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...fields flooded. In that year the brine-soaked polders (fields reclaimed from the sea) have been drained, and some are again growing grass for Holland's dairy herds and grain for Holland's bread. The sandy flats along the North Sea are ablaze again with tulips and hyacinth and narcissus. Broken windows are neatly patched, the cities' rubble cleaned up. Everywhere men are painting doors and balconies and polishing the brass door knobs. On shattered, flooded Walcheren Island, thrifty Hollanders are rooting up German antiglider traps to use for kindling, and to brace the rebuilt dikes. Holland...
...wartime years had left their mark. Weeds grew around once immaculate service stations, in many a gravel drive and rural schoolyard. Vermont's neglected pastures were overrun with purple bergamot, and Louisiana's bayous with orchidlike water hyacinth. Fireweed grew on steep acres of newly logged land in the Western foothills. But in its broad sweep, in color and loom of hill, the land was unchanged...
Oleander and Hyacinth. As the invasion entered its second week the Seventh was beyond such tactical baubles; it was swooping out northwest and northeast at top speed. Already it had secured for its supply establishments a good portion of the Riviera land of pink oleander, grassy seaside terraces, garden walls, pastel villas, lush shrubbery, handsome estates, hyacinths, white beaches and mountain roads that hang like cornices over the cliffs and sea. Already Allied fighter planes were fly ing from southern France...
Seven Harvard men are taking part in the play, including several members of the Dramatic Club. The male lead is played by James A. Doherty 2L, while Prince Albert is Charles Baker '43, and Father Hyacinth is Joseph B. Smith '44. Playing opposite Doherty is Miss Ella J. Van Horn '43. Tickets can be obtained at Agassiz House or at the Coop...
From Rotterdam last week arrived the first of the 100,000,000 tulip, gladioli, iris, hyacinth, crocus and daffodil bulbs worth some $5,000,000 which the Dutch annually export to the U. S. This week the cordial trade relations between The Netherlands and the U. S. blossomed with the announcement that a vacant lot in Manhattan's Radio City will soon sprout a Netherlands Building...