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...down and pluck. This requires, first, a cold, sharp eye and a strong back. Beyond that, it all depends on the gardener's psychological makeup. One familiar type detests routine plucking, but he keeps alert enough en route to his car in the morning or to the backyard barbecue in the evening, and can spot, swoop and pluck without so much as a change in stride or loss of one of the 50,000 seeds. The second major type abhors garden work of all kinds, but when forced, kneels and begins working his way along the train of crab...
...simply no longer care about crab grass. It is green, after all, and it chokes out the less hardy weeds; moreover, it scarcely stands out in a well-mowed lawn. These people do not even mind that crab grass turns an unsightly brown with the first frost. At backyard cocktail parties, they move off in disdainful clusters to talk about Cuba or Kennedy's war on expense accounts while the antis exchange pointed views on calcium arsenate...
...family lives on Trifan's $9,000 a year in a modest, one-story house filled with educational devices from moon maps, Russian grammars and model dinosaur skeletons to two pianos, including one in a backyard practice cabin. Music is the Trifan passion. Pianist Marioara commutes three times weekly to Philadelphia's noted Curtis Institute, where she is the youngest student. The children practice for three hours in the morning, do school-work until 4 in the afternoon, then get one hour of play...
...Says Leontyne: "Mamma never wanted us to go barefoot like the other kids; she wanted us to amount to something." Leontyne's first memory of music is hearing her mother sing in "a lovely lyric soprano voice" as she hung out the clothes in the long, level Price backyard. Leon tyne had a doll piano when she was three, and. recalls Kate. "That child run me crazy giving me concerts." At 3½ Leon tyne took her first lessons from Mrs. Hattie Mclnnis. the town's Negro music teacher, and if Kate Price could not raise...
...stubborn case of rheumatic fever. Hospitalized for six months, he had a dictating machine set up beside his bed and kept right on working. He still takes a penicillin pill every morning to prevent a recurrence. For recreation back home in Minnesota, Heller used to go into the backyard and chop firewood for hours...