Word: wisteria
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...England woods the fiddlehead ferns were unfolding, and blankets of wisteria spread over the houses. Outside Santa Fe, ribbons of green laced the brown adobe on the flatlands, and here and there the full-flowering lilacs formed purple buttons. On riverbanks of the Northwest, wild rhododendrons, spiraling up to 30 feet, were spreading red and pink and white blooms two hands wide. Spring was full-blown in the U.S., and the nation's prevailing mood seemed to be as bright as its blossoms...
...strolled out to a wisteria-covered arbor. Arthur Dean looked up at the cloudless sky and said: "Mr. President, make it rain." "You know that's impossible, Mr. Dean," Rhee answered. "Only the laws of the universe can make it rain." Dean smiled and said: "The exchange rate of the hwan is the same thing. Only the laws of economics can keep it steady...
...Wisteria & Decay. On the drama front, TV last week went regional with a vengeance. Two shows dealt with the decay-and-magnolia theme of the Deep South...
...tried valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had a tendency to shoot upstate troopers. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, there was plenty of hysteria mixed in with the wisteria as Massa Zachary Scott kept mooning about the veranda of his columned home while trying to make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose between his ever-loving wife...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Wisteria Trees (adapted by Joshua Logan from Chekhov's Cherry Orchard), with Helen Hayes, Joseph Cotten...