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...Gave Vice President John Garner† a good excuse for conducting a front-porch Presidential campaign in 1940. Senate members of the Two Hours For Lunch Club presented him with a shiny new wicker rocking chair...
Forty-three ounces of gray-streaked pigeon flesh flapped into the Union dining hall sun porch at 5:51 o'clock last night, terrifying dozens of Yardlings, who had been peacefully drinking their cream of spinach soup...
Zooming mysteriously from under a table in the main salon, the bird cooed ceiling-ward into the porch amid hysteric screams from several waitresses and roars of glee from the students. Apparently frightened by the cries of the napkin-bedecked eaters, the creature flapped helplessly about the ceiling...
...Harvard senior, one of those rare personages who occasionally turn up to confound the "how many steps are there on your front porch see you don't know although you climb them every day" dictum of modern psychologists, recently sat in his room, desperately put to pass the time between 1:45 o'clock and 1:55 o'clock when he could amble off to a class. Idly he eyed the cover of the October 1 Saturday Evening Post, which depicted a night football game; and idly he began to count the yard-lines on the grid-iron there displayed...
...intellectual Oscar Johnston, resident president of Delta and Pine Land Co., operators of the biggest U. S. cotton plantation. He looked in on a historic, 100-year-old brothel in Vicksburg, and talked with an educated Negro who told him that white folks, when they were sitting on the porch, complained that Negroes were lazy. He heard of a white man who had killed 14 Negroes and never been arrested, met one white man who bragged of his cruelty towards them. He also decided that there was justice in the boast of Tupelo, Miss.: "the only place in the South...