, London-based par ents, including...