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Here's the story — a little bit sad, but mostly happy — of Helen Cohen, housewife, who won a fabulous collection of prizes on Sing It Again!
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What to do with the big things — that was the question. And the obvious thing was to hire a loft, so they did.
To help pay taxes a lot of things stored in the loft, which the Cohens couldn't use, were sold at auction.
"Now our youngest daughter, Roberta, is screaming, too. 'It's no kidding!' she yells, 'it's on the level! I hear him asking for you, Pa, right now, over the radio! Oh, Pa, hurry, hurry!'
"Now both girls are jumping up and down like on hot leedles, their faces redder than firecrackers and above the racket they are making, Papa is yelling, too. He is saying to me, 'You take it, Helen, you take it!' And as Louisa is pushing me across the room, pushing the telephone receiver in my hand that is limp like a piece of biscuit dough, I hear Papa saying, dazed-like, 'Out of twenty-three million people, it should happen to us!' "
Shortly before this most exciting thing in their fives happened to the Cohens, they were all together doing what Mrs. Cohen describes as "our Saturday night relaxing." Papa, in his shirtsleeves, was reading his evening paper. Mama, in her housedress, was taking forty winks over her crossword puzzle. Judith and Roslyn and their husbands were playing, "this new card game, this Canasta." The little ones were watching Louisa take up the hem in a dress she let down only
two months before. "Skirt lengths changing so," Louisa was complaining, "it keeps your nose to the needle!" Seventeen-year-old Roberta was sitting, "her ear glued, like always," laughed her mother, "to the radio. She was listening to a reporter interview Joe DiMaggio. She was sighing, also like always, 'Oh, if only we had a television set, I could see DiMaggio!'
"This rouses me from my catnapping and in between filling in spaces in my puzzle with words like 'emu' and 'eland,' I am thinking, Louisa needs a new dress. All jour girls should have winter coats. A new suit of clothes must somehow be managed for Papa. A television set for Roberta — that, unless there is a Santa Claus, we cannot manage. . . .
"I feel the hurt inside me I always feel when one of the children badly wants something she can't have. . . . Then I think, By this time, I should be used to the mother-pain. . . .
"It is not easy to bring up four girls in a four-room flat in the Bronx," Helen Cohen said, "dress them decently, feed them properly, (Continued on page 77)
Sing It Again, with emcee Den Seymour, is heard Saturday nights at 10, EST, on CBS stations.
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