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...Copy!" at the top of his lungs. This didn't mean he wanted a piece of copy, or a copy made of some article. Instead he wanted me, Joe Copy, to run an errand. The errand was usually Times-related, though I made my share of trips to the florist to pick up plants for executives' offices during the course of the summer. Once in a while, I'd be sent on a mission away from the immediate vicinity of the Times and into the sweltering heat. My travels spanned the city--from Washington Square Park to the United Nations...
...Florist Lew Darnell and his wife Mary Kay placed bouquets of Enchantment lilies in vases, part of an enormous floral display. "We postponed our retirement," said Mary Kay. "We were supposed to move to San Diego the first of October, but when we heard the Pope was coming we stayed." To decorate the altar platform, 15 Wisconsin volunteers staged a two-week quilting bee to stitch together a 10-ft. square banner done in burnt orange, sky blue and leafy green...
Onward and Upward can be savored by the reader whose closest acquaintance with nature is the corner florist. It is a heady compost of observation, taste, wit and scholarship. She tells us, for example, that the first named variety of apple in North America was Blaxton's Yellow Sweeting, introduced around 1640 by a clergyman, William Blaxton, at what is now the corner of Charles and Beacon streets in Boston. One variety of the handsome blue lobelia was prized by the Indians as a cure for syphilis - and bought for a pretty price by a gullible English nobleman...
...third florist said she had sold more than 25,000 stems of flowers...
...unions' lobbying tactics are oldfashioned. They still concentrate on buttonholing key legislators, such as committee chairmen. The increasingly assertive business lobby, in contrast, now does most of its campaigning around the country, urging owners of hardware stores, florist shops and bakeries to write their legislators. The flood of mail from back home played a key part in defeating the labor-reform bill...