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Soon after her marriage in 1944, Lauretta Galligan found herself alone most of the time when her husband's company assigned him a job that kept him away from home six days a week. To make friends and keep busy, Lauretta joined the women's auxiliaries of her husband's two alma maters and attended night school. As her household expanded to include five sons, she dropped her outside interests to spend more time at home, "making sure everyone is going in the right direction...
This might seem like indentured housewifery to some women, but not to Lauretta Galligan, who at 52 still rises at 6:30 to prepare her husband's breakfast and get the two sons remaining at home off to school. She smiles happily when her husband Thomas, who is now president of Boston Edison Co., calls her his "greatest asset...
...Lauretta is not anti-Women's Lib. She believes in equal rights and equal pay, and that women should be well represented in big corporations, on boards of directors and in industry, "particularly when it comes to designing." She also believes that day-care centers are inevitable. But of her own life-style she says: "My first priority is my family and my husband's work, and then I work on other things...
...Lauretta never plays bridge and only occasionally goes to fashion shows or luncheons. Most of her social life revolves around her husband's business. When visiting executives bring their wives to town, she takes them sightseeing; she also goes to business dinners with her husband and entertains groups at home at least three times a month...
...manufacturer of prefabricated houses, had received RFC loans totaling $37.5 million, much of which had been approved by Loan Examiner E. Merl Young, who resigned and emerged as an $18,000-a-year Lustron official, was later convicted of perjury (18 months in jail). Young's wife Lauretta, a White House secretary until April 1951, received a $9,000 mink coat paid for by a lawyer representing firms that longed for RFC loans. Mrs. Young thereby trademarked the "mink coat" cycle of scandals. Another RFC beneficiary, the American Lithofold Corp., retained the Democratic National Committee's Bill Boyle...