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...breaking down Europe's momentous years into momentous days gave his record the breathlessness of headlines. Runner-up was Virginia Cowles's Looking for Trouble ($3). Author Cowles, not one of the great by-liners, wrote current history with some of the fresh realism of the little maid who from answering doorbells and making up the beds, sees everybody, finds out every thing, at last knows more about what is going on in the house than the masters themselves. Other books by correspond ents: The Men Around Churchill ($3) by René Kraus; That Day Alone...
Reduction of living costs by doubling up on House rooms and dispensing with the daily maid service would put a dent in the high cost of a Harvard education, but not enough of a dent. The other major phase of living, the cost of meals, must also be reduced...
Yale is now without heat, light, janitor, maid, or campus police services...
...plant in East Hartford. She got a permanent. Son of a famous stamp collector, he disclosed he had no collection of his own, explained: "I couldn't see the sense of having two collections in one family." En route to a weekend in New Jersey they discovered valet, maid and all their baggage were missing. The servants turned up two hours late, explained they had got lost...
...Opera Star Lucrezia Bori, 53, turned up in Manhattan with her arm in a sling; she had broken her elbow in a fall off a horse. A piece of elbow bone, left over when the doctor fixed it, kicked around the house for some time, but she and her maid got tired of looking at it and finally tossed...