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...child was the first born in the big D.P. camp in Seoul, Korea, and the parents called it Mi Hua (Little Flower) in honor of UNRRA's tough and kind-hearted boss. But 7,000 miles away, in Washington, Little Flower LaGuardia last week faced more headaches than honors...
Fiorello LaGuardia was back in New York's City Hall, looking natural but a little handsomer than life (see cut). The city had appropriated $2,500 for the portrait by New York Times Artist-Interviewer S. J. Woolf. If the art commission approves the picture, the Little Flower will be the first ex-mayor to hang in the Hall while still alive...
...knows the signs. When a foraging worker returns to the hive laden with pollen or nectar, she executes a stylized dance proclaiming her success. Fellow workers, by smelling the dancing bee, can tell at once what kind of flower she has been playing around with. Off they zoom hopefully, searching for like-smelling flowers...
...similar trickery, beemen can lure their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red clover, increasing its crop of seed...
...Clare Boothe Luce's Distinguished Gentleman Smelling Flowers, apparently based on an A.P. photograph of Harry Truman deep in a White House flower bush...