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There is a spell in Japan since olden times, to drive away an unpleasant or tedious visitor. The method of this spell is to stand a broom upside down on a porch, like the picture of Mr. Baker. It is more effective to cover brooms' cheeks with a towel...
Last week he followed this routine as methodically as a toolmaker setting up a lathe. He drove his 1941 Chevrolet sedan into the garage behind his neat white six-room house at 9:30 p.m. His wife turned on the back porch light; he walked into the kitchen, took off his coat, asked about their 5½ year-old daughter Linda, and sat down to some warmed-up beef stew...
...knot Lurline, also a troopship during the war, had been stripped and rebuilt from the hull up. Manhattan's Raymond Loewy Associates had designed lanai (porch) suites with private sundecks and air-conditioned cabins that were combination living and bedrooms. First-class fare: $150, up to $850 for the lanai suites...
...poachers are lovable rogues, all the women quiver with massive bursts of laughter, all the intellectuals are wise, all the drunkards poetic. Natural eccentricity and tolerance leave no place for nasty gossip and nagging. The vicar keeps live bait in the church font and nesting-boxes over the porch ("My dear fellows," says he to his wardens, "can you think of anything less sacrilegious than a pair of spotted flycatchers...
...with Russia? "Not now, that's certain. She's not ready." What would he do before he assumed his duties as president of Columbia University? Ike laughed. His ideas were like those of General Brehon Somervell, he said: "Find a cottage with a rocking chair on the porch and sit there for six weeks or so. After that I'll begin to rock-slowly." (Actually, Ike is going to write his war memoirs...