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...first thing they found when they arrived last week was a pleasant little duplex waiting for them. They had no sooner moved in than their phone began to ring and visitors were calling. It was all a part of Portland's welcome to its 250 new teachers...
...Interviewed in her duplex apartment, Mrs. Swadesh told newsmen she was 30 years old, a Vassar graduate, a Phi Beta Kappa, and "very, very sorry about the telegram." Then she dismissed them. Said she: "My children haye chicken pox and I am a very busy woman...
Mildred owns two busy farms, one in eastern Washington on the Indian reservation where she was born (she is part Indian), another not very far from Tom Dewey's, in upstate New York. She lives comfortably in a Manhattan duplex apartment with three dachshunds and a parrot, drives her Chrysler station wagon to work when she feels like it. In one corner of her living room, she has a stack of her own records that would turn collectors green (many of Mildred's have long been unavailable, but are still eagerly sought after...
...Lamb who had chosen the Crenshaw's location-a 35-acre tract in a suburban area which had no department stores, although there were 567,000 residents within 20 minutes' drive of the site. (The Prudential Life Insurance Co. plans to build 9,000 apartment and duplex units nearby.) That was reason enough to build a shopping area with a new Broadway store as its center...
...Manhattan, ex-Prince Carl Johan of Sweden, Windsor's second cousin, who also married a commoner (and relinquished his rights of succession), had a distressing set-to with his landlady. He sued to break his lease on his duplex apartment ($666.67 a month) which, the ex-Prince declared, not only "presented a somber, ungainly and disordered aspect," but also had rats. He suggested that $300 a month was quite enough. "I'm not being libelous and I'm not being rude," the landlady explained, as she reported that she had decorated the place "in a manner...