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...cities, Congressmen slipped back almost unnoticed. Boston newspapers all but ignored Majority Leader John McCormack, who hurried up to the White Mountains, and Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin, who sat, fully dressed in tie and coat as always, in a rocker on the porch of his Cape Cod cottage. But in the small towns their Congressman's return was news; interviews, picnics, speeches, delegations...
...ancient rambling building was built by Henry Clark Warren '79, for his home. Warren, crippled at the age of three, was never able to stand erect and even had a seat in his Warren House bathtub. He was interested in Chinese architecture and pottery and built one porch of Warren as a Chinese pagoda. In his day he was one of the outstanding Sanskrit authorities of the nation, and the department of Indic Philology has made use of the many manuscripts in the house...
...matter of architecture Warren is most unusual. A common 18th century American front hides most of the glory that lies inside. Even the Chinese pagoda porch is masked so that the causal view of the outside does not reveal...
...farmer, harvest is a time of rejoicing and backbreaking work. Well before sunup the Liebers were out in the barn, snapping the stanchions on their Holsteins, switching on the 20-year-old milking machine. They paused briefly for a hearty farm breakfast on the cool screened porch. Then the Liebers went out to the oat fields, father on the tractor, 14-year-old Wayne on the binder. They tussled with the Mexican fireweed that had got into the oats, stopped to oil the binder, took a swig from the canvas water jug, worked...
...picnic had everything. Two mixed softball games, badminton, tennis matches, singing, and just sitting around on the porch and giving with "scuttlebutt." The boys and girls had supper, too, served by the Radcliffe's dining service, with coats split fifty-fifty...