Word: dogwoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Darkleaf Lane last week came alive with a distinction all its own. From one roof peak flew an American flag, and from another-spotlighted by night-the stars and bars of the Confederacy. Each evening the house of the Confederacy was crowded with the members of the newly formed Dogwood Hollow Social Club who worked hard at a hard-boiled bad-neighbor policy. With windows wide open they chattered loudly over coffee, volumed up a phonograph, harmonized on Old Black Joe, aiming all this cacophony at the adjoining home of William E. Myers Jr. and his three small children. Reason...
Last week Bristol Township cops cracked down on the Dogwood Hollow Social Club. Houseowner William A. Hughes, who lives about 1½ miles away, was summoned before a justice of the peace, ordered to bounce the new occupants and their noise or be fined for a zoning violation. Hughes complied; the members finished their coffee, turned off their phonograph and disappeared. At week's end Householder Myers waited uneasily to see in what guise they would next turn up. Said he: "I want to be the same as any other American; I want to be treated like anyone else...
...winding driveway, through grounds bursting with redbud and dogwood, to the great white Shenandoah Valley mansion of Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, drove some distinguished visitors, among them Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Democratic Senators Lyndon Johnson and Walter George, and Republican Senator Eugene Millikin. They met in the second-floor room that Byrd uses as his home office. From the meeting came a decision to strive for a compromise that might save President Eisenhower's liberalized foreign-trade bill-still under discussion in Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee-from being ruined by crippling amendments...
...National Guard Armory the air was fragrant with thousands of blossoms. Soft music wafted across the dappled, indoor, 1¾ acres, and Ike's entrance caused a mob scene. The President's first stop was at a 5O-ft. bower of white tulips, English boxwood, azaleas, dogwood and rhododendron, which had been planted in honor of Mamie and would be transplanted intact to the Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg, Pa. Ike was particularly impressed by a shoulder-high serpentine wall that enclosed the garden; he had never seen one before...
LORD & TAYLOR moved in on staid Philadelphia this week with all the whistle and whee of a Hollywood premiere. To open its new suburban branch, Manhattan's Lord & Taylor decorated its store entrances with 75,000 dogwood blossoms plus immense, palpitating pink velvet hearts inscribed "Lord & Taylor Just Loves the Land of Brotherly Love," and prepared to spray all visitors entering its doors from a 10-gal. (1,280 oz.) tank of Shalimar perfume costing $20 an oz. retail...