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...reasons as there were returning brides, but atop the list were 1) too few houses, and 2) too many in-laws. Mrs. Margaret Bann, 26, tried three months in Saskatchewan, quit it and her husband because "the home he said was waiting for me turned out to be a one-room shack." Some complained of drinking or faithless husbands, and of in-laws who did not like children...
...election night last week Joe Martin sat in the one-room editorial office of his Evening Chronicle in North Attleboro, Mass., his ear at the telephone. His face was puffy with fatigue; the corner of his left eye twitched constantly. He looked even more rumpled than usual. His own campaign for re-election had not been hard. When the State Legislature had redistricted Massachusetts six years ago it had included Wellesley in Joe's district. "A breeding place for candidates," Joe had remarked at the time, thinking of professors; and sure enough, Wellesley had produced a candidate, although...
...One sore spots remains; the price a veteran on an allowance has to pay has sometimes prevented him from accepting the University-sponsored projects and made him rely instead on less expensive, if less comfortable, accommodations. some students, in an effort to live somewhere within their $90 per month G.I. subsistence allowance, have felt obliged to turn down the Brunswick and Harvardevens Village for one-room or one-room-and-kitchen-privilege arrangements elsewhere...
Although the building would probably be planned to quarter almost three times as many students as any of the present undergraduate Houses, the Provost said that a much more modest scale of living would be offered the graduate student. One-room units will be standard, with enough room for bed, armchair, desk, closet, and a washbowl in each. Common showering and toilet facilities are envisaged for the projected structure...
...till yesterday not one of the 80-odd husbands had picked up his wife, worldly goods, and children to walk out of the Village, and more home-seekers come in every day. To many couples the Village meant the first sembance of privacy in their married lives previous experience with one-room apartments, kitchens and bathrooms shared with four or five other husbands and wives have sent some Villagers into mild rhapsodies on the new adequate facilities they now have...