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...WORLD OF SUZIE WONG, an adaptation of Richard Mason's bestselling novel, flounced into Boston dressed in Designer Jo Mielziner's spectacular sets -a revolving stage with great, gaudy panels that slide in and out, up and down, through dancing and disaster, life and death. The story line is distressing: boy meets Hong Kong "Yum-Yum girl," boy loves girl, girl loves boy, boy rejects girl, boy returns to girl (Yum Yum!) but cannot support her baby, girl walks out because she loves baby better, baby is killed in earthquake, boy helps pay for funeral. It is lovely...
Since World War II the big drive has been to produce the maximum number of houses at the lowest possible prices. What Mason now wants is to put the emphasis on quality, to encourage building better homes which will attract owners of less desirable houses to buy up, thereby upgrading the nation's entire housing supply. While much of the emergency postwar housing gave sound value, a lot of it was pure junk. In 1952 a congressional committee toured the U.S., found thousands of unhappy home buyers saddled with long-term mortgages on houses with floors that heaved like...
...house. We need to talk about the kind of quality housing which people in different income brackets can afford, or are willing to make sacrifices for because they promise so much in happy living." In these words, Federal Housing Administrator Norman Mason summed up a new job for the U.S. homebuilding industry-the building of better as well as more houses...
...night builders and obsolete housing codes that often worked to restrict better homes were partly to blame for such conditions. But the major responsibility lay in Government appraisal practices, which set the standards for the industry, and which Mason has worked to change. Rules for figuring mortgages are often drawn in terms of the cheapest material available. Thus, as far as getting a mortgage is concerned, it makes little difference whether a builder puts in a 20-year furnace for $350 or a $275 job that wears out after five years. The builder is free to add quality features...
Four out of five new homes awaiting sale today are not quality but minimum houses, stripped-down models designed for the null family. Yet into this classification fit only 45% of U.S. families and they are steadily diminishing in number. Last December FHA Chief Mason noted that buyers were putting less than a fifth of their incomes into shelter...