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1948? 
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 Here is a the little dossier I promised you on myself. 
 I am a writer and architectural draftsman, and have contributed two or three stories to every issue of LIVING, as well as fiction [[strikethrough]] ot [[/strikethrough]] to the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. Freadron [[?]] issue

 I spent the war years working as an engineering draftsman at Douglas Aircraft on the cargo ship C 74. After the war, I worked for two years in the drafting room of R.M. Schindler, A.I.A., on designs of residences, medical buildings, apartments, shops, and even furniture. Mr. Schindler belongs to the school that does not stop with the design of the house, but goes on to the furniture and planting. 
 
 At the beginning of the war I did a remodel of a fifty-year old house for my husband and me. Incidentally, he complains that we never go out but what I am consulted on what will happen if a bearing wall is pulled down, how much it will cost to move the laundry to the kitchen, or what space will be gained by changing the walk-in closet to a wardrobe. I owe my clarity in writing on architecture to my husband, who sets his intelligence in that field at the age of seven: anything he doesn't understand, I edit out. 

 Before the war I published several signed series of newspaper article on California slums and low-cost housing, and prepared a radio program on slums clearance. I have published architectural material in literary and consumer magazines (Direction, Sunset, and Home Magazine) and prepared material on Mr. Schindler's work for all theleading architectural magazines.