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Burpee's current ambition is to have the marigold named the nation's floral emblem. He scorns the corn tassel promoted by Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas ("not a perfect flower"), the carnation backed by Colorado's Senator Gordon Allott ("Just try to grow them"), and the rose supported by Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott. Sniffs Burpee: "It is the emblem of England and eight other countries, four of which have fallen behind the Iron Curtain since selecting the rose as their emblem." He has even registered in Washington as a lobbyist to promote the marigold...
RALPH WATERS Floral Park...
JAMES MAKER JR. Floral Park...
...film festival in West Berlin, Italian Cinemorsel Sophia (That Kind of Woman) Loren happily clutched a floral tribute, smiled appreciatively while the beleaguered city's gallant Mayor Willy Brandt (TIME, May 25) grabbed a vase for her bouquet. At Brandt's city hall, Sophia also signed a "golden book" for distinguished visitors, accepted from the mayor a white porcelain replica of the city's freedom bell, whose original, presented to Berliners by the Crusade for Freedom, hangs in the city hall tower...
...wall to prove that they were light enough to float. Barely 5 ft. tall in his home-knitted tam-o'-shanter, Maybeck was a sartorial seventh wonder. He blueprinted the clothes for his wife Annie (whom he courted by emblazoning her initial A all over the floral motifs of the Crocker Building), designed his own smock and high-rise pants, so constructed that they did away with the need for a vest...