Word: bluegrass
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President Kennedy flung wide the French doors of his office, stepped out into the spring twilight, inhaled deeply. The fresh scent of thick bluegrass and moist earth, the sight of grape hyacinth bordering the flower garden (which has been replanted by a new White House gardener), the hues of cherry blossoms and forsythia across the yard made him smile. Off to his right. Caroline's swings and slides lent a touch of outdoor domesticity. Said the President, with an expansive wave: "Look at that. Isn't it great?" The President's mood seemed to reflect the nation...
Every year, when spring rains start the bluegrass sprouting, some high-strung U.S. race horse suddenly gets the attention usually reserved for movie stars and .400 hitters. Servants cater to his whims, columnists dog his hoofsteps, and genealogists start excavating the deepest roots of his family tree. He has a name-in 1961 it was Carry Back, last year it was Ridan-but to railbirds he is always known simply as Mr. Big: the favorite for the Kentucky Derby...
Regular performers there range from two fine bluegrass bands--the Charles River Valley Boys and Jim Rooney's group which periodically includes banjo wizard Bill Keith--to white blues singers Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, Tom Rush and Mitch Greenhill, to balladeers like Baezish Dayle Stanley and the amusing, talented but occasionally dull Jackie Washington. Unfortunately, Eric VonSchmidt has temporarily withdrawn from the local coffe-house scene. An added attraction is the Club 47's house bass player Fritz Richmond who gets more music out of a washtup than most bass-men do out of a string bass. It is well...
...setting for many ceremonial occasions. The only thing is, it is no longer very rosy. Many rose plants have been removed and replaced with other flora; the idea is to keep the area in bloom all year round. The South Lawn, once a classic mixture of crab grass, Kentucky bluegrass and good old American weeds, has been plowed up and resodded with as deep a green carpet of bluegrass as ever a presidential helicopter dripped oil upon...
...steel-rimmed-glasses granny (Irene Ryan) is cordon bluegrass when it comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball...