Word: porters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro seminaries. Though Lincoln has no other professional schools, its alumni account for 17% of U.S. Negro doctors and scientists and 10% of U.S. Negro lawyers. Its graduates have served in twelve state legislatures, been U.S. Ministers to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Liberia. One alumnus, ex-Pullman Porter Hildrus A. Poindexter, is a ranking authority on tropical diseases; N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall graduated in 1930; a year before, Lincoln produced Poet Langston Hughes...
Hubert E. Hocutt '57, a Thayer porter, has already identified the thief, and the police are sure they have the right person in mind...
Jack A. Hamilton '57 and Lloyd N. Harper '57, of Thayer 23, were the victims of the $200 burglary, which took place between 8:45 and 9 a.m., almost under the eyes of a student porter cleaning the room next door...
...rule. Some plays, which cost as much as $150,000 to bring to Broadway, have closed within a week because of bad reviews. When reviews are mixed, the play is on its own, but sometimes word-of-mouth and "names" can turn it into a hit such as Cole Porter...
Whether the porter service will employ students or outsiders is still uncertain. "It depends upon how many students want to be porters," Trottenberg explained...