He then worked as a railroad porter, a job he despised, until his grandfather's death from cancer in 1939.

In a BBC radio interview she recalled that her father was a railroad porter and her mother a school teacher.

When between performances on stage, like many performers he worked odd jobs to earn money: as a printer, barber, boxing trainer, and railroad porter.

In late 1940, when Welles made homosexual propositions to two railroad porters, the matter was initially hushed up.

Spiller moved to Southern California to try to make a living teaching, but it want enough to get by, so he worked as a railroad porter.

"He's a retired railroad porter and that tells you something about an individual automatically."

North Corona, where the houses are more modest, had a nucleus of black residents - railroad porters and dressmakers - in the early 1900's.

Unknown to his manager, sometime during the three days, Delaney threw a punch at a railroad porter.

After he retired as a railroad porter, Mr. Nixon became director of a local public housing project.

She was the 20th of 22 children of Ed Rudolph, a railroad porter, from two marriages.