July 23, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Now listen to Father Knows Bits carrying Robert Young, his father.
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folks used to go to the coliseum to watch a
gladiate her fight alife. That must have been quite a tussle,
almost the spectacular as the struggle going on in the
living room of the white frame house on Maple Street,
where a man is fighting with a newspaper.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
The man Jim Anderson one.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hundred and sixty pounds, the newspaper, the Springfield Clarion six
and one half ounces.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Where in the neighbor of Counfounded Caesars, you can't find
anything in this mixed up isle of jump. I call
a newspaper. What in the world they do with this thing?
Too bad? He's losing.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Let's look into the kitchen, where two of the younger
Andersen's are engaged in the battle.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Of the dishpan like this.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Only cow, Why do I have to dry dishes? Where's Cathy?
Speaker 7 (01:45):
I told you good? I excused calf of to night.
It was very nice of you to volunteer, to hope, Eddy,
who volunteered?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I was drafted barber. Where's the rest of the.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
Paper, It's all there in the living room.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Jim, Drying dishes is not a man's work.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
Look who's the man?
Speaker 7 (02:01):
All of a sudden, Betty, don't argue with him?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Essentially, like I thought, I have a dishwasher.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
We have I'm it.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I mean an automatic.
Speaker 8 (02:11):
Seven nights a week. How automatic can you get?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (02:16):
Grown?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
We ought to have an electric lawnmower too. I could
use the motor when I'm not.
Speaker 9 (02:21):
Mowing the lawn, which is three hundred and sixty five
days a year.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Children, if you're going to argue, you'll just have to
I'm busy in the kitchen, Dear, what is.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It, Margaret? Where's Kathy?
Speaker 7 (02:32):
I dismissed her from drying dishes tonight? She has any
very special suit.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Like getting out of wiping the dishes.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
But I'm sure that's not what you had in mind.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, there's something mighty strange going on in this house.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
What do you mean here?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Look at this. The financial page is gone out of
the paper again last night. The financial page was gone
night before. The sport page every night for over a week.
Speaker 8 (02:55):
Betty, I don't know anything about his father.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
It wasn't me either.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Well, somebody's taking them out every night. Some page is missing.
It's aggravating, especially the financial page. I don't understand it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I certainly haven't much use for the financial page, Jim,
or the sport page either.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I didn't do it, Betty didn't do it. You didn't
do it.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
What would Kathy want with two weeks financial pages?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
She can't even spell financial, neither can you.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I can't see why she'd do it. I can't possibly
see why.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
She seems to be very busy on some great project lately.
She goes around in kind of a trance.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
No, it couldn't have been Kathy.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Jim. I don't know what to sugget.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, I do, and I think I'm going to enjoy it.
I'm gonna call my old pal Fred Matson down at
the paper and make a complaint.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Fed mats in the editor.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Certainly I pay the full subscription. I want a full paper.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Jim, you're being ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I am not. I've been waiting for a chance to
bend his ear about something. Oh dude, I'm gonna call
him right now. You want to hear me polish him off?
Come on listen then.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Jim on, this is going to be good mother Bud
having the dishes before they rant.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Okay, you don't have to make your federal case. Let's see.
I think Fred's numbers in a book here.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Jim, why do you have to call Fred Madson? He
wouldn't be in charge of missing pages?
Speaker 10 (04:13):
Margaret, When you buy a shirt and a button's missing,
do you call the button so er on her?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Do?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
What suppose you buy a loaf of raisin bread from
the bakery and there are no raisins in it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I don't see what buttons and raisins have to do
with Fred Madson.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You're missing the whole point. If the raisins are missing,
you don't call a person who stuffs in the raisins.
Do you call the head baker?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
So so?
Speaker 10 (04:34):
If the buttons are missing from my paper, the raisins,
I mean the pages are missing?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I don't call the paper stuffer. I called the headman,
Fred Matson.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Jim, you're doing this just to provoke him. You're supposed
to be friend.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We are friends. But Fred just loves to rib me
every chance he gets. It's a friendly feud.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I'm sure I don't understand women never do.
Speaker 10 (04:55):
Last month, when one of my salesmen called him about
renewing some fire insurance on his building, did.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I hear about it?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Wow?
Speaker 10 (05:02):
Why the renewer wasn't due for two years? Why did
he jump on that? Anxious Andy? He calls me jump
the gun, Jym. Now will I get back at him?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I wish you'd please hold off until I at least
ask Kathy.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I'm sure she had nothing to do with it. Oh,
this is going to be good. Fred. I'll say, what's
the matter? Paper shortage? Then I'll say, don't look now, Fred,
but your sport page is slippy.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Oh that's the silliest thing I ever heard. I'm going
to find Kathy. Betty Bob, Yes, mother, have you any
idea where Kathy?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
No?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Fred Massey's Jim mannessy? Yeah, anxious Andy, what's the matter
down there? Paper shortage?
Speaker 8 (05:44):
She was in my room once this afternoon dropping.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The financial page? Are your master?
Speaker 7 (05:49):
I'm probably too late, but i'll go.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Look, I'll go.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
You've finished wiping the dishes.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
If it takes you all night, get to work.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
So pop.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
I don't see what dead so steamed up about financial pages?
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Holy call.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
If it had been the comic section, you'd have held
your head off.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well it's better than that junk that you read. I
don't read junk, Dear miss Fairfax.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
It's not Fairfax.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I am a beautiful girl of sixteen.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
But don't be silly.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I am Madley in love with a handsome lettuce picker.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Oh but.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I should leave my family to answer my true love's call.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
Take that dish towel off your neck and quit acting
like Betty Davis.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Please answer this before my two love dies of old age.
Signed puzzled heart, What.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
In the world are you doing?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Who?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Me? H? Never mind? Where's your mother?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
She's looking for Catherine?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Oh well, I've got something real choice to tell her.
Jim right here, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
I knew you shouldn't have called Fred Mason.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Why not? I enjoyed it. I'd have been on the
phone yet, but he hung up on me. Couldn't take it.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Anxious? Is right? Look here?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
What's this?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Only your precious missing pages?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Where did these come from?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
I told you it was Kathy.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
It wasn't Kathy, Betty. I found these in your room,
beside your typewriter.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh boy, but i'd leave the room.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I can't, Dad, I have to wipe the dishes.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Mother, you certainly don't.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Oh Betty, let's not get excited.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
You just had to call Fred maxon Margaret.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
What Matson doesn't know won't hurt him. Betty. The missing
pages themselves are nothing.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
It's just father, Please, It's just that sometimes.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
We do a little thing and we hate to admit it.
It's not the thing itself, but it just, well, it
builds up.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Sure, I know you start off stealing pins and the
first thing, you know, leave the.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Room, Go look for Kathy.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I never get to wipe the dishes, heavy Jacky.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's all right, Princess. I'm not going to scold jumping creepers.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I didn't take the papers, Betty.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
The evidence could I possibly want with financial pages? I
don't know, But with my allowance, you think I'm playing
the stock market.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, the sport pages.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Sport pages, look at those pictures wrestlers.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
You well, then who is a Wait a minute, Wait
a minute, Jim, look on the other side of the pages.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh, story writing contest for children between eight and ten.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
On every single page.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Look.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Final week of contest brings wealth of manuscripts.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Then it must have been Kathy.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Grand prize winner.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
To be announced Saturday Daily Winners exhibit mature talent.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Cavey. Cavey.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
She's entered this contest and was typing her story in
my room. You want me, Mommy, here I am.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I found her lugging bird seed after the attache kitten.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You've entered this story contest.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
I'm going to win a typewriter.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Jim. Why did you have to call Fred Matson?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
He had it coming anyway. Then you did take those pages, Kathy?
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Oh sure, the rules and stuff are all on them.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Thank goodness, that's settled.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
Grab the dish, child, Bud.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Give me a churms.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
You should have asked your father, dear.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
As a matter of fact, it's not important at all.
I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Kitting now I can have a typewriter for my very own.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Oh yeah, how do you know you'll win it?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
My story is a lot better than those that have
been printed.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm sure it is. Anderson is quite a name in literature,
you know, Uh, Hans Christian?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Are we on any relation to him?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Are we ask your father?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Are we?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's entirely possible. Anyway, I'm going to help Kathy with
her story.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Oh, that wouldn't be fair, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's the rules rules.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Of the contest. I'm not allowed to color rabbit with
any of the family.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Not allowed to what color rabbits?
Speaker 8 (09:56):
It means, get any help.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh, I think you mean collaborate.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Collaborate and the story has to be a true story.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I see, well, I just thought I'll.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Win it anyway, Daddy, get her?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Never mind, bar, I'm sure you will. Kitten.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
The first prize winner is going to be announced on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's just fine. What is your story about?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
Oh, it's a real sweet story.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's good. That's the kind eye loe h. What is
it about?
Speaker 8 (10:37):
It's a secret.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Maybe you could just kind of give me a hint.
I might just make a suggestion or two.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
It wouldn't be fair.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Is it about us or the house?
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Jim, don't be so inquisitive.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I'm not inquisitive. I'm just enthusiastic.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
You'll find out what it's about Saturday.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I don't see why I can't just glance over the
story make a suggestion here and there.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
I wish you'd be as anxious to help me when
I have to write something for school.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I'm always willing to help any of you kids anytime.
You know that. No kidding, certainly, but I've never refused
you when you asked, have.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I Well, I've got a project now I could show
you some help.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
All right, son, tell me what it is. I'm your man.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Will you really take over?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Dad? I said I would, didn't I?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Okay? Here you are.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
What's the dish towel for?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
That was my project? I was wiping the dishes.
Speaker 11 (11:30):
Swindled by my own son.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
And now here is our very special guest, lovely and
talented Hollywood star Margaret Lindsey.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
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Speaker 2 (13:31):
There's an old saying to the effect that he travels
fastest who travels alone. If this is true, the youngest
Anderson is bound to set at all time speed record,
which is working a considerable hardship. On the other ends, well,
all but one on this Saturday afternoon. He's not concerned
about anything like this.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Good, Yeah, just a minute.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I will, well what I don't know? Whenever you say
bird like that, you want me to do something.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I want you to get your feet off the back
of the davenport for one thing. Why do you always
have to get your feet up over your.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Head when you're reading something?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
My feet?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Don't look at them like you've never seen them before.
They are yours.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah, I guess they are, Hello feet, But.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Don't be facetious.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
What's there?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
It's what you're being. Now, get up and get dizzy.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
You promised to gather up the old magazines and put
them in the garage today.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Okay, did you know that grasshoppers live longer in the
topics than they do in colder climates.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
But you're not supposed to be reading the magazine.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Holy cow.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Everybody else gets to read them. All I do is
carry them out.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Well, start caring. Where's Kathy?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
She's sitting around someplace waiting for the paper to come
with that story.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Naturally, she's excited. We all hope a story wins.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
What a beetle brain writing that gooey love stuff?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
What makes you think it's love stuff?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Probably starts out with a hero saying.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
I love you, my angel ees what did you say?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Nothing, I'm a hole.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
We're in the living room, Dear.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Hello, Honnie, Hello, adeas well? How's the literary fabil where's Kathy?
Have you heard anything yet?
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Heard anything?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I mean from the newspaper. I thought maybe they'd call her.
She won the Day's the day? You know?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
I know, Dear, we haven't heard.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I thought they might want to take pictures or something.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
She probably didn't even come close.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
But go take out the magazines.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Hey, Dad, did you know that grasshoppers live longer in
the topics.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm sure if I were a grasshopper, i'd head south immediately.
Where's Kathy?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
But if you don't take the magazines out right now?
You're going to wash and wipe the dishes tonight.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Joe Phillips and I are going to color rabbits tonight.
What you know, help each other on some problems.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Don't be facetious.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
All my life, I've never been facetious. Now twice in
one afternoon.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What's he talking about?
Speaker 7 (16:00):
I don't know what's Come over and bod do as
you're told.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Okay, okay, I haven't been able to do a thing
within this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh kids, go through phases. It's a funny thing the
paper hasn't called if Kathy won.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
I mean, well there, maybe she didn't win.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
After all, if there seemed to be no question in
her mind.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I think you'd be more disappointed than Kathy.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Well, it's just that I'm enthusiastic about my family. You
can't blame a man for that.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
How was your golf game today?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Hm? Oh, very good?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Did you see bred Mason?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I certainly did. I let him have both barrels again?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Oh, Jim, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
He came in with one hundred and three. I told
him to print that one on his missing sport page.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Jim, you shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Why not? What does he know you shouldn't have done it?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Didn't he say anything?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh? He mumbled about something loose in my attic. What
a comeback, What a snappy retort.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
He's probably figuring some way to get back at you.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
No, I don't think so. Say wait a minute, Wait
a minute.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
Do you suppose he would purposely keep Kathy from winning
that prize?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Jimmy probably doesn't even know Kathy entered it.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
He's the managing editor, isn't he probably one of the judges.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Well, he certainly wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I'm not so sure, Jimmy, wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
You said yourself, it's just a friendly fuse.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Maybe this has gone beyond the friendly stage.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
If he brings my daughter into it, Jim, Please, wouldn't
that be a sneaking, underhanded trick?
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Jim, calm down.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I am calm, But believe me if I find out
that he told Jim, for Heaven's sake, what a petty.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Thing to do.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Oh, hello, kitten, Gee, Daddy, you sick or something?
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Me?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
No, I'm all right. Uh. How is my favorite daughter
between the ages of eight and ten?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Fine?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Daddy?
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Yes, kitten, would make you so red in the face.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Your father probably had a little too much God.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well, kitten, have you heard from the paper about whether
you want or not?
Speaker 8 (17:59):
I don't have to.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
I know I'm going to win.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Oh. I certainly like your confidence. But it seems they'd
notify you if they'll be in.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
The paper tonight, pretty soon, Kathy, if it should happen
that you don't win.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
But I'm going to your father means if there should
be a slip up or something, there won't be.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I only wish you to have let me help you.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
It wouldn't have been fair, Daddy, the rules.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I might have added just a touch of color here
and there, but this.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
Story had to be true. And if the story is
a true story, you don't do anything to it.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Of course, what you just say it the way.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It is, Margaret, did you hear that?
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Naturally?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Now there's a great rule for good writing if I
ever heard one. Kathy's developing a remarkable mind. Believe me,
there's nothing loose in her attic.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
What did you say, daddy.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh, it's just a figure of speak.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Funny attic.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
I mean, that's the.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Name of my story, the secret of the attic, of
the attic?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Where is it about something that happened in the attic?
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Jim, don't pry.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm not prying. I'm just interested attic. I can't imagine
what could happen in the attic.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I could very easily rain in the attic since you
haven't fixed the roof.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
That could happen.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Rain in the attic. I bet it's about how the
little rain drops sound on the roof, like little toy
soldiers marching up and down the roof with their little drums.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
Little toy soldiers with their little toy drums say. That's
rather good, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Is it that? Kathy?
Speaker 7 (19:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Oh, when did you find out about this? I mean
the secret when.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
I was taking the bird seed up to the attic
one day, That bird seed I've won?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh? Is it about the bird seed?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Jim, For heaven's sake, stop being a prosecuting attorney, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
If Kathy feels she wants to consult me about things,
if she feels like telling her own father what her
story is all about, she has a I think right
to haven't you Kathy?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
No, Jim, I've never seen you so insistent.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Who's insistent?
Speaker 7 (20:08):
I want it to be a surprise.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Then maybe you shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place, Jim.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Everything she's told you, you positively wooed a out of her.
The child wants it to be a surprise. Let it
be a surprise.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
It's like Christmas, Daddy, the story. No, I mean you
never let me open any packages before Christmas morning because
then it wouldn't be a surprise.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
That's right, forgive me. Your daddy is just so proud
and excited. Well you just wait until you're a father.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
You run along now, Kathy and let daddy rest awhile, Okay,
I'll let.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
You write in my new typewriting.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Daddy, bless her heart. If she doesn't win, it'll be
just you will.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
When you know something, you just know it.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I guess it's amazing a child's confidence. Well, I guess
I'll go and clean up the paper should be here before.
Believe me. If she doesn't win and I find out
that bred Matson is behind.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Us Jim Anderson, Yes, come here, don't shout at me, Bud.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Well, come here will if you want me? You come here?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
When will kids learn that parents are not supposed to
jump at their beck and call I swear?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Do you want me to say these old financial pages
out of the papers?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Of course not just thought I'd asked before I took
them out.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
They've no interest to me anymore. Take them out.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
The only paper your father is interested in is tonight's.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I don't see why everybody's so excited about Kathy's old love.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Story, Bud.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
What makes you think angely scarve my dreams? Words from
of your lips like the falling of rose petals?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Bud Anderson?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Where did you just where in the world did you
get that?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Silly drivels?
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Silly Jim, it's what kind of trash.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Have you been reading? Later?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
I happened to God, have you gotten into the attic trunk? True, Jim?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
That came from the love letters you wrote me twenty
years ago.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
They were in that trunk, Bud and this.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I didn't look in any.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Trunk on this those very words. Where did you find them?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I just happened to look in Kathy's room. Kathy's room,
and I was just looking around.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
What for?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Well, I got the wondering water story was about, and
I happened to find a letter, Jim.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
For heaven's sake, do you know what this means?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
But is entirely too curious? Now look here, Jim, what
will we do? Well, there's no particular harm, Jim.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Don't you see the connection Kathy's story, the secret of
the attic, your love letters? They're going to be published today?
Oh hi, everybody, with all exit, bring the phone, the
phone in the world.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Can you phone father?
Speaker 8 (22:53):
How can I bring you the phone?
Speaker 7 (22:54):
The card's fastened to the roll.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I'll call Fred Manson apologize.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
It's Betty, Go find Kathy family.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I've got to stop the press. I'll call Fred. I'll
crawl humiliate myself.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
It's too late. The paper will be here any minute now.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'm ruining it will be all over town.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Jim, there's a chance that Kathy didn't use those letters.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You want me, Mommy, I'll be the laughing stock of
the town.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Kathy, you found some of Daddy's letters in the attic.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
I was putting the bird seat in the trunk, ridiculed
in the streets.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
What's the matter with daddy?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Your father is sick horse on my own guitar. There's
the paper, I will Jim, maybe she didn't.
Speaker 10 (23:41):
Win no difference, ruin man, all over town gone.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Look at this story finals run by Kathleen Anderson.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
I told you I would.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh the secret of the attic ooh.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
But maybe you better not read it.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
In a quiet corner of our attic lives a couple
named Jim and Margaret.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Corner of the attic.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
They will never have to work hardly at all, but
they will have enough bird seed to last on the
rest of their lives.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I thought this had to be true.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
It is Wally reads farther down rest of their lives.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Jim and Margaret are two little birds who have built
a nest there.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
I think they are.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Swallows, Kathy, I name them Jim and Margaret because those
are the nicest names of parents. I know why, kitten,
I think they will soon be parents. As they are
sitting on an egg. What kind of a story is
that bird?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
What kind of a story? Only the most wonderful story
ever written?
Speaker 7 (24:55):
I knew she could do it, Kathy Angel. There wasn't much,
sure wasn't.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
But but Kathy Darling, we thought, I mean, how in
the world did you pass up daddy's letters?
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Mommy, I thought that was a secret between you and Daddy.
I don't think it's right.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
To tell other people's secrets.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Kathy. You're marvelous.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
You're so right to one and all. Never meddle in
the secrets of others. Let that be a lesson to you, jen.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
To all of us. Now, Kathy, I'm going to get comfortable.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
While you read us the rest of your wonderful story.
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Speaker 6 (27:04):
Like this, Hey, Dad, how come you and mam are
doing dishes?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Well? Betty had a date tonight?
Speaker 6 (27:10):
What about cafe?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
We can't very well ask a prominent authoress to dry dishes.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
I think she earned the evening off.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
She writes some junk about a couple of little birds.
For this you want a typewriter?
Speaker 7 (27:32):
That was the prize?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Maybe I'll write a story. Once upon a time there
were two Austra.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
T Look, if you're going to hang around, there's another dishtop.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
I'm going.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Jim, I've been thinking about those letters in the trunk
and some of the things you said in them.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
After twenty years, do they sound ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
No, you're still my angel eyes.
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gladiate her fight alife. That must have been quite a tussle,
almost the spectacular as the struggle going on in the
living room of the white frame house on Maple Street,
where a man is fighting with a newspaper.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
The man Jim Anderson one.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hundred and sixty pounds, the newspaper, the Springfield Clarion six
and one half ounces.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Where in the neighbor of Counfounded Caesars, you can't find
anything in this mixed up isle of jump. I call
a newspaper. What in the world they do with this thing?
Too bad? He's losing.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Let's look into the kitchen, where two of the younger
Andersen's are engaged in the battle.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Of the dishpan like this.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Only cow, Why do I have to dry dishes? Where's Cathy?
Speaker 7 (01:45):
I told you good? I excused calf of to night.
It was very nice of you to volunteer, to hope, Eddy,
who volunteered?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I was drafted barber. Where's the rest of the.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
Paper, It's all there in the living room.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Jim, Drying dishes is not a man's work.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
Look who's the man?
Speaker 7 (02:01):
All of a sudden, Betty, don't argue with him?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Essentially, like I thought, I have a dishwasher.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
We have I'm it.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I mean an automatic.
Speaker 8 (02:11):
Seven nights a week. How automatic can you get?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (02:16):
Grown?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
We ought to have an electric lawnmower too. I could
use the motor when I'm not.
Speaker 9 (02:21):
Mowing the lawn, which is three hundred and sixty five
days a year.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Children, if you're going to argue, you'll just have to
I'm busy in the kitchen, Dear, what is.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It, Margaret? Where's Kathy?
Speaker 7 (02:32):
I dismissed her from drying dishes tonight? She has any
very special suit.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Like getting out of wiping the dishes.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
But I'm sure that's not what you had in mind.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, there's something mighty strange going on in this house.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
What do you mean here?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Look at this. The financial page is gone out of
the paper again last night. The financial page was gone
night before. The sport page every night for over a week.
Speaker 8 (02:55):
Betty, I don't know anything about his father.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
It wasn't me either.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Well, somebody's taking them out every night. Some page is missing.
It's aggravating, especially the financial page. I don't understand it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I certainly haven't much use for the financial page, Jim,
or the sport page either.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I didn't do it, Betty didn't do it. You didn't
do it.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
What would Kathy want with two weeks financial pages?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
She can't even spell financial, neither can you.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I can't see why she'd do it. I can't possibly
see why.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
She seems to be very busy on some great project lately.
She goes around in kind of a trance.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
No, it couldn't have been Kathy.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Jim. I don't know what to sugget.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, I do, and I think I'm going to enjoy it.
I'm gonna call my old pal Fred Matson down at
the paper and make a complaint.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Fed mats in the editor.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Certainly I pay the full subscription. I want a full paper.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Jim, you're being ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I am not. I've been waiting for a chance to
bend his ear about something. Oh dude, I'm gonna call
him right now. You want to hear me polish him off?
Come on listen then.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Jim on, this is going to be good mother Bud
having the dishes before they rant.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Okay, you don't have to make your federal case. Let's see.
I think Fred's numbers in a book here.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Jim, why do you have to call Fred Madson? He
wouldn't be in charge of missing pages?
Speaker 10 (04:13):
Margaret, When you buy a shirt and a button's missing,
do you call the button so er on her?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Do?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
What suppose you buy a loaf of raisin bread from
the bakery and there are no raisins in it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I don't see what buttons and raisins have to do
with Fred Madson.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You're missing the whole point. If the raisins are missing,
you don't call a person who stuffs in the raisins.
Do you call the head baker?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
So so?
Speaker 10 (04:34):
If the buttons are missing from my paper, the raisins,
I mean the pages are missing?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I don't call the paper stuffer. I called the headman,
Fred Matson.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Jim, you're doing this just to provoke him. You're supposed
to be friend.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We are friends. But Fred just loves to rib me
every chance he gets. It's a friendly feud.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
I'm sure I don't understand women never do.
Speaker 10 (04:55):
Last month, when one of my salesmen called him about
renewing some fire insurance on his building, did.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I hear about it?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Wow?
Speaker 10 (05:02):
Why the renewer wasn't due for two years? Why did
he jump on that? Anxious Andy? He calls me jump
the gun, Jym. Now will I get back at him?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I wish you'd please hold off until I at least
ask Kathy.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I'm sure she had nothing to do with it. Oh,
this is going to be good. Fred. I'll say, what's
the matter? Paper shortage? Then I'll say, don't look now, Fred,
but your sport page is slippy.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Oh that's the silliest thing I ever heard. I'm going
to find Kathy. Betty Bob, Yes, mother, have you any
idea where Kathy?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
No?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Fred Massey's Jim mannessy? Yeah, anxious Andy, what's the matter
down there? Paper shortage?
Speaker 8 (05:44):
She was in my room once this afternoon dropping.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The financial page? Are your master?
Speaker 7 (05:49):
I'm probably too late, but i'll go.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Look, I'll go.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
You've finished wiping the dishes.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
If it takes you all night, get to work.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
So pop.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
I don't see what dead so steamed up about financial pages?
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Holy call.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
If it had been the comic section, you'd have held
your head off.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well it's better than that junk that you read. I
don't read junk, Dear miss Fairfax.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
It's not Fairfax.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I am a beautiful girl of sixteen.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
But don't be silly.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I am Madley in love with a handsome lettuce picker.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Oh but.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I should leave my family to answer my true love's call.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
Take that dish towel off your neck and quit acting
like Betty Davis.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Please answer this before my two love dies of old age.
Signed puzzled heart, What.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
In the world are you doing?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Who?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Me? H? Never mind? Where's your mother?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
She's looking for Catherine?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Oh well, I've got something real choice to tell her.
Jim right here, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
I knew you shouldn't have called Fred Mason.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Why not? I enjoyed it. I'd have been on the
phone yet, but he hung up on me. Couldn't take it.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Anxious? Is right? Look here?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
What's this?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Only your precious missing pages?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Where did these come from?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
I told you it was Kathy.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
It wasn't Kathy, Betty. I found these in your room,
beside your typewriter.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh boy, but i'd leave the room.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I can't, Dad, I have to wipe the dishes.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Mother, you certainly don't.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Oh Betty, let's not get excited.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
You just had to call Fred maxon Margaret.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
What Matson doesn't know won't hurt him. Betty. The missing
pages themselves are nothing.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
It's just father, Please, It's just that sometimes.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
We do a little thing and we hate to admit it.
It's not the thing itself, but it just, well, it
builds up.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Sure, I know you start off stealing pins and the
first thing, you know, leave the.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Room, Go look for Kathy.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I never get to wipe the dishes, heavy Jacky.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's all right, Princess. I'm not going to scold jumping creepers.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I didn't take the papers, Betty.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
The evidence could I possibly want with financial pages? I
don't know, But with my allowance, you think I'm playing
the stock market.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, the sport pages.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Sport pages, look at those pictures wrestlers.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
You well, then who is a Wait a minute, Wait
a minute, Jim, look on the other side of the pages.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh, story writing contest for children between eight and ten.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
On every single page.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Look.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Final week of contest brings wealth of manuscripts.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Then it must have been Kathy.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Grand prize winner.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
To be announced Saturday Daily Winners exhibit mature talent.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Cavey. Cavey.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
She's entered this contest and was typing her story in
my room. You want me, Mommy, here I am.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I found her lugging bird seed after the attache kitten.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You've entered this story contest.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
I'm going to win a typewriter.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Jim. Why did you have to call Fred Matson?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
He had it coming anyway. Then you did take those pages, Kathy?
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Oh sure, the rules and stuff are all on them.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Thank goodness, that's settled.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
Grab the dish, child, Bud.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Give me a churms.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
You should have asked your father, dear.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
As a matter of fact, it's not important at all.
I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Kitting now I can have a typewriter for my very own.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Oh yeah, how do you know you'll win it?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
My story is a lot better than those that have
been printed.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm sure it is. Anderson is quite a name in literature,
you know, Uh, Hans Christian?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Are we on any relation to him?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Are we ask your father?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Are we?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's entirely possible. Anyway, I'm going to help Kathy with
her story.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Oh, that wouldn't be fair, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's the rules rules.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Of the contest. I'm not allowed to color rabbit with
any of the family.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Not allowed to what color rabbits?
Speaker 8 (09:56):
It means, get any help.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh, I think you mean collaborate.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Collaborate and the story has to be a true story.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I see, well, I just thought I'll.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Win it anyway, Daddy, get her?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Never mind, bar, I'm sure you will. Kitten.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
The first prize winner is going to be announced on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's just fine. What is your story about?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
Oh, it's a real sweet story.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's good. That's the kind eye loe h. What is
it about?
Speaker 8 (10:37):
It's a secret.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Maybe you could just kind of give me a hint.
I might just make a suggestion or two.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
It wouldn't be fair.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Is it about us or the house?
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Jim, don't be so inquisitive.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I'm not inquisitive. I'm just enthusiastic.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
You'll find out what it's about Saturday.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I don't see why I can't just glance over the
story make a suggestion here and there.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
I wish you'd be as anxious to help me when
I have to write something for school.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I'm always willing to help any of you kids anytime.
You know that. No kidding, certainly, but I've never refused
you when you asked, have.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I Well, I've got a project now I could show
you some help.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
All right, son, tell me what it is. I'm your man.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Will you really take over?
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There's an old saying to the effect that he travels
fastest who travels alone. If this is true, the youngest
Anderson is bound to set at all time speed record,
which is working a considerable hardship. On the other ends, well,
all but one on this Saturday afternoon. He's not concerned
about anything like this.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Good, Yeah, just a minute.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I will, well what I don't know? Whenever you say
bird like that, you want me to do something.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I want you to get your feet off the back
of the davenport for one thing. Why do you always
have to get your feet up over your.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Head when you're reading something?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
My feet?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Don't look at them like you've never seen them before.
They are yours.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah, I guess they are, Hello feet, But.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Don't be facetious.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
What's there?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
It's what you're being. Now, get up and get dizzy.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
You promised to gather up the old magazines and put
them in the garage today.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Okay, did you know that grasshoppers live longer in the
topics than they do in colder climates.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
But you're not supposed to be reading the magazine.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Holy cow.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Everybody else gets to read them. All I do is
carry them out.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Well, start caring. Where's Kathy?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
She's sitting around someplace waiting for the paper to come
with that story.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Naturally, she's excited. We all hope a story wins.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
What a beetle brain writing that gooey love stuff?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
What makes you think it's love stuff?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Probably starts out with a hero saying.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
I love you, my angel ees what did you say?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Nothing, I'm a hole.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
We're in the living room, Dear.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Hello, Honnie, Hello, adeas well? How's the literary fabil where's Kathy?
Have you heard anything yet?
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Heard anything?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I mean from the newspaper. I thought maybe they'd call her.
She won the Day's the day? You know?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
I know, Dear, we haven't heard.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I thought they might want to take pictures or something.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
She probably didn't even come close.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
But go take out the magazines.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Hey, Dad, did you know that grasshoppers live longer in
the topics.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm sure if I were a grasshopper, i'd head south immediately.
Where's Kathy?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
But if you don't take the magazines out right now?
You're going to wash and wipe the dishes tonight.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Joe Phillips and I are going to color rabbits tonight.
What you know, help each other on some problems.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Don't be facetious.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
All my life, I've never been facetious. Now twice in
one afternoon.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What's he talking about?
Speaker 7 (16:00):
I don't know what's Come over and bod do as
you're told.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Okay, okay, I haven't been able to do a thing
within this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh kids, go through phases. It's a funny thing the
paper hasn't called if Kathy won.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
I mean, well there, maybe she didn't win.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
After all, if there seemed to be no question in
her mind.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I think you'd be more disappointed than Kathy.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Well, it's just that I'm enthusiastic about my family. You
can't blame a man for that.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
How was your golf game today?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Hm? Oh, very good?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Did you see bred Mason?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I certainly did. I let him have both barrels again?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Oh, Jim, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
He came in with one hundred and three. I told
him to print that one on his missing sport page.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Jim, you shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Why not? What does he know you shouldn't have done it?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Didn't he say anything?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh? He mumbled about something loose in my attic. What
a comeback, What a snappy retort.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
He's probably figuring some way to get back at you.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
No, I don't think so. Say wait a minute, Wait
a minute.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
Do you suppose he would purposely keep Kathy from winning
that prize?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Jimmy probably doesn't even know Kathy entered it.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
He's the managing editor, isn't he probably one of the judges.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Well, he certainly wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I'm not so sure, Jimmy, wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
You said yourself, it's just a friendly fuse.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Maybe this has gone beyond the friendly stage.
Speaker 10 (17:22):
If he brings my daughter into it, Jim, Please, wouldn't
that be a sneaking, underhanded trick?
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Jim, calm down.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I am calm, But believe me if I find out
that he told Jim, for Heaven's sake, what a petty.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Thing to do.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Oh, hello, kitten, Gee, Daddy, you sick or something?
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Me?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
No, I'm all right. Uh. How is my favorite daughter
between the ages of eight and ten?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Fine?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Daddy?
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Yes, kitten, would make you so red in the face.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Your father probably had a little too much God.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well, kitten, have you heard from the paper about whether
you want or not?
Speaker 8 (17:59):
I don't have to.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
I know I'm going to win.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Oh. I certainly like your confidence. But it seems they'd
notify you if they'll be in.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
The paper tonight, pretty soon, Kathy, if it should happen
that you don't win.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
But I'm going to your father means if there should
be a slip up or something, there won't be.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I only wish you to have let me help you.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
It wouldn't have been fair, Daddy, the rules.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I might have added just a touch of color here
and there, but this.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
Story had to be true. And if the story is
a true story, you don't do anything to it.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Of course, what you just say it the way.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It is, Margaret, did you hear that?
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Naturally?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Now there's a great rule for good writing if I
ever heard one. Kathy's developing a remarkable mind. Believe me,
there's nothing loose in her attic.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
What did you say, daddy.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh, it's just a figure of speak.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Funny attic.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
I mean, that's the.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Name of my story, the secret of the attic, of
the attic?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Where is it about something that happened in the attic?
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Jim, don't pry.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm not prying. I'm just interested attic. I can't imagine
what could happen in the attic.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I could very easily rain in the attic since you
haven't fixed the roof.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
That could happen.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Rain in the attic. I bet it's about how the
little rain drops sound on the roof, like little toy
soldiers marching up and down the roof with their little drums.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
Little toy soldiers with their little toy drums say. That's
rather good, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Is it that? Kathy?
Speaker 7 (19:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Oh, when did you find out about this? I mean
the secret when.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
I was taking the bird seed up to the attic
one day, That bird seed I've won?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh? Is it about the bird seed?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Jim, For heaven's sake, stop being a prosecuting attorney, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
If Kathy feels she wants to consult me about things,
if she feels like telling her own father what her
story is all about, she has a I think right
to haven't you Kathy?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
No, Jim, I've never seen you so insistent.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Who's insistent?
Speaker 7 (20:08):
I want it to be a surprise.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Then maybe you shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place, Jim.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Everything she's told you, you positively wooed a out of her.
The child wants it to be a surprise. Let it
be a surprise.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
It's like Christmas, Daddy, the story. No, I mean you
never let me open any packages before Christmas morning because
then it wouldn't be a surprise.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
That's right, forgive me. Your daddy is just so proud
and excited. Well you just wait until you're a father.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
You run along now, Kathy and let daddy rest awhile, Okay,
I'll let.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
You write in my new typewriting.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Daddy, bless her heart. If she doesn't win, it'll be
just you will.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
When you know something, you just know it.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I guess it's amazing a child's confidence. Well, I guess
I'll go and clean up the paper should be here before.
Believe me. If she doesn't win and I find out
that bred Matson is behind.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Us Jim Anderson, Yes, come here, don't shout at me, Bud.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Well, come here will if you want me? You come here?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
When will kids learn that parents are not supposed to
jump at their beck and call I swear?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Do you want me to say these old financial pages
out of the papers?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Of course not just thought I'd asked before I took
them out.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
They've no interest to me anymore. Take them out.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
The only paper your father is interested in is tonight's.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I don't see why everybody's so excited about Kathy's old love.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Story, Bud.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
What makes you think angely scarve my dreams? Words from
of your lips like the falling of rose petals?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Bud Anderson?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Where did you just where in the world did you
get that?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Silly drivels?
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Silly Jim, it's what kind of trash.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Have you been reading? Later?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
I happened to God, have you gotten into the attic trunk? True, Jim?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
That came from the love letters you wrote me twenty
years ago.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
They were in that trunk, Bud and this.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I didn't look in any.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Trunk on this those very words. Where did you find them?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I just happened to look in Kathy's room. Kathy's room,
and I was just looking around.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
What for?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Well, I got the wondering water story was about, and
I happened to find a letter, Jim.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
For heaven's sake, do you know what this means?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
But is entirely too curious? Now look here, Jim, what
will we do? Well, there's no particular harm, Jim.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Don't you see the connection Kathy's story, the secret of
the attic, your love letters? They're going to be published today?
Oh hi, everybody, with all exit, bring the phone, the
phone in the world.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Can you phone father?
Speaker 8 (22:53):
How can I bring you the phone?
Speaker 7 (22:54):
The card's fastened to the roll.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I'll call Fred Manson apologize.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
It's Betty, Go find Kathy family.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I've got to stop the press. I'll call Fred. I'll
crawl humiliate myself.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
It's too late. The paper will be here any minute now.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'm ruining it will be all over town.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Jim, there's a chance that Kathy didn't use those letters.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You want me, Mommy, I'll be the laughing stock of
the town.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Kathy, you found some of Daddy's letters in the attic.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
I was putting the bird seat in the trunk, ridiculed
in the streets.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
What's the matter with daddy?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Your father is sick horse on my own guitar. There's
the paper, I will Jim, maybe she didn't.
Speaker 10 (23:41):
Win no difference, ruin man, all over town gone.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Look at this story finals run by Kathleen Anderson.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
I told you I would.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh the secret of the attic ooh.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
But maybe you better not read it.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
In a quiet corner of our attic lives a couple
named Jim and Margaret.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Corner of the attic.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
They will never have to work hardly at all, but
they will have enough bird seed to last on the
rest of their lives.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I thought this had to be true.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
It is Wally reads farther down rest of their lives.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Jim and Margaret are two little birds who have built
a nest there.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
I think they are.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Swallows, Kathy, I name them Jim and Margaret because those
are the nicest names of parents. I know why, kitten,
I think they will soon be parents. As they are
sitting on an egg. What kind of a story is
that bird?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
What kind of a story? Only the most wonderful story
ever written?
Speaker 7 (24:55):
I knew she could do it, Kathy Angel. There wasn't much,
sure wasn't.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
But but Kathy Darling, we thought, I mean, how in
the world did you pass up daddy's letters?
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Mommy, I thought that was a secret between you and Daddy.
I don't think it's right.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
To tell other people's secrets.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Kathy. You're marvelous.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
You're so right to one and all. Never meddle in
the secrets of others. Let that be a lesson to you, jen.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
To all of us. Now, Kathy, I'm going to get comfortable.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
While you read us the rest of your wonderful story.
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Evening has drawn its sheltering cloak around the white frame
house on Maple Street, and tonight with a celebrity in
the family, the order of things has been slightly changed.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Like this, Hey, Dad, how come you and mam are
doing dishes?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Well? Betty had a date tonight?
Speaker 6 (27:10):
What about cafe?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
We can't very well ask a prominent authoress to dry dishes.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
I think she earned the evening off.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
She writes some junk about a couple of little birds.
For this you want a typewriter?
Speaker 7 (27:32):
That was the prize?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Maybe I'll write a story. Once upon a time there
were two Austra.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
T Look, if you're going to hang around, there's another dishtop.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
I'm going.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Jim, I've been thinking about those letters in the trunk
and some of the things you said in them.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
After twenty years, do they sound ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
No, you're still my angel eyes.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
Thank you, Jim.
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