Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calm, friendly man with a reputation for an even temper, eager Engineer Murphree lives quietly with his wife in suburban Summit. N.J. He relaxes by listening to records on a hi-fi set he assembled and installed himself, and by playing 16-handicap golf. Fellow golfers say he could trim strokes off his score if he would only quit experimenting with new theories on how to improve his game...
...evening touring Violinist Nathan Milstein found himself in Chicago, all dressed up and no place to go. In a bit of a funk, he consulted his contract, which cryptically stated that he was to play a concert that night in suburban Evanston, Ill. Misplaced Person Milstein, at a loss for details on exactly where, appealed for help to the Chicago Tribune's omniscient Drama & Musicritic Claudia Cassidy. Manning her telephone, Claudia finally hit on the right place, just an hour before curtain time. At 8 p.m. Fiddler Milstein, calm but breathless, strode onstage at Northwestern University's Cahn...
...ways better off. Dr. David Hoehn and his wife are the only physicians in Holdingford, Minn, (pop. 500), thus "do everything" from obstetrics to gall bladder operations and would welcome more G.P.s. Dr. Charles Savarese is up against harsh hospital restrictions in Washington, D.C., but at Bethesda's Suburban Hospital he can, deliver babies and perform minor surgery. For all the restrictions, says Savarese, "we generalists do pretty well in Washington. This is a specialists' town, and competition among them is terrific...
...said to myself, 'Why. that sounds like a shrimp.'" Twelve-year-old Susan's tune promptly became Minuet of the Shrimp, one of 300 tunes, poems, dances submitted by 60 sixth-grade pupils of Cincinnati's suburban North Avondale Public School for inclusion in a group cantata, a sweeping experiment at musical education. Last week they had the thrill of performing their work with a professional symphony orchestra. The project began a year ago, when the Cincinnati Symphony played at one of its popular children's concerts a cantata called Moon Rocket, a musical trip...
Lucy Crown keeps one in suspense at the end of every chapter. Will suburban housewife Lucy's summer indiscretion with a younger man turn her marriage to Oliver Crown into a lasting winter of discontent? Can the couple's 13-year-old son Tony grow into a healthy, normal American boy after he peeps through the cottage blinds and sees his mother in the arms and bed of his 20-year-old counselor-companion Jeff? Is humorless, self-contained Oliver to blame for it all be cause he treats his Hartford, Conn, printing plant as a religion...