Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1948)

Come and Visit Don McNeill (Continued from page 33) Merchandise Mart studios, and arrived at the McNeills' limestone house at 6:30 some morning, you'd find the real warm-up for the Breakfast Club in progress. When the Breakfast Club first started, Kay took the responsibility of getting Don roused, fed, and out of the house with a smile on his face. Now it's the boys' job, and both Don and the kids love it. You'll find them lined up at the narrow curving table that faces the yellowcurtained bay window, looking out on the big back yard which becomes, in successive seasons, a baseball diamond, a gridiron, a winter sports playground and a basketball court. Though you face west, you get the impression of floods of sunshine, for the room is designed to bring dawn in early. WALLS are white, and the trim yellow. The big, solid, modern dining table behind the little group has the rich golden tone of the white mahogany that decorators call prima vera. The deeply cushioned chairs are upholstered in a silvery shade of green that most closely matches a distant forest in the spring. You might, some typical morning, hear Don ask, "Tommy, what are you going to do when you grow up?" He has seen that answer being lived out over thirteen years, but he wants it in his son's own words. There's a map of old Erin on the boy's round face, and a thatch of red hair to top it. "I think I'll be a mechanical engineer, an architect and an artist." "Donny?" Slight, wiry and intense, the second in line has a reply on the tip of his tongue. "I'm going to be an AllAmerican football player." For big Don, that's the echo of a childhood aspiration which illness blocked. One lad remains on the roll call. Though only seven, the youngest already does tricks with words. He could, eventually, repeat Don's own major in journalism. "Bobby?" It's an elfin grin the leprechauns themselves could have loved that the small one turns to him. "I'm going to be an engineer on a streamliner. I'm going to take big trains over the mountains and past cowboys and Indians and soldiers. I'm going to run them faster than they've ever run before . . ." He stops. His dream outdistances his voice. Don encourages, "That's quite a job, isn't it?" Bobby considers. "I suppose so." Then the grin breaks through again. "I know what. I'll go on radio. Then I'll never have to work. I'll just talk." They have, in a day when metropolitan living leaves many youngsters with only a vague idea of how their fathers earn the family bread and butter, an old-fashioned apprenticeship relation to work. It's in keeping with traditions of the clan. Back in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Don trailed his father, Harry, around the family's furniture factory. Harry, in turn, had learned the business from his father, Tom. The same father-to-son chain has been carried on in the McNeills' major trw Ignorance and Yruiem case d&f/?w<z w$&> ' K6ffi>tJtedJ Learn here the REAL TRUTH about these Intimate Physical Facts! Often a woman's married life isn't happy simply because she hasn't proper scientific knowledge of these intimate physical facts. And she's too lazy or shy to find out. Or she may be following ignorant advice of 'supposed' girl friends. So here's really a chance to learn scientific truth you can trust. Girls, you simply must realize how important vaginal douching often is to intimate feminine cleanliness, charm, health and marriage happiness — to combat one of woman's most embarrassing deodorant problems. And what's so very important — learn why you should put zonite in your douche. Truly A Modern Miracle! Scientists tested every generally known antiseptic and germicide they could find on sale for the douche. And NO OTHER TYPE proved SO POWERFUL yet so safe to tissues as zonite — the first antiseptic-germicide principle in the world with such a powerful germicidal and deodorizing action yet absolutely harmless. You can use zonite as directed as often as needed without the slightest risk of injury. It's positively non-irritating, non-burning, non-poisonous. Zonite Principle Developed By Famous Surgeon and Scientist The zonite principle was developed by a world-famous Surgeon and Scientist. What better assurance could you want? zonite destroys and removes odor-causing waste substances, helps guard against infection — it's so powerfully effective it immediately kills every germ it touches. You know it's not always possible to contact all the germs in the tract. BUT YOU CAN be sure zonite does kill every reachable germ and keeps them from multiplying. Complete douching directions come with every bottle. Zonite / FREE! NEW! FOR NEWER feminine nuaiene / Nome ** J > Address» City For amazing enlightening new Booklet containing frank discussion of intimate physical facts, recently published — mail this coupon to f Zonite Products, Dept. RM-78, 370 f Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. Sioi. 91