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...Life among the high officials, diplomats and cocktail-sippers of the capital has not damaged the Brannans' pronounced, almost frugal, simplicity. Brannan's conversation is still punctuated by "Lordy" and "gosh," and an occasional ungrammatical "he don't." He and Eda Brannan live in a plain, two-room Washington apartment, with no children and no servant. He bought his first white tie & tails for Truman's Inaugural, complains that he has had no use for them since...
Since the University could not provide me with housing, I pay $80 a month to live in a highly inadequate two-room apartment. It is dirty, furnished with cheap pieces in poor taste, and offers me little privacy. Although I have a lavatory to myself, I must share the bathtub with ten other people. The place is too small to permit any entertaining, and so little resistant to sound that any noise can be heard throughout the building. Every time I step into my kitchen or go into the hall I hear the intimate sounds of my neighbor's lives...
...prices range from $250 a year per person in a two-man one-room suite to $260 a year for each student in a two-man, two-room suite. A one-room single will cost $280 a year...
...four new prices in the old dorms are $200 and $280 a year for single rooms, $300 a year per man for the two-man two-room suites, and $360 a year per man in the two-man three-room suites...
Though Godfrey certainly lives a good deal better than most cops, his standard is modest, considering his income. In Manhattan he has a cluttered two-room penthouse suite at the middle-class Lexington Hotel. His Texas-born, blonde wife Mary, who was originally an NBC secretary in Washington, lives in a ten-room brick and stone house called Beacon Hill Farms on Catoctin Ridge in northern Virginia. With her are the children: daughter Pat, 7; Arthur Jr., 9; and 20-year-old Dick, the son of Arthur's first marriage. The farm's 700 acres are stocked with...