The $35,250 Answer

Giveaway radio outdid itself last week by showering diamonds, ermine and trips to Monte Carlo on an elderly Negro couple in Philadelphia. For correctly guessing the name of Stop the Music's martial mystery tune (The Navy and the Army, The Army and the Navy) Mrs. Julia Hubert, 58, and her husband, Benjamin, 75, a former Navy Yard employee, were promised $35,250 worth of prizes.

Dazed but by no means dazzled, Mrs. Hubert said firmly: "It hasn't changed my routine of living and it isn't going to. I've had a car and a good life before." Then, settling down to counting her winnings, Mrs. Hubert decided to keep: a $1,000 U.S. savings bond; a man's and woman's wardrobe, each valued at $1,500; a year's supply of candy, flowers, shaving lotion and cologne; free haircuts for five years; a $1,200 living room suite; a $1,000 radio-phonograph-television set; two complete fishing outfits; enough paint to redo her eight-room, two-bath house; $1,000 worth of groceries (she can select a needy family for another $1,000 worth); a $2,700 1949 Kaiser sedan.

She plans to sell: a $1,000 spinet; two Harley-Davidson motorcycles; a $1,500 silver service; a $250 brass fireplace set; a $500 pair of hand-tooled cowboy boots; two pedigreed great Dane puppies ("I do hope we can find them a good home in the country"); a year's supply of dog food.

Mrs. Hubert remains undecided about the disposal of: a $3,000 diamond ring and a $1,000 star sapphire; a $2,500 diamond watch; a custom-built $1,000 kitchen ("If it's more modern than mine, I'll take it"); a $425 record library; an ermine jacket, hat and muff; a one-year scholarship to the Berkshire Hills girls school; a $2,850 trip to Paris and Monte Carlo ("I'd rather go somewheres else--like California").

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