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...discovery came by accident on a clear night after Krienke joined his fellow amateur on the Macfarlane back porch...
...success. Ted Shawn heaved a sigh of relief; his importation of the troupe represented a personal risk of some $10,000. But the acknowledged dean of U.S. dancing has been taking risks all his life. One night last week he leaned back in an old rocker on his farmhouse porch, poured himself a tall brandy and soda, and reminisced about...
...flotilla crossed the midstream boundary line into Canada, Victoria householders turned on their porch lights as beacons. By 110'clock Thomas was safely past Race Rocks, usually a tidal trap but now beneficently calm. At 1 o'clock he shouted: "It sure is cold." A few minutes later: "How'm I doin'? I want the truth now." Replied a voice from the King Bacardi: "You've caught 1½ miles in the last 20 minutes." A little later Thomas called out: "You fellas got nothing to worry about. Sit back and relax...
...Alice Robinson, 73, onetime art teacher at Ohio State, made a terrifying discovery in her later years: "I found I had lost interest in art. After retiring, my life came to consist of just going to church and rocking in a chair on the front porch." At Cold Spring she discovered a new talent: writing TV scripts. But more important, says she, "they have taught us to laugh here. I had forgotten how to laugh...
Across the Wheat. Blackwell (pop. 10,000) felt uneasy beforehand. "You kind of kept wondering what it was you were worried or unhappy about," explained one resident. At 9:23 p.m. Pearl Joyce Peckham was standing on her front porch while a boy friend picked up hailstones rattling down from the dark sky. "The next thing I knew," she related, "he ran and grabbed me and said, 'My God, it's a tornado.' and there it was, right on top of us. It was dark, but this thing was much darker than the night. We ran into...