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After a lapse of several years, during which he did not draw at all, Thurber is drawing again (see cover). He works with chalk on black paper, preferably just at sundown on clear days. About the porch of his Connecticut home, where he has his drawing board set up, drawings are stacked along with stove wood...
...Breath of Spring. In Buckroe Beach, Va., after a contractor quoted Milo Begor a price of $300 to remove a 65-by-15-ft. porch roof and pile the lumber near by, a big wind did it free...
...porch on the Old Fort Inn overlooks the ocean, but the view was partly blocked by the fine old trees on the summer estates belonging to George A. Elliott Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Mrs. Marion Clapp Collin of Sewickley, Pa. A year ago, a hotel employee climbed the stone wall bordering the estates, cut down five tall spruces on Elliott's property, a fine twin white birch and three maples on Mrs. Collin's property. For good measure, he lopped the branches off quite a few pines and fir trees to clear the view...
Undergraduates rose in loud defense of tradition. On the evening after the announcement, some 2,000 of them, carrying torches and chanting "We want Derby Day!," marched on the residence of Yale President Whitney Griswold. Said Griswold from his front porch: "The question of Derby Day is a midget [compared with Yale's other concerns] ... I love a riot ... I loved them when I was an undergraduate ... I can yield to no one the record of smashed light bulbs . . . But I will not discuss university policy with...
...living room looks like a room a man had decorated. There is not a paper or a letter showing in the pigeonholes of the desk. Until Christmas week, one of the sights of the post was the general and 21-month old Matt Jr. standing together on their porch at dusk, stiff as ramrods, saluting the colors...