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...Waldorf suite is fastidiously neat. His valet has to be meticulous about keeping familiar things in familiar places: cigarettes, cough drops, bric-a-brac, Kleenex, sharpened pencils. When Porter travels, even his own ashtrays go with him, and he likes them kept so neat that at parties a servant cleans them up almost before a guest can crunch a cigarette out. When Porter went to Philadelphia for Kate's 3½-week tryout, he took along five paintings, including a large Grandma Moses snowscape, to make his hotel suite homelike...
...friends could say in his favor that he had also proved himself an honest and able public servant, with a quick, retentive mind, inexhaustible vigor, and considerable political courage. His point of view, born of the Dust Bowl, was honestly arrived at and stoutly held...
Mazo lives with her longtime friend, small, blond Caroline Clement. In the early '20s, before the Jalna series started, Caroline (whom Mazo calls "sister") was an Ontario civil servant. Her earnings helped tide Mazo over the years when her first three novels made no money...
...Public Servant. Duggan had been in ill health. The family said that he was overworked, had once suffered from ulcers, and still had a weak stomach; he sometimes felt nausea and the need for fresh air. Furthermore, he had not yet fully recovered from a delicate operation for the removal of a spinal disc performed last fall...
...open record, Duggan's career in the State Department was that of a hardworking, conscientious public servant. He had been Under Secretary Welles's lieutenant in plugging for the Good Neighbor policy in Latin America...