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...particularly well ordered. My personal plans get fouled up all the time," he says. He decided early not to design individual dwellings ("It seemed to me that the average house buyer must be a pain in the neck"). He made a notable exception when he designed his own home???and here one of his best-laid plans went completely agley...
When the boys come home???15-year-old Christopher from Fordham Prep, the middle three from St. Augustine's parochial school?they go to their mother and spill out the news of the day; but they respect their father's privacy, since his threads break on interruption, while hers do not. All the Kerrs usually have dinner together, even if there is an opening. Walter and Jean are lucky if they can get a bite in edgewise, which may go some distance toward explaining why Walter Kerr's reviews?as the New Yorker has pointed out?are stuffed with wistful...
...setting up his great reconstruction plan President Hoover has had one fundamental object in view and that is to protect from disaster the American home??? Secretary of War Hurley...
...Home??? No. 60 Morningside Drive is a handsome house which, from a high eminence, overlooks a park, an elevated track and a large section of Harlem. Like few other upper West Side homes, it is in the Social Register. Like few other Social Register homes, it is known throughout the world. An invitation to Dr. Butler's is New York's ultimate accolade to distinguished visitors. Chatelaine of No. 60 is Dr. Butler's second wife, Kate La Montagne. She is unobtrusively busy when dignitaries are around. Every March Dr. Butler goes to Brunswick, Ga., every June to Europe, every...
...Hoover canvass closed with a triumphal trip across the continent to vote at his Palo Alto home???a formality new to the Republican candidate. There he received the returns which, by the greatest electoral college majority in U. S. history, transformed Nominee Hoover into President-elect Hoover. Tears of joy and gladness coursed down his plump cheeks under the California stars. Next came the South American goodwill trip, a prelude of grandeur during which Mr. Hoover tasted the sweets of sovereignty. Back in the U. S. he busied himself with Cabinet carpentry in Florida, fidgeted impatiently. And then that cold...