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...Poonies have taken the hint and gone off to exploit the more responsive (and more lucrative) markets of women's magazines and rock and roll records. With these new imperialistic ventures, their weekly dinners, their memories of a Golden Age, and their ingenious persecutions of the well-bred young men who compete for editorial positions, Lampoon editors maintain a state of good humor beyond the wildest imaginings of their Harvard readership (if it still exists). Yes, the Lampoon has a funny building, but there still remains a need for a Harvard humor magazine...
...Whats" Determine "Hows." In 1929 Boston-bred David Park turned up in Berkeley Calif., and except for a five-year teaching stint at Boston's Winsor School he remained there for the rest of his life For a while he was a stonecutter for a sculptor; he got through the Depression with the help of the WPA, worked as a factory hand during World War II, eventually landed a job at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. It was there that Park experimented with abstract expressionism...
...business are Jackson & Perkins, rose growers, and W. Atlee Burpee Co.. seedsmen. Jackson & Perkins expects to sell 11 million rosebushes this year from its beds in California, Arizona and New York. is touting a giant hybrid tea rose. South Seas. Unlike many of the new show-bred roses. South Seas smells good. Said Charles Perkins: "We breed fragrance into our roses. How can a rose be a rose unless it smells like a rose?" Burpee, which sold 50 million packages of seeds last year and mailed 3,.000,000 catalogues for winter-bound gardeners to pore over, is featuring...
Heroes for Pedestals. In its heyday during "The Troubles" (1916-21), when ragged irregulars blew up barracks and bridges and battled England's Black and Tans, the rebellion bred more than enough heroes and martyrs to fill all the pedestals that remained when the Irish finished dynamiting English statuary. It boasted as many wits and eccentrics, from the unknown patriot who dubbed Queen Victoria "The Famine Queen," to Robert Bolton, who escaped from Dublin's Mount joy Prison after leaving a note explaining politely that the accommodations were below his accustomed standard...
...Prime Minister from 1955 till 1958, Mintoff advocated policies that Malta's Archbishop, Sir Michael Gonzi, feared would limit the church's control over education, religion and family life. Gonzi protested the importation of badly needed teachers because many were non-Maltese Catholics ("They are born and bred in a Protestant atmosphere, and can never become perfect Catholics...