Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Virginia, 34-year-old Republican Cecil Underwood, onetime teacher of biology and now vice president of Salem (W. Va.) College, upset favored Democrat Robert Mollohan. Underwood, a six-term member of the state house of delegates, campaigned hard and sharp against the statehouse machine, the so-called "flower fund" to which state employees allegedly had to contribute 2% of their salaries, and the state road commission, which, he claimed, made "more millionaires of equipment dealers than it has good roads...
Shrieking Leap. The woman Milan critics now call Goddess Callas was born Maria Anna Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulos at dawn on Dec. 3, 1923 in Manhattan's Flower Hospital, four months after her parents arrived from Athens. In Greece her father had been a successful pharmacist. But in the U.S. he drifted from job to job. The family moved from one cheap apartment to another, the parents always squabbling, often on the verge of breaking up. Maria remembers her childhood with bitterness: "My sister was slim and beautiful and friendly, and my mother always preferred her. I was the ugly...
...previous altar junkets he got: the boss's daughter (No. i was Flor de Oro Trujillo, golden flower of the Dominican dictator), glamour and oodles of connections (No. 2 was French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux), and the good life (No. 3 and No. 4: Heiresses Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton). No. s-to-be can give him none of these things, but moonstruck Rubirosa, aching to marry her "probably within one month," husked that his fiancee, fast-rising Paris Actress Odile (Fabien) Rodin, 19,* is "pretty, intelligent, gracious and good...
...pretrial hearing. Her legal adversary was a sometime play producer named Luther (A Sleep of Prisoners) Greene, also something of an agrarian reformer, who claimed that Doris owed him $2,500 for applying his Greene thumb to her "tragically outmoded" 2,500-acre patch of flora in exurban Somerville. Flower Girl Duke countered that Greene was trying to make her "forget" a $1,797.45 suit she has brought against him for floral decorations grown on her farm and peddled in turn by him to Broadway shows. Doris was not irked by the petty cash involved. Snapped her attorney...
...Kefauver's approach-neither high road nor low road, but side-of-the-road. No one but Estes would pause to cut a hole in his sock because his toe hurt ("Gotta give it some air"); only Estes could stand in the Janesville, Wis. public square, beside a flower bed vivid with petunias and marigolds, and beneath a dingy World War monument, look into the inscrutable, tooth less faces of a small group of old people and murmur that he was going to work for "full employment and equal opportunities"; only he could deliver a major farm speech...