Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switching mental energy from office problems to equally absorbing outside diversions. "It's a question of substituting one set of problems for another," says Dr. Paul A. Krueger, development director for a St. Louis chemical company, who sloughs off business worries after hours as a city councilman in suburban Ferguson, Mo. More and more businessmen are finding painting an outlet for nervous energy. Eight Manhattan executives play in their own dance band. Across the U.S., businessmen's pastimes range from astronomy to zither playing, but they serve their purpose only when they consistently keep the mind away from...
...half-fare "Ladies' Day" tickets each Wednesday were an instant hit with the female population in the commuting perimeter. But they resulted in more overcrowding, more slowdowns and more complaints. The public was well pleased when McGinnis began a program of improving and enlarging the parking lots at suburban stations. Then he announced a monthly parking charge of $5.50 a car. While the customers howled over what amounted to a concealed hike in their commutation-ticket fares. Pat McGinnis turned the affair into a real Donnybrook with a speech in Norwalk. "Because I want to charge a lousy five...
...each girl got a one-fifth share of their $1,000,000 trust fund, the Dionne sisters have been trying to slip out of the spotlight that has shone on them since birth. They began wearing different clothes and hairdos. Yvonne and Cecile continued training as nurses at a suburban Montreal hospital, Marie returned to a convent and Annette went to study music at Nicolet, Que. But a month ago, the separation became unbearable and the sisters reunited in Montreal...
...suburban Wheaton, 22 miles west of Chicago, a similar crusade is on. Explains one angry mother: "They teach the beginning and ending consonants of each word well into the first grade-and I mean well into the first grade-and they expect the child to sort out the vowels for himself. I didn't send my child to school to guess at the vowels. I sent him there to be taught the vowels." The mother is now awaiting the school board election next month. "Then," says she, "we're going to lower the boom...
...none other than Princess Margaret, a fixture on most rosters of the world's best-dressed women. Seeming to care less for conventional ensembles than she did before her cliff-hanging rejection of Group Captain Peter Townsend, Margaret had turned up for the races at London's suburban Hurst Park in an outfit that, for once, really stunned fashionabobs. Her arresting getup: a heavy, goblin-style hat, a fur-collared, knee-length cloth coat with mannish lapels, a dress of another material but with black buttons matching the coat's, shoes and handbag in suede, the whole...