Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panama Hattie. Raw & rowdy musicomedy, with Ethel Merman and Cole Porter songs...
Conductor Paige has nothing but contempt for "sauerkraut conductors" who play a lot of foreign stuff. His band will give out Gershwin, Kern, Victor Herbert, Cole Porter, perhaps some serious U.S. music. "Blatant swing," says the League's hand-out (with the League's spelling), "and abstruse, ultra-modern cachophony will be avoided...
Unlike his colleague, "Frisky" Merriman, Professor Murdock has refused for several years to act in the annual House play. When he once played a drunken porter who drove the other characters off the stage with a blunderbuss, the audience went wild, and he modestly decided not to tempt fate with another appearance...
Administrator. Henry Stimson has during his year in office himself picked the three men who are his chief civilian aides. One of them is earnest Robert Porter Patterson, onetime overseas infantry officer and D.S.C.-man, who left the Federal appellate bench to become Under Secretary, the Secretary's right-hand man, who also handles Army buying. Another is Robert Abercrombie Lovett, wartime naval aviator, Assistant Secretary of War for Air who watches out for The Air Forces. The third is John Jay McCloy, Manhattan lawyer and A.E.F. artillery captain, who supervises Lend-Lease, Army publicity, personnel and many...
...Hopkins. No longer in Washington, or anywhere anybody could find them, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of The Air Forces' Major General Henry H. Arnold, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson. No longer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, said luncheon-table gossip in New York, was the Navy's new battleship, North Carolina...