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...need; he's alone and sick! What would you advise Esther if you were Ma? Well, Esther went over to see Ma, and now at about half past 5 in the late afternoon we find them on Ma's front porch. Listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Life with Ma | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...screened porch in the residence of the U.S. ambassador in green and summery Ottawa, two tall, greying men stood elbow to elbow one evening last week, each intent upon the other. While cocktail-party chatter echoed in other rooms, John George Diefenbaker, the Prime Minister of Canada, talked, gestured, sipped from a glass of orange juice. John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, cradled a rye highball in his hand as he nodded, smiled, listened. Thus casually, top officials of the world's two most neighborly nations began to explore the subtle new relationship that must come about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Prairie Lawyer | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...Take You . . ." In Albuquerque, Mrs. Olymphia Griego, 57, sitting on her front porch and suddenly angered when her living room radio died in the middle of a program, stalked in to check it, found that a thief had just whisked out the back door with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...Newhouse's staid Oregonian -a comfortable, conservative newspaper that is normally inclined to sit back and rock on Portland's front porch-it was a tough and hazardous story. Judged by his police record, Racket Boss Elkins was, at best, an impeachable source. The villains in Elkins' story were not men to meddle with lightly-a Teamster organizer and ex-convict, as well as Multnomah County District Attorney William Langley and Sheriff (now Mayor) Terry Schrunk, both Teamster protégés. After listening to 70 hours of conversations between the key figures, tape-recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rover Boys Rewarded | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...serving as a seaman aboard tramp freighters. These show traces of the fogbound, soul-bedeviled yarns that Eugene O'Neill spun in his early one-acters. But what Iowa-born Author Kentfield brings to his best stories, beyond the knack for telling them well, is a front-porch vision of small-town life, talk, fears and dreams as authentic as the creak of the rocker that serves as the observation post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Front Porch Vision | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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