Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicagoan, and one of the richest women in the U.S. She gives impeccable dinners, served on gold plate and fine Lowestoft china. She is a cousin by marriage of Bertie McCormick. She owns fabulous emeralds, pearls and old masters, presides over a luxurious Lake View Avenue apartment, a Wheaton suburban estate, a mansion at Seal Harbor, Me. and another in Miami. She is a generous benefactor of the Chicago Art Institute (her husband Chauncey is president), and a bountiful worker for many charities. The queen, nearly everybody in Chicago agreed, was just right. After all, Athlyn explained, "Mrs. McCormick...
Eddie was dropped by parachute, made his way on a commuters' train to London, and holed up in a suburban boardinghouse. With his wireless set he established contact with his German masters. But he also made a call from a pay telephone to a British official. Eddie explained that he had been parachuted in by the Germans, and described his mission, but said he wanted to work for England. Brashly, he named his price-a full pardon for all his safecrackings, and permission to keep the ?2,000 the Germans had supplied him with. The British accepted his terms...
While Dr. Leo M. Taran was gathering ideas for a new operating suite, to be built at St. Francis Hospital and Sanatorium for Cardiac Children at suburban Roslyn, N.Y., he visited dozens of U.S. hospitals and inspected their equipment for delicate heart surgery. Always he ended by asking his hosts: "What's wrong with it?" And always, from their experience, they could suggest improvements. Last week, as medical director of St. Francis, Dr. Taran unveiled the operating suite that he had planned as a result of these studies. It had everything...
...England's Yankee ingenuity in creating new jobs was the feat performed by the little town of Harmony, Me. Its 700 harmonious citizens contributed $22,000 to pay one-third the cost of a new shoe factory which will employ 120 people. At Framingham, Mass.. Suburban Centers Trust Co.'s huge retail area (see cut) was typical of the growth of shopping centers all over...
Father Heuss, born in suburban Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., is painfully aware of how much of parish work lies in trying to undo the damage of the city itself. Says he: "Everything rubs rawer here. We must be healers in the midst of great hurt...