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NONFICTION: The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, edited by Robert Kimball ∙Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, Joseph Frank E.B. White: A Biography, Scott Elledge ∙Tales from the Secret Annex, Anne Frank ∙Traveling Light, Bill Barich ∙The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer, Jackson J. Benson...
...nightclub owner better known to generations of café society on two continents as Bricktop; in New York City. Born in West Virginia to a black father and a mother who was part Irish, part black, freckle-faced Bricktop began her career in Harlem, then moved to Paris. Cole Porter wrote Miss Otis Regrets for her. John Steinbeck sent a taxiful of roses to apologize for getting drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place Pigalle boite. In the '40s and '50s she ran clubs in Mexico City...
Associate Professor of Business Administrators Michal E. Porter, who has worked closely with Spence for a number of years on academic and administrative projects, called his appointment an imaginative one which will be respected in the College and in the graduate schools, especially the Business school, where he who hold here on Crand Professor of Economics and Business Administration...
...have some mixed feelings about this appointment however," Porter added. "I think there are other people around who could be the dean, but I'm not sure there are other people who could do the kind of research Mike does...
...have his right leg amputated/Coward, in precarious health, saw his last shows fail. He became a melodic antiques dealer, incongruously parading his elegant wares in Las Vegas. None of this misfortune appeared to affect the victims; to the public, each man presented a sophisticated shrug. Porter's attitude seemed encapsulated in a verse: "It was great fun,/ But it was just one of those things." Coward sang, "I believe that since my life began/ The most I've had is just/ A talent to amuse...