Word: porters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week it developed that a good deal depended on whose morality was involved. Republican Wolverton began expounding his ethical ideas to Witness Paul Porter, chairman of the FCC during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, now counsel for a losing applicant for Miami's Channel 10. That was what canny Lawyer Porter had been waiting for. Smiling owlishly, he reached into a briefcase, produced a letter from a Congressman to the FCC requesting special action on a constituent's application for TV Channel 17 in Camden, N.J. Date of letter: March 30, 1953. Sender of letter: Representative Wolverton...
Since the recession, many dailies have been playing up Sylvia Porter's sharpwitted, clearly written daily column on economics. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has added two topical syndicated columns: "You and Your Job" and "Family Finance." A five-part recession roundup filed by the Associated Press last week was used by most papers-including many that maintain there is no recession. Though it had yet to focus on human angles of the slump in its own backyard, the encyclopedic New York Times reached across the world to report repercussions of U.S. economic pangs...
...quavered in a high, thin falsetto through My One and Only Love. His phrasing was fresh, his diction irreproachable, his dramatic sense unfailing. But it was the intimate, haunting quality of his voice that brought the audience alive. It has a kind of choirboy innocence hooked with a Cole Porter leer...
...sort of Horatio Alger story smothered in Oriental opulence, had everything except taste. There were fire-eaters, elephants and Chinese superbazaars, and special effects that must have taken all of Sponsor Du Font's chemical resources. The score - his first for TV-seemed not so much by Cole Porter as against him. Cyril Ritchard's sporadic drollery clashed with the eager droolings of the teen-ager's rage, Sal Mineo, whose Aladdin only maddened. As for Perelman, even his "native sportiveness" was lacking. He would probably have done better with one of the earthier versions he came...
...treat him. When he shyly sat down in the men's bar of the King's College student union, it took all his eloquence to persuade the union president that he did indeed have a right to be in a place reserved "for students only." Once a porter tried to bar him from an examination, gruffly told him to act his age when McNair protested that he was an undergraduate. His classmates opened and closed doors for him, insisted on calling him "sir." His professors felt they might never get used to having that grey-haired old gentleman...