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MY mother has a variety of names. Socially she is Mrs. Robert S. Sparks. Professionally she is Miss Penny Singleton. But mostly she is known by the name of an empty-headed radio character which she plays over NBC every Wednesday at 8:00 P.M. EST (5:00 PST), Blondie Bumstead,
My mother has a variety of accomplishments. Due afternoon, for Instance, when I was sick in bed with B cold, and feeling doubly miserable because the afternoon was so dark and stormy, she , .mi. In mv room With paper and pencil and suggested that we write a poem about the weather.
Perhaps some of my Extends wouldn't be interested In passing time striving for rhyme, but I've always been around people who have sort of a i approach to life, SO it seemed like a fine idea.
1 didn't turn out anything it would give anyone
tin least pleasure to remember, but Mother outdid herself as usual. Tins is what she wrote:
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Dear little rain drops
Falling from the skies.
Are you tears of happiness
From the angels' eyes?
Do you to us a message bring?
Clinging to each earthly thing
Seen and yet unseen?
Must mortals to the unknown land
Journey on, to understand?
I don't know another girl my age who lias is poetry-writing mother and a mother who is also an actress, a singer, an equestrienne, a fashion expert, a child psychologist, a postcard painter, a stamp collector, a button collector, a quick change artist, and the source of a million laughs.
You might think all these interests would Seej Penny Singleton very busy. They don't. She always looking around for something else to _
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\ growing-up daughter is likely to be her mother's severest critic.
Hut Pennj Singleton Sparks, weighed by young Dorotltj Grace, is found . • • !"'' "