Speaker 1: Mother, Is Nxville House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2: Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3: Yes, its father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Speaker 3: Young his father. A half hour visit with your neighbors,
Speaker 3: the Andersons, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House,
Speaker 3: the coffee that's always good to the last drop. If
Speaker 3: an arrow rises, it must fall, If a river flows,
Speaker 3: it must bend. And be they long or be they small?
Speaker 3: All vacations have an air in Springfield, which is still
Speaker 3: an at Bridgetown Live.
Speaker 4: The Anderson's just.
Speaker 3: An average American family with the average American trials and tribulations.
Speaker 3: Their car is rolling rapidly toward the white frame house
Speaker 3: on Maple Street, and as they return from a long
Speaker 3: summer holiday at Round Lake, it might be interesting to
Speaker 3: note the thoughts which occupy their minds. For instance, there's
Speaker 3: Kathy aged.
Speaker 1: Nine, gee, whizz, next week we have to go back.
Speaker 3: To school, Bud who is fifteen.
Speaker 5: Gosh, next week we have to go back to school.
Speaker 3: And Betty who was a very adult seventeen.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Creeper's next week we have to go back to school.
Speaker 3: Then of course, there's Margaret, the mother of the brow.
Speaker 2: Next week the children go back to school.
Speaker 3: Last but by no means least bother himself. Jim Anderson,
Speaker 3: Well it won't be long. Now here's maple.
Speaker 1: There's Jimmy waite.
Speaker 2: Jimmy, Now, will you stop pushing.
Speaker 5: I'm not Kathy's standing on my foot.
Speaker 2: Kathleen sits still and behave yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, hello, Jimmy.
Speaker 2: There'll be plenty of time for that.
Speaker 6: Jim, Are you sure everything's all right at the house?
Speaker 3: Of course, everything's all right. Why well, you look.
Speaker 2: Just like a boy with his hand in the jam pot.
Speaker 2: And if you've done anything.
Speaker 1: Sylvie, you sl oh, Kathy sip down, That was Silsie.
Speaker 2: Well you don't have to jump out the window.
Speaker 7: Look what she did to my shoe.
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 7: You certainly did.
Speaker 1: I certainly didn't.
Speaker 7: You certainly did.
Speaker 1: I certainly didn't.
Speaker 2: Kathy.
Speaker 1: Will you please stop screeching in my ear? I wasn't
Speaker 1: screeching in your ear?
Speaker 2: You certainly?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 1: Certainly?
Speaker 3: All right, that's enough.
Speaker 1: Well, she said I was screeching in hurry.
Speaker 4: I said that's enough.
Speaker 2: I wasn't.
Speaker 7: House.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a relief.
Speaker 4: What do you mean by that.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I think it's.
Speaker 6: Just that when you get that peculiar look on your face,
Speaker 6: I never know what to expect.
Speaker 2: I thought maybe you had the house painted purple or something.
Speaker 6: Here Mart, I know you mean well, but whenever the
Speaker 6: children and I go away, you get such weird ideas
Speaker 6: about the house.
Speaker 3: Oh like the barbecue pit I built last summer. I
Speaker 3: suppose that was a weird idea.
Speaker 2: No, it was fine until it fell apart. How about
Speaker 2: the year you decided to turn the playroom into a
Speaker 2: bowling alley never mind?
Speaker 5: Or the year you painted the living room green and
Speaker 5: Mom had to send.
Speaker 3: All the fun I said, never mind?
Speaker 7: Oh gosh, I was only trying to help.
Speaker 4: Kathleen. Right after dinner you go to bed, but.
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything.
Speaker 3: I know just what you were thinking, and I won't
Speaker 3: stand for it.
Speaker 1: But I wasn't thinking about the fire alarm you built
Speaker 1: in the other.
Speaker 3: Well, don't just sit there, but we're home. Let's get
Speaker 3: the luggage into the house.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 3: Dad man takes a little extra pride in his home,
Speaker 3: and what happens People make fun of him, treat him
Speaker 3: like the village idiots.
Speaker 2: Oh, Jim, we weren't making fun of you.
Speaker 4: You certainly were.
Speaker 3: You thought I was going to paint the house purple.
Speaker 2: No I didn't, Dear.
Speaker 3: I merely said Joel, Hey, Joe, come back here.
Speaker 4: Where do you think you're going?
Speaker 7: I just saw Joe Phillips.
Speaker 4: Well, take a look at the suitcases they come first.
Speaker 7: Holy call, Kathy.
Speaker 3: That is not where we live. This is our house,
Speaker 3: the white one.
Speaker 2: You can see Patty in the morning. Dear, right now,
Speaker 2: we've all got to help your father.
Speaker 3: Gee was well, I guess that's about everything, Jim. Margaret
Speaker 3: has nothing to worry about. I haven't done anything to
Speaker 3: the house, nothing much anyway.
Speaker 2: Kathy, push the water bottle under my chin. It's kippy.
Speaker 1: Want me to carry it?
Speaker 2: Just push it over a little.
Speaker 1: Why can't I carry it?
Speaker 2: Cathy?
Speaker 7: It broke?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: People go away all the time and come home all
Speaker 3: the time. They don't get into things like this. Only
Speaker 3: this family.
Speaker 5: If we so much as go across the street, Dad,
Speaker 5: these bags are getting heavy.
Speaker 4: Well, i'll put them down.
Speaker 7: Don't you want me to take them inside?
Speaker 3: Naturally?
Speaker 4: I want you to take them inside.
Speaker 7: How can I take them inside if I put them down?
Speaker 3: Margaret?
Speaker 2: It's all right there, I have my keys.
Speaker 3: There we are, Kathy, hold the screen door open until
Speaker 3: we get in. Yes, Taddy, see if you can manage
Speaker 3: not to break it.
Speaker 1: Oh how can you break the screen door?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but don't try to find out.
Speaker 5: All right, but let's go. I don't think I can
Speaker 5: make it. This little bag feels like it's got rocks
Speaker 5: in it.
Speaker 3: Kathy, what have you gotten your suitcase?
Speaker 4: Rocks?
Speaker 2: Rocks, special rocks.
Speaker 1: I'm saving them.
Speaker 4: Gods, we haven't got enough rocks in Springfield.
Speaker 3: She has to bring a suitcase full of them back
Speaker 3: from round Leigh.
Speaker 2: They're all different colors.
Speaker 3: Bud, take them out in back of the garage and
Speaker 3: dump them.
Speaker 7: Okay, it's practically a collection.
Speaker 1: I saved them all summer.
Speaker 4: Well dump them carefully, Bud.
Speaker 2: Okay, and don't right them. Mother. My arms are falling off.
Speaker 2: All right there, we're going right here, and let.
Speaker 3: Me get this bag through the door, will you.
Speaker 4: That's a good girl.
Speaker 2: Oh well, we're home.
Speaker 4: How does it look?
Speaker 6: It looks wonderful, simply wonderful.
Speaker 3: I had miss Nielsen come in last Friday and give
Speaker 3: it a good cleaning.
Speaker 2: Oh that was very thoughtful. I don't see anything different,
Speaker 2: do you, mother, No, dear, everything looks just the way
Speaker 2: it should.
Speaker 6: Who gosh, these coats are heavy, Oh, Betty. You can't
Speaker 6: just dump them in a chair like that. You know
Speaker 6: where they belong.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll hang them up just a minute, Betty. I've
Speaker 3: made a few little changes around the house, just minor changes.
Speaker 2: Jim.
Speaker 3: Well, it's something I've had in mind for quite a
Speaker 3: few years. You see, the way I figure, there is
Speaker 3: much difference between a home and an office so far
Speaker 3: as efficiency is concerned.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Jim, a.
Speaker 6: Home isn't like an office. You can't run them the
Speaker 6: same way.
Speaker 4: Of course you can. And whether you see what I've done, everything's.
Speaker 3: Neat and tidy and orderly, the way things ought to be.
Speaker 2: I hope you know what you're doing, all right, Betty.
Speaker 2: Put the coats in the closet before they get all wrinkled. Oh,
Speaker 2: keet out, and then see what happened to Bud and Kathy.
Speaker 1: If nothing half you mind? If I raise something up?
Speaker 4: Talking and do as you're told?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Father, that girl can talk more and say less
Speaker 3: than any ten people in Springfield. Jim, she certainly doesn't
Speaker 3: get it from my side of the family. I'll tell
Speaker 3: you that, Jim. I've never heard anyone talk so much
Speaker 3: in my entire life, all the way down from round
Speaker 3: Lake Talk Talk talk, Jim, Oh, silent one.
Speaker 6: Eh, do you mind if I say something?
Speaker 4: Of course not.
Speaker 3: You know that's a ridiculous question.
Speaker 2: Well I have another ridiculous question. What have you done
Speaker 2: to the house.
Speaker 3: I've instituted a little system, that's all.
Speaker 4: And it's about time.
Speaker 2: Mother.
Speaker 3: There certainly are they're in the box.
Speaker 2: The hangars are in a box.
Speaker 3: That's right. There's nothing that looks sillier than a bunch
Speaker 3: of empty coat hangers. Besides, they don't do anything but
Speaker 3: catch dust. What the box under the box with the goloshes, Jim?
Speaker 6: It's It's taken me fifteen years to train the children
Speaker 6: to hang up their coats.
Speaker 2: And now you've hidden the hangers.
Speaker 3: Oh I haven't. I've put them where they belong. It's
Speaker 3: part of the system.
Speaker 6: You haven't rearranged the entire house that way, have you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: More or less?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Now, don't get upset, Margaret.
Speaker 3: The least you can do is give the system a chance.
Speaker 6: But if you aren't home, we'll never be able to
Speaker 6: find anything.
Speaker 3: Yes, you will. I spent a whole week making a catalog.
Speaker 3: Everything is entered in its proper place, dishes, silver linen,
Speaker 3: everything's been put away systematically and entered in the catalog.
Speaker 6: Jim Anderson, do you mean that in order to find
Speaker 6: a plate in the cupboard, I've got to look it
Speaker 6: up in a catalog.
Speaker 3: That's right under sea.
Speaker 2: Dishes under sea.
Speaker 4: I filed them under China.
Speaker 2: That is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.
Speaker 3: It isn't ridiculous at all. You've been complaining for years
Speaker 3: that you haven't had enough closets. Well, when I got
Speaker 3: through rearranging things, I had two closets left over.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to say a thing, not a single
Speaker 6: thing this moment.
Speaker 2: I don't dare.
Speaker 1: And there isn't any key.
Speaker 3: The key is where it belongs with all the other keys.
Speaker 3: They're all tagged, labeled and filed very systematically. Where I
Speaker 3: wish you'd stop looking at me that way. I was
Speaker 3: merely trying to be helpful. I know it isn't easy
Speaker 3: to get used to a new system, but you will say.
Speaker 7: Dad, here's a letter for you.
Speaker 8: Dad.
Speaker 1: It was station delivery and I signed for it.
Speaker 3: It's on the bank, So I see, what do you
Speaker 3: think a bank would be.
Speaker 4: If they didn't have a system, they'd be broken a week.
Speaker 2: We're not running a bank.
Speaker 3: No, But when some of the bills come in from
Speaker 3: the department stores, No, it's impossible.
Speaker 2: What's the matter, Father, Is something wrong here?
Speaker 4: I'm not overdrawn?
Speaker 3: How could I possibly be overdrawn?
Speaker 2: Well, they have a system.
Speaker 3: Margaret, this is not a joking matter. The day I
Speaker 3: left for Round Lake, just a week ago, Friday, I
Speaker 3: deposited over seven hundred dollars. How could I be overdrawn?
Speaker 2: Maybe their system didn't work.
Speaker 4: You're darn right it didn't work. Just as soon as
Speaker 4: I find my checkbook.
Speaker 2: Isn't it in the desk drawer?
Speaker 4: No? I uh put it someplace else.
Speaker 2: Part of the reorganization.
Speaker 3: Yes, I put it in a much more logical place,
Speaker 3: a very logical place, Only I can't remember exactly where.
Speaker 2: Why don't you look it up in the cattle.
Speaker 4: The catalog?
Speaker 2: Well that's where you entered everything, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Well, you see, that's what I've been trying to tell you, Margaret.
Speaker 3: I was trying to get everything ready for you and
Speaker 3: the kids when you got home, and I had the
Speaker 3: catalog all finished and everything.
Speaker 2: But Jim, you didn't.
Speaker 4: Uh huh I lost him.
Speaker 3: Oh, No, best cup of coffee eye ever tasted. Tomorrow
Speaker 3: right at your table.
Speaker 9: You can hear that from the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, ma'am,
Speaker 9: he'll be there, because the world's greatest coffee expert is
Speaker 9: your husband. Now, naturally, we think we're pretty fair experts.
Speaker 9: After all, our Maxwell House coffee is America's favorite brand.
Speaker 9: But the final judge is that man of yours. And
Speaker 9: if you'll just put a cup of Maxwell House in
Speaker 9: front of him, we're mighty sure you'll hear him say
Speaker 9: best coffee I ever tasted. In fact, we'll give you
Speaker 9: your money back if he doesn't. You see, no coffee's
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Speaker 9: like Maxwell House. No other coffee has that famous good
Speaker 9: to the last drop flavor. Get Maxwell House tomorrow and
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Speaker 9: it's the coffee for him, just return the can an
Speaker 9: unused portion to us, and we'll gladly refund the price
Speaker 9: you paid. You'll find our address right on the front
Speaker 9: of that familiar blue tin. So tomorrow, see how much
Speaker 9: the world's greatest coffee expert Enjoy's Maxwell House coffee, always
Speaker 9: good to the last drop.
Speaker 3: It's only minutes later in the white frame house on
Speaker 3: Maple Street, and the future looks dismal and dark for
Speaker 3: the family known as Anderson. Father with his brilliant new system,
Speaker 3: has disorganized the entire household. But it won't be for long.
Speaker 8: You know how it is with life.
Speaker 3: It's always darkest before the dawns. And though everything may
Speaker 3: seem quite grim at the moment, there's really no need
Speaker 3: to be concerned. Just hang around for a little while,
Speaker 3: and gradually things will get worse. See they're in the basement,
Speaker 3: I know, Jim.
Speaker 2: The first thing we've got to do is find the keys.
Speaker 2: We can't live in a house where everything is locked up.
Speaker 3: If I could only remember what I did with.
Speaker 6: The catalog, I'll settle for the keys. Can't you remember
Speaker 6: where you put them?
Speaker 3: I put them in a drawer. Which drawer I don't
Speaker 3: remember anyway, I locked the drawer.
Speaker 4: So what good would it do if I did.
Speaker 2: Remember you locked the drawer with all the keys in it.
Speaker 3: Well, naturally, then I put that key you somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Where, in a towel.
Speaker 3: I think it was a towel maybe it was a
Speaker 3: pillow case, Jim. But it's all written down in the catalog.
Speaker 3: If we can find that, there'll be nothing to worry.
Speaker 6: About except trying to get this house back in order again.
Speaker 3: Margaret, there's one thing you refuse to recognize. Doing it
Speaker 3: my way, I had two closets left over.
Speaker 6: This it's one thing you refuse to recognize. We have
Speaker 6: two trunks and five suitcases to unpack. How many closets
Speaker 6: do you think we'll have left over?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 3: Oh, I guess I forgot about that. Well, anyway, I tried.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about the closets. At least they're open.
Speaker 2: But all those locked drawers and missing keys, what are
Speaker 2: we going to do about them?
Speaker 4: We'll have to make a thorough search, that's all.
Speaker 2: But he went out to get the rest of the luggage.
Speaker 3: Dear, anytime the doorbell rings, he manages to do something else.
Speaker 2: But you sent him for it.
Speaker 3: Well, how did I know the bell was.
Speaker 4: Going to ring? Haven't even been home fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: You'd think people would have a decency to let you
Speaker 3: get your hat off before they start ringing the doorbell.
Speaker 4: Jim My boy, Oh hello, mister Gribble, Come on in.
Speaker 8: I'm not interrupting anything, am I?
Speaker 3: Oh no, we were just sitting around playing a little
Speaker 3: game of button button, who's got the button?
Speaker 8: Yes, Jim for you, the most wonderful news you've ever heard.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't have anything to do with a catalog, would it.
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 3: Well, that's sort of a key subject around here right now.
Speaker 8: And I see who is it?
Speaker 3: It's mister Grebble.
Speaker 4: Honey.
Speaker 10: I can't say very long, just stop buy on my
Speaker 10: way to the club, sat the car in the driveway,
Speaker 10: you know.
Speaker 8: Oh, hello missus, and it's nice to see you back.
Speaker 6: It's nice to be that.
Speaker 2: That is it might be sometime soon.
Speaker 8: Is There's no place like home.
Speaker 10: That's what I always say, the old familiar haunts, with
Speaker 10: everything in its place and the place for everything.
Speaker 2: Isn't it? The truth.
Speaker 3: Is you said something about good news, JP.
Speaker 8: I did. Oh yes, I didn't. I you my boy.
Speaker 10: I've done it, yes, sir, after three years, I've finally
Speaker 10: done it.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, well that's great.
Speaker 4: What did you do?
Speaker 9: Why?
Speaker 10: I've gotten the Springfield Athletic Club to open its membership list.
Speaker 8: Not far, mind you, just far enough to let you in. Now,
Speaker 8: what do you think of that?
Speaker 3: The Athletic Club. Oh that's wonderful, JP.
Speaker 4: It really is, isn't it, Margaret?
Speaker 6: Oh yes, I'm just goosebumps all over.
Speaker 4: I'm finally going to get into the athletic club.
Speaker 10: Well, I've got to get down there right away, So
Speaker 10: if you'll just let me have a check for one
Speaker 10: hundred and twenty five dollars, let's check for your application,
Speaker 10: My boy, I want to get it in before they
Speaker 10: changed their minds.
Speaker 4: You want me to give you a check?
Speaker 8: What's the matter with you, Jim? Don't you want to join?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, I I wanted to join for the last five years.
Speaker 10: Well, then stop staring at me like a congenital moraro
Speaker 10: on and give me a check for one hundred and
Speaker 10: twenty five dollars.
Speaker 3: A check for one hundred and twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2: Mister gribble.
Speaker 3: We might as well tell you I left my check
Speaker 3: book at the office. That's what we wanted to say,
Speaker 3: wasn't it, Margaret?
Speaker 2: I guess so, dear. If that's what you.
Speaker 8: Say, well, there's nothing criminal about that, of course not.
Speaker 3: I I'll drop by the bank first thing in the morning,
Speaker 3: and then I'll leave a check at your office.
Speaker 8: I'll that be Ah, that won't be necessary.
Speaker 4: It won't be any trouble. JP.
Speaker 3: And I don't think it's right for you to lay
Speaker 3: out all that money.
Speaker 10: Who said anything about that? You bank with the merchants,
Speaker 10: don't you. Well, here's one of my blank checks.
Speaker 8: You can use that.
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, is that you, Bud?
Speaker 2: I guess so?
Speaker 3: Well, come on in, Bud.
Speaker 10: Mister Gribble's here, Jim, if you'll just make out a
Speaker 10: check for one hundred and twenty five dollars, I want
Speaker 10: you to meet Bud.
Speaker 3: JP.
Speaker 4: He's a fine boy.
Speaker 8: I met George Sodden when he was two years old.
Speaker 3: I'll just make out a check, Bud. You know mister Gribble,
Speaker 3: don't you sure?
Speaker 7: I'm mister Gribble.
Speaker 8: I'm beginning to wonder, Jim.
Speaker 3: Mister Gribble is a great baseball fan, Bud. Why don't
Speaker 3: the two of you talk about baseball while I get
Speaker 3: on the phone.
Speaker 8: I don't know one other a baseball back from the other.
Speaker 8: All I want.
Speaker 10: Look, I'll make out the check, and all you have
Speaker 10: to do is how will that be?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: That'll be fine, just fine.
Speaker 5: I've got all the bags in bed. Now can I
Speaker 5: go see Joe?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I want you to stay here?
Speaker 4: And oh, why don't you get mister Gribble a drink?
Speaker 7: What kind of a drink?
Speaker 4: Any kind of a drink? Water, anything? I don't care.
Speaker 4: How about a nice glass of water?
Speaker 3: JP?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 3: No, go ahead, Bud, get mister Gribble a glass of water.
Speaker 7: He doesn't want any.
Speaker 4: We'll get it for him anyway.
Speaker 7: Holy call, All right, Jim, it's made out now.
Speaker 8: All you have to do is sign it.
Speaker 3: Yes, Betty, Kathy, mister Gribble.
Speaker 2: Is here, Jim, why don't you just tell him?
Speaker 7: Betty?
Speaker 3: Kathy?
Speaker 7: Can't you hear me?
Speaker 3: I just told you mister Gribble is here?
Speaker 2: Good for here?
Speaker 3: Well don't you want to say hello?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 8: Mister Hello Betty?
Speaker 3: How about Kathy?
Speaker 1: Hello, mister Gribble.
Speaker 9: Hello, Kathy?
Speaker 2: Friendly little group are?
Speaker 3: Why don't you come down and tell mister Gribble all
Speaker 3: about the nice summer you had?
Speaker 4: Jim? Tell him all about it one day at a time.
Speaker 3: Jim, never mind the keys, never mind missus Neilson, Jim,
Speaker 3: mister Gribble, never mind mister Gribble.
Speaker 8: I guess I'll be running along.
Speaker 3: No, wait, I haven't signed the check.
Speaker 8: Oh you remember that, Jim.
Speaker 2: I'm sure, mister Gribble.
Speaker 3: Okay, i'll just sign it. Well, here you are on JP,
Speaker 3: and thank you very much. Not at all.
Speaker 8: It'll be nice having you in the club, I imagine.
Speaker 4: I'll take you to the door.
Speaker 8: Goodbye, missus Anderson.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, mister. I'm sorry everything was so upset.
Speaker 8: That's quite all right, Quite all right, jim my boy.
Speaker 4: Yes, JP, when you come.
Speaker 10: Down to the club, I take things easy for a
Speaker 10: few weeks. Oh you were, shouldn't have been overdoing things
Speaker 10: a little.
Speaker 4: I know what you mean, JP. I'll be careful.
Speaker 8: Well, I'll be running along.
Speaker 4: Thanks again for everything.
Speaker 8: Oh not at all, my boy, glad the help.
Speaker 3: Well, I've joined something, the Athletic club or Levenworth one
Speaker 3: of the things.
Speaker 2: Jim, What on earth were you trying to do?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Margaret.
Speaker 3: I thought if I could get Bill Morris on the
Speaker 3: phone about that deposit I made.
Speaker 6: But why didn't you tell mister Gribble the truth? I'm
Speaker 6: sure he'd have understood.
Speaker 4: I couldn't, Margaret.
Speaker 3: Would you trust all your insurance to a man who
Speaker 3: can't keep his bank account straight?
Speaker 2: I thought the bank made the mistake.
Speaker 3: They did, I mean I think they did I don't
Speaker 3: know the water, dad? What water?
Speaker 7: You said to get a glass of water for mister Gribble.
Speaker 3: Well he's gone. What do I do with the water?
Speaker 4: Drink it?
Speaker 7: I'm not thirsty, and.
Speaker 3: Take it outside and water the lawn with one glass.
Speaker 2: Jim, you're getting the boy all confused.
Speaker 3: Well what do you think I am? No money, no catalog,
Speaker 3: no keys. Wait a minute, no, what the middle drawer
Speaker 3: in my desk.
Speaker 4: That's where I put it.
Speaker 2: That's where you put what.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but.
Speaker 3: I distinctly remember putting something in it. The catalog.
Speaker 7: That's where it is.
Speaker 3: Come on, Jim, we get the catalog. Everything will straightened out.
Speaker 3: We'll find the bank book and the keys and uh
Speaker 3: huh is it locked?
Speaker 4: Yes, it's locked. Everything's locked. But don't worry.
Speaker 3: I'll fix this. Where's the letter?
Speaker 4: Open hole?
Speaker 2: Jim, you'll ruin the desk.
Speaker 3: Well, I've got to get it open there.
Speaker 2: Oh your poor desk.
Speaker 3: You see, I knew I put it someplace.
Speaker 2: Is it the catalog?
Speaker 3: Well not exactly, it's it's the check I was supposed
Speaker 3: to deposit.
Speaker 9: Well that solves one mystery. But the search for the
Speaker 9: catalog goes on and on. Just goes to show you
Speaker 9: come out way ahead when you know where to find
Speaker 9: what you want. Now, when it comes to coffee, you
Speaker 9: want the most for your money, the most in flavor,
Speaker 9: the most in enjoyment, and the world's greatest coffee.
Speaker 3: Expert can help you find it.
Speaker 9: Just serve the number one expert, meaning that husband of yours,
Speaker 9: a cup of Maxwell House. Then when you see him
Speaker 9: smile and hear him say best coffee I ever tasted,
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Speaker 9: to the last drop flavor. Then count all the cups
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Speaker 7: Again.
Speaker 3: It's moments later in the white frame house on Maple Street,
Speaker 3: and only one of the Anderson's many problems has been resolved. Father,
Speaker 3: who always knows best, has taken care of the money situation.
Speaker 3: But it's mother the gentle soul who takes care of
Speaker 3: the rest like this, Jim, We've got.
Speaker 6: To go about this thing logically. Now where were you
Speaker 6: when you finished the catalog?
Speaker 4: Uh? In the kitchen.
Speaker 3: I wound up with the pots and pans.
Speaker 2: And then the phone rang?
Speaker 3: How do you know?
Speaker 2: Well? Didn't it?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: But how dear, whenever you lose something, the telephone has
Speaker 6: always just rung.
Speaker 4: Well, Uh, then what happened?
Speaker 2: It was Hector Smith, wasn't it?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: But I still don't you and Hector.
Speaker 2: Made a poker date. You had to make a few notes,
Speaker 2: didn't you.
Speaker 3: That's right. I had to put down the address and
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: You also put down the catalog.
Speaker 4: Well, I couldn't write with my hands full.
Speaker 6: Now let's see what handy spot would be the most
Speaker 6: illogical place for you.
Speaker 2: To put it.
Speaker 3: I put it right on the telephone table, and then.
Speaker 6: It disappeared, Betty, Yes, mother, look on top of the
Speaker 6: balance over the whole window.
Speaker 3: Margaret, you know that's ridiculous. Who in his right mind
Speaker 3: would stick a book away on top of a window balance?
Speaker 2: You would, I certainly.
Speaker 3: Would not, Mother, Yes, Betty, I found the catalog.
Speaker 2: On top of the valance.
Speaker 1: That's right, Thank you, Betty.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess everything's all straightened out now, not quite, dear,
Speaker 3: but it will be as soon as we put everything
Speaker 3: back where it was in the beginning. Life is swell
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Speaker 3: week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring
Speaker 3: Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargee and the
Speaker 3: Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Foreman. So until
Speaker 3: next Thursday, good night and good luck from the makers
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Speaker 3: to the last drop. Father Knows Best was transcribed in
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