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Show " BREAKFAST HOUR CHANGES SEEN Back in , the days when homes and families had a more dominant role in American life, the breakfast break-fast hour was an important occasion. occa-sion. It was a time when in the fresh hours of a new day members of the household gathered to do more than partake of food. It was also an hour of prayer and Bible reading in countless thousands of homes. Of course, in these days of food shortages and rationing, it is not to be expected that the 1945 breakafst table will be as well supplied sup-plied as say in the so-called good old days. But the informality of the breakfast hour should not be lost to the American scene. It is too tainment as a lift to morale on the battle fronts and on the home front, it is refreshing to see that a lift is also being given to the informality in-formality of the breakfast hour. It means much to spread joy in the home at an hour of the day that has a bearing on the hours that follow. Don McNeill and his Swift's "Breakfast Hour" are maing a real contribution to American entertainment en-tertainment of the more informal and better sort. deep-rooted and its implications on family and community life are too strong. It is significant that a business instittion, founded back in 1885, is doing much to revive the informality infor-mality of breakfast time. It is being done through Swift's "Breakfast Club," featuring Don McNeill and his talented radia artists ar-tists who each day cause millions to march around the breakfast table. ta-ble. In other words, at a time when we hear so much of enter- |