TV Radio Mirror (Jul - Dec 1962)

T V R 86 Whiten Your Skin in 7Nights-WhileYou Sleep The Gentle Mercolized Cream Way! Here's the quickest, easiest way to the beautiful white skin you long for! Just * apply time-tested Mercolized Cream ) to face or hands for 7 nights before ' retiring. Let it gently bleach your skin while you sleep. Each morning you'll see your skin actually become whiter, ZP^ smoother and radiantly younger looking. / Not a cover-up cosmetic. Mercolized Cream works UNDER skin surface to bring results right from the start. Long lasting. Beautiful women all over the world have used this plan for over 40 years. Just try Mercolized Cream yourself for 7 nights. If not delighted, your money will be cheerfully refunded, vjj } 'j MERCOLIZED CREAM P™ AT ALL DRUG AND COSMETIC COUNTERS HOW TO PUBLISH Join our successful authors in a complete and reliable publishing program: publicity, advertising, handsome books. Speedy, efficient service. Send for FREE manuscript report & copy of Publish Your Book. CARLTON PRESSDept.TRL U Fifth Ave., New York 11, N. Y. YOUR BOOK MERRY GROW MUSTER 2 FREE ENLARGEMENTS BILLFOLD {WALLET SIZE) 'PHOTOS $1 00 (2St HANDLING) 2^2 x 3*2 photos on silk finish portrait paper: Send photo or negative today, 4 — day service. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send cash, check or money order for $1.25 (or $2.25 for 60) one pose per order. GEPPERT'S STUDIO DEPT. 52 ■ 401 E. 6th • DES MOINES 9, IOWA Poems Wanted Popular, Rock & Roll, Country & Western, and Gospel poems for musical setting and recording with "the Nashville Sound". Send poems today for Free examination and our best offer. MUSIC CITY SONGCRAFTERS Studio M. 6145 Acklen Station, Nashville, Tenn. H IN 6 WEEKS EEEJ EEKSC Write 120 Words Per Minute Age No Obstacle — LOWEST COST Famous SPEEDWRITING shorthand. No strange symbols; no machines; uses ABC's. Easiest to learn and use. Fast preparation (or a better position. Nationally used in leading offices and Civil Service. 120 words per minute— 50% FASTER than Civil Service requirements. Over 500.000 taught at home or through classroom instruction. The very low cost will surprise you. TYPING AVAILABLE. 40th Year. Schools in 443 cities throughout the world. Write for Free Booklet to: School of 0ept.312-2,55W.42St.,N.Y.36 ® everyone having a great time, except us — the boy from San Mateo, California, and the girl from Ironwood, Michigan. Finally, at one point, Julann and I both looked at one another and without a word we tiptoed to our room, changed into old clothes, tiptoed out of the apartment and drove out to the farm. "A couple of hours later, we phoned the apartment. "We found out — and not to our surprise, either— that the party was still going full steam and that no one realized we had gone. "And we vowed, then and there, that we would become true country people again. "Except, we learned, there were a few things about country life that we'd pretty much forgotten. "That first night, for instance, Julann and I were lying in bed when we heard a bird singing — actually singing — not coughing, the wav they do in New York. " 'Isn't that pretty?' I said to Julann. " 'So clear,' she said. " 'I wonder what kind of bird it is,' I said. " 'Must be a Michigan robin,' Julann said. " 'No — ' I said, 'that kind of monotone makes it sound more like a California oriole.' "We lay there wondering for a while. "Until suddenly it dawned on us that our 'bird' was the phone off the hook. I'd forgotten to hang up after making that call to New York, and some wingless operator was buzzing for us to put the darned receiver back! "Then — a few months later — there was that other time, when I found Julann painting our front lawn green. Painting it! I started to give her holy hell. But she stopped me short and explained that she'd sprayed some white weed-killer over a big patch by accident— 'and,' as she said, 'that looked just awful so I thought I'd better get it all back to its natural color.' "There was the time, too, one midnight when I went to the refrigerator to make myself a snack — and found the thing swarming with a couple of thousand ladybugs. Julann, it seems, had ordered them by mail — something to do with organic farming. And they'd arrived. Julann had realized that she'd over-ordered by about 1700. She'd been a little confused. So she just put the excess ladybugs in the refrigerator where they could 'keep cool' — as she said — while she figured out what in the world to do with them. "Still another time — it was midautumn, I remember — we were driving down a road near the farm. The New Jersey countryside is glorious at that time of year, and I was humming away happily with the beauty of it all. Except I could see from the corner of one eye that something was bothering my wife. And I asked her what that might be. " 'All those pumpkins,' she said, 'lying out in those fields.' "'What about those pumpkins?' I asked. 'It's so sad,' Julann said, "to think that in a few weeks' time they'll all be spoiled, and wasted.' "And that's how she got her idea — right there on the spot, a split second later — to pickle pumpkins. "If I can say it without getting tongue-twisted: Do you have any idea how many pumpkin pickles we've jarred ever since Julann started pickling pumpkins? "Seriously, though, my wife is a wise and wonderful girl. She's a good wife — I don't think there's any higher compliment than that. She's a good mother, a great mother, to our two-and-a-halfyear-old, Anthony Patrick. "And, in time, when she feels that she's got the two of us under way, I think — I hope — she might even return to show business, at least on a oncein-a-while basis. "When I was doing 'Tonight' last April, some of you may remember that Julann appeared on the show a couple of times. Without prejudice, I thought she was hilarious. I thought her greatest bit was the takeoff she did on Ruby Keeler singing something in the offkey style of those mid-1930s movies. Even Julann — shy as she can be — admitted later, that yes, she thought it was a pretty good bit, too. "Except that the next day, back in the country, she went to do some marketing at the general store. And a few ladies who'd seen the show rushed over to her and said, "Oh, Mrs. Griffin, you sing beautifully.' "As Julann told me that night, 'But didn't they realize that that's not my voice?' Then she paused a moment and said, 'Good Lord, I'm liable to bring back the whole Ruby Keeler era singlehandedly if I don't shut up!' "Meanwhile, Julann's writing a cook book. It's called something like 'Recipes for the Expectant Mother.' And no cracks about the future generation, please. "Actually, seriously again, my wife has always been interested in cooking. She cooks kind of like this: "She'll be reading the Bible. She comes to the part about Barabbas going to an inn and ordering chicken made with wine and honey. So up jumps my wife, she runs into the kitchen, gets out the chicken, the wine, the honey. And when, at dinner, I ask, 'What's this I'm eating, dear?' — she looks at me deadpan and says, 'Chicken Barabbas, of course, darling.' "As for me, aside from my life with Julann — and if I've talked about her a lot this past half-hour, it's because my life is her, and her life is me . . . but as for my life alone, my career, let me just say this: "I feel that I've been a very lucky guy. I've enjoyed all the shows I've ever worked on — from that radio stint out in San Francisco right up until 'Play Your Hunch.' Enjoyed them enormously. "I know I'm enjoying this new show of mine. I hope the audience enjoys it just as much as I do! "I hope, in short, that it will always be a happy show. "I, for one, am a mighty happy guy." — Ed DeBlasio "The Merv Griffin Show" is colorcast on NBC-TV, M-F, 2 to 2:55 p.m. est.