Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of wartime havoc among the prep schools was drawn last week in the new 1942-43 Handbook of Private Schools (Sargent; $6). In this 27th edition of his notably outspoken work, peppery Editor Porter Sargent reported heavy damage...
According to legend, the composers of Broadway's musical shows are one-finger pianists who can read music barely, if at all. The legend is exaggerated. If they had a mind to, composers like Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg and Jerome Kern could turn out a musical score complete from piccolo to glockenspiel. In the more leisurely days of Victor Herbert, they would have. But today, the writing of musical comedies, like the manufacture of automobiles, is a production-line job. The composer thinks up the tunes, outlines the continuity, sometimes even writes out a more or less...
...both composers of long classical training, specialize on choruses and symphonic build ups. But sometimes one of the men does an entire score. Of current Broadway shows Richard Rodgers' Oklahoma! is entirely Bennett's. Fats Waller's Early to Bed is entirely Walker's. Cole Porter generally insists on using all four. Few musical-show composers will have anyone else...
...after the plane announcement, blunt Robert Porter Patterson, War Under Secretary, told the unpretty rest. In May, production of materiel for the Army Ground Forces had declined 3½% from the output of April. Actually, it had been scheduled to rise 2%. So it was a 5½% failure in production...
...crippled and disabled. More and more of them are finding a place. In the Kaiser shipyards, for example, a paralyzed arm is no hindrance to I. L. Matthews, who walks under a crane to warn other workers to get out of the way. Deaf James Porter works as a burner in the noisy plate shop where nobody else can hear anyone speak either. Of some 5,000,000 U.S. cripples, it is estimated that 75% are employable-and of some 600,000 epileptics...