Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long Island's Newsday, the thriving (circ. 272,441) suburban tabloid that ordinarily gives itself mostly to news, conventional features, and a fat assortment of advertising pages, last week handed its readers something new in its 18-year history: a thick supplement containing a new, brain-twitching book by a famed writer. The book's title: Tyranny Over the Mind. Author: English-born Novelist Aldous (Brave New World) Huxley...
AMONG the letters TIME'S editors receive from readers all over the world, there is a batch every now and then from the half-industrial, half suburban city of San Leandro, Calif, (pop. 64,714), 17 miles from San Francisco. The reason, we learned last week, is an attractive schoolmarm named Adele Fridhandler Levine, 30, who teaches the popular world-affairs course at San Leandro High School. Her students' main textbook: TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine...
...addition, Boston has eleven suburban dailies with a combined circulation of 193,000, and the Christian Science Monitor (circ. 162,000), primarily a national newspaper of comment and review...
...walkout began when Frank Cousins, boss of the Transport and General Workers' Union, turned down the Industrial Court award of an 8½-shilling-a-week raise ($1.19) for 36,000 busmen of the inner city, and nothing for suburban drivers. Cousins was in no tactical position to strike, but felt bound to do so anyway. He accused Prime Minister Macmillan's government of wanting a "showdown with labor," and Laborites demanded in the House of Commons that the government intervene immediately to end the strike. "It is for myself," replied Labor Minister Iain Macleod icily, "to judge...
...Marshall Field & Co. since 1949, was named chief executive officer to succeed Hughston McBain, 56, who retired as chairman and chief executive after 15 years. Palmer has worked hand in hand with McBain in guiding Marshall Field through a postwar expansion period that saw the opening of three suburban stores, doubled total store space, pushed sales up some 35% (fiscal 1957: $219,011,532). A onetime professor of marketing at the University of Chicago, Palmer joined Field's in 1936, became president after he turned down an offer to become board chairman of Montgomery Ward. ¶ Lee Talley...