Word: willow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wharton School of Finance, but left after one semester to enlist in the Navy. For three years (including ten months in the Pacific) Leader was a World War II supply officer. After the war he returned to York County and (with the help of a G.I. loan ) bought Willow Brook Farm, a 28-acre outfit with a tidy 80-year-old brick house and an operating hatchery just 15 miles from his birthplace. After a grinding first year, Willow Brook Farm paid off handsomely. Leader now sells more than 1,000,000 chicks and 60,000 broilers each year...
Mary Leader looks after the three young Leaders and takes care of Willow Brook's books, clattering out the accounts on her typewriter and balancing the books until midnight, most nights, while George relaxes in front of the TV set. (His favorite performers: Imogene Coca, Sid Caesar, Sam Levenson...
When paint failed his purpose, Dove would turn to collage (pasting oddly assorted things together to make a picture). He portrayed his grandmother by superimposing a bit of her needlepoint, a page from her Bible and some pressed flowers, upon old shingles. To depict willow trees in the rain he mounted twigs, flecked with gelatine, on glass. Wild and precise at once, he would try anything, and always with exquisite craftsmanship. Until his death, Dove's painted patterns of blobby color and flickering line gained steadily in emotional refinement, but their refinement resulted in a kind of fragility. Seen...
Neath thick willow boughs...
...revue, reduced to slinging for her supper in a hotel scullery. The hero (Robert Cummings) is a famous songwriter-a fiction scarcely supported by the songs attributed to him-who is staying at the hotel. Doris is soon pleasantly crooning "I'm in love" to a silver-lame willow while mechanical stars dot the screen like light bulbs shining through an I.B.M. card; and instead of a slipper, her Prince Charming offers her a Broadway part...