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Alums and merchants say that in the 1950s the Coop was smaller but managed to offer a more extensive collection of goods, including hockey sticks and records in addition to books and apparel...
Markarian says that in a way the Square of the 1950s, which did not cater as much to out of towners, was more relaxed...
Contemporaries say marriage during college was unusual in the mid-1950s, but no cause for a raised eyebrow. In subsequent accounts and interviews, Updike himself has cited different reasons for marrying...
Updike has left New England only twice since finishing his education—once to take a job in Manhattan as a Talk of the Town reporter for The New Yorker in the late 1950s, and once to England, in an effort to escape the turbulence of the late 1960s...
...have never had a weight problem. But the conventional wisdom among experts that 95% of all dieters are doomed to regain their lost weight may be too pessimistic. One reason researchers have such a bleak view of dieting is a famous study of 100 people conducted in the late 1950s by Dr. Albert Stunkard, now a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. Only two of his subjects were able to maintain their weight loss for two years. "That was a period when we had no treatment for obesity," Stunkard says. "The medical profession thought it was either a psychiatric...