Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Russell W. Porter, 77, famed optics expert and amateur astronomer, longtime (since 1928) art associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
Most enterprising campaign manager was Dunbar Rapier, a Negro third-year premedical student, whose candidate was Beryl Dickinson-Dash, 21-year-old daughter of a Montreal railway porter. Rapier posed Beryl before the snow sculpture decorating the campus for carnival week, then tacked the photographs all over the campus. He persuaded Montreal radio shows to get in a word for his candidate...
...ever recovers, he will be tried for treason), won the Bollingen Prize of $1,000 for The Pisan Cantos (TIME, Oct. 25), "the highest achievement of American poetry" in 1948. The election committee, which includes Conrad Alken, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell and Katherine Anne Porter, "aware that objections may be made," explained their choice: "To permit other considerations than that of poetic achievement to sway the decision, would destroy the significance of the award, and would, in principle, deny the validity of that objective perception of value on which any civilized society must rest...
Lisa Kirk, who stops the Broadway hit, Kiss Me, Kate, every time she sings Always True to You in My Fashion, was deeply impressed by the famed calm of Composer Cole Porter: "A composer's work must be like a baby to him. Giving it to a singer must be like leaving it with a sitter. You'd think Mr. Porter would be on edge about it, but," she marveled, "he won't [even] quarrel with you about the baby's diet...
...amused to read your moralistic envoi to the Carnegie-Kahn way of living, in the same issue that described, with evident relish, the Byzantine extravagance of Cole Porter's semiprivate life. Mr. Porter seems to have survived very nicely those "five presidential elections" in which, as you assume, the American public dictated simpler domestic habits for its great...