Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions started popping across the lawn. If elected, what would Eisenhower do with top State-Department personnel? His voice was hard as he replied: "When I say we need a new administration, I mean in all parts." The guests applauded...
...night as he sneaked out, the jail cat sneaked out with him. Ferre tiptoed frantically around the jail lawn after it for half an hour. The cat was always one jump ahead of him, and after he retreated, it hopped up on the sheriff's window and meowed. The sheriff was absolutely certain that he had locked the cat in the jail. The next day, full of unspeakable suspicion, the sheriff moved Ferre to a new cell. Another prisoner found the home-made key. Ferre confessed. "It sure has knocked my faith in human nature for a loop," said...
...Hubert Eaton, 70, director of California's Forest Lawn Cemetery, is a cheerful man. In his credo, inscribed on a tablet at Forest Lawn, he has written: "I believe, most of all, in a Christ that smiles and loves you and me." The sunny decor of Forest Lawn- "the bright and cheerful private slumber rooms ... the beautiful vistas of green lawns and tall trees"-reinforces the theology.* But Dr. (honorary LL.D.) Eaton, who has already stocked his cemetery with a trove of religious paintings and statuary (including a replica of Michelangelo's David, with fig leaf added...
...Italian artists invited to submit them. When the pictures were unveiled, it seemed that a mistake had been made. Six of the portraits did not smile at all. The rest had, at best, sickly grins. Said Eaton: "None of these is any good for Forest Lawn. You'll notice all these paintings, even the smiling ones, have a kind of sad look and a definitely European face. Now, what I'm looking for is a Christ filled with radiance and looking upward with an inner light of joy and hope. I want an American-faced Christ...
...expected to be able to market its new soil-conditioner "Krilium" (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952) until 1953, announced that it had been able to increase production enough to offer it this year, in 5-lb. packages priced at $6.95. One box will condition 80 sq. ft. of new lawn to a depth of 3 in., keep the soil porous and crumbly for as long as three years. Another reason for Monsanto's hurry: competitors were beginning to raid its market...