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...trouble make available space large enough to fit the requirements of a new site, an area fifty-five by seventy feet (the dimensions of a ten place range) has proved a great problem. The best answer so far is the basement of the House Squash Courts building, the stucco excrescence surrounded by Kirkland, Lowell, Eliot, and the IAB. There is sufficient room there for a ten or twelve place range, and the concrete walls are strong enough to withstand a 22 bullet...
...Hollywood girl in The Last Tycoon). After Fitzgerald died, Sheilah was married for six years to British aircraft production Expert Trevor Westbrook, and bore him two children: Frances, now nine, and Robert, six. With the children, Sheilah lives on "something under $50,000" a year in a pleasant stucco house only four doors away from Queen Louella Parsons, with whom she is on seemingly friendly terms...
Southern California, with its pagoda cinemas and eateries shaped like bulldogs, has long been noted for the world's largest crop of chicken-wire-and-stucco monstrosities. This month HOUSE & HOME notes a new regional aberration and gives it a name: Googie. Its archetypical example, says HOUSE & HOME, is a Los Angeles restaurant named Googie's, where a large part of the modernistic steel and stucco building takes off into the blue at a leaning angle even more startling than the Tower of Pisa...
...Russian building; the conditions under which most urban Russians live is worse than anything I have seen, even in the worst spots of Dublin or of Naples. The overcrowding is incredible - I found eleven families living in one small church. The houses that survive from Czarist days, of stucco or wood, have been untouched since the Revolution; they tilt and sag and crumble till it would be impossible to believe that they are inhabited, were it not for the lace curtains inside each window...
...white stucco British army grocery store in Ismailia, 43 British wives and their children were shopping unusually early. "I thought if there was to be trouble, it would be at a respectable hour," said Mrs. Stella Townsend, the wife of a Royal Signal Corps officer. Others had made the same surmise. Mrs. Townsend queued up patiently as the clerk served a neighbor with sausages, biscuits and a packet of sticky gumdrops. A score of British moppets wrestled happily on the floor. Suddenly there were angry shouts in the square outside. A gang of young Egyptians bellowed "Get out, dirty British...