TELEVISION: This Is Your Wife?

Having run through every faded actress still able to cry on cue. Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life, probably the most sickeningly sentimental show on the air, lately turned to ordinary people as subjects for its weekly, treacly "true-to-life" biographies. During the Mother's Day season last May, the program presented a portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Hahn a Queens housewife and mother, devoted to her husband and so dedicated to her children that she had worked as a chambermaid, waitress and cook to further their education and keep them off the streets.

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