RADIO MIRROR my Desmond Own Story • Husband— lold Stang • it the Clock Contest VIRGINIA DWYER MEET MILLIE (Elena Verdugo) B CROSBY N. Y. radio, TV listings 2S< That Ivory Look Young America has it... You can have it in 7 days! Babies have That Ivory Look . why shouldn't you? Reliable, reassuring mildness . that's why Ivory is so gentle on a baby's skin. That's why Ivory is so right for yours. Why, everybody knows more doctors advise Ivory for complexion than any other soap. You can have That Ivory Look in just one week! It couldn't be easier! Simply change to regular skin care, using pure, mild Ivory Soap. See a change in just 7 days! See your skin with a pret- tier, fresher, younger look . That Ivory Look! 99,tt% pure.it floats More doctors advise Ivory than any other soap \ Give a lifetime of happiness The world's most precious silverplate :«, What is Holmes & Edwards' dazzling difference? 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V HOLMES & EDWARDS STERLING INLAID SILVERPLATE Holiday Drawer Chest A DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL SILVER COMPANY for 12... just $122.75 (All patterns made in USA) pieces 76 ... a complete service for 12 . new! modern timeless smart graceful charming in your choice of a smart blond chest or "Bright Future" "Spring Garden" "Danish Princess" "Romance" "May Queen" this chest in fine, traditional cherry finish. ) ASK YOUR RADIO DOCTOR or DRUGGIST DECEMBER, 1954 WMIRROR VOL. 43, NO. 1 Keystone Edition Ann Higginbotham, Editor Ann Mosher, Executive Editor Jack Zasorin, Art Director Teresa Buxton, Managing Editor Frances Maly, Associate Art Director Ellen Taussig, Associate Editor Joan Clarke, Art Assistant Claire Safran, Editorial Assistant Betty Mills, West Coast Editor '/(& people on the afr What's New from Coast to Coast by Jill Warren 4 END THAT Christmas Memories (Liberace) by George Liberace 27 So Glad to Meet Millie! by Elena Verdugo 30 Marriage Can Be Fun by Mrs. Arnold Stang 32 "Certain Portrait of Aunt Jenny (Agnes Young) by Martin Cohen 34 Time" Santa Claus, Home Style (Eddy Arnold) by Helen Bolstad 36 No "Secret Storm" for Susan (Virginia Dwyer)....by Eleanor Pollock 38 Pepper Young's Family (Yuletide greetings from the popular daytime Odor Problem drama) 40 Ever in His Heart (Vaughn Monroe) by Gregg Martin 52 with TV Radio Mirror Awards for 1954-55 (cast your ballot for your favorites today 54 Love Story for Today (Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds) containing by Maxine Arnold 56 Beat The Clock's Exciting Big Contest (last chance to win a Sylvania Chairside Theater TV set!) 58 Day of Thanksgiving (Everett Mitchell) by Lilla Anderson 60 Introducing Disneyland (who's who and what's what in the exciting new series) 62 y em - tjcular odor.'Th1s aPar features in full color since has hbeenP so pre-hUtnr!„ I- meS ~ deodorants and th e Everything a Man Could Want by Johnny Desmond 42 and n P rffUmes Nation have Sw of civ"- The Phrase That Pays sou t COVer (Ted and Rhoda Brown) by Frances Kish 44 Now, Jt ' + however-aft e ,- Sweetheart of the Crosbys by Bob Crosby 48 turies- a subst*" ?lanycen - found that ee Love for a Lifetime (Peggy McCay) by Mary Temple 50 Ibtrts^ert"^m time"** 3 odors within th* t Z 2. t bod Thi ?tanee-DAR L y- ? sub- in ENNDS ^ ° Und onl DA tablets y your local station the bfo°oJ • * entering I ^ r digestive eh the Just Call Him Lucky (WPIX) 8 i system Tt- thus*H ried to all car " nart; -,V*l Lady of Distinction (WMAL) : 10 1 where the b °dv- it remnv 2$he The Host with the Most (WNEW) 20 certafn ° dor fr°™ organTc com* fore thev f™ Pounds be- Philadelphia Pixies ( WPEN) 22 the poref aTpIS^ thr4h «ot o^I^nds ?E °f ENNDS, your special services "certainWme" W0I y over odor K . 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OFF, Now there are two SPRAY NETS . Super Soft or Regular, both wonderful ! WHAT'S NEW FROM By Jill Warren CBS-TV was most happy to have signed Ethel Merman to star in the musical production, "Panama Hattie," on Wednesday night, November 10, as part of their new Best Of Broadway series, seen once a month. "Panama Hattie" will be complete with a big- name cast, dancers, singers, and all that goes with musical comedy a la television. Ethel, of course, as Hattie, is re-creating the role she played in the famous Broadway hit of a few years ago.