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Name Ilha Address Ot City Zone State L J 1 roAND TELEVISION JUNE, 1949 VOL. 32, NO. 1 KEYSTONE TOBACCO PEOPLE ON THE AIR MOUTH Russ Hodges 13 BREATH Alan Reed 18 `OFF-COLOR OFF -OLOR TEETH Ruth Perrott 19 Winchell Contest Winners 25 "I'm Growing Up Again" by Gracie Allen 28 This Is Your Life by Ralph Edwards 30 Parky Pulled Me Through by Harry Einstein ( "Parkyakarkus ") 34 Through the Years With Big Sister -in Pictures 36 But Is It Talent9 by Gwen Jones 40 Come and Visit Dennis Day by Dorothy Blair 42 One of the World's Good People by Martin Cohen 56 Quiz Kid of the Quarter 58 The McNeills Come Calling by Mrs. Sam Cowling 60 My Husband -Mr. Keen by Mrs. Bennett Kilpack 62 INSIDE RADIO Facing the Music by Joe Martin 8 Look At the Records by Joe Martin 10 Why Collector's Corner by Andy Russell 11 What's New From Coast to Coast by Dale Banks 14 Information Booth 23 take it with you? Are You Quiz -Wise? by M. A. McCann 26 Inside Radio 70 New tooth paste with Quiz Catalogue 73 Lusterfoam attacks tobacco FOR BETTER LIVING stain and off-color breath. You and the Cosmetic Tax by Mary Jane Fulton 4 Don't kid yourself about "tobacco What Makes You Tick? by John McCaffery 17 mouth" -it's as real as the stain on a Between the Bookends by Ted Malone 46 chain smoker's fingers! When a Girl Marries by Joan Davis 48 Most Likely to Succeed But your tongue can tell! (You can by Kate Smith 64 an odor.) And your dentist "taste" TELEVISION knows when he cleans your teeth. notice . And your friends might .. Your Ticket to the Texaco Star Theater 32 you know. Televisit with the Erwins 50 But they won't point the finger at Cartoonists j.g 51 you (after you've left the room of "Miracle" on TV 52 Television course) if you're a regular user of Coast to Coast in 54 Listerine Tooth Paste. Here's why - YOUR LOCAL. 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All rights reserved under International Copyright Convention. n under Pan -American Copyright Convention. Todos derechos reservados segun La Convencion 1WAV All rights reserved Office. Panamericana de Propiedad Literaria y Artistica. Title trademark registered in U. S. Patent m , Wed. Printed in U. S. A. by Art Color Printing Co., Dunellen, N. J. Cw;,ff TONI TWINS prove magic of SOFT -WATER Shampooing LATHER ... WAS KATHERINE'S PROBLEM. "My shampoo simply would not lather right", complained Katherine Ring. "I'd rub and rub but still my hair never had much glint to it!" And no wonders! Katherine was In July: four picture -pages take you using a soap shampoo, and Through the YYi with Lorenzo Jones soaps not only fail to lather as well in hard water -they actually leave a film on hair that dulls natural lustre! So FOR some time now, one of the your hair lacks highlights, features you' ve liked most in looks drab and lifeless! RADIO MIR ROR has been the monthly Rey der Bonus, the king- size novelet ,e in which we've BUT KATHLEENE brought you a variety of good reading matt er about radio people. GOT HEAPS OF IT! Nèxt month comes a big surprise- "Look at all this lather ", a double -bon is issue, we call it, be- smiled her twin, Kathleene. cause in it y ou'11 find not one, but "I discovered that Toni two big fat st )ries. One is a fictioni- Creme Shampoo gives Soft- zation from the well -loved drama Water Shampooing even in Portia Faces Life. The other is a hard water! I never saw such creepy tale of terror, novelized suds! Never saw my hair so from one of the most hair -raising shining clean before, either!" That's what Toni's Soft - of recent Sus pense dramas. There's Water Shampooing means. enough good reading for the whole Even in hard water it means month of J une in those two billows of rich, whipped - features! cream suds that leave your * hair shimmering clean! But don't go away! Not satisfied with giving you enough, we give you more. MrMr; Art Linkletter, who has five chit clren, tells what she knows (and it' s plenty) about bring - ing them up so that it's fun for everyone co ncerned, instead of trouble. Geor gia Carroll, the glam- orous wife of Kay Kyser, talks about families too, N special reference to husbands and how Kay ranks among them.