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...Parakeet's Perch. His day begins at 5 a.m. in his three-room suite in the Mayflower hotel, where he has lived since 1926, the year after it was built (recalls Mrs. George: "I'd been watching the building go up, and one day I said, 'Mr. George, I don't know where you're going to live, but I'm going to live right there' "). He reads the morning papers, shaves (sometimes with a parakeet named Bobbie perched atop his head eying the lather hungrily), breakfasts on grapefruit and coffee with...
...robbers, the head gypsy and Durward. The stage directions on every Daie of the script say: 'She clutches her jewel box and flees.' I just thought I'd be so bored. . . ." Reluctant Scenery. While waiting for M-G-M to think again, Grace retired to her three-room apartment in a huge, modern building in Manhattan (masonry by Kelly). where she lives alone with her poodle puppy Oliver. Her amusements range from photography (she develops her own negatives, sloshing around her bathroom in the dark) to word games. A favorite game is one devised by Alfred Hitchcock...
Last week France's Reconstruction Ministry announced "Operation Million," a scheme to provide 25,000 small, three-room apartments to low-income families at a cost of 1,000,000 francs ($2,850) per unit. Warned the ministry: "Success . . . will depend mainly upon the team spirit which will animate civil servants, local authorities, architects, contractors, technicians and artisans." At week's end, French architects, displeased by the size of the fee offered them, notified the ministry that Operation Million did not interest them...
Most remarkable of all, the German boom is now spreading to West Berlin (pop. 2,250,000), for years a chronic invalid needing daily injections of more than $1,000,000 in U.S. and West German aid. Apartment houses are rising from the ruins at the rate of one three-room apartment every 30 minutes. West Berlin's production of precision instruments and appliances (all of them lightweight, high-value goods which can be economically air-shipped in case of another blockade) is up 30% over 1953. Within three years, the half-city expects to be able to stand...
Smiling mistily, Herbert Clark Hoover rode into West Branch at the head of a long motor caravan, finally wound up the ceremonial schedule amid the bunting of Hoover Park, hard by the three-room frame house where he was born Aug. 10, 1874. At speechmaking time, he was eulogized by Iowa's Governor William Beardsley and Illinois' Governor William Stratton, awarded his 80th honorary degree (Doctor of Laws from the State University of Iowa), and praised in a letter from President Eisenhower ("I look anew, and with ever-increasing admiration, upon your distinguished career"). Then Herbert Hoover stood...