Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GEORGE MUNSON Garden City...
After the sunset meal (eggs, steak), Mohammed V last week summoned his French chauffeur, his French cook, his French court photographer, and an old friend who is a French garage owner in Rabat, and repaired to the garden for a characteristically French game of boules (lawn bowling), throwing his hands in the air, wailing "Ayayaya" when he missed. For the rest of the long Ramadan night, Mohammed V alternated Moslem prayers with U.S. movies (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Desert Caravan), retired at dawn to sleep until midafternoon...
...piano soloist is under the impression that he is supposed to be playing Grieg, while the conductor is concentrating on Tchaikovsky and the orchestra is working on Roll Out the Barrel; a second concerto, written by Mozart's father Leopold for alpenhorn and played on two lengths of garden hose by Britain's distinguished Hornist Dennis Brain; a set of variations for wheezy winds, featuring Hoffnung himself playing a tuba so big that it runs on wheels and requires built-in bellows to supply enough wind...
...deciding game in the Boston Garden last week, Celtic Coach Red Auerbach's carefully devised playoff plans began to fall apart. Muscleman Jim Loscutoff and Rookie Tom Heinsohn could not seem to work the double pickoff play that was meant to give Sharpshooter Bill Sharman (TIME, Dec. 31) time and space in which to sink his shots. St. Louis' stringy little veteran. Slater Martin, was sticking to Celtic Bob Cousy like an overanxious bill collector. The slickest ball-handler in the game. Cousy shook himself loose and scored from the floor only twice in 20 tries...
...garden of roses embraces a 2,300-acre home-base nursery at Newark. N.Y., 1,000-acre and 1, 900-acre rose fields in California and Arizona, plus smaller nurseries in New Jersey and Indiana. Sales this year are headed toward $9,700,000. mostly of roses (by far the most popular U.S. flower) but also including such other J. & P. specialties as delphiniums and mums. In the rose business, in which it annually grosses three times the combined sales of its three nearest rivals, J. & P. also leads its field in adapting to changing times. In 1940 it promoted...