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...mediation, he sent a thank-you gift of 2,000 Japanese cherry trees to the city of Washington in 1909. When the trees reached the U.S., however, the Department of Agriculture looked the gift trees in the bark and found they were heavily infested with the San Jose and the West Indian peach scale, Oriental moths, earwigs, and thrips. The Department had them destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Distant Visions | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

Lover's Choice. In Detroit, Mrs. Patricia J. Stephens won a divorce after testifying that her husband thought "it was very funny to kiss the dog, give me a pat on the head and walk out the door." In San Jose, Calif., the court granted Mrs. Marcia Lightner a divorce when she quoted her husband as saying "I love [my] horse more than any human in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1950 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Carter won the broad jump at just under 21 feet, with Bob Ray a quarter inch behind. Dick Barwise went five feet, 10 inches to take the high jump with Geick third, and Bud Lockett was second to Terrier Jose Barbosa's 11 feet in the pole vault...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Track Team Beats Holy Cross, B.U. | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Unless Bud Lockett comes through, the Crimson will be lucky to get anything in the pole vault. Terrier Jose Barbosa, sixth in the Olympics, does a consistent 13 feet...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Track Team Faces B.U., Holy Cross | 4/29/1950 | See Source »

Best guess was that Patterson had trod on the pink toes of President Juan Jose Arévalo's "Spiritual Socialist" government by harping too strongly on the influence of Communists in Guatemala. No responsible observer has claimed that Arevalo's government is run from Moscow. But some open Communist sympathizers (the party itself is legally banned) have risen to key positions in the labor movement, and have taken advantage of government support to badger U.S. companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Diplomat's Difficulties | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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