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Good Friend Farouk. At 4 that morning, a Cadillac bearing Serag el Din drew up to the family's country estate, now completely cordoned by police. The ex-minister and real boss of the Wafdists stood on his porch, lit a stogie, then shrugged his shoulders, walked inside and went to bed. The same morning, Imam Bey's men picked up Abdel Fattah Hassan, Serag el Din's crony, and plumped him down also on a Delta estate...
When the party visited the Pennsylvania Avenue porch built by Andrew Jackson, Truman said he thought that old Jackson had put on too much porch, and he revealed that he had considered chopping some of it off. In view of the public uproar in 1948 when he added a balcony to the south portico, he said, he guessed it was a good thing he gave up the idea-the Washington newspapers would have had a hemorrhage...
Sitting on the front porch that bright October morning, Lilian Sayre wondered for the hundredth time who little Petie's daddy might be. Big, black Clara, Petie's unmarried mother and the Sayres' woman of all work, was raking leaves; her brown-skinned youngster was cleaning the bird bath. Then the truth hit Lilian like a cosmic shock: Petie's father was Lilian's own husband, Carl. Clara did not even try to deny it. Neither, later, did Carl Sayre. But though Lilian kicked Clara out that very day and burned down the backyard shack...
...RALPH D. PORCH...
...police captain, as a result of this, set the stage. Monseigner Hickey, (Msgr. Hickey presides at St. Paul's Church opposite St. Benedict's. An eminent leader in the Boston clergy, he has no connection with St. Benedict's.) our pastor, abetted them. He turned on the porch lights of the church, and waited behind the front doors...