Word: bloomerism
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...turning in slow motion. Brilliantly performed, Requiem was distinctly modern but never abrasively atonal, a somber, moving prayer celebrating man and his God. For Josephs, 39, the success of his Requiem marks him as one of Britain's most promising young composers. He is something of a late-bloomer, he says, because to support himself he had to supplement composing with his career as a dentist. A few years ago, he happily switched from molars to movies, now supports his serious music by composing sound tracks for TV and feature films. But success, he finds, takes...
...faults (and there are many), Georgy Girl will probably draw large crowds. Every girl whose mother has ever assured her that she is a "late bloomer" will love the movie, and delight in seeing a girl with no waist and no style marry well. Fortunately for Georgy Girl's distributors, our numbers are legion...
...Burpee Co.'s seed counter, pretty salesgirls showed off the new topper snapdragons, which now come in every shade from lavender to orange. Other new seeds for the season: Burpee's new two-tone Whirligig zinnias and a Yellow Nugget marigold (see color pages), a large bloomer meant to last from Memorial Day to after Labor Day. At Jackson & Perkins, people sentimentalized over last year's John F. Kennedy rose, craned to see the company's newest offerings-a red rose named Mexicana, whose petals turn to silver near the stem, and a bright new floribunda...
...politics. With the help of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who was one of Jerry's early mentors, Ford knocked off Isolationist Congressman Barney Jonk-man in the 1948 Republican primary, easily defeated his Democratic opponent in the November election. With his bride of three months, pretty ex-Model Elizabeth Bloomer, he headed for Washington...
...psychiatrist hardly expected that his report to the College Senior Tutors would catapult him into a national prominence. But he does consider himself a "late bloomer." While at Harvard, Dr. Blaine majored in English and Latin Literature, belonged to the Fly Club, and played football for Eliot House. "I didn't study that hard," he says, "but I worked hard enough to get into the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which I graduated in 1943." After time in the service and three years of general practice in Connecticut, Blaine became interested in psychiatry. He returned to Bellevue Hospital...