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Show Bits and Pieces By Eleanor Bennett You know something? I must be way ahead of my time! And I'll tell you why I say that. Way back in the 1940's I lived in New York and went to visit one summer in Chicago. A lot of people at that time were listening to a daytime radio show called HINT HUNT. It was on nationwide C.B.S. radio. The program was broadcast broad-cast live from Chicago with a studio audience from which participants par-ticipants were chosen. I decided it would be fun to see the broadcast so got tickets and went down to the Palmer House where the studio was located. Every member of the audience was asked to fill out a card with name and address and before broadcast time four were selected to take part in the show. I've heard that many times a person from out of town has a good chance to be chosen and sure enough, for once I was right my name was called. The idea of the show was just what the name implied HINT HUNT a hunt for hints! They were almost always household hints and for weeks I had mentioned men-tioned to Mother when we listened listen-ed to the show, that if I ever had a chance to be on that program, I had a GOOD hint! So here I was ON that pro-ram. pro-ram. Bert Parks was one of the M.C.'s I've forgotten who the other one was-and I was the first of the four to be asked for my hint. I said that in homes where the steps into the basement base-ment were worn and slippery I would suggest gluing narrow strips of coarse sandpaper on each tread to prevent slipping. Mother nearly fell out of her chair in New Rochelle when she heard my name announced and she certainly got a kick out of hearing me! Well, I didn't win the " grand prize" of a dinette set (remember (remem-ber this was radio before the days of the huge T.V. prizes) but I did win a nice electric clock. But what I said at the beginning about being ahead of my time last S at ur day in a store down in Salt Lake, what did I see but a package marked "for slippery stairs" and it was strips of sandpaper cut to be glued to the treads! |