Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missouri has ten Democratic Representatives, only one Republican. Second District (St. Louis) Republican Incumbent Thomas Curtis is in real trouble against Lawyer James L. Sullivan, former chief counsel for Thomas Hennings' Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency. Curtis has been badly hurt by a migration to his heavily suburban district of workers from heavily Democratic South St. Louis...
...nothing more than a four-year-old child with fur," burbled an adman pursuing a dog-food account. This kind of talk might offend some old-fashioned parents, but the pitchman knew on which side his yummy was sugared. In ten years of more money and suburban living, U.S. dogs have increased 35% to 26 million; more than 40% of U.S. homes have one or more. U.S. consumers now spend more for dog food than baby food. In 1948 they bought less than i billion Ibs.; last year they spent $350 million for 2.1 billion Ibs. In the next five...
...headquarters from New York to Orlando, Fla. he cut costs and communication problems, trimmed marketing expenses by converting salesmen into brokers working on commission. Meanwhile, the growth of Florida cities has nearly tripled the value of Minute Maid's grove holdings to $28.8 million. Fox plans to sell suburban acreage each year, buy more rural property for groves...
...unhappy faculty for confusing freedom with irresponsibility, for abusing the Zen Buddhist idea of the inseparability of good and evil by using it as an excuse for self-indulgence. Kerouac's protest against the urban work life (which he once called "the midtown sillies world") and the suburban home life of the U.S. middle class ("all that dumb white machinery in the kitchen") is trenchant but scarce!" new. And Kerouac's cult of "spontaneous writing" makes his pages at least as sloppy as they are sprightly; but if his style irritates, it seldom bores...
Died. John McPartland, 47, husky, bushy-haired chronicler of suburban sex foibles (No Down Payment), successful freelance journalist; of a heart attack; in Monterey, Calif. McPartland, who once wrote, "Sex is the great game itself." lived as harum-scarum a life as any of his characters, had a legal wife and son at Mill Valley, Calif., a mistress at Monterey who bore him five children and who, as Mrs. Eleanor McPartland, was named the city's 1956 "Mother of the Year." Later, McPartland's legal widow submitted the daughter of an unnamed third woman...