Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Enthusiasm. One wartime U.S. visitor was impressed by the prevalence of sexy books in Karachi. "In one dismal hotel," he recalled, "the hall porter was reading Jurgen. The night clerk was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and the manager was reading Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. The food was bad, too, but I never found out what the chef had on his mind." A Karachi professor asked another U.S. visitor to send him Forever Amber. "I'm interested," he said, "because I have a beautiful young daughter...
...Another Pulitzer Prizewinner, JOHN P. MARQUAND, didn't believe that "a writer's apt to evolve very much after he's 40," but at 53 he was off to the marshes near Newburyport, Mass. to work on a new novel. At Santa Monica, Calif., KATHERINE ANNE PORTER had finished two-thirds of No Safe Harbor, a parable on fascism based on a diary she kept of a boat trip in 1931 from Veracruz to Bremerhaven...
Said Katherine Anne Porter: "The Hemingway 'school' has run its course. Renunciation of moral ideas, belief in violence and love and fear of death can only go so far. [Serious writers] are overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster which has taken place, to a point where it seems the individual voice doesn't matter. So many write small novels of bewildered souls trying to figure their way out. The trouble with proletarian novels is that they're written from the outside looking in. And what Freud has done! Those little case histories. Freud...
White-haired Katherine Anne Porter had her first bid from Hollywood 25 years ago; she turned it down, but changed her mind 2½ years ago, when the movies tried a third time to get her. She spent 40 weeks working on two scripts; both have now been shelved. Says she: "I'll never do it again. The movies are no good for me. What I hate most is the misuse of the medium, and there's no use putting the blame on the twelve-year-old intelligence of the public. Rather it is the utter ignorance...
Died. William Boardman Porter, 81, for 35 years skipper of the late J. P. Morgan's fabulous yachts, Corsair III and Corsair IV, a job that made him one of the world's best paid sea captains; in Fort Lauderdale...