Magazines: Freckled Superwomcm

One after another, U.S. magazines have investigated contemporary California and found it superbad, supergood or supersomething. This month the Ladies' Home Journal has discovered in California a superwoman — along with her superchildren. "She has slipped the old orders and mores," the magazine proclaims. "The 'back home' social structure has evaporated. She has be come scandal-proof. She is with it intellectually. This Western woman lives in todays and thinks in tomorrows."

Just in case any readers doubt the depth of its study, the Journal explains that "Managing Editor Bruce Clerke has spent more of her time in Califor nia than in...

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