Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the edge of a locust swarm, the frontier of Commuterland advances, driving the farmers before it and leaving deposits of white colonial mansions and wrought-iron signs upon the green, tumbled land. But just ahead of the chirking mass, beyond the last bounds of a commuter's endurance, past the Levittowns and past Newyorkerland with its split-level houses and split-personality admen and Wall Streeters, lies the land of Dinner Party. It is rich farmland which no one farms, populated by Men who have Made their Mark and their families. Their wives scorn elegance in favor...
...HANDSOME Westchester matron, chic in a Hattie Carnegie dress and fragrant with Patou's Moment Suprême, passed TIME Editor James C. Keogh in New York's Grand Central Terminal, humming: "Da-vy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier!" In Beverly Hills, startled Furrier Al Teitelbaum told TIME Correspondent Ezra Goodman that a movie matron had handed him a mink stole and ordered it cut into "coonskin" caps for her two sons...
Other young Davy Crocketts in coonier coonskins around the U.S. have set off a resonant boom and what looks like the beginning of a free-for-all trademark squabble (see BUSINESS' The Wild Frontier) ONE sunny day last week a helicopter landed on the heliport atop the Sankei Kaikan, the daily newspaper Sangyo Keizai's building. Out stepped Edgar R. Baker, managing director of TIME'S international editions. Quickly, pretty Takarazuka girls presented him with a bouquet as thanks for TIME'S story about Takarazuka (in Music, Jan. 3), the city whose principal industry is innocent...
...Jackson Kemper (1789-1870) son of a customs receiver for New York City. He lived in Philadelphia with his first wife, and in Norwalk, Conn, with his second, but he loved the Western frontier. He became the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church, with jurisdiction over Missouri and Indiana. For 25 years Bishop Kemper, with his Greek New Testament, was a familiar figure preaching in Wabash River barrooms and swapping anecdotes with trappers along the Missouri. By the time he died, he had established seven dioceses, founded Kemper College, Nashotah House, Racine College, ¶ Daniel Sylvester Tuttle...
...army. Colonel Bogislav von Bonin, a brilliant officer who rose to become, at 36, an influential member of the German general staff before incurring Hitler's displeasure, proposed that Germany's new army should be defensive only. Von Bonin wanted West Germany's frontier guarded by small "blocking groups," armed chiefly with antitank guns and backed by militia. These would be backed, in turn, by six armored divisions based in Germany itself. The NATO divisions would remain on the Rhine. Germans are interested in defending their homes, he said, but not in retreating through their own territory...