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Show 1 G ', 'J, w 0 t n n, I 3U l Tt IN. 179 North Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, May 2, 1954 i M ' Publisher Leonard S. Davidow Assistant to the Publisher Ben Kartman i i Associate Editors' Robert Firxgibbon Regina Grusi Jerry Klein Food Editor A : 7 ' Melanie De Prof? .1 q y Art Director William A. Fetter n $ IN THIS ISSUE . . . It will be easier to mind not only your P.D.Q.s, but the rest of the alphabet, too, after you've read "How Mrs. Glenn to Play Winning Scrabble" Frank, widow of the University of Wisconsin president, tells how important it is to "Send Your Child to the RIGHT College" . . . It's Spring and young men's fancies are turning to what some girls have been dreaming about all Winter. Family Weekly ladies in "Looking joins the Toward June." ... b n - 3 J altar-boun- d 1 (Uas JusV" IAvwvq. ... OF THE ENIGMA in everyone. I couldn't help feeling a little disdainful of was a stolid lump of a girl in one of There her world the narrdw courtyard, the dim was a "town girl," room where she did piecework for a factory, my college classes. She the shabby clothes, the overblown make-uattending only by the grace of at scholarship for her really remarkable talent as aviolinist. When I left her with my news of those she None of us paid much attention to Marloved, with the sentimental tokens I'd prom' ised to bring her, I was embarrassed by her garet, but we didn't "completely ignore her, tears and the way she kissecHnycheek and at either Perhapswe showed our pity for her homemade wardrobe, her ungainly blunder- 7 a loss to find a place among my belongings for anxieties. She was the wilted clump of roses she thrust at me. ing walk, her Not long afterward she was dead of the' the last person on earth I'd suspect of harborcancer she'd proudly refused td acknowledge ing anything more than a concern for the before me. proper fingering of her violin strings. kut one night Margaret put a rifle to her . , Who can really know what the lonely heart must face? How can any of us be sure that temple and died. -T our words, spoken in anger or indifference, knew "a man who treated life as though will not, sink too deeply, or leave- - too little it were one great threering circus. He was an inveterate practical joker, never learned to trace, in the mind of a friend whose inner conflicts we seldom view? spell, and drove his friends into alternate fits The tired old man on the late bus, the worn of laughter and frustrated rage. ' little woman in overalls, the. dirty urchin on , Only a few knew ne was living life to the the street corner. Each has his layer of make-- hilt because he had so little of it left. Under the clown face was the knowledge that death up with which to face the world. "7 i And each has hidden tears to weep. walked with him hand in hand. "If I had only known" is a phrase that must have come unbidden1 to the lips of every living mortal. In the bustle of business, in the hustle of our hurry-u- p world, there is so little time to seek and And the aching need, the secret pain of anyone other than ourselves. I sat on a park bench in Paris oneday with, A v.' vL' a bleached blonde and a dictionary and tried ' : to make two worlds meet in something like a common understanding. . " p. too-earn- CONTENTS t est r- MAUDE DUNCAN: NEWSPAPER '.- , , '"'V "'"..- - i - HOW TO PLAY WINNING SCRABBLE WEEKLY MAGAZINE MAY 2, 1954 4 SEND YOUR CHILD TO THE RIGHT ' :. COLLEGE by Mrs. Glenn Front; let may ; be sweet and gay (recipes) . HOLLYWOOD'S GIRL ... .7777. ;;; NEWEST GOOD-BA- ... 7 .... CROSSWORD PUZZLE .. . FORGETFUL? FORGET ITI. ... J FAMILY WEEKLY PATTERN THE . D ...... LOOKING TOWARD JUNE . 11 12 15 . 15 7. COVER: 11 For years .Hollywood cast lovoly Donna Rood in a.succts-- tion of "good girl" rolos which won hor only mild acclaim. Then cam From Hore lo Eternity and, as told on pago 11, Donna playtd a "bad girl." Re- sult? An Otcarl 7 Address all communications concerning editorial features to Family Weekly, 179 N. Michigan Ave., 'Chicago 1, III. Send oil advertising communications to John Gilmer, Advertising Manager,' 237 Madi-so- n Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. . ' ; Nomas and .descriptions of all characters in fiction stories and , arlicUs in this magaiine are wholly imaginary. Any name that happens to be the some as that of any person, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Contents COPYRIGHTED 1954, by Family. Weekly Magaxine, Inc. All rights reserved.' semi-fictio- FAMILY 3 - ' ..o--- N I ' f"1 ONE-WOMA- n ' |