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TIME, Sept. 22, cut of five West Point cadets and officer carrying floral facsimile of "Old Glory": the local florist of Chapultepee should have [ascertained] the correct number of white stars to be inserted in the field of blue...
...Wonder. Producer of the People's Pool is Philip Ilsley, 51, thrice-married brother of Canada's Minister of Justice and onetime farmer, art dealer, lecturer, florist and real-estate man. He developed the cost-saving construction method while building houses (and pools) for movie stars in 1936 at fashionable Brentwood. Instead of a flatbottomed, straight-sided pool, which needed expensive forms and supports, he used a rounded bottom, based on steel-wire mesh. By using a pneumatic hose to pour the concrete, Ilsley cut construction time to six days...
Professional Opinion. In Philadelphia, burglars who had hammered and chiseled at Berger's Florist Shop safe for hours finally gave up, left a note: "A very good safe...
American mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed-jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public, which has proved to the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph platitudes has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous...
...whole of Los Angeles' downtown area shuddered. A light plane flying ten miles away was jolted by a sudden disturbance of the air. A florist, five miles away, heard a dull boom and saw the petals of his peach blossoms flutter to the floor. The 27-story tower of the earthquake-proof city hall shivered; windows crashed and tinkled for blocks around...