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Make checks payable lo Old Time Radio Digest 10280 Gunpowder (603)-585-34,48 Road Florence KY 41042 2 Come and visit Jaeli ~ by Polly Townsend Radio Mirror Magazine ~ " . t:l Under one roof: a house for everybody, much release of radio- active poison mat­ and for everybody a house of his own. ter as did the atom bomb over Bikini. This is Mary Livingstone's recipe for a Mary Benny knew this when she harmonious family life, and it works like a planned her house, and she planned care­ talisman-even in Hollywood where (de­ fully for lebensraum for three as disparate spite the well-paid efforts of half the psy­ human beings as ever found \ chiatric brains in the country) more shelter under a single rooftop." \ marriages explode in the headlines than go First of all, of course, the house had to \ on year in year out in a sort of a miracu­ 'Work for Jack Benny More of the sweat lous serenity. and toil which produces the Benny radio Of course, if you're living in Quonset show every -week goes on at the Benny hut with your bride and her mother and home than in Jack's office or at NBC stu­ planning to put Junior in the dresser dios- so Jack's lebensraum had to provide drawer, a description of the Jack Bennys' for working space, shut off from the noise Jack and Mary in there living room serene and well-roofed existence will only and confusions of the rest of the house­ hasten your trip to the divorce court, or to hold. As for Jack's recreation if there is sort of. exhaustion Joan's life promotes is Bennys' spacious Georgian home in Washington to have the heads of the work to be done, he doesn't get any. His not like her father's; it makes for good, Beverly Hills is laid out in three suites- so housing expediters.