Word: horticulturist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace, the Iowa horticulturist, emerged last week as the centerpiece of U.S. Communism's most authentic-looking fagade. The facade was Wallace's helter-skelter following, assembled under careful Communist supervision at a founding convention in Philadelphia and brazenly labeled the Progressive Party...
...Alps, where Author Stein and Companion Alice B. Toklas used to spend their summers. Many characters wander into the book and as casually wander out, never to be heard from again. Did the victim fall from a window on to the stone courtyard-or was she pushed? Perhaps "the horticulturist" knows. He sounds like a possible clue: "And now to tell and to tell very well very very well how the horticulturist family lived to tell everything, and they live in spite of everything, they live to tell everything...
Hundreds at Cornell know "Lib" Bailey, the nation's most eminent horticulturist, as an erect, white-haired man whom they used to see dragging strange bushes and branches across the campus to his laboratory, where he puttered and purred over them. Sometimes he would grab a visitor by the arm and whisk him off to his garden. There, showing off the blooms and blossoms he had collected from lonely hillsides and jungles all over the world, he would say that his field was the true internationalism: "My pinks speak all languages alike...
Edith's adoptive parents were Matthew Pierre, an ornithologist, and his wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie's "pale unearthly face was . . . like some silky autumn pod." They were about as capable of love as a stuffed finch and a glass calla lily. Edith was twelve when she came to them, 21 when their death freed her. In all her years with them...
Died. John Reynard Todd, 77, lean, legally trained builder and manager of Manhattan's blossom-bedecked Rockefeller Center, and an avid amateur horticulturist (like his good friend Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...