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Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane ...
Cole Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, Bernard Berenson, and Howard Sturges in gondola, 1923. Linda died from emphysema in 1954, aged 70, in the couple's apartment in the Waldorf Towers. She left an estate of over $1.5 million (over $17 million today) in which Cole inherited a lifetime interest. Her jewelry collection included pieces by Paul Flato. [5]
Jean Porter (1922–2018), actress; John Clinton Porter (1871–1959), former mayor of Los Angeles; Don Post (1902–1979), makeup artist; Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017), author and journalist; June Preston (1928–2022), child actress and opera singer [55] Freddie Prinze (1954–1977), actor and comedian [5] [56] Alan Purwin (1961–2015 ...
Woolley received a bachelor's degree at Yale University, where Cole Porter was an intimate friend and classmate, [4] and master's degrees from Yale and Harvard Universities. [5] He eventually became an assistant professor of English and drama coach at Yale. [6] Thornton Wilder and Stephen Vincent Benét were among his students.
The logo of Find a Grave used from 1995 to 2018 [2] Find a Grave was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City, Utah, resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of famous celebrities. [3] Tipton classified his early childhood as being a nerdy kid who had somewhat of a fascination with graves and some love for learning HTML. [4]
A Missouri man has been arrested after handing himself in over the murder of his 75-year-old father, according to police. Jeffrey Goedde, 41, arrived at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in ...
Cole Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, Bernard Berenson and Howard Sturges in a gondola, in Venice, 1923 Howard Sturges was born on December 23, 1884, in Providence , Rhode Island . [ 1 ] He was the son of Howard Okie Sturges (1845–1920), a manufacturer of cotton, [ 2 ] and Alice Spring Knight (1853–1930).
Job applicants with Jewish names or Jewish-linked prior employers were less likely to get responses for administrative assistant gigs, a troubling new study by the Anti-Defamation League Wednesday ...