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...Honduras" had taken root. Hondurans circulated by the hundreds mimeographed translations of TIME'S story (Jan. 21) about a sprig of conifer as the emblem of democratic resistance to Dictator Carias' regime. Cariasistas, deciding that something had to be done, called on Congress to pick a national flower. Congress, with nothing better to do, mooted the matter for a week, then put it up to Department Governors. The Governors asked their wives. Last week they chose the non-native rose (brought to Central America by the Spaniards...
...brought to flower a ripe Augustan
...Chinese hotel in Rabaul, where "the white female form is an extremely rare sight. . . even when clothed." So when Schooner Captain Shamus got his first eyeful of gorgeous Cleo, it was as if "an exotic and beautiful wild creature [was] trampling the quiet loveliness of a well-tended flower garden." Shamus was even more trampled when he discovered that Cleo was one of the Hollywood party which he had agreed to ship to New Guinea in search of background material for a new film...
...Kelly is no glib, ad-libbing Little Flower. Hewing to a prepared script, he skittered carefully, successfully through a dull speech on crime, written by an assistant. If his staffmen can hold him rigidly to a script in future broadcasts, they may be able to keep Boss Ed's foot out of his mouth...
...finally died at 36, in the Hópital de la Charité, 25 years ago this week, Paris flocked to his funeral. An endless cortege of artists and models followed the hearse to the cemetery. Along the way gendarmes, who had arrested him with painful regularity, saluted the flower-decked coffin...