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Officers. After dinner officers are nominally free, though many work some evenings. They wander from the long, polished-floored, white-walled dining hall to the glassed-in porch furnished with comfortable wicker chairs and tables with magazines, and they read or write, play with a bulldog puppy named Winston Churchill or go out on the stone porch to play ping-pong with WAAFs. Some stroll out on the thick, ruglike lawn and bang croquet balls inexpertly through wickets, using golf terms because they do not know croquet nomenclature. Officers are flooded with local invitations. Many country Britons write, mentioning lovely...
...more business before July 4 than it had done all last year. New Orleans matrons, hard put to find servants, laughed last week at the story of a housewife who went to the Negro slums to look for a cook. She asked two Negro women sitting on a rickety porch if they knew of one, was told: "No. ma'am; we're looking for one ourselves...
...area in Syracuse's southwest corner, had been heavily bombed. Boy Scouts were designated as wounded persons; each wore a card listing specific injuries. Ladies of the motor corps of Syracuse's Red Cross chapter bustled around, read the cards, applied appropriate first aid. From one front porch came blood-curdling screams and moans, persisting for a flat 30 seconds. Interested spectators noted that the Boy Scout who sirened these yells then retired to the back of the porch, consulted two fellow Scouts over a wristwatch. At regular five-minute intervals he returned to the porch railing...
...charge is the protection of the building and its valuables. In the daytime it is a fairly simple matter with all exits carefully watched and all galleries patroled. At night Rex of Gainwell takes over this responsibility. This eight-year-old German shepherd leaves his house on the back porch each evening to make the rounds with the night watchman, as did his father before...
Skirting the center of the fire he brought five Chinese soldiers to a makeshift hospital. There, in a palm-treed courtyard on an open, unroofed stone porch, I saw a muscular white man, stripped to the waist, making swift jabs with a surgeon's knife in a struggling Chinese soldier's arm. Three Burmese 90-lb. nurses were holding down the soldier. Gas lamps strung on wires provided the only light. In the background the crackling of the fire could be heard...