Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mamma's Boy. An accomplished pianist, art dealer and amateur historian, Hanfstaengl looked down his cultural nose at Hitler. Not only did the man resemble a suburban barber on his day off; he could not tell a Caravaggio from a Michelangelo. Worse, he seldom paid his debts, loved to stuff himself with pastry and whipped cream, sat delightedly through three showings of King Kong. Hitler, says Putzi contemptuously, was a Muttersöhnchen (mamma's boy) whose impotence may have been caused by syphilis and who resented all those who could enjoy normal sexual relations...
...beneath his self-deprecating, unruffled exterior is a sensitive, often defensive man whose slight-looking build (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) shoulders a sizeable chip. Proclaiming his motto to be "Leave everybody to hell alone," Paar lives quietly with his second wife, a daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been all kinds of bets that I won't last. I told them if it is a miracle and I'm still here after Jan. 1, who performed it? Tell me that...
...best remaining elements in town. Newark's long-entrenched, pie-splitting, five-commissioner government was whirling merrily along, copying notorious Jersey City in petty graft and inefficiency. In despair, big insurance companies (Newark is the U.S.'s second-largest insurance city) took out options on suburban sites, blueprinted plans to take their bulky payrolls out of the city. Then early in 1953, a handful of worried citizens, encouraged by the Newark News, sat down to map a counterattack against apathy and decay. Says President Robert Cowan of the National Newark & Essex Banking Co.: "Up until that time...
...sales: more than $70 million), which calls itself a "promotional department store" and is even listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has quickly fanned its discount selling into the suburbs to follow population trends. Of its eleven stores, four (including two supermarkets) are in Westchester County, Long Island, suburban Philadelphia; seven of the nine new Korvette stores planned by the end of 1958 will be in other bustling suburbs...
...learned just how extraordinary Jack Hubbard's talents were. A federal grand jury indicted him on charges of willful misapplication of bank funds, false entry, conspiracy to violate national banking laws, misuse of mails and interstate telegraph wires. Possible loss to seven banks, including Fort Worth's suburban River Oaks State Bank, of which Hubbard became president last year...