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...Back-Porch Chemistry. The son of a Hollywood production manager, young Jerry Hines took singing lessons, but spent most of his spare time puttering with a chemistry lab on his back porch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Basso's Problem | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...that she is no mere monologist or diseuse; she describes herself as a character actress. In any case, she is with every slightest word, gesture and accent the character she is portraying. And with amazing, quick changes, she can be a featherbrained society woman, a bewildered immigrant, a spare, porch-sitting down-easter, a whole international procession of visitors to an Italian church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Little Genius | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...they still call me a dictator?" President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza mused one day last week, as he chatted with a visitor on the plank porch of his Tamarindo ranch house. "Our jails are empty of political prisoners. Our press is as free as a bird. The newspapers attack me all the time. I let them. They can call me anything but an s.o.b." The President laughed: "I won't stand for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Mellow Mood | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...holes, he was off his usual game (middle 80s), and shooting in the 90s. Then the President settled down in "the Eisenhower Cabin," as the Augusta National Golf Club officially calls the $75,000, seven-room house it built for Ike. The "cabin," styled with a white-columned front porch and a steep slate roof with dormer windows, perches on a ridge by a pine grove between the clubhouse and the row of smaller cabins used by other members. Among the interior decorations: a set of 18 photographs showing previous homes occupied by the Dwight Eisenhowers; a painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cabin by the Pines | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Apathetic Radcliffe goes Middle-Western this evening with a great big spirited song fest on the porch of Cabot Hall. The raucous noises start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Dormitories to Hold Raucous Sing-'em-up on Quad | 11/19/1953 | See Source »

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