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...Cincinnati, one of the ablest Roman Catholic prelates in the Midwest, took the lead in forming the Legion of Decency to boycott pictures considered immoral or obscene (TIME, June ii). One day last week the benign, grey-haired Archbishop sat in white cassock and red skullcap on the porch of his Cincinnati suburban residence. With him sat the bishops of Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Los Angeles, members of his committee running the Legion. They had said mass, conferred at length. So effective had the boycott become that two potent cinemamen, Joseph I. Breen of Hollywood and Martin Quigley of Manhattan...
...night in filling stations, farms, hot dog stands. Chesapeake Bay shipping was partially paralyzed. The Eastern Shore of Maryland lay buried under a foot of snow. The gale lashed its angry tail when it reached Washington, ripped a huge hanging lantern out of the White House porch. In northern Florida, the storm threatened to wreck the citrus fruit crop with subfreezing temperatures at Jacksonville...
Unable to attract neighbors we spent a miserable evening out on the cold porch. Finally my wife who apparently was not as ill as I managed to reach the phone and telephoned a doctor. He soon came with a supply of Methylene Blue which is a newly discovered remedy for this poisoning heretofore unremediable. He had learned of this discovery through reading TIME, and admitted this to me since I also had read of this cure (TIME...
...dies, Jeeter nabs Pearl with a view to selling her back to her husband for the rent money. Slyly claiming a mother's right, dying Ada embraces Pearl, bites Jeeter's hand. Pearl escapes to the big city of Augusta. Sorrowfully, Jeeter returns to his front porch and dozes off, the rent problem still unsolved...
...automobile, then chained it to a beam in a barn so she could never use it, that he had not spoken to her since 1927, that he smeared grease on the kitchen floor after it had been scrubbed, that he refused to buy coal in winter, sat on the porch while she chopped firewood, took the bulbs out of the radio, gave away the family vegetables, hid the food in the garage...