Word: fairfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first encountered Mrs. Bok at the same astronomical conference where he met Harlow Shapley. She was then Priscilla Fairfield, assistant professor of Astronomy at Smith, but Bok's high school English was enough to convince her to forsake an academic career, and they were married a few days after he came to America the next year. She did not give up Astronomy, though, and has collaborated with him on many books, notably one of his principal works, The Milky Way, now in its third edition...
Marriage Revealed. Audrey Bruce, 22, heiress to the Mellon millions, one of three grandchildren of the late U.S. Treasury Secretary (1921-32) Andrew Mellon; and Stephen Currier, 25, consultant to Boston's Swetzoff Gallery; on November 15, in Fairfield, Conn...
...Gruenther personally briefed 175 visiting groups totaling 7,000 people. Outside his office is a card file of visitors, noting the time of their last visit, a brief biography, whether it is "Mr. Fairfield" or "Jack." Once, flying to Britain for a meeting with Members of Parliament, he had aides get out photographs of the 120 M.P.s who had visited SHAPE and thumbnail biographies of each. Said an awed Englishman: "When he walked into Parliament, he knew every damn one of them, greeted them by name, adding remarks like 'How's your new daughter...
...Fairfield County Protective Association and Anti-Defamation League, hastily formed only a few days before, assembled in the spacious (definitely not split-level) dwelling belonging to an account executive of one of the larger New York advertising agencies. Clutching an unaccustomed cup of coffee, and reclining in a canvas chair that sagged gracefully beneath his trim figure, the host and chairman began...
Well might Connecticut's Fairfield County be indignant. Well might the fire bells ring through Pennsylvania's Bucks, and icy disdain waft across Long Island's North Shore. For Author Spectorsky, once a commuter himself, has turned traitor to his class and performed a hatchet job on the commuting world around New York City. He writes not about Suburbia ("dull and demure domesticity") but about Exurbia, his word for the belt just beyond. Unlike many more naive chroniclers, Spectorsky does not pretend that all the suburbs or exurbs are alike. And he records the differences with...