Father of the Year

Mother, is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world? Well, your father says so, and your father knows best. Yes, it's Father Knows Best, transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour visit with your neighbors the Anderson, brought to you by America's favorite coffee.

Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good to the last drop. I think it was Damon Runyon who said, when I was 20, I was convinced that my father was the stupidest man in the world.

When I was 30, I marveled at how much he had learned in the short space of ten years. That's the way it is with most of us, isn't it? Father brings home the bacon, pays the rent, but he gets mighty little credit from the rest of us.

That's where the Anderson children are different. They think their father is a pretty wonderful guy. As a matter of fact, they've even entered his name and the father of the year contest. Now, they've got to write a composition extolling his virtues.

And that's exactly what they're doing. Like this. How about saying he's a terrific baseball player? But he isn't. He's tall. That's fine. We think our father should be named the father of the year because he's tall.

That's a great reason. Well, it's better than nothing. There must be something we can think of he's generous. Are you kidding? I get 35 cents a week and everybody else in my class never mind Kathy gets a half a dollar How about he lets me borrow his necktie?

But it's got to be something big like Like what that's the trouble. I don't know No. But borrow a sock. They're big. Can't you? Well, if it isn't Lincoln's Lincoln and Nod. Oh, hi, Mom.