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...four years. Describing the team, Abe likes to say: "Bill wouldn't be a success without Alfred and Alfred wouldn't be one without Bill. Together they're terrific." But it was Bill who furnished the drive and salesmanship. In 1934, the Levitts built "Strathmore-at-Manhasset," Long Island, their first development: 200 houses, priced from $9,100 to $18,500. In the next seven years, they built about 2,000 more houses...
Perhaps because the co-authors collaborated by mail (Frank Jr. lives in Charleston, S.C., sister Ernestine in Manhasset, N.Y.), their product lacks unity and presents the reader with only the haziest notion about the chronology of the Gilbreth tribe's doings. Though father Gilbreth often sounds (and sounds off) like father Day, Cheaper by the Dozen lacks the literary merits of its wise, well-honed predecessor. Mother Gilbreth's firm character is made clear (she still lives in Montclair, runs her husband's business and was 1948's "Woman of the Year"). But the personalities...
Married. William Samuel Paley, 45, board chairman and principal stockholder of the Columbia Broadcasting System; and Barbara Gushing Mortimer, 30, svelte brunette daughter of the late great brain surgeon, Dr. Harvey Gushing; both for the second time; in Manhasset, N.Y. Five days before, he had been divorced in Reno by Dorothy Hart Paley, 38, who reportedly got a $1,500,000 settlement, after 15 years of marriage, two children (adopted...
...McCrarys now inhabit a guest house on the Jock Whitney estate at Manhasset, L.I. While Tex learns the magazine business, ex-Model Jinx will write, have a baby, "go into a play next season," play tennis again-in that order...
Married. Licia Albanese, 31, plump, handsome Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Joseph A. Gimma, 37, Wall Street stock broker, also from her native Bari, Italy (although they met in Manhattan in 1940); both for the first time; in Manhasset, L.I. The bride confessed that she was heeding the marriage-v.-career advice of an ex-opera star friend: "Our art is ... only temporary. All of a sudden one day it will be gone, and then you'll be sorry you didn't marry...