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Katharsis. In Perry, N.Y., a classified ad appeared in the Perry Herald, asking nothing, offering nothing, merely complaining: "Some lousy whelp stole my snow shovel off my porch last week. Margaret Keelty, North Center Street...
Carter Glass sat carpet-slippered and ailing before a log fire on the glass-enclosed sun porch of his Lynchburg, Va., home. On Monday he had celebrated his 85th birthday.* On Wednesday a new Congress convened without him. The Senate's cantankerous grand old man was too ill to go to Washington to take what may be his last oath. The Senate adopted a rare resolution and went...
...grows palpable, until the dull, homely old house itself seems terrifying. The girl becomes convinced, by circumstantial events, that her beloved uncle is a murderer, and that he wants to murder her. By skillful transfer of emotion, Director Hitchcock loads the most commonplace things with ominous overtones. A broken porch step, a cranky garage door, the cheerful family bickering at the dinner table, a traffic cop's scolding as the girl runs across a street to the library-these become major elements in building up a crescendo of terror...
That terrible August day when dozens of people were being shot down all through Delhi and rain and blood ran half and half in the dirty gutters I came back to the Cecil at 9 o'clock emotionally exhausted. And there on the porch they all were sipping their gimlets and chota pegs-and they asked me what was happening in town and was it serious...
...lost the support of many of his friends, including some potent labor leaders and dissatisfied Democratic Party workers. But after next Jan. 1, rich Culbert Olson can go back to his stately home in Los Angeles, where his German boxer dog Tony sits glumly on the white front porch, where the sheet music for his 1938 campaign song (He's Olson) still graces his grand piano...