Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trygve Lie's telephone in New York City's suburban Forest Hills jangled in the small hours. On the line, as he had been in the small hours of June 25, was fast-moving Ernest A. Gross, deputy U.S. representative on the Security Council. This time Ernie Gross had no invasion to report, but his news was potentially as serious. A Russian plane had attacked a Corsair fighter of a U.N. naval force in the Yellow Sea, off Korea's west coast. The plane had been shot down, and the body of a Russian aviator recovered...
...days' jail, or both. ¶ In Houston, Texas, a marauding gang laid down a midnight rock barrage on the apartment of James J. Green, state secretary of the Communist Party, accidentally pelting the neighbors as well. Next day, Green's landlord asked him to move. ¶ In suburban Los Angeles, a World War II veteran named Frank Zaffina, 32, rounded up a posse for a "crusade against Communism," pounced on a half-dozen astonished workmen as they came out of the gates of the Chrysler assembly plant. After three had been badly mauled, Zaffina was surprised to learn...
...mahogany-paneled study of his home in suburban San Angel, Mexico's Red-tinged labor leader, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, has amassed a library of 2,500 books. It includes many prized volumes of Mexican history, gilt-titled editions of Marx, Engels, Hegel, Kant, Darwin and Spencer. Two years ago, in order to help finance his left-wing Popular Party, Lombardo put up his library as collateral for a 6,000-peso ($696) loan from the government's cooperative bank...
Maurice Utrillo, 66, still paints a few of the Montmartre scenes whose pale, subtle coloring and cool geometry of composition made his fame. But red-eyed, emaciated "Monsieur Maurice" no longer visits his old haunts; he sits at home in a suburban stucco villa, staring at his buxom energetic wife and dreaming of the dear, drunken, amazingly productive old days...
Like most A. & P. executives, he had come up through the ranks. The son of a longtime A. & P. employee, Burger was born at Kingston, N.Y., and joined A. & P. at the age of 22 as a part-time clerk. He became secretary in 1925, lives in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y. Like other top A. & P. executives, he was picked by the Hartford brothers, John, 77, and George, 86, who still run the giant chain, also conform to the stern tradition of anonymity. John has six lines in Who's Who in America, George has three...