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...reach Supai, Arizona, you turn off Highway 66 at Peach Springs, follow the mail truck 65 miles across the desert to the edge of the Grand Canyon, and then wind your way by packmule to the Canyon floor a mile below...
...mumbled: "You're carrying on a bit much, aren't you mate?" At that, Joan and husband stormed out, followed by the frantic restaurant manager. He had spent most of the day whipping up a special fish sauce for Joan that he said was "comparable to the peach Melba, the tribute to that other Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba." The manager fell to his knees on the sidewalk, kissed Joan's hand and begged her to return. She went back after some hesitation, then tried to laugh away the incident by mimicking orangutans shelling peanuts...
...even laughter with any skill. The only real entertainment is provided by the two pros of the cast, Dorothy Stickney as Mrs. Bigelow and especially Hiram Sherman as Pinky. Sherman is a masterful comic performer and has fine moments as he corrects Tom's spelling or meticulously peels a peach while listening to Tom's confessions, or praises the virtutes of his Pan Am flight bag that allows him to carry both his athletic support and his knitting or whimpers and stamps his foot trying vainly to horrify people with wicked curses. If he were on stage more than half...
...turtle sporting a derby-play with words, con one another, and offer the only trenchant political satire to be found in the comics today. In Johnny Hart's B.C., indolent cavemen, sharpshooting anteaters and terrified ants make droll comments on the modern world. In Mell Lazarus' Miss Peach, megacephalic, supersophisticated school tots show up their elders' ignorance. In Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey, a gawky, hapless buck private makes a hash of military life...
...Tree of Heaven" for Ailanthus altissima, otherwise known as stinkweed, or the ever-popular "Christmas Rose," which is not a rose (it belongs to the buttercup family) and cannot be counted on to bloom at Christmas. As a result of whooped-up claims, thousands of home gardeners plant Elberta peach trees, one of the least rewarding varieties. Another pitfall is the failure of many catalogues to describe the variety of root stock on which a dwarf apple tree is grafted (it will not be a true dwarf if it is not rooted on imported English Mailing stock), or to mention...