Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Hunt's direction, over 40 Somerville and Cambridge youths, ranging in age from seven to 14, whose chief sport had been breaking window's and trampling flower beds, today swim in the I.A.B. pool and hike through the Blue Hills...
Bierweiler was put right to work. The first glass flower to be shipped to this country was damaged in the Customs House in New York. It had to be repaired, mounted, and put on display...
...primary concern is with the exhibition collections, and here his value has been the greatest. Every glass flower must be mounted for display, and Bierweiler has perfected the technique. Each is set on a plaster of Paris plaque, poured amazingly smooth on a sheet of glass. The flower, of course, is extremely fragile and must be buttressed in several places. Bierweiler makes plaster supports which fit under stems, leaves, or petals wherever necessary without obstructing anything. Then, with a dentist's drill, he makes a fine hole in the plaster through which he runs a thin silver wire...
...France (The Devil's Laughter, by Frank Yerby; Dial). In the turmoil of Revolution and Terror, a third-estate hero runs afoul of a villainous second-estate chap, toys with a tawny-haired demimondaine whose kisses curl his toes inside his boots, but nobly marries Fleurette, a blind flower girl...
...through his week-long anniversary. Five ex-Presidents of Mexico sent messages of congratulation. President Ruiz Cortines embraced the troubador, 53 this week, and said: "Work for Mexico, Agustin." Lara went from Mexico City to Veracruz and then on to Córdoba, traveling along whole blocks of flower-covered streets lined with schoolchildren while factory whistles blew and bells tolled. Last week, overflowing with Mexico's adulation, he pursued his lovelorn triumphal path to Havana...