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Over and above the economics of it is the fun. Those areas under the stairs that are so fine for hiding, the odd, unexpected rooms, the high ceilings-the wasted space, in short, which is so far from wasted. Says a Boston realtor who lives in a 74-year-old 15-roomer himself: "Of course, the basic appeal is a lot more room for less money. But beyond that-they're nicer, they're warmer, they're grander. You have the feeling that you're living in a real house...
...largest U.S. motel chain, Holiday Inns of America (442 inns), which last week announced that it will add 17 new motels in Canada to the 202 others it already has in the works. Driving twelve years ago with his wife and four of his five children, Memphis Realtor Kemmons Wilson was shocked to discover that motels charged $2 a night for each child. He decided to open a motel in which parents could enjoy some luxury at moderate prices and have their children put up free. The idea caught on-not only with families but with traveling businessmen and eager...
...University's proposal was almost $1 million under the $6,525,000 offer made by Boston realtor Samuel P. Coffman, but though final bids were opened in April the MTA Board of Trustees has so far refused to accept any of them. Difficulty in relocating the switching and storing facilities could delay the sale of the yards indefinately...
...intimate friend of ex-President Eisenhower, who was on his way to California to join Ike on a fishing excursion, retired Admiral Richard L. Conolly, president of Long Island University and two-time Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Film Producer (The Guns of Navarone) Irving Rubine, and Millionaire Realtor Arnold Kirkeby, former head of the Kirkeby chain of luxury hotels.† Ironically, 17 passengers had transferred to American One at the last moment, when a United Air Lines flight was canceled. So shattered were the bodies that Chief Medical Examiner Milton Helpern ruled out visual identification by relatives as "inhumane...
...Kennedy address combined to make more Americans than ever consider building their own. Day after the President spoke, civil defense offices across the country were flooded with demands for shelter information. In Denver, Home Builder Jack Hoerner quickly sold three new houses containing built-in shelters. A Virginia realtor put ads in Washington newspapers plugging "life and peace of mind outside the Washington target area" at Bull Run. In Chicago, Leo Hoegh, Eisenhower's civil defense director and now executive vice president of Chicago's Wonder Building Corp., reported a surge in sales. Wonder, which manufactures fabricated shelters...