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...dorms were built, Trottenberg said, with attention paid to inexpensive maintenance, but he pointed out that there are basic expenses, such as maid services, which always make dorm rates high. In setting prices, the University cannot separate, he said, operational expenses of the old and new graduate halls. Therefore, the rates of the two types are integrated...
...considers himself his own best customer. He drinks 21 cups of coffee a day, all made in a Cory coffeemaker. One afternoon last week, Jim Alsdorf bubbled with excitement as he showed off another product which can be used after each cup is emptied. It is the "Cory Made Maid," a 23-lb. electric dishwasher, compact enough to fit on the kitchen drainboard, cheap enough ($89.95) to undersell most existing electric models by more than 50%. With it, chipper Jim Alsdorf cockily predicted that he would revolutionize the home-dishwasher market...
Last week, Alsdorf was stepping up production of his Matic Maid to reach 400 units a day by month's end. To sell it, he planned to go after the man of the house, not the woman. Says he: "Seventy-four percent* of the men in this country help their wives with the dishes. Now they can duck the job without feeling like heels...
...reason for this, they say, is that in many cases the number of suites a maid must clean is excessive. Another stumbling block, according to Mulvihill, is the double-decker beds which remain as holdovers from the war. These beds are harder to make than the standard kind...
...Dudley Hall maid discovered Townsend in his bathroom at 10.35 a.m., shot through the right temple. A .22 Savage rifle lay by his side...