Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1949)

Plain Language about Tampax No need to be embarrassed any more. The invention of Tampax has simplified the whole subject of monthly protection for women. You require no belts or pins with Tampax — and no outside pads. For Tampax is worn internally. You insert Tampax by means of individual patented applicators; your hands need not touch the Tampax. You will find great daintiness in Tampax. No odor, no chafing — and it's only one-ninth the bulk of the external kind. You can forget any fear of bulges or ridges under your clothing, for Tampax cannot show through. (Also, disposal is easy.) You will welcome the downright comfort of Tampax — the sense of physical and mental relaxation it brings on "those discouraging days." You will like the scientific character of Tampax — invented by a doctor and made of pure surgical absorbent cotton throughout. Buy Tampax at drug or notion counters. 3 absorbencies: Regular, Super, Junior. A full month's average supply will slip into your purse. Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. R Accepted for advertising ,„ by the Journal of the American Medical Association 86 who specialized in the care of brandnew babies. At the end of six weeks, when there was no more need for that kind of specialist, this nurse recommended another — a motherly German woman, in this country for twenty years, who would be able to take over completely. It has worked out beautifully. Nurse not only has charge of Andrea, she has adopted the whole family. Since there is no sleep-in maid, it is she who fixes Grace and Court their coffee in the morning (and what can be greater luxury?). The Bensons have coffee early enough to give them an hour of play with Andrea before they go to the studio and she goes to the park. They don't see each other again, except on the nurse's day off, until the baby's bath and dinner. Grace's schedule is pretty full during the day. Rehearsal for Big Sister starts at 11:30. The show itself is over at 1:15. She has half an liour for lunch, for which she generally rushes downstairs in the CBS building to Colbee's. At 1:45 she's back at the studio to begin rehearsal for Hilltop House, and is kept busy until 3:30. A lot of Court's work keeps him busy during other people's dinnertime. So husband and wife often have to operate on a stagger schedule, which, on Wednesday, the nurse's day off, works like this. Mornings are as usual, except that Nurse leaves right after breakfast. When Grace leaves, Court takes the baby over, giving her lunch and taking her for an airing in Central Park. There he is greeted by all the other nurses, who know Andrea, and love to come over and talk to him about her. He is rather proud to play the role, not of a well-known radio character, but simply of Andrea's old man. Grace meets them at the Zoo as soon as her work is over, and it's her turn to take the baby. While Court goes to the studio, Grace gives Andrea her bath and lier dinner, which she thoroughly enjoys doing. Court frankly admits he prefers not to have to feed his daughter. He hasn't the patience for a baby's thousand delays and the endless resourcefulness it can show about not swallowing food. . . . Anyway, he claims Andrea is always half-starved by the time Nurse gets back for breakfast on Thursday morning. The Bensons' social life is fairly limited, since working as hard as they do doesn't leave much time for staying up late. They read a lot, see many plays (they still plan to do some legitimate theater work in the fairly near future) and see their friends. Once a week. Court has a poker session, using an octagonal table Grace gave him last year as a Christmas present. During the summer the routine of the Benson household changes considerably. For several months out of the year they become commuters. And they love it. Their house in Darien, Connecticut, is so surrounded by water it looks like a houseboat . . . almost. Not quite, though. It isn't that isolated. The Bensons would hardly like a real houseboat — they enjoy moving about too much, walking along country roads. Out at Darien they sleep better than in the city, and even the food tastes better to them. They claim the same steaks and chops develop a different flavor. It isn't just the result of cooking sometimes on an open grill — it's eating after the long walks, the swimming. The evenings and early mornings in the country are so invigorating they don't half-mind the commuting. Andrea, who spent her first long summer there, thrives on the country. After a few weeks she became one of those lovely honey-colored babies. She smiled and gurgled all day long, showing off her four brand-new teeth — two of them eye-teeth which, her parents say, make her look as if she were growing fangs. She is growing up fast. Court and Grace have some very definite ideas — which don't always coincide — on the way Little Sister should be brought up. They argue a good deal about the importance of environment in raising a child. Grace believes that the most important thing is the psychological effect of good home atmosphere, a feeling of security and being loved. Court tends to feel that though these factors are important there is too much stress today being placed on the psychological side of upbringing and is more fatalistic about human character. He feels that the fundamentals of a person's character are inborn. Luckily, both know how to listen in an argument, and they respect each other's judgment and ideas. By the time Andrea is old enough to need it, they will undoubtedly have arrived at a pretty sensible approach for all of them. In the meantime, they are wondering just how much musical talent their daughter will have. They think probably a lot. At ten months. Little Sister has taken to tuning both Court and Grace off the air unceremoniously. She prefers to listen to music. listen to singing star GORDON MACRAE on the RAILROAD HOUR Every Monday Night 8 p.m. EST ABC stations Read Gordon MacRae's life story, plus full-page color portrait in the current issue of TRUE STORY magazine now on the newsstands. J