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...Long Island plot 20 miles from Manhattan, Builders Levitt & Sons put up a trim two-bedroom bungalow. Like other U.S. builders, they knew a slump had curbed real estate sales; many a new house was going begging because the price was too high. But Bill Levitt felt sure there were plenty of buyers, if the house -and price-were right...
...thought his price was right also: $7,990. Veterans could buy the house for $90 down and $58 a month (for 25 years). The monthly payments covered taxes, water, fire insurance, mortgage payments and interest. When Levitt put up a for sale sign, the crowd got so big that police had to keep them in line (see cut). In seven days, Levitt & Sons sold 707 houses, nearly $6,000,000 worth...
Born. To Ethel Merman, 36, gusty, trumpet-toned musicomedy star (Panama Hattie, Something jor the Boys), and Lieut. Colonel Robert Daniels Levitt, 35, Army public-relations officer, ex-Hearst promotion man: their second child, first son; in Manhattan. Name: Robert Daniels Jr. Weight...
Born. To Ethel Merman, musical-comedy star last seen in Panama Hattie, and Husband Robert Levitt, Captain, Quartermaster Corps: a girl. Name: Ethel Merman. Weight...
Ethel Merman (Panama Hattie) admitted she had married again. Husband No. 2 is Robert D. Levitt, Hearst promotion man in Manhattan. She met him last April, six months before her first husband, Actor's Agent William J. Smith, divorced her on the charge that she deserted him in January after two months of married life...