"SUSANNA SAYS..."

The Season for parties is over-- what a shame! The gang blossomed out despite foul weather, icy stre- ets and vicious winds... but who cares!

A very nice get-together at Joan's in New Jersey was perhaps the highlight of the Season along these Eastern shores. Everybody who was anybody in skirts showed up. A good number of wives added that gorgeous GG touch to the proceedings. One of them arrived carrying a my- sterious basket, and within it? A baby! A real, non- synthetic, bundle of wonders. Explanation: no baby- sitter! How the crowd loved it. The mother said that never had a baby enjoyed such a large audience at for- mula time. The more daring TV's experienced that wonderful sensation of holding a baby in their arms. I must say they all knew how to hold it, which shows that they either had had babies of their own, or had been practicing with a doll at home. The big question of the evening was: did the baby read anybody? I thou - ght I saw a sardonic grin on the little one's face a coup- le of times, followed by a gurgle which had a highly suspicious lilt. But again it could have been just part of my guilty feelings... (did I say guilty?) The troub- le is that I have been hearing and reading too many debates on the nature, causes and cure of TVism)

But let's continue observing this party.. Some TV's were attracted like a magnet to the sofa where all the wives had chosen to sit, in a gesture of self- protect on perhaps, or still better, to give each other strength. By sheer accident I am sure, that sofa was situated in the most strategic place of the living room- and at times I felt that it was the stage of a large the- ater. It was not the GG's who did the watching of the play, but the reverse, they were the actresses and we were all watching them-- always wondering how they felt-- desperately trying to guess what thoughts really

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