Word: portering
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Whether the College asks the student to consider taking the year off or not, most say they come to the decision entirely on their own. Laura L. Blodgett '89 decided as a senior at Miss Porter's School that before she tried out Cambridge she wanted to sample life in Paris and California. During her senior year Blodgett was trying to juggle artistic endeavors, athletics and academics and felt that she needed a break from high-pressured school life...
...Naughty Baby, from the 1924 Gershwin show Primrose. The number, with its infectious syncopation and George's own nimble charts, was receiving its first public performance in six decades. It is part of a trove of music by Broadway's old masters -- Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Victor Herbert, Cole Porter -- discovered in 80 boxes in a Secaucus, N.J., warehouse. Now, after five years of archaeology, Historian Robert Kimball has prepared a 178-page inventory of some of the contents for the first volume of the Catalog of the American Musical, to be published in September by the National Institute...
...know its significance," Kimball recalls, "but he sent the list around. In 1982 he showed it to Donald Rose, a Gershwin scholar. Donald thought it was awesome and called me. In the first two boxes we found Gershwin's Pardon My English, which was presumed lost, and Cole Porter's Gay Divorce. Later I opened an envelope with Porter's name on it and found songs by him I didn't even know had existed." Further burrowing yielded the Holy Grail of show-tune scholarship: more than 175 unpublished Kern songs. "In sheer numbers and quality it's extraordinary," says...
...William Gannon, who has been head porter at the union since 1949, remembers the incident well. "I locked up the building at 10:30 p.m. that night, and figured everything was secure," he said, "but the next morning I came in to find the barrel staring me in the face. I made a few discrete inquiries and found out who did it, but when Harvard Police questioned me, I refused to divulge the name...
...count to 21." Among Williams' old college playmates, Eddie Owens is dealing at Caesars Palace and Sam Smith is valeting cars. Williams is quick to add that "at a hundred and a half a night, a lot of people would park cars. You can be a porter in this town and make...