The Coral Gables Times

Suburbia Today THE MAGAZINE OF PLEASANT PLACES Published Monthly

In This Issue . . .

Let Georges Do It . . . page 6 There are three ways to travel, according to Temple Fielding, author of the famous "Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe"—First Class, Economy Class, and Lazybones Class. The last is by far the best, because the Lazybones always lets everybody do everything for him. There are a number of tips on clothing, luggage, food, siestas, wine, and hotel services that can help any foot-loose tourist master the fine art of lazy, contented wandering. A Fuller Life . . . page 12 Though Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome structures have already been used to house auditoriums and factories and theaters, Mr. Fuller believes that their greatest potential lies in private housing. You may one day live in a climate controlled dome, side by side with plants and trees and fountains and flowers. Here is the story of the "Garden of Eden" dome that, we are assured, is a practical reality, coming soon. Pearl Buck Is Indeed Welcome . . . page 20 To be invited as a guest, Miss Buck tells us, is to be given a gift. She talks about visiting and how delightful it is to look out at new scenes from strange windows. She also tells what she expects of herself as a guest—and ends with the most important aspect of any successful visit—knowing when to go home. Shear Enjoyment . . . page 38 By proper training, says Garden Editor John Brimer, you can shape plants to grow tall or short or narrow or broad; you can make fruit trees grow flat against the house; or have an orchard along your driveway. These processes, called "topiary" and "espaliering," are not simple, but they are fascinating and worth every hard moment of creative work.

Albert John Pucci

Cover artist Pucci gets everybody out of doors, this month, helping to put the house and grounds in order for all the fun that's going to start there soon. There's so much to do, it's a good thing the owners have small willing hands to help with it all.

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GETTING AROUND . . . to Our Pleasant Places and People

NEXT WEEK, Memorial Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, will celebrate Mother's Day by presenting to the mother of the first child born on Sunday, May 13, a paid-in-full hospital bill for room and board. In another salute to this season, Memorial will hold its annual Baby Derby Day, when it invites all the children who've been born there since the hospital was built, nine years ago, and their parents, too, for a big party on the front lawn. Each year hundreds of people join the hospital staff in the fun at the reunion. • • And speaking of mothers and their Day and the eyes of love, a reader who lives near Plymouth, Michigan, writes to tell us about the little boy who came into a lingerie shop and shyly asked to buy a slip for his mom, except he didn't know the size. "Is she short or tall? Fat or skinny?" asked the clerk. "She's just PERFECT!" beamed the little boy, as the clerk wrapped up a size 32. A few days later mom, size 54, came in to exchange the slip. • • Oh Texas, dear Texas! The operator of a drive-in movie near Mesquite, Texas, put up this notice: "Please answer your car telephones promptly. Don't disturb other patrons." • • Sign on a new lawn in Alexandria, Virginia: "Please Don't Ruin The Gay Young Blades." Little Lisa Steingart, seven, of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, has been losing her baby teeth for some time now. Each time one came out, just until a short while ago, Lisa has been putting it under her pillow, where the "Tooth Fairy" has exchanged it for 25¢. The last time it happened, however, Lisa refused to follow the usual pillow procedure. Wh her mother asked why, she calmly explained, " think I can get at least 50¢ from Grandpa." • • A government official was addressing the Fairfield, Connecticut, League of Women Voters one day on the subject of population distribution in their area. He told them that all they'd have to do to be elected to public office was get together because there were 6,117 more females than th were males in the electorate. "As you can see," he beamed, "you outweigh us." At that point, a slim lexicologist in the audience objected: "Please! Outnumber, not outweigh." • • We hear that inmates at the prison at Stillwater, Minnesota, who are allowed to wear their own clothes during weekend-recreation periods, have been cautioned against wearing blue Bermu shorts. Any other color is perfectly fine, said warden Ralph Tahash, but blue Bermudas are re-served for the guards. Continued on page 4