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Vicki sidles up to Daddy, leans against his knee, turns the full force of a pair of wonderfully blue eyes on him. (Dale Carnegie could have had Vicki in mind when he wrote How To Win Friends and Influence People.) Vicki, sure of Daddy's full attention, looks over at one of the phones. "May I?" she asks. Milton nods permission. Cnerringly, Vicki chooses the phone which connects with the Berle office on Broadway, and is immediately connected with Sandy Lewis, Milton's very pretty, super-efficient secretary. "Morning, Sandy," says Vicki, all business. "How's everything down at the office?" A pause for answer, and then, "That's nice. Any appointments for Daddy?" Vicki listens attentively while Sandy makes a report on the day's schedule. Vicki nods solemnly, and turns to Milton to report, "You're due at the William Morris Agency at three o'clock." Then more listening, more understanding nods, more reports on when Milton has to be where. And then, "Thank you, Sandy. Goodbye!" and Milton's five-minutes-a-morning secretary hangs up. That pair of telephones on the breakfast table, incidentally, reveal a more serious aspect of Milton Berle's socalled private life. Mr. Television is supposed to be at leisure Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays — but it's only a theoretical leisure, punctuated at too-short intervals by the ringing of the phone. Joyce, Milton's beautiful actress wife, and small Vicki, have no choice but to relinquish Milton completely for three solid days out of every week. Milton spends every waking hour of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday pounding and pummelling his Tuesday night Milton Berle Show into shape. More than once, Milton's TV chores have resulted in more than simply exhaustion. Every now and then he takes a beating — a literal one — from someone whose antics on the program misfire. Last October, for instance, during the face-slapping scene with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, one member of that comedy team missed, and, quite unintentionally, gave Milton a resounding whack, the black-andblue evidence of which Milton brought home that night for Joyce's sympathy. Milton is a big man, a rugged one. It isn't the physical violence that goes along with being Mr. Television that disturbs him. No, what bothers Milton most is video's overall effect on his home life. "If I still know the meaning of that expression 'a quiet weekend at home' it's only because I have a good memory," he laments. "Joyce and I did share one quiet weekend this past year, but it wasn't at home. It was on a train en route to California late last Spring. Joyce and I had just remarried. "Were we headed for a nice, long honeymoon? We were not! As soon as we got to Hollywood I started work on a picture!" The picture was called, of course, "Always Leave 'Em Laughing." That's what Milton tries to do, does do, on his show every Tuesday. But that show, plus all his other commitments, leaves so little time for a happy home life that there are more frowns than laughter when Milton thinks about it. "Joyce doesn't like it," he says, and adds, "And I can't honestly blame her. Since it calls for such terrific rehearsal, she thinks I ought to do the show twice a month instead of once a week. And it could be that her ideas make sense." There's another school of thought in the Berle household along those lines, however. Vicki, Milton's Number-one fan, has very definite views on the subject. Whenever that twice-a-month idea comes up in conversation, she protests, "Oh — I want Daddy to stay on television! I love to watch my Daddy on the television set!" On Tuesday nights, Vicki's curfew is relaxed, and she can watch Daddy to her heart's content. No one ever had a more satisfactory audience than a small, golden-haired girl who giggles and laughs out loud by turns and quite obviously considers herself the luckiest child in the whole world to have such an enchantingly funny father. Partly to fill in some of her husbandless hours and partly because it's very hard to keep a good trouper "out of the act," Joyce has been active on TV, too. She's been featured on various programs, such as Martin Kane, Private Eye, Armchair Detective, Celebrity Time, Leave It To The Girls, and others. One of Vicki's particular delights is to "work" with Johnny Vegal who, a former entertainer himself is the Berles' chauffeur. "Come on, Johnny," Vicki will urge. "Let's do the taxi one — you know!" So Vegal hums: "I'll Be Down To Get You In A Taxi, Honey," beating out the rhythm with hands and feet. Vicki picks up the tempo and in a moment she's dancing — with all the zest and personality and evident enjoyment that Milton puts into playing before an audience. Once you've met her, the love which Milton and Joyce lavish on their little girl is entirely understandable. Aside from being as cute and pretty a youngster as you could possibly wish for, Vicki is amazingly well-spoken and poised for her years. She has to be. Life in the ten-room terrace apartment on East 88th Street in New York City is pleasant, luxurious — and hectic. In an environment like that, an only child could very easily be badly spoiled. But Vicki's sunny disposition, excellent health and superlative behavior are sufficient evidence that Milton and Joyce are a pair of wise parents. Vicki's daily schedule calls for plenty of sleep, plenty of fresh air (Central Park's only a short distance away) , a regular routine. "Through these portals," Milton will tell you, waving a hand toward the foyer of the enormous apartment, "pass the world's greatest variety of characters. Friends, relatives. A thousand and one people connected some way or other with show business." Then he grins, and goes back to his