Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's most unlikely conqueror turned out to be a softspoken, 37-year-old NBC newscaster named Roy Porter...
What makes a musical a success perhaps more than anything else but the songs themselves are the little touches of humor and sentiment that characterized "Oklahoma!" "Memphis Bound" has them--all the way from the scene where Sir Joseph Porter sails onto the stage preceded by three boats marked "Sisters, Cousins, Aunts" to the situation which finds three Andrews-like sisters playing Josephine all at once because they are an inseparable team...
...lyric writer, Hammerstein has never equaled Lorenz Hart for inventiveness or Cole Porter for sophistication. But he is always serviceable, often scintillating. He gets more meaning, character and humanity into his book-writing than most of his rivals. One reason may be that many of his librettos were discerningly adapted from fairly full-blooded material. Another likely reason: Hammerstein lacks the typical Tin Pan Alley taste and the blatantly Broadway mind. He is ruefully conscious that the librettist is the whipping boy of musicomedy, the first to be blamed for a failure, the last to get credit for a success...
...Donald Porter Geddes (who is as large as the Walrus but resembles the Carpenter), editor of 25? Pocket Books, got the idea while listening to the radio the Thursday the President died. By the weekend his staff had rounded up, whipped into shape and sent to the printers the scripts of radio broadcasts, newspaper obituaries, selections from Roosevelt speeches, appropriate verse (including a made-to-radio-order poem by Carl Carmer and an old one by the late Stephen Vincent Benet), a hurriedly updated appraisal of Roosevelt by Historian Henry Steele Commager. As an enterprising stunt (print order...
Promptly, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Paul A. Porter dubbed the plan unworkable, "a limited marriage between government and private business." But, he told the committee, the FCC itself does favor one big communications company, wholly owned and operated either by private interests or the government. The FCC has no company in mind...