Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pick an orchid in the back yard of the house on bomb-battered Leveriza Street where TIME'S Manila correspondents live, but you have to lug some chlorinated water home if you want to brush your teeth. There are half a dozen bullet holes in the walls, and the staff of five TIME & LiFErs there had to get along without lights at night for quite a stretch...
Words such as trusteeship ("entrust administrate system") and Security Council ("total-safety order-affairs meeting") became involved but precise characters. By transliteration Teheran became "virtue black orchid" and Yalta became "elegant...
...Duchess de Talleyrand, 70, chic, spry daughter of the late financier Jay Gould, and a longtime (40 years) resident of prewar France, announced that she would auction off her famed collection of orchid plants-more than 5,000, valued at about $75,000-for the benefit of the Red Cross. In giving up the collection, which blooms in a two-block-long greenhouse on the Gould estate in Tarrytown, N.Y., the Duchess will save some 75 tons of coal for spring heating, can free nine gardeners for other work...
...Well, apparently; and TIME hopes it's mutual. Says Mrs. Ehrmantraut: there were 108 motorists; they put $38 in the hat, wrecked only one baby's highchair, already rickety. The ration board supplied 200 extra red points. Last week Mrs. Ehrmantraut received the Good Neighbor Orchid from Blue Network's Hollywood Breakfast Club...
...story: the ace photographer, the most succulent female feature writer, the foreign editor and the female managing editor of a reasonably LIFE-like picture magazine tour Mexico, Cuba and Brazil, gathering orchid buds where they may for a good-neighborly musical revue. Photographer Phillip Terry, Writer Audrey Long and her fiance (Marc Cramer) sweat out the love interest; Editress Eve Arden is primed with metropolitan wisecracks; Editor Robert Benchley explains the samba, and Ernest Truex adds an eerily funny moment as a mad millionaire who likes to cry hopefully to his guests, "Happyhappy-HAPPY!" In the course of their work...