Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Wabash running a close second, the most musically celebrated of U. S. rivers is probably the misnamed Swanee.* But during the past year suburban Connecticut's sluggish Saugatuck has meandered into the national consciousness. Last March the arty town of Westport, on its banks, got into an argument with itself about whether or not to become "the U. S. Salzburg" (TIME, March...
...Mexican who has been paid is Gabino Vazquez, chief of the Federal Agrarian Department For his expropriated farm and 50 cows in suburban Atzcapozalco, President Cardenas let him have 100,000 gold pesos...
...Bing" or "Klondike" is what convicts in Philadelphia's County Prison at suburban Holmesburg, Pa. call it: a narrow, thick-walled little brick cell block where fractious inmates are put for "treatment." It holds nine cells, each 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, 10 ft. high. In each cell are a small sink with one spigot, a "hopper" (toilet) and six bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot...
...Arthur Carl Piepkorn, 29, who graduated from Concordia College in Milwaukee, Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, took a Ph.D. at University of Chicago, was ordained to the ministry-all before he was 23. Last autumn Dr. Piepkorn was called to Cleveland's substantial, suburban Faith Lutheran Church. Last week he and his 600 parishioners promulgated a set of rules based on his belief that "a church wedding is a Christian religious service...
...palette. "His talent," said his awed teacher, Philip Bibel, "is accompanied by the most amazing energy I have ever encountered.'' He painted cowboys, G-Men, scenes from movies, elevated trains, football players, his playmates, views of Claremont Parkway and Washington Avenue, and the scene that meets the suburban eye as frequently as any other-women pushing baby carriages. His figures were recognizable, except that, as in most child's drawings, the legs were frail and extended; but he used whatever colors fitted his general composition, getting red or green skies if they seemed right, and slapping...