Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only portable electric chair in the world: a new $4,000 contraption on a truck with portable generator, chair, helmet, straps and electrodes. Last week Jimmy and his driver drove their silver-painted exterminator to the Pike County jail. Just before dawn Jimmy dispatched his 14th "client" - one Sam Porter who had slashed a throat too deeply and who, as he sat in the new chair, admonished "all young people to stay away from bad company...
Something for the Boys (book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Michael Todd) gives Broadway the musicomedy it has been thirsting for since September. It reveals Songblitzer Ethel Merman at her absolute peak and Songwriter Cole Porter well above the timberline. Its book has more laughs, if no more logic, than most. It has the bright Broadway look that, despite the show's light wartime motifs, suggests the gaudier years of peace...
...Porter tunes in Something for the Boys are lively, but lack the old throbbing magic of Night and Day and Begin the Beguine. The Porter lyrics are clever, but lack the old high-style smartness of Let's Do It and You're the Top. If this means loss of power, it also suggests change of purpose: Composer Porter is gearing his tunes for Broadway productions and tailoring them for the brash Merman...
...following went to their deaths: Historian Guglielmo Ferrero; French journalist and political theorist Count Raoul de Roussy de Sales (The Making of Tomorrow); Poet William Alexander Percy, whose prose work Lanterns on the Levee was one of 1941's most substantial contributions to American letters; Poet Alan Porter; dog-lover Albert Payson Terhune; popular Novelists Rachel Field, Alice Hegan Rice, Alice Duer Miller (The White Cliffs...
Reported Dead. Josephine Carson Baker Lion (professionally: Josephine Baker), 36, rich-brown torchsinger and scorchdancer, longtime toast of the Paris stage; of a lingering illness; in Casablanca. Her mother was a washwoman in St. Louis, her father a porter. At 18, already a veteran of colored revues, she took her elaborate curves and odd distinctions-uninhibited mobility, a primitive comic sense, a fearless voice-from the U.S. to Paris, shot to quick fame at the Folies Bergère, where she danced in a costume consisting of a girdle of bananas. She became as glittery a fixture of the Paris...