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...delegation of turkey growers presented him with two turkeys for his Christmas dinner in Independence this week. When they uncrated the big, bronze, 40-lb. Minnesota bird and the bred-down ("apartment size") 14-lb. white Beltsville turkey on his office porch, a photographer asked the President to chuck one under the chin. He did-and the white turkey got flapping mad. "That's one tom that got into the White House," beamed a bystander, "and he's a turkey." The President grinned...
...Buren's high living ("Van, Van is a used-up man"), Al Smith's Catholicism, and Buchanan's bachelorhood ("Who ever heard in all his life, of a candidate without a wife?"). They have been won by a McKinley, sitting quietly on the front porch of his Canton, Ohio home; and lost by a Bryan, carrying his crusade 18,000 miles through 29 states. They have caused the death of at least one candidate: famed Editor Horace Greeley, who died three weeks after his defeat by President U.S. Grant...
...that her daughters attend a public school, once instructed the headmistress not to "tell stories about fairy princesses or any stuff like that." The children have the Orange matter-of-factness. Recently, vacationing, Princess Beatrix grew impatient with a crowd of gaping local children. She presented herself on the porch of her parents' house. "This is how I look in front," she said, and turned. "This is how I look in back. Now go away and leave me alone...
...newspaper in Alliance for $2 a week, was making $10,000 a year when they had a falling-out over R.C.'s labor-baiting views. Then R.C. published an anti-union paper in industrial Mansfield, Ohio, sold out (for a profit) after enemies blew up his front porch...
Conversion by Mail. One of the experts quoted is the famed mail-order priest, Father Lester J. Fallon, whose correspondence courses of instruction in the Roman Catholic faith signed up 38,000 servicemen during the war. Father Fallon, who calls his technique "Getting Them Up on the Rectory Porch," points out that many a potential convert is embarrassed at approaching a priest, and would rather read about Catholicism at home before ringing the rectory doorbell. Paid advertising in newspapers and magazines is the best method of reaching such prospects, says Father Fallon...