Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gaunt and nervous, Houdek holed up in his unpretentious suburban home at Great Neck, N.Y., just across the street from a police station, and contemplated the necessity of working for a living. Cocking his ear toward Prague, he said dolefully: "They will . . . declare me a traitor, but I do not regard this as a personal thing...
Morton and his men were fighting a dogged, seldom dramatic battle of containment, with wet snow and rain adding to their difficulties. At suburban East Kildonan a 25-foot dike section burst, swamping 150 homes in a boiling wall of water ten feet high. But in most places the dikes-made of sodden burlap sandbags-were holding...
...change he is determined to make. So far, the BBC has played its broadcast performances in a huge, empty studio in suburban Maida Vale. If Sir Malcolm has his way, he will open the doors to an invited public as Toscanini and the NBC orchestra do. Says he: "One misses the presence of people listening...
...spotlight-hungry Chuck Luckman, Jerry Babb was indeed their man. He was not only unknown to most businessmen, he was also almost unknown in Racine. He had taken part in no civic affairs, had spent his spare time playing golf (low 80s), and bridge. Commuting to work from his suburban home, he often plays cribbage on the train...
...Small Change. Last week Allison's $18 million Northgate shopping center, planned as the biggest in the U.S., opened its doors. Bon Marche's brand-new $3,000,000 suburban branch, first unit to open, was the headline attraction. On the first day 15,000 customers jammed the store, and at week's end, men's suits were selling so fast that Bon Marche had to truck suits to the downtown store for alterations. So many diners crowded into the store's 250-seat "Legend Room" restaurant that on Sunday, when the rest...