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...prize roles were played by members of the Tactical Patrol Force, who did their burly best to look like women. They shaved their legs, wiggled into tangerine Capri pants, padded themselves with balloons, pulled on curly-lock wigs, prettied up with plum-blossom lipstick, and practiced a seductive swing of their hips...
...Blossoming Imaginations. The modern second house offers a fertile field for inexpensive experiment that excites both architects and owners. People who would not think of doing anything architecturally far-out on Main Street somehow let their imaginations blossom when they get away from it for the summer. Within the past decade a diversity of new building materials has given the owner of the second house the chance to create new shapes, employ new methods of construction and invent new ways of blending outdoors and indoors...
...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...
...Blossom. Though many stocks are now down to attractive price-earnings ratios, the general public's buying spirit got little encouragement from many of last week's economic indicators (see THE NATION). More and more, investors were showing themselves disappointed in the sluggishness of the recovery and no longer hopeful that it will blossom into a boom or superboom. "Best guess at this point," wrote Walston & Co. Market Analyst Anthony Tabell. "is that it will be fairly close to two years before we have the start of another major bull market...
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...