September20, 1964
New York Times
Suburban Housing Market Slows
Associated Press: Interim Rud Director, Gaston Lehigh Jr., issued a report yesterday on the
growth of a number of suburban housing markets across the United States. "For the first time
since WW2, the housing market has not had a profitable year." Lehigh began.
Since World War Two, Federal and State funds have helped developers to build inexpensive
homes in the open land around our nation's crowded cities. The suburbs have grown at a
phenomonal rate, especially in the years 55-56 and 61-62 as veterans returned from Europe and
began families. "What couples of today want is not a small, sunless flat in acrowded and traffic
jammed neighborhood where crime lurks behind every corner. What families want is nature, privacy
and freedom" commented developer Paul Bach. This has been the true American Dream, to no doubt,
but the market has now been flooded with scores of developers. Land value in the suburban areas
dropped remarkably in 1963. As a result, the larger development companies have invested money in
speculative office space in the urban center. Improvements in steel and glass curtain assemblies
allow buildings to gracefully soar up to the sky. Plazas, open areas at the street level have given
the pedestrian the space and sunlight he has needed and allows towers to rise uninterrupted to
full height. "The inefficient ziggarauts of the past decades will seem monstrous as new, crisp and
pure glass crystal towers rise." (Bach)
Actor James Lamb Dies Onstage
New York City: Famed actor James Lamb of the Lamb Family Theater Troupe collapsed during a
rehersal on Tuesday, ending a short but brilliant life. Lamb's rise to success was sudden and
surprising. In the early part of this decade, Lamb studied hard in business school while friends
and classmates went to screaming Rock and Roll concerts. He was an honors student all but the last
of his semesters, and won a freshman merit for speech in 1960. While classmates swooned over the
likes of British loverboys including the newcome Beatles, James spent free time with a group of
real beanicks, tough and fringe-line artists, the true avant garde, who likely persuaded
James to make use of his communications talent onstage. In his senior year, he dropped out
and set up the Troupe. The Family excelled in the first year, with one sister having been to
acting school. Productions included Oklahoma!, A Mid-summer Night's Dream, and
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The most recent production is the lesser known Mission to Murder,
which takes on a number of contemporary issues concerning the space-program and social-
political mischief. But it's a really cheery play. Not bogged down in anxious views of world problems.
And the love story woven through is particularily touching. It is no doubt that James'
unexpected death will curtail one of the more promising stars of the post-depression generation.
NASA Revises Plans for Lunar Landing
Associated Press: NASA announced yesterday that the results of recent research have allowed
for the continuation of project "Man on the Moon."
The previous doubts about the moon's atmosphere where put to rest as Exxon has confirmed
that it's lunar fuel will provide sufficient thrust to lift a spacecraft from the moon's surface.
NASA has not yet set a definite date for lift-off, but construction of lunar vehicles, moon boots,
and the space craft itself will begin within the next fiscal year.
While in its infant stages, the project has come across a great deal of opposition from radical
social groups such as the MEGEMS (Mother Earth is Good Enough for Me Society) and the
Association for Oceanographic Research (AFOR). The AFOR was subdued by promises from
congress to continue support for it's "City in the Sea" research.
Once NASA has proven that men can roam the surface of moon it is projected that there
will be entire cities on the moon as well as in the sea. Although the price for a lunar
lifestyle will be a bit obstructive, congress is discussing subsidies to promote
inhabitation of the moon. As Senator Marshall (Dem. CA) has stated, "The suburbs are
bound to run out of space eventually."
-Mellisa Good
The Lambs that Took Manhattan...
Associated Press: The recent death of James Lamb brings to light the unusual family he came from.
The patriarch of the family, Lester Lamb, was born and raised in the backwoods of New Jersey.
When he graduated from high school, he started a decent career as a tax attorney.
Unfortunately, he was one of the first drafted into World War Two. He served for 21 months,
surviving with a minor head injury. Unfortunately, the injury caused problems with his vision
and was unable to continue his work as an attorney. He met Lorna Kerwan in Philadelphia while
visiting his sister, and a year later they married and moved to New York City. Lester Lamb took
up an interest in the city government, working as a campaign manager, then later becoming elected
alderman of his district in a close race against Chicago politician O'Cassic.
During the following years, Lester and Lorna created a healthy family of six.
Elizabeth, the eldest, followed by James, Virginia, Charlotte and Doreen.
Doreen, the youngest is now fifteen and has excelled in theater since she was nine.
James married Joy Connol and had two children the year before last, James Jr. and Arthur.
We would all love to see what marvelous accomplishments these fine children will make.
-Alexandria Dulou
Errata: Please note the above may not all be true.
The fact is, the Lambs had six children as noted above.
The nameless child is not mentioned by the family for some reason.
Furthermore, Dulou is a friend of the family and in effort to grant some privacy,
she falsified many accounts of the Lambs and of other famous friends of hers.
This newspaper considers her writing as an editorial, subject to the author's emotional
response and possibly divorced from truth. It is recently the right of the author to
misrepresent as he wishes according to literary movements in the
phenomonalist and subjectivist vein. See also Borges.
-ed (Fred)
