Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During this time there was also a change in Mickey's disposition. From the cocky little youngster who pulled cats' tails and whanged away with six-shooters, he slowly mellowed, like Walt himself, into a more substantial, middleaged, suburban-type mouse-a parallel which, taken together with a certain facial resemblance between Walt and The Mouse when both were young, has convinced Walt's brother that, in fact, "Mickey is Walt...
...been trouble. New York papers, like most others, have been hard hit by spiraling costs (TIME, June 21) and by competition from TV; readers have moved out of the city, and even though they still commute to work in Manhattan, many have fallen into the bad habit of reading suburban papers. As a result, New York dailies have dropped 9% from the 1947 total circulation peak, although national newspaper circulation is at an alltime high of 54.5 million...
...stepped up the play of city news stories, including a notable series of articles on the troubles of New York's schools (TIME, March 15). Like every other Manhattan daily, it is also trying to follow its readers in their flight to the suburbs, has added six new suburban sections (Westchester County, Nassau, Hudson, etc.) and started do-it-yourself features to appeal to new homeowners. But the journalistic move to the suburbs is not easy. Distribution costs are high, and competition is tough from suburban papers that cover their area with a "hometown" thoroughness no New York paper...
...seeming response to Fajon's orders, L'Humanité promptly filled its columns with sports news, nonpolitical features, and sensational six-column spreads on murders. Last week the paper even used what it would have regarded in the past as a "bourgeois" circulation slogan, suggested by a suburban Paris party cell. The slogan: "Every morning, your bread, a good cup of coffee and L'Humanit...
...senior class of 450 in a wealthy suburban high school was delighted by the fact that it had been offered $250,000 in college scholarships. But the school's guidance counselor was disgusted: "We didn't need a single dollar." Why had so much been offered to such a well-to-do few? The fact is, says President John Perkins of the University of Delaware, "something akin to a scholarship racket has evolved." In their blind competition for promising freshmen, many colleges and universities are unwittingly giving aid to students well able to pay their...