Word: vines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cheryl Crawford) was probably Shakespeare's farewell to the theater-a farewell of mingled enchantment and ennui. Done with trying to make sense of life-or even of a play-Shakespeare pitched upon a strange island world almost outside geography. There, while his playwriting became a tangled, stunted vine, his poetry blazed like a burning bush. There Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born." There also the shipwrecked men tediously...
Five years ago both Hearst and his empire were withering on the vine. Some drastic pruning had to be done. Hearst's imperious orders to his papers ("The Chief says") were sometimes set aside by General Manager Joseph Vincent Connolly. Trustee Clarence J. Shearn, a dry little Manhattan lawyer with complete control of Hearst finances, restricted the Chief to a paltry $100,000-a-year salary. To save what was left, Shearn sold, consolidated or killed papers, and started selling off big chunks of Hearst's enormous collection of artistic junk (bought for $35 million, worth perhaps...
Ollie Reeves, poet laureate of the Atlanta Constitution, recently broadcast this ode to a plant whose exploits are becoming the talk of the South. Kudzu (rhymes with good zoo) is a vine which, say Arkansans, grows so fast that men drop kudzu roots into the ground and run. It has been known to grow as much as twelve inches in a single day, as much as 100 feet in a season...
Kudzu is an old Japanese plant, grown in the Orient for its edible tubers (roots) and hemp-like fiber. In the U.S., where it was first grown in 1895, it has been known chiefly as a fast-growing porch vine. But southern farmers now cultivate it as a field plant to cover eroding soil. Planted from "crowns" (roots and buds), it spreads quickly, putting down new roots like strawberry runners. Its big leaves, shed each fall, eventually cover the ground with a thick, flaky carpet like a forest floor. Because it may be winterkilled by hard frosts...
Latest of the fast-growing list of "Chase Chorus Boys" is the eminent and spindly-legged Randy "Ghost" Phillips. Shades of Hollywood and Vine Appeared as the patrons of the Latin Quarter viewed the night beauty contest, and Phillips' frail physique. For dead old Harvard, Randolph came through, and received a bottle of wine for his efforts...