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...National Airport, the doughty President was so moved by his warm reception that he threw away his prepared speech and spoke extemporaneously for 20 minutes, throwing his schedule out of kilter and forcing Host Dwight Eisenhower to wait and sweat in the sweltering heat on the White House porch. Rhee's words of greeting at the airport were characteristically blunt: "If we only had a little more courage, we could have reached the Yalu . . . But some people had a little cold feet and we could not do what we were ready...
...state of James W. Lowry, 45, of Cleveland, purchasing agent for Republic Steel Corp. Over the years, he has built his daughter a wood-paneled game room, installed a new furnace in his home, made Venetian blinds for all the windows, laid a concrete drive, screened in the front porch, made a suite of bedroom furniture and slipcovers for chairs, built a snowplow, and rigged a darkroom for his other hobby, photography. Says Lowry, in the independent voice of all his breed: "I don't believe I'd know a plumber, electrician or carpenter...
...back here [i.e., London] from California." Harry Truman, after 19 days in the Kansas City Hospital, where he had survived a major operation and a dangerous infection (TIME. June 28 et seq.), checked out at 5:30 one morning, drove home to a quiet breakfast on the screened porch...
...died in the big house for 100 years. Then about 1800 Priscilla Shallcross married Samuel Roberts at Abington Meeting House, and the house and its surrounding acres were passed on to their descendants. The Roberts tribe enlarged the place until it boasted 19 rooms and a 110-ft. porch, and they, in turn, tilled the farm for 120 years...
Themselves dealing with a patchwork of old legends, Latouche and Moross have yet contrived something attractively individual. The Golden Apple is much less satire meant to strike home than a front-porch-and-parlor version of Homer. The local Venus wins the golden apple in a pie-baking contest. The face that launched a thousand ships now sets perhaps a thousand tongues awagging. Scylla and Charybdis are a slick pair of brokers. The famed vanished song the sirens sang turns out to have...