AGRICULTURE: Step Right Up, Folks

Broadway's Billy Rose knew a good show when he saw one. But this show was almost too good. Rose, a gentleman farmer as well as a newspaper columnist on the side, moaned last week: "I'd appreciate it if Mr. Burpee would take me off his list. Every year around" this time, he sends me a fancy seed catalogue. It's illustrated with pictures of pumpkins big as Cinderella's coach . . . lima beans so big that if Glenn Davis saw one he'd scoop it up and run for a touchdown. Each year I'm...

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