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...tree trunk, from 15 to 40 ft. high, tops it with a huge cauliflower sprig with hundreds of little white or yellow tubular flowers. After holding this climax for a month, the tall stalk withers, the whole plant dies. Mexicans commonly intercept the climax by cutting out the stalk bud as soon as it shows, hollowing out a basin in the central core. The plant pours its banked energy into the place where the flower-stalk ought to be, produces a basin of sweet sap from which Mexicans make their national drink, syrupy pulque. By distilling fermented pulque they make...
Last July a 50-year-old plant belonging to Charles Curie of Cornwall, N. Y. began pushing a stalk bud up through its central core. At once he had the plant dug out of his greenhouse and trucked to the Bronx Park Botanical Gardens where experts could replant it in the open and study its blossoming under natural conditions. Last month the stalk began to grow at the rate of an inch an hour, grew 15 feet high, put out 600 grey-green buds. For four successive weeks experts announced the century plant was about to bloom, but no bud...
...Manhattan court Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) asked that his $400 weekly alimony payment to Aedita S. Fisher (onetime Countess de Beaumont) be cut to $100. He said that Depression had reduced the income from his comic strip from $52,000 per year to $26,000, forced him to sell his racing stable...
Marriage Revealed. Helen Morgan, 28, torch singer; and Maurice ("Bud") Maschke Jr., Harvard Law School graduate, son of onetime Republican National Committeeman Maurice Maschke of Ohio; last May in New Castle...
...lots to spend, cannon crackers, yacht rides-Hearst's staff were his familiars, and his paper's contents were historic. He had Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain on his payroll. Also Thomas Nast, Jimmy Swinnerton, T. A. ("Tad") Dorgan, Homer Davenport, Harrison Fisher, "Bud"' Fisher. In the Examiner first appeared "Casey at the Bat'' and "The Man with the Hoe." (A Negro doorman turned away Rudyard Kipling when he came peddling Plain Tales from the Hills.} Hearst hired special trains at the slightest drop of the journalistic...