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Omit Flowers
"Omit Flowers" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published in the November 1948 issue of "The American Magazine". It first appeared in book form in the short-story collection "Three Doors to Death", published by the Viking Press in 1950.
Plot summary.
As a favor for his oldest friend Marko Vukcic, Nero Wolfe takes the case of Virgil Pompa, a chef who traded his genius for a high-paying job as the supervisor of a restaurant
went 65 yards in the air against Auburn. Sportswriter Morgan Blake had this to say of Flowers' play against Auburn: "The Auburn Tiger came up with claws sharpened. As he writhed in death agony when the battle was over, he made one request, 'Please omit Flowers'".
The "Atlanta Journal" wrote that Flowers was "flitting like a phantom, an undulating, rippling, chromatic phantom, over the whitewashed lines". After the 1920 season, Flowers was selected as a third-team