Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of the more interesting recreation habits of the country, reports Ed King, our subscription service general manager. Already some of our peripatetic readers are heading across the country to favorite vacation spots, but most are simply planning to shift northward or waterward away from hot cities and their suburban rims. Even West Coasters, who show less yen to move with the seasons than anybody else, are scheduling some trips into the Pacific Northwest. In the East, Cape Cod remains the traditional favorite, with all of northern New England again due for visits by many TIME subscribers. King also notes...
Intently and seriously, Mère Geneviève studied the space for which she will design the stained glass. The brief journey from her convent at suburban Meudon involved a rare trip into the outside world for the 62-year-old nun who has spent 34 years of her life behind convent walls. Yet in the outside world she is fast becoming a celebrity. Artists and connoisseurs of Paris compare her work with that of Rembrandt, Durer, Goya. French countesses drive out from Paris to the convent at Meudon where she painstakingly turns out her strong, tortured etchings...
...view of the troubled state of the world, King Farouk had promised to make the wedding a simple affair, and perhaps by oriental standards it was. A mere 2,500 people gathered in the square outside Farouk's suburban palace at Kubbeh one morning last week when Egypt's King finally made a Queen of the 17-year-old girl on whom his royal eyes fell over a year ago, when she was the fiancée of a civil servant (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950). The square was lined with mounted lancers and foot guards in immaculate white...
...Vanderbilts who lived on nearby Fifth Avenue. Both the carriage entrance and most of the carriage trade are gone now, but Puckett thinks Stern's new middle-income customers are right for Allied. To get more customers, Puckett plans to build a string of Stern Bros, suburban stores around New York City. Grossing $33 million last year, Stern's will be the 75th store in the chain and second largest. Largest: Boston's $80 million-a-year Jordan Marsh...
Spencer Tracy again plays the suburban paterfamilias who is reluctantly but irresistibly swept past a domestic milestone on a floodtide of warm comedy. This time, just when springtime is making him chipper enough to pinch his wife (Joan Bennett) from ambush, Tracy learns that his daughter (Elizabeth Taylor) will soon make a grandfather...