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Like Mrs. Rosekrans, Mrs. Christian de Guigne III cites World War II as the only period in her life when things were any less elegant than today. Certain facets, in fact, have not changed a whit: her servants have been with her for close to 25 years; her San Mateo home is the one she moved into as a bride; the French chateau the family visit every year has been theirs for a century. Mrs. de Guigne shops both here and abroad, finds European stores "more fun" but "has a ball" Christmas shopping in Macy's. Dior, Balenciaga...
...Mateo, Calif...
...High & Going Up. Plenty, decided Dr. Chope. He knew that most of San Mateo's residents were newcomers, lonely for home-town ties. They worked in highly competitive fields, and their budgets were strained by sky-high real estate prices and king-sized mortgages. Tension lived on every block, and Dr. Chope attacked it with his own updated concept of public health. He is not a psychiatrist, nevertheless he made his department unique in the nation by paying as much attention to mental as to microbial ills. "In our society today," he said, "stress, frustration and anxiety...
...people come to need the services of Dr. Chope's ultramodern public health department because they try to drown their tension in alcohol. Some, even among the highest paid, become welfare cases if they are too long between jobs, or have a catastrophic illness in the family. "San Mateo is a great place to live," says Dr. Chope, "if you can meet its exacting standards. But it's tough if you fall below the margin...
...recognition of both Dr. Chope's pioneering and the fact that the new pattern of disease so evident in San Mateo is also emerging in many another U.S. suburban community, the American Public Health Association last week gave Dr. Chope one of its annual $5,000 Bronfman awards, donated by associates of Samuel Bronfman, longtime head of Seagram's liquors. Two other Bronfman awards went to Dr. Herman E. Hilleboe, longtime (1947-62) New York State Health Commissioner, and Marion B. Folsom, former (1955-58) Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...