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...glad they are to be there. Then they charge down among the first few tables and shake hands. Phillip recalls that when they were children on their father's ranch at Elko, Nev., "there wasn't much to do of a night except sit on the front porch and harmonize." They do, uncertainly, in husky voices that resemble each other too much and Bing's too little. Punching shoulders, mugging at clinkers and bouncing all the while, they work like piano movers to match their father's ease, the height of which is to move...
Spelunkers of the writer's mind will find no dark pockets in Jean Kerr's memories of her girlhood. Norman Rockwell might have painted it, showing an oversize white clapboard house with a wide front porch, through the window an upright piano, an upright father singing in his rich baritone, an energetic mother doing the spring cleaning for the second time that day, and beside the house a tall elm tree with a tall young girl high in its branches eating an apple and reading a book...
...supporting Faulknerian types who around on the front porch country store, self-styled cates with a Hemingway can be seen in person every the pages of Al Capp and Kelly. Some of the dialogue as though it was lifted from time vaudeville. For example Turk, (Angelo's sheriff) turnkey, drunk on election to do a little between themselves...
Wakened at midnight by the smell of smoke, Mary Clark Rockefeller found the stairwell of the century-old Albany Executive Mansion engulfed in flames, pounded on the door of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's adjoining bedroom, and together they crawled through the second-floor window onto a porch roof. Just as Rocky got set to leap for a clump of bushes 15 feet below, the fire department arrived, shot up a rescue ladder. After ascertaining that his wife and three servants were safe ("A miracle," beamed New York's First Lady), the Governor ducked back into his bedroom...
...aides sat interned in a lonely farmhouse. The Ford belonged to the tough 15-man guard charged with keeping Lumumba in total isolation from his countrymen. Unhappily, 13 of the 15, after a hard week, decided to turn in early, entrusting the watch to two yawning sentinels on the porch. When the time came, the prisoners simply slugged the lonely pair, and in a flash were off in the Ford...