mother worked for eleanor roosevelt at wgbh which was then in its infancy, public television was in its infancy, national education and television was the primitive version where in this story one half generation away -- or for 5 years from another tall, powerful woman arising in pioneer fashion on educational television named julia child from cambridge, massachusetts but right now, 1959, eleanor roosevelt decided she would have a one hour per month seminar like show that would be filled at brandeis which she cared about, she was on the board, was a perfect studio and there were cables and plywood, platforms running all the way through the theater part of the auditorium and the show, my mother's job was to prepare the script, to pick from her closet one of five identical broadway like dresses, more like washday addresses. she was simple in her presentation on the show and picking which address would be this month to go over the script she had prepared with paul noble, the other producer and in this period, four years old when i went one day to the studio and remember it is among my earliest memories. the impressio