of Saturday (or rather Sunday) two lovely figures in evening gowns lugging a huge metal bottle of gas from the casino all the way to bun- galow number four? One of the ladies was holding a wrench in her muscular hand and the other was puffing and tugging at the metal mon- strosity which contained heat for some very cold guests who had just notified me their gas supply had run out. The harsh, cold reality of that mountain night forced us to forget our femininity. Thanks Carol- ine for the muscular hand you gave our guests that night!

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Before closing this hurriedly written account I quizzed Marie on her recollections..she still dreams of mountains of fried chicken. Cindy eating chicken standing by the stove, of dozens of wigs which she combed, of how her plan to set up a nice buffet table at the cas- ino the night of the party was frustrated by the sight of the tables selected for the buffet just loaded with cameras, bulbs and photographic paper- of how blissfully happy Darlene was when she saw herself in the wig Marie lent her..how she thought she was through with break- fasts and there would still be another couple walking in who had not had theirs yet...how pretty Gloria, Anita, Gail, Karen, Jessica, Ann- ette, Denise and Jacqueline looked..how sorry she was not to have had the time to personally help all to pretty up... and how wonderful Virginia's wife turned out to be... and how wonderful it would be if there could be a TV village where all TV's could live and work to- gether...

As for myself, I was thankful to all who trusted Susanna's discret- ion and assurances that everything would be alright--although I did feel terribly embarrassed at not having enough blankets to go around. By the way, the following weekend when we went back to close the place, Marie and I had a good laugh at finding ourselves sleeping under 8 blankets! ! ! It was even colder then than the previous week. Anyway I feel that the main thought behind this gathering: TV unity got a good push forward. I hope that this was just the beginning of an even closer sense of "belonging together" a funny reaction was reg- istered among some of our NY TV's. Wonder if others experienced the same. Gail reports that 2 days after the Halloween weekend, the urge to dress became even stronger in many of our friends..she asks: could it be that the presence of Drs. Pomeroy and Beigel made dressing seem more natural and respectable? May be she's right.

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And this is all for now. I'll be around in the next issue with more gossip from NY. As ever,

SUSANNA VALENTI

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