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Ted's and Rhoda's broadcasts over WMGM give Rickey unexpected chances to prove the old saying about "out of the mouths of babes." But, around the Brown household, the phrase-that-pays-off-biggest — for dogs — is "a man's best friend." They have four pampered pooches, including snow-white Bitti-Boo.
style — and the living-room furnishings are being gradually assembled. Rhoda had a huge curved sofa made to her own design. "You know," Ted describes it, "one of those which are thirteen feet long and just wind and wind around."
It's an easygoing, cooperative household, although Ted might call it "our crazy, mixed-up home," because nobody has any set schedule, except for the broadcasts and "the children. The grownups eat when they feel like eating. Their maids always get used to this sort of thing, after a while, and don't seem to mind if somebody suddenly decides to raid the icebox or do some fancy cooking. In an emergency of any kind, everybody pitches in, anyhow. They're that kind of close-knit gang.
"At the merest whisper from me that I could go for one of her cherry pies, Ro will whisk into the kitchen and bake me a beauty," Ted boasts. "She may not like cleaning up afterwards, but she is meticulous about cleanliness, and she loves to cook. She's so fussy about everything being clean that we go on vacations armed with supplies to scrub out all the rooms we are going to inhabit, however briefly. At home, however, she likes to let someone else do the (Continued on page 83)
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