Word: rosebushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Lewis Neuberger, in a newsletter to his constituents this week: he was sorry that he could not present some rosebush slips to the President on behalf of the Portland Rose Festival, but the ceremony might tax the President's "definitely limited" strength. Mourned Neuberger: "We have a President who is not a well...
...Hard Way. In Dayton, Charles Balke was arrested after he cracked into three garages, rammed into the side of a house, careened across three lawns, ran down a rosebush, bounced off a tree, crunched into a parked convertible-all in an attempt to put his car in his garage...
...Unwanted Rosebush. Finally, says Cox, "I started applying common sense to my pursuits." In 1948, he joined a Greenwich Village dramatics group. It soon folded, but his director encouraged him to go on alone. Cox polished up a few comic monologues, got a nightclub job, was soon working on radio & TV as well...
...that he is firmly established in show business, Cox is confidently pursuing the urgings of his common sense. He hopes to get his teeth into playwriting, already has completed a script, Violets Are Blue (about an unwanted rosebush). Although he is now making $1,000 a week (roughly 40 times his silversmithing salary), he still lives simply in a Manhattan apartment, drives the motorcycle he bought from his friend, Actor Marlon Brando, still patches his trousers with plastic cement. He spends his weekends flower-watching on a newly acquired 2½-acre field in Rockland, N.Y. "Next thing," he says...
...Thorns. In Detroit, Mrs. Raymond Kidd won a divorce after testifying that her husband tossed her into her mother's rosebush, told her: "Your mother can have you back...