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...Paramhansa Yogananda (a Bengali pseudonym meaning approximately Swami-Bliss-through-Divine-Union) is something of a document. It is not likely to give the uninitiated much insight into India's ancient teachings. It does show exceedingly well how an alien culture may change when transplanted by a businesslike nurseryman from the tough soil of religious asceticism into hothouses of financial wealth and spiritual despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Here Comes the Yogiman | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

I.S.C.G.T.R.C. got started in 1943 when Earl May, a wealthy Iowa nurseryman, put up $75,000 for a five-year investigation of primitive corn. The following year a group of Guatemalan businessmen offered $150,000 to U.S. agricultural colleges for research work in Guatemala. Iowa State snapped up both offers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Corn Goes Home | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Somewhere on the banks of the Muscatatuck River, in the mid-19th Century, lived Jess Birdwell, Quaker and nurseryman. Jess thought he had everything life could give, except a chance to listen to music. His wife, Eliza, was a minister-"good-looking, as female preachers are apt to be." But like most of the local Quakers, Eliza believed that music was "a popish dido, a sop to the senses, a hurdle waiting to trip man in his upward struggle." She had to give Jess a pretty stern nudge in the ribs every seventh month, fourth day (Fourth of July), when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Music on the Muscatatuck | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...first time two new flowers, created by the genetic effect of X-rays on seeds, were offered by a nurseryman to U.S. gardeners this week. Both flowers are calendulas, one a large, golden, double-petaled variety, the other an orange semidouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Flowers by X-Rays | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Then George Jennings, a nurseryman, the biggest customer the Ralston post office has-he sends out some 300 letters and bills a month-heard what Mrs. Groene wegen was up to. On his mail is a picture of the post office and the legend: "Oldest U.S. Post Office Building." Mr. Jennings was indignant. Said he: "This building ... is our only claim to fame. It means a lot, too, to stamp collectors who want the Ralston postmark in their albums." Mr. Jennings wrote to New Jersey's Senator W. Warren Barbour, asked him to take a stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Miserable Postmistress | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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