Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frederick Porter ("the Weasel") Wensley, 84, beak-nosed master sleuth, onetime head of Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...
...marriage of Porter and Katherine Moresby was obviously a flop and their North African jaunt was bringing out the worst in it. In the little Arab town of Bou Noura, they lay on a hotel bed fully clothed, getting drunk on a bottle of Scotch. A mosquito netting kept off the vicious flies, and as they talked, the star-studded African twilight fell and native drums kept up an insistent rhythm. Being wealthy and intense young New York intellectuals, Kit and Port Moresby glibly fell into lingo so appropriate that Noel Coward might have written...
Varsity C--Bandall (H) defeated Porter (UBC), 15-10, 15-12 11-15, 10-15, 15-11; Purvis (H) defeated Mason (UBC), 15-14, Bicell (UBC), 15-16, 17-15, 15-12, 13-15, 15-11; Roose (H) defeated Groden (UBC), 18-17, 15-8, 10-15, 15-12; Doermann (H) defeated Sawer...
Adam's Rib is acted as though the players found it funny, but actually, like many "sophisticated" movie comedies, it is more absurd than comical. Its chief asset: a high-toned song called Farewell, Amanda, with dismal lyrics which Cole Porter must have written while waiting...
...DAVE PORTER...