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...straight answer from Expert Marx, and announced: "I'll go straight to Miss Van Home; I've already beaten her down," Groucho hoisted his eyebrows and cracked: "Who wouldn't? I'd like to go straight to Miss Van Home, too." At Critic John Mason Brown he shot: "John, you give us the learned and scholarly explanation-either that, or give us your own." The panel differed in its advice to a woman who wrote in about a semantic quibble with her husband, but Groucho cleared it up fast: "My suggestion is that...
...easing up on income requirements, Mason gave a bright green light to builders to pack more quality into houses. The new directive specifically instructs FHA local offices that "no otherwise acceptable" credit application for a house costing more than $12,000 is to be turned down because the builder spent "a few hundred dollars" putting in better wiring, insulation or wide roof overhangs. Such quality items, said Mason, actually cut down on house maintenance costs. Likewise, complete kitchens were okayed for houses over $12,000. Where builders in the past had to leave out appliances because they ran the initial...
...return to the income requirements before World War II. Builders have long agitated for the change. Last March HOUSE & HOME ran an editorial calling FHA's income requirements "unreasonable and arbitrary," pointed out that FHA was encouraging consumers to buy inferior houses. As a result, FHA Commissioner Norman Mason appointed an industry advisory committee, whose recommendations led to the new standards...
...income if a house had summer cooling. But builders say it takes no more income to maintain a house with combined winter heating and summer cooling than one with a furnace only. The extra operating expense in summer is offset by savings in cleaning, health and equipment upkeep. Henceforth, Mason ordered, anticipated operating expense of summer cooling should not disqualify buyers of houses costing $15,000 or more. In fact, "FHA should start encouraging the inclusion of air conditioning. Within a few years, any house that is not air conditioned will probably be obsolescent...
According to its chairman, Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, the committee's functions are broadly defined, and it will "swim around in all directions," studying ways by which the University can interest its students in teaching careers...