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...part, seemed fairly satisfied with their lot. But the city's young Mayor David McDonald, an earnest, 34-year-old atomic chemist, missed the leavening of free enterprise. It was little things that set him thinking. Once he tried to stop some youngsters who were robbing his backyard peach tree, and got a sassy, truthful reply: "Our teacher says that everything in Richland belongs to the Government." A neighbor came home from work one evening to find his carefully nurtured flower bed torn up; that was where the Master Plan decreed that a Government tree should grow. After five...
...master's best or most ambitious work, but ft did show his genius for color as well as his penchant for whipping cruelty and tenderness together into sexy, curiously unreal oils. His lamplit fisherwomen did not look like the sort that go near the water. Their hot peach flesh was set off by black garters and contrasted with the cold rose, blue and gold of the gasping fish. In the background of the composition, a dour old crone hugged a rigid...
...costume, a frilly, off-the shoulder affair of blue net and lace costing around $500-not including, of course, the halo hat of bogus egret feathers, blue lace gloves ("to take the place of sleeves"), a pearl and diamond necklace, diamond bracelet, diamond earrings, and an armful of peach-colored orchids and maidenhair fern. The bride cried some during the ceremony, but cheered up later over the champagne, when 500 close friends gathered to wish the newlyweds well...
...over a balcony in red-walled, pagoda-roofed Chi Ming (Temple of the Crowing Cock), nods his head down the mountainside toward Lotus Lake. "The willow trees," he says, "are very beautiful this year, but no one seems to care." The willows are blossoming with delicate, pale-green traceries. Peach and cherry blossoms are out, too. Along the top of the crenelated wall that surrounds the city, daisies, pansies and violets bloom. But few notice them in this unhappy spring...
...Danish spongecake, French vanilla bisque, raspberry melba sauce and chopped walnuts sprinkled with brandy. It was no surprise to Gourmet Monteux himself; he had had a sample in advance, and some had even been air-expressed to friends.* But he forked away with a will (see cut). Said "he: "Peach melba, pah! Nobody will talk about it again...