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...ignore "the back rooms and gutters." Resolutely sticking to his conviction that Skid Row makes the choicest book fodder, Chicago Slum Runner Algren heartily stabbed at two contemporary upper-middle-class protagonists: "If Marjorie Morningstar and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit were being married on my front porch at high noon, I wouldn't go to the wedding...
...mark the kid"). But Robin went right on playing. When he couldn't talk one of his three brothers into playing catch, he would prop an old mattress against the garage door and fire away for hours at a hole in the middle. All the while, the braying porch radio kept him up to date on Chicago Cubs ball games. "If people knew what I thought about pitching," says Roberts now, "they'd think I was nuts. They make it so complicated. They're always saying I studied control from the time I was a little...
...frequent special functions of the Signet Society. Aside from the Signet and the daily round of ministerial activity, he finds a great deal of diversion in the traditional clerical sport of fishing. Lately, however, his favorite amusement has come to be the weekly ritual of rocking on the front porch of his Groton home, every Saturday afternoon...
Student Counsel. In Pasadena, City College Freshman Edward Mulrooney was arrested after he tossed a bomb at his psychology teacher's house, damaged the front porch, left a note: "If you don't want your home bombed or your windows shot out, then grade fairly and put your assignments on the board-or is this asking too much...
...representatives. In 1932, when Bilbo left office under a cloud of financial troubles, Eastland also got out of politics and began to practice law. The same year he married attractive Elizabeth Coleman, daughter of a Delta doctor. Says Libby: "We got engaged in a swing on the front porch, naturally. How else is it done in the South...