Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rescued from the Eagle's Nest, by Edwin S. Porter, whose The Great Train Robbery (1903), being the first movie ever to tell a story, is one of the most important films ever made. The baby is anonymous. The eagle is stuffed. The Nature is by Richard Murphy. The Nature's Nobleman, who later rescues the baby, was played by a young actor named David Wark Griffith...
...Hayride" are Wilbur Evans to sing, June Havoc to sing and dance, and Luba Malina both to sing and to look beautiful. Of the three June Havoc stands out with her sparkling rendition of "There Must Be Someone For Me," the only standout tune in an otherwise weak Cole Porter score...
...FEPC, and the Democratic Party, are under equal pressure from Negroes. FEPC, itself, was established as the result of a Negro threat in 1941 to march, 50,-ooo strong, on Washington. The threatener: Florida-born, New York-educated A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, 54, who, though no porter himself, runs the airtight sleeping car porters union. He has been the main author of the relentless pressure on FEPC ever since. In political terms, if FEPC moves forward, it is damned by Southern Democrats; if it stands still, it receives the scorn of the Negro population-and may lose...
...Queens family gets into the picture when Link Ferris (Dick Powell), a radio-writer who has lost his genius for selling soap, crosses the East River in search of warm human materials. He stumbles upon just that in the person of Bonnie Porter (Mary Martin), a lunch-wagon waitress who sings prettily at her work. Bonnie's heart is so warm that before Link can say Yes-but-I-earn-a-thousand-a-week, she feeds him, takes him home, until his hard luck shall change...
...fought to make English literature a respect able study in a university that believed only in Latin, Greek and mathematics; of Arthur ("Waterloo") Wheeler, whose lectures on the French Revolution still kindle the memory of men who studied at Yale in the '90s; of Yale teacher-presidents from Porter to Hadley; and, finally, of Henry Canby and other younger...