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...week!" From banyan-shaded Shameen Island (site of the original foreign concessions) the boom fever spread to equally fashionable Tung Shan, where Premier Sun Fo and other officials maintain swank Western-style homes. New arrivals vied eagerly for the few remaining houses and apartments. Key money for a dingy, two-room flat ran as high as $4,000 U.S. On the outskirts of the city hundreds of coolies sweated daily as they hurriedly built shoddy houses...
Since she gave away her houses in Chicago and Pittsfield to allow more money for music, Mrs. Coolidge has been living in a two-room apartment at the Hotel Continental. She continues to plan for the future, looking forward to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Foundation next year. For, the past she says, "I've had my share of thanks." And they have been plentiful. Though she was not decorated by the Russians when she gave a festival in Moscow in 1931, she has the Legion of Honor from France and Belgium's Order of the Crown and Order...
They moved to New Haven, where Bob now goes to the Yale School of Fine Arts. A little thing like a two-block walk tired Helen; Bob had to do most of the housekeeping in their two-room apartment, and he always carried her up stairs...
Some 10,000 other lowans flocked to the trim Quaker town to honor its only famous son. Hoover dutifully examined the two-room frame cottage where he was born, nodded as the old wooden cradle was pointed out to him, took a drink from a gourd at the wooden pump out back. Did it all look familiar? Hoover smiled, explained candidly: "I left this home when I was four years old and moved to a house across the street. I don't remember anything about this house...
Antoine and Antoinette (Siritzky International) are a young Parisian couple. Antoine (Roger Pigaut) works in a printing plant, Antoinette (Claire Maffei) in a five &,ten. They live in a two-room walkup. He yearns to own a motorcycle, she to live in a new apartment. One day they hold a winning lottery ticket that underwrites their dreams. But before he can collect, Antoine loses the stub...