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Franklin Pierce (F.P.A.) Adams, odds-&-ends expert on radio's Information Please, learned that a bill had been introduced in the Connecticut legislature for the appointment of a poet laureate, promptly declared himself a candidate. He said he "favored a front-porch campaign...
When the mayor of Carvell City drove up, Cancy Dodd was sprawled on his broken-down porch staring glumly at his scrubby farmland and thinking about his hidden still and the two men he had once killed "in self-defense." Cancy was Carvell City's toughest Negro-hater. But his eyes popped when His Honor boomed: "We're looking for a new marshal. . . . Somebody who'll keep the niggers in their place." "When do you want me?" said Cancy...
...Roosevelt Administration enters its fourth term this week, Hopkins is, more than ever, the President's right arm. But he may miss the cozy, back-porch Term IV inauguration. Washington reports last week had him going to London, to straighten out in advance with Winston Churchill the agenda for the upcoming Big Three meeting...
Kudzu is an old Japanese plant, grown in the Orient for its edible tubers (roots) and hemp-like fiber. In the U.S., where it was first grown in 1895, it has been known chiefly as a fast-growing porch vine. But southern farmers now cultivate it as a field plant to cover eroding soil. Planted from "crowns" (roots and buds), it spreads quickly, putting down new roots like strawberry runners. Its big leaves, shed each fall, eventually cover the ground with a thick, flaky carpet like a forest floor. Because it may be winterkilled by hard frosts...
...President was wheeled out on the porch by Valet Arthur Prettyman. Mr. Roosevelt remarked playfully that on the basis of partial returns it appeared that returns were partial to Hyde Park. In high good humor, grinning at the battery of photographers, he noted several children in the branches of one of the trees, and recalled how he had climbed the very same tree as a child to escape discipline. From that tree, he said, he saw his first torchlight parade from the village, at the time of Cleveland's election in 1892. "I got out of bed to come...