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That's the way it is with Four on a Garden. All comedy is human comedy. One must be able to sympathize, recognize or identify with the person or the situation behind the gag. That was true in Cactus Flower, where one wanted the prim moth of a nurse to be transformed into a seductive butterfly. It was also true in Forty Carats, where one somehow cared whether or not the 40-year-old matron became the bride of her ardent 22-year-old lover...
Suggs is now a middle-echelon manager for Jerry Campbell and Tom Scott, two 24-year-olds from Dallas who employ a ragtag army of some 170 flower children to sell carnations on the streets of several cities. The pair first tried the idea six months ago at home as a way of helping some of their jobless friends. The idea paid off so handsomely that Campbell and Scott now have flowers flown in from growers in Colorado, California and Illinois, and have hired young people to sell them in Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Little Rock, Ark., and Wichita...
...floral path to prosperity has been thick with thorns. In Little Rock, one 17-year-old girl was busted for blocking a street. Some florists near Dallas, irked that Scott and Campbell were undercutting them by selling carnations at $2.50 a dozen, threatened to boycott merchants who allowed flower children to operate in front of their stores...
...state, including three terms as speaker of the house and four terms as minority leader of the assembly. He was an orator given to ungrammatical homespun anecdotes and a campaigner whose baby-kissing forays through county fairs belied his statehouse reputation as a master of patronage. His annual "flower fund" was required charity for all Powell appointees, and with 2,000 patronage jobs at his disposal during his five-year term as secretary of state, he was able to enforce his oft-stated fondness for doling out jobs and commanding loyalty. "I can smell the meat acookin'," Powell said...
...enough to miss the sight. These days the man in the picture would do well to take a second look - not to mention a healthy sniff. Chances are that the lady is no longer mulched in mineral oil and petroleum jelly but gently steeped in camomile tea and elder-flower lotion. The bedroom air, once heady with hints of lye, is more likely flavored with the scent of fresh strawberries, lemons, grapefruit and peaches. For the natural-cosmetics industry, the fragrance is pleasingly identifiable: it is the sweet smell of success...