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...present occupants euphemistically put it, "There aren't many disadvantages this dorm doesn't have." In certain rooms the occupants fear freezing to death; in others they cannot walk on the floor because of the protruding splinters and nails. In one of the bathrooms the lack of ventilation causes water to condense on the toilet seats; another bathroom is "usually like a swamp...
...hemmed in by the stern disciplines of a mortgage market that brings them only 6% on their housing loans, they could scarcely afford to continue to boost interest, turned instead to gimmicky devices. Some associations have stepped up their tactics of offering clocks and crockery, blankets and bathroom scales to new depositors...
...brandy. At the Tryall estates, west of Montego Bay. an American couple who figure in the international set, Arthur W. Little Jr. and his wife Harriet, last year built a $200,000 home that features a patio made of 100-year-old bricks. Peter Arno nudes in the master bathroom, and zebra skins from an African safari...
...with a boisterous taste for practical jokes. To various people he has given a pig. a goat, a horse 600 Ibs. of manure, a dozen rabbits, a truckload of used furniture, a tiny monkey, and a basketful of shrunken heads. One recipient retaliated by sneaking into Gleason's bathroom and filling the tub with Jello...
Since that time, no President has stumped him, although all four of the Presidents Romagna has served have given him bad moments. On Pearl Harbor night, Roosevelt installed him in a bathroom adjoining the presidential bedroom to record, unbeknownst to the assembly, a secret Cabinet meeting from behind a 2-in. oaken door. Romagna recalls the experience as "ghastly." There was a phone in the bathroom, and assorted Cabinet members popped in to use it-forcing Romagna to hide behind another door. In 1948, on tour with Harry Truman. Romagna transcribed more than 300 of Truman's 536 campaign...