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...stopped wide-eyed for a moment and looked incredulously at her. Then he seemed to catch his breath, and he began walking again, very rapidly, in a very straight line, head diving for shelter beween his shoulders. She shut her book efficiently and strode to the porch of the shack, taking its three steps in a single jump. She knocked...
...made a note in her book, extended her hand, and bounced from the porch, her face reflecting a controlled, anticipated satisfaction. A car full of whites passed. Necks crained. The driver turned around just in time to watch his car clatter noisily in and out of a shallow ditch...
...earnest of good intentions, the producers sent a location unit to Tennessee, and exteriors for the movie were filmed at Agee's boyhood haunts in and around Knoxville. They look fine. The Agee home was soon to be razed, so its back porch was salvaged for one sequence, and its furnishings were shipped East to lend authenticity to interior scenes. Trouble is, the author's durable patchwork of memories cannot be packed and crated, nor can intimations of every man's mortality be reduced to a broad hint that something is going to happen to Dad. Director...
...Friday evening, when Choate graduate Arklay F. King '67 and his Hotchkiss-bred room-mate George D. Kappus '67 arrived with blankets, pillows, and an umbrella to take the first two places on line. At 10:15 two more young men arrived to take their places on the porch of Burr Hall. King reported that the first ten people on line were all from prep schools, and that seven of them came from St. Marks...
...over twenty Harvard men armed with transistor radios, soda pop, peanut butter and rum were huddled on the porch. They had had visits from the police ("Just like lining up for theatre tickets, huh?"), eight town girls ("What're you guys doing up there?"), four young men from Cambridge in a car who threw eggs, and two freshman, deans. The students started a list of arrivees which was used as a guide by section men in the morning...