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Show li 237 Madison Ave., New York 16, N. March Y. 7, 1954 con. IN THIS ISSUE: Jerry Klein, on established -- tributor to many national publications, tells how a little careful planning on the family level can go a long way toward building a happier home life. "Make the budget a family affair," Jerry advises, and he tells why on page 4. On this week's cover, that foremost feline photographer, Walt Chandoha, presents a pair of his starlets in glowing color. Inside, on page 6, eodhow a kitten in a snowbank created, "A Life with Nine Cats." When you see theough d detective, (the cop, the frightened the hardened crook on juvenile delinquent, your favorite crime TV show, have you ever wondered how they pick the cops and robbers? On page 11, you will find the inside story of one of video's top And, of course, our center I spread features another full color OR A FRIEND OF MINE who suddenly developed such an aritipathy for trains that she could no longer force I herself to board One, She had reached the saturation point, , ofpushing crowds, rattling wheels, soot. I I can understand and sympathize. Undoubtedly, many I people feel the same way. Many people, with of course I the solid exception of every boy .who ever hopped a freight. With the exception, too, of the men who work on trains 1 because they love! them and bestow on them an almost human quality.jAnd the people who see them as a symbol of the nearness j . . . J J of those they X loive. '. I know an in England who will probably never see his native land again and yet who is so enchanted wtth the sound of American train whistles that he awakens irr the nightmetimes and lies listening.. Sometimes I drive across an intersection of tracks arid look far down the line into nowhere where the (parallel" lines do meet and think about trains. There's something rather Circe-lik- e about them. It must have been so with the photographer who was sent to cover a fire at an industrial plant. When lje returned, panting arid perspiring, all his film turned but to be The sun, he explained, was shining on the railroad tracks, and it was so beautiful he stopped tor a couple of pictures. I can understand how that was. I might have felt the same way. Have you ever lain in bed and heard, far across the night, the sound of the whistle rising" and fading? , Have you ever waited alone in a station for someone you love and felt your pulses quicken at the distant singing of the rails? Have you ever walked in the lonely countryside and suddenly found the immense companionship of an unscheduled train swooping and gasping ex-Ameri- can 1 grim-lippe- crime-caster- s. tantalizing food tips which the hustling housewife can file in her recipe book. pull-ou- t ofj four-alar- m double-expose- d. CONTENTS MAKE YOUR BUDGET ' 1 ; ' out of nowhere. A ' A FAMILY AFFAIR '. . . 4 . ,by Jerry Klein A LIFE WITH NINE CATS 6 photographs by Wort Chandoha , Have you ever listened tp the rhythm of the wheels and seen a brake-man- 's lantern swinging nW a baleful eye and watched the sweep of field and forest from a flashing window? Have you wakened in a berth and looked out on a river rippling In the moonlight and heard the voices and watched the hurrying feet down ENTERTAINING WITH NARY . A TIZZY 7 SHE PICKS THE COPS AND ROBBERS 11, the trackslde? Sometimes I understand trains better than I do people. Trains have a rush-Aricompelling magic, a hustle and shout, a swoosh and a a clickety, clickety clack. FASHION FOCUS . 12 . 13 . 14 by Allyn Rice " - FAMILY WEEKLY PATTERN MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL . a Leonard S. Davidow, President 4 Publisher Harry G. Strong, General Manager William H. Marriott, Executive Vice President John B. Starr, Editorial Director Walter 0. Osborne, Managing Editor Ben Kartman, Associate Editor Melanie De Proft, Food, Editor Associates: Hoffman, Meyer, Robert M. Cipes, Minna Elkind, Kim Barbara Jones, Jtrry Klein, Robert Jr. John M. Gilmer, Advertising Manager Malcolm J. Fleming, Art & Production Director luiiwni or an inuiaimi in iiciion i articles in this magazine are wholly imaginary. Any nam that happens to bo the samt os that of any person, living or dead, is entirely coincidental Contents COPYRIGHTED 1934, .by Family Weekly Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. i votiiwb tori 2 rmnx wrttcir kacxzvis aAcH r. if $4 wt rvi and semi-fictio- n |