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Ralph Smith DeLoach, 51, who founded and heads Modern Homes, is a onetime lumberman with a fierce desire to dethrone Walter as king of the shell home business. A tough-talking and frugal Georgian, DeLoach started in 1956, now has 63 offices in 13 states. By carefully watching his costs (on one home he even weighed the nails), he has made his company perhaps the industry's most profitable, came out of 1962 with $22.5 million in sales and $1,700,000 in earnings...
...Georgian Houses "softer more comfortable art forms?" If so, only because we are used to them. Indeed, they have pretty exteriors, but aren't their interiors by comparison harsh, raw, and severe? The outside is so completely different from the inside. There is unity neither of materials or design, compare with the Arts Center. There, glass and concrete serve to unify the inner and outer space...
...signs and symbols of prosperity are everywhere in Britain, crowding the past, complicating the present. Along rolling Roman roads and winding country lanes, past sleeping Norman churches and whitewashed farms, weekend traffic flows like an invading army. London's raw new office buildings jostle Georgian mansions; a Hilton hotel stares impertinently down onto Buckingham Palace. Bowling alleys and dance halls are packed each night of the week. On city rooftops, TV antennas stand as thick as the English archers at Agincourt...
...year all ten went with the Administration. The chief reason for the switch: Speaker McCormack's lieutenants had let it be known that, in return for Georgia's cooperation on the Rules fight, a highly coveted vacancy on the powerful Ways and Means Committee might go to Georgian Phil Landrum...
Missouri's John Huston, of course, is a bit of the old sod if ever there was one. In Galway, he has a 26-room Georgian mansion, a trout stream, and a shooting bog. For some time he has been Joint Master of the Foxhounds of the Galway Blazers, for whom he gave a party one night last week that lasted until break of day, while Huston's fellow huntsmen, 500 strong, milled around under three marquees set up on the master's spacious lawn. "I like horses and deep country and the Irish pleasantries," says Huston...