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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They testify to his bloody military triumphs, his glorification of Rome and desecration of alien gods, his famous cuisine. But he gets little sympathy from the jury until one witness tells how the general brought a cherry tree from Asia and planted it in the Apennines; then the jury retires to consider his case, and it looks like limbo for Lucullus...
...morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember . . . that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were...
...request, he left her no say in the Trib. "I'm not a newspaperwoman." says Maryland McCormick. "Some people thought I would take a bigger hand in things, but I just don't want it." The Colonel did spot an heir way down on the family tree. In his will he asked that seven-year-old Mark McCormick Miller, Bazy Tankersley's son by her first marriage, be "given an opportunity to be employed on the staff of the Chicago Tribune [to] carry on the great newspaper tradition of Joseph Medill...
...Phoenix, Ariz., police arrested Jimmy Verdugo on suspicion of drunkenness after they found him in a tree and heard his explanation that he was 1) looking for cigarette butts, 2) waiting for a bus, 3) looking for a girl to dance with...
...such the scenario provides a few fine bits of very smart Alec. "Remember,'' he remarks vaguely to his son as they inspect their room in a French hotel, "that's not a foot bath." Best of all is the moment when Alec, having rashly climbed a tree to retrieve a badminton bird, staggers at last out of a series of vegetable ignominies. And where is the bird? It is not hard to imagine, as dazedly he picks the feathers, one by one, out of his teeth...