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...Green Thumb. In Detroit, police found longtime Drug Addict J. Papp standing on the grass in the center strip of the Willow Run Expressway holding a shovel, some fertilizer, and a cigarette package full of marijuana seeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Eight Days, by Gabriel Fielding. A Roman Catholic convert is planted under the North African sun and tended with a Greene thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Meanwhile, by far the most active operative on the Tufts side of the field was coach Bob Meeham, who carried on a running verbal battle with the plate umpire that would have earned him a thumb and a shower in any professional game. His loud-spoken comments to the unfortunate arbiter included such pleasantries as "rabbit-ears," "Get into the ball game," and assorted profanities...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Johnson's Four-Hitter Edges Tufts, 4-3 | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

...with homeowners who are jealous of their picture-window view ("They come at me like a bear," says one foreman, "if they don't like where I put a pole"). He must also be ready for the occasional lonely housewife who meets him in a negligee. Rule of thumb: get out, and come back when hubby is home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...thumb. Another junior epic: the familiar Grimm tale, tastefully refurbished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Time Listings, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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