Early Life
At the age of two, her family moved to Kasson, Minnesota. In 1937, she graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in English. She got a job as a copy editor in Minnesota. Every week she wrote commercials, a daily half-hour woman's show, a weekly half-hour theater show, a weekly farm news program, three 10-minute plays, and two 5-minute sketches. She continued to work on her ideas for Ethel and Albert as she moved from radio station to radio station.
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