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...subject of Dare Call It Treason, the latest in the recent flood of histories about World War I. Treason is all the more remarkable be cause its author is a complete amateur, a flooring-materials salesman who wrote the book (his first) in the children's playroom of his home in Glen Ridge, N.J., and even taught himself French by pasting scraps of a French grammar on file cards which he carried with him on selling trips...
...dining room, a bedroom of the same size for Jackie, and a considerably smaller presidential bedroom and library. French doors open from the dining room onto a terrace. In all, there are three fireplaces. In the south wing are three 12-by-12-ft. bedrooms and a playroom. The north wing holds kitchen, pantry, breakfast room and two servants' rooms...
...insured by FHA, which covers nearly 20% of the homebuilding market, has gone up $1,000 this year, to $15,000. Prices have risen slightly for better houses, too, and demand for them is increasing. A solid-quality house with three bedrooms, fully equipped kitchen, two bathrooms and a playroom sells for $16,000 to $22,000 in Atlanta, $18,000 to $23,000 in Kansas City, and $23,000 to $33,000 in Los Angeles...
Tolerance would urge that such productions are not intended to be read at all but to form an expensive, highly colored, temporary parquetry for the playroom floor. But suspicion suggests that the same kind of mind is at work here that tries to purge Huckleberry Finn from the schools, that deliberately holds back "reading skills" to some arbitrary "age-group level...
...evenings until 9:30, and for a few hours at weekends. One of the biggest is South London's Newington Lodge, a grim, high-walled pile of sooty red brick. Known in welfare-state parlance as "suitable alternative accommodation"-though it lacks a sick bay, nursery, playroom and adequate toilets-Newington Lodge last week held 266 women and children from 72 fragmented families...