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...other and for a formula fadeout. The younger Mills, abrim with mental health and ebullient spirits and thus strikingly miscast, suggests that she alone knows what it is that makes this Garden grow. Potash? Peat moss? Lime? No, just gobs and gobs of Pollyannalysis, laid on with a silver trowel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Thumbs, None Green | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...Ansley Park-a settlement of houses about half a century old in the center of the city. Nelson and Sara Frank and their four children have ten main rooms and four baths, plus four porches. "You have to be sort of handy with things like a plasterer's trowel," says Sara Frank. "But it's so centrally located that you can walk a block to the public library and get a book on plumbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House: Luxury of Waste Space | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...poach eggs for 20 people or sleep in a tent." What is the appeal of archaeology to an amateur? Finding skeletons and pots, yes. But, adds Miss Chase, after being winterbound in Manhattan, "It's so nice to sit in the sunshine and scrape the earth with a trowel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...face of azaleas and chrysanthemums and orchids and roses in such startling sixes and colors, some flower-show visitors felt like throwing in the trowel. Said one lady in sturdy galoshes: "Honestly. I think they go out and buy them somewhere. Who ever heard of anybody raising anything like this." But under every hat, both flowered and sensible, lay a secret resolve to go home and start digging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suburbia: Tiptoe Through the Tulips | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...winter rain, Italy's Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani picked up a workman's trowel and mortared the cornerstone. The vicegerent of the vicariate of Rome splashed the stone with holy water. Yet all the fanfare was not for some vast new public utility. It was for Movie Producer Dino de Laurentiis and his new $11 million studio, located on a 750-acre site 13 miles south of Rome. It was official recognition that one of Italy's most vital export industries is its booming movie business, and that the biggest thing in Italy's movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: No, But I Saw the Picture | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

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