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...Actress Bergman was in a chintz-decorated three-room clinic suite, the U.S. public learned from its front pages.* "She is so taken with the tot," glowed one dispatch. Said Dr. Guidotti: "Miss Bergman is one of the happiest mothers I have ever known . . . The baby is one of the healthiest and prettiest I ever delivered." Flowers soon filled one room of the suite, and congratulatory messages flooded in, many from the U.S. (among the notable well-wishers: Marion, Davies and Ernest Hemingway...
Hard Times. Last summer Maggiorani managed to get 17 days' work in a minor movie role. Then the family lived thinly on what little was left of Maggiorani's "millions." Last month the landlord posted an eviction notice on their three-room flat just as Maggiorani was starting a temporary job as a bricklayer...
Chief-designate Seretse Khama, who had married Miss Williams against strenuous opposition from his family and the British authorities (TIME, July 11), cheerfully conducted his wife to her home, just being finished at Serowe, the mud-hut capital of Bechuanaland (pronounced Betcher Wanna Land). The home would be a three-room bungalow with a tin corrugated roof. Ruth's arrival caused considerable commotion among the tribe (local traders were doing a brisk business in gaily colored prints, since the tribeswomen wished to live and dress up to the occasion). Actually, it may be months before Seretse...
...tentative rent schedule for the development runs from $115 a month for three-room apartments to $185 a month for some of the houses. In accordance with the Rent Act of 1949, all units will be offered to veterans of World War II during construction and for a thirty-day period after completion. All units not rented by veterans will then be available to other members of the faculty, students, staff of the University, and the general public
...Harrodian tradition began in May 1849, when Tea Merchant Henry Charles Harrod opened a three-room grocery in Knightsbridge. His son, Charles Digby Harrod, proved to be something of a taskmaster when he took over in 1861. He installed a removable staircase at his employees' entrance, and took it away at 8 a.m. Store help who showed up later than that could not get in. He also abolished "cook's perks," the traditional perquisite for servants who bought their masters' provisions at the store. Eventually, he sold out to a group which turned Harrods into a public...