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...Howard's Clapper out of the ruck of columnists is his knack of translating some event into sound sense on the very day that people want to hear about it. Somehow he manages to move mentally a half-step faster than the mass mind. Farmers rocking on their porch chairs in the evening, clubmen lounging beside an afternoon cocktail, come to Clapper conclusions almost exactly the day he does. With the same painful care that his daily readers were exercising, he had been trying to spell out very simply just what was the central issue in the 1940 campaign...
Slim, grey-haired Anna Moses was invited to Manhattan to see her show. But Anna Moses was too busy tending her farm, painting more pictures on her front porch at Eagle Bridge. Wrote she: "As this is Monday morning on the farm you will excuse me and my haste...
Three days before, Vice President Garner, in khaki shirt and khaki pants, had been squatting on the front porch of his home in Uvalde, Tex., telling newsmen that the only thing that interested him was four setting bantam hens and his eight-acre "patch." Two months ago, just after his Presidential aspirations had gone up in cigar smoke at the Democratic Convention, he had gone to ground in Uvalde, and there he had stayed. When he was asked about his plans, and whether he thought of returning to his duties in Washington, he replied: "Tomorrow is only a day away...
...Cover) Last week William Allen White sat on the porch of his cabin in Rocky Mountain National Park-as he has almost every summer for the last 30 years-and stared thoughtfully at the vast expanse of Longs Peak that rises in the southern distance...
...trousers, bedroom slippers he worked, read, chatted amid a continual clatter of a dozen typists (two days behind on 600 incoming wires and letters per day), incessant callers, whanging telephones (The Broadmoor had to install a special Willkie switchboard). He left his spacious suite (three rooms and a sun porch) just once a day, to swim at 6 a.m. in The Broad-moor's indoor pool...