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Kentucky's ex-Representative Andrew Jackson May, just out of Federal prison after-serving nine months and 13 days on a bribery charge, was in a charitable mood as neighbors and friends gathered on his front porch in Prestonburg to greet him. Said he: "Although I am innocent and was made to suffer through persecution, I am not embittered...
Rosy Prospects. Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller is working on an adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, and the Theatre Guild is dickering for William Inge's Front Porch. Producers Rodgers & Hammerstein have scheduled Novelist John Steinbeck's Burning Bright, and Producer Cheryl Crawford has Tennessee (A Streetcar Named Desire) Williams' The Rose Tattoo on her schedule. By the time the season is half over, Broadway will probably be seeing Hollywood's Louis Calhern (in King Lear) and Olivia de Havilland (in Romeo and Juliet), besides such stage faithfuls...
...minor mistakes. Mary was trying to build up a sense of his inferiority in her own mind and his. It didn't work out that way. The story reaches its logical and violent conclusion with Dick Turner gone mad, Mary Turner lying murdered on the farmhouse porch, and Moses waiting for the police to come...
...around him: "I want all of you boys to get out." Dean himself stayed. One correspondent reported seeing him last in the streets of Taejon, saying with a grin: "I just got me a Red tank." Another correspondent said the general was last seen sitting, dejected, on the porch of his command post...
...South Korea jerked Washington out of the wilted weariness of a steamy summer weekend. Secretary of State Dean Acheson first heard the news by telephone at his Sandy Spring, Md. farm, promptly put through a call to Harry Truman, who was off in Independence, Mo. for a "back porch" visit...