Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Times
Thursday, March 9, 1961, page 36 (of 84)
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Suburbia Today THE MAGAZINE OF PLEASANT PLACES Published Monthly
In This Issue . . . The Happiness Poll . . . page 9 Dr. George Gallup is an inquisitive person whose desire to find things out has made him the country's leading pollster. He recently undertook a study to find out who are the happiest people in America, and though it has not as yet been completed, early returns, according to Dr. Gallup, indicate that a man's chances for happiness are higher if he lives in Suburbia. Summer Jobs For Teens . . . page 16 There are jobs for high-school students who want to work—providing they start looking for them now and don't wait till the schoolbooks and doors are shut, says Lydia Ratcliff, in a look at what kinds of jobs are available for our young people, who's most likely to get them, and how. The House Wreckers . . . page 36 Termites look somewhat like ants; have the durability of cockroaches; may live 25 years; and, annually, chomp up a hundred million dollars worth of a special diet that could include major parts of your house. We recommend you read reporter Ed Sammis' study of the minute marauders—and then act quickly if you have any reason to suspect the presence of unwelcome, hungry guests. Sir Cedric Speaks . . . page 41 Sir Cedric Hardwicke, veteran star of many plays and, he says, too many movies, has been meeting the press for over 50 years. This month he asks himself some pointed questions and answers them for us, giving his witty, learned insights on love, Hollywood, and, of course, acting. CEM Charles E. Martin, known to most people as the famous, humorous cartoonist-illustrator CEM, depicts on our cover the excitement and color of knocking down all ten pins in one shot. Just as exciting are the new fashions for bowling, previewed in our feature "Bowling In Style," page 48. 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 405 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Business offices at 153 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, Ill. Patrick O'Rourke, Advertising Director. Ford King, Advertising Manager. Morton Frank, Director of Publisher Relations. © 1961, Suburbia Publishing Corporation, 153 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, Ill. All rights reserved.
GETTING AROUND . . . to Our Pleasant Places and People
“I'll be darned if I'll take a credit card from a poodle!” ATTENTION, EXPLORER SCOUTS in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and Nichols Hills, Oklahoma, and Whitehaven, Tennessee, and all other pleasant, active places that house growing youngsters—the National Explorer Bowling Tournament will be held on March 25, 1961. Sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America, the tournament is part of the Mail-O-Graphic Tournament of the American Junior Bowling Congress and is open to five-man teams from any Explorer Unit in the country. Here's a chance to bowl in your own neighborhood with friends—and still maybe bring home a national trophy to your chapter of the Explorers. When Maurice Podell, of Long Branch, New Jersey, was a young boy in Russia, he liked to swipe bread from the family table and knead the soft, inner dough into shapes of cows, sheep, and other farm animals. Now, 50 years later, he is a successful sculptor who still occasionally uses rye bread as a medium. "Rye bread gets hard as a rock and is almost as permanent," says sculptor Podell, who also works in plaster and bronze. He has had three successful one-man shows, and his four-foot-high bust of Abraham Lincoln (in bronze) stands on a pedestal outside Long Branch's American Legion headquarters. At last report Rockville, Connecticut, still had no garbage dump (the Manchester Board of Directors decided not to let Rockville dump its trash at the Olcott Street dump). Rockville's Mayor, in an attempt to reverse that decision, said, "You don't know how long six months can be until you've been without a dump." But if Manchester refused to let it dump at Olcott Street, the valiant Mayor said, he would somehow find another solution. "I've got a very large back yard," he jovially volunteered. A while after a bartender in Brockton, Massachusetts, had refused to serve a drunk, he noticed that business was falling off. He discovered that the offended tippler had gone off to a hardware store and then tiptoed back and padlocked the cafe's main door. For guys of Little League age, the Boys Club of Linda Vista, California, is setting up 26 teams to form three leagues in what it calls “Biddy Basketball.” The sport is similar to regulation basketball, but the basket is lowered two feet (making it eight feet from the ground), the basket rim is larger, and the ball is smaller. The miniature hoopers have been helped by the Harbor Optimists Club, which donates balls, baskets, and uniforms. We'd like to tell you about a bunch of hot-rodders who are far different from the groups of wild youngsters we are accustomed to hearing about. The boys call themselves the Street Cleaners Hot Rod Club and come from around the Brentwood and Clayton and Shrewsbury, Missouri, area. Instead of a gang of ruffians creating public danger through irresponsible use of a hurtling vehicle, here are 11 boys who are anxious to become good citizens, who are ready to help stranded motorists, and who are, at an early age, masters of their machines. They pay dues to their club and then turn over the entire club treasury to the Leukemia Guild, and they collect toys for underprivileged children in their spare time. The club members love their cars, and they take excellent care of them, too. They also love speed, racing, and daring—but not on public streets. They do their racing under controlled conditions in competition with other groups, at a local drag strip. Continued on page 6