Word: birnbaums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer of this week's cover story on Suburbia is about as expert as a man can be on the subject of the suburban wife: he is married to one. TIME Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum, his wife Elizabeth and their two children-David. 9. and Daniel 4-live in a well-mortgaged, brick and shingle split-level in the seven-year-old Lakeville Estates development in East Meadow, L.I., 30 miles east of Manhattan. There. Mrs. Birnbaum who holds an M.A. from the Eastman School of Music, and was once a member of the music faculty at Baylor University...
While Writer Birnbaum had the advantage of this firsthand source, he was also provided with the extensive research of 21 TIME correspondents, who roamed the suburbs encircling 21 U.S. metropolitan centers from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Portland, Me. to Dallas. Interviewing hundreds of commuting doctors, lawyers and P.T.A. chiefs, not to mention their wives, the reporters produced more than 400 pages of the rich lore of Suburbia...