TV Radio Mirror (Jul - Dec 1962)

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to my tune, IN CASE you didn't know, Hugh Downs doesn't hit his wife anymore. He hasn't hit her since that day some fifteen years ago. And it's only when some elephant-minded viewer needles him about it that he even recalls the occasion. Hugh himself publicized the love tap before millions of startled viewers on Jack Paar's show a few years ago. He matter-of-factly mentioned that, early in his marriage, he found it necessary to belt his wife. Hugh has never once regretted the wife-slapping, but it was the kind of slip of the tongue that makes a man wish he'd bitten it instead. "Maybe I didn't make myself quite clear that night," smiles the easygoing, forty-year-old television veteran. "People wrote, called and wired accusing me of being a wifebeater and un-American. Actually, I was very young when the 'belting' took place. I wouldn't resort to it now, of course. Some men thrive on