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...heart attack. Sportsman Grey kept a swivel, deep-sea fishing chair on the upstairs porch of his Altadena, Calif, home. His daily practice with a weighted rod proved too great a strain on his heart...
...thing, the back of the hall was jammed with photographers whose cameras produced incessant clacking and whirring sounds. For another, the Secretary was no more inspiring than a wary cat on a high front porch. When he spoke he came to grips with an insurmountable problem: a cat, addressing dogs, does not dare speak like a dog for fear he will be accused of imitating an Airedale, and dare not speak like a cat for fear of annihilation. There is only one recourse-a dry, neutral marsh-bird tone...
...when it was dug up by a bulldozer a Hamilton, New York, after it had disappeared from Syracuse University. Frank Still, who was driving the bulldozer, took the bust to the home of Edgar J. Snitcher, on whose property he was working, and left it on Snitchler's front porch...
Before Snitchler could track down the origin of the statue further, it was stolen from his front porch on Thursday night...
...response was electric. Across the city (pop. 274,000) some 27,000 front porches glowed as the collectors bore down with envelopes at the ready. Noncontributors, conspicuous in their darkness, stood exposed before the neighborhood. An occasional householder edged outside to see what everyone else was doing, ducked back in to light up. But far more families went to great pains to be counted. At the Ralph Zeluf home, for example, collectors found a mechanic's work light nailed to the wall because there was no porch light. The Zelufs' daughter had lost a leg to cancer. Eight...