Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1950)

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My Two Generations of Downeys (Continued from page 49) to follow in his father's footsteps on the side of law and order. The next thing that happened was that Morton was clowning around in study hall and accidentally broke the fire alarm just before he had to go up, again, to see the principal about something. Morton said he didn't mean to do it, and I believed him. But the principal didn't, and Morton was expelled as all of the other children streamed out in "his" fire drill. He went to work for the rest of the term and liked it so much he never did go back to school. When Morton got a little older he could imitate anybody so perfectly you couldn't tell the difference. I never will forget the hornet's nest he stirred up with one telephone call. I had two good friends, one a lady who did beautiful fancy sewing and the other a close neighbor who was unmarried. I don't know what got into Morton, but one day, showing off before friends, he called up the seamstress in my neighbor's voice saying that it was a big secret but that she was going to be married, and ordered half a dozen fancy camisoles. The seamstress was more than enthusiastic at the good news. She called me and half a dozen others right away saying, "Who is she going to marry? Who's the man?" Word got back to my neighbor that Morton was behind the whole thing and she was so mad that she wouldn't speak to me for two weeks. Can't say that I blame her, either. Well, my first brood of Downeys grew up, and then came the second lot. Sometimes it seems as if I turned around once and here they are, almost grown up, that second generation we're raising! Michael is grown up. He has just turned twenty and is in his second year at Notre Dame. All the children are musical to some degree, just as my own five are, but Michael is aimed at a business career like his two uncles, and like Morton, too, for that matter. Sean, Morton's second boy, is seventeen and he will be going to college in another year — if we can hold him down to his books. He reminds me a lot of Morton all the time, too. He and the youngest, Kevin, both have fine voices. In addition, Sean has the temperament for show business. He is crazy about singing, just the way his father was at his age, so he may get away from his books early, too. I don't mean that Sean is in any danger of being expelled, but he is good enough at his singing to have gotten tryouts for himself on several talent scout shows last vacation. He used an assumed name because he didn't want to use his father's influence, so it looks as if we have another showman coming along. Lorelle is sixteen, and she's the one who can twist her father and all of us around her little finger. Being the only girl, she has had to learn to hold her own with the four boys, and she can. She took up jiu-jitsu and scientific boxing, so her brothers respect her both for her quick tongue and for what she can do if they start a rough-house. She isn't interested in the stage, though we think she is very pretty. Her great interest is sports and she is out on the Only one soap gives your skin this exciting Bouquet P I New tests by leading skin specialists PROVE the amazing mildness of Cashmere Bouquet on all types of skin! Yes, in laboratory tests conducted under severest conditions on normal, dry and oily skin types . . . Cashmere Bouquet Soap was proved amazingly mild! So use Cashmere Bouquet regularly in your daily bath and for your complexion, too. It will leave your skin softer, smoother . . . flower-fresh and younger looking! The lingering, romantic fragrance of Cashmere Bouquet comes only from a secret wedding of rare perfumes, far costlier than you would expect to find in any soap. Fastidious women cherish Cashmere Bouquet for this "fragrance men love". Cashmere Bouquet —In a New Bath Size Cake, Tool