Word: porters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture has it, the U.S. Frigate Essex, on which young Lieut. Farragut (Scott Brady) served, was disguised as a pirate craft to trap the buccaneers. On board the Essex, Farragut seems to have spent as much time scrapping with hardhearted Commander David Porter (Jeff Chandler)-actually his best friend-as he did fighting the pirates. Also aboard, it appears, was a beautiful Portuguese countess (Suzan Ball) who is nowhere mentioned in maritime annals...
...Henry's Full House (20th Century-Fox) might have been entitled Quintet, for it takes its cue from the successful Somerset Maugham omnibus movies, Trio and Quartet. It is a grab bag based on five short stories from the popular, prolific pen of William Sydney Porter.*With five different sets of directors, writers and stars and with chatty narration by John Steinbeck. O. Henry's Full House is long on box-office names, sometimes short on the natty irony that O. Henry gave his trick tales of Manhattan...
...reputedly borrowed his "O. Henry" pen name from Orrin Henry, a guard at Ohio State penitentiary, where Porter served three years and three months in the '903 for embezzlement of bank funds...
Many of the freshman will participate in the reorganized porter system, tried experimentally last year. Under complete student management this time, some 80 men will spend 10 hours a week cleaning rooms and halls in seven Yard and two Graduate School dormitories. Each porter will earn about $300 for the year...
Stanley, J. Britton '53, varsity football player, will be general manager of the program, and will be assisted by seven porter captains, all chosen from last year's outstanding...