The Coral Gables Times

Suburbia Today THE MAGAZINE OF PLEASANT PLACES Published Monthly

In This Issue . . . The First Family Commutes . . . page 6

How is Middleburg, Virginia, making out, now that that young couple with their two children have been spending their spare time there for six months? Fitzhugh Turner, publisher of the local paper, finds, this month, that it hasn't made much difference at all—which is exactly what both the Kennedys and the townspeople were hoping would happen.

The Pleasures Of Wodehouse . . . page 12

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, eighty years of age, grand old man of humorous letters, creator of Jeeves, and author of almost a hundred books that have delighted and enlightened three generations of people all over the world, has, in his own words, slowed down a little. "What do you do for fun in the suburb of Remsenburg, New York?" we asked him. His reply will both charm and amuse you.

Not By Bread Alone . . . page 14

We honor big biceps and small starlets and best-dressed women, but there are very few honors for our teachers, the people who make literate human beings out of our children, says noted attorney Morris Ernst. It's because, he adds, most attempts to tell a teacher that he's appreciated are called "apple-polishing." Mr. Ernst proposed that annual awards be set up in colleges through which a grateful student body can say "Thank you" to outstanding members of the faculty.

Anchors In The Way . . . page 24

With pleasure-boating the gigantic participation sport that it has become in the past few years, our waterways are becoming almost as jammed and hazardous as our highways are during peak commut-ing hours. Many areas are waking up to the fact that some regulations are necessary governing licens-ing, hot-rodding-on-the-waves, and proper policing of the waters. Here is what is being done to see that boating remains both safe and pleasurable.

Frederic Marvin

Our brilliant young cover artist's beautiful multicolored woodcut print was inspired by a scene he observed while on a train speeding towards his parents' home in Boulder, Colorado, where he spends one month each summer.

LEONARD S. DAVIDOW Publisher ERNEST V. HEYN Editor-In-Chief MARION LOWNDES Editor DELMAR LIPP Managing Editor CHRISTINA PAPPAS Associate Editor PHILLIP DYKSTRA Art Director JOHN BAILEY Humor Editor SUBURBIA TODAY is distributed nationally with newspapers in selected suburban communities. Editorial offices at 60 East 56th St., New York 22, N. Y. Advertising offices at 575 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N. Y. Business offices at 153 North Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, III. Walter C. Dreyfus, Vice President. Patrick O'Rourke, Advertising Director. Ford King, Advertising Manager. Morton Frank, Director of Publisher Relations. © 1961, Suburbia Publishing Corporation, 153 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, III. All rights reserved.

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GETTING AROUND . . . to Our Pleasant Places and People

THANKS FOR THE TIP, Mrs. Victor Lehner, of Glenview, Illinois, who says that sometimes you're very lucky if you have ants in your plants. One warm day, when Mrs. Lehner was showing off her lush garden to a friend, she noticed that her peonies were overrun with ants. She dashed into the house for the spray gun but was stopped just in time by her friend, who warned that the plants would never bloom if the ants were destroyed. Ants, she explained, eat the waxy covering on the peony buds. This turned out to be the best advice Mrs. Lehner ever took because now, she tells us, her peonies are the pride of the whole neighborhood. So, if you have peonies and you see the buds covered with ants, leave the hard-working creatures alone. They're doing you a big favor. An eight-year-old friend named Billy, reports Mrs. Max Kloeris, of Fenton, Missouri, wrote the following essay on geese: "Geese is a low, heavy-set bird which is mostly meat and feathers. His head sits on one end and he sits on the other. Some geese, when they get big, has curls on their tails and is called ganders. Ganders don't have to sit and hatch but just eat and loaf and go in swimming. If I was a geese, I'd rather be a gander." Mr. E. H. Pope of Irondequoit, New York, is now driving his summer cars. He has put his winter cars in storage. Mr. Pope maintains this fleet, it seems, because he doesn't want to subject the summer cars to the wear of salt spread on the streets during the cold weather. There are six cars in all—three Rolls-Royces and, says Mr. Pope . . . three other cars. Some librarians can handle anything. For instance, the man who went into the Westport, Connecticut, library with a bagful of snakes, looking for a handbook on their care, was quickly directed to Raymond Ditmars' "The Snake Book," and then briskly shown the door. When the five-year-old grandson of Mrs. Glenn Nelson's friend was asked to say grace, the Oakland, Washington, boy thought a moment and then slowly intoned: "God bless the food Mommy cooks and makes us eat." The man who forecasts the weather for the Maple Heights and Gates Mills and Chagrin Falls, Ohio, area is called Charles Sprinkle. Mrs. Saul Leabman, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, has one room in her house called the "Pity Room." That, says Mrs. Leabman, is because it's the room where she keeps "all those things which it is a pity to throw away." Continued on page 4