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...tree, put it in the ground and invite their friends over for dinner that night." And even if you're willing to pay, finding the kind of tree you want can be tough, with highly prized breeds in short supply. "People are more sophisticated," says Nancy Buley of J. Frank Schmidt & Son in Oregon, which ships more than 3 million trees annually to nurseries across the country. "They're looking at sustainable landscape design and low-maintenance trees." The good news: according to Moon Nurseries in Maryland, look-alike species can often be found. They sometimes even cost less...
...Episcopalians were impressed. "This sort of thing is soul-destroying," said the Rev. Bernard G. Buley of Waukesha, Wis. "A very strange world," mused the Rev. John G. Forrell of Glen Ridge, NJ. "I would not know how to talk to these men and women." Suffragan Bishop Charles F. Boynton of New York summed it up: "This has done us a lot of good. We normally don't realize that so many human beings are riveted to one operation with no opportunity to exercise creativity or imagination...
...Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian R. Carlyle Buley (The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period, 1815-1840) of Indiana University gloomily reported the results of an informal American history quiz he gave 90 of his students. Of the 90, only eight could identify the Bill of Rights, only four knew what a right-to-work law is, only 15 came anywhere near estimating the population of the U.S., and none could name a scholarly history of the country or an author who had written one. The best showing: 18 could describe the progressive income tax. But, said Historian Buley, "I'm sure...
History: R. Carlyle Buley, for The Old Northwest; Pioneer Period...
...pioneers, Indians and the weather were mild risks compared with the dangers of sickness-and doctoring. In The Midwest Pioneer, His Ills, Cures & Doctors (R. E. Banta, $5), published last fortnight, Indiana Historians Madge E. Pickard and R. Carlyle Buley tell about the medical terrors of the early Century...