Word: porter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highlights of any Harvard Krokodiloe concert comes with the group's rendition of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It." The Kroks, the 12-man cappella undergraduate singing group, always revises the lyrics of this randy war-horse to give it that unmistakable aroma of burning rubber--the smell of tires and gonads hot for another trip to Wellesley...
...Roger B. Porter, assistant professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, who has advised the Reagan administration on the economic package it plans to present to Congress on February 18, said the speech was consistent with Reagan's campaign themes as well as his developing economic programs...
...still working on the details and it would have been premature for the President to be any more specific than he was," Porter explained, adding that Reagan is very good at delivering the kind of speeches people can understand...
When writers paused for breath, Mayes would start talking. By the time he had finished, their names were often affixed to contracts. F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of his authors; so were Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Katherine Anne Porter, Herman Wouk, Agatha Christie, Art Linkletter, Clare Boothe Luce, Ogden Nash, Hubert Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lucille Ball and Maurice Chevalier, and most of them are worth a story or two. Mayes treated them with amused kindness, helped them through personal crises and paid them well, even for that golden age of magazines: $10,000 per short story for Somerset...
...Porter--who has been working under Richard L.Wirthlin, Reagan's chief pollster and director of transition strategy and planning--said last week the assignment involves putting together the economic package Reagan will be presenting soon after taking office. Porter was former president General R. Ford's special assistant on economic affairs from...