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...above today. Heard a robin for sure this morning. Clear, sunny, fleecy clouds. Planted head lettuce, cucumbers, honeydew melons in flats and tins. Asters pushing up from the soil. Washed today. What a lot of snow-melting it takes...
Died. Hassard Short, 78, British-born stagecraftsman, director of more than 50 Broadway and West End shows; in Nice, France. Light-struck Hassard Short began (in Honeydew, 1920) a spectacular series of stage innovations by slinging an electrician over the stage in a bosun's chair to handle overhead spots, later installed the first permanent lighting bridge (The Music Box Revue, 1921), and the first revolving stage (The Band Wagon, 1931), startled Broadway by staging the Easter parade scene in As Thousands Cheer (1933) in rotogravure brown...
...Enjoyable ... Enjoyable." Last week Bob blew the bugle. At Ike's invitation, he drove up to Eisenhower's Columbia University residence on Morningside Heights. The two breakfasted on honeydew melon, scrambled eggs, rolls and coffee. Afterward, they adjourned to the library, where Taft brought out a unity statement he had prepared for the press. Eisenhower read it over. They discussed it, with Bob writing in some changes and Ike scribbling down others. By the time the newsmen were admitted, the two had finished with politics and were chatting about fishing. "A very enjoyable talk," said Ike. "An enjoyable...
...Lanchow, China, where Henry Agard Wallace had distributed some honeydew seeds in 1944, appeared a new (to China) type of melon. The Chinese gratefully named it the Hua Lahse...
Aged (81), eccentric New York Lawyer Samuel Untermyer had the gardener on his Yonkers estate rig up an ingenious apparatus to infuse his honeydew and casaba melons with benedictine, port, and brandy while they are still on the hot-house vine, hopes to sample the non-intoxicating but liquor-flavored fruit next month...