The Coral Gables Times

Suburbia Today THE MAGAZINE OF PLEASANT PLACES Published Monthly

In This Issue . . .

Do Doctors Dodge House Calls? . . . page 8 No physician will ever refuse to visit a patient who should not be moved, but most doctors today prefer to see people in their offices, if the patients are able to come in. Why is this so? Here is a report on the reasons why you may be having trouble getting your doctor to come when you think you need him. Harry Golden on Reading . . . page 12 Harry Golden is one of America's best known and most beloved wrist slappers. This month he explores the world of books in honor of National Library Week. Reading, says Mr. Golden, is a partnership; like any other, you get as much out of it as you put into it. And, he adds, once you've formed this partnership, you can never again be poor. A Bid for Happiness . . . page 16 "Husbands and Wives Can Play Bridge Together," say famous partners Tobias Stone and Al Roth—if couples will only learn how to speak to each other in "bridge," a new language. The authors outline some of the basic principles all married people who play bridge together should know and end with a quiz for reconciled (they hope) partners. The Twain Do Meet . . . page 18 What is it like to include a stranger in your intimate family life for a year? The William Averys of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, are finding out. They are hosts this year to Sharaf Rahman, a high-school exchange student from Karachi, Pakistan. Sharaf is learning much about life in the United States from the Avery family, and they, too, are finding the experience enriching and one that they will never forget.

Laura Jean Allen

The very young lady our cover artist, Miss Allen, depicts is engaged in one of a girl's earliest pleasures. After all, what is better than watching the drops stream down the windowpane and you inside, snug and warm, waiting for the rain to stop and for dolly to wake up from her nap so the two of you can go out to play?

LEONARD S. DAVIDOW Publisher ERNEST V. HEYN Editor-In-Chief MARION LOWNDES Editor LAWRENCE C. GOLDSMITH 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 Ave., New York 22, N. Y. Business offices at 153 N. 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. © 1962, Suburbia Publishing Corporation, 153 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, III. All rights reserved.

GETTING AROUND . . . to Our Pleasant Places and People

IN HONOR of the occasion—and it won't be long now, will it—the local tax people in Mesquite, Texas, have put up a notice by their parking lot that reads hospitably: "Reserved for Taxpayers—Unloading." Right around this time, in Woburn, Massachusetts, future first-graders take part in a program that has done quite a lot to ease the fright and confusion many children go through on their first day at school. The children visit the Woburn elementary school in the spring, well before their September registration, go on a tour of the buildings, watch their older friends in classes, and stay for lunch. The bell-ringing system is also explained. The program, says Miss Bertha Bane, supervisor of elementary education, saves time, tears, and tantrums in September. Nobody believed the speed offender in Santa Monica, California, who said his name was "Safety First," but sure enough, there it was on his driver's license—Mr. Safety First, aged 67. Mr. James Shaw, court reporter in Warren and Morris Counties, New Jersey, has recently finished transcribing the Bible into Pitman shorthand. This stupendous job, which took him 10 years of spare moments to complete, was, says Mr. Shaw, a pleasant change from transcribing trials. He's going to present the three-volume work to the New York Public Library for its shorthand section. For the benefit of everyone who has been puzzled by it, our Doraville, Georgia, correspondent looked into the matter of the sign reading "Beware of Woman." "Woman," reports our Mr. Earle Grant, greatly relieved, "is the name of the dog that lives in the house." The First National Bank in Loveland, Colorado, set out a bowl of small coins where hurried bank customers could make their own change for parking meters. After two weeks, the bank counted the money in its bowl. It was one cent over. A sign on a church in Shelby County, Tennessee, reads: "Trespassers will be forgiven." Mrs. Florence Blanchard, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, writes to tell us about a recent trip to the zoo with nine-year-old Nancy. Nancy was enjoying the excursion very much until they came to a cage labeled "Rhinoceros." She stopped, took a good long look, and scowled at the lethargic animal. "You," she said bitterly, "if it hadn't been for you, I would have got 100 in spelling yesterday!" Continued on page 6