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Writing the cover story was another Georgian, Contributing Editor B.J. (for Billie Jo) Phillips. Born in rural Hampton, she grew up in a clapboard house replete with lilac-laced trellis and front porch. Phillips recalls that trucks used to oil the dirt road in front of her house to keep the dust down and that Hampton phone numbers "were particularly easy to remember. They consisted of only two digits." At age eleven, she tried cotton picking: "I can still feel the burlap bag cutting into my shoulder." Twelve years later she dropped out of the University of Georgia to work...
...Alexis married Craig Stevens; as her career faded at the box office, his bloomed in the Nielsens. Craig's urbane TV detective series, Peter Gunn, lasted three years, and the show is still rerunning; neither of them needs to work. Still, Alexis was never successfully cast as Mrs. Front Porch. She dabbled in summer stock, took lessons in French, Italian, dancing, yoga, singing, speed reading. "Once I studied to get a realtor's license," she recalls. "If things didn't go well, I thought I could sell real estate." With legs like that? No way. Last year she began taking...
...visitor approaches Darling's house today, he is confronted by a bewildering jumble of wild colors. He walks along a cement path adorned with Oriental mountains, and climbs a porch whose walls are filled with the birds, bears and skunks of Yellowstone National Park. He passes through a Mount Fuji screen door and walks upon upside-down rugs that glow with still lifes. He sits in a leatherette armchair covered with a rushing river in an idyllic field of gold, and rests his feet upon a footstool that depicts a deep green forest. On the ceiling, he sees snake...
Bunting often projects the feeling of a warm, motherly woman, easy to talk to and understanding. She is almost always accessible to students. Before the completion of Hilles, when the Radcliffe library was in the Radcliffe Yard, across Brattle Street from her house, she would leave her porch light on at nights if she was in. The light was an open invitation to any studying students to drop in on her for coffee, donuts and talk...
...still going on, shows that those who receive federal payments to supplement their small earned incomes, and those who do not, both seek work with equal persistence. Says Dr. Harold Watts, one of the experiment's supervisors: "People simply do not take the money and sit on the porch and whittle...