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...bracket) or statistically (he's building "only" 400 of them this year) as his smaller and more numerous dwellings, but they are creating a "new way of life" for higher-income families just as surely and dramatically as his Levittown houses are for the younger ex-G...
...signed three months ago, the purchase terms on low-cost houses with Government-guaranteed mortgages were so liberalized that in many cases buying a house is now as easy as renting it. The new terms: 5% down (nothing down for veterans) and 30 years to pay. Thus an ex-G.I. could buy a Levitt house with no down payment and installments of only $56 a month...
...most Levittowners think the disadvantages are far outweighed by the advantages. Said ex-G.I. Wilbur Schaetzl, who lived with his wife and a relative in a one-room apartment before he moved to Levittown: "That was so awful I'd rather not talk about it. Getting into this house was like being emancipated." Bill Levitt puts it in his own brash way: "In Levittown 99% of the people pray...
Fernand Léger looks hard as flint at 69, lives in a chaotically cluttered Montparnasse studio, and has 100 pupils-most of them ex-G.I.s. Léger's own Leisure seems half daguerreotype and half poster. It shows that he himself has come a long way from the brash, machine-tooled "Tubist" abstractions of his early days. He painted it during World War II, which he spent in Manhattan. "Because of the gasoline shortage," he recalls, "the city was suddenly teeming with bikes, and I was much impressed by the many attractive girls I saw pedaling...
...ex-Airman Kuroki off to a flying start, 42 Nebraska weekly editors, publishers and staffers, including several ex-G.I.s, came from miles around, pitched in to help Ben make his first edition a memorable one (the volunteer staff called it the "Welcome Ben Kuroki" edition).They did a good deal more. For the first edition, which rolls off the presses this week, they put together 40 pages instead of the usual eight, and drummed up an overflow supply of 3,300 inches of advertising. Said grateful Editor Kuroki: "This couldn't happen in any other country...