She transferred to Barnard College in New York City, where she lived with a group of women who called themselves the "Ash Can Cats" and who would remain her lifelong friends. ... Her documentation of that trip, Coming of Age in Samoa, became a best-seller and made her reputation, both as an anthropologist and as a writer. ... Cressman and her returned to New York and she then became a keeper of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, a position she would hold for the rest of her life. ... Next she headed for New Zealand to marry Fortune. ... Returning to New York the following ...

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As Marling admits, however, not all Americans bought into the "New Look." ... This new leisure time, the availability of new automobiles, and the freedom provided by new freeway and interstate systems provided families with an opportunity for a different type of "weekend togetherness." ... The definition of art changed as the public accepted the "realism" of artists like Grandma Moses and rejected intellectuals and the New York avant-garde. ... Although her Picture Cook Book, first published in 1950, remained a best seller throughout the decade, the Betty Crocker character aged rapidly in the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate