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Million-Dollar Blossom. Manhattan's Macy's, pushing a 90th anniversary sale, had a $1,000,000 day for the first time in any spring season (its daily sales have topped a million 37 other times, during the Christmas rush). But retail trade generally, reported Dun & Bradstreet, suffered a post-Easter drop of 3% to 7% from the same period last year...
...Blossom & Shadow. Author Moore allows that Brensham village has its troubles. When the frost strikes the blossoms of its innumerable orchards, the village goes half-penniless the remainder of the year. When rich Londoners buy up and "develop" the mad lord's crazy, romantic acres, poachers and gypsies foresee the doom of carefree living, and the black shadow of standardized modern life falls across Brensham's thatched roofs. But such events are like wars and earthquakes -huge blows of fate under which a man must either collapse or grin and buckle his belt. And the men of Brensham...
Long believed extinct, a tree that thrived one hundred million years ago will again blossom this year at the Arnold Arboretum...
...motions of living and flying with a sick savagery that made others think he was "around the bend." Then the Senior M.O. had taken him on an outing to a Burmese village. There he had met a pale girl of great beauty who spoke English and wore a blossom in her hair...
...latest flower to blossom in Harvard's literary hothouse is more closely related to the political pamphlet than to the literary magazine. Harvard should have at least one frankly political publication. There is talent to spare to put it out, and there is an open field for such a magazine. But in order to satisfy the need of the College community, the magazine should analyze, marshall, and present the arguments for various political beliefs before it reaches its conclusions. It may and should be partisan; but it should explain the reasons for its stand if it expects to carry...