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...Leonard Brugnano Mount Clemens, Mich...
...almost a century the traditional resting place for Denver Catholics was Mount Olivet Cemetery. But as maintenance costs soared and Catholics began to bury their dead elsewhere, the archdiocese came to fear that Mount Olivet would no longer be able to make ends meet. To help bolster revenues, the archdiocese decided last spring to convert a chapel on cemetery grounds into a mortuary and offer burial services at lower prices than private establishments. The new tab for an average Mount Olivet funeral comes to $1,100 compared with $2,500 elsewhere. That includes coffin, the use of two limousines, death...
...University of California at Los Angeles hired Donald Weber three years ago as an assistant professor of English, it seemed a perfect match. He was a notable scholar: the sunny, high-paying California system was considered an ideal place to work. This fall, though, Weber will be at Mount Holyoke College in snowy Massachusetts. Why the switch? In Weber's case there was no tenure battle or political infighting. It was simply that the young professor, 30, realized he could never afford to buy a home in California. Although Holyoke is a topnotch Eastern women's college, Weber...
Until the University of California, with its many campuses, comes up with cheaper housing, it is likely to suffer a continuing brain drain. Donald Weber left behind a potentially higher salary and a chance to help direct a new and growing American Studies program. But at Mount Holyoke, he and his family have moved into "an old, beautiful house across the street from the campus." It has eight rooms, big shade trees-and rents for $275 a month...
This is the way much of The Water-Method Man (1972) and The 158-Pound Marriage (1974) were composed. The latter is a bleak tale about the complications of spouse swapping. Between teaching at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., and stints at the Writers' Workshop in Iowa, Irving typed away in a small shed, the same one that overlooks the pool. There was no pool then, and the future did not seem to promise one. He now works mainly in a study above the kitchen. Weather permitting, one of his three typewriters can be found...