Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Porter knew no real struggle until he was 45, and at the peak of success. Then he undertook a gallant and successful fight to walk again, after a Long Island horseback-riding accident left him with compound fractures of both legs. Winning this fight took 31 operations (mostly to clear up a bone infection of his right leg), years of constant pain, and a tough-minded courage that surprised his friends and impressed his physician...
...keep at his writing, Porter had his piano raised on wooden blocks so that he could sit at it in a wheelchair. Then he was on crutches for years. He can get around now for short stretches without a cane, though he usually carries...
...Porter's way of life probably equipped him for surmounting the blow that abruptly cut short his pursuit of fun. There had always been method of a sort in his sportiveness. Porter himself once said: "I am spending my life escaping boredom, not because I'm bored, but because I don't want to be." He has always arranged his days with a whim of iron, and he refuses to be bored for as long as 15 minutes at a time. Such a schedule requires a certain ruthlessness, and Porter's Broadway associates and friends have...
...playwright who is celebrated for his wit confesses that he feels an odd compulsion to be constantly entertaining in Porter's company: "Suddenly, when he's had enough, you find him staring at you with a kind of loathing and, before you know it, he's not just out of sight, he's out of the room and out of the hotel." London's Producer Charles B. Cochran, who put on a couple of Porter shows, at first was hurt and bewildered by the way Porter would listen to his conversation for a while...
...Candles. Porter's taste for a life of truffled trifles was whetted even before he went to college. As a reward from his grandfather for having been class valedictorian at prep school, he got a tour of France, Switzerland and Germany. He had also developed a talent for enchanting everyone within earshot of his piano (his mother, Kate Porter, now 87, made him practice every day). At Yale he moved about socially and expensively, wrote undergraduate shows, skipped regularly into Manhattan to see the Broadway output, and often got back to the campus on a milk train...