Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 114

3 she or she? JJsLckiols Like the energetic and imaginative Mr Gleason it's fabulous flamboyant built for work and play A i I Ik 4 When a man apikoatiiks the twilight years or an active life he often feels that he ought to settle down a bit take things more slowly and contemplate the problem of what he will do with the time left to him He likes to buy a small patch of land somewhere fairly close to the metropolis where he conducts his affairs build a modest house on it and sit on the veranda in the evenings with Rood friends and a glass of good wine Something of the kind was in the back or the mind ot Jackie Gleason when he built Round Rock his fantastic new house near Peeks- kill New York Also in his mind it must be said was a desire to make it a house to fit his which means that it is' flamboyant house an exuberant house possibly one of the most rambunctious roistering houses ever built One expects it to take off any minute and fly to New York for it looks more like an outer-space craft than it tines a house It consists mainly of a huge dome that might have been designed by some arrhitect or the 25th century til is the creation of Silverman and Cika or New York who also co-ordinated the const met ion I About a hundred yards away from if sits a smaller dome that resembles a frozen-custard stand Gleason calls this building woodshed and storeroom -The Saucer He refers to the huge main structure as The Mother Ship About 211 yards from "Mother- is the old conventional house that was on the property when Gleason invaded it Gkason calls it The Ilarraeks No one not even Gleason himself knows exactly how much the big house exist "He can't count that high" says his friend Toots Shor the former salnnnkerix'r and present idler former manager Ilullets Durgom who is still a good friend wrinkks his immaculate scalp and rolls his eyes up toward it when he considers the money Gleason has shoveled info the place A conservative estimate I'm told is somcwlicre In- -tween $Hi flISM) and Sfi75fNiO If this soumls like conspicuous consumption which it most emphatically ka-s it ought to In remembered that Gleason carries on much of his business in the house and eventually plans to telecast from there to do some filming for television and imssbly make a feature-length motion picture liefore flic agents of the Internal Revenue Service have rubbed all the skin off their scaly (mi I ins it (Night to lie mentioned too that Gleason plans to give some parties in the house some lor the pormxes of buxine and sonic for I he purposes of ax lie Nits it getting hugged color so natural only her hairdresser knows for sure! CREME look at hoc -always so trash and sunny so beau tifully casual Yet much of her fresh appeal is in the radiant tone of her hair its shining quality and silky touch So she never leaves this important feature of her beauty to chance but relies on Miss Clairol So quick and easy why should she -or any woman -ever let gray or fading hair age her looks or dim her outlook! I' cuuaoL if ft I vmiss Hairdressers all over the world recommend and always use Miss Clairol They like the soft ladylike tone and know its automatic color timing achieves the perfect color every time And Miss Clairol really covers gray But best of all they like the way it conditions the hair keeps it silky lively natural-looking With results so sure try Miss Clairol yourself Today Takes only minutes miSS CLAIROL HAIR COLOR BATH nsmtjmmu MORE WOMEN USB MISS CLAIROL THAN ALL OTHER A I KC'OUlM INC COMHINKI)4 Tha American December 1959 Tagggggy why a widow refuses insurance far The Life Year Cert.