Word: porters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Look Back in Anger (Woodfall, Warner), when it opened on the London stage three years ago, became a sort of Uncle Tom's Diggings, fanning a flame and suggesting a name for the new literary group that was soon known as the Angry Young Men. Its hero, Jimmy Porter, bellowed rage at religion, the Sunday Times, and his mother-in-law, a woman, he rasped, who was as "rough as a night in a Bombay brothel...
...past." He has captured his wife Alison (Mary Ure) from the enemy above. With her and his business partner (excellently played by Gary Raymond), he lives in an attic in a Midlands town so bleak that it seems to smell of soft coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter runs a sweets stall in the marketplace, when he is not thundering harangues against Alison and her upper-middle-class family and friends. His wife loves him despite his ambition to "stand up in your tears, splash about in them and sing." But finally she has had enough and goes...
Even wily Proxy Fighter Alfons Landa, executive committee chairman of Fairbanks Whitney Corp., who helped Evans gain his place on the Crane board, was taken aback by Evans' maneuvers, questioned whether he was housecleaning too fast and hard. But Evans, who built Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co. from a money-losing locomotive manufacturer to a twelve-division, $137 million industrial combine, would hear none of it. Shuffling between his Greenwich, Conn, home and several cities, he worked harder and more ruthlessly to increase profits for Crane and solidify his power. Evans shifted about Crane's operations...
Died. Mrs. William Sydney Porter, 91, widow of O. Henry, and herself a short story writer (the Bijie series), who drew on the dialect of the North Carolina mountains, where at 13 she first met O. Henry and where she returned at his death in 1910 after only three years of marriage; in Weaverville...
...Captioned "Little Roosevelt! ! !-The Grand Old Party Must Be Hard-Up!," the 1884 cartoon by Joseph Keppler shows Republican Bigwigs Frank Hiscock, Chauncey Depew, Horace Porter. Henry Cabot Lodge and Stephen B. Elkins gathered clockwise around Theodore Roosevelt and dressing him in the armor of party leadership...