Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy Secretary Frank Knox had been there. So had Senator Styles Bridges, Louisiana's Congressman James Morrison, a major general, an archduke, industrialists, and a host of other Washington characters, known & unknown. Host of the house on R Street was one James Porter Monroe, dour, bald, and effusive. Hostess was a Mrs. Eula Smith, Alabama-born, tall, sedate, aloof...
...Retired head porter...
...Leverett B-42 KIR 2107 Pechet, M. M., Lowell B-34 KIR 2556 Peirce, F. A. '46, Dunster G-43 TRO 5865 Penlarge, V. H. '46, Lowell Q-11 TRO 6578 Petschek, M. L. '46, Adams C-25 TRO 5365 Place, D. E. '43, Adams F-3 KIR 7239 Porter, J. B. II '46, Kirkland M-42 KIR 1641 Powell, D. '46, Winthrop G-25 KIR 9754 Pratt, R. E. '46, Winthrop H-21 KIR 9754 Phelan, J. L. '46, Adams D-33 KIR 8797 Q Quisenberry, J. A. '46, Eliot L-11 ELI 0936 R Raisz...
...Murray Hill withstood all the onslaughts of time. Time & again Ben Bates turned down fabulous offers for his property. The guests stayed on until they died, one even dropping off peacefully while sitting in one of the lobby's overstuffed chairs. Occasionally the famous dropped in again: a porter recalls shining Warren Harding's shoes; Alf Landon took the Cleveland suite when he came to Manhattan in the 1936 campaign...
...Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions started from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, ended in musical vigils in Brattle Street, Brookline, Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill. Legend says one session ended in a musical salute to a Harvard president's daughter while she was in labor pains...