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...Director James Sheldon. But it is 27-year-old Wally Cox himself who gives the show its real flavor. Detroit-born Wally Cox fits naturally into Teacher Peepers' shoes. When he moved to Manhattan in 1942, he enrolled at City College for a botany course. "I was a flower-watcher," he says. "I still am, for that matter, but I found I didn't care how they worked; I just liked to watch them." Then he was drafted into the Army where, Peepers-fashion, he spent four months misclassified as a foot soldier before the Army gave...
Scented Plastics. In New York, Plastron Inc. put on the market flower-scented plastic shower and window curtains. Developed by Monsanto Chemical Co., the scents are blended in while the plastics are being made, are guaranteed to smell like roses, carnations or cedar for several months. Price: $1.98 for the shower curtain, $3.98 to $4.49 for curtain sets...
...Korean war has been going on for two years (as of June 25), the truce talks for a year (as of July 10). The war has pinned down the flower of the U.S. fighting forces and is costing $5 billion a year. Only one-tenth of a nation (the fighting men, their families and friends) pay much attention...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
...Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women in a stockade on another island, and kept them busy husking coconuts from dawn to dusk...