Word: porters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of McClellan's staff, Prince de Joinville asked for no special privileges and got none. He lived a soldier's life, and his pictures reflect a soldier's-eye view of the war, e.g.. his sketch of General Andrew Porter. De Joinville was chatting with a group of officers one afternoon when he saw the general crossing the parade ground. He whipped out his pencil, captured the pomposity of the potbellied commander astride an equally pompous, arch-necked mount...
Tatum for Fancies. Such mastery of the keyboard did not come easily to Oscar Peterson. His father, a music-loving porter on the Canadian Pacific Railway, sat him on a piano stool when he was five and told him to start practicing. From then on, whenever Papa Peterson left on his railroad trips, he laid out practice schedules. If the practicing was not done on his return, Oscar "caught hell." Oscar began to get professional engagements in his mid-teens, but his father never let applause and paychecks go to his son's head: "You're not going...
Cinderella '53, with music by Cole Porter...
James J. Cairns, Jr., Robert L. Holmes, David G. McLean, William Francis Morris (Capt.), Richard C. Norris, Laurence M. Porter, Richard G. Wharton, Philip M. Williams, Donald T. Yacoshyn, Edwin H. Kolodny...
...life term as an accomplice in the holdup-slaying of a Detroit housewife. McCormick listened to Galloway's story, then for five weeks checked the facts himself. He dug up witnesses who said that at the time of the murder, Galloway was working at his job as a porter and handyman in a Detroit restaurant. An anonymous phone tip led him to another witness, who admitted he was at the scene of the murder and that Galloway was not involved. Finally, he found one man in prison and another not yet arrested whom the evidence "strongly indicated . . . may have...