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...MCGRATH...
...JOHN F. MCGRATH...
...Massachusetts, whose residents invested $100 million in out-of-state recreational housing last year, several hundred new property owners sought help from the attorney general's Consumer Protection Agency. "A lot of these people who buy go up for a look at their lot," says Chief Investigator Mike McGrath, "and the salesman tells them 'Your place will be on the 17th hole of the golf course.' He's told 15 other people that the same day. Someone's going to lose." An aggrieved Bay Stater can complain to McGrath, who can investigate and, if necessary...
...such couple is John and Kathryn McGrath of Washington, D.C. They are both attorneys, he with a private law firm, she for the Securities and Exchange Commission. Working out their 1971 return, they discovered that they would save approximately $1,000 in taxes if they could file as singles rather than as marrieds. With that, Mrs. McGrath fired off a wry letter to Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, complaining that "the U.S. Congress has provided us with a strong economic incentive to obtain a divorce and thereafter to live more prosperously...
Mills' staffers admit the inequity, but insist that it was the inevitable result of giving a fairer break to single people. Mrs. McGrath's reply is that marrieds should simply be given the option of filing as if they were single. Otherwise, she says, "that $1,000 could finance a trip to Haiti for a quick divorce, and we'd have a vacation thrown...