Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Island plot 20 miles from Manhattan, Builders Levitt & Sons put up a trim two-bedroom bungalow. Like other U.S. builders, they knew a slump had curbed real estate sales; many a new house was going begging because the price was too high. But Bill Levitt felt sure there were plenty of buyers, if the house -and price-were right...
Fifth Column. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Mary Magley got her divorce after testifying that her husband Guy insisted on hanging photographs of his four ex-wives in their bedroom...
...Meadowbrook! (by Ronald Telfer and Pauline Jamerson; produced by John Yorke) is a bedroom farce that should have been left in the attic. Under his psychoanalyst's orders, a mousy, middle-aged English taxidermist (Ernest Truex) stalks sex on a Connecticut weekend. All the women in the house beat a path to his door-the housekeeper (Sylvia Field), the hostess (Grace McTarnahan) and a worldly lady playwright with heart of brass (Vicki Cummings...
Propped up in his antique fourposter, with a monocle screwed in his eye, the duke blasts through the open bedroom window at a target on the other side of the patio. After the fusillade, the duke lays down his pistol, ducks into an ice-cold tub. After he has worked himself into his silver-mounted charro (cowboy) outfit, he starts for church on the run, shadow-boxing vigorously...
...bring Leadom to school, engineers of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. had rigged up an experimental machine called the "Teletalk." A special telephone circuit connects two sets of microphones and loudspeakers-one set in Teacher Fleda Cox's classroom, the other in Pupil Beatty's bedroom. Says Principal Dorothy Swope, who sold Southwestern Bell the idea: "It's surprising. When Leadom was actually in class, he was reticent. Now perhaps because he's called on more than anyone else, and because the other children have made him the most important member of their group...