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...them sufficiently professional to be published in Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She won a scholarship to Smith, where she made straight A's. But her feelings took their revenge. At 19, after an unhappy month in New York City, she ran home to Wellesley, Mass., crawled under the front porch, hid behind a stack of kindling, and swallowed 50 sleeping pills. Three days later she was found, alive but in ghastly condition. "They had to call and call," she wrote later, "and pick the worms off me like sticky pearls...
...Sylvia's inferno deepened, Jenny testified, she made one desperate, futile attempt to flee. She had got as far as the porch when Mrs. Baniszewski dragged her back in and beat her across the face with a curtain rod. Marie Baniszewski, 11, told of Sylvia's last day of life: "She was still alive and breathing because I went over to say hi. She tried to say hi back, but she didn't have the energy to. She waved her hand and moaned." A few days earlier, Sylvia had told Jenny: "I know...
...Keys, whom she battles for throwaway fish from incoming sloops. A cocaloony bird struts around on stage looking rather like a giant pelican with a Ph.D., and an Indian in a red, white and blue monokini war-whoops things up. The locale is "the Big Dormitory," and on the porch of this flophouse rock two marijuana-smoking harpies, a slatternly clown (Kate Reid), who runs the joint, and a local society editor (Zoe Caldwell), who seems to have escaped from a flour barrel. Miss Caldwell is an auspicious new acting presence on Broadway. But the play is a rubber-dagger...
Apart from occasional pseudo-political comments on something like Communism ("Perhaps like the measles it will always be with us") Reagan's book consists of a series of sentimental vignettes. We see Reagan as a child carrying his drunk father in off the porch, as a high school boy beating out his best friend for a girl, as a Hollywood actor on the set of countless grade "B" movies, recounting funnies about the stars...
...cancel out the rest of his 1965 appointments calendar, Dwight Eisenhower, 75, continued a steady recovery from the heart attack that struck during his golfing vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club. Out of the oxygen tent, Ike resumed a favorite hobby, painting, was wheeled out to the porch of his suite at the Fort Gordon, Ga., Army hospital and told reporters he was "fine, fine." At week's end, doctors arranged to move the patient on Monday to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital for convalescence...