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>And if Draper is concealing a wife and kiddies in the 'burbs, I hope to find out how he's managed to do so while rising to the heights of Mad Ave. I thought a Sweet Wifey and 2.4 Adorable Tykes were the keys to the kingdom for execs in the 50s.<
Draper isn't concealing his wife and kids. He's playing that time-honored, still-played game of "country wife, city spice." He's got the Sweet Wifey in 'Burbs to hold down the domesticity fort and give him a respectable front--and Sexy-Career-Woman in City to get loose wit' and really talk to. Like many men of that era, he's getting to have it both ways. Though it's already looking like SCW knows the score and refuses to let him turn her into Second-Wifey--and that SWIB is gonna be realizing real soon she's the living embodiment of that awful 60's song, "Wives and Lovers" (which features the immortal advice-to-wives, "Day after day, there are girls at the office and the men will always be men, Don't stand him up, with your hair still in curlers, you may not see him again.") :)
