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Typical of those busily sprouting bulbs into a big business is Tony Cefalu (pronounced sefi-allo), 50, a roly-poly, Sicilian-born ex-tavernkeeper. Like most of the others, Tony is growing the Croft, a white, sturdy, strong-stemmed Easter lily that multiplies at the rate of 150 bulbs from one bulb a season, will grow 20,000 to the acre. Although now well on his way to becoming the Lily King of the North west, Tony almost muffed his chance at the throne...
...bought six Croft lily bulbs for 60?, scoffed when he was told they would make his fortune. Tony was a forgetful windowsill gardener; he put the bulbs in coffee cans, forgot to water them and the plants withered. Disgusted, Tony threw the bulbs across the street into an empty lot. Later he found them revived among the weeds. He poked them into the ground between garlic plants in his garden because "garlic keeps da boogs away." Next season he was rewarded with 41 bulbs and bulblets worth $4.10. Then Tony heard the cash register ring...
...Croft scoffer now, Tony looks with disdain at a "motor villa" he also owns. "Viva Tony," he shouts, "two more years da bulbs, you can have da joint...
...faculty. Communication troubles between South Africa's speakers of English and Afrikaans led him to think about an interlanguage. Later he and Hogben did some motorized pub-crawling from Aberdeen to London and back, planned The Loom between drinks. Bodmer wrote the book in Hogben's Highland croft, is now working on another book in London's intellectual Bloomsbury...
...House of Lords Brigadier General Sir Henry Page Croft made an admission: signposts were being restored in rural Britain; tank-traps, ditches and trenches had been filled in; cement and iron roadblocks were no longer considered "operationally necessary." The Lords nodded solemn approval. Britons, in the 201st week of war, took scant notice of what would have been amazing news a year...