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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Abbie Hoffman, Cole Porter, Arthur Kennedy, Bill Toomey, Jim McGovern, William Stearns Davis, Tony Hulman, Ned Harkness, Norman Cota, Dennis Shulman, Clarence Dillon, Webster Thayer, John Barrett, Charles E. Merrill, Charles Starrett, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, John Fairfield Dryden, Lou Little, Eli Thayer, Tom Holland, John Hope, John W. Mayhew, Bruno Haas, Frank Reed Horton, Ernest Martin Hopkins, Royal C. Taft, Arthur Pope, Michael Tien, Jacob Stroyer, Mark Slade, Armand LaMontagne, Hugh Joseph Gaffey, Willis Goldbeck, Ira Stoll, Alfred Henry Miller, Jack Hart, Lewis Wilson, Arthur Duffey, Doc Carroll, John Edward Sawyer, Donald Rowe, Herman Gundlach, Stanley F. Teele, Frank Rooney, Edward Jones, Walt Whittaker, Mike Malone, Nandiyavat Savastivatana. Excerpt: Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 - October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike most successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote both the lyrics and the music for his songs. After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 30s, but in 1947 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, Kiss Me, Kate. Porter's other musicals include Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady, Anything Goes and Can-Can, and his numerous hit songs include "Night and Day," "I Get a Kick out of You," "Well, Did You Evah!" and "I've Got You Under My Ski...
