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They cleaned the cans off the Heinz sample counter, fell-or jumped-into Fountain Lake, leaped on the revolving platform in the Glass Center patio for a merry-go-round, scrambled up the rigging of the clipper ship Yankee, exchanged black eyes, rushed across flower beds, awed barkers, frightened monkeys in Jungleland, slid down a spiral staircase in the Street of Tomorrow, wrote their names on every virgin wall, on the base of the Perisphere, and George Washington's feet...
...their churches, and the cassock has not been seen in the streets of most Mexican states for many years. An eye opener for U. S. adepts of "selective indignation"* was a photograph circulated last week. It showed a group of Mexican and U. S. prelates, gathered in the patio of the home of Mexico's Archbishop Luis M. Martinez. He and the Archbishop of Morelia wore their soutanes because, presumably, they were staying indoors. The others wore sack suits and neckties...
...little Pablo appears in a revealing flash in a story of his being given a pair of roller skates: instead of skating on them he took them apart and, with huge amusement, attached each pair of wheels to the flippers of an enormous tortoise, whose slow progress around the patio had annoyed...
...going became tough for Tradition in the plans for the Calvert family of Los Angeles (income $3,000 to $4,000), for whom Modernist William Wilson Wurster's graceful patio house out-pointed Traditionalist H. Roy Kelley's "California Colonial." A walkaway for the moderns was provided by Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Blackbourn family of Minneapolis (income $5,000 to $6,000), which reduced the merit of Royal Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury...
...young Californian named Carl Schmidt discovered the Fuerte in the patio of Señor Alejandro LeBlanc in Atlixco, Mexico. He sent a few buds back home, the middle classes of the U. S. began to hanker after avocados, and in 1934-35 there was a bumper crop of 20,000,000 pounds which brought in $600,000 to California avocado growers. But last year there was another Big Freeze, which went hard with avocados. Ordinarily, the avocado harvest lasts through the summer, but by last week this season's harvest was over...