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...Marlene Dietrich and Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). Testimonials in favor of love from a globetrotter and a stay-at-home. World-wise Marlene says, "It's delicious in Rome, it's delightful in Nome," while the more rustic Rosemary finds "It still fills the bill on the back porch at home...
...lead and the life led by the men and boys who are fighting our fight in Korea . . . You talk in terms that hundreds of thousands can understand ... as if you are talking to your friends at a bar or in a drugstore . . or during a visit on a front porch...
...National Film Board is supplying the theater with documentaries about Canada's modern cities and its showier tourist places (e.g., Banff, Lake Louise, Niagara Falls), all frankly calculated to reassure travelers that the inside of Canada's house is not so forbidding as its bleak front porch...
...biped, creates or modifies his environment by the energy he brings to it; it is the house's function to sluice the biped's energy into its appropriate social, sexual, digestive or somnolent modes. In the Fuller terminology, an automobile is a migratory glassed-in front porch; an airplane is a powerized, high-speed room. "Bucky thinks the individual should be able to exist by just plugging himself into the landscape," a friend said recently...
When John David Provoo was six years old, he fell from the second-story porch of his home near San Francisco and fractured his skull on a concrete courtyard. The injury may or may not have permanently affected his brain, but for most of his life he has acted like an exceedingly odd duck. When he was eleven, he became a devotee of Buddhism; later, a Buddhist priest taught young Provoo to read, write and speak Japanese. In 1940 he went to Japan to learn more about Buddhism, lived in a Buddhist monastery near Tokyo. Back...