Swing (Jan-Dec 1950)

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wpm mow AREMS Polygamy is preferred by Phoenix Dactylifera — and it's not against the law! by LANIER BARRETT ALTHOUGH polygamy is outlawed in the United States it is none the less practiced widely in our Southwest. Not in Hollywood which, justly or unjustly, has been accused of almost every other divergence from the accepted social order, but ninety-odd miles southeastward in the Coachella Valley. There, in a desert region similar to that of Arabia, the Sultan of the family, Phoenix Dactyli' fera, stands proudly among his harem of from fifty to one hundred females of the species, blessed and sponsored by Uncle Sam. Spaniards first planted the Phoenix Dactylifera, or date palm, in the Americas all of three hundred years ago, but it was not until the twentieth century that commercial date culture claimed a spot on the horticultural calendar of the United States. 4£?