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...Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan, corrects this supposed error. As architecture, it is totally undistinguished. But on the street floor, Kaufman's exuberance shines. The sidewalk is a brick path that winds through trees and canopied seating areas, and leads up to the building entrance, a wooden front porch. "It's an event for people," Kaufman says, "a return to the human scale...
...conduct "unworthy of an American mother" but journeyed to Hyde Park personally to make peace when he realized that his fulminations were helping opposition to Catholic political candidates. Mrs. Roosevelt recorded the scene in a typical, ineffable column: "Miss Thompson came and said: 'Cardinal Spellman is on the porch!' We had a pleasant chat and I hope the country proved as much of a tonic for him as it always...
...Boylston St., on an alley off from the sidewalk, its stucco rooms are warm in winter and air conditioned in summer. Behind the building is an awninged porch for summer eating which looks out onto a green backyard. The back porch is also the back stoop of the kitchen, and as the kitchen gets hot in summer, the sound of Iberian invective leaping from the frying pan into the fire authenticates the atmosphere...
...Said Elliott: "I don't think I'll take it today." He indicated that he might accept 5% of the ransom money, "but 10% would be better." The bewildered Bodwell returned to consult his superiors, leaving Elliott to sit a spell on his back porch. And if the offer is not renewed? Says Elliott: "Well, I guess I'm out of luck then...
Roofing Contractor John Conforti had just finished dinner when the bell rang at his $65,000 split-level home in Massapequa, L.I. There on the porch stood two agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs with a warrant to search for $4,000,000 in profits from the sale of heroin. Would he surrender the money? Conforti said he didn't know anything about it. The two then summoned some 20 more agents waiting near by, armed with sledgehammers, crowbars and other wrecking equipment...