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Inimitable to Dependable. A struggling frontier-town daily until 1895, when it was bought by Harry H. Tammen, a onetime Denver bartender, and Frederick G. Bonfils, who reaped an $800,000 fortune by fleecing Kansans in a lottery, the Denver Post bloomed under their cultivation into the wildest flower in the Wild West. Its front page was a crazy quilt of blaring headlines, many in red ink, and along the order of DOES IT HURT TO BE BORN...
...suspenseful, although the outcome was obviously known from the start, the opening hour showed how the two anarchists were almost accidentally arrested for a robbery and murder, how the case against them grew from the teetering memory of witnesses, and how-standing in a cagelike dock and facing a flower-decked bench-they heard the verdict. This week's Part II deals with the long, futile fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the chair-the hunt for new evidence, the repeated appeals, the worldwide furor, and the final confrontation of the accused and their judge as he imposes...
Fiorello! Director George Abbott's pace and pep keep New York's razzle dazzling, and the Little Flower too interesting to wilt...
David Burpee started to learn the business when he was ten by picking sage seeds on the Fordhook Farms for 5? an hour. He attended Culver Military Academy, spent summers traveling in Europe with his father to buy new flower seeds, or working at the Floradale Farms as a roguer, i.e., one who picks out rogues, or imperfect plants. After a year at Cornell, David. 22, took over the company when his father died in 1915. He has increased business 14 times to a gross...
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...