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an article in McCALLS in August of last year and in interview ith a Sam Burns of WINS But I am not going to make any more public appeals or efforts. I'm going to try to, if I have funds enough, plant a few hundred cherry trees on the West Side Drive to look like the Potomac.

You mean on the slopes there?

On the slopes and along the river. I decided the Drive has quite a lot of space.

There is, I know that -- will cherry trees do well there?

Well, they do well in the Park and at the UN, so why shouldn't they? We'll just try.

It's so awfully exposed, - the winds that come up there.

Yes, it is cold. I must say that. But it's cold in Washington too.

You got various of your friends interested in beautification here in New York. You got Mrs. Bennett Cerf, I remember.

Yes. But we've had terrible trouble with Mr. August Heckscher who doesn't care about it. Well, I also hope to plant about 300,000 white daffodils along the West Side Drive and maybe