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...persuaded the American Botany Corp., biggest U.S. maker of plastic flowers, to try the pellets. The company now buys 2,000 lbs. a month to scent 1,200,000 flowers with a fragrance that is said to last more than four months. Barry signed Texas Plastics Inc. of Elsa, Tex. to scent its plastic bags. The response was so good that it is planning to turn out some 100 million scented bags this year, chiefly for packaging clothes and bedding (cedar scent) and for wrapping hosiery in perfumed sacks...
...After playing hopscotch, Elsa and I liked to pick Japanese beetles off the rosebuds in the yard. They crawled on our fingers like a symbol of our half-formed feelings...
...Bouché (rhymes with touché). He may also be the best. Last week at Manhattan's Alexander Iolas Gallery, Bouché had on view a brilliant display of what his flickering, sweet-and-sour brush can do. Recent subjects: Truman Capote, Isak Dinesen, Anita Loos, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. William Paley, the Duchess of Windsor, Lady Astor, the Duchess of Argyll and Alexander Calder...
...says. The criticisms are sometimes wrapped in flattery, as when he paints a gauzy profile of the Duchess of Windsor without those wrinkles that are the map of earned character. But Truman Capote he sees devastatingly as a lounging, feline figure, with a prim mouth and enormous cold spectacles. Elsa Maxwell becomes, in a spectacularly strong and concise portrait, a court dwarf out of Velasquez. Says Bouché: "A court jester, but also a desperately serious woman who considers herself a serious critic of society...
...fine, silly trick shot of Elsa Maxwell in bed with a skunk...