Word: porterfield
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Frisch excels in the breastroke, but would be a slight underdog if Steve Baumgart enters for Harvard. Frisch also swims the backstroke with success. Other strong individuals for Penn are Bill Porterfield in the sprints, Peter Radmayne in the butterfly, and Bruce Morrow in the long freestyles behind Gleason...
While working on this week's cover story about Soul Singer Aretha Franklin, the members of TIME'S music staff were impressed by the fact that "soul" can be found-or its absence noted-in individuals far removed from the world of music. Cover Writer Chris Porterfield, Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum, Reporter Virginia Page and Researchers Molly Bowditch and Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov concocted their own soulful list along with a matching roster from Straight City. Their "Arbitrary Guide to Soul" runs along with the cover, and readers who detect notable omissions are invited to send in their...
While Satirist Scarfe was at work, Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum and Music Writer Christopher Porterfield were working on their own construction of the Beatles. Porterfield, who once headed his own instrumental group at Yale ('58), recalls that his idols then were such as Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker. As part of his preparation for the cover story, he listened intently to some 40 Beatle and other pop-music albums. As much as he liked the music, Porterfield found the large dosage almost benumbing. "Every three or four albums," he admitted, "I had to listen to a little Mozart...
Reporter Christopher Porterfield was the member of the team to whom Rubinstein got most accustomed. In just over three weeks, Porterfield went along to New York, Boston, Toronto, Washington, Durham (N.C.), Columbia (S.C.) and Cincinnati, questioning and listening in airplanes, taxis, concert halls and at cocktail parties. In Columbia, where Rubinstein played a sonata that he had played two nights earlier in Durham, he seemed to be testing Porterfield. Striding backstage immediately after finishing the sonata, Rubinstein asked: "Did you notice any difference between this time and the night before last?" "Yes," said Porterfield, "this time was better." Rubinstein turned...