Those of you who heard the Junior Miss radio show at 11:30 a.m. on December 5 over the Columbia Broadcasting System network will recall the following episode. Those of you who did not listen to the episode may find it reminiscent of what happens in your own homes. Here is the radio script:*

Harry Graves, the master of the house, came home early and everyone, including his wife, Grace, and his two daughters, was surprised to see him.

Grace: Harry, how is it that you came home so early? You usually stop at the club on Saturday.

Harry: I had a headache, and I thought I might as well come home and read. Where's my TIME magazine?

Grace: Over on the table where we always keep it . . .

Harry: Where's this week's TIME?

Grace: It should be right on the table there.

Harry: It isn't.

Grace: Well, I see it right there, Harry.

Harry: This one's from August 15th. And here's one from September 21st. Now where's the one I bought this week?

Grace: I'm sure if you bought it, Harry, it should be there.

Harry: It isn't. And why do we have these lying around? When I want to read TIME, I want to read the latest one.

Grace: But I haven't finished those yet, Harry.

Harry: You're not supposed to read TIME six months later.You're supposed to read it when it comes out. And that's when I'd like to read it--it's an up to date magazine.

Grace: There's no reason why you have to read it right away.

Harry: I know, but you don't have to wait six to seven months. And if all these weren't lying around here, I'd be able to find the one I bought this week. Why don't you throw these away, Grace?

Grace: No. There's an article I want to read in one of them.

Harry: Well, why don't you keep the one with the article you want to read and throw the others away?

Grace: Oh, Harry, I wish you wouldn't worry about how I read magazines.

Harry: Now I know why, when we go out, our conversations are six months behind the times.

Grace: Oh . . .

Harry: Lois, did you tell Hilda about my sandwich?

Lois: Yes, Daddy.

Grace: Lois, did you see your father's TIME magazine?

Lois: No, but there's a bunch of them on the table there.

Harry: I know that.

I'd like to read the one I bought.

Grace: Why don't you buy another one, Harry?

They're only 20 cents.

Harry: That's not the point. I want the one that I brought into this house . . .

Hilda: Mr. Graves--you ready to eat?

Harry: Yes, Hilda, just put my sandwich on the table and I'll be right there.

Hilda: I'd like to, but there's no sandwich.

Harry: No sandwich?

Hilda: No sandwich . . . I didn't know you were coming home for lunch, and Judy ate up the last of the bread, and we haven't done our marketing yet . . . Excuse me. I'll go back to the kitchen and finish up the article I was reading in this weeks TIME magazine.

Harry: Grace, she has my magazine.

Grace: Yes, aren't you glad we found it, Harry? I'll tell her to go down and get some bread, and you can read it till she gets back.

Scriptwriter Henry Garson, who has been a TIME reader for the last 12 years, says that he wrote the episode "out of real experience. It happens all the time in my house. Whenever I want the current issue of TIME, I've got to rummage all over the place for it."

Cordially yours,

* By permission of copyright owner, Henry Garson.

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