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, RADIO JlIVJD TELEVISION MIRROR NOVEMBER • 25c HSU Blondie—My Favorite Mother—page 40 Dagwood's House of Happiness—page 42 Come and visit ART LINK LET lE R YOUNG WIDDER BROWN n pictures A Lovelier Skin is yours with your First Cake of Camay! You're as lovely as your complexion! And your skin can grow in loveliness with your first cake of Camay. Do this! Give up careless cleansing— go on the Camay Mild-Soap Diet. Doctors tested Camay care on scores of women — found most complexions grew softer and smoother with just one cake of Camay! Follow the directions on the wrapper for a really lovelier skin! MEET MR. AND MRS. GAVERT! Paul proposed in a tiny New York restau- rant. No wonder! Christine's lovely com- plexion calls for love! "My very first cake of Camay led to a lovelier skin," says she. The Gaverts have lots of mutual interests be- sides music. And Paul takes a special in- terest in Christine's complexion. She'll stay on the Camay Mild-Soap Diet! MRS. PAUL A. GAVERT the former Chrittine Lindseth of Grand Rapids, Mich, bridal portrait painted by THE SOAP OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Heepcjour hmxk ei/etv'ng-soft all cku Ioiip'/a ~]his- fabulous lotion if double-beaatu mdPie here ... as well ^ as here. §f t tard-at-work and "on display, your all your lotion needs—a joy to use any Smoothed on your hands before doing •*- * hands lead a double life. So- -pamper time. Every fragrant, peach-colored drop dishes or light laundry, Trushay protects them with the double-beauty magic of is so rich, your hands feel softer and them even in hot, soapy water. Guards Trushay. smoother instantly! them from drying damage. So your hands stay evening-soft all day long! Trushay, you see, is first of all a velvet- Yet . Trushay's magic doesn't stop soft lotion—with a wondrous touch you've there. It also brings to you a fabulous Adopt Trushay's double-beauty help— never known before. A luxury lotion for "beforehand" extra! begin today to use Trushay! TRUSHAY the lotion with the "beforehand" extra nornici op i>.iioi»il«l *W»-- , B_ — AND TELEVISION NOVEMBER, 1948 RADIO MIRROR <**# VOL. 30, NO. 6 KEYSTONE Radio Mirror Awards for 1948. 26 Behind My True Story 22 Grand Central Station ' 25 Our Boss, Joe Kelly by Rinny Templeton and Joel Kupperman 28 My Friend, Irma by Marie Wilson 30 Curtain At Nine by William Keighley 32 Your Ticket To The Jack Benny Show 34 Young Widder Brown—Through The Years In Pictures 36 Blondie—My Favorite Mother by Dorothy Grace Sparks 40 Dagwood's House Of Happiness by Arthur Lake 42 Traveler Of The Month by Tommy Bartlett 50 Come And Visit Art Linkletter by Polly Townsend 52 Bachelor Girl In Hollywood by Pauline Swanson 54 Facing The Music by Duke Ellington 10 Look At The Records by Joe Martin 12 What's New From Coast To Coast by Dale Banks 14 Collector's Corner by Sarah Yaughan 19 Inside Radio 66 It's Here 69 Information Booth 82 Head Start by Mary Jane Fulton 6 Between The Bookends by Ted Malone 44 It Might As Well Be Pretty by Kate Smith 60 Mother Of The Year by Terry Burton 70 Life Can Be Beautiful 80 "Colgate Dental Cream's active penetrating Coast To Coast In Television. 46 foam gets into hidden crevices between teeth Lights 48 —helps clean out decaying food particles WJZ-TV Up stop stagnant saliva odors—remove the cause of much bad breath. And Colgate's soft pol- ishing agent cleans enamel thoroughly, gently and safely!" WTOP: Jokes Set To Music 4 WIBG: No News Is . ? ? ? 8 MTER-Thanks to Colgate Dental Cream KDKA: King Of KDKA 16 WBEN: Ross Weller, Enthusiast Extraordinary 20 WNBT: Howdy Doody's Daddy 58 The Light In The Window—A Guiding Light Novelette by Helen Christy Harris 62 ON THE COVER: Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake as The Bumsteds; color portrait by Ozzie Sweet Editorial Director Editor Art Director FRED B. SAMMIS DORIS McFERRAN JACK ZASORIN Managing Editor Associate Art Director EVELYN L. FIORE FRANCES MALT Television Research JOAN MURPHY LLOYD TERC GOTO Chicago Office: Editor, HELEN CAMBRIA BOLSTAD Hollywood Office: Editor, ANN DAGGETT Managing Editor, FRANCES MORRIN Staff Photographers, IIYMIE FINK, STERLING SMITH Assistant, BETTY JO RICE RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR, published monthly by MACFADDEN PUBLICATIONS, INC., New York, N. V. 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J. ^cwiina tAewl tAic^h THAT seal at the head of the column is there to remind you that it's not all over yet! You've voted, this month, for your favorite radio personalities; next month comes your chance to vote for your favorite programs. Don't lie down on the job of telling radio what you think of it—it's im- portant to the industry to know what you expect of it, and it's vital to you if you want to get real entertainment from your radio set! As soon as you get your Decem- ber Radio Mirror, fill in that ballot, cut it out, and send it in. If you're a Duffy's Tavern customer—as who isn't—there's a big surprise waiting for you when we visit Ed Gardner. The man who holds down the Tavern has a -family life of his own that you'd never expect. From the beautiful color portraits of his French wife and his two delightful sons right down to the stories of the dogs in his life, this visit with Ed Gardner is one you'll never forget. To Candy Bergen, who's very, very young, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd are dear old friends. That's all very well for now, but—as you'll learn from Frances (Mrs. Edgar) Bergen's lively story about "EB and the Boys," there's a problem coming up. What are they going to tell Candy when she gets a little older and wants to know why her playmates have Now! Keep your hands wooden heads? In fact, Frances herself is sometimes a little confused—but not too confused to realize that never was a fam- as kissable as your lips. ..with new ily more fun than the one that came with Edgar. * ifi * Woodbury Lotion Other features stud the December issue like gems—a color spread on Don McNeill's It's Beauty-Blended . , Breakfast Club; a unique side-glance at Actually 2-lotions-in-l Drew Pearson by a man who knows him 1. softening lotionl Helps bring your hands really well; a double-barreled chat with A adorable new softness. Beauty-blended with luxury Margaret and Barbara Whiting. For those lanolin and other costlier-than-usual skin of you who are old friends of David smoothers. Harum, a special treat a backward — 2. A protective lotion, too! This same Woodbury glance, in pictures, over David Harum's beauty-blend helps "glove" your hands against story from the time Aunt Polly came to roughening, reddening wind and cold, the drying effect of and water. live with him. And once again—remember soap the Awards ballot, in December Radio At drug and cosmetic counters, 1 5c, 29c, 49c plus tax Mirror, on sale November 10. MADE BY THE MAKERS OF FAMOUS WOODBURY FACIAL SOAP AND OTHER AIDS TO LOVELINESS SET TO When a WTOP comedian tells a joke, Johnny's piano sneaks in, titters, chuckles and finally guffaws. DOES a joke have a melody? Johnny Salb says yes. And he proves it, to the delight of Washington, D. C, listeners, on his various appearances on WTOP broadcasts. When a WTOP artist begins a joke, Salb's piano sneaks in behind with a gentle riffle.