Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

26 How fortunate we modern women really are! All the benefits of science. All the advantages of professional skill and education. No wonder we grow more broadminded and the prejudices of the Past disappear That's why we have been ready to welcome Tampax*— that revolutionary method of monthly sanitary protection invented by a physician to be worn internally. What and why is Tampax? For years women have been irked by the bulk and discomfort of the external pad and the pins and belts that support it. Tampax came along just at the right time— no larger than your finger, no supports whatever, no odor or chafing, nothing to make ridges under clothing. You can't even feel the Tampax when in place! Made of pure surgical cotton, Tampax comes in smooth, slender applicators for efficient insertion. Millions of women, married and single, are using Tampax now. Easily disposable. Month's supply fits in purse. At drug and notion counters in 3 sizes: Regular, Super, Junior. Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. *Reg. V. S. Pat. og. TRAVELER OF THE Sixty-year-old Hazel Dannecker visited Welcome Travelers in the course of a trip to publicize her recent book. Her first was written at fifty-seven. Accepted for Advertising by the Journal of the American Medical Association Mrs. Hazel Dannecker of Newcastle, Indiana, is a childless widow who's made a career of children. And if anybody should tell you that the world won't give jobs to elderly people just refer them to Mrs. Dannecker, who started making a comfortable living, doing work she loved, at the age of fifty-seven. Mrs. Dannecker is a writer of children's books. Her first book, Fisherman Simms, was published three years ago when she was fiftyseven and she was on an autographing tour to publicize her second book, Happy, Hero and Judge, when she stopped at our Welcome Travelers broadcast in the College Inn Porterhouse of Chicago's Hotel Sherman. Mrs. Dannecker had married when she was seventeen years old and a junior in high school. She left school for the joys of home and family — in her case, I think, family particularly. She loved children. Her husband became an invalid shortly after their marriage and it took all the money the Danneckers had to care for the seriously-ill Mr. Dannecker. After forty years of invalidism and pain, broken by brief periods of relief between operations, Mr. Dannecker died, leaving his widow with little besides their Newcastle home. . Mrs. Dannecker had to make a living for herself. She had worked as a children's librarian early in her husband's illness, but had been forced to give up the job to care for him. During her fifteen years as a children's librarian, she had inaugurated a story hour and had delighted the youngsters with her original stories. With a. need for money pressing, she remembered those children's stories and started putting them on paper. Gradually, she began to sell a few of them to magazines, although, as she said, she "collected enough rejection slips to paper a house." With the publication of her first book, Mrs. Dannecker was on her way, and she's been going full-speed ahead ever since. She does a weekly story program for children over a local radio station, writes a column for a Newcastle newspaper and serves as society reporter for the same publication. Her children's short stories find a ready market in children's magazines. "I never have any trouble making contact with youngsters," she says. "We seem to understand each other. I love them; and they seem to get along fine with me." She's been giving expression to her love of children all her adult life, not only through her work as chil Tommy Bartlett emcees Welcome Travelers, Monday-Friday, 10 A.M. EST on NBC.