Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police reported that a third attack occurred on Thursday night when a 27-year-old girl was attacked by a youth of the same description on Massachusetts ave., in Arlington. A similar description was also given last Wednesday by a girls raped in Porter sq., Cambridge...
Boston's pink-cheeked Porter Sargent is the Westbrook Pegler of education. He envisions himself as a kind of public conscience to the profession, and succeeds at least in being its common scold. Each year, in revising his Handbook of Private Schools, he writes a new introduction, and usually finds something different to attack. Last week, with the 31st edition of his Handbook, he took up the evils of wealth...
Adding up the payload for a single westbound flight, Pilot Stewart finds on his bill of lading: the blonde, who is a truant from her honeymoon, an escaping embezzler (Porter Hall), a G.I. and his bride, a corpse, a shipment of whitefish, some live lobsters and a cigar-smoking chimpanzee. Before the flight has ended, the passengers have jounced through a forced landing (made partly because of weather, partly to pick up a few rustic gags from amiable Farmer Percy Kilbride, who keeps the New England accent flying in darkest Oklahoma), and reached several forced decisions...
...South Carolina cotton picker, Larry Winters worked his way through Howard University as a delivery boy, elevator operator and porter. Three days before graduation, he got his first break: the role of Emperor of Haiti in a production of Negro Composer Clarence Cameron White's opera Quango. He made a hit in it, but not his fortune. Soon afterwards he took a job as a singing waiter in Manhattan's Belmont Plaza Hotel...
...print, their names had an odd, ghostly air, as if they were historical characters stepping out of a book of Roosevelt memoirs. Among them: Francis Biddle, Frank C. Walker, Dean Acheson, Thurman Arnold, Adolf Berle, Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Wayne Coy, Elmer Davis, Leon Henderson, Archibald MacLeish, Paul A. Porter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood, Aubrey Williams. A fortnight ago in Paris, U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been noticeably silent on presidential politics, took pen in hand and sent a letter to President Truman (published last week by the White House): "I am unqualifiedly...