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...stroll with anxious expectation across the broad lawn up to the great white columns of Colonial's porch. The door swings open and you and your group (throughout Bicker, you move in a group of three or four--you are judged, accepted, and perhaps rejected collectively) are swept into the dazzling warm uproar inside. You feel the soft depth of the rug beneath your feet and can see a bright, glittering, well-groomed haze all around you. Up the grand stairway, lined with upperclassmen clapping and cheering, until you reach the top where beaming and blushing abashedly you sign your...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Quest at Princeton For the Cocktail Soul | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

Although viewers learned that civil defense is virtually nonexistent in Russia, the U.S. lag came into dramatic focus when a woman in Morris Plains, N.J. was asked what she would do in a nuclear attack. Said she: "Put all the food out on the porch"-"The last place," noted Smith, "to put food when there's danger of radiation." And Chief Reporter Alex Kendrick indicted in pictures the nation's educational deficiencies when he visited Alhambra (Calif.) High School and found students taking a snap course called "coed-cooking." Asked Kendrick of one coed-cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Call to Sacrifice | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...comforts as wide as his cotton yield: a color TV set, 40-ft. swimming pool, three Cadillacs and a Buick, an estimated worth of $4,000,000. Gazing through his tinted picture windows at his fertile land, he recalls: "Back home we used to sit on the front porch and wait for rain. We'd go to camp meetings and pray for it. Well, out here all you have to do is push a button and you get all the rain [i.e., from deepwell systems] you want. Why, with all this land and all this water, nothing can hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Harvesters | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Mamie enjoy watching birds from their porch at Gettysburg, but they don't go hiking in search of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Pell said that he was walking on Shepard St. in front of Eliot when he noticed two men scuffling on the porch of the hall. At first, Pell said, he thought nothing of it, but as he noticed more fighting, he turned around to help the night watchman. Another Harvard student also appeared on the scene to assist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Capture Exhibitionist Stripping in Radcliffe Quad | 10/30/1957 | See Source »

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