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...number of children one has," declares Hauser, "has become the subject of fad and fashion. This is the same kind of pattern that enters into other kinds of consumer habits. The third and fourth child were a form of status during the post-World War II baby boom. Now fashion is swinging women to the view that it is desirable to have fewer children." Mass communications media, Anthropologist Margaret Mead points out, have made birth control "more socially and ethically acceptable," and it is no longer fashionable for the educated to have large families...
Died. Russell Westover, 79, cartoonist and onetime San Francisco Bulletin sports illustrator who in 1921 eyed the post-World War I rush of women into the working world and launched Tillie the Toiler, a chic, shapely but scatterbrained comic-strip steno who primly kept one up on the boss and the office boys until she was retired in 1959; of a heart attack; in San Rafael, Calif...
...demands of the draft have produced both apprehension and opposition among the nation's young men. For the first time, the draft is touching in a major way the post-World War II generation-the most affluent, the best-educated, the most articulate and rebellious group of potential draftees in U.S. history. In pre-World War II days, when the nation was still suffering the aftereffects of the Depression, there were fewer young men in college than now, fewer with jobs so good that it was a great sacrifice to leave them for the service. Today, many draftees...
...Chagall you have selected a classic symbol of the decline of the Paris School, the most important creative art center since the Renaissance. Just compare the daring, but successful, lyrical vitality of his 1911-1914 pictures with the decorative boudoir puffs and frills of his post-World War II efforts. The world innovative center for Western art shifted in the 1940s to New York under the influence of noted refugee painters from Europe, such as Mondriaan, Leger and Matta...
...Secretary of Commerce, he directed the evacuation of 1,500,000 people from the floodlands of the lower Mississippi in 1927, saw that they were housed and fed. Years later, in 1946, Democratic President Harry Truman asked Hoover to examine the relief needs of Asia and Europe in the post-World War II famine. Then 71, Hoover tirelessly trekked 35,000 miles through 25 countries to make his report...