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Love is supposed to be the last stronghold of the simple life remaining these days, but everything attached to this gentle passion seems smothered in shortages and regulations. In primitive societies, at least, the prospective couple can cut through the red tape and build their own hut; in crowded Cambridge they are at the mercy of a bad housing shortage...
...housing boom, no one has done better than James Robert Price of Lafayette, Ind. As founder and boss of National Homes Corp., Price has succeeded where many another failed: he proved that a prefabricated house can be mass-produced and sold at a profit without looking like a Quonset hut. Last year Price sold 14,127 nonfarm houses; in 1954 he will account for one out of every 48 started. On a gross of $41 million, National netted $1,700,000 in fiscal...
...seems to have negotiated successfully the experimental period and to be setting down into an established pattern. The size of the student body seems relatively stable at about 300 undergraduates and 70 graduate students; it may again increase when projected new buildings to replace the present Quonset-hut-like structures are erected...
School faculty members on occasion venture out of their Quonset hut offices to participate in fact-finding boards and investigating committees in specific labor controversies. One faculty member helped to advise a Congressional committee studying possible revisions in the Taft-Hartley Law. Dean Catherwood himself has served on groups investigating the New York waterfront situation and the recent dispute between the railroads and their non-operating employees...
...Woman in the Polar Night, by Christiane Ritter (Button; $3), is the story of another intrepid woman and her adventures in a colder climate than Arizona. Frau Ritter lived for a year on the north coast of Spitsbergen in a hut ten feet square, with her husband and a young Norwegian hunter, in temperatures that sank to 40° below zero. To the north lay Anxiety Bay, to the south Distress Hook, to the east Misery Bay and to the west the Bay of Grief. Not a tree or shrub rose from the sea of stones that covered the desolate...