Word: birnbaums
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Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum is strictly from Eastern urb and suburb, but went into training for the story by camping out at Jackson Hole, Wyo., and some of his delight rubs off in the telling. Among correspondents who supplied material for the story are a number of old campers. Kenneth Froslid of the Chicago bureau, a camper since the age of five, originally proposed the cover after camping out on an 8,200-mile cross-country Volkswagen tour with his wife. He has since graduated to the amenities of an Apache Chief camping trailer. Bob Wood, who filed from...
Meanwhile, 17 TIME correspondents in Washington were finishing their running, 50,000-word report of the pomp and panoply of the inaugural. In Manhattan, Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum with the assistance of Researcher Joanne Funger distilled the essence, wrote the cover story, his 14th (among others: the fast-breaking cover story of Kennedy's election victory for the TIME Election Extra). As a result of long planning and fast footwork, TIME met all its many deadlines, delivered on schedule this week's word-and-picture account of a turning point in the 20th century...
...sure that Artist Chapin could have come up with a more accurate symbolic conception of the suburban wife. The face is O.K., but that hairdo-never. Wife of Associate Editor Birnbaum would have made an excellent model...
Still, perhaps the most vividly revealing tableau of suburban housewife-in-action came right at home while Jesse Birnbaum was writing the cover story. Wife Beth was waiting for admission to a Manhattan hospital for a minor operation. In the last hours before she took to a hospital bed, while running a fever from a throat infection, she went through a schedule that would have exhausted a Pilgrim's wife. She gave two music lessons, did a week's marketing, and decorated the den for an evening recital of one of her viola students.* The recital was topped...
This week Mrs. Birnbaum was happily back at home in East Meadow, ready to cast a knowing eye at what her husband had written about the suburban wife...