Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smashing successes in two years is the record Buddy DeSylva has compiled on the musical comedy stage. First, in "Stars in Your Eyes," he had the irrepressible combination of Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante to put across some of Cole Porter's best songs. Last year Bert Lahr's contortions replaced Durante's wheezings and the resultant "DuBarry Was a Lady" was as much a hit as its predecessor. And now the Shubert stage has DeSylva's latest offering, with Miss Merman the lone star, surrounded by a cordon of well-known and capable performers drawn from the stage, screen...
Chief organizer of the Defense League has been Charles O. Porter 1L, who stated after the meeting last night his conviction that "the sooner we get into the war, the better it will be for America." His own motive in starting a Defense League at Harvard was to awaken undergraduates to the "main issue of the terrible Germans against the wonderful...
...definitely do not feel that the last war was a mistake," Porter continued. "You can't fool a whole nation." Queried as to whether the entire German nation was being fooled at the present time, he replied that the "Germans are fundamentally different...
...Porter emphasized that his own personal opinions were not necessarily those of the League, which he organized, but in which he holds no official position at the present time...
Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., '41, chairman of the Student Council, is serving as temporary chairman of the chapter. The organizing committee is composed of Richard S. Hartwell '41, Wingate Green Jr., '41, Charles O. Porter '41, Langdon Burwell '41, Seth Crocker '41, Woodrow P. Sternberg '41, John M. London '41, William C. Wigglesworth '41, and Thomas Winship...