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Arlene Francis, G.l. on Talent Patrol. UJUfcis and give them something to talk about when father returns nights. Presum¬ ably, this something is Arlene, be¬ cause there’s so much of her. You’ve got to hand it to Arlene. The original producers of the show, Dick Pinkham and Jack Rayel, lined up 200 eligibles for her job of editor-in-chief. “We considered everybody who was anybody in show business and didn’t even think of Arlene until we got desperate,” Pinkham admits. “We were looking for someone intelligent enough to handle an ad-lib show but simple and sweet. We figured our girl could be most anybody but a chic New York sophisticate.” Arlene has many assets, not one of which is simplicity. She looks as though she might have been born in a Christian Dior original. But be¬ ing essentially a charm girl, Arlene gathered all her charms and targeted the producers over a luncheon table. Everyone went home chuckling; Ar¬ lene went home with the job. The first thing Home did was take Arlene away from her East Side Man¬ hattan town house mornings and put her in it evenings, a reversal she accepts with typical chuckling spirit. “If Dave Garroway happens to show up with bags under his eyes, no one cares. If I did, people would say, ‘Bet¬ ter get a new girl- * ” The second thing Home did was turn Arlene into an income tax head- Arlene and son Peter, 7: her Home ► schedule gets them together mornings. Here she is again as chief of Home show. And with John Daly on What's My Line? IMIost any day you turn on your TV set, you’re apt to run into Arlene Francis. As president and cheerleader of the tri-network Arlene Francis cartel, she glitters handsomely Sun¬ days on What’s My Line, (CBS) ca¬ vorts wholesomely once a week with service men on Talent Patrol (ABC) and mornings, Monday through Fri¬ day, is a kind of folksy little home¬ body for the Home (NBC) show. Now the name Home is a misnomer. There never was another place like this. Home has revolving sets, fashion shows, changing interiors, psychology, a gardening-and-fix-it service, Con¬ stance Bannister babies and a kitchen that produces goodies to equal An¬ toine’s. The idea of Home is to take women out of theirs an hour a day 4