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Thousands of fascinated spectators learned all this and many another bit of Biblical botany at the annual International Flower Show in Manhattan last week, where the most popular single exhibit was the New York Botanical Garden's show of some 75 plants mentioned in the Bible-everything from a young cedar of Lebanon to the sort of bulrushes (papyrus plants) among which the infant Moses was hidden...
...University Museum has installed new fluorescent lighting in the glass flower displays, to bring out more exactly the painstaking fidelity to natural colors achieved by the late Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, German artist-naturalists who made the models for Harvard...
Author Streit is sanguine. He does not look too hard at the difficulties, suspicions, confusions, the interests that would be threatened, the prejudices that would be aroused: he wants democrats to be up & doing to solve these problems, to sharpen their wits, meet their obstacles, let their imaginations flower. Most powerful chapter in his book asserts that in recent history the U. S. has not played a heroic part. "Our policy has brought upon us the gravest economic, social, monetary, political and moral dangers Americans have ever faced...
...after the investigation that drove Jimmy Walker from office had cooled, Jimmy and Betty came home from Europe as man & wife. Still the popular idol of many a New York City voter, Jimmy half-heartedly practiced law while his wife ran a flower shop. He conducted a short-lived radio program, looked around for a steady job. And a job to Jimmy meant a political job. Last fall Mayor LaGuardia gave, him one: as $20,000-a-year tsar of industrial and labor relations for Manhattan's giant cloak-&-suit industry...
Last week New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia emitted an angry Donald Duck squawk. Subject: U. S. draft boards. "The trouble with the administration of the draft in New York City," quacked the Little Flower, "isn't in Washington. It's in the laundry. I think someone is using too much starch in the shirts of the administration...