Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With her genteel English-Southern accent, her silver-haired good looks, and her lavish parties, Mrs. Janet R. Gray was one of Atlanta's most popular hostesses. At her ranch-style home on 15 wooded acres in suburban Doraville, the charming divorcee entertained scores of Atlantans at parties beside her swimming pool hard by the circular exercise track for her show horses. She made friends everywhere. On regular visits to the beauty parlor downtown she always tipped the operator $2 for a shampoo, $5 for a silver rinse. By entering her blonde, buxom niece, Candace Victoria Laine ("I call...
...pinochle player-he has frequently trounced the Archbishop of Canterbury. Regarded as one of the ablest administrators in Protestantism, buoyant Dr. Fry is usually somewhere else in the world than his Manhattan office (which used to be J. P. Morgan's Madison Avenue mansion) or his house in suburban New Rochelle. In the last two years he has circled the globe, visited Russia, India, Australia, Hungary in line of duty. And in the U.S. he makes a field trip about once a month to visit some of his denomination's 4,050 churches...
Unable to have his way, Gaillard offered his resignation to President Coty, who had to put off his own holiday departure for the French Alps. For the final session at Bourgès-Maunoury's house in suburban Saint Germain, ex-Premier Guy Mollet was brought in to swing his Socialists into line. Then the Premier announced to the waiting reporters that 550 billion francs had been whacked off the estimates; over the weekend technicians would try to slice off the remaining 50 billion to satisfy Gaillard. The youngest Finance Minister promised to make his resignation "conditional," i.e., staying...
...Kallet led his organization out of Manhattan into bright new offices and laboratories in suburban Mount Vernon, N.Y., there was trouble in the board room. President Colston Warne, an Amherst College economist, and other directors wanted Consumers Union to use its prestige with consumers to influence U.S. economic policy. Kallet wanted to continue to concentrate on the practical matters of analyzing new products...
While Pianist Liberace and brother George performed at a Sunset Boulevard nightclub, two hooded thugs hid in the garage of Liberace's home in suburban Los Angeles, grabbed their 68-year-old mother, Mrs. Frances Casadonte, as she stepped outside the house, and kicked her unconscious. The attackers stole nothing from the $75,000 house. Said one, as Mrs. Casadonte lay gasping from bruises and a fractured rib: "This will give him something to laugh about." Said the other: "Kick her again and we'll have something to laugh about." Said Liberace:,."We are unaware of the reason...