Word: cypress
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...report in the May 17 issue that National Geographic's new editor John La Gorce's office is "cyprus-paneled." How I envy him! Mine is cypress-paneled, but lucky La Gorce's is paneled with the birthplace of Venus...
...Senator John Bricker. Sixty-four miles north, at Palm Beach, the Winston Guests, the Joseph Kennedys and the Duke of Windsor went off to the Polo Ball at the Boca Raton Club, where polo ponies in special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens, about 6.000 people paid $2 apiece for entertainment on a somewhat simpler scale−water skiing, swimming and diving exhibitions. Said Owner Richard Pope, who as head of the state advertising commission is Florida tourism's top drumbeater: "Just look at all those $2 bills walking around...
...Kabuki company plans to entertain New York for four weeks, move on to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, then to Europe. Sticklers for authenticity, the dancers brought their own cypress stage with them. This week, as is the custom when a brand-new stage is used, an official of the company consecrated it and invoked traditional Kabuki blessings-before any union stagehand was allowed to lay a hand...
...another of almost the same plot, The Duchess of Idaho. In the first case, the difference between love and marriage should help in telling the pictures apart; in the second, the only real difference is that Idaho was shot in Sun Valley and Love in Florida's Cypress Gardens. All that matters, anyway, is that Mermaid Williams again wears a lockerful of sensational new bathing suits, and any moviegoer who observes their contents with reasonable care will see everything of importance in the film...
...women passed red rivulets in the gully that led to the grassy ledge, and they knew. When they reached the bodies, the women were no longer screaming. They ran among them, recognizing a husband here, a son there. In the dusk they dragged the bodies down to the black cypress grove. With only their hands, they clawed at the muddy earth to make graves. When they went back to the village, the Germans were gone...