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Everything had a picture-postcard look: the walled city of Quebec, brooding on its cliff above the St. Lawrence; the Maxfield Parrish mountains of the Gaspe; storybook hamlets, and fishing fleets lying like a school of minnows in the bay. There were oxcarts and outdoor ovens, pea soup and acres of cod drying in the sun. And there was Montreal, second biggest French city in the world, with the biggest black market in Canada...
Each of the pea-sized pellets contains in a clay matrix a few husked germs of Lehmann's Lovegrass (a hardy, dry-weather forage crop), a dash of fertilizer and a pinch of insect-&-rodent repellent. Scattered from a "centrifugal planter" (a rimless wheel with spokes of finch pipe), they will seed a swath about 1,000 ft. wide, at the rate of one pellet per square foot. If moisture, sun and temperature conditions are right, the seeds should germinate in the double-quick time of 48 hours, and each will start life with a helpful inheritance of rich...
Last week Sato and Manjome were busy writing a new song. It was titled Lovely, Lovely Sweet Pea...
...straight man in 1941, his show has held its own among favorites. Last week, he entered the top 15 with a Hooper rating of 16.8. He is even better as a storyteller. He sings, growls like a giant, laughs like a villainous ogre, wails like a princess with a pea in her bed. His tag line: "By the way, you better . . . turn over the record . . . while I light a cigar...
...Pablo Picasso's 1930 semi-abstract Crucifixion, a crowded arrangement of pea-green, red and yellow limbs and lumps, in which Christ's face is a tiny knot of pain in the center of a doorknob-shaped skull...