Mr. Lanham's Diary: May 4, 1926

He judges a flower show; Columbus paper wins Pulitzer Prize

There was a flower show in Rome today and Anne Lanham and her next-door-neighbor, Mrs. Towers, cut and entered some irises for Mr. Lanham in the “greatest number of named varieties class.” He was also one of three judges.

“Flowers lovely — especially iris,” he wrote. “Not many peonies — a few fine roses.”

On a more significant stage, a front-page story i…