Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farmer's wife who thumbs the familiar Sears, Roebuck catalogue in quest of ginghams and gadgets is in for a surprise. Its pages will soon blossom with art, abstract and otherwise. Hired to gather original paintings, etchings, drawings and sculptures in the U.S. and abroad was Cinemactor Vincent Price, 51, epicure, art collector and ex-champ (in the art category) of TV's $64,000 Challenge. Yaleman ('33) Price will shop for items priced mostly under $100. and Sears will feature them in its 1,500-page catalogue. The venture, conceded one Searsman, is "highly exploratory...
Rites of Spring. Flower shows are an annual rite of spring* all over the U.S. Manhattan's closed a fortnight ago after setting an alltime attendance record of 250,000 visitors in nine days. The trend at the Coliseum was toward bigger blossoms and smaller plants (one new product called Phosphon promised to produce "compact plants with full-sized blooms and shorter, stronger stems that do not fall over). The leaning to gigantism was reflected in row upon row of colossal amaryllis plants and roses the size of softballs. The New York Botanical Garden copped the "best in show...
...works, and there is no need to press the "destruct" button that sends a special radio signal racing after an errant missile and commands it to blow itself to bits. Yet suddenly the destruct system is activated, and the missile, possibly with a man atop it, explodes in a blossom of flame. The odds against such a mishap are small, but there is always a chance that an unintended signal perhaps from a badly adjusted ham radio, may destruct a missile that is flying properly or still on its launching...
Between the blossom and the fruit-time...
DuPont Show of the Week (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Paul Whiteman, Count Basie, John Bubbles, Blossom Dearie, Dorothy London and Bill Hayes in a program of music from the '30s. Color...