Word: porters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After playing solo piano in his own arrangement of Cole Porter tunes under Fiedler's direction, the conductor of the Harvard Band picked up his own baton for a series of Harvard medleys. The modal renditions of College songs were punctuated by the popping of Crimson balloons on the tips of the violinists' bows...
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book (Verve, 2 LPs). Thirty-two sophisticated songs, sweet, hot and tough, sung with the utmost simplicity by the queen of popular singers. The Fitzgerald method, in her own words, is to "just sing," and at least half of her poignance comes from the fact that she sings right in the heart of the note (instrumentalists like to say they tune up to her notes). Strangely enough, she can breathe right in the middle of a phrase and get away with it-a nice way of suggesting that she is not so sophisticated...
...Truman party packed bags, pressed crisp new U.S. bills into the porter's hands, and prepared to motor north to Assisi, Venice and Florence, correspondents cornered him a final time on Salerno and Anzio, got him to admit: "After the fact, a man can always find a better way. The objective was won and that's what counts. I didn't come over here to criticize anybody." So saying, Harry Truman, happy tourist, climbed into his Fiat and roared toward new wonders...
...Convicted in 1898 of embezzling funds from a bank in Austin, Texas, William Sydney Porter, then 35, was sentenced to five years in prison; good behavior reduced the term to three years and three months, most of which Porter served in the pharmacy. In that time, he developed the talent that produced the works of O. Henry...
Where there's smoke there's cancer. This is true of both cigarette smoke and automobile exhaust fumes, University of Cincinnati scientists reported last week. Dr. Clarence A. Mills, of a father-daughter research team (the other member: Dr. Marjorie Mills Porter), reported that "tobacco smoking is unquestionably and significantly related to increased lung-cancer incidence" and also that "heightened lung-cancer rates in every smoking category are further sharply increased for suburban Cincinnati men traveling 12,000 miles or more a year in motor traffic...