The Double Date

For the safety of your smile use pepcidin twice a day see your dentist twice a year Lever Brothers Company presents the pepcidin show my friend Irma Created by Cy Howard and starring Marie Wilson as Irma with Joan Banks as Jane Just perfect When other friendships have been forgotten There's will still be hot

The third, the beginning of a new year. 1948 has slipped into the past and yet, thanks to my roommate Erma Peterson, I will remember it as long as I live.

For it was in 1948 that Erma did the following, memorable things. A. She bought a refrigerator without a motor because she felt that without any moving parts, there was nothing to go out of order.

B. It was in 1948 that she gently took my new seal skin coat and put it in the bottom of the bathtub while she poured water and ice over it because it was be kind to animals' week.

And see, it was also in 1948 when Irma's boss, Mr. Clyde, told her he wished to speak to a client in Dallas, Texas, person to person. So Irma wired him the fare for a round-trip ticket.

That was all in 1948. 49 is starting out even worse. Why? Because Irma has at long last broken off with Al. And day and night for the past three days, America's number one fugitive from an honest buck has been bombarding his chicken with various notes and tokens of his I'm Friday. It was a letter. A letter which went.

Dear chicken, I can't understand how you could break up our romance. After all we've gone through. We used to count on each other so much. Now that you've left me, I can no longer eat. I go without breakfast, lunch and dinner.