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...oldest U.S. greenhouse manufacturer, Lord & Burnham of Irvington, N.Y., increased its advertising schedule this year and has already received more inquiries than it got in all of 1963. Turner Greenhouses of Goldsboro, N.C., sold $50,000 worth five years ago, while last year its sales amounted to $250,000. Turner's least expensive model is a plastic-covered 7-by-8-ft. lean-to built over the door or window of a house through which it derives its heat. A 25-by-50-ft.-square greenhouse, with all-aluminum construction, fully automatic controls, an independent oil furnace...
...YORK LANDMARKS edited by Alan Burnham. 430 pages. Wesleyan University. $12.50. A photographic survey of the architecturally and historically distinguished buildings of New York as selected by the little band of devout New Yorkers known as the Municipal Art Society. The book's 100-odd photographs, notes Brendan Gill in his foreword, constitute a "veritable Kama Sutra, or manual of instruction, in the wooing of this incomparable city." They also provide a fascinating guide to the paroxysms of borrowed styles-Greek revival, Gothic, Georgian, Italian Renaissance-that afflicted and sometimes ornamented all U.S. cities before they finally achieved...
Coach Bill Burnham's Elephant squad was paced by quarterback Elliot Topkins, who tossed two touchdown passes to end Jelf Lambert. The other Elephant score came on a 17-yard dash by senior fullback Bob Yager. Topkins and Eliot co-captain Pete Wood buttressed the winners' defense. Eliot was threatened by the efforts of the Commuters' quarterback Brian Asher, who accounted for 130 yards through...
...Jumbo footballers and coach Bill Burnham devised the new formation during half-time, after the offense had been unable to move the ball during the first two quarters. On the Elephants' first play from scrimmage in the third period, halfback Tink Gunnoe slanted off tackle for 75 yards, and the game was all Eliot the rest...
Just Wait & See. Last week Jagan was in London lobbying for independence and some free world investment. He accomplished little. Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys has already laid down the condition for British Guiana independence: a coalition between Jagan and Opposition Leader Forbes Burnham of the People's National Congress. But that seems a long way off. In talks with British investors, Jagan was less than reassuring: "About my government and my party, it is only when we have independence that the people will know where we stand...