Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strokes, Tessai turned his white paper into a water-lily-strewn waterway and sky; at the same time his forceful brushwork created a protomodern example for much that in Western painting passes for abstract expressionism. Looking at these last works, one Japanese critic mused: "They are like flowers that bloom on an aged plum tree." Then he exclaimed in admiration: "Tessai became a dragon...
...hunt for new roses (and $1,800,000 on ads and other promotion), employs a top geneticist, Eugene S. Boerner, as his chief hybridizer. Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing. From some 250,000 plants nursed along to the bloom stage, less than half a dozen new ones are selected each year to go into J. & P.'s catalogue. A single rose may cost $50,000 to develop, but royalties on a single rose have hit $500,000, so, says Perkins, "it's well worth...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Claire Bloom in Victoria Regina (color...
Goodyear Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). First Love, with Claire Bloom, James Daly (color...
...three-weapon (foil, épée and saber) Intercollegiate Fencing Association championship in The Bronx was still undecided after 593 bouts. In the 594th and final bout of the tournament, Navy's Larry Polk won a slashing saber victory over Columbia's Joe Bloom (5-4), saved the team title for the Middies...