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...aboard Typhoon, a 45-ft. auxiliary ketch owned by two Manhattan yachting writers who had just crossed the Atlantic in 22 days. The return trip to the U.S. took three hungry, storm-ridden months. Undaunted, Uffa worked his way back to England again, started making his mark as a builder and sailor of yachts...
Back to the Builder. One reason for all the poverty is that without industrial plants and offices, most suburbs cannot begin to collect enough property taxes. Officials estimate that behind each pupil there should be taxable property assessed at at least $20,000, but in some of the towns in suburban Cook County, the assessment per student runs as low as $6,000 to $12,000. Furthermore, many houses do not even get on the tax rolls until years after they are built: a recent survey in Palatine revealed that residents owned some $2,500,000 in built-up property...
Though some relief may come from the legislature next year, this will only begin to solve the problem. Many towns are therefore going after the man who has benefited most from the boom: the builder. Though they are not sure whether it is legal or not, Park Ridge and Markham have both passed ordinances requiring builders to contribute $250 to $300 for every new home (which will, of course, actually be added to the price of the house). In Palatine, one builder has put up a 30-room schoolhouse to take care of the residents of his new development...
...Webb, once a Phoenix carpenter, became a builder, grew with the desert boom, is now a multimillionaire contractor and developer, with interests ranging from oil to part ownership of the New York Yankees...
...Basel concert opened, Mlle. Ginette Martenot, sister of the instrument's builder, started off with the Ondes Martenot. With remarkable technique, she coaxed from the instrument a synthetic cascade of notes, often shrill, occasionally pleasant, accompanied by a wildly modernistic orchestral background. She got a big hand from the audience. After intermission, Oskar Sala sat down before his Mixturtrautonium. To a tape-recorded background of shrill whistles, gongs, rattles and electronic drum sounds, he compounded the cacophony with his wildly incoherent themes. A third of the audience left before the end; those who stayed filled the hall with whistles...