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PRECIOUS METAL ! That's what tin is today.
Postwar demands for tin far exceed the sup-
ply. According to Government authorities, it
may be months before tin will be shipped to
this country from the great mines in the Malay
States formerly controlled by the Japanese.
This means that the "tin mines" which are
now available to America are in the kitchens
of America . . . your kitchen!
HOW TO B£ 4 TIN MtHER iff YOOR OWN KiTCHiN
^\erf time you empty a can of precious Dole Pineapple, or Watch your daily papers for the announcement when tin any other product—save that can. The tin on it is so vitally cans will be collected. Then, don't forget to have your cans needed that every can must be turned in for salvage. ready — washed, delabeled, flattened — for your collector. DECEMBER, 1945 VOL. 25, NO. 1
CONTENTS
THE GLORY OF IT 19 A Leave It to the Girls Story . avoid crowds when you have a cold. Not only do you expose THANKSGIVING DAY WITH BACHELOR'S CHILDREN 22 yourself to other germs, you ex- pose other people to yours! If you must be near others, use absorbent FALSE DREAMS 26 Sitroux Tissues for protection. The way back to Kel's arms wasn't easy
TO THE END OF THE JOURNEY 28 Part Two of a John J. Anthony Problem
THE RIGHT TO HAPPINESS—IN LIVING PORTRAITS 31
ALL OUR TOMORROWS 36 A My True Story Romance
I ... eat the right foods! Have UNSEEN ENEMY 40 » plenty of citrus fruit in the house Dr. Jim Brent warns against Rheumatic Fever —oranges, grapefruit, lemons. Get plenty of rest, too. Avoid draughts, TO BE REALLY YOURS 42 especially when sleeping. A Stars Over Hollywood Story
"MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL" 46 The Love Story of Danny Thomas
LADY LUCK—SONG OF THE MONTH 48
FOR CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS—KATE SMITH'S COOKING PAGE 50
ADDED ATTRACTIONS
. . use absorbent Sitroux Tissues for "overblown" noses! They're FACING THE MUSIC by Ken Alden 4 kind to tender skin—more sani- tary, because you can so easily COAST COAST by Dale Banks 8 dispose of them! Saves laundry WHAT'S NEW FROM TO bills, too. (Use sparingly, don't * waste Sitroux. ) Cover Girl by Eleanor Harris 14
Sweet Sleep 16
Inside Radio 51
ON THE COVER—Harriet Hilliard. of CBS's Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Color Portrait by Salvatore Consentino, Yalcour Studios. Miss Hilliard's suit and muff, a "Capri Original", New York.
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DINAH SHORE is having some tough luck. Last season her dad died. Now comes word that her father-in-law passed away. FACIE * * * It looks as though dusky Thelma Carpenter, who used to sing with Count Basie, will join Eddie Cantor's air show, succeeding Nora Martin. the * * * Baritone Bob Graham has been signed for the Fanny Brice show. * * * Ethel Smith, attractive swing or- ganist, has married film actor Ralph
Bellamy . . . Gorgeous canary Mary Ashworth and bandleader Ted Steele are continuing the friendship started By on the NBC cigarette show. KEN ALDErV * * * The Merry Macs are celebrating their tenth year of successful harmonies. Judd and Ted McMichael are still the original co-founders of the team. Younger brother, Joe, gave his life in the service of his country and Lynn Allen has replaced him. The distaff side of the group is represented by titian-haired Virginia Rees. * * * Those who know are predicting a bright future for blonde singer Kay Vernon. Bedridden for many years, Kay fully recovered and launched her- self on a singing career. * * # Frank Sinatra will get $11,500 a week when he plays New York's Paramount theater shortly. * * * unbeatable verve Wall Jack Benny's singer, Larry Stevens, The married his schoolday sweetheart, Bar- and style of the Dick n bara Williams. Haymes-Helen Forrest appe * * * singing combination RCA-Victor has come up with a new unbreakable record as its post-war con- make wonderful music tribution to platter fans. the weekly Colum- for treat * * * bia Dick Haymes Show, Dick Kollmar, leading man on a dozen soap operas and a Broadway Saturdays at 8:00 P.M. LlMl When you wash your hair
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theatrical producer, is trying to get tenor Kenny Baker for his new musical show, "Slightly Perfect." I got a pre- view of the score written by veteran Harry Revel and there are several po- tential Hit Parade tunes in it. Evelyn Knight, fresh from a South American triumph, has replaced Marion Hutton on that CBS perfume show. Swooner, Western Style The raw-boned rancher was giving his young son some sound advice and it had nothing to do with corrals, dogies, or branding. He had to cup his hand firmly around his mouth, because the noise was like the whining of a thousand cats. All around the pair were serious-faced fiddle-playing mountaineers, mostly grizzled natives, tuning up for the annual fiddlin' con- test of Roswell, New Mexico. "Now listen to me, son," the father said, "I've been teachin' you fiddle playin' since you were knee high and I aim to have one of us win this here contest. Don't do nothin' fancy." For hours an almost endless array of violinists plucked away. But when OOH! DOMESTIC CRISIS! the last mountain Menuhin had finished, there was no question about the winner. Sue was furious at Tom for the way tor straightened hereout. "It's foolish Twelve-year-old Dott Curt Massey he'd been treating her. But she was to risk your marriage happiness by copped the $50 prize. really to blame! She should have being careless about feminine hy- Two important things came out of this memorable violin victory. The known better, for she was no stranger giene—even once!" he said. Then he winner decided on a musical career, to feminine hygiene. It was just that advised her to use Lysol disinfectant and at this writing it is in full nourish. she had become neglectful! Her doc- for douching— always. Curt Massey, swooner, western style, is a CBS network and Columbia Record- ing favorite. Curt dropped his strange first name of Dott, when it caused him great em- barrassment, during his radio debut on a small New Mexico radio station. With voice change, Curt switched to Kansas City, was soon conducting a dance band in that city's largest ball- room. Since the time he won the fiddle- playing competition, Curt had sharp- ened up his musical abilities with a course in harmony and voice technique at K.C.'s Horner Conservatory of Music. It was while leading the band that he met his wife, Edythe. She was danc-
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Heavenly is the word for Sue and proved germ-killer cleanses, yet how Tom's home life now! Wise Sue im- gently! Lysol is far more dependable mediately took her doctor's advice. than salt, soda, or other homemade
Always, she uses Lysol for douching . . solutions. "What's more," says Sue, knows for herself how thoroughly this "it's easy to use— economical, too!"
deeply into folds easy directions. Check these facts with your Doctor and Cleanly crevices to search out odor — disappears after Proper feminine hygiene germs. Proved germ-killer use; deodorizes. More uniform strength, care is important to the — made women use Lysol for continued labora- happiness and charm of under feminine hygiene than tory control . . . far every woman. So, douche any other method. (For more dependable than thoroughly with correct homemade solutions. FREE feminine hygiene Lysol solution . . . al- Non-caustic — Lysol booklet, write ways! Powerful cleanser — douching solution is non- Lehn & Fink, 683 Lysol's great spreading irritating, not harmful to Fifth Ave., New power means it reaches vaginal tissues. Follow York 22, N.Y.)
Copyright, iy46, by Lehn & 1-ink Products Corp. Lovely Jeri Sullavan sings to For Feminine Hygiene use always! Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore each Friday on their CBS show. ing on the floor and he was swinging the baton. Curt eyed the attractive girl, said to himself, "That's for me!" Curt climbed off the bandstand and cut in. He did some very fast talking. *TkQd "You are very fresh, Mr. Massey," Edythe snapped. But Curt knew twenty-four hours h later he had made a permanent con- quest. Edythe was back in the ball- \
BETTY HUTTON (Capitol) Nail Accepted for advertising In publications of the American Medical Association down the carpets and close the j Richard Hudnut Salon Fifth Ave., York, N. Y. windows or La Hutton's exuber- I Dept. SZ-8, 693 New r* Guaranteed by w ance may cause your neighbors the telling all about the Housekeeping^ I Please send booklet ; Good to complain. "Doin' It The Hard j DuBarry Home Success Course. Way" is the appropriate title for the "A" side. Toned down on the Miss reverse, Betty turns on the nos- Mrs- talgic "What Do You Want to With your Course you re- Make Those Eyes For" just as she I Address- ceive this Chest containing does it in "Incendiary Blonde." j a generous supply of Du- J Barry Beauty and Make-up I City State- Preparations for your type, j ____ .
Radio actress Cheer Brent- son becomes exclusively Mrs. Robert Smith during the proud moments when the Lieutenant is around to re- view young Brent's progress.
Everett Mitchell reports on farm events and market conditions for NBC's Na- tional Farm and Home Hour.
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IT'S a long cry from these blustery- ably never did stop to think about, as days of December, but we like the a matter of fact—you're all wrong. story Patrice Munsel tells about Gene Wang, who writes Mutual's her summer vacation in California. She Adventures of the Falcon, says that and her mother stayed at a hotel. his profession is not made up of frus- Whenever her mother wanted Pat- trated Draculas who take their blood rice, she would send a bellboy to find vicariously. her. One day he came to the swimming "In fact," he says, "we're a timid lot. pool and announced seriously, "'Miss Though we tend to pile body on body, Munsel, your car is waiting." I've known cases where the mere sight Patrice was puzzled, because she of borscht made a writer sick." knew she wasn't supposed to go any- Asked why he thinks mystery writers where. In fact, she'd just gone down choose that particular form of expres- for a swim while she waited for her sion, he says it's because it's a way to singing teacher to turn up. Thinking make a living, and a pretty good one, of that, Patrice said, "You're sure my at that. mother didn't say that my coach was "For some unknown reason," Gene waiting?" grinned, "boy meets body pays off The bellboy grinned, "Yeah," he said, much better than boy meets girl." "that's what she said, but that's too • • * highfalutin' for me." Marion Loveridge is growing up fast * * * these days. She's also finding that In case you've ever harbored any there's a lot to learn about life, even notions that people who write mystery after you've done some growing up. All ABCs One Mans Fami- of stories and, especially, mystery radio Not long ago, Marion found herself ly is proud of Cadet Nurse shows are working off hidden phobias with a couple of free hours and decided Teddy (actress Winifred Wolfe) and sadistic instincts—which you prob- (Continued on page 10) —
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you want to make Cover Girl Har- IFriet Hilliard laugh heartily, just ask her the timeworn question, "Do you think marriage and careers mix?" "Of course I do," she would tell you, *-'a "because mine are one and the same thing. Without my career I'd never have met my husband—and without my a husband I wouldn't have had the career eoch^ e,. . . . to say nothing sons!" ToP 0UQU ^^ about our two ^ Neither the career nor the marriage would ever have happened, though, if Mother Nature hadn't arranged a cloud- burst thunderstorm one day back in 1932, while Orchestra Leader Ozzie BATH ACCESSORIES Nelson was playing the town of Des Moines, Iowa. At the time of the deluge, Ozzie had nothing on his mind but buying his mother a present. He in- stantly dodged into the nearest door- way for cover—the doorway being that of a movie theater. Once he'd estab- lished that, he bought a ticket and went inside to see the movie. It happened forftiaf to be a Rudy Vallee short subject, and acting in it was the prettiest girl Ozzie had ever seen in his life. She was a luscious five feet five, she weighed 110 frfyfit Future pounds, her hair was a soft brown and her eyes gray-green. Her name, of course, was Harriet Hilliard. "That girl," he announced aloud in vffows the darkness to the surprised theater- goers of Des Moines, "is the girl singer I need for my band!"—and ran right TELL HIM YOU WANT A. out into the storm again to reach the nearest phone booth and track the girl down. He did, although once tracked down, Harriet needed some convincing
appearing IS before she signed up. "But I've never sung!" she protested. "JUNIOR MISS?/ "That I can teach you—and what I'm really after is a girl to exchange comedy lines with me before the band," Ozzie argued. At the time this had never been done before, and Harriet finally agreed to make the great experiment. Only, however, after Ozzie had solemnly promised her, "Don't worry about working all hours with a band-full of men. I'll make sure that everything is strictly business. Strictly!" We will fade out on this earnest speech and fade in again three years later on October 8th, 1935—where we see Harriet Hilliard and Ozzie Nelson standing in the Nelson family living- ivvtk <\T-vvtwx£ room in Hackensack, New Jersey, say- ing "I do." Then we will fade out again and fade in now, which is ten years later. We see a charming white Wil- liamsburg Colonial house set in spacious gardens in Hollywood, California. In- 14 ! !
Sunday night company for CBS listeners — Harriet Hilliard and Ozzie Nelsons Adventures are written by Ozzie himself.
side the house live Harriet and Ozzie and their two handsome sons, David Ozzie Nelson (aged 8) and Eric Hilliard
Nelson (aged 5) . . . and there is no more entrancing home in Hollywood. Her career and marriage continued to be entangled from the moment she became Mrs. Nelson—for she sang with Ozzie's band the night after their wedding, in New York City; and the next day she left for Hollywood (alone) to make her first movie, Follow the Fleet. She was back with him in \AaA\mm, shell love three months; and since then she's made many movies—Coconut Grove, Boston Blackie, Honeymoon Lodge, The Falcon, and many more . . . but always when a Kromex Kifcover Ozzie was in Hollywood too. For her main interest still centers around one Ozzie Nelson both the — man THE KROMEX KAKOVER* has a positive cover, it's a perfect gift. Be sure to insist and the radio program he fathered. genius for keeping cakes deliriously fresh on genuine KROMEX. When she's not actually rehearsing or playing in the program with him, she's longer! Here's one gift any homemaker Wherever housewares and gifts are sold. Christmas list will be delighted busy doing things around him—like on your Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. repainting the porch furniture (which to put right to work Only the KROMEX Kakover* changes color every couple of months, has the grooved plate that SHE'LL LOVE THE WAY the cover fits into thus completely bewildering the three forms a "lock" with the cover Nelson men in her life). Or else she's the groove of the plate, because this to keep the cake freshness in. trying to put over her favorite food, exclusive KROMEX feature "locks" the It's a KROMEX feature smart chicken a la king, just home-makers swear by! once more this moisture in and the air out. Naturally, week as dinner—while the Three Men her cakes will stay oven-fresh longer protest vigorously! Or else she's roar- ing advice to a football team, sitting NOT FOR HER the bothersome shift to a in the bleachers with her husband and serving plate. Smartly patterned glass two sons who are also roaring—because Kromex makes the stunning KROMEX plate. once Ozzie was Rutgers' prize football ENDUR.INC1I BEAUTIFUI. player, back in the dim days when he And it's footed for easy handling. Topped thought he was going to be a lawyer off with the handsome, polished aluminum Cleveland 15, Ohio instead of a band leader. 15 .
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A GIRL like gorgeous Marion trick. As you lie there, start writing TOHutton, featured singer, heaven is down on a mental blackboard each de- a place where you can spend a half mon-sleep-stealing thought ALSO FAMOUS ROGER & GALLET PERFUME that comes hour getting ready for bed with lights to you. But as fast as you write down DRY PERFUME • LIP ADE • TOILET SOAP out at 9 P.M. Though she loves her a word, erase it, so that the sentence whirlwind life appearing in movies, on is never completed. For some it works the stage, in radio, making records and better than counting sheep and isn't singing with bands, Marion wishes she so monotonous. had more time to sleep. The quality of your sleep influences Most of us do these busy days! For the benefits you get from it, as much there's nothing like sleep to give us as the quantity does. Popping yourself back our sense of humor, erase worry, determinedly into bed at nine-thirty sharpen our wits and start a new day of a night doesn't necessarily insure right. As for your looks, your skin all the rest you need. Even if you do never seems clearer or your eyes manage to fall asleep instantly, your brighter than after a good night's rest. sleep may be fitful and broken—par- But there's more to sweet sleep than ticularly if you're a city dweller, by tucking in with windows open and street noises, late-home-comers, noctur- lights out. There's the getting ready nal singers (and if you're a city dweller for bed that's so important as prelude trying to sleep in the country home, to another day. you'll be as much disturbed by the No matter how tired you are, says gentle rural sounds of frog and cricket Marion, it's beauty heresy to go to bed and splashing waterfall) before you've brushed the day's dust There are all sorts of mechanical from your hair, removed all make-up devices worked out to give light and and brushed your teeth well. Do at fitful sleepers a better chance. Try least that much. But do more if you've a black mask over your eyes, that will time. Go through some figure-improv- shut out any fugitive light-rays and ing exercises. Or take a wonderful close you into a black void in which relaxing bath, scented and softened you can't do anything but sleep. with your favorite bath salts or oil. If it's noises you're sensitive to, try While you loll in the tub with cream a pair of efficient ear-plugs. on your face, you might work on the Then there is the matter of the pil- cuticle around ringer and toe nails. low. It works both ways, Miss Hutton Afterwards, apply lotion all over your has decided. That is, suppose you're body for, with cooler days ahead, your a with-pillow sleeper. Comes the night, skin needs this softening follow-up. and you can't sleep. All right—just Pin up your curls tonight if they need this once, try it without the pillow. it and cover them with a froth of soft And if you're a without-pillow sleep- colored veiling tied in a pretty bow er, vice versa. It works! atop your head. Since sleep consumes A glass of warm milk at bedtime almost a third of our lives, looking helps too. Or you might sit up in bed, pretty for the occasion is a fine idea, in the dark, and do this exercise: Drop indeed. your chin to your chest and rotate your But sometimes sleep eludes you just head backwards and around to the when you need and want sleep most. front. Done two or three times, it may You lie and toss and think of things you make you a little dizzy but will prob- wish you had or hadn't said today. You ably also make you sleep. Or try con- H write imaginary letters. You review sciously to breathe slowly and deeply HI the upsets of the day or worry about as you do when you're actually asleep. things that will probably never happen. It's relaxing and gives the come-hither Copyright 1945< Inlernotionol Silver Co., Holmes & Edwards DfVM Lid If you really want to sleep, here's a to the Sandman. Meriden,Conn.lnConoaa:TheT.EotonCo. ( °Reo.U.S.Pat.Olf. 16 *8T
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This story was inspired by a letter received by Leave It To a ride to camp. I stopped for him, as I had done for always hungry. The Girls, MBS's Roundtable of Romance, produced by Martha Rountree. Broadcast time is 9:00 P. M.. EST, on Saturdays. / roulcl not believe it. It was like some miraculous reprieve that I laid not dared hope for. Al •v -*.> 10 i k\* } f - r Yi -*ai /.-i this for you. Please God, some day you will under- a ride to camp. I stopped for him, as I had done for always hungry. (And later 1 could explain to my stand. It's only fair to release you now: If you came dozens of other boys who were training at the big "gang" why I had not met them up in the canyon. me. I'd home knowing the truth you would never leave Army Air Base just a few miles away. But when he think of something!) You are too loyal, too wonderful: And you would got in beside me something queer happened to my Bob said, "Chocolate cake! You made it? Golly!" try to pretend that the same. But breathing everything was that had never happened before. He was But I don't think either of us was very conscious of oh, the tall my dearest, it would not be. Not after what and sandy-haired, and he had a kind of shy smile what we ate. We were too excitingly aware of each doctor told me. So this is goodbye that started at his blue eyes and spread infectiously. other. Bob did not say any of the things boys usually place Very carefully I put the picture back in its "You're Kit Folger," he said. And his grin widened said. He had no "lines." He did not call me Little and finished the letter. Then I went out to mail it, at my surprise. "I saw you at the dance last Saturday Brown Bombshell like the bombardier had the night swiftly, before I could follow the thundering urge out at the Base." before, or say anything about getting his "sights" on of my heart and tear it into a million pieces. We looked at each other and I felt a warm glow my grey eyes. He made no personal remark what- road It was beginning to grow dark as I took the inside me as if a candle had been lit. Even my old ever. And yet I knew the attraction was there, that away from town that led to the canyon. I could not rattletrap of a car seemed to enter into the conspiracy he was feeling what I felt. bear to face mother and. dad just then, with their to help us know each other quickly. The engine started Four months later we were married, in the Post as gentle pity and the worried look in their eyes sputtering and Bob climbed out to fix it. "Don't worry," chapel, standing before an altar banked with the wild he they watched me. I had lived most of my life m reassured me. "I've tinkered with these things all flowers I loved so. There was something sacred and A peacetime prayer that all our hearts will echo warm kitchen smelled gently THEof Thanksgiving. It was an enticing odor, nostalgic and indefinable, and Janet Ryder, com- ing in with Ruth Ann and Ellen, stopped in the middle of the floor and sniffed delightedly. "What is it?" she said. "What is it about Thanksgiving that makes it smell like itself and not like any other time? It can't be the turkey—we have turkey for Christmas. It can't be just the cran- berries. It—it's something special, something— Ellen walked over to the table that held the four covered pans. She raised the spotless dish towel * and pursed her lips. "I don't know," she said as if she had no time for such philosophiz- ing, "but I do know that if these rolls aren't ready for baking, Thanksgiving dinner's going to be late." Ruth Ann came and stood beside her. "They look fine. Risen just enough, Ellen." Then she smiled warmly at her sister. "I'll take the cranberries out of the molds, dear, if you'll see about the table." Janet smiled back. Ruth Ann always understood. She would be willing to bet that Ellen had been worrying about those, rolls at intervals all morning, as they , had driven into church and back. As if Ellen's rolls weren't always practically perfect! Janet went on into the diningroom with its long table already set; all that rjemained was to arrange the autumn t leaves in the center. Mentally she counted off the places: Dr. Bob at the head, Ruth Ann his wife at the foot, Ellen, the four children, her husband, Sam, and herself up and down the sides. A big family, she thought hap- pily. Now if she put the biggest 22 . I Waiting tes eagerly as the children for the feast to begin are Ruth Anw (Marjorie Hannan) , Janet (Patricia Dunlap), Dr. Bob (Hugh Stiidebaker) , Ellen (Hellen Van Tuyl), Sam (Olan Soule) I i?Ai " warm kitchen smelled gently THEof Thanksgiving. It was an enticing odor, nostalgic and indefinable, and Janet Ryder, com- ing in with Ruth Ann and Ellen, stopped in the middle of the floor and sniffed delightedly. "What is it?" she said. "What is it about Thanksgiving that makes it smell like itself and not like any other time? It can't be the turkey—we have turkey for Christmas. It can't be just the cran- berries. It—it's something special, something— Ellen walked over to the table that held the four covered pans. She raised the spotless dish towel * and pursed her lips. "I don't know," she said as if she had no time for such philosophiz- ing, "but I do know that if these rolls aren't ready for baking, Thanksgiving dinner's going to be late." Ruth Ann came and stood beside her. "They look fine. Risen just enough, Ellen." Then she smiled warmly at her sister. "I'll take the cranberries out of the molds, dear, if you'll see about the table." Janet smiled back. Ruth Ann always understood. She would be willing to bet that Ellen had been worrying about those, rolls at intervals all morning, as they, had driven into church and back. As if Ellen's rolls weren't always practically perfect! Janet went on into the diningroom with its long table already set; all that remained was to arrange the autumn i leases in the center. Mentally she' counted off the places: Dr. Bob at the head, Ruth Ann his wife at the foot, Ellen, the four children, her husband, Sam, and herself up and down the sides. A big family, she thought hap- pily. Now if she put the biggest 22 — " branches of autumn leaves in the cen- of them were hers and she belonged ules were interrupted. They could nap ter low enough so they wouldn't get to all of them. It was a pattern that later. in the way of everybody seeing each went deeply into her life, and made And then, quite suddenly from no- other, and then trailed the smaller ones her rich. where, she was seeing again a news- out toward the corners. . . . And Janet stopped quite still for a paper picture. A picture of children It was true what she'd been think- moment, alone there in the dining- like hers, hungry children. Only these ing about Thanksgiving. It had its own room, and feit her heart overflow with had been hungry for a long, long time. unique flavor, centering around the thanks. . . . They'd been bombed, too, and orphaned kitchen. It wasn't just the dinner it- In the kitchen, Ellen bent down to —many of them. They'd been made self—not the pies, apple, lemon and look at the turkey in the oven. "It's a homeless and alone, They were Eu- mince, baked yesterday and now re- nice bird," she said with satisfaction. rope's children and China's, and all posing on the pantry shelves. It wasn't "Fourteen pounds, and tender. Those the others. the lusciousness of the sweet potatoes people down the road we bought it But they could have, been her own. with marshmallows on top, nor the from said it would be." Oh, so easily they could have been celery crisping in the ice box, nor the "Yes," Ruth Ann said. "They're nice Barbara and Jimmy and Bobby and preserves or pickles. It was—well, people. They'll be good neighbors." Mary Ann. She felt an impulse to run what? . Ellen pulled herself up. "You know, out after them and grab them fiercely From the yard outside, she heard I thought we'd be lonely out here but, to her to reassure herself that they the voices of the youngsters, her own maybe I was wrong. People can be were safe, they were here, they would Mary Ann, Dr. Bob, and Ruth Ann's really friendly, for all they live so far soon be fed and put warmly to bed. Jimmy, Bobby and Barbara. Bobby's apart. . . . Now those rolls," she said She pushed back the impulse and, in- was the loudest. "I'll show you. I'll worriedly. stead, she said aloud: show you how to do it," he was telling "They're fine, Ellen. Really. Just "Thank God." the others. As the oldest boy he as- ready to be put in." Then, as Ellen looked inquiringly sumed his male prerogative of knowing "If they haven't risen too much. And at her, she went on, "I was just think- the only way to do things. It didn't mat- with a strange oven— ing of all the children not like ours ter that Barbara was exactly his age, She'd been against moving out here and of the parents who have suffered and Mary Ann practically so, Jimmy, to the farm from the first, she remem- so for those children. Oh, Ellen, don't two-going-on-three, was too young to bered. It would be inconvenient and let's ever forget about those others. count. Janet laughed tenderly. lonely and the house, being old, hard- Let's not be too smug and safe at not er to take care of. Not that Ellen being really hurt by the war. Let's i~kVER across the field, she could minded work. But she wasn't as young not forget the ones who were—ever." ^ see Sam and Dr. Bob heading as she used to be. Just now, stooping "Yes," Ellen said soberly, "let's put slowly for the orchard. The doctor was over to look in at the turkey, she'd our gratitude to work." undoubtedly showing Sam just what realized she didn't have the agility or That was it, Ruth Ann thought. Feel- he intended to do to improve the farm. the energy of several years ago. But ing gratitude was not enough. You had It was in rundown condition, and there then, one did get older and there was to put the gratitude to work, both here was a lot to be done. She could almost nothing to do about it. And as for the and far away. This had to be a Thanks- hear what they were saying, deciding extra work, why should she mind giving that really meant something. what was to be done first, what put that • when they were all so generous And her eyes slowly filled with off till next year. and so kind? tears. ... And suddenly, her fingers busy with They were her family—all of them. Sam Ryder walked slowly through the scarlet leaves, Janet knew about No matter about the few misunder- the orchard with Dr. Bob. They stopped Thanksgiving. It was the homey things standings and the many changes that occasionally, examining a tree, talking —her sister and Ellen in the kitchen had come since she first became Dr. over the best spray to be used in the busy with the familiar ritual of food, Bob's housekeeper. Her family had Spring, envisioning the crop they could it was the sense of being surrounded just grown—that's all. From Dr. Bob expect. Then they'd stroll on, in si- by one's loved ones, hearing the shrill alone, it had grown to include first the lence. It was peaceful here, with the little voices, watching the men plan twins and then Sam Ryder and now bright blue sky and the quiet earth. these were what made it special. It the children, bless them. Yes, bless And their silence, Sam thought, was was because, in giving thanks on this them all, she thought suddenly. Every peaceful, too, and ultimately compan- one day, you grew doubly aware of one of them. ionable. He and Bob Graham had been the preciousness of all these things. All "I'm a lucky, lucky woman," Ellen friends so long, they no longer had said to herself as she put the last pan much need for words. They could of rolls in the oven. ... usually understand each other whether The back door opened and Barbara they talked or not. came running in, her little face flushed Sam looked critically at the trees. with the cold. "Mummy," she said, They all needed pruning. The whole "Mummy, we're getting hungry." place needed a lot of attention. But it "Yes, dear," Ruth Ann said, "I know was wonderful for the children. Won- you are. But you won't have to wait derful for them all. much longer. Dinner will be ready as He looked sidewise at the doctor. soon as Ellen's bread is done. You chil- "There's a lot to be done around here," dren run down to the swing and play he said. "But I'll bet you're rather till we call you." looking forward to it, hard work or Barbara gazed longingly at the cran- not." berries. "We-e-11," she said, reluctantly. Dr. Bob, stopping to knock out his "But we really are hungry." pipe, grinned at his friend. "You're Janet gave her a little pat. "There right. I'm really anxious to get at it. will be lots and lots to eat. And look It's funny—there's something about after Jimmy, won't you, dear? Re- working on a place that's your own, member he's littler and he can't run making it livable and practical and at- as fast as you." tractive. It makes it more your own Of course they were hungry. Prob- somehow. The more you do, the more to you." ably a little tired, too, Ruth Ann re- it belongs trying to This story was inspired by current flected as she watched Barbara run That was what he'd been happenings in CBS's weekday serial out and join the others. A late din- get at, Sam reflected as they walked on. Dr. Bob and have Bachelor's Children, as ner like this interrupted schedules. That was exactly it. For a man to on his family establish themselves But Thanksgiving was important—spe- something that was his, something their new farm. Bachelor's Children, at with honest enjoy- cial, as Janet had said, and they should he could work with original radio script by Bess together, no matter what sched- ment to make it more his own—that Flynn, is heard mornings at 10:45. all be 24 I The new hopefulness of a world at peace is shared by the Grahams as, on this very special Thanksgiving Day, they and their children look toward a brightening future. was what made people happy. It He just said, "Think we'd better be started to run, Sam right behind him. needn't be a farm or a physical place starting back? They'll be calling us They raced up toward the house. all. at It could be a job or a profes- for dinner pretty soon . . . Thanksgiv- They could see Ruth Ann and Ellen, ." sion. It could even be a family. The ing dinner. . . And his face, usually followed by Janet, hurrying out the more you loved them, the more you laughing, was very serious as they back door. Down by the swing, the did for. them, and then the more you turned and started back under the bare children were clustered in a frightened loved them again. It was simple when trees. group. Only one of them was crying you thought of it that way. So simple It was when they came out of the now. That was Jimmy, whose lusty that you wondered a little at yourself orchard and started across the field yells drowned out everything else. for not being more aware of it all the that they heard one of the children Ruth Ann had him in her arms when time. And once seen like that, it was scream. It cut across the clear, quiet the men rushed up. "He fell out of the something to be thankful for with all air like a knife. swing," she said. "It's his knee, I your heart. "That was Barbara!" Dr. Bob cried. think. . . . Hush, darling, Daddy's here He didn't try to put it into words. "Something's happened." And he now." (Continued on page 90) 25 / took the combs out, and we laughed as my hair cascaded down. " — " — Eagerly, lovingly, Nancy fashioned a home to welcome her husband into warmth and happiness. She made it a beautiful place. But she forgot to look at it through her husband's eyes PLUMPED up the sofa cushions, my fingers "Why, Kel Dwight!" My voice sounded high. cold, niy mind spinning. Always before, in I laughed a little. "Kel, you look—" He looked I this room, to do any .little task of house -wifery marvelous! Newly brown, so strong! There was thrilled me. But not now. I looked around, as a stronger set to his lean jaw, a new confidence though I were in a strange house. The pictures in his eyes. I remembered then that Kel had were still there—the pictures I'd chosen myself. always been a little shy. As though, because he The rug was still lovely underfoot, glowing rose worked so much harder than other boys, because and green. The wing chair by the window, the his father was the railroad watchman at the gate, small tables, the brightly-shaded lamps. This and didn't make enough money for a too-big room breathed ease and beauty. Just what I'd family, he didn't feel sure of himself. wanted, everything I'd dreamed of. And worked That was all changed now! Being with other for, and saved for, and bought piece by piece, men, getting out of the narrowness of Cloverdale after so much planning and shopping and careful, had done something to Kel. I stared up at him, careful thinking. and even my wrists were pulsihg now "Kel, Every night, coming home from the plant, this you—golly, it's nice seeing you!" beauty warmed the weariness from me. This room "Nice enough to forget whatever you Were was like a symbol, a prophecy. Balm and peace, hurrying for and come and have a cup of coffee and a sort of atonement for the loneliness that with me? Come on!" walked with me, because Kel was overseas. When He steered me inside, and across the table his Kel and I were married, three years ago, who'd brown eyes—leafy brown, with red lights ever have dared to dream a home of ours could looked at me in this new, different way. "You be like this? might have dropped the draftee a card," he said. That's what I'd written him, proudly, the day "I kept thinking about you. Funny." I bought the first chair. "It's wonderful, darling. I hadn't thought about him. I'd hardly even After the fighting, it'll seem like heaven to you! noticed he was gone. I said quickly, "Well, I Oh, I can't wait for the long, peaceful evenings, didn't know— for the time together here at home!" And he finished, laughing, but somehow sober You see, when Kel and I were married, we had underneath, "You didn't know I was going to get nothing but our love. We were so young! My some steel in my spine—and start reaching out mother said uneasily, "Can't you wait, Nancy?" for what I've always wanted!" She knew I loved Kel—she guessed by my He told me about the camp, and the men he starry eyes, the blood coming and going in my served with. He even told me he'd be sent over, face when he was near, how it was with me. soon. "That's why this furlough," he explained. And Kel with his dark red curls, his big shoul- "And my dad—I guess you heard?" ders, the tiny, teasing smile that could widen, as Ashamed, I admitted I'd heard vaguely that his he touched me, into a steady, worshipping ex- father had been ill. pression—who could doubt that Kel loved me Harshly, Kel said, "He died. That's what I was as wonderfully as I loved him? doing on Main Street, at supper time." He "But you're only eighteen, Nancy," Mother said finished, "But it was three months ago—he was worriedly. "And Kel's in the Army— old, and tired. He was always swell to me, I'll We'd known each other all our lives. But some- never forget him. But I figure this way he won't how, maybe because Kel worked in the radio be worrying about me when I'm—overseas." His station after school and didn't take girls to the eyes changed. He reached across the table and movies Saturdays, we hadn't' been especially grabbed my hands so hard they hurt. "Listen, friendly. Then, when he came home on his first Nancy! I won't get hurt. I'm coming back." furlough from the camp in Florida, we ran into Kel asked me to marry him a week later. each other on Main Street. I was trying to buy Against all the rules, I whispered, "Oh, darling, needles for Mother, and it was almost six, and the you didn't have to ask!" It was everything we five-and-ten was out, and there was only the art- had ever dreamed about, to be close, like this. and-knitting shop left. I was hurrying along To see the moon red in the trees as we stood on and someone's big hand closed over my elbow. the porch, to feel the wind on our faces, Kel's "Nan!" a voice boomed. "Forgotten me—or arms -around me, the deep, ecstatic silence as I don't you recognize soldiers?" lifted my lips. (Continued on page 73) 27 ——I " " "" —— — THE STORY: brandy " I moved obediently, sat down, felt the stuff of the chair at my back, MET John Dorn at the USO Center beneath my hands—the corded upholstery in Corona, my home of the Dorns' I town—met him, chair that I hadn't wanted and his best friend Philip Hurst, at the to sit in while I waited for John, because same time. I'd always had a lot of fun I'd thought the Dorns didn't like me. with the boys at ". . the Center, but I'd de- . brandy," John was saying, and I termined—never to be serious about any shook my head, heard my own voice of them "All' soldiers," as I told Philip, faint and far-off, too—saying, "I'm all "have girls back home." But with John right. Only—I don't understand." it was different; somehow, 'I couldn't John sat down on the edge of the bed. maintain my gay, aloof attitude with him. He was facing me directly, but through He did have a girl back home, he told the blackish mist I saw him as a shadow, me—Mary Lou Walters. But he didn't as you see something out of the farthest love her, she didn't love him, and there corner of your eye. "I don't understand, was no sort of understanding between either," he said heavily. "I've been try- them. And so, I fell in love with John ing to remember, trying to make my- Dorn, and he with me. John and Philip self remember, and I can't;— and I had a wonderful time together I swallowed, trying to. down the dizzy those weeks. I learned everything— feeling, trying to clear my head, to see. thought—that there was to know about It was an effort to make my mind follow John; the reason, for instance, that Philip his words. "Remember?" I repeated. "Re- always stayed so close to him: because member what?" John still had spells of temporary am- "The last day I was here when I came nesia as a result of sunstroke he'd had down on furlough. I blacked out that af- overseas. These were periods in which ternoon. I didn't tell you about it because he "blacked out" on hot days, or when I didn't want you to worry— he was 'out in the strong sun for a long That snapped me to attention. The mist time. t l cleared, and the dizzy feeling went away, While he was stationed at Corona, John and could see the room now, the bed got leave for a few days and went home with the tufted cover, the cut-glass jars to see his father and mother and sister on the dresser. I could see John, a Caroline, and Philip went with him. wretched, dazed-looking John. I turned Shortly after they returned to Corona, my eyes past him to the cut-glass jars. It both boys were sent away—John to an- wasn't decent to see him like that, with other relocation center, Philip overseas to the look of a tortured, trapped animal. the Pacific. It was while John was away "Blacked out? What happened, John? I that he called me to tell me that Philip mean, from the beginning— was missing in action. Then V-J Day He drew a deep breath. "I guess that's came, and with it, John's discharge from where I'd better start—from the begin- the Army; he came straight to Corona, ning. I went to see Mary Lou the first saying that he'd had a telegram from his night Philip and I got here . . . left father asking him to get home as quickly Philip to take Caroline to the movies. I as possible. Urgent business, John thought told Mary Lou about you that night, told it must be—he and his father were part- her that I was in love with you and ners. Would I marry him, "John asked wanted to marry you. I've told you be- marry him that very day, and go home fore that I never knew how she felt about with him? me. We'd been good friends, and we'd And so we were married, and went seen a lot of each other until I went to home to meet his family—and were greet- war, but she'd always had a lot of other ed by the family with what seemed to be fellows, too. And even though everyone shock and horror at the news of our mar- took for granted that she was my girl, riage. I was shown to the guest room there'd never been anything sentimental while John talked to his family, and then between us. And that night I told her John came to tell me the tragic news about you—well, if I did mean anything Mary Lou Walters was going to have a special to her, she didn't let me know it. baby. John's baby, she said. As I said, if it was an act, it was a good one. She asked the usual questions—what TT COULDN'T be true. Surely John had you looked like, and how I'd met you, and "• not just said to me, "They expected me when we planned to be married—and she to marry Mary Lou. She's going to have wished me happiness, and that was all a baby. She says it's mine." It was all a there was to it. Mother had planned a bad dream, and I would awake at any party for me the next night, and Mary moment to find myself in my own room Lou came and seemed to have a wonderful back in Corona. At any moment this queer time. I didn't see much of her because blackish mist that covered everything Philip was tagging after her, paying her would fade, and the queer swimmy feel- a lot of attention—you know his way ing inside me would go away, and every- and she seemed to enjoy that, too. Any-, thing would be all right again. way, she was with him the next few nights There was pressure on my arm, on my when we went out with the crowd, and shoulder; from a long way off a voice she seemed perfectly—happy. Then, the John's voice—was saying, "Beth! Beth, last day, she changed please sit down. I'll get you some "Changed? How?" A CASE HISTORY FROM JOHN J. ANTHONYS FILES This story was adapted from one of the recent problems presented on John J. Anthony' s MBS program, heard each weekday at 1 ;45 EST. 28 Too numbed for misery, Beth waits for John's words, the words that will mean the end—or the joyous beginning—of their love # W -»«••% 3£i£ s + #• —I " " "" — down, THE STORY: brandy—" I moved obediently, sat back, felt the stuff of the chair at my the corded upholstery MET John Dom at the USO Center beneath my hands— that I hadn't wanted in Corona, my home town—met him, of the Dorns' chair for John, because I and his best friend Philip Hurst, at the to sit in while I waited Dorns didn't like me. same time. I'd always had a lot of fun I'd thought the and I ". . John was saying, with the boys at the Center, but I'd de- . brandy," own voice- termined never to be serious about any shook my head, heard my too saying, "I'm all of them—"All' soldiers," as I told Philip, faint and far-off, — understand." "have girls back home." But with John right. Only—I don't on the edge of the bed. it was different; somehow, I couldn't John sat down but through maintain my gay, aloof attitude with him. He was facing me directly, as a shadow, He did have a girl back home, he told the blackish mist I saw him me—Mary Lou Waiters. But he didn't as you see something out of the farthest don't understand, love her, she didn't love him, and there corner of your eye. "I "I've been try- was no sort of understanding between either," he said heavily. remember, trying to make my- them. And so, I fell in love with John ing to — Dorn, and he with me. John and Philip self remember, and I can't trying ta down the dizzy and I had a wonderful time together I swallowed, \ clear head, to see. those weeks. I learned everything— feeling, trying to my It was an effort to make my mind follow Too numbed thought—that there was to know about for misery, Beth waits for John's words, the words John; the reason, for instance, that Philip his words. "Remember?" I repeated. "Re- member what?" always stayed so close to him: because that will mean the end—or the I I came joyous beginning— their love John still had spells of temporary am- "The last day was here when of nesia as a result of sunstroke he'd had down on furlough. I blacked out that af- overseas. These were periods in which ternoon. I didn't tell you about— it because he "blacked out" on hot days, or when I didn't want you to worry he was 'out in the strong sun for a long That snapped me to attention. The mist time. cleared, and the dizzy feeling went away, While he was stationed at Corona, John and could see the room now, the bed got leave for a few days and went home with the tufted cover, the cut-glass jars to see his father and mother and sister on the dresser. I could see John, a Caroline, and Philip went with him. wretched, dazed-looking John. I turned Shortly after they returned to Corona; my eyes past him to the cut-glass jars. It both boys were sent away—John to an- wasn't decent to see him like that, with other relocation center, Philip overseas to the look of a tortured, trapped animal. "Blacked out? What happened, John? I the Pacific. It was while John was away — that he called me to tell me that Philip mean, from the beginning was missing in action. Then V-J Day He drew a deep breath. "I guess that's came, and with it, John's discharge from where I'd better start—from the begin- the Army; he came straight to Corona, ning. I went to see Mary Lou the first saying that he'd had a telegram from his night Philip and I got here . . . left father asking him to get home as quickly Philip to take Caroline to the movies. I as possible. Urgent business, John thought told Mary Lou about you that night, told it must be—he and his father were part- her that I was in love with you and I' ners. Would I marry him, 'John asked wanted to marry you. I've told you be- marry him that very day, and go home fore that I never knew how she felt about with him? me. We'd been good friends, and we'd And so we were married, and went seen a lot of each other until I went to home to meet his family—and were greet- war, but she'd always had a lot of other ed by the family with what seemed to be fellows, too. And even though everyone shock and horror at the news of our mar- took for granted that she was my girl, riage. I was shown to the guest room there'd never been anything sentimental while John talked to his family, and then between us. And that night I told her John came to tell me the tragic news about you—well, if I did mean anything Mary Lou Walters was going to have a special to her, she didn't let me know it. baby. John's baby, she said. As I said, if it was an act, it was a good one. She asked the usual questions—what TT COULDN'T be true. Surely John had you looked like, and how I'd met you, and * not just said to me, "They expected me when we planned to be married—and she to marry Mary Lou. She's going to have wished me happiness, and that was all a baby. She says it's mine." It was all a there was to it. Mother had planned a bad dream, and I would awake at any party for me the next night, and Mary moment to find myself in my own room Lou came and seemed to have a wonderful back in Corona. At any moment this queer time. I didn't see much of her because blackish mist that covered everything Philip was tagging after her, paying her would fade, and the queer swimmy feel- a lot of attention—you know his way ing inside me would go away, and every- and she seemed to enjoy that, too. Any-, thing would be all right again. way, she was with him the next few nights There was pressure on my arm, on my when we went out with the crowd, and shoulder; from a long way off a voice she seemed perfectly happy. Then, the John's voice—was saying, "Beth! Beth, last day, she changed— please sit down. I'll get you some "Changed? How?" A CASE HISTORY FROM JOHN J. ANTHONY'S FILES This story tuas adapted from one of the recent problems presented on John J. Anthonys MBb program, heard each weekday at 1:45 EST — " — " John's mouth twisted wryly. "That's I struggled to think, to' get the fan- My eyes stung, and my heart swelled part of what I don't remember. I mean tastic facts straight in my mind. "But as it had the night that John had —I never did find out, • exactly. The your visit home—that was months ago, called me to tell me that Philip was whole crowd of us went on a picnic in March. This is almost June." I hesi- missing, the—night he had said, "I'm so that day, up the river. Mary Lou seemed tated, fearing that he might misunder- glad of you " as if just to know .that I rather quiet, but I didn't pay any at- stand the question I was about to ask, was there made anything bearable. I tention until later in the afternoon, think that I was accusing him of a forgot Mary Lou then, forgot everything after we'd had lunch, when she asked clandestine correspondence. "You but that John needed me, turned to if I'd walk upstream with her a little haven't heard from Mary Lou since me in trouble, needed my love, and I way, said she wanted to talk to me. then?" felt privileged and humbly grateful that We walked up to the Cove above Grum- He didn't misunderstand. "Not a I could help. Then John rose, drew me man's Point. I don't remember Mary word. But then—she knew how I felt up with him. "We'd better go down- Lou's saying much along the way, but about you, and I suppose after I'd gone stairs," he said. "Mother has sandwiches then it was quite a walk and the back to camp she decided to just—step and hot tea for us." He grinned crook- weather was warm—hot for that time out of the picture . . . until she found edly. "That's Mother's remedy for of year—and I began to get the funny, that she couldn't. She went to Doc everything—hot tea. She'll be upset if pressed-in feeling I'd had when I'd Evans, and he told her she'd better we refuse. I hope you don't mind com- had attacks before. I kept wondering tell her parents about it . . . and they ing down." if I ought to go back, but I thought told Mother and Dad. That's why Dad I did mind, a little. I wasn't in the perhaps it would pass. But the last wired me. Only he didn't want to say least hungry, and I shrank from the thing I remember is sitting on the sand, why, in a telegram, so I- thought it was very thought of seeing anyone. But I and Mary Lou's talking, saying some- something about the business. I never was willing to do whatever John want- thing about how long we'd known each dreamed that it was anything like ed, and I felt equal to facing his fam- ."' other. —And that's all I do remember, this. . . ily now. John loved me and needed me; except " he reddened and finished I was staring at the jars on the so long as that was true, I could face " doggedly, —except that she started to dresser again, staring until my eyes anything. And somehow, in trying to cry, and I put my arm around her. hurt. There was another question that reassure John, I'd succeeded in reas- The next thing I knew it was morning I had to ask. I didn't want to ask it, suring myself. Surely, things could not of the next day, and Philip was get- but I had to know. "Is—do you think be as bad as they had seemed at first. ting me up to catch the train." that Mary Lou's in love with you?" The news that had been waiting for John spread his hands helplessly. "I us in Maple Falls was like a bomb out " FORCED myself to look directly at don't know. I never did know, and I of nowhere, thrown by circumstance; *- him. "Then you think—" I couldn't certainly didn't think so after I left I could almost believe now that cir- finish. here last time. But she's—well, in- cumstance would somehow make things He buried his face in his hands. "I tense. And she keeps things pretty right. don't know," he groaned. "I tell you much to herself, the things that mat- We were a strained little foursome, I can't remember. It would have been ter. And she's proud. That's one of the gathered around the diningroom table ." a crime . . . Mary Lou. . . ugly things about the whole ugly mess for sandwiches and tea. Caroline was I went cold with fear and resent- the whole town knows about it. Her missing; she had been sent to stay with ment. Mary Lou, I thought. Mary Lou. mother was so upset that she called my a school friend. "Her very best friend," What about me, John? But John might mother instead of coming to see her and Mrs. Dorn explained carefully. "They've have been a thousand miles away. Or, blurted everything out over the party gone all through school together, and rather, it was I who was far #way, and line. But as to her being in love with Caroline's been begging to be allowed John who was here, in his old home, in me—I don't know. I was sure she to stay with her. I thought that this Maple Falls. It was as if all his past wasn't until the day of the picnic, and was as good a time as any—" she his family and Mary Lou and every- I'm not sure of anything about that caught herself—"I mean, they're both thing familiar—had reached out to day—" graduating from grammar school this claim him, had shut me away from June, and they've so much to talk about. him. Perhaps Mary Lou already had T FLINCHED. I didn't want to be re- Parties and clothes— * claimed him irrevocably. . . . But my minded of the day of the picnic. John mind shied away from that thought; reached over and caught my hand in T SMILED and nodded and said some- A it was too monstrous. I said stubbornly, both of hi?. "I'm sorry, Beth, for every- thing about my own graduation from almost childishly, "I don't believe it." thing. Sorry, sorry, sorry. That isn't junior high. It was obvious that Caro- He raised his head, and the look he enough, I know. It's so little, that it's line had been sent to stay with her gave me washed away all the hard it's. silly. But it's all I can say." friend because of my presence in the cold feeling, all the resentment. There I was sorry, too, bitterly sorry—for house, but I didn't mind. I was sorry was so much of gratitude in it, so' much John. I ached to comfort him, to hold for the Dorns. Neither of them looked appeal. "I don't believe it, either. I him as if he were a child, to smooth very much like John—both of them can't. It seems impossible. But—I can't the tortured lines from his face. Now small, Mr. Dorn small and plump, Mrs. disbelieve Mary Lou, either. She was that the first shock had passed, all I Dorn small and thin. But Mr. Dorn's with me." could think of was that John was in mouth, relaxed, had the same humor- "But you said that Philip brought trouble, serious trouble; I didn't fully ous quirk at the corners that John's —'* you home realize how it affected me. With a quick had, and they both looked as if they "Philip told me the next day that movement I knelt beside him, put my were used to smiling a great deal, to he'd found me walking around on the arm around his shoulder. "It's not your getting a great deal of enjoyment out beach, and that he and Mary Lou had fault," I whispered fiercely. "Whatever of life. I didn't mind the sympathy in taken me home. That's all he said happened, -it wasn't your fault. And Mrs. Dorn's eyes whenever she thought about it, and I didn't ask any questions. maybe it isn't true, John. Mary Lou I wasn't noticing, didn't mind that both I didn't think there was any reason to, could be wrong, and the doctor, too. she and Mr. Dorn, no matter how sym- and then the doctors had told me -that Doctors have been wrong before. If pathetic they felt, took care to treat me the less I thought about the condition, we just keep hoping and trusting that as a guest and not as a member of the the less I worried about it, the sooner things will come out all right, maybe family, took care to talk only about it was likely to disappear. That's why they will." impersonal things, like Caroline's grad- I didn't tell you, or my family. They John turned his face away, pressed uation, and the new wing that had been weren't here when Philip brought me my hand so hard against his cheek added to the high school, and the post- in, and they didn't know anything at that my fingers hurt. For a long mo- war highway that was planned to run all had happened to me." ment he didn't move. Then he drew a between Maple Falls and Marshall, a "But they know now?" deep shaky breath. "Thanks, Beth," he larger town up the river. I didn't mind He tried to smile. "Oh, yes. I told said huskily. "That's what I hoped you'd anything, so long as I could meet John's table in a glance that . the them . . tonight, downstairs. It made say. I—there's no one else like you, eyes across the them feel a little better about it, but no one in the— world. Thank God for was like a secret signal saying that it doesn't alter my responsibility." you, darling two of us were (Continued on page 54) 30 I PRESENTING IN LIVING PORTRAITS r 1^*3 1 \t*J«t$ \ X /a ^^^ / 1 he had for the fhle only acrificed fo fnl peace. 1L.L 5 DICK CAMPBELL, noit; a Major in the Medical Corps, is the only man Carolyn Kramer ever genu- inely loved. Though their court- ship ended some time ago, and both married other people, Carolyn has never forgotten Dick, and his strong feeling for her is held in check only out of regard for his wife. (played "by Alex Scourby) SUSAN WAKEFIELD is suffering from the common complaint of the young girl just coming out of adolescence—a violent passion for a man much older than herself. In Susan's case the man is Dwight Kramer. Hurt by Carolyn's divorce from him, Dwight has turned to Susan's belief in him for comfort. (played by Charita Bauer) 32 DWIGHT KRAMER is fundamentally an intelligent and likeable person. Though the collapse of his marriage to Carolyn left him bewildered and hurt, his native strength of character will in time reassert itself, and he will regain his emotional poise. Carolyn, on her part, went through much mental struggle before she could finally bring herself to face the fact that she and Dwight were hopelessly incompatible, and to leave him. His need for her almost held her, but eventually her own inability to find any happiness with him won out. (Dwight Kramer played by David Gothard; Carolyn Kramer by Claudia Morgan) The Right To Happiness is heard on NBC each weekday at 3:45 P.M. EST. 33 i GINNY, Dick Campbell's young wife, thinks that by seeing more of Carolyn/ with Dick, she will discourage his fondness jor the girl he almost married. But Caro- lyn's hard-won peace of mind is threatened by her knowledge that the feeling between herself and Dick is so far from dead that it may soon make them all unhappy. (Ginny played by Anne Sterrett) TED WAKEFIELD is Constance Wakefield's young son. Bright, healthy, Ted is altogether typical of the American boy of high school age, except for a single important difference. The average high school boy doesn't give much of his time to the arts, but Ted has already shown a talent for music that amounts to genius. (Ted played by Jimmie Dobson) 34 • .'.. \ y^ CONSTANCE WAKE- FIELD, a movie ac- tress, still works with her charming but over- ambitious ex-husband, Director ALEX DELA- VAN, who is much at- tracted right now to Carolyn. It is in Con- stance's home that Carolyn and her two- year-old son Skippy have been making their home since her divorce. (Constance is Violet Heming; Alex, Staats Cotsworth) — — Cswt tfuA' tamMamJ OWN, Jigger! Stop it, Gadget! Many women, like Jan, havefound themselves in D . . . Muffet ... can't you make your kittens behave?" I think Muffet understood me—the love with two men at once. But Jan's problem I plaintive tone of my voice—as I stood helplessly trying to balance a coffee tray while the two capering furry kit- tens played tug-of-war with my slack was different, because one of the men was dead trousers. At any rate, the old mother cat immediately cuffed her two off- spring into obedience. When I was at last able, to move I took a backward glance at the house. So did Muffet. It was automatic with both of us . . . a foolish gesture of waiting suspense as if we still expected that beloved masculine form to step out of the French windows—stoop to pet Muffet —take the tray out of my hands—bend his tall head to kiss me lightly—the fragrance of his pipe curling around us I gave myself a little reproving shake and started off across the lawn, the old cat pattering after me. I must stop thinking of Bill—listening for him waiting for him. Bill was dead. My husband of a year and a half, really and actually my hus- band to live with and love with only four months, was dead. Killed in the Pacific. The great, overwhelming grief was gone. It had spent itself in those first weeks of wildness and stupor and un- belief and, finally, of heartbreaking knowledge. No'w there was tranquillity of a kind in me, the kind that comes after you have accepted the awful cer- tainty of death and the added certainty that life must go on for you. I had Bill's cat, Muffet, and her kittens. I had the little white clapboard-and-greystone cottage we had planned together and built before we were married. I had my partnership in the Jan-Jay Hat Shop. There was always sorrow, of course. And loneliness. But not the emptiness that usually comes with being lonely. Whenever that threatened I remem- bered Bill's last words to me as we had said goodbye in this favorite cor- ner of the garden.. He had been sitting at this same white-painted barrel that served us as a table; I was on a pillow at his feet, my head in his lap. "Remember, darling—if anything happens to me, it will be all right be- cause our love is stronger than death. 36 ra^-*B^^..i.nttfr — I know you'll always be true to me." I rarely needed to remember those words—consciously—when I was home. Because in the house and in the garden and in every corner of the low hedge there were memories so strong it seemed to me as if the actual presence of Bill walked every step of the way with me. So strong was that feeling, "I'm awfully sorry," I said. at times, that I would catch myself "I hope they aren't bothering speaking out loud to him, asking his you. They're a little spoiled." advice about the perennials, consult- ing him as. to the beloved animals' diet, wondering if he would like the new blue curtains in the breakfast room. It was foolish, perhaps—but it never felt morbid. It felt right! The coffee in the thermos jug was hot and I poured myself a cup, content to sit for a moment contemplating the play of sunlight and late-afternoon shadow on the lawn, planning my gar- dening job for the next hour. The chrysanthemums needed tying back. They were getting scraggly. And there were leaves to be raked under the maples. It was so quiet and so peaceful that when the door banged nearby it caught me by surprise and coffee spilled in a hot stream over my sleeve. The burn was a minor one and I paid no attention. I was staring, fascinated, in the direc- tion from where the sound had come, from the house next door. It had been vacant so long that for a second I was frightened . . . frightened at the sight of a tall, slim man walking out of that back door. Walking as if he had a right to. Strolling across the lawn as if he owned the place. And something told me he did. Some- thing told me that I had a new neigh- bor in this hundred-year-old, run- down house next door. All I could feel, immediately, was resentment. It had been so perfect here with no neighbors on that side and the tree-shaded gully on the other that I hated to think of what this newcomer's presence might mean. He probably had a wife who would want to chat with me over the hedge and run in and out of my house borrowing things. They would be feeling sorry for the "poor little widow" and invite me to parties I didn't like. They would talk to me about the war and pry into details of Bill's death. Something hot and scald- ing rose in my throat. He was coming nearer and now. I could see he was carrying a trowel and a spade. If he meant to do some gar- dening he would probably be working right across the hedge from me, in their patch of overgrown flowers and shrubs. I dived to the ground and frantically busied myself with the chrysanthe- mums. Now I couldn't see him. I could only hear the "chunk" and the tearing, dirt-pulling sound of his spade. A whiff of his pipe tobacco drifted across, al- most making me dizzy—it was so like Bill's. Once he whistled a little tune, aimlessly. Muffet was acting strangely. She was so entirely a one-man cat, so much Bill's, that ordinarily she was rude and condescending to strangers. But now she sat, listening to that whistle, her 37 — — I know you'll always be true to me." I rarely needed to remember those words—consciously—when I was home. Because in the house and in the garden and in every corner of the low hedge there were memories so strong it seemed to me as if the actual presence of Bill walked every step of the way "I'm awfully sorry," I said. with me. So strong was that feeling, "I hope they aren't bothering at times, that I would catch myself you. They're a little spoiled." speaking out loud to him, asking his C^ut tmwMtmj advice about the perennials,' consult- W^ ing him as. to the beloved animals' diet, wondering if he would like the new blue curtains in the breakfast room. It was -foolish, perhaps—but it never felt morbid. It felt—right! The coffee in the thermos jug was hot and I poured myself a cup, content to sit for a moment contemplating the play of sunlight and late-afternoon "T"VOWN, Jigger! Stop it, Gadget! Many women, like Jan, havefound themselves in shadow on the lawn, planning my gar- II . . . Muffet ... can't you make dening your kittens behave?" job for the next hour. The chrysanthemums needed tying I think Muffet understood me—the back. love with two men at once. But Jan's problem They were getting scraggly. And there plaintive tone of my voice—as I stood were leaves to helplessly trying to balance a coffee be raked under the maples. tray while the two capering furry kit- It was so quiet and so peaceful that tens played tug-of-war with my slack was different, because one of the men was dead when the door banged nearby it caught trousers. At any rate, the old mother me by surprise and coffee spilled in a cat immediately cuffed her two off- spring into obedience. hot stream over my sleeve. The burn was a minor one and I paid no attention. When I was at last able, to move I was staring, fascinated, in the direc- I took a backward glance at the house. So did Muffet. tion from where the sound had come, from the house door. It It was next had been automatic with both of us . . . vacant so long that for a second I was a foolish gesture of waiting suspense frightened . . . frightened at the sight as if we still expected that beloved of a tall, slim man walking out of that masculine form to step out of the back door. Walking as if he had a French windows—stoop to pet Muffet right to. Strolling across the lawn as —take the tray out of my hands—bend if he owned the place. his tall head to kiss me lightly—the And something fragrance of his pipe curling around told me he did. Some- us thing told me that I had a new neigh- bor in this hundred-year-old, run- I gave myself a little reproving shake down house next door. and started off across the lawn, the old All I could feel, immediately, cat pattering after me. I must stop was resentment. thinking of Bill—listening for him It had been so perfect here waiting for him. with no neighbors on that side and the tree-shaded gully the Bill was dead. My husband of a year on other that I and a half, really and actually my hus- hated to think of what this newcomer's presence band to live with and love with only might mean. He probably had a wife would to four months, was dead. Killed in the who want chat with Pacific. me over the hedge and run in and out house borrowing The great, overwhelming grief was of my things. They would be feeling sorry for the "poor gone. It had spent itself in those first weeks of wildness and stupor and un- little widow" and invite me to parties belief and, finally, of heartbreaking I didn't like. They would talk to me the into details of knowledge. Nov/ there was tranquillity about war and pry Bill's death. Something hot and scald- of a kind in me, the kind that comes ing rose in throat. after you have accepted the awful cer- my tainty of death and the added certainty He was coming nearer and now I could see he was carrying a trowel and that life must go on for you. I had Bill's If to do gar- cat, Muffet, and her kittens. I had the a spade. he meant some little white clapboard-and-greystone dening he would probably be working cottage we had planned together and right across the hedge from me, in built their patch of overgrown flowers and before we were married. I had my partnership in the Jan-Jay Hat shrubs. Shop. I dived to the ground and frantically There was always sorrow, of course. busied myself with the chrysanthe- And loneliness. But not the emptiness mums. Now I couldn't see him. I could that usually comes with being lonely. only hear the "chunk" and the tearing, Whenever that threatened I remem- dirt-pulling sound of his spade. A whiff bered Bill's last words to me as we of his pipe tobacco drifted across, al- had said goodbye in this favorite cor- most making me dizzy—it was so like ner of the garden. He had been sitting Bill's. Once he whistled a little tune, at this same white-painted barrel that aimlessly. served us as a table; I was on a pillow Muffet was acting strangely. She was at his feet, my head in his lap. so entirely a one-man cat, so much "Remember, darling—if anything Bill's, that ordinarily she was rude and happens to me, it will be all right be- condescending to strangers. But now cause our love is stronger than death. she sat, listening to that whistle, her 37 — eyes half-closed, her fur bristling. And slowly she moved towards the hedge. I made a grab for her but missed. She paid no .attention to me. For a moment there was a hushed feeling and I saw the dazed expression in Muffet's eyes—as if she were doing an act. she was compelled to do. And there was something else. That quietening, loved-for-cared-for feeling that always made me sense the closeness of Bill's presence was suddenly very strong about us. "Well—hello! Did you come over to welcome me to my new home?" I knew the stranger was speaking to Muffet and his words made me ashamed for my ungracious behavior. It was so easy to talk to Kirk. And I rose and he was kneeling just — after I had invited him over for what across the from me. hedge He was was left of the hot coffee in the thermos scratching the cat, gently, just behind jug we were just that to each other the ears. Just where Muffet liked to Kirk and Jan. I couldn't help liking be scratched. He was knowledgeable him. He was companionable in an easy, about cats, this stranger. The kittens masculine way I had missed. His laugh- There was gladness and joy in tore through the hedge after their ter was infrequent but his smile was our kiss. And a strange, unbid- mother and cavorted around them, a steadying, warming thing that waited den sense came over me that Bill gleefully. at the corner of his lips for any old was there, and still it was glad . . . "I'm awfully sorry," I said. "I hope excuse. The kittens were crazy about they aren't bothering you! They're a him. little spoiled, I'm afraid. I'm not very But it was Muffet who puzzled me. firm with them." smiled He at me and She accepted Kirk so completely. Her I saw he was young, but with an odd head rested in his lap; her eyes seldom then he would use my table, sitting kind of maturity. I smiled back. left off their wistful gaze into his face; in Bill's old chair, while I worked to "Bothering I like I me? them. was her tail waved in majestic approbation. the accompaniment of the scratching planning to get one of but I my own Only once in a while did habit claim of his pen or the pecking of his type- think yours might not like an intruder her again and she would begin her writer. Other times, I would bring the and they can have the run of place." my usual, pitiful, futile search for Bill. bookkeeping accounts from the shop 1 hesitated a moment. "Perhaps your Once this had torn my heart—now I home with me and Kirk would go over wife might object." saw that Kirk could recall her to his them, straightening out the confusion side with one quiet word. that figures always gave me. "t'M not married." He rose and dusted When I finally said goodnight and It was nice to feel I could help him, -I off his knees. "My name is Kirk went into the house, I had a moment too. It was I who could advise him Meryweather. I'm a assistant pro- new of chilling caution. Had I enjoyed this about mulchs and about pruning his fessor in the math department at past hour too much? This gladness I trees and about spraying for pests. It Parker College and I stumbled on this felt in knowing Kirk—was that a sign was on my suggestion that he searched old house by accident yesterday. It's I had been alone too much? I had my for safe places for the little triangular just what I've been looking for, what memories 'and up until now they had bottles of ant poison he put out, to I used to dream about in the Army. been enough. They would have to be keep them from the inquisitive talons I can't believe luck." my enough. I must never need anyone. of the cats. Helping Kirk made me feel So he had in the been Army—that This love that was stronger than death needed and useful, almost like a wife would account for the slight limp when between Bill and me would forever again. he walked, and for the young-old look keep me from needing anyone—wheth- And afterwards we would have cof- of his. er in marriage or love—or even in fee and cake, or, if it was an unusually "What about this hedge?" he went friendship. warm evening, iced tea. on. "Is it mine or yours? Do I take But the uneasy feeling vanished with Once Kirk teased me into trying care of it?" the pleasant remembrance of the con^ some of his own Italian spaghetti, his must have seen He my confusion, versation we had had and the work we bachelor's pride, and we ate until we then. I never could trim it as smoothly had shared. And also with the strange were torpid. as Bill had and now it was all dips conviction that there was no reproof "That's the way I like to see a girl and ridges. against me here in the little world that eat," he said, approvingly, when we "It's a community sort of hedge. It was my house. Bill would want me to belongs to both of I answered. us," have friends; he wouldn't mind Kirk. I found the clippers behind me and So every evening, when I got through started to work. But he took them out work and my tiny supper and Kirk was of hands. my through with his classes, we made our "Then I think it's about turn to my way to our neighboring gardens. For do it." an hour or so we would work together After that it impossible was to be across the hedge in a near-silence,' strangers. I told him my name—Jan speaking only when we felt like it. Thurston. I even found I could talk to Sometimes he would bring examina- about Parker, the small college him tion papers with him to be graded and where Bill and I had first met when we were both working our way through waiting on tables in the cafeteria. About the designing course I had taken. And how I had dropped out of school my junior year to start the hat shop. "MY TRUE STORY" About Bill taking the job in the bank This story adapted when he graduated so we could save was from a script heard originally on My True Story, an money and get married before he went American Broadcasting Company pro- service. into the gram, Monday through Friday, 10 AM. 38 —— ** ** \m relaxed afterwards. "Most of them just peck at their food. But, then, most of them don't have your figure, Jan." How could I help being thrilled a iittle at the admiration I saw in his eyes as they took in the high-breasted slimness revealed by the shorts and shirt I wore? Or help being glad that my hair curled naturally and stayed in place in spite of my being constantly up and down on hands and knees? Although sometimes I would still question my right to have such a friend in so attractive a man, there was still no feeling that he was intruding. He was not robbing me of my closeness with Bill. Rather, he made a pleasant addition to my life—never stepping into that closed circle that bound me to my dead husband, but only making another circle that was Jan and Kirk. If there were any danger of my be- coming too interested in Kirk, I thought, surely I would have been jeal- ous of his outside interests. I wasn't. I liked to hear the bits of gossip he would bring back after some faculty party. Although Kirk was totally un- aware of his own charm I knew that the wives of his fellow -professors were earnestly match-making for him and constantly bringing some pretty girl for him to meet. I would laugh with him over his description of these parties and teas, feeling a "warm glow of pride in the admiration others must feel for him for his strength and honesty, for the tenderness and good-humor that lay behind his reserve. Even for the hand- someness of his crisp, slightly-curling brown hair and the lean hollows of his tanned cheeks. . "Dean Tilden," he said to me one afternoon, smiling, "can't understand why I won't show up for any of the faculty suppers. It's nice of her to worry about me, but I explained that I' had very important things to do be- tween five and eight—every evening." And his eyes caught mine with a look that said we shared a guilty secret be- tween us. For a moment my heart caught and lifted. It meant a lot to Kirk, then these hours we spent together! And a strange, giddy happiness made me tremble all over. The moment was dangerously, thrill- ingly sweet . . . and then reason whis- pered that Kirk had meant something different. Of course he liked these hours together. There was peace here and good work shared. He loved garden- ing and he liked to play with the dogs and he enjoyed planning with me the restoration of his old house. It was nothing more than that for him and it couldn't be more than that for me. It couldn't, I told myself sternly! And silenced with a firm hand that tiny little wonder in my heart. This corner of the garden where we talked and worked had seemed lately a growing place of enchantment, so perfect was the brooding late-fall peace that hung over it. And not just the weather and the physical beauty alone. Before I had known Kirk I had felt that her > I walked most closely with Bill. This was (Continued on page 91) 39 — J — eyes half-closed, her fur bristling. And relaxed afterwards. "Most of them just slowly she moved towards the hedge. peck at their food. But, then, most of I made a grab for her but missed. them don't have your figure, Jan." She paid no attention to me. For a I How could I help being thrilled a moment there was a hushed feeling little at the admiration I saw in his and I saw the dazed expression in 1 eyes as they took in the high-breasted Muffet's eyes—as if she were doing an slimness revealed by the shorts and act she was compelled to do. And there 4S shirt I wore? Or help being glad that was something else. That quietening, my hair curled naturally and stayed loved-for-cared-for feeling that always in place in spite of my being constantly made me sense the closeness of Bill's up and down on hands and knees? presence was suddenly very strong Although sometimes I would still about us. question my right to have such a friend "Well—hello! Did you come over to in so attractive a man, there was still welcome me to my new home?" I knew no feeling that he was intruding. He the stranger was speaking to Muffet was not robbing me of my closeness and his words made me ashamed for with Bill. Rather, he made a pleasant my ungracious behavior. It was so easy to talk to Kirk. And 4 addition to my life—never stepping I rose—and he was kneeling just after I had invited him over for what into that closed circle that bound me across the hedge from me. He was was left of the hot coffee in the thermos to my dead husband, but only making scratching the cat, gently, just behind jug we were just that to each other another circle that was Jan and Kirk. the ears. Just where Muffet liked to Kirk and Jan. I couldn't help liking If there were any danger of my be- be scratched. He was knowledgeable him. He was companionable in an easy, coming too interested in Kirk, I about cats, this stranger. The kittens There was gladness masculine way I had missed. His laugh- and joy thought, surely I would have been jeal- tore through the hedge after their j„ ter was infrequent but his smile was our kiss. And a strange, ous of his outside interests. I wasn't. mother and cavorted around them, unbid- a steadying, warming thing that waited den sense came over I liked to hear the bits of gossip he gleefully. me that Bill at the corner of his lips for any old was there, and still it was would bring back after some faculty "I'm awfully sorry," I said. "I hope glad excuse. The kittens were crazy about party. Although Kirk was totally un- they aren't bothering you.' They're a him. aware of his own charm I knew that little spoiled, I'm afraid. I'm not very But it was Muffet who puzzled me. the wives of his fellow-professors were firm with them." He smiled at me and She accepted Kirk so completely. Her earnestly match-making for him and I saw he was young, but with an odd head rested in his lap; her eyes seldom then he would use my table, constantly bringing some pretty girl kind of maturity. I smiled back. sitting] left off their wistful gaze into his face; in Bill's old chair, while I for him to meet. "Bothering me? I like them. I was worked to] her tail waved in majestic approbation. the accompaniment of the I would laugh with him over his planning to get one of my own but I scratching I Only once in a while did habit claim of his pen or the pecking description of these parties and teas, think yours might not like an intruder of his type-] her again and she would begin her writer. feeling a warm glow of pride in the and Other times, I would bring the they can have the run of my place." j usual, pitiful, futile search for Bill. bookkeeping accounts admiration others must feel for him I hesitated a moment. "Perhaps your from the shop] Once this had torn my heart I home for his strength and honesty, for the wife might object." —now with me and Kirk would go over] saw that Kirk tenderness and good -humor that lay could recall her to his them, straightening out the confusion! side with one quiet word. that figures always behind his reserve. Even for the hand- "t'M not married." He rose and dusted gave me. When I finally said goodnight It someness of his crisp, slightly-curling 1 off his knees. and was nice to feel I could help him, "My name is Kirk lean of went into the house, I had a moment too. It was I brown hair and the hollows Meryweather. I'm a new assistant pro- who could advise him'I of chilling caution. Had I enjoyed this about mulchs and his tanned cheeks. . fessor in the math department at about pruning hisl past hour too "Dean Tilden," he said to me one Parker much? This gladness I trees and about spraying for pests. College and I stumbled on this ItJ understand felt in knowing Kirk—was that a sign was on my suggestion afternoon, smiling, "can't old house by accident yesterday. It's that he searched! I won't show up for any of the I had been alone too much? I had my for safe places for why just what I've been looking for, what the little triangular! memories and up until now they had bottles of faculty suppers. It's nice of her to I used to dream about in the Army. ant poison he put out, to'l been enough. They worry about me, but I explained that I can't believe would have to be keep them from the inquisitive talons my luck." very important things to do be- enough. I must never need anyone. of the cats. T had So he had been in the Army—that Helping Kirk made me feel This love that was stronger than needed tween five and eight—every evening." would account for the slight limp when death and useful, almost like a wife between Bill and And his eyes caught mine with a look he walked, and for me would forever again. the young-old look keep me from that said we shared a guilty secret be- his. needing anyone—wheth- And afterwards of we would have cof- f er in marriage or tween us. "What about love—or even in fee and cake, or, if it was an unusually this hedge?" he went heart caught and friendship. warm evening, For a moment my on. "Is it mine or yours? Do I take iced tea. But the uneasy feeling lifted. It meant a lot to Kirk, then care of it?" vanished with Once Kirk teased me into trying the pleasant these hours we spent together! And a He must remembrance of the con^- some of his own Italian spaghetti, his] have seen my confusion, happiness made versation we had had and the work bachelor's strange, giddy me then. I never could trim it as smoothly we pride, and we ate until we.| had shared. And also with the strange were tremble all over. as Bill had and now it was all dips torpid. conviction that The moment was dangerously, thrill- and ridges. there was no reproof "That's the way I like to see a girl j . . . then reason whis- against me here in the little world that eat," ingly sweet and "It's a community sort of hedge. It he said, approvingly, when wej was my house. Bill would want pered that Kirk had meant something belongs to both of us," I answered. me to have friends; he wouldn't different. Of course he liked these hours I found the clippers behind me mind Kirk. and So every evening, together. There was peace here and started to work. But when I got through he took them out good work shared. He loved garden- of my hands. work and my tiny supper and Kirk was to play with the dogs through with his classes, we ing and he liked "Then I think it's about my turn to made our to and he enjoyed planning with me the do it." way our neighboring gardens. For an hour or so we would work restoration of his old house. It was After that it was impossible to be together across the nothing more than that for him and it strangers. I told him hedge in a near-silence,' my name—Jan couldn't be more than that for me. speaking only when we felt like Thurston. I even found I could talk to it. Sometimes It couldn't, I told myself sternly. him about Parker, the he would bring examina- small college that tion papers with him to And silenced with a firm hand where Bill and I had first met when be graded and tiny little wonder in my heart. we were both working our way through This corner of the garden where we waiting on tables in the cafeteria. talked and worked had seemed lately About the designing course I had taken. a growing place of enchantment, so And how I had dropped out of school perfect was the brooding late-fall peace my junior year to start the hat shop. A "MY TRUE STORY" that hung over it. And not just the About Bill taking the job in the bank weather and the physical beauty alone. when he graduated so we could save This story was adapted from a script I had felt heard Before I had known Kirk money and get married before he went originally on My True Story, an that her • I walked most closely with into the service. American Broadcasting Company pro- 91) gram, Monday through Bill. This was (Continued on page Friday, 10 AM 39 — — you are a doctor who is WHEN By DR. JIM BRENT Rheumatic fever is still a great mys- specializing in a certain branch tery. Carson—I'll leave it like that, be- of medicine, as I am; when you cause that's what I call her when we're work in a specialized hospital, as I do tence to all disease must be built up alone, anyway, and there's no need for here at the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute, with balanced diets, their bodies must hospital formalities here—has as ex- you sometimes tend to forget to think be kept healthy with fitting exercise. tensive a library on the subject as exists. as much as Properly you should about the handled and watched, a child And a puny one it is, really, when com- troubles and diseases and medical prob- can be nursed through rheumatic fever, pared with the books on diseases like lems outside your own specialization. the recurrences of the disease can be tuberculosis and infantile paralysis. I was reminded of that the other brought down to a minimum and, Which is rather terrifying when you day—reminded that rheumatic fever, sometimes, prevented entirely. Such a come to think of it. Because it was one of the worst scourges of childhood, child can grow into a healthy, normal then that I remembered that strikes and one with far-reaching, long-last- individual. down more children every year than ing effects, I was something hadn't If you want good proof of it, there pneumonia, tuberculisis or infantile particularly thought about, or brought are the 134 ex-patients of the rheumatic paralysis. It doesn't always kill, but myself up to date on, for a long time. fever clinic of one New York hospital even so it does kill about 40,000 a year When I remembered that rheumatic all of them once sufferers from this and that's only an estimate based on fever strikes down more children every disease, all of them cured—who were recognized cases. There may be many year than pneumonia, tuberculosis or accepted for armed service in the war. more which pass for some other disease. infantile paralysis, I decided it was They felt so fine and showed no signs Rheumatic heart disease was the cause about time for me to do a little check- of rheumatic fever histories, that they of half of the heart-defect rejections of ing up, to see what I could do in got away with not mentioning they'd Selective Service. these children. helping And that's why ever had it. And not one of them had We did some digging into those books, I'm writing this article. any recurrences of the disease during Carson and I—and some talking. What reminded me of this killer and their training or service. Those are only The big thing that comes out in all crippler of children was a new patient the patients from one hospital. these books is this—no one yet knows at the Institute. He was a young man After I'd finished talking to this what causes rheumatic fever. One of of about twenty-four. I don't want to young man, I went to see Carson—I'm the most extensive—and the most dra- go into the full history of his case, be- sorry, ' Dr. McVicker. Not having as matic—studies we found was made by cause it's very complicated. One of his much background in psychiatry as she Dr. Alvin Coburn, who devoted his real obsessions is that he's a chronic has, I wanted to know whether many life to fighting this terror of childhood. invalid. He can't do anything, he can't cases like this were likely to turn up. He was the first to seriously consider work or play, because he's sick. What's Because, if they were, I felt that I rheumatic fever almost strictly a di- more, he can actually make himself wanted to know a great deal more sease that goes with poverty, poor food, physically ill, and does so frequently. about rheumatic fever than I did at lack of sunlight and overcrowding. This is common enough behavior in the moment. Dr. Coburn studied and noted and neurotics, and the important is thing In our talk, the sad facts came out. analyzed the (Continued on page 99) to try to find out when it first began. You can't get very far, of course, in a first interview, but I tried to get him to remember as well as he could when he first got the idea that he wasn't well. "I remember something," he said. "It happened when I was little. I was sick, once. I had pains in my knees and arms." "What kind of pains?" I asked. "Well—" he pondered, "pains like rheumatism, I guess. I don't really re- member—but I do remember it was very bad." We delved a little more. He remem- bered that after that illness, his parents had begun treating him with great care. He was forced to eat special things. He wasn't allowed to run and play with other children and he often heard his parents mention his "bad heart," when they didn't think he was listening. He didn't go to school regu- larly and, when he did, he couldn't keep up with the other children. At any rate, this whole manner of treat- ment by his parents and teachers was a big contributing factor to laying the groundwork for his present mental ill- ness. As I said, this phase of it, this effect on the minds of some of the people This our children's lives — is like any who've had rheumatic fever, is an off- fight —for shoot of the original illness. And this phase of it, at least, could be avoided. Children who've had rheumatic fever other battle. We can't win until we know everything and as a result—an almost inevitable result, especially if the acute attacks methods, weapons, power the enemy recur frequently—have what are known about the of as rheumatic hearts, do need special care. But not fussy care. Their resis- 40 Working together at the Neuro - Psychiatric Insti- tute, Dr. Jim Brent {Matt Crowley) and Dr. Carson McVicker {Charlotte Man- son) pool their medical knowledge for the fight against rheumatic fever, on NBCs Road of Life, week- days at 10:45 AM. EST. * " p\ 1*: iL, GRIF'S mother came hurrying through the gate that morning, calling me, waving the telegram. #1 "I got one too," I cried, running out upon my little square porch to meet her. "Oh, Mother Baird! He's really coming home!" She stood at the bottom of the porch steps with the sun glinting on her high silvery rolls of hair, and even in the midst of my excitement a part of my mind paused to marvel at her beauty and her untouched look. 3 Mother Baird laughingly called her- \ self a "farm gal" since they had moved to the remodeled farmhouse on the outskirts of Rosemead; but she looked as little like a farm gal as the neat new Baird subdivision looked like the worthless weed-grown farm which Father Baird had taken in on a mort- gage during the depression. With the mushrooming of the plane assembly plant in Rosemead, bringing sudden life to this sleepy little town and in in- flux of workers clamoring for houses, Father Baird had been quick to sub- divide the old dry farm and to build the rows of neat little stucco cottages which sold like hotcakes to the plant employees. "We'll have a party to welcome Grif home," Mother Baird was saying, "a really gay one, Peggy, with all his old m school friends." All his old school friends! The old familiar sense of loneliness swept over me, making me feel left out, a stranger. I didn't belong to Grif's old school crowd. While he was finishing high school in a whirl of senior class fes- tivities and football triumphs, I had been working in the Y.W. cafeteria and going to night school, taking a secretarial course. ' We had met by accident. I was tak- % ing the cut-off across the park on my <'*- way to school one evening when my dropped handbag skidded across the 7*V, !"! : iilHi ±M fl STARS OVER HOLLYWOOD STORY ^JThis slbry was adapted from "And The Sparks Flew", an original Stars Over Hollywood story written by Ralph Rose. home, loving him completely, Peggy didn't dream that she was waiting for a stranger path, spilling its awful contents at the very feet of a' tall red-headed fellow It's funny how you can meet who turned out to be Grif Baird. It's the man you're going to love. funny how you can meet the man you are going to love like that, when, you least expect anything so- wonderful to happen. You laugh with a stranger about the crazy things a girl carries in her handbag, and the next evening, and the next, he is there on a bench in the park, With the sunset shining on his light hair, waiting for you. So you m sit on a bench, or walk along together, 1^ slowly, not caring whether you ever get to night school, because you have just discovered that his eyes are deep and brown and every time they look at you something happens to your w heart. "Medical discharge," Mother Baird's m voice floated into my preoccupation. "That means, of course, that he'll be home for good. He will go right office BBS - back into the with his father, and everything will be the same again. We'll forget there ever was a war." She was looking past me now, en- grossed in plans of her own. She had looked exactly like this when she told us that Father Baird was going to build us a Model Home for a wedding present. It was to be located on the most attrac- tive site in the new subdivision, right next to their old farmhouse. The new would stand out in smart contrast to _jSW? ~. *g*» r£fe»* -^ •v*-: RTF'S mother came hurrying through the gate that morning, Waiting for Grif to come waving the telegram. Tw^ G calling me, "I got one too," I cried, running out home, loving him completely, upon my little square porch to meet her. "Oh, Mother Baird! He's really coming home!" Peggy didn't dream that she She stood at the bottom of the porch steps with the sun glinting on her high was waiting for a stranger silvery rolls of hair, and even in the midst of my excitement a part of my mind paused to marvel at her beauty and her untouched look. Mother Baird laughingly called her- & path, spilling its awful contents at the self a "farm gal" since they had moved very feet of a' tall red-headed fellow to the remodeled farmhouse on the It's funny hoiv you can meet who turned out to be Grif Baird. It's outskirts of Rosemead; but she looked the man you're going to love. funny how you can meet the man you as little like a farm gal as the neat are going to love like that, when, you new Baird subdivision looked like the least expect anything so- wonderful to worthless weed-grown farm which happen. You laugh with a stranger Father Baird had taken in on a mort- about the crazy things a girl carries in gage during the depression. With the her handbag, and the next evening, mushrooming of the plane assembly and the next, he is there on a bench plant in Rosemead, bringing sudden life in the park, with the sunset shining on to this sleepy little town and in in- his light hair, waiting for you. So you flux of workers clamoring for houses, sit on a bench, or walk along together, Father Baird had been quick to sub- slowly, not caring whether you ever divide the old dry farm and to build get to night school, because you have the rows of neat little stucco cottages just discovered that his eyes are deep which sold like hotcakes to the plant and brown and every time they look employees. at you something happens to your "We'll have a party to welcome Grif heart. home," Mother Baird was saying, "a "Medical discharge," Mother Baird's really gay one, Peggy, with all his old voice floated into my preoccupation. school friends." "That means, of course, that he'll be All his old school friends! The old home for good. He will go right familiar sense of loneliness swept over back into the office with his father, me, making me feel left out, a stranger. and everything will be the same I didn't belong to Grif's old school again. We'll forget there ever was a crowd. While he was finishing high war." school in a whirl of senior class fes- She was looking past me now, en- tivities and football triumphs, I had grossed in plans of her own. She had been working in the Y.W. cafeteria looked exactly like this when she told and going to night school, taking a us that Father Baird was going to build secretarial course. us a Model Home for a wedding present. ' We had met by accident. I was tak- It was to be located on the most attrac- ing the cut-off across the park on my tive site in the new subdivision, right way to school one evening when my next to their old farmhouse. The new dropped handbag skidded across the would stand out in smart contrast to A STARS OVER HOLLYWOOD STORY r — -~~r ^JTfus sfory was adapted from "And The Sparks F/etti", an original Stars Over Hollywood story written by Ralph Rose. — ' ' the old, she said, attracting the atten- board with other school mementos, in- tion of everyone who passed along the cluding the ping-pong paddle, with highway, especially the tired war plant which he'd won the Inter-High tourna- workers who had to drive long miles ment, and which bore the scribbled each day from the only available hous- autographs of every member of his ing in Centerville. class. "We'll use this later," he'd told me, 'T'HE house seemed to spring up by when he hung it up, "to paddle any *- magic. When we returned from our cocky little strangers who happen to short honeymoon at the beach, it was come to live with us." finished and furnished, down to the I stood still now, the dust cloth still last crisp new curtain and the bright in my hand, remembering how my bordered towels on the fancy lucite rods heart had turned over inside me when in bedroom and kitchen. It was a doll he said it—remembering every single house, like something out of a little thing about those three precious weeks girl's dream; and I was proud to show together, and that last day . . . the blue- it to people Father Baird brought to and-white print dress I'd been wearing see the new subdivision. because it was his favorite, the way the Grif and I had only three weeks in sun slanted through the open front the little house before he went into the door and set his bright hair on fire, the Army. Three incredible weeks of wak- way he cupped my face tight in. his ing at night to find myself in his arms, hands before he kissed me. of waking in the morning to find the "Hold everything, Peg," he'd said. sun streaming through the gauzy gold "I'll be right back." curtains at the tiny bedroom windows, That was what he said to me each of loafing over the funnies and a last morning as he went to work, and that cup of coffee in the pint-sized nook off was what he said then, going off to war. the kitchen. It was our real goodbye, not the chin- "Gotta be gittin'." Grif would spring up, be-brave one at the depot, with a up, dumping me and the funnies out of crowd around and everyone trying to his lap. "I almost forgot I'm supposed think of cheerful things to day. to be a business man now." Two years ago . . . two years and But he wasn't very good at selling seven months and exactly four hours real estate. He always blurted out the and fifteen minutes by the little clock truth about termites and leaky roofs, that had been ticking off the' slow and shrugged ruefully about the sales seconds ever since he left! he had killed. He had gone into his I closed my eyes and tried to imagine father's office straight from high how it would be to hear his voice again, school, to learn the business. His to feel his arms around me, his kisses desk was still so new that he laughed sweet on my month. A tune we had about not having any important deeds danced to hummed through my head, or documents to clear out of it before and my eyes flew open. I must get out he left. all his old favbrite records and pile them "Well," Mother Baird folded Grif's up with the ones I'd collected since he telegram and pushed it into the pocket left. Why—I mustn't stand here dream- of her smooth white skirt. "We mustn't ing—I must hurry. Grif was coming stand here wasting time, Peggy. We've home! Grif was coming home, and a million things to do before he arrives. everything would be just as it had been Everything everything—must be just in those few short, wonderful weeks, exactly as Grif left it, so he can step only better, because this time we'd right back into his old life and forget have a thousand thousand tomorrows completely about the war.. Isn't that to look forward to . . . together. right?" She smiled and went briskly off AND then, at last, everything was through the gate which separated our •**• done—and there was still time, time little square yard from the lawn of the to fill before we could go to the station, bigger house. I would have given my infinitely long minutes to fill somehow very heart to possess her looks and her before train time, before the time for poise, her calm acceptance of all the me to begin to live again.' I tied a good things of life which seemed to handkerchief over my freshly sham- fall so easily into her lap. Since the pooed hair, and took Penny, Grif's lop- first day that Grif had brought me eared cocker spaniel, for a walk. Far home to meet his parents I had felt up the slope back of the Baird sub- coltish and clumsy beside her, and I'd division I unsnapped the leash and let tried my best to be like her in every her run while I lay in the sparse shade way. I wanted so terribly to be perfect of an old eucalyptus tree, listening to for Grif the scratch of dry branches above my The hours slid past while I worked head, half-awake, but dreaming of those my way happily through the little thousand, thousand tomorrows when house, cleaning and polishing in time Grif and I would be together. And in to my own joyous whistling. At last spite of all my impatience, I was nearly everything was finished except for a late. I heard Father Baird, who had final, last-minute flick of the dustcloth. come home early from the office to The refrigerator was crammed to burst- drive us to the station, halloo-ing to ing with all the things Grif liked best me from the bottom of the hill, and to eat; every chair and book and ash Penny and I raced down together. tray was exactly as he had left it; there I felt hot and breathless when I was fresh tobacco in the humidor be- finally climbed into the car, my hair side his pipe rack. I brushed a last hastily combed, my old blue-and-white speck of dust from his old football dress, saved for Grif's homecoming, letter, still thumb-tacked to the plaque quickly pulled into place over my head. 44 7 didn't mean to listen," I said, Mother Baird had a fresh silver rinse that made her prematurely grey hair a well-disciplined halo about her head. She looked wonderful in her new dove grey suit and the little wisp of a purple hat tilted smartly over one eye. She out-weighed me by twenty pounds, but I still felt heavy of foot and awkward beside her as we crossed the station platform. The train was running late. Father Baird fell into conversation with a stranger, talking about a piece of land the man thought of buying, and Mother Baird settled down with a magazine from the newsstand, to wait. When the train finally whistled, far up the tracks, she was as fresh as a daisy, while I felt hot and disheveled in spite of countless trips to the ladies' room to re-comb my hair and powder my nose._ But in that first momefit when I saw Grif, I forgot all about myself. There he was—Grif, leaning from the vesti- bule as the train slowed, scanning the station with . . . with eyes that didn't look like Grif's at all, they were so tired and old and unsmiling, even when he smiled with his lips when he saw us, and waved. I heard Father Baird say, "My God, he's thin as a rail!" "He was always thin, David," Mother Baird answered. "Don't you remem- ber?" The train was crawling to a stop. Grif was swinging down the steps, and my feet automatically carried me toward him,- although a paralyzing thing I knew must be joy, but which was as over- powering as terror, held me in its grip. But suddenly I stopped. Grif had turned to offer his hand to the girl who fol- lowed him—slim brown suit, halo of blonde hair, luminous blue eyes shad- owed by fabulous lashes. This was the girl—I knew her at once—who had come to our wedding, who had talked so much at the little reception in the church parlors afterwards, who had gone away to school somewhere up near San Francisco about the same time Grif went into the Army. Mother Baird was calling hellos to both of them, running forward to tilt up her lips for Grif's kiss. Father Baird was gripping Grif's hand and saying, "Welcome home, my boy!" For one frenzied second I wanted to run away -^-from Mother Baird's poise and per- fection, from Father Baird's voice, the same one he used to greet people who came to Rosemead to take part in War T Bond drives, from this girl whose suit made my blue-and-white print look incredibly frumpish, whose sleek hair f S? ^~ J3- made my home-shampooed curls look like a child's. And then I came out of it with a start—why, this was home- coming. This was Grif, my Grif, and he washome! Grif was looking at me now, and his eyes seemed to be asking a question, setting me apart from the station and the crowd and the family and looking straight into my heart. How could I say anything, how could I even sm\le, when my heart was squeezed so tight I couldn't breathe? Now was the moment —now I'd feel his arms again, and know his kiss again, (Continued on page 84) but Vm glad I did. Because now you won't have to say it over again." 45 — — in- the old, she said, attracting the atten- board with other school mementos, ping-pong paddle, with tion of everyone who passed along the cluding the Mother Baird had Inter-High tourna- a fresh silver rinse highway, especially the tired war plant which he'd won the that made her scribbled prematurely grey hair workers who had to drive long miles ment, and which bore the a well-disciplined halo about her he the available autographs of every member of his each day from only hous- She looked wonderful m her now dove Centerville. class. ing in grey suit and the little wisp of a purple later," he'd told me, "We'll use this hat tilted smartly over one eye. She paddle any OPHE house seemed to spring up by when he hung it up, "to out-weighed me by twenty pounds, but *- happen to magic. When we returned from our cocky little strangers who I still tell heavy of foot and awkward short honeymoon at the beach, it was come to live with us." beside her as we crossed the station finished and furnished, down to the I stood still now, the dust cloth still platform. last crisp new curtain and the bright in hand, remembering how my my The train was running late. Father lucite rods turned over inside me when bordered towels on the fancy heart had Baird fell into conversation with a every single in bedroom and kitchen. It was a doll he said it—remembering stranger, talking about a piece of land weeks house, like something out of a little thing about those three precious the man thought of buying, and Mother blue- girl's dream; and I was proud to show together, and that last day ... the Baird settled down with a magazine it to people Father Baird brought to and-white print dress I'd been weaping from the newsstand, to wait When the see the new subdivision. because it was his favorite, the way the train finally whistled, far up the tracks, front Grif and I had only three weeks in sun slanted through the open she was as fresh as a daisy, while 1 fell the little house before he went into the door and set his bright hair on fire, the hot and disheveled in spite of countla Army. Three incredible weeks of wak- way he cupped my face tight in. his trips to the ladies' room to re-comb my ing at night to find myself in his arms, hands before he kissed me. hair and powder my nose. of waking in the morning to find the "Hold everything, Peg," he'd said. But in that first moment when 1 saw sun streaming through the gauzy gold "I'll be right back." Grif, I forgot all about myself. Then' curtains at the tiny bedroom windows, That was what he said to me each he was Grif, leaning from the v. of loafing over the funnies and a last morning as he went to work, and that bule as the train slowed, scanning te- cup of coffee in the pint-sized nook off was what he said then, going off to war. station with . . . with eyes that didn't look like Grif's at the kitchen. It was our real goodbye, not the chin- all, they were so tired and "Gotta be gittin'." Grif would spring up, be-brave one at the depot, with a old and unsmiling, even when up, dumping me and the funnies out of crowd around and everyone trying to he smiled with his lips when he saw us, and waved. his lap. "I almost forgot I'm supposed think of cheerful things to day. I heard Father Baird say, "My God, to be a business man now." Two years ago . . . two years and he's thin as a rail!" But he wasn't very good at selling seven months and exactly four hours "He was always thin, David," Mother real estate. He always blurted out the and fifteen minutes by the little clock Baird answered. "Don't you remem- truth about termites and leaky roofs, had been ticking off the slow that ber?" and shrugged ruefully about the sales seconds ever since he left! The train was crawling to a stop. he had killed. He had gone into his I closed my eyes and tried to imagine Grif was swinging down the steps, and father's office straight from high how it would be to hear his voice again, my feet automatically carried me toward school, to learn the business. His to feel his arms around me, his kisses him,- although a paralyzing thing I knew desk still so new that he laughed month. tune was sweet on my A we had must be joy, but which was as over- having any important deeds about not danced to hummed through my head, powering as terror, held me in its grip. or documents to clear out of it before flew open. I get and my eyes must out But suddenly I stopped. Grif had turned he left. all his old favbrite records and pile them to offer his hand to the girl who fol- "Well," Mother Baird folded Grif's up with the ones I'd collected since he lowed him—slim brown suit, halo of telegram and pushed it into the pocket left. Why—I mustn't stand here dream- blonde hair, luminous blue eyes shad- of her smooth white skirt. "We mustn't ing—I must hurry. Grif was coming owed by fabulous lashes. This was the stand here wasting time, Peggy. We've home! Grif was coming home, and girl—I knew her at once—who had a million things to do before he arrives. everything would be just as it had been come to our wedding, who had talked Everything everything—must be just in those few short, wonderful weeks, so much at the little reception in the exactly as Grif left it, so he can step only better, because this time we'd church parlors afterwards, who had right back into his old life and forget have a thousand thousand tomorrows gone away to school somewhere up naat Francisco about the same tone Qrii completely about the war. Isn't that to look forward to . . . together. San right?" went into the Army. Baird was calling hollos to She smiled and went briskly off AND then, at last, everything was Mother both of them, running forward to tilt through the gate which separated our ** done—and there was still time, time up her lips for Grif's kiss. Fath. . Hand little square yard from the lawn of the to fill before we could go to the station, was gripping Grif's hand and saying, bigger house. I would have given my infinitely long minutes to fill somehow "Welcome home, my boy!" E BS very heart to possess her looks and her before train time, before the time for frenzied second I wanted to run away poise, her calm acceptance of all the me to begin to live again. I tied a —from Mother Baird's poise and pel good things of life which seemed to handkerchief over my freshly sham- fection, from Father Baird's voice, tl fall so easily into her lap. Since the pooed hair, and took Penny, Grif's lop- same one he used to greet people who first day that Grif had brought me eared cocker spaniel, for a walk. Far came to Rosemead to take part in War home to meet his parents I had felt up the slope of back the Baird sub- Bond drives, from this girl whose suit coltish and clumsy beside her, and I'd division I unsnapped the leash and let made my blue-and-white print like tried my best to be her in every her run while I lay in the sparse shade incredibly frumpish, whose sleek hair way. I wanted so terribly to be perfect of an old eucalyptus tree, listening to made my home-shampooed curls look for Grif . . . the scratch of dry branches above my like a child's. And then I came out of head, home- The hours slid past while I worked half-awake, but dreaming of those it with a start—why, this was my way happily through the little thousand, thousand tomorrows when coming. This was Grif, my Grif, and he house, cleaning and polishing in time Grif and I would be together. And in was home! his to my own joyous whistling. At last spite of all my impatience, I was nearly Grif was looking at me now, and everything was finished except for a late. I heard Father Baird, who had eyes seemed to be asking a question, station and final, last-minute flick of the dustcloth. come home early from the office to setting me apart from the family and looking The refrigerator was crammed to burst- drive us to the station, halloo-ing to the crowd and the heart. How could I ing with all the things Grif liked best me from the bottom of the hill, and straight into my could I even smUe, to eat; every chair and book and ash Penny and I raced down together. say anything, how squeezed so tight I left it; there I when my heart was tray was exactly as he had felt hot and breathless when I couldn't breathe? Now was the moment was fresh tobacco in the humidor be- finally climbed into the car, my hair his arms again, and know side his pipe rack. I brushed a last hastily combed, my old blue-and-white —now I'd feel again, (.Continued on page 84) speck of dust from his old football dress, saved for Grif's homecoming, his kiss to plaque letter, still thumb-tacked the quickly pulled into place over my head! say it over agmn. Because now you won't have to "/ didn't mean to listen. Tmgladl did. 99 Winding through the love story of Rosemarie and Danny Thomas there's another story, wonderful and strange—the story of a modern miracle Detroit, in 1933, the Happy Hour By DANNY THOMAS voice. And Rosemarie's voice was sweet. INon WMBC was the biggest thing in My fame at home was not for my radio. own songs and my own jokes any more And Rosemarie Mantell was the big- tracks, should become Danny Thomas, but for my nodding acquaintance with gest thing on the Happy Hour. a radio star.) . the sweet singer. She was sixteen, a soprano, the show's But to my family, who weren't afraid "Why don't you bring her home to brightest star, a distinction which was to wish for anything—Rosemarie was dinner, Amos," my Aunt Cecelia sug- hers because she got oceans more fan tabbed for my girl from the start. (And gested matter-of-factly one day. mail than any of the dozen or so other they were just as confident that their "Oh, I couldn't," I replied, choking at youngsters who were regular per- Amos would become a big-timer.) the thought. Why to Rosemarie, who formers on the program. Of those dozen The family started listening to the had been a radio trouper since she was "regulars," I was the newest,, the most Happy Hour every afternoon because I twelve, I was just a kid—an amateur. insignificant and the most scared. That was on it, but after a few days you "Why not," my next to oldest brother Rosemarie would one day be Mrs. Amos would have thought to hear them go prodded me, "you make as much money Jacobs was unthinkable. (Just as it was on that no one was on it but Rosemarie as she does, don't you?" unthinkable that Amos Jacobs, the Mantell. Leave it to the Syrians to That was a big family joke. Every- Syrian kid from the wrong side of the appreciate a sweet song and a sweet one on the Happy Hour got exactly the same salary: nothing. We were all amateurs in the exact sense—the big- gest radio sensation in the city, maybe, but there was no money in it. My family—Syrians laugh easily—thought that was funny. I couldn't see the humor in it myself. Here I was sixteen Home-style movies with ex- years old, going on seventeen, and not tra added attraction: Chita suppbrting myself. It was humiliating. and Margo Thomas get their "Go on, ask her," Aunt Cecelia said comedian dad's commentary. again, just when I thought they'd changed the subject. Syrians are per- sistent, too. "Gwan, gwan," echoed all my brothers and sisters, all ten of them. "Dare ya. Dare ya." So I asked her. Naturally. A dare is a dare. But you could have blown me down with a sneeze when she accepted. She had a good time, too. My mother cooked her a big Syrian dinner, and after we fed her we sang songs for her and danced. And I told some jokes. She laughed and after awhile she sang us some songs, and we all wept a little and had a very fine time. It was as though she had known us all her life. The fact that Rosemarie was the most famous young lady in Detroit and I was just a punk didn't seem important after that evening. And it wasn't really, when we had so much in common. We lived in the same section of the city—the polyglot section of Poles and Armenians and Italians and Hungarians and Greeks. And Jews and Catholics and Protestants. America—like in the song. Rosemarie was one of a big, Catholic Italian family, poor but singing folk. I was one of a big, Catholic Syrian fam- ily—even poorer, but full of tunes. We couldn't help (Continued on page 59) 46 When seventeen-year-old Danny Thomas fell in love with sixteen-year-old Rosemarie Mantell, it didn't look as if they could have much of a wedding. But suddenly, out of nowhere, there was a beautiful wedding with all the trimmings. And when Margo was born, the hospital bill looked like more than the Thomases could manage. But over- night there was enough money, and some to spare. How and why these things happened, Danny thinks he knows; and that's why he wants to build a shrine for St. Jude Thaddeus. 47 The Fresh-Up Show's theme song, as played by Dave Terry and his orchestra Words and Music by DAVID TERRY ¥=* m 3= IE 3 I i i J i Mis - ter, did you know that LA - DY LUCK likes you,. and * w$i WW HB W MM hdt- 1 W3&4 Si £33 l=^f 333 Wf^r~nt 3^3 £ f £ pi^M J UJ O" i 4 j. rf 1^ you 11 like_ LA - DY LUCK? Shes hap - py, she's pleas - ant, 48 M I I 1 1 1 = M--^Jp $ j 1 j j j j j. j- j. M4— and she's oh, so ef - fer - ves - eent._ To meet her is to con- ^Ukiiii piJ^EBf wm tlUM-i-^ '> J * fg? ££3E > J £2? rt *i^ ¥ f | 3T — a |V nr: ^S> m w as f PP^ cede that LA - DY LUCK is what you need.. What time shellohoose m etoh* PB #f» jF mm itrtrri??*rwij? m=f f=F& f=f=j=f ^f^ mm ^m m I*j*f4'r=rf 4* ** ^m ? ^ m to come up and ring the bell. is real - ly hard to B^& iUff H MM mi mi ***-*-'?iW > J > 3E^3 ^P? =F3=? 3^3 3=S SOi ^ P P f H ITE 3E -& sfe f» * ^^ £ ^F tell,. But stay_ and just so you can say that you were there. &> as «-«-«-« 'j. j.H"i i 1 iiliUj^^p utt m . st &^ 3=T=f 333 SP^U twm mif f sf f f ^F^ o a .when she struck. ^Get mat - ey with LA-DY LUCK— 49 FOR CHRISTMAS To prepare fruit, use skins from 6 To prepare fruit, remove skins in medium oranges and 2 medium lemons quarters from 5 medium oranges and and cut in quarters. Lay quarters flat; 1 medium lemon. Lay quarters flat; shave off and discard about half the shave off and discard about half the white part. Put yellow rinds through white part. With a very sharp knife, food chopper twice. Add 1 cup sugar, cut remaining rind into fine shreds. 2V2 cups water, juice from 1 medium Add 1% cups water and Ys teaspoon of the nicest of our holiday lemon and Y& teaspoon soda. (This 1 soda. ONEcustoms is that of preparing cup sugar is in addition to the \Yi cups Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, homemade sweets to send as gifts specified above.) Bring to a boil and for just 10 minutes, stirring occasion- to friends near and far and to serve to simmer, covered, 30 minutes, stirring ally. Cut off tight skin of peeled fruit those who celebrate with us. This year, occasionally. Measure sugar and syrup and slip pulp out of each section. Add when Christmas and the New Year in dish and set aside until needed. Mea- pulp, juice and 1 cup sugar to cooked have such special significance, I am sure sure prepared fruit into a 3 to 4 quart rind. Simmer, covered, 20 minutes you will want to share with your loved kettle, filling up last cup or fraction of longer. This cup of sugar is in addi- ones gifts of your own making, so here cup with water if necessary; place over tion to the lVi cups specified above. are recipes which will help you to do hottest fire. Add powdered fruit pec- Measure sugar and syrup into dish so. Cookies for the boy or girl in tin, mix well and continue stirring un- and set aside (Continued on page 83) Armed Services, cereal balls for the til mixture comes to a hard boil. At children, marmalade and jelly for once pour in sugar and $yrup, stirring the friend who has no time to make constantly. (To reduce foaming, Ya tea- them for herself. Best of all, they spoon butter may be added.) Continue By have been worked out so that today's stirring, bring to a full rolling boil KATE SMITH sugar supply will go a very long way. and boil hard 2 minutes. Skim, pour into containers. Pour melted paraffin THRIFTY MARMALADE over hot marmalade at once. RADIO MIRROR FOOD COUNSELOR (Using Orange and Lemon Skins) ORANGE MARMALADE 3Y2 cups prepared box powdered Listen to Kate Smith's fruit fruit pectin 3% cups prepared IY4 cups light corn daily talks at noon IV4 cups sugar fruit syrup and her Friday night IV4 cups light corn IY4 cups sugar 1 box powdered Variety Show, heard syrup fruit pectin on CBS, 8:30 EST. M:3( 50 INSIDE RADIO -Telling You About Programs and People You Want to Hear . SUNDAY MONDAY Eastern Standard Time Eastern Standard Time 8:30 CBS: The Jubalaires i/i 8:30 ABC: Earl Wilde, pianist W CBS: Bennett Sisters 8:00 00 ABC: Breakfast Club 8:00 00 NBC: Ed East & Polly 9:00 MBS: Young People's Church 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: World News Roundup 6:15 8:15 15 CBS: Arthur Godfrey 8:00 9:00 ABC: Correspondents Around the 8:15 9:00 00 CBS: Valiant Lady World 9:00 00 ABC: My True Story CBS: E. Power Biggs 15 NBC: Lora Lawton 5:00 ABC- White Rabbit Line 8:30 9:15 15 CBS: Light of the World 6:30 NBC: NBC String Quartet 2:00 9:30 30 CBS: Evelyn Winters 30 ABC: Hymns of All Churches CBS: New Voices in Song 30 NBC: Road of Life 7:00 CBS: Church of the Air 30 MBS: Fun with Music ABC: Message of Israel 12:45 9:45 45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 7:00 NBC: Highlights of the Bible 7:45 9:45 45 ABC: Lisa Sergio 7:30 CBS: Wings Over Jordan 45 NBC: Joyce Jordan ABC: Southernaires 10:10 00 CBS: Amanda 7:30 NBC: Words and Music 8:00 10:10 00 ABC: Tom Ereneman's Breakfast 8:30 MBS: Radio Chapel 8:00 10:00 00 NBC: Fred Waring Show MBS: Pauline Alpert 15 CBS: Second Husband 15 8:05 CBS: Blue Jacket Choir MBS: Elsa Maxwell 12:30 10:30 30 CBS: A Woman's Life 8:30 ABC: Hour of Faith 8:30 10:30 30 8:30 ABC: Gilbert Martyn CBS: Invitation to Learning 30 Barry MBS: Reviewing Stand NBC: Cameron 30 MBS: Take It Easy Time NBC: Marion Loveridge 10:45 NO MOSS ON THIS STONE . . . 45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories MBS: Pilgrim Hour 10:45 45 ABC: Ted Malone CBS: Salt Lake Tabernacle There's no time for Paula Stone to collect 45 MBS: What's Your Idea? Eternal 45 NBC: David NBC: The Light any moss. Look at this for a schedule. Harum 9:30 ABC: Friendship Ranch 00 ABC: Glamour Manor 9:30 CBS: Transatlantic Call Twice a week, she interviews Broadway 9:00 11:00 00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks 10:00 CBS: Church of the Air and Hollywood celebrities on her Mutual 9:15 11:15 15 CBS: Big Sister 10:00 ABC: John B. Kennedy show Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:30 15 MBS: Morton Downey NBC: Voice of the Dairy Farmer 9:30 11:30 30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 10:15 ABC: Orson Welles P.M. (EST) —not only handling the inter- 11:30 30 NBC: From the Pacific 9:30 11:30 30 ABC: Farm and Makers 10:15 CBS: Problems of the Peace views on the air, but gathering the stars Home 9:45 11:45 45 Our Gal NBC: America United herself. She also acts as emcee Friday nights CBS: Sunday 10:00 12:00 00 CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful 10:30 ABC: Sammy Kaye's Orch. on Mutual's Leave It To the Girls. Daily 10:30 NBC: Chicago Round Table 10:15 12:15 15 CBS: Ma Perkins MBS: Sweetheart Time she does a 15-minute Broadway news, gos- 10:15 12:15 15 ABC: Constance Bennett CBS: Edward R. Murrow sip and interview show over WNEW, which 45 ABC: Chicago Varieties 45 MBS: John J. Anthony 11:00 NBC: Harvest of Stars is directed, produced and written by la 45 CBS: Young Dr. Malone 11:00 MBS: Chaplain Jim, U. S. A. 11:00 CBS: Stradivari Orchestra Stone. Pretty full, isn't it—and that ain't 11:00 1:00 00 NBC: The Guiding Light 11:00 1:00 ABC: Dorothy Claire, songs all. 00 CBS: Two on a Clue 00 ABC: John B. Kennedy 11:30 CBS: World News Today But Paula from 11:30 NBC: John Charles Thomas comes from a family 11:15 1:15 15 ABC: Ethel & Albert ABC: National Vespers which enterprise and success are expected. 11:15 1:15 15 NBC: Today's Children 11:15 1:15 15 CBS: Perry Mason MBS: Dale Carnegie Her father, Fred Stone, now aged 70, has 15 MBS: Jane Cowl 11:55 C"BS: Olfn Dawns just finished his autobiography "The Rolling 11:30 1:30 30 NBC: Woman in White MBS: 20th Airforce Time 11:30 1:30 30 CBS: Rosemary 12:00 CBS: CBS Symphony Stones" and just a few months ago had com- 11:30 1:30 30 ABC: The Fitzgeralds ABC: Melodies to Remember pleted a 43-week tour as the lead in "You 30 MBS: Queen for a Day NBC: World Parade 11:45 1:45 45 CBS: Tena & Tim Can't Take It With You." Another Stone, 11:45 1:45 12:30 NBC: One Man's Family 45 NBC: Hymns of All Churches Dorothy, played in the show, too. Carol 12:00 2:00 00 ABC: Best Sellers MBS: Land of the Lost 12:00 2:00 00 NBC: Woman of America NBC: NBC Army Hour Stone, the youngest daughter in this famous 12:15 2:15 15 NBC: Ma Perkins 1:00 ABC: Darts for Dough 12:00 2:15 15 CBS: Michael Scott MBS: Your America family, is winning a big name for herself 12:30 2:30 30 ABC: Ladies Be Seated 12:30 2:30 30 NBC: Pepper Young's Family ABC: Jones & I, drama in the Broadway hit, "Dark of the Moon." 12:45 2:45 45 NBC: Right to Happiness 1:30 CBS: The Electric Hour Paula, gal refused to trade on her 1:30 NBC: Tommy Dorsey— RCA Show a who 12:30 2:45 45 CBS: Sing Along MBS: The Nebbs father's in the 00 ABC: Jack Berch well-established name thea- 1:00 3:00 00 CBS: House Party 2:00 NBC: NBC Symphony ter, made an enviable niche for herself in 00 NBC: Backstage Wife 2:00 CBS: The Family Hour 1:15 15 NBC: Stella Dallas ABC: Mary Small Revue Hollywood. She gave up her career in pic- 15 MBS: Johnson Family MBS: The Shadow tures, however, when her late husband, the 1:30 30 NBC: Lorenzo Jones 2:30 MBS: Nick Carter 45 ABC: Hop Harrigan ABC: Charlotte Greenwood Show orchestra leader Duke Daly, joined the 1:45 45 NBC: Young Widder Brown CBS: Gene Autry RAF as a flyer. Paula preferred to be in 45 CBS: Danny O'Neil 2:00 4:00 00 CBS: American School of the Air 2:45 CBS: William L. Shirer the East near her husband to continuing on 2:00 4:00 00 ABC: Terry and the Pirates 3:00 CBS: Ozzie & Harriet 2:00 4:00 00 NBC: When a Girl Marries 3:00 ABC: Radio Hall of Fame the West Coast without him. 00 MBS: Here's How with Peter Howe 3:00 MBS: Quick as a Flash When Paula got off the train in New York 2:15 4:15 15 NBC: Portia Faces Life 3:00 NBC: Catholic Hour 2:15 4:15 15 ABC: Dick Tracy a couple of years ago, she had no plans for 2:15 4:15 3:00 Great Gildersleeve 15 MBS: Superman NBC: The 30 House of Phil Davis MBS: Mystery ABC: a career. Radio hadn't entered her mind. 30 ABC: Jack Armstrong ABC: Drew Pearson But when it was suggested, she couldn't see 30 NBC: Just Plain Bill MBS: Opinion Requested 30 CBS: Cimarron Tavern 4:00 NBC: Jack Benny why she shouldn't try, although she had no 2:45 4:45 45 NBC: Front Page Farrell 9:00 CBS: The Thin Man experience in the field, at all. She started 2:45 4:45 45 ABC: Tennessee Jed MBS: California Melodies 4:45 45 CBS: Sparrow and the Hawk 8:30 ABC: Quiz Kids on WNEW, doing a news-and-views of 45 MBS: Tom Mix 4:30 NBC: Fitch Bandwagon Broadway and Hollywood show—for noth- 5:10 10 CBS: Bill Costello CBS: Blondie 3:15 5:15 15 NBC: Serenade to America ing. It wasn't long before she had a size- 3:30 5:15 15 CBS: Jimmy Carrol, Songs NBC: Charlie McCarthy and Edgar 5:30 30 CBS: Eileen Farrell Bergen able audience, but, better still, a contract. 45 ABC: Charlie Chan MBS: Mediation Board When the station manager approached 45 NBC: Lowell Thomas ABC: Ford Hour 3:55 55 CBS: Joseph C. Harsch 8:00 7:00 CBS: Crime Doctor Paula about doing a show "across the 00 ABC: Headline Edition 5:30 7:30 NBC: Fred Allen board," the uninitiated Miss Stone 8:00 00 NBC: Chesterfield Supper Club accepted 00 CBS: Fulton Lewis, Jr. 5:45 7:45 MBS: Gabriel Heatter immediately, not knowing exactly what the 15 ABC: Raymond Gram Swing 5:55 7:55 CBS: Ned Calmer 7:30 9:30 30 CBS: Thanks to the Yanks term meant, but assuming it meant a steady 4:30 6:30 30 ABC 6:00 Performance The Lone Ranger 8:00 CBS: Request 30 MBS: Cecil Brown 6:00 8:00 Hercule Poiret job. When she discovered it involved six MBS: 00 Cavalcade of 7:00 Walter Winchell NBC: America 8:00 ABC: shows a week and daily guest stars, she just 9:30 7:00 00 CBS: Vox Pop 6:00 8:00 NBC: Manhattan Merry-Go-Round took deep breath and went to the 8:00 7:00 00 ABC Bulldog Drummond 7:45 8:15 ABC: Hollywood Mystery Time a nearest 15 ABC: Hedda Hopper 6:30 8:30 CBS: Texaco Star Theater, James telephone to start digging up available 8:30 7:30 30 CBS: Joan Davis 5:30 7:30 30 NBC: Voice of Firestone Melton stars. 9:30 MBS: Double or Nothing 5:30 7:30 30 MBS: Sherlock Holmes 5:55 9:30 NBC: American Album of Familiar Not that radio occupies all of her time by 7:55 55 CBS: Bill Henry Music 00 ABC: Washington Story a long shot. She's written a children's novel 6:00 8:00 00 CBS: Lux Radio Theater 9:45 ABC: Jimmie Fidler called 9:00 8:00 00 NBC: The Telephone Hour 9:45 MBS: Dorothy Thompson "The Rain Prince." She speaks 15 MBS: Real Stories 7:00 9:00 10:00 CBS: Take It or Leave It French, Italian and Spanish and is now 6:30 30 NBC: Information Please 7:00 9:00 Theatre Guild Series 30 MBS: Spotlight Bands 10:00 ABC: busy learning to speak Russian. And, as if 7:C0 9:00 10:00 NBC: Hour of Charm 6:55 55 ABC: Coronet Story Teller 10:00 MBS: Operatic Review that weren't enough, she's shown such re- 00 ABC: Pacific Serenade 7:00 9:00 00 CBS: Screen Guild Players 9:30 10:30 NBC: Meet Me at Parky's markable talent in the field of popular sing- 7:00 9:00 00 NBC: Contented Program 9:30 10:30 CBS: We the People ing that several name band leaders have 00 MBS: Leave It To Mike 10:00 11:00 CBS: Bill Costello 9:30 30 CBS: Stuart Erwin Show been trying to talk her into going to work 9:30 30 NBC: Dr. I. Q. 10:15 11:15 NBC: Cesar Searchinger 30 ABC: Win, Place or Show 10:30 11:30 NBC: Pacific Story for them. 30, M BS: The Better Half 51 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Eastern Standard Time Eastern Standard Time 6 8:15 ABC: Your Life Today O 8:00 9:00 ABC: Breakfast Club 8:00 9:00 ABC: Breakfast Club 8:00 9:00 NBC: Ed East and Polly 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: Ed East 2:30 9:15 CBS: Arthur Godfrey & Polly 6:15 2:30 9:10 CBS: Arthur 9:45 NBC: Daytime Classics Godfrey 8:15 9:30 10:00 CBS: Valiant Lady 9:00 10:00 CBS: Valiant Lady 9:00 10:00 ABC: My True Story 6:45 9:45 NBC: Daytime Classics 9:00 10:00 NBC: Robert St. John 9:00 10:00 NBC: Robert St. John 10:15 NBC: Lora Lawton 10:30 9:00 10:00 ABC: My True Story 3:30 9:15 10:15 CBS: Light of the World 10:15 NBC: Lora Lawton 10:15 MBS: From Me to You 10:15 MBS: From Me to You 2:00 9:30 10:30 CBS: Evelyn Winters 8:30 10:15 CBS: Light of the World 10:30 ABC: Hymns of All Churches 2:00 10:30 CBS: Evelyn Winters 10:30 NBC: Road of Life 10:30 ABC: Hymns of All Churches 10:30 MBS: Fun With Music 10:30 NBC: Road of Life 10:45 ABC: The Listening Post 10:30 MBS: Fun with Music 10:45 NBC: Joyce Jordan 10:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 10:00 11:00 CBS: Amanda 10:45 ABC: The Listening Post 8:00 10:00 11:00 ABC: Tom Breneman's Breakfast 10:45 NBC: Joyce Jordan 8:00 10:00 11:00 NBC: Fred Waring Show 8:00 11:00 ABC: Tom Breneman's Breakfast 8:00 11:00 11:15 MBS: Elsa Maxwell NBC: Fred Waring Show 11:15 CBS: Second Husband 11:00 CBS: Amanda 11:15 2:30 10:30 11:30 CBS: A Woman's Life CBS: Second Husband 3:30 10:30 11:30 ABC: Gilbert Martyn 11:15 MBS: Elsa Maxwell 11:30 NBC: Barry Cameron LADY'S LADY... 12:30 11:30 CBS: A Woman's Life 11:30 MBS: Take It Easy Time 8:30 11:30 ABC: Gilbert Martyn When WABC was looking for just the 3:45 10:45 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 11:30 NBC: Barry Cameron 8:45 10:45 11:45 ABC: Ted Malone right person to put over a special series of 11:30 MBS: Take It Easy Time 8:45 10:45 11:45 NBC: David Harum 8:45 11:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories programs designed to recruit WACs for the 8:45 12:00 11:45 ABC: Ted Malone ABC: Glamour Manor 8:45 12:00 Kate Smith Speaks General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Company, 11:45 NBC: David Harum CBS: 12:00 ABC: Glamour Manor 12:15 MBS: Morton Downey the executives, to a man decided Margaret 12:00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks 3:15 12:15 CBS: Big Sister Arlen 12:15 MBS: Morton Downey was the one to do the job. And she 9:15 9:30 11:30 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 12:15 CBS: Big Sister 9:30 11:30 12:30 did it. In one month's time, due to Miss 12:30 NBC: From the Pacific ABC: Farm and Home Makers 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC: From the Pacific Arlen's logical 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent persuasive and talks, 1,475 9:30 12:30 ABC: Farm and Home Makers 9:45 11:45 12:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday applications were received. And this in 9:45 12:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday 10:00 12:00 1:00 10:00 1:00 CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful spite of the fact that the at that 10:00 Sketches in Melody war news 10:15 1:15 CBS: Ma Perkins 1:00!NBC: 10:15 10:15 time was good and that the girls who ap- 1:15 ABC: Constance Bennett 12:15 1:15 CBS: Ma Perkins 10:30 1:30 CBS: Margaret 10:15 1:15 Macdonald 12:15 ABC: Constance Bennett plied knew in advance that they weren't 10:45 1:45 CBS: Dr. 10:30 1:30 Young Malone 12:30 CBS: Margaret Macdonald 10:45 1:45 ABC: Chicago Varieties 1:30 MBS: Paula Stone & Phil Brito offering to sign up for any possible ro- 11:00 2:00 NBC: The Guiding Light 10:45 12:45 1:45 CBS: Young Dr. Malone mantic overseas duty. 2:00 ABC: John B. Kennedy 12:45 1:45 NBC: Morgan Beatty, News 11:00 2:00 CBS: Two on a Clue 1:45 MBS: John J. Anthony Miss Arlen is from North Carolina. Her 12:15 2:15 ABC: Ethel & Albert 11:00 1:00 2:00 NBC: The Guiding Light 11:15 father is the Rev. H. B. Hines of Oriental, 2:15 NBC: Today's Children 11:00 1:00 2:00 ABC: John B. Kennedy, News 11:15 2:15 CBS: Perry Mason 11:00 1:00 2:00 CBS: Two on a Clue North Carolina, and her mother still 2:15 MBS: Jane Cowl 11:45 1:15 2:15 ABC: Ethel & Albert 11:30 2:30 CBS: Rosemary 2:15 MBS: Jane Cowl teaches school there. Margaret is an honor 11:30 2:30 ABC: The Fitzgeralds 11:15 1:15 2:15 NBC: Today's Children graduate of Meredith College, in Raleigh, 11:30 2:30 NBC: Woman in White 11:15 1:15 2:15 CBS: Perry Mason 2:30 MBS: Queen for a Day 11:30 1:30 2:30 NBC: Woman in White N. C. and, since her graduation, much of 11:45 2:45 CBS: Tena & Tim 11:30 1:30 2:30 Rosemary 11:45 CBS: her varied work was a sort of unconscious 2:45 NBC: Hymns of All Churches 11:30 1:30 2:30 ABC: The Fitzgeralds 12:00 3:00 ABC: Best Sellers 2:30 MBS: Queen for a Day preparation for the regular program she 12:00 3:00 NBC: A Woman of America 11:45 1:45 2:45 CBS: Tena & Tim 3:00 CBS: Milton Bacon 11:45 1:45 2:45 NBC: Hymns of All Churches now has on CBS at 8:45 A.M. (EST), Mon- 3:00 MBS: The Smoothies 3:00 CBS: Milton Bacon days through Saturdays. 12:15 3:15 NBC: Ma Perkins 12:00 2:00 3:00 ABC: Best Sellers 3:15 CBS: Michael Scott 12:00 2:00 3:00 NBC: A Woman of America Long before she ever thought of radio as 12:30 3:30 CBS: Sing Along Club 12:00 3:15 2:15 CBS: Michael Scott a career, Margaret was laying the founda- 12:30 3:30 NBC: Pepper Young's Family 12:15 2:15 3:15 NBC: Ma Perkins 3:30 ABC: Ladies Be Seated 12:30 2:30 3:30 NBC: Pepper Young's Family tion for it. She was a teacher, for awhile, 3:45 NBC: Right to Happiness 3:30 ABC: Ladies Be Seated 3:45 CBS: Sing Along 2:45 3:45 CBS: Sing Alone and a social worker. She also did a lot of 1:00 4:00 NBC: Backstage Wife 3:30 MBS: The Smoothies writing and some editing. She did a lot 1:00 4:00 CBS: House Party 12:45 2:45 3:45 NBC: Right to Happiness 4:00 ABC: Jack Berch 12:45 2:45 4:00 ABC: JaCk Berch of public speaking in the South, before 4:15 ABC: Beautiful Music 1:00 3:00 4:00 CBS: House Party women's clubs and civic groups and that 1:15 4:15 NBC: Stella Dallas 1:00 3:00 4:00 NBC: Backstage Wife 1:30 4:30 NBC: Lorerlzo Jones 1:15 3:15 4:15 NBC: Stella Dallas led, eventually, to her attracting the atten- 4:45 ABC: Hop Harrigan 1:30 3:30 4:30 NBC: Lorenzo Jones 1:30 4:45 CBS: Danny O'Neil 4:45 ABC: Hop Harrigan tion of local radio executives. 1:45 4:45 NBC: Young Widder Brown 1:45 3:45 4:45 NBC: Young Widder Brown Miss Arlen then known as Margaret 2:00 5:00 CBS: American School of the Air 4:45 CBS: Danny O'Neil, Songs — 2:00 5:00 ABC: Terry and the Pirates 2:00 4:00 5:00 ABC: Terry and the Pirates Early—finally got the job of director of 2:00 5:00 NBC: When a Girl Marries 2:00 4:00 5:00 Marries NBC: When a Girl women's activities at station in 5:00 MBS: Here's How with Peter Howe 2:00 4:00 5:00 CBS: American School of the Air WGBR 2:15 5:15 NBC: Portia Faces Life 2:15 4:00 5:00 MBS: Here's How with Peter Howe Goldsboro, N. C, which turned out to be a 2:15 5:15 ABC: Dick Tracy 2:15 4:15 5:15 NBC: Portia Faces Life 5:15 MBS: Superman 2:15 4:15 5:15 ABC: Dick Tracy much larger job than the title indicates. 5:30 CBS: Cimarron Tavern 5:15 MBS: Superman Miss Early was at various times, on that 5:30 5:30 ABC: Jack Armstrong 5:30 5:30 5:30 ABC: Jack Armstrong 2:30 5:30 MBS: Superman 2:30 4:30 5:30 NBC: Just Plain Bill station, a continuity writer, book reviewer, 2:30 5:30 NBC: Just Plain Bill 5:30 CBS: Cimarron Tavern director of fashion shows and commentator. 5:30 MBS: House of Mystery 5:30 MBS: House of Mystery 5:45 5:45 ABC: Tennessee Jed 5:45 5:45 5:45 ABC: Tennessee Jed She also filled in as station organist and 2:45 5:45 NBC: Front Page Farrell 2:45 4:45 5:45 NBC: Front Page Farrell 5:45 CBS: The Sparrow and the Hawk 5:45 CBS: Sparrow and the Hawk contralto soloist. All of which was excel- 5:45 MBS: Tom Mix 5:45 MBS: Tom Mix lent experience if a somewhat full sehedule. 6:10 CBS: Bill Costello 6:00 NBC: Amos & Andy 3:30 6:15 CBS: Jimmy Carroll, Songs 9:30 5:15 6:15 CBS: Edwin C. Hill Then, Miss Arlen moved over to station 3:15 6:15 NBC: Serenade to America 3:15 5:15 6:15 America NBC: Serenade to at Raleigh, N. again to do odd 6:30 CBS: Eileen Farrell 5:30 6:30 NBC: Clem McCarthy, Sports WRAL, C, 6:40 NBC: Clem McCarthy 6:45 ABC: Charlie Chan jobs, among them being a special events 6:45 ABC: Charlie Chan 3:35 5:45 6:45 CBS: The World Today 6:45 NBC: Lowell Thomas 6:45 NBC: Lowell Thomas announcer—a job rarely given to women, 7:00 ABC: Headline Edition 3:55 6:55 8:00 CBS: Joseph C. Harsch since it includes announcing and broad- 7:00 CBS: Jack Kirkwood 8:00 6:00 7:00 NBC: Chesterfield Supper Club 7:15 ABC: Raymond Gram Swing 4:00 6:00 7:00 ABC: Headline Editor casting descriptions of sports events. Miss 7:15 MBS: Listen to the Waves 8:15 6:15 7:15 Adventures of Ellery CBS: Jack Smith that part of the job, 7:30 CBS: Queen 7:15 ABC: Raymond Gram Swing Arlen compromised on 7:30 ABC: The Lone Ranger 7:30 ABC: County Fair by describing the crowds at football games, 7:30 MBS: Cecil Brown 4:30 6:30 7:30 CBS: American Melody Hour 4:45 7:45 NBC: H. V. Kaltenborn 9:00 6:30 7:30 NBC: Barry Fitzgerald while a sports announcer took over the 9:00 8:00 CBS: Jack Carson Show 9:00 7:00 8:00 CBS: Big Town actual game itself. She was later made 8:00 8:00 ABC: Lum 'n* Abner 8:30 7:00 8:00 ABC: Lum 'n' Abner 9:15 8:00 MBS: Music for Half an Hour 8:30 7:00 8:00 NBC: Barry Woods, Roland Young program director for this station. 9:00 8:00 NBC: Mr. and Mrs. North Cornelia Otis Skinner 8:15 MBS: Now It Can Be Told 8:30 ABC: Alan Young Show All her experience—as a teacher, a 8:30 8:30 CBS: Dr. Christian 5:311 7:30 8:30 NBC: A Date With Judy speaker, a writer—and all her accumulated 8:30 MBS: Fresh Up Show 9:00 7:30 8:30 CBS: Theatre of Romance 8:30 8:30 ABC: Fishing and Hunting Club 8:30 MBS: Adventures of the Falcon impressions and knowledge, gathered over 8:30 8:30 NBC: Evening With Romberg 5:55 7:30 8:55 CBS: Bill Henry the years when she was doing all kinds of 5:55 8:55 CBS: Bill Henry 5:00 7:00 9:00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter 6:00 9:00 ABC: Curtain Time— Drama 6:00 8:00 9:00 ABC: Guy Lombardo assignments and meeting all kinds of 6:00 9:00 CBS: Frank Sinatra Show 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: Inner Sanctum things that her daily 6:00 9:00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter 9:00 NBC: Amos & Andy people, are the make 6:00 9:00 NBC: Eddie Cantor 9:15 MBS: Real Stories morning program the interesting, human 9:15 MBS: Real Stories 6:30 8:30 9:30 CBS: This Is My Best 6:30 9:30 CBS: Maisie 6:30 8:30 9:30 ABC: Doctor Talks It Over show that it is. She knows and understands 6:30 9:30 ABC: Swinging on the Golden Gacr 6:30 9:30 9:30 NBC: Fibber McGee and Molly women and their needs and desires espe- 6:30 9:30 NBC: Mr. District Attorney 6:30 8:30 9:30 MBS: American Forum of the Air 6:55 9:55 ABC: Coronet Story Teller 6:55 8:55 9:55 ABC: Coronet Story Teller cially well. This understanding, no doubt, 7:00 10:00 CBS: Great Moments in Music 7:00 10:00 NBC: Kay Kyser 10:00 ABC: Transatlantic Quiz effective in the strenuous campaign she 7:00 9:00 10:00 NBC: Bob Hope was 7:00 10:00 ABC: Counter Spy 7:00 9:00 10:00 CBS: The Ford Show waged to help recruit the needed WACs to 10:00 MBS: Human Adventure 10:30 10:30 10:30 CBS: Congress Speaks 7:30 CBS: Milton Berle 10:30 MBS: Return to Duty take care of our wounded and disabled. 10:30 CBS: Andrews Sisters 10:^0 Ralph Slater 10:30 NBC: Hildegarde it all she charming, MBS: And with remains 30 Lee Mortimer 11:15 ( lis Joan Brooks ABC: ll:30lCBS: Crime Photographer serene, always calm. 30, MRS Dance Band 52 . — THURSDAY FRIDAY H H EasternEa ste Standard Time H H Eastern Standard Time i/> vj l/l a. 6 a. O 15|NBC: Do You Remember? 8:00 9:00 ABC: Breakfast Club 8:00 OoIaBC: Breakfast Club 6:00 8:00 9 :00 NBC: Ed East and Polly 6:00 8:00 00 NBC: Ed East and Polly 6:15 2:30 9 :15 CBS: Arthur Godfrey MBS: Shady Valley Folks 9 :30 MBS: Shady Valley Folks 6:45 NBC: Daytime Classics 6:45 9 :45 NBC: Daytime Classics 8:15 9:10 CBS: Valiant Lady 9:00 8:15 9:00 10 :00 CBS: Valiant Lady ABC: My True Story 10:30 9:00 10 .00 ABC: My True Story NBC: Lora Lawton 8:30 9:15 10 :15 NBC: Lora Lawton CBS: Light of the World MBS: From Me to You 9:00 10 :00 NBC: Robert St. John 2:00 9:30 CBS: Evelyn Winters 8:30 9:15 10 .15 CBS: Light of the World ABC: Letty Crocker 10 15 MBS: From Me to You NBC: Road of Life 9:30 10 30 NBC: Road of Life MBS: Fun with Music 2:00 10 30 CBS: Evelyn Winters 12:45 9:45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 10 30 ABC: Hymns of All Churches NBC: Joyce Jordan 10 30 MBS: Fun With Music 9:45 ABC: The Listening Post 12:45 9:45 10 45 CBS: Bachelor's Children 8:00 10:00 ABC: Tom Breneman's Breakfast 9:45 10 45 ABC: The Listening Post 8:00 10:00 NBC: Fred Waring Show 10 45 NBC: Joyce Jordan 10:00 CBS: Honeymoon Hill 10:00 11 00 CBS: Amanda 11 00 Breneman's Breakfast 10:15 CBS: Second Husband 8:00 10:00 ABC: Tom MBS: Elsa Maxwell 8:00 10:00 11 00 NBC: Fred Waring Show 10:15 11 15 CBS: Second Husband 12:30 10:00 CBS: Sing Along 11 15 MBS: Elsa Maxwell V A WORD 8:30 10:30 ABC: Gilbert Martyn 12:30 10:30 11 30 CBS: Bright Horizon NBC: Barry Cameron 8:30 10:30 11 30 ABC: Gilbert Martyn Hector Chevigny is one of the most pro- MBS: Take it Easy Time 11 30 NBC: Barry Cameron 8:45 10:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories 11 30 MBS: Take It Easy Time lific writers in radio. He writes the scripts 8:45 10:45 ABC: Ted Malone 8:45 10:45 11 45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Stories for the five-a-week Morton Downey show. 8:45 10:45 NBC: David Harum 8:45 10:45 11 45 ABC: Ted Malone MBS: What's Your Idea? 8:45 10:45 11 45 NBC: David Harum He contributes to the CBS Radio Theatre, 11 45 MBS: What's Your Idea? ABC: Glamour Manor 12 00 ABC: Glamour Manor to the Screen Guild Players, the NBC Mys- 9:00 11:00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks 9:00 11:00 12 00 CBS: Kate Smith Speaks tery Theatre, Inner Sanctum and to the 9:15 11:15 CBS: Big Sister 9:15 11:15 12 15 CBS: Big Sister MBS: Morton Downey 12 15 CBS: Irene Beasley Cavalcade of America programs. Besides NBC: From the Pacific 12 15 MBS: Morton Downey all this, in the past couple of war years, 9:30 11:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 9:30 11:30 12 30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent 9:30 11:30 ABC: Farm and Home Makers 9:30 11:30 12 30 ABC: Farm and Home Makers he's turned out ninety Treasury Parade 9:45 11:45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday 11:30 12 30 NBC: From the Pacific 10:00 12:00 CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful 9:45 11:45 12 45 CBS: Our Gal Sunday scripts, which is a good bit more than any 10:00 12:00 ABC: Baukhage Talking 10:00 12:00 1 00 CBS: Life Can Be Beautiful other single writer has done. 10:15 12:15 ABC: Constance Bennett 10:00 12:00 1 00 ABC: Baukhage Talking 10:15 12:15 CBS: Ma Perkins 10:15 12:15 1 15 CBS: Ma Perkins There is something special about all this MBS: Luncheon with Lopez 10:15 12:15 1 15 ABC: Constance Bennett productivity. For the last two years, 10:30 12:30 CBS: Bernadine Flynn. News 1 15 MBS: Luncheon with Lopez 10:45 12:45 CBS: Young Dr. Malone 10:30 12:30 1 30 CBS: Margaret Macdonald Chevigny has been blind. 12:45 NBC: Morgan Beatty 1 30 MBS: Paula Stone & Phil Brito descent. MBS: John J. Anthony 10:40 12:45 1 45 ABC: Chicago Varieties Chevigny is of French Canadian 11:00 1:00 NBC: The Guiding Light 10:45 12:45 1 45 CBS: Young Dr. Malone He was born in Missoula, Montana, and he 11:00 1:00 ABC: John B. Kennedy, News 1 45 MBS: John J. Anthony 11:00 1:00 CBS: Two on a Clue 11:00 1:00 2 00 NBC: The Guiding Light grew up in the West. He attended Gonzaga 11:15 1:15 NBC: Today's Children 2 00 News 11:00 1:00 ABC: John B. Kennedy, University, which also served as the school- ABC: Ethel and Albert 11:00 1:00 2 00 CBS: Two on a Clue 11:15 1:15 CBS: Perry Mason 2 15 ABC: Ethel and Albert ing place of the Crosby brothers. MBS: Jane Cowl 11:15 1:15 2 15 NBC: Today's Children 11:30 1:30 CBS: Rosemary 11:15 1:15 2 15 CBS: Perry Mason The itch to write came early to Hector 11:30 1:30 ABC: The Fitzgeralds 11:30 1:30 2 30 CBS: Rosemary Chevigny. He didn't stay at college long 11:30 1:30 NBC: Woman in White 11:30 1:30 2 30 ABC: The Fitzgeralds MBS: Queen for a Day 11:30 1:30 2 10 NBC: Woman in White enough to get a degree, because before that 11:45 1:45 CVS: Tena & Tim 2 15 MBS: Jane Cowl happened he got a job as a commercial 11:45 1:45 NBC: Betty Crocker 2 30 MBS: Queen for a Day 12:00 2:00 ABC: Best Sellers 11:45 1:45 2 45 CBS: Tena & Tim writer for station KOMO in Seattle. By 12:00 2:00 NBC: A Woman of America 11:45 1:45 2 45 NBC: Hymns of All Churches ABC: Appointment With Life 3. 00 CBS: Milton Bacon 1932, he was writing dramatic shows and, 12:15 2:15 NBC: Ma Perkins 12:00 2:00 3 00 ABC: Best Sellers in three years, had earned himself such a CBS: Michael Scott 12:00 2:00 3 00 NBC: A Woman of America 2:30 CBS: Sing Along Club 3: 15 ABC: Appointment with Life good reputation that he was made the script ABC: Ladies, Be Seated 12:15 2:15 3 15 NBC: Ma Perkins director for in Hollywood. That job 12:30 2:30 NBC: Pepper Young's Family 3- 15 CBS: Michael Scott CBS 12:45 2:45 NBC: Right to Happiness 12:30 2:30 3: 30 NBC: Pepper Young's Family didn't call for enough writing, so Chevigny ABC: Jack Berch 3: 30 ABC: Ladies, Be Seated 1:00 3:00 CBS: House Party 3- 30 MBS: The smoothies branched out a bit and pretty soon was 1:00 3:00 NBC: Backstage Wife 12:45 2:45 3 45 NBC: Right to Happiness selling to the movies and to leading maga- 1:15 3:15 NBC: Stella Dallas 12:30 3. 45 CBS: Sing Along 1:25 CBS: Feature Story, Bob Trout 4 00 ABC: Jack Berch zines, as well as to radio. 3:00 NBC: Lorenzo Jones 1:00 3:00 4 00 CBS: House Party Then, Chevigny went blind. He had 1:30 3:45 CBS: Danny O'Neil, Songs 1:00 3:00 4 00 NBC: Backstage Wife ABC: Hop Harrigan 1:15 3:15 4 15 NBC: Stella Dallas three operations in as many months. Those 1:45 3:45 NBC: Young Widder Brown 1:30 3:30 4 30 NBC: Lorenzo Jones CBS: Danny O'Neil 1:30 3:45 4 45 CBS: Danny O'Neil were three bad months for him, quite aside 2:00 4:00 CBS: American School of the Air 4 45 ABC: Hop Harrigan from the operations. His first thought, of 2:00 4:00 ABC: Terry and the Pirates 1:45 3:45 4 45 NBC: Young Widder Brown 2:00 4:00 NBC: When A Girl Marries 4 45 CBS: Milt Herth Trio course, was that he was through as a writer. MBS: Here's How with Peter Howe 5 School of the Air 2:00 4:00 00 CBS: American But, once he learned that medical sci- 2:15 4:15 NBC: Portia Faces Life 2:00 4:00 5 00 ABC: Terry and the Pirates 2:15 4:15 ABC: Dick Tracy 2:00 4:00 5 00 NBC: When a Girl Marries ence couldn't help him to regain his sight, MBS: Superman 5 00 MBS: Here's How with Peter Howe 4:30 CBS: Cimarron Tavern 2:15 4:15 5 15 NBC: Portia Faces Life he realized that his first reaction had been 5:30 5:30 ABC: Jack Armstrong 2:15 4:15 5 IS ABC: Dick Tracy wrong. A writer didn't have to see with 2:30 4:30 MBS: House of Mystery 5 15 MBS: Superman 2:30 4:30 NBC: Just Plain Bill 4:30 5 30 CBS: Cimarron Tavern his eyes. There were other ways to gather 2:45 4:45 NBC: Front Page Farrell 5:30 5:30 5 30 ABC: Jack Armstrong impressions from the outside world. He 2:45 CBS: Wilderness Road 2:30 4:30 5 30 MBS: House of Mystery CBS: Sparrow and the Hawk 2:30 4:30 5 30 NBC: Just Plain Bill could hear and feel and think. Writing was ABC: Tennessee Jed 5:45 5:45 5 45 ABC: Tennessee Jed MBS: Tom Mix 2:45 4:45 5 45 NBC: Front Page Farrell a thing of ideas. He just had to change his ABC: Kiernan's News Corner 5 45 CBS: Sparrow and the Hawk methods of getting his ideas down on paper. 3:30 5:15 CBS: Jimmy Carroll, Songs 5 45 MBS: Tom Mix 3:15 5:15 NBC: Serenade to America 5:15 6 15 CBS: Calling Pan America Now, he dictates his scripts to a stenogra- 5:30 CBS: Sally Moore & Eileen Farrell 3:15 5:15 6 15 NBC: Serenade to America takes them down directly on a NBC: Clem McCarthy 5:30 6 30 NBC: Clem McCarthy pher who NBC: Lowell Thomas 3:45 5:45 6 45 CBS: The World Today machine. He also had a condition in hiring ABC: Charlie Chan 6 45 NBC: Lowell Thomas 3:45 5:45 CBS: The World Today 6 45 ABC: Charlie Chan his secretary—a condition which rather 3:55 5:55 CBS: Joseph C. Harsch 8:00 6:00 7 00 NBC: Chesterfield Supper Club surprised his friends. She had to be pretty. ABC: Headline Edition 10:00 7 00 CBS: Jack Kirkwood Show 10:00 CBS: Mommie & the Men 7 00 ABC: Headline Edition But his reasoning was sound enough. He 8:00 6:00 NBC: Chesterfield Music Shop 15 ABC: 8:15 6:15 7 CBS: Jack Smith feels that attractive girls are better ad- Raymond Gram Swing 7 15 ABC: Raymond Gram Swing 8:15 6:15 CBS: Jack Smith 4:30 6:30 7 30 CBS: Mr. Keen justed, because they have fewer frustra- 4:00 NBC: News of the World 6:30 6:30 7 30 NBC: Bob Burns 4:30 6:30 7:30 CBS: Ginny Simms Show 7 30 MBS: Cecil Brown tions than less well endowed girls, and are 6:30 7:30 ABC: The Lone Ranger 8 00 NBC: Burns and Allen therefore easier to work with, whether you 9:00 7:00 8:00 CBS: The Aldrich Family 8:00 7:00 8 00 ABC: Lum 'n' Abner 7:00 8:00 NBC: Highways in Melody 9:00 7:00 8 00 CBS: Suspense can see them or not. Paul Lavalle 8 30 CBS: FBI in Peace and War ABC: Blind Date 8:30 7:30 Chevigny is a familiar figure in the radio 5:30 7:30 8 30 ABC: America's Town Meeting ABC: This Is Your FBI 9:00 8 30 NBC: Dinah Shore's Open House studios, both in New York and Hollywood. 8:30 7:30 NBC: Duffy's Tavern 8 30 MBS: Rogue's Gallery 9:30 CBS: Kate Smith Sings 5:55 7:55 8 55 CBS: Bill Henry He's a quiet, thoughtful man. His insep- MBS: Freedom of Opportunity 6:00 8:00 9 00 CBS: Chrysler Show arable companion—and his eyes—is a 5:55 7:55 CBS: Bill Henry 6:00 8:00 9 00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter 8:30 8:00 ABC: Famous Jury Trials 6:00 8:00 9 00 NBC: Kraft Music Hall gentle giant of a dog named Wizard. 6:00 8:00 MBS: Gabriel Heatter Real Stories NBC: People Are Funny 9 15 MBS: When Chevigny first went blind, his 6:30 8:30 9 30 ABC: Detect and Collect MBS: Real Stories 6:30 8:30 9 30 CBS: Hobby Lobby many friends in radio were deeply con- 6:30 8:30 CBS: Those Websters Treasure Hour of Song 6:30 8:30 ABC: The Sheriff 9 30 MBS: five 9 30 NBC: Jack Haley cerned about him. But months after 6:30 8:30 MBS: Double or Nothing 6:55 8:55 9 55 ABC: Coronet Story Teller his operations, he was back at work and he NBC: Waltz Time 7:00 9:00 10 00 CBS: The First Line 6:55 8:55 ABC: Coronet Story Teller 7:00 9:00 10 00 ABC: One Foot In Heaven goes dancing at least once a week with his MBS: Leave It to Mike 10 00 MBS: Arch Oboler's Plays wife and spends as much time as he can 7:00 9:00 NBC: Molle Mystery Theater 10 00 NBC: Abbott and Costello 7:00 9:00 CBS: Durante and Moore 7:30 9:45 10 33 CBS: Romance, Rhythm & Ripley with his two sons, aged 13 and 10. He's ABC: Boxing Bouts 7:30 10 30 NBC: Rudy Vallee 7:30 CBS: Danny Kay's Show 10 30 MBS: Swim's the Thing learning to read Braille in his spare time. 7:30 Bill Stern 53 " " " —" " " " — SATURDAY To the End of the Journey H h Eastern Standard Time vi (A 8:15 CBS: Music of Today a! U 8:15 NBC: Richard Leibert, Organist (Continued from page 30) 8:30 CBS: Missus Goes A-Shopping 8:30 ABC: United Nation News, Review together whatever happened, forever. chair his mother had vacated. He I believed that, that night. I felt close picked one of the pieces 8:45 CBS: Margaret Arlen up of clothing, to John, close as never before. I was a child's shirt, turned it around in his 8:00 9:00 ABC: Breakfast Club 5:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: Home Is What You Make It given the guest room, and John was hands, examined it as if it would some- separated from me by the length of the how give him a starting point. Finally 8:15 9:15 CBS: The Garden Gate house, in his old room at the back, but I could stand it no longer. "John! 9:30 CBS: Country Journal still I didn't feel apart from him. Deep Please— 9:30 NBC: Adventures of Archie Andrews down inside me I was afraid, and I He put the shirt down. "I'm sorry, 8:45 9:45 CBS: David Shoop Orchestra tried to analyze my fear, tried to Beth. I didn't mean to be gone so 9:00 10:00 CBS: Give and Take think what we were going to do, tried long. I left Mary Lou hours ago, and 7:00 9:00 10:00 NBC: Teentimers Show even to think about Mary Lou. But I've been walking around, trying to 10:15 MBS: Rainbow House she wasn't a real person to me; noth- get things straight in my mind. I 11:00 9:30 10:30 CBS: Mary Lee Taylor ing was real but John's saying broken- can't see any way out. Doc Evans 10:30 NBC: Doc. Duke and the Colonel — 10:30 ABC: Johnny Thompson and ly, "Thank God for you, darling told Mary Lou that there isn't a doubt llene Woods and I went to sleep with his voice in in a hundred about the baby. That's 8:00 10:00 11:00 ABC: Harry Kogen's Orchestra 11:00 NBC: First Piano Quartet my ears, feeling as near to him as if about all there is to say, except that I in she feels worse than I 8:05 11:05 CBS: Let's Pretend were his arms. do about every thing. If that's possible. She was 8:30 10:30 11:30 ABC: Vagabonds THINK that I was the only one in — 8:30 10:30 11:30 NBC: Smilin' Ed McConnell 1 almost hysterical 11:30 MBS: Hookey Hall the house who slept at all that night. My hands went cold in my lap, and 11:45 ABC: Note From a Dairy At the breakfast table Mr. and Mrs. the cold spread through my whole 9:00 11:00 12:00 CBS: Theater of Today Dorn were red-eyed from lack of until I felt turned to stone. I 9:00 11:00 12:00 ABC: Piano Playhouse body 11:00 12:00 NBC: News sleep, and John's face was haggard and moistened my lips, swallowed to clear 12:00 MBS: House of Mystery drawn. It was a silent meal, and my throat. "What—then what are 9:15 11:15 12:15 NBC: Consumer Time when it was over, everyone escaped we—going to do? What do you want 9:30 11:30 12:30 CBS: Stars Over Hollywood as soon as possible. Mr. Dorn put me to do?" 9:30 11:30 12:30 ABC: Farm Bureau on his hat and went to the store; spoke levelly, without expres- 9:30 11:30 12:30 NBC: Atlantic Spotlight He John went upstairs; Mrs. Dorn hur- sion. "It's not a question of what I 12:45 MBS: Red Cross Reporter ried the dishes into the kitchen. I want to do, or what I want you to 1:30 NBC: The Veteran's Aid followed her and picked up a towel, do. It's what has to be done. It's 10:00 12:00 1:00 CBS: Grand Central Station 10:00 12:00 1:00 ABC: Saturday Senier Swing intending to help, but she stopped me. the way out we've got to find out of 1:00 MBS: Luncheon with Lopez "Oh, no," she said nervously. "I'll this. The baby has to be cared for, 1:00 NBC: Farm & Home Hour — 10:30 12:30 1:30 CBS: Youth on Parade do these." And then as if she were and Mary Lou is so helpless 1:30 MBS: Symphonies for Youth afraid she'd offended me, she added 1:30 ABC: Round-up Time "What do you want me to do?" I quickly, "You can help later, with repeated. They seemed to be the only 1:00 12:45 1:45 CBS: Football Ted Husing — my sewing, if you like. It's much more 10:45 12:45 1:45 NBC: Football — words I knew. important He raised his eyes to mine, and the 2:00 ABC: Football I didn't have time to be offended, be- sick misery in them made me long 2:30 CBS: Carolina Hayride cause John came downstairs then and to take him in my arms and comfort 3:00 MBS: This Is Halloran called me into the livingroom. "I'm him, as I would comfort a lost child. 4:00 ABC: Saturday Symphony going to have a talk with Mary Lou," When he spoke his voice was so dull, he said. "You'll be all right, Beth? so low, that I could hardly hear the 4:30 MBS: Music for Half an Hour — 4:30 NBC: World of Melody You'll find something to do words, hardly make sense of them. I nodded. "I'll be all right. Oh, But I did hear two words. I heard 5:00 ABC: Duke Ellington — 2:00 5:00 CBS: We Deliver the Goods John " And then I could only look "divorce" and I heard "annulment." 2:00 4:00 5:00 NBC: Grand Hotel up at him, unable to finish, unable to They set free, those two words, the 5:15 MBS: Sports Parade say everything that was in my heart. storm of fear, of anger, of protest, of 2:30 4:40 5:30 NBC: John W. Vandercook "I know." He held my hand tight- appeal, that was pent up inside me. ly, briefly, and let it go. "I'll see 3:30 4:45 5:45 NBC: Tin Pan Alley of the Air you—" And then he was gone, but "IV7HAT does it matter?" I cried. 6:00 MBS: Hall of Montezuma ™ "What does it matter—divorce, an- 3:15 6:00 NBC: Rhapsody of the Rockies there was the feeling of one-ness be- 5:00 6:00 CBS: Quincy Howe tween us again. nulment? What matters is that you to to tear our 3:15 5:15 6:15 CBS: People's Platform It carried me through the morning. mean that you want — 3:15 5:15 6:15 ABC: Harry Wismer, Sports Mrs. Dorn's sewing was salvage mend- lives apart before we've had any life to make our marriage end 3:30 5:30 6:30 ABC: Hank D'Amice Orchestra ing, old clothes that had been washed together, — 6:30 MBS: Hawaii Calls and sorted and were being repaired for almost before it begins, to " I choked 6:45 ABC: Labor. U. S. A. the church missionary society. There the words off, because I couldn't bear 3:45 5:45 6:45 CBS: The World Today myself. Our marriage 3:45 5:45 6:45 NBC: Religion in the News was a great pile of them, and she used to hear them piece as a springboard for gen- everything John and I wanted and had 5:55 6:55 Trout each 3:55 CBS: Bob life 4:00 6:00 7:00 NBC: Our Foreign Policy eral conversation. "Now this." she planned together, the whole 7:00 MBS: Music for Remembrance we'd laid out for ourselves—couldn't, 7:00 ABC: Jobs After Victory would say of a heavy woolen skirt, "came from the Endicott's. It was couldn't be dissolved because of an 7:15 ABC: David Wills part of a suit Helen Endicott had made an accident. "It's not fair!" I fin 4:30 6:30 7:30 ABC: Dick Tracy just before she broke her arm. She ished. "It isn't your fault! You aren't 7:30 MBS: Arthur Hale the 7:30 NBC: Noah Webster blamed her broken arm on the suit responsible, morally. No one in world could blame you for it. It isn't 7:15 7:00 8:00 CBS: Viva America said she had all sorts of bad luck I have to 8:00 MBS: Frank Singlser every time she wore it, but she didn't fair that you and should 8:00 ABC: Woody Herman the sake of another person 8:00 NBC: Life of Riley dare throw it away because she had suffer for paid so much for it. You can see 8:30 ABC: Man From G 2 — John said. 8:30 7:30 8:30 CBS: Mayor of the Town that it's a real imported tweed "Two other- people," 8:30 MBS: Cosmo Tune Time "That's what I can't get out of my 8:30 NBC: Truth or Consequences And I would nod, and feel the ma- of terial, and listen, and try not to watch mind, what I'd never get out my 5:55 7:55 8:55 CBS: Ned Calmer the window and the clock. John was mind. I told you that this business 9:00 MBS: Leave It to the Girls is all over town, but it isn't what the "one for two hours . . . and three. . . . 6:00 8:00 9:00 CBS: Your Hit Parade Mother and Dad 6:00 8:00 9:00 NBC: National Barn Dance By the time he returned, Mrs. Dorn town thinks, or what 9:00 ABC: Gang Busters It isn't even a had left me with the sewing and had think I ought to do. right for 8:30 8:30 9:30 NBC: Can You Top This gone out to the kitchen to start lunch. matter of making things 9:30 MBS: The Whisper Men It's how I'd feel about 9:30 ABC: Boston Symphony John came directly in to me, shut Mary Lou. door behind him. "Where's having started a life out in this world 6:45 8:45 9:45 CBS: Saturday Night Serenade the Mother?" he asked. without giving it half a chance. It's 9:55 ABC: Coronet Quiz kitchen." And then because all very well to argue in the abstract "In the wrong 10:00 MBS: Theater of the Air something about him—a stillness, a about what's right and what's 11:15 10:00 ABC: Hoosier Hop what's proper and what isn't 10:00 NBC: Judy Canova heaviness—frightened me, I added and about other people. the pointedly, "She's getting lunch. It's if you're talking 10:15 CBS: Report to Nation us nearly noon." But we're talking about us—and 7:30 9:30 10:30 NBC: Grand Ole Opry to include Mary 10:30 ABC: Hayloft Hoedown "I know," he said almost absently. has somehow come over and took the (Continued on page 56) 10:45 9:45 10:45 CBS: Talks Then he crossed 54 — ! — she's eoveey! SHE USES pond's ! Frances has honey-spun hair, delft-blue eyes— and a "mighty-like-a-rose" complexion. Rominent Doctor's Daughter to wed Navy Captain's Son The engagement of Frances Hutchins to Ensign Allister Carroll Anderson has been announced by Dr. and Mrs. Amos F. Hutchins HER RING is an Anna- Stoakley House, Md. polis "miniature" Beautiful Stoakley House, where Pond's all over her face and throat ANOTHER POND'S "CANTEEN GIRL"—Frances Frances lives, is one of the aris- and pats "with good brisk little pats" helped organize the canteen sponsored by tocratic old homes near Annapolis to help soften and release dirt and Ogontz Junior College near Philadelphia. The so it's very natural that she is marry- make-up. Tissues all off. girls in her college have made it a big part of ing into the Navy. their own special war work serving coffee and She rinses with more Pond's for — "snacks." Volunteer workers are needed more She's another engaged girl with extra cleansing and softening than ever for recreation centers—can you help? that "soft-smooth" Pond's look that creaming her face with little circles just seems to belong to romance. of her Pond's covered fingers. "This "I like Pond's Cold Cream better twice-over cleansing leaves my skin than any I've ever used," Frances so soft and smooth," she says. says. "It feels simply luscious—and Use Pond's Cold Cream Frances' way it certainly gives my skin perfectly —every night, every morning, and for grand help." daytime clean-ups. It's no accident so many more women prefer Pond's to any Here's the she uses Pond's way Cold other face cream at any price. Get a big Cream: She smooths snowy-soft luxurious jar today R Cyf/^ra^rffe ^ianu^ndiefeae^ u8e*zu&et:3ady (Sdtmzaf'oflmfaaa M %JZF 55 " " (Continued from page 54) Lou, now, and the—the baby. Not someone else—and someone else's baby. "Beth—please, Beth! Try to un- derstand, to see things my way. I hoped you would, after what you said last night—because I still feel that if we do the right thing now, and have faith enough, somehow things wij.1 turn out right— I shook my head blindly. I was aware that John was pleading, aware of the heartbreak, the misery, in his voice. And yet it did not reach me. Because it wasn't my John who was pleading with me. He wasn't my John any longer; we weren't one per- son, with a problem to face together. Oh, I'd been able to talk about faith and hope and trust last night—but that was before I'd realized that we might actually have to be separated. We weren't together now, and the feeling of one-ness I'd clung to was gone. We were two persons, set against each other. . . T STOOD up, stumbled against the A chair, pushed John's hand away as he reached to help me. "I don't know," I said. "I don't know what to say. I want time to think— John turned and went swiftly out of the room, and I lay down on the bed and tried to think. But I couldn't think it out—perhaps because I knew, deep in my heart, that there should be no alternative to my going. Per- haps, if I had been able to think, I would have packed my bags then and there, and gone back to Corona by the next train. But my mind was a blank. There were no coherent thoughts in it, and I couldn't make myself do even so simple a thing as pack my bag. John's mother came up in the middle of the afternoon to ask, rather timidly, if I was all right, and whether I wouldn't like a cup of tea. Behind the worry in her eyes, I saw compassion for me, too. I told her that I had a headache. She dosed me with aspirin, and went away again, and still my mind was dull and empty. A few minutes later she came ud again. "Your mother is on the phone, Beth—calling from Corona. Do you feel—?" My mother! I'd forgotten about my parents. Or, rather, I'd forgotten that they didn't know anything of what had happened. I couldn't tell them now, over the telephone, couldn't even write it to them. Panic gripped me. "Mrs. Dorn—would you—could you tell her that I have a bad headache, and that I'll call her later?" I must have time to think—only I couldn't think! "I did mention your headache." She hesitated, pink staining her face. "I believe she wants to talk to you about your wedding gifts, Beth. The girls at the office, she said, are buying you linens and they want to know about monograms, and— your father wants to get you silver " She broke off. then, Take a generous portion of and the pity I had sensed before was adventure, spice it with gayety and in her face, her voice. "My dear—you need time, I know. Time to decide laughter, and last... add mystery. how to tell them. I'll go tell your well, I'll tell her some- Mix well . . . and you'll Mother that— thing. You can call her later and re- understand the lovely secret assure her." And she hastened out of April Showers Perfume! of the room. I closed my eyes tightly, to keep the weak tears from sliding out. I'd for- Perfume. $6.50; 3.50; 1.10 plus tax gotten that there would be wedding presents, and all the things that went with weddings. Mother's phone call 56 " —I started me thinking of all those things —and of what it would be like to go back to Corona, to face everyone, to explain. . . I couldn't go back to Corona— Many Me No^ you said couldn't! Could I go somewhere else —anywhere that John and I weren't known? Where could I go—what could I do? But no answers to the pound- ing questions would come, and I lay once more in a state of blank, dull uncaring. Presently Mrs. Dorn came up again. Wouldn't I come down to dinner—or would I like a tray? John, she ex- plained, had had to go to Middleton on some very urgent business for his father, and wouldn't be back until sometime tomorrow. Through my apathy, I felt a warm little feeling of gratitude toward them. They were giving me time—time to think this through, to get my bearings, to make my plans. And I knew, then, that that was all they were giving me—it had never entered Mrs. Dorn's head that there could be any answer to all of this but the one answer of my go- ing away, of the breaking up of our marriage. It's hard to realize now how I could have regarded another few hours in Maple Falls as another few hours of grace. Mr. and Mrs. Dorn were kind- ness itself when I came down to din- ner, but they treated me as an out- sider. It showed in little things, in Mr. Dorn's almost imperceptible, un- conscious hesitation before he ad- dressed me by my first name, in Mrs. Dorn's refusal to let me help her with anything but the "nicer" house- work—dish drying, the missionary mending which we took up again after dinner. 1 CALLED Mother that evening and told her that I'd write very soon, but You were home again, my dear love. So we were married. "Now these meanwhile she must discourage gift- giving because John was thinking of darling hands are mine," you said. I'm thankful my hands were smooth for going into a business that might take our wedding — thankful I've always used Jergens Lotion. us out of town, and we didn't know where we would be living. It was a lie, the but truth was too much for You gave me your mother's ring. "I've saved it for your dear hand," me to tell over the impersonal tele- you said. (Just suppose my hands had felt rough! But Jergens Lotion phone. It wasn't even a very plausi- ble lie to anyone who'd heard John furnishes softness-protecting moisture for a girl's hand skin.) talk enthusiastically about Maple Falls, and I told it only to gain time. I went to bed that night longing for sleep, . knowing that sleep would not come until I'd suffered hours of tor- menting thought, of turning this way and that in my mind, and finding no solution, no help. And sleep, when it came, was no refuge. I dreamed dreams in which John was always walking toward me, and then turning away before I could touch him. I dreamed, too, that I was dancing with Philip back at the service center in Corona, explaining to Philip that I never made dates with soldiers, because all soldiers had girls back home. In the dream, Philip agreed with me. "All of them," he said clearly. "Even John has a girl back home—Mary Lou Smart College Girls use —Jergens Lotion does—so "super" for Walters. He's never known whether Jergens Lotion, nearly 4 to 1. coaxing even harsh skin to heavenly or not she loved him, but he's loved her all his life— For every girl — this sure protective softness that many doctors prescribe I awoke from that dream sick and help against rough hands. Have them. No oiliness; no tiresome cold, thinking, "Suppose' it's true?" almost -professional hand care, with stickiness. 10<£ to $1.00 (plus And then I cried, because I wanted so badly to run to John, to huddle close in Jergens. Blends 2 special ingredients tax ) . Just always use Jergens. his arms for reassurance—and could not. The next day was Sunday, and John For the softest, adorable Hands, USE R had come back from his trip to Middle- ton—probably late last night, after I'd M gone to my room. I awakened late, and heard voices below stairs—John's JERGENS LOTION 57 1 — " — parents preparing to leave for church. happened afterward was an outgrowth SEND DIRECT TO HOLLYWOODi I heard John's voice, too, and thought of it, an anti-climax. John came into that he had gone with them. I waited the livingroom, with his suit-coat on, in a while, half-dozing, and then got up control of himself once more. "Look," k spotUGHT and went downstairs to make myself a he said, "let's go for a walk. It'll do us cup of coffee—and found that I wasn't both good." alone in the house. John was there, in We walked for perhaps half an hour, | JUMPER the kitchen, and evidently he had just saying little. And then, as we turned finished breakfast; he was standing at homeward, we met Mary Lou. I knew the sink, rinsing off a few dishes under it was she even before I felt John a violently rushing stream of water. stiffen beside me, and hesitate, and The sound must have covered my stop, halting me with him. Something footsteps. John didn't turn, and for a in her wide dark eyes told me, in the moment I just stood there looking at small, set face she lifted to his. him, thinking how broad his shoulders Mary Lou hesitated too, and stopped, were under the white shirt, how big and for a moment no one spoke. Then their muscles for the littleness of their John said, "Beth, this is Mary Lou present task, how large and how clum- Walters. Mary Lou, this is Beth." sily gentle his hands were on the fragile Beth. Just Beth—not "my wife, dishes. I couldn't help what I did then. Beth." I didn't hear anything after that, I forgot about Mary Lou, forgot about didn't know how Mary Lou acknowl- everything except John and how much edged the introduction, if she did, I loved him. I crossed over to him, put didn't know what I said. I was too my arms around his waist, rested my furious; in that moment I hated John head in the sloping place between his quite as much as I hated Mary Lou. shoulder blades. I told him when we reached home, on John stiffened; the tap— water was the porch steps, just before we went snapped off. "Don't, Beth into the house. Somehow I got it out, I "didn't let go—couldn't have let go somehow made my words crisp and right then if it had meant my life. steady. "You know, don't you," I said, John turned in the circle of my arms, "that I'm not going to agree to an annul- put his hands on my shoulders, roughly, ment? I'm alive, too, John, and I've shoved —me away and held me away. a right to happiness, too. I'll fight for "Listen " he said, and his voice was it. I'll fight any action you start tight, half-strangled with the effort he against me." made to control it. "I know you're here. John said nothing, but I'll never for- I know it every minute of the day, get how he looked at me then—as if every minute of the night. And if you he'd never seen me before, as if I were think I've changed at all—I feel guilty some terrible stranger. as sin about Mary Lou, and sorry for I went straight up to my room, then, her—but that hasn't changed how I've and once more began thinking. I still felt about you from the night I first had only the vaguest of plans, but I was met you. Nothing can ever change that. no longer sick with fear. I had made How do you think I feel, seeing you up my mind to do something—to fight here, sleeping a few doors away from back, instead of running away. And I you at night—and knowing I can't be kept thinking, through all the long with you? Beth,— if you've any mercy, hours John is here. John is close by. let me alone " He was shaking me, Even if he can't come to me, he's near his fingers digging painfully into my me. And he loves me—he loves me! shoulders. But the next morning, John was gone. I couldn't speak, Without a word I He did not come down to breakfast, and twisted away when Mrs. Dorn from him and ™"™™"^ went up to call walked into the ^ him, I listened livingroom — and somehow strode into the knew that there livingroom, my The demand for would be no an- heart pounding swer. John had with a fierce ex- taken the only Bewitching little darling ultation, every RADIO MIRROR way out that he of Spotlight attractive- drop of blood in could see — he heads. Lasting loveli- ness that turns male my body sting- the Magazine of had gone away. pleat skirt, accenting the ness in girlishly slim ingly, sweetly He had left me new "narrow" look and high-lighting a novel alive. John was RADIO ROMANCES alone, in the NAIL-HEAD belt trim. 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Everything ror, on sale was settled then. Wednesday, De- City. .State. ' Everything that cember 12. 58 " a ?? Most Beautiful of All (Continued from page 47) ^^film-Finish Powder getting together. For me, she was a Godsent wife. But how could I talk about marriage? Loveliest- ever shades...finest- ever texture," I, who had to walk five and a half miles to the radio station to save carfare if I ...says exauisite Ella Raines wanted to buy her a five cent candy bar? So we didn't talk about marriage, but we kept constant company from the start. We met on the streetcar each day to ride to work together, and after the broadcast we took the same street- car home. And in my secret heart I worried and wondered about how I was ever going to afford to get married. And then the first little break came. The cast of the Happy Hour was or- ganized into a stage attraction, and be- gan playing two and three shows a day —first in the Big Capitol Theatre, then in the neighborhoods all over town. We were an instantaneous hit—and why not, with enough relatives of per- formers in town to pack every theater to the eaves. We were too obviously professional by now to be exploited any longer as amateurs. They began paying us—$2 a day each. On the strength of future wealth this implied, and with seven actual dollars in my pocket, I felt secure enough to propose to Rosemarie. We were riding toward home on the streetcar, late at night. "What are you doing three weeks from next Wednesday?" I asked, as casually as I could. "i~|H, nothing," she said. What was ^-' there to do—except work, and eat and sleep and work? "Then," I said, still keeping a straight face, "how about meeting me in front of our Lady of Sorrows church at nine o'clock in the morning?" She looked at me hard. She under- stood. And then she started to bawl like the big baby she is. It broke my heart that I couldn't ar- range a big wedding, with an organ and all that, but she said she under- stood. But then, on three weeks from Wed- nesday morning, it was my turn to be surprised. I was at the church a good twenty minutes early, feeling awkward and embarrassed in my rented morn- ing suit. fcLLA KAllNhb, Universal's lovely star, in "The Strange Affair But I forgot all that in a moment. of Uncle Harry." WOODBURY WINDSOR ROSE gives fresh-rose color Even the church was all dressed up in uncommon finery—with a white strip to her pink-tone medium skin. Fluff it on yours — for vivid glow! of cloth from the curbing, clear across the sidewalk, up the steps and down the aisle to the altar railing, a bright red canopy over the entrance arch, and white satin on the kneeling benches. The so ravishing Ella Raines picks 5-way blending gives loveliest-ever color There was Rosemarie more beautiful than you could believe anyone could be Woodbury Film -Finish Powder to . . . smootbest-ever texture. New Film- in white satin, and with a gauzy white carry her smooth, screen glamour in- Finish clings longer, bides blemishes best- veil so long it took three train bearers to hold it off the ground. And to make to private life, too. That's your cue ever. Never clogs orturns the miracle complete, there was the for a flawless Hollywood finish. pasty. 8 star shades. organ blasting "Ave Marias" as though we were the richest pair in the parish. The good old Bohemian grapevine, I YOUR MATCHED MAKE-UP $1. Now, with your big thought, with a great big lump in my $1 box of Woodbury Powder, you get your own throat. And it was a good guess. My glamour shade matching lipstick family, and Rosemarie's, and all of our of and rouge—at friends and the parish priest had con- no extra cost. No change in the box—all Woodbury spired together to make this wedding Powder now on sale is the new "Film-Finish." the kind that every young couple Also boxes of Woodbury Powder, 25<£ and 101, plus fax. dreams of. It was the most beautiful of all wed- dings, on the sunniest of all wedding days, January 15, 1936. What did we care if we couldn't afford a honeymoon? What did it matter that the only vine Woodbu rv Fin'Th rowaer covered cottage we had was a furnished y a room with cooking privileges? The church was packed. The organ blasted, everybody cried. It was a lovely wedding. Life was good then, and I was let off worrying for awhile. Our theater dates continued, and our salaries went up. Sometimes now, in the bigger houses, we were paid $7 a day a piece. And both Rosemarie and I landed night club r jobs which—together—padded out the budget some more. Our $5 a week room seemed almost like home, for our Syrian landlady— friend of my Aunt Cecelia's—liked us and let us use the livingroom when- ever we had company. Then, early in 1937, Rosemarie told me we were going to have a baby. I" KISSED her, and we laughed and •* cried and told the landlady and phoned our families, and then we sat down and faced some facts. "You have to quit work," I said. I had been wanting her to quit ever since New Year's Eve when her boss at the night club had refused to pay her for overtime after keeping her on the job— a kid, was all she was—until almost dawn. She had cried, when she came home, like her heart would break. I had been angry, angry enough to de- mand that she quit. But when we were calmer, we both knew that we couldn't afford it. But this did it. 'You're not going back there, not even tonight," I said. "And I will find us a house." "But how can we pay for it?" Rose- marie wondered. "I'll make more money. Somehow," I said. I had to. But how? The truth was I couldn't make more money, and Rosemarie's quitting cut what income we did have in two. I worried my regular worrying schedule, and overtime to boot—but months passed and nothing happened. Suddenly it was close on to Rosemarie's time and we had no money saved for the doctor or hospital bills. I began to do my worrying out loud, fortunately. For one night a stage hand who heard me moaning about my dilemma pulled me aside. "I couldn't help overhearing," he said, "and I think I can help." He told me the story of a miracle, of his wife who lay dying and who was cured—when he prayed one night to a forgotten saint, St. Jude Thaddeus. "St. Jude is the saint of hopeless cases," this strange man told me. "He will help you too." What could I lose? I had to try it. So late that night, after the last show, I stopped at the church and lighted a candle for St. Jude. I talked to him, Give new beauty to your fingernails with Dura-Gloss, the nail polish of perfection. Dura-Gloss is like liquid jewelry. Its beauty and brilliance come from Chrystallyne, a special ingredient in the Dura-Gloss formula. It dries fast. Its smoothness will delight you. 10^ plus tax. 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Not that I think St. Jude worries about dollars and cents—but obviously he thought my Rosemarie deserved to have her first baby in style. The next day I got a call from Charlie Penman at WJR, Detroit's' biggest radio station, where they were desperate for someone who could talk and sing like Al Jolson for a spot on the News Comes to Life Show. I did an imitation of Jolson every night at the club—I was a cinch. That was another $75, and my first break into big time radio. If this kept up our baby could afford to go to college. That was Tuesday. On Wednes- day we went to the hospital. Grace Memorial Hospital. What a big, forbidding place it had seemed every time I had passed it in the pre- ceding months. Now—it was nothing. "Show Mrs. Jacobs to a private room," I said grandly as we entered. The night clerk coughed politely. "There is the small matter," he said, "of a deposit." "Show the lady to a room, sir," I repeated grimly. "She is in pain." Rose- marie was not feeling good, not good at all. *—"['m fascinated with the luxurious, 'sheer-gauge' way I guess he gathered I meant it. shade, "I will not pay a deposit," I added, that rond's powder goes on," says charming, blonde Mrs. Ryan. "My favorite after she had gone off with a nurse, "I Dreamflower Natural, brings such soft, transparent color to my face." prefer to pay the whole bill." That, he said, would not be necessary. "But I'd rather," I said. NEW! Suffusing Ingredient makes TT was not convenient, he said. Rec- -*- ords, you know. They're locked up for the night. Ponds powder lusciously dnJ00i-$ . clinging! body—except, of course, to St. Jude. textured . . more m From that time on, everything good brings you "sheer-gauge" happened—St. Jude sticks by you once Now Pond's likes it ingredi- s he you, seems. powder shades ! A new suffusing Sheer-gauge When the baby was still a wee thing, ent in Pond's spreads the soft particles means more glamorous color I decided to leave Detroit—a step I never would have dared before. of color more evenly over your skin. for your face, too ! I took my four hundred dollars sav- Through this mist of sweet, "sheer- Two stockings — the same ings (from more Jam Handies, and more your own skin-tone glows shade in the box—but so dif- appearances at WJR) out of the bank, gauge" color Pond's ' ferent "on"! Now— left $150 of it with my wife and daugh- through— transparent, glamorized ter at my mother's house and with the Dreamflower PoWder shades with your present other $250 I descended on Chicago Compare Pond's look lovelier "on" because I didn't a soul, the where know on powder. See it suf- they're'so "sheer-gauge"! hunt for a job. fuse your face with A 1- The first week I was in the city I broke into radio there. And I took a a new look of "sheer- \^. Trio night job at a little known spot, the gauge" color smooth- Special! Pond's Make-up 5100 Club. The 5100 gave me $50 a In star-studded cotton ten: "This is a Shrine dedicated to St. or crisp rayon taffeta. Jude Thaddeus, where Men May Honor 00 Size (PlusTax) $1. God—where the poor, the meek, the humble, the helpless, the sinful and the On gay Christmas box. hopeless may pray for spiritual, and 60<* Size (Plus Tax) physical and mental aid." For I was all of these, and he heard. NO ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTIONS . . . Because of restrictions on paper and the unprecedented demand for RADIO MIR- Sofskin Creme is a ROR, the Magazine of Radio Romances, we cannot possibly print enough copies to thoughtful, charming Christmas supply all who want subscriptions for RADIO MIRROR. subscriptions be ^ift. Because every woman desires New and renewal may deferred as much as two months until places on our subscription list are avail- lovely hands, every woman on your able. Therefore, to limit subscriptions to the Christmas list will appreciate your number that can be supplied each month, RADIO MIRROR is reluctantly forced present of Sofskin for hand beauty. to refuse both new and renewal ona-year subscriptions. However, we are accepting, subject to delay in servicing, two-year subscriptions at $3.60 and three-year sub- scriptions at $5.40. These prices apply to U. S. and U. S. Possessions and Territories, Canada and Newfoundland. For subscrip- tion prices vo ali other countries see infor- mation at foot of page 3. We will continue to accept one-year subscriptions for the members of the armed forces. THE SOFSKIN COMPANY • FiNDLAY, OHIO The Glory of It (Continued from, page 21) moment. He kissed the tip of my nose and then my lips, a kiss that sent a tremor running through my body so that I forgot to be frightened. I forgot everything in the realization of his love. It was wonderful to share my thoughts and secret dreams with Bob. Some- times, when he took me on his lap and brushed back my hair the way he liked to do, we'd plan our future, that magical time when the war would be over. Once he said, "You're so young to have so much understanding, darling." I didn't know quite what he meant; I was nineteen, Bob twenty-four. But I had sensed a loneliness in him, a need in him, which I had tried to fill. Love had taught me to do that. Love teaches you many things. YJF/'HEN Bob was ordered to a base in " Arizona as an instructor he was worried about taking me along. "We'll have to rough it, Kit. It's pretty rugged country around there." "We can always use a pup-tent!" I said. "Anyway, I'm going to follow my man as long as I can." He scooped me up and kissed me for that. But I admit I did not expect any- thing so rugged as the shack we finally moved into—the only place near camp we could find. There was a fancy guest house we could have rented, more than an hour's drive from the Base. But when a person is working as hard as Bob was, he can't afford to spend two hours driving back and forth every day. So we took the shack, leaky roof, lean-to kitchen and all. We were sur- rounded mostly by desert and sage- brush, and with Bob gone so much of ^mnets uW pick ^ wG the time I was desperately lonely. I -Hike to thought with longing of my cool, com- fortable home in California, and of the friends I'd grown up with, of all the fun thought- we'd had. I lost a great deal of weight A^^auon a //^^ and Bob wanted to send me back. But I refused to go; there was no comfort for me in any place that didn't hold him. When we were together I could forget the dreadful little shack and the sand sifting in through every crack. We were only a five-minutes run from the field, and I tried to have a DEODORANT good dinner ready for Bob every night. NEW...a CREAM "You're spoiling me," he teased. Then his face grew serious. "Kit, you know which SAFELY the Johnsons? They've moved into that guest house at the ranch you said was too far away. And you were right, STOPS under-arm PERSPIRATION Kit. Bill looks tired as the devil." Lt. Johnson and his- wife, Alison, were a handsome couple. But Alison 1. Does not irritate skin. Does not rot very was. unpopular at the Base. Too dresses and men's shirts. "uppish," everyone said. Bob went on, "I'm sorry about Johnson; his wife's 2. Prevents under-arm odor. Stops per- more of a drain on him than a com- spiration safely. fort. It's Alison first, with her. Poor guy!" 3. A pure, white, antiseptic, stainless I could see he was really troubled. vanishing cream. The next day when I ran into Alison Johnson at the Post Exchange, I thought 4. No waiting to dry. Can be used right of trying to talk to her. But as soon after shaving. as she sensed my purpose, she said sharply, "I'm young and I am not going 5. Arrid has been awarded the Approval to be cooped up for any man. I want Seal of the American Institute of my fun—and I'm having it." And that Laundering — harmless to fabric. Use was that. (Subsequently, Bill Johnson went Arrid regularly. overseas with my Bob and became one MORE MEN AND WOMEN USB of the most decorated men in the 8th Air Force. But as soon as he was dis- 39^ Plus Tax R charged, and the thrill of being mar- (Also 590 size) m ried to an airman was over, Alison di- At any store which sells toilet goods vorced him. I had hated her for it, ARRID for the hurt she had given him. . . . THAN ANY OTHER DEODORANT 63 But now, I realized with sickening shock, when he received that letter Bob would class me with her. The thought lou'll made me ill, so that I had to sit down prefer MODESS" for a moment at the side of the road. It was terrible, the thing that had hap- pened to our marriage. And there was nothing I could do about it. Nothing. the napkin with tke triple-proved But still the memories persisted, sweet and torturing.) There was the night of the cloud- burst when two of the training planes were believed lost. Bob was in one of them. For two hours I sat in the control room, rigid. The radio operator DEODORANT tried again and again to make contact. Little beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead. He said once, "Better drink some coffee, Mrs. Reynolds. You're white as a sheet." I tried, but I could not swallow. The commanding officer paced up and down, smoking endless cigarettes. All the men's faces were gray. And then, when we had almost given up hope, a plane came in. Then the second broke through the low ceiling. With maddening slowness, they came to rest on the flooded field, and we ran toward them, breathlessly. Two minutes later I was in Bob's arms. I would not let him out of my sight. I wanted to keep touching him, to make sure he was real. When we reached home he sank exhausted into the one comfortable chair and pulled me down to him. He buried his face in my shoul- der and held me tight for long moments, not saying anything, until my trembling had stopped. It was as if we gave strength to each other, as if we were one, and I thought, This is what mar- riage means—the glory of it. We kissed each other, gently at first, then with the deep ardent desire of two people who have really found one another. I knew in an offhand way that Bob was sincerely fond of children. The youngsters who lived around the field were always tagging after him, getting him to umpire their football games and settle their arguments. But it was not until little Butch came to the Base that I realized how much they meant to him. Butch was the five-year-old son of one of Bob's pals—a sturdy, re- bellious kid who would obey no one but Bob. And Bob he worshipped. They were always together. One of Butch's favorite pastimes was watching Bob shave. It was funny to see the tall, thin figure of my husband bending over and solemnly putting lather on the chubby little cheeks of the boy. Then he would hand Butch a spoon so that he too could "shave." Watching this procedure one Sunday morning, I asked Bob teasingly, "I take it you would not mind too much having a son of your own?" He straightened instantly and the light that leaped into his face was so YOU'RE IN FOR a happy surprise when AND IT'S SAFER! 209 nurses, in hospital radiant that I caught my breath. "Kit!" you switch to Modess — the luxury nap- tests, proved Modess less likely to strike "Well, it's not too impossible, you kin with the triple-proved deodorant. through than nationally known layer- know," I said to tantalize him. He caught me by the shoulders and lifted It's so much easier to stay dainty, now. type napkins. my face. What he saw there made him give a cry of sheer joy. He drew me NO SEPARATE POWDER! No extra cost! Ask for that luxurious new Modess up to him and kissed my forehead and today. of 12 only MODESS IS SOFTER, TOO! 3 out of 4 women Box 22f*. eyes and nose and mouth. My arms, closed around him, felt his trembling. found it softer to the touch in a nation- Ifvou'd rather have Modess without deo- "My darling," he whispered, "My wide poll. ask for "Standard Modess." ." dorant, just darling, darling Kit . . That night neither of us could sleep. The air from the desert was sweet and FREE! Send now for "Growing Up and Liking It"—a bright, modern booklet on the how and R why of menstruation. Write Mar- VICTORY M tha Steele, Personal Products BUY BONDS Corp., Box 343-E, Milltown, N. J. to bring the boys back home! 64 . clean, and in the soft darkness Bob told me things he had never put into words before. How lonely he himself had been as a youngster, with both parents dead. How, later, fighting for a living and an education, he had dreamed of a family of his own. The things other people take for granted spelled heaven to him. Just coming home and finding someone you love there . . . being able to hold your own child in your arms . . . "We'll have a big family, four or five," I said softly. "A man as fine as you ought to have fine sons to come after him." "Just stay prejudiced like that, honey. That's all I ask!" he laughed, but there was a little choke in the laughter. We clung to each other word- lessly. IN the days that followed I felt strangely humble in the face of his happiness. I might have been giving him the whole world tied up in pink ribbon. He started buying toys—toys that no child could possibly use until he was at least two. He asked Butch's dad innumerable questions. He went around in a glowing daze—except when he was flying. The cadets he instructed often dropped by the house, and they would talk "wing talk" for hours. Then he was lost in a man's world. I had no part in it; but that didn't matter. "He's the greatest guy on earth," the cadets told me often. "You could land on a dime when he's through teaching you." And I would try to look properly modest through the soaring elation of my own heart agreeing he's the great- est guy on earth. Then, in the sudden way the Army does things, Bob's orders to go over- seas came through. He hated leaving me, but I knew he felt his real job was over there. We made a pact: there would be no "goodbye." We would go on a picnic as we had done the first day I we met. . . . My hands shook as packed the luncheon. But I was de- termined to make this a gay memory. There was a chocolate cake like the one we'd had the first time, "Dagwood" sandwiches, which were Bob's favorites. We drove to a little arroyo and spread the lunch under a cottonwood. We pre- tended we were having a terrific flirta- tion, and teased each other, and laughed a lot. And none of it was any good. You can't keep up a pretense when your heart is so sore. Bob came over and put his head in ray lap and we were quiet for a long while. I cupped my hands behind his head and leaned over to kiss him. "I just want you to know I love you, soldier. I never really lived until you came along. ..." I whispered the words and there was a hard lump in my throat. Bob turned. He caught me to him fiercely. His kiss burned straight through to my heart. Passionate, hard . . . and exquisitely sweet. . . . When he had gone, I went back home Help our boys . . to California to wait for our child to be protect your own future born. We wrote daily, pouring our love out across the six thousand miles that Victory Bond dollars work two ways! separated us. I tried to resume my old For our boys, and for you. Because life; so many other girls were doing they not only help care for wounded the same thing. But the zest was gone. veterans, they help you save for Days fell into a monotonous pattern. Helping mother with the housework, things you want: things important sewing for the baby, working down at to your future! Remember, for .^e the Red Cross. . . . every three dollars you lend, your Jy And then abruptly something hap- government returns four. pened. All my life I had been strong and healthy, but now energy suddenly left me. I collapsed one afternoon and R old Dr. Watson took me straight to the Back the Victory Loan M hospital. There were X-rays, tests, con- sultations. Through a blur of pain I 65 saw my father's haggard face, heard him say hoarsely, "Keep fighting, Kit. . . . Please God, let her keep fighting." Everything seemed dim and far away. All I wanted was Bob. If only I could hold tight to his hand, know that he was all right. . . . From a great distance I heard a nurse say, "It's too bad. He would have been a beautiful N baby. Look how well-shaped his little -icrure/ head is." Would have been. . . . My baby was dead. I had lost Bob's hs*Y son. Perhaps I had lost Bob too. I went down in a great gulf of blackness then Weres from which there seemed little chance of my returning. Later, when I drifted slowly and painfully back to consciousness, I learned there had been an emergency operation to save my life. Mine had been saved, but I would never, as long as I lived, be able to give life to others. "Why did you do it?" I asked the doctor bitterly. "It would have been so much better to let me go." Dr. Watson patted my hand. "Kit, I've known you since you were just a little tyke. D'you think I wouldn't do my best to save you for that good- looking flying husband of yours? He'll be coming back soon, too. Things have been happening in Europe since you were taken sick. The war is over in that section." "Over?" I asked weakly. "That's right, Kit. And Bob prob- ably will be home before the summer is over. ... I don't want you to be getting any crazy notions, either. This is not going to make any difference between the two of you. Kids mean more to a woman than to a man any- how. All Bob wants is you." He was trying to be kind, but he didn't understand. None of them did. I kept hearing Bob's words as I lay in his arms there in the soft darkness of the shack: "A youngster of our own, darling! . . . Maybe it's because I was so alone as a kid, but I've dreamed of having a son ... of taking him fishing, and to the circus ... of watching his eyes pop at Christmas time. You know—all the little things that add up to a swell family life. . . . Oh sweet- heart, if you knew what this means to BESS: Gosh, lady, I may be little but I sure feel proud of my lovely, healthy me!" skin! An' here's the secret . . . Mom says it's cause my skin is doubly-blessed No, I was not going to deny Bob that with Mennen Antiseptic Baby Oil. ... happiness. He was not going to be TESS: Y'see, bein' antiseptic, Mennen Baby Oil helps prevent diaper rash, bound to an empty shell of a girl who urine irritation and lotsa other nasty skin troubles. 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But he did not know about the doctor's verdict. He would never know about that. Some day he would find another girl, a girl who could bear him wonderful children, and they would take up life together. . . . But I had to close the door quickly on that thought because it was such agony. MY letters to him became stilted, filled with gay, silly chatter about the "fun" I was having with the old crowd. Impersonal letters that I hated. From his replies I knew that he was puzzled and hurt. I told mother and dad that Bob and I were "through," that I would prefer not to mention him again. They were shocked, unbelieving. But because I had been so ill, they did not protest much. "You will feel differ- ently when you are stronger," mother said anxiously. 'T want to forget that I was ever married!" I cried and my voice broke uncontrollably. Forget the happiest months I had ever known, the love Bob and I had shared? As if I could! Then one day came his jubilant cable about being shipped back home. My answer was the letter asking for a divorce. "It was all such a mistake, Bob," I had written. "Perhaps I was too young. ... I want to be free now to enjoy everything I missed. . . . Please ." don't try to contact me. . . Horrible little words that I forced myself to write across the pages. Words to sicken a man and kill his love. There would be no turning back now. The letter was mailed. Ahead of me, dusk had settled in the canyon and the mountains were shrouded. "This is like death," I thought. "Only worse, because part of me has to go on living." Slowly I got to my feet and made my way back to town. Sooner or later every person carry- ing around an empty heart finds there is only one relief—helping others. And there were plenty to help, even with the end of the war in sight. The big Army Air Base near town had been converted into a redistribution center, and there was also a General Hospital filled to overflowing with wounded from the Pacific. I worked with the Special Services department of the Red Cross, and there was plenty to do. We did it all—from locating missing families for servicemen to channeling war orphans from foreign countries into good homes there in the San Joachin Be Lovely to Love Valley. I liked the latter work par- ticularly. I had been afraid, when my mother and dad suggested it, that things I had You'll never worry about staying tried to kill would come alive again sweet and dainty if you use Fre.ih . that other people's children would hurt unbearably. But, actually, it seemed Fresh , new cream deodorant, stops to help. There were not so many who perspiration worries, completely. came through, but those that did had such shy, hopeful little faces. There Fresh contains the most effective were the bright-eyed small Martanis perspiration-stopping ingredient from Italy who were on their way to their uncle's near Santa Rosa. Their known to science. home in Naples had been bombed and Fresh stays smooth... never gritty R they had been looked after by a group of American combat engineers until the or sticky... doesn't dry out. M Red Cross had located this uncle in the States. Then there were the two chil- MOST FASCINATING AND INTRIGUING.. JUNE IN "DAVID HARDING, COUNTERSPY." WED. NIGHTS, 10 E.T., AMERICAN (.BLUE) NETWORK 67 dren from Holland, wistful, frightened, ii who wanted nothing more out of life than to own again a duck named Her Hand, in whose Comparison "Wigge." (The first "Wigge" had been stolen by the Nazis.) But the child who went straight to my heart was Hank. Dr. Watson had all Whites are Ink" William Shakespeare made him my special charge, "Because he's sandy-haired," the doctor said with a smile that ignored the sudden pain in my face. The name on Hank's card said, "Charles Pierre Henri L'Atour." But that was for France; now, he told me in very halting English, his name was "Hank," for America. Since my French was as bad as his English our conversation lagged. It didn't matter. We understood each other quite well, Hank and I. He was seven, with hair that really was like Bob's and deep-set blue eyes that took in everything. He was scheduled for the Cavell ranch about forty miles out of town. But be- fore we left, I drove him around to Dad's store for some after-dinner ice- cream. He said surprisingly, in pure Americanese, "A soda.' Oh boy!" Dad laughed, and for the first time in weeks I felt warm inside. From sheer force of habit I went to the other side of the store, which was the post-office, to see if there was any mail for me. There was none, of course. Why should Bob write? I had not heard from him since I had sent that dreadful letter. He had taken me at my word and that was the way I wanted it. . . . The way it had to be. "Good news coming over the radio, Kit," Dad said. "Looks as if the Japs were going to surrender any minute." I took Hank's hand. A trembling seized me. Bob had had sixty-three missions in Europe. If this news were true he would not. have to go to the Obviously, Will, your heroine South Pacific. That, at least, he would be spared. Going out to the Cavell ranch, Hank never had to clean a Stove sat beside me with his sturdy little legs straight out in front of him. Every Can you clean a stove, do dishes, scrub a floor by day once in a while he would say some- and still rate compliments on your hands that night? thing very fast in French but all I could catch was the word "Pop." He You can if you'll use Pacquins. No rough, red hands was obviously excited. He tried to tell for you. You can keep them looking white, lovely. me something and his cheeks grewT redder and redder. Finally he began bouncing up and down on the seat yell- Check with doctors and IlUlSeS • • • about the damage repeated scrubbing can do the skin's texture and tint. 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Switched it on just in time hear those electrifying words, "This is it . . . this is it . . . the war is over!" The road disappeared; I had to stop the car and shakily wipe my eyes. The packed jg plenty of punch... war is over! I caught Hank to me and kissed his little button nose. For him the war never would be over. It had taken too much toll: both parents, his home. ... He was standing up now, pressing his little head into my shoul- der. "Look, Hank," I said just as if he understood. "I don't know anything about these Cavells. There must be special arrangements or the Red Cross would not be sending you to them. But just the same I'm going to keep an eye on you too. So don't worry." For answer he planted a big wet kiss on my cheek and yelled lustily, "Pop!" 'T'HE Cavell ranch, I had to admit, was * in a beautiful setting. It was on a rise of land, and a brook babbled along at the foot of it. There were prune and apple orchards, gfreat sweeping acres of wine grapes golden in the sun. The house itself was low-spreading, and painted white. As we came to a stop on the gravel drive, a fat spaniel puppy waddled out to meet us. Hank was entranced. He jumped out and squatted beside the puppy and mur- mured, "C'est joli. C'est tres joli!" Hank was going to be happy here. I had that feeling about it even before I saw the woman on the porch. She was older, worn, but there was a look of gentleness about her, a certain peace. Her warm greeting made us really welcome as she led us into the pleasant chintz-draped livingroom. There was a pitcher of cold milk on the table and a plate of enormous homemade cookies —little-boy language all over the world! Hank ate solemnly. And all the while his eyes searched the room, the doors, the windows, as if he expected someone to come in momentarily. Mrs. -But H0LD-BO8 pins kept her Cavell spoke to him in French, words I could not understand. After a moment of watchful attention, a wide smile broke over his little face. ha/'r styl/sh til/ lunch I "A great many years ago .1 lived in France," Mrs. Cavell explained to me, "before my husband and I came to Cali- • Why is a bobby pin? To hold your hair fornia. But this has been my home now —smoothly, firmly, invisibly. And that's for so long that I don't believe I could the way hold-bob bobby pins are made be happy anywhere else. When I had to sell it recently I was heartbroken. for longer-lasting, springy power. Re- But"—and her face lit up with pleasure member, only hold-bobs have those —"the new owners insisted that I stay and help run it. I was so glad, par- small, round, invisible heads. Add satiny ticularly glad when I heard about finish and the rounded-for-safety ends Hank," she added gently. "You must ...and you have the advantages that come out often to see him." I looked at hm, absorbed now with make hold-bobs America's favorites! the puppy in the middle of the floor. Look for, ask for, the hold-bob card. He seemed at home already. "I'd love to come!" I said with more enthusiasm than I'd known in months. After that I made every excuse I could think of to go out to the Cavell ranch. There were some new toys that Dad got in the store that I thought would be just the thing for a seven- year-old. Another time I ran across a cute sailor suit that seemed made for Hank. In all, I made three trips that first week to see him. And each time he crept a little deeper into my heart. I thought that I had stopped feeling any emotion, that it was dried up in me. But Hank quickened it again. He was always so glad to see me. He n accepted me with such complete trust. M "Why don't you come out to supper Copyright .1945 on Sunday?" Mrs. Cavell said. And I Gaylord Products, Incorporated ''The urging. Chicago 16, Illinois bobby pins that HOLD" needed no 69 — I arrived early and Hank and I went had been converted into an orphanage. down to the brook to go wading. It was The day Bob's squadron established cool and still in the shadows and the their quarters in a wing of the chateau, * water felt wonderfully good. Hank had the jerries came over on a surprise raid. IiLW pure, white odorless so much to show me—the colored stones Bob found the little fellow in the barn, he had found, the darting minnows, the white-faced and completely terror- way the puppy could swim. We were stricken. After that, Hank officially s„ watching the little fellow splash about "adopted" Bob. He would wait for him LOTION y when a shadow, darker than the rest, at night to come in from the flying field, fell across me. I looked up. then they would have supper together. "Pop!" Hank cried joyfully, and It was always Bob who put him to bed. REMOVES HAIR hurled himself at the man who stood on "I wanted to adopt him legally even the bank above us. A tall, sandy-haired then. But I didn't know how you would man with a shy smile that started at his feel," Bob said. "He somehow re- ." Whisks off blue eyes and spread infectiously. minded me of you, Kit . . leg hair, I could not speak. Bob, my Bob, was Hank had gone off to wade in the leaves skin smooth, there, holding the wet, tousled young- brook again. We watched him silently alluring. ster. Our eyes clung together over the for a moment Then I turned to my small head buried on his chest. He husband. Again the spell was upon us. spoke, but I could only watch his lips, "I didn't want you to know about me, his eyes. It was Bob! His words began Bob. I tried to keep it from you. After ." to make sense. "I guess you know by Tim was born. . . \ now how much Hank needs you. How He took me in his arms then and much I need you. This is home, Kit crushed me to him. All the barriers of *1. A fragrant white lotion without for the three of us." restraint and pride were down. "You bad clinging depilatory odor. I could not believe it. It was like little fool. What do you think mar- 2. Painless . . . not messy, quick some miraculous reprieve that I had riage is—a square dance where you to use. As simple to remove as not dared to hope for. Bob was here. change your partner to the tune of a cold cream. And he still loved me. It was in his fiddler? Kit, don't you know you're a No razor stubble. Keeps legs face, in his gesture as he held out a living, breathing part of me . . . nothing hair- free longer. Economical! hand to help me up the little bank. His could make me feel differently towards Does not irritate healthy, nor- ." touch had the same magic for me, mak- you. Nothing on God's earth. . . mal skin. ing my pulse leap; his voice held low, Long moments later he said, his cheek Removes hair close to skin, unsteady, "You're lovelier than ever, hard against own, "When I got that leaving skin soft, smooth, my Kit." were two people in a moment last letter I knew something was wrong. clean, fragrant. We so spellbound that it seemed made of Terribly wrong. My Kit could never be Cosmetic lotion to gossamer. No—three people. as insensitive and shallow as you remove hair Bob took my hand on one side and sounded in that letter. I got an emer- Hank's one the other and walked us gency furlough and flew West immedi- 49* toward the little grove of trees that ately. And—don't hold it against them, *!'* bordered the brook. A picnic lunch had dear—but I had a private session with been spread out beneath them. "This your folks. Then I saw old Dr. Watson. On sale at good whole thing started at a picnic. . . . He told me we would have to work Drug and Department Stores Remember? More than two years ago." things out pretty carefully because you Bob's voice held a caress. were in a serious condition. Fortunately We stood motionless, facing each I had enough points to get a discharge other. Then Hank said peremptorily, from the Army quickly. I bought this "The puppy ees ate!" ranch and arranged to have Hank sent Bob grinned. "His English gets bet- over from France in charge of one of ter every day! You can almost under- my pals. Part of our plan was to get stand him. What he means is that the you interested in war orphans through puppy snitched a sandwich. . . . It's all the Red Cross." We'll make Hank yours right, Hank. Supposing we all have because he's sandy-haired . . . one." "You don't mind—not having sons "Where—where did you find him?" of your own?" I had to say it. I had I managed to say against the hard lump to know. in my throat. For answer, his arms tightened "In a haymow, to be exact. And he around me. was scared to death." And sitting there There was a joyful shouting from the beside me on the grassy bank, Bob told brook. Hank was waving both arms me the whole story. Hank came from excitedly, "Pop! Ees Mom yet?" a little town in France near the Belgian Bob and I stood up and went to him. border. After his parents were killed "That's right, son," Bob said. 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X&JZ&*, rCp4MJ^^ pa* with ytwwm UwTeh&tydeMfc fcuict a, JU/j/.., M& wwo (Uv^aaZ Tmhm False Dreams {Continued -from page 27) My mother didn't like it. Not that before the spiritual furnishings of mar- tCHS CyCSl we'd ever had much, mother and I. It riage. <•/ was just that she fretted because he But that first night, it was only a was in the Army, because nobody knew moment, and then the joy and wonder ^ what might happen. But I wouldn't of having Kel home swamped me; I listen—and we were married before was back in his arms. No time for chairs Kel left. and rugs, no time for speaking of the - ' There are some things there simply importance and the achievement earn- aren't words for., The way I loved Kel ing money had taught me. No time to was like that. The happiness we had, drag out of our minds each other's ideas in the little cabin on the side of the on how life should be lived. Only Kel's highway where we spent our three-day arms mattered, and liis lips, and the honeymoon. No words, either, for the deep sound of his shaken, voice, in my look in Kel's eyes, that morning he bid ears. •me goodbye. For a week, I was tremulous and dis- "Don't go to the station with me, believing still. "And you won't have to honey," he said, almost harshly. His big go back! Oh, darling, I didn't want you hand caressed the soft fall of bright to be- hurt . . . but it's nothing, noth- .hair on my shoulder. "Let me remem- ing!" A shell splinter, in his thigh. He ber you like this." His voice was un- wouldn't even limp! steady, low in his throat, and then con- Kel touched my hair, that was up- vulsively his arms were around, me. swept now. "You shouldn't * have "Wait for ~me, darling. I'm coming changed it," he said gravely.. "It was back*" like silk, the other way. It's too neat •now." Immediately, I took out the grip years. And I worked. At first, THREE combs. We laughed as my hair cascaded because it was somehow like being down. "There!" JUNE LANG charming screen actress closer to Kel. And then because with The sound of our laughter smiles approvaf of Princess Pat Rouge; money even after buying bonds, danced the — through the open windows. The sound even after helping Mother, and seeing of Kel's feet, running after me when- worry fade from her eyes—with the Performs color magic that lifts the glamour ever I darted into the kitchen. "Eat- money, I fashioned our home, mine and ing's not that important. I get lonely tempo of Blond, Brunette or Red Head home I hadn't so much as Kel's. The when you go away." dared to dream about, before. to new heights of excitement! And the sound of music was every- J wrote Kel, "I was a child when we Send for generous trial compact of where. Great strains of it, from the ra- married, darling. But I'm twenty-one dio, as we lay on the wonderful, now. Three years, and I've grown up.. ex-» pensive, beautiful sofa in the wonder- Except loving you—I haven't grown out Princess Pat Rouge ful, expensive, beautiful livingroom. of that, it's as magic as the first time! I planned out loud, "Two more it cheek. it blend . . . magic-' Oh, darling, how I love you. But about Touch to your See months—and we can have a new bed- ally ... no "rouge look" . . . just the color our home—I look at other people's room set. Oh, I didn't want to buy that give if could. homes—like'my boss, when I had dinner Nature herself would you she until you were home anyway, Kel." eyes! brilliant, with her and her husband. He's an ex- Then look at your See how liquid Heat mantled my cheeks. I burrowed intense sparkling they are! Note how ecutive at the plant, too. They have a how and down against his shoulder. "You'll have fresh and different you appear! lovely livingroom. Chinese carpet. Well, —how "new" to like it. Twin beds, with a double all rouge! Unbelievable? Not I'm reading all the home and decor- Imagine it from headboard. Satin. Padded. And after you once try Princess Pat ROUGE. It's ating magazines, and right now I'm when we fight we can push the beds apart." different very different. It must be different shopping for drapes. You'll love our — "Bedroom?" he frowned, above me. to be so "important" that its color on your home, Kel. It's wonderful how earning "What's the matter with the stuff brighten eyes. money changes things. Oh, darling, up- cheeks would actually your stairs?" You can see it yourself! we'll have such a good life!" "But that why that's just the When did the beauty of my home, — old things from your father's house." I sat luxury of it, begin to blot out the New duo-tone color principle the up. "Why do you think I'm keeping on real purpose of home? When did I stop working? Besides, Kel, life's so oh, accomplishes the miracle! knowing that a home is only a shelter — simple and easy, when the money's for the people in it, only a shell around Usual rouge has just one flat tone. Princess Pat there. little is that The things going out the love it harbors? All I know — Rouge is duo-tone! When you apply it, a little whenever we feel like it, never worry- the night Kel came home—the first but mighty important drama takes place. Its ing about trying to make a dollar after the long, long waiting— skin act as a night, ." under-tone blends on your to stretch to do the work of two . . pulled out of his arms to cry, "Isn't it color base. Its over-tone glows transparently, beautiful, darling?" creating an illusion that has a spectacular effect He looked at me. My Kel, so weary- lZ'EL sat up, too. Very straight. He on the color of the eyes, and upon the charm of *-*- looking, none of the triumph of win- stared at me, and his eyes were the entire face. No other rouge can give you ning a war easing the lean lines of dark and unreadable. The little dancing this thrilling new beautv. Princess Pat "duo- his face, his eyes hungry. "Isn't what flecks of reddish gold had been snuffed tone" Rouge CAN and' DOES. beautiful?" he asked, almost puzzled. out. I was almost frightened. "Our home, darling! This living- "You mean you're going back to Glowing lips to match! work, Nancy? For a bedroom?" In- room!" Revel in the sensuous color of utterly new "Oh." He scratched his dark red credulously he repeated, "For a bed- "Color Stay" Princess Pat lipstick. It stays on hair. Indulgently, as he might humor room?" hours longer. Thrill to its "expensive" fra- a child, he said, "Oh, sure. Swell." "Going back? But I never quit, Kel!" grance. Its precious lanolin keeps lips satin- smooth and chap-proof. Try new Princess Par little disappointed stab hit me. I'd I stood up, my knees shaky. Was this A exquisite harmonized make-up today. At going to a quarrel? It worked so hard, planned so absorbedly. be couldn't be better stores everywhere. Princess Pat Rouge I had dreamed of Kel saying, "Am Kel had only been home a week. We 50c, lipstick $1, Face Powder $1. Or I in the right house?" Of Kel taking mustn't quarrel—but I thought it had SEND COUPON NOW me in his arms. "Nancy, it's marvel- all been understood! We hadn't dis- PRINCESS PAT, DEPTj 514- ous!" I had thought, in my dreams, that cussed it—it had seemed to me to be so 2709 S. Wella St., Chicago 16. Itt. if Kel would be inspired to promise, "I'll self-evident. What Kel did have his I enclose 25c (coin) for your intro- work like a beaver—I'll be the most old job as control engineer at the local ductory offer of a compact of Rouge and large size Lipstick to match successful darned radio engineer in the radio station? What if he did make (both for only 25c). Please include whole world, so we can always have enough to keep us? It was just enough. FREE 3 samples of Face Powder. lam a place like this, or a better one." It wasn't enough for new things, and Blond Medium Q Red Head D Brunette like that. . . . Silly? I extra fun. I didn't want to live that Or something for II was so wrapped up in the dreams I way! fit didn't see, then, that I'd put material "Kel—you know how it is, without Street things—the outsides of things, the enough money," I stammered. "Neither things that shouldn't matter, deeply of us had anything before. You didn't Pitv State 73 " " earn a lot, and the one job I had be- fore I went to the plant payed hardly enough to live on. Now that I've learned —now that— I looked around my beautiful living- room, the room I had built with work and sacrifice and careful planning and self-denial, the room where I'd been so sure we'd be happy. Tears stung against my eyelids. "Kel, can't you see? It's a—a way of life. This room, and then the bedroom. Always the best, the loveliest we can possibly manage.- It's Cutting Cuticle —it's putting beauty into our lives." "It's putting a taste for luxury into them," he protested. "I can't give you IS DANGEROUS! luxury, Nancy. —Never." "But if I work " I touched his arm, Don't Take Chances! and Kel shook my fingers off. "If you have to work, if you feel Wipe It Away with TAD! you'll be lonely and bored all day, why don't you get your old job back in the 1 TAD softens dead, loose cuticle filing department of the radio station? quickly ... so you can wipe it 00* At least, we could be together all day, away safely! FOR A LOVELY BELLE and we'd go to work together and come home together at night." His voice 2 TAD prevents ugly, open cuticle showed that he knew he was offering with shiny, sparkling hair cracks that invite infection I a compromise, and that even the com- "Yklhat a beautiful bride!" everyone promise didn't please him. 3 TAD does not irritate. Keeps » said. And indeed she was— with He didn't understand! "Kel—that job her lovely her hair cuticle smooth and neat . . . keeps smile and lustrous payed sixteen dollars a week! "Why that sparkled and danced with count- nails lovelfer looking longer! I — less highlights. should slave all day for that, when "Why should you slave all day at 4 TAD saves time. Does a better all?" he interrupted. "You don't have job faster, safer. Costs only 10c to work, Nancy." or 25c a bottle! Yes, there "But it's not slavery when you have was certain- something to show for it!" I exploded. Ask for TAD today at any ly a thrill- "Then it's fun—saving the money until ing change you've enough to buy something, and department, drug or ten-cent store. in Ruth's —" My voice fell away. He didn't hair si nee understand, and perhaps he never her hair- I couldn't give dresser sug- would, but up my job! gested she Kel's voice was low and toneless, after use Nestle Colorinse. Gone was its a little pause. "Didn't you ever stop to dull, drab look — and instead — il think, Nancy, that the plant will be gleamed with silky sheen and richer, shutting down, laying off workers? You 75^/ natural-looking color. can't work forever." The Safer Way to "I don't intend to work forever. Just until—" New Nail Beauty! His big shoulders slumped. He Everyone slashed his hands into his pockets. "I TAD SALES, 3950 N. Southport Ave., Chicago 13, III. knows (es- wish you'd stay home, Nancy." He pecially the stronger turned, abruptly. The straightness of ANY PHOTO ENLARGED before little sex) how his back blurred me, the Size 8x10 Inches much more appealing rough shine of the short hairs on DOUBLE-WEIGHT PAPER 1 #£ Same price for full lenpth or attractive a over the tanned back of his neck. I bit bust form,.groups, landscapes, -pet animals, etc., or enlarge- 57' girl be my lips, as he strode outdoors. The ments of any part of group comes when picture. front door slammed. Original returned with your O farlwr ******CI 9R hair is bright and sparkling. enlargement. * her Why Alone in this room .1 had labored so not let Nestle Colorinse make your SEND NO MONEY mall photo, hard to make lovely, I had the incredu- ja8t §j negative or snapshot (any size) and receive your | hair lovelier, too. Use it tonite— after ^f - enlargement, guaranteed fadeless, on beautiful $ . lous sensation of something crashing **•**' your shampoo! double-weight portrait quality paper. Pay postman 57c plus postage — or Bend 59c with around me. Through the roar of the order and we pay postage. Take advantage of this amazing offer now. ruins, I heard the radio, still Send your photos today. droning PROFESSIONAL ART STUDIOS out music. Stiffly, I crossed the soft 100 East Ohio Street Dept. 15SS-W Chicago (11), III. 4 Ask y*<" etwMtiM for Opalasctat Cr«m« Wo»* k**\\ o rug. I almost stumbled as I snapped it Null*— wlalsotof! of pormooont waving. Y*^ ty off. I dashed the tears away, angrily. Kel would see, soon enough, money was SMART "WOMEN WEAR important! Even if I didn't buy any- ims TUnttc thing for the bedroom, just having salaries, plenty of money—two instead • The stick-on soles that of one—just never scrimping and sav- stay on. Double shoe COLORINSE ing, never having to budget, took half mileage . . . keep shoes the struggle out of living! Oh, couldn't new looking . . . improve In Wt and IS* sift,. walking comfort . . . At beauty count«r« Kel remember how it used to be, when he delivered groceries while other boys greatly increase the life ererywfcere. of non-rationed shoes. played .football? I thought of the winter days I'd gone to school in year-before- Smart-modern-thrifty • last's too-short coat. My chin came up. Keep feet dry • Will not I wouldn't quit! mar floors • Safety tread. 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Oddly, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, is devoted to Pond's. Kel said no more about it. Every morning, he helped me squeeze the "I'm especially fond of the 1-Minute Mask with Pond's oranges, make the coffee, pile the dishes in the sink after our hasty breakfast. Vanishing Cream," Mrs. Sturm says. "It's a grand complexion We went downtown together, without 'fix-up' . . . makes my skin feel softer and fresher right away!" much conversation. Coming home, Kel pitched in. I got home earlier than he did, and he usually found me wrestling with supper, my hair slipping out of its moorings, some of the groceries still on the porcelain table in their brown paper bags. TT WASN'T as easy, keeping house for -*- two, as for one. I had to do ray per- sonal laundry and Kel's things on Sun- day. Somehow, there was never time for the sweet little lazinesses we had rev- eled in, that first week. Or was that because the feathery fog had come all the way down—between us? Bar- riers of silence, never mentioned now, held us apart. Yet it was triumph to have my pay envelope on Saturday nights. "We could go to a nightclub, Kel," I said once. "Aren't you too tired?" "Well, we could have people in." Trying not to admit the sick, lost feel- $•?:&"* ing of being here with him, yet some- how far apart, shut out, I persisted brightly, "I've lots of friends I made while you were away. They were nice to me. And you've made friends at the station, haven't you?" "Yes," he said. A little smile twitched one corner of his wide, firm mouth. "Ab Brant—you'd like him. He's got four kids, and he's crazy about them." Now the red-gold lights were back in Kel's eyes. "Twins, the older ones. I've stopped in several times on my way home. They're swell, those kids!" - "Have them over, then!" But I hadn't counted on boisterous children rampaging through my care- fully kept livingroom that Sunday. I hadn't counted on fingerprints on my pink wallpaper, and inquisitive little hands taking down china decorations N f "*fEe?J»V s *~ _ from my bric-a-brac shelves! Ab Brant was a short, merry man Charming devotee of the 1-Mi, -Paulina Longivorth Sturm who was chief engineer at the trans- mitter. His wife was fat, very simple. "I gave up trying to be stylish long Give your skin a clearer look • • • ago, honey!" she said, settling down on my sofa with a sigh and sticking her a softer feel— in 60 seconas! feet out ruefully. "With a family like mine, it's impossible. Why, you know "re-style" your complexion spread a cool coat of Pond's Vanish- how many potatoes I have to peel, at a To crack? And the beds—and the picking- ing Cream over your face — all but eyes. up after those fiends!" The twins, about nine years old, tow- Leave this refreshing Mask on for one full minute. The Cream's headed and brimming with mischief, "keratolytic" action loosens tiny dead skin flakes and tight-stuck dived behind the sofa then. "Come out of there, brats!" she laughed. "Go dirt particles. Dissolves them! out into the back yard, please." "As soon as I tissue off the Mask I The boys crawled out, unwillingly. There was a slight thud from the can see the difference in my skin," kitchen then. "That's Peg," one of the Mrs. Sturm says. You'll love the boys said. "She always climbs up on chairs in new kitchens and gets her clearer look and the softer "feel" of "PrUVlY^I own drink of water. After that, she your complexion, too says, she feels at home." "Peg's five," Mary Brant explained. Bumpsie was three—and it was Ideal powder base . , Bumpsie who precipitated the awful scene. Kel and Ab had been shop- For a quick-and- silkyfoundation, spread on a light R talking, while Mary helped me make film of Pond's Vanishing Cream—and leave it on. sandwiches, in the kitchen. Not greasy or drying! Holds powder! M I was taking cheese out of the re- Get a BIG jar ofglamour-making Masks frigerator when the crash of glass 75 " — came. My head jerked up. "What on earth—" I dropped the cheese. With a cry, Mary ran into the living- room. I followed swiftly. "Oh Kel!" I wailed, my heart diving, "Kel, look what she did!" My cocktail table, my beautiful cock- tail-table lay on its side. Glass all over the rug, one polished handle wrenched from the frame of the tray—"It's ruined!" I choked. Ab was lifting the child up from the floor. Nobody paid any attention to me. Mary examined the child's hands. "Sure you aren't cut, Bumpsie?" she whispered tightly. "Ab, look at her legs. Does it hurt anywhere, darling?" My lips were dry as I realized, sud- denly,, that I had thought first of the cocktail table—before I thought of the child. Afterward—thank heaven, they went home at once—Kel said grimly, "I think I finally understand how you feel about your furniture, your things, Nancy. They mean an awful lot to you, don't they? More than anything else!" Ashamed, but angry too, I cried, "Did they have to wreck the whole house, those children? It wasn't just the table—they went through like a tornado. I never saw such wild little Indians— Very quietly, his eyes holding mine, Kel asked, "Did you ever have children in this house before, Nancy?" And then he answered himself, "No, I suppose not. It doesn't look as if children 1. I put color "magic" in my kitchen! Wait'll you see or anyone, very much had disturbed how your shelves sparkle up when you use gay, — it." crispy-clean Royledge Shelving. I stood very still, feeling suddenly sick. It wasn't right! If only he'd put 2. 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As I looked at my husband, as my love and my hurt cried out to him, it flashed through my mind in a swift, vividly A special welcome painful intuition that our marriage had left the safe harbor where our love had been secure. We were on tossing seas now—the seas of fear and mistrust and —worse—not caring, that I'd heard for holiday guests about, read about. And I knew then that no matter what, we must get back together. I had thought of the laughter, the fun, that had retreated into silence with him. But what of me? I hadn't helped. There had been no spontaneous little kisses dropped on his forehead The Champagne as he read during the evening, no lingering touch of my hand on his bottled beer arm when he passed me as we went of about the house, none of the funny little endearments he loved so much. Just to work, to get the meals cooked, to keep the house in order, I had raced madly against time. And time had cheated me of the moments that ought to have been left over for the little things . . . COMETHING tore apart inside me, , ^ and I wanted to fling myself into his arms. I wanted to cry. "Darling, dar- ling—take me back, hold me tight!" But I had waited a moment too long. For Kel was looking slowly around the livingroom, saying in a wondering, con- fused voice, "I don't understand! I'll never understand how all—all this could mean so much to you. How these things of yours ever came to take the first place in your thoughts, the first affection of your heart. It's not just that you didn't think of the child first. It's me, too. You think of all these things before you think of me. You put them first, above everything else." He made a weary, heavy gesture of dismissal. "You put money first, and what it can buy. You're not the same you're not the girl I married at all!" He couldn't be saying this to me! And I thought, with a mind that was pain-quickened, that if he showed an- guish, or anger, there would be hope for me. If he'd been bitter—but he was dull and bleak, as if it didn't really matter, as if he were talking about some • Your holiday guests will compliment your good taste when stranger to whom something had hap- pened—something that was too bad, you serve them the beer of outstanding quality — smooth, but which didn't much affect him. "We satisfying Miller High Life — the champagne of bottled beer. haven't anything left, Nan." "Kel—" My voice shook on a sob, and I put out my hand to him. "Don't." He half-turned away, almost in distaste. That shook me to the foun- dations of my being—Kel, whose hand had always been stretched out to meet mine half way! Kel, in whose arms I had found the meaning of happiness., for whom I'd defied my mother, for whom I'd worked and waited—he didn't care. He didn't care that I was crying. He didn't care about the fear, the plead- ing, that must be so obvious in my eyes. Somehow, I had killed his love, and all the pleading in the world would LIFE it life again. HIGH to BEER not bring back And so the shock of Kel's turning away stiffened me. My fingers curled into cold fists at my side, and I said, "All right, Kel. All right. What were you going to say?" Something new and strange leaped MILLER BREWING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN into his eyes. Decision. Decision as tangible as the chairs I'd bought, as solid and real as the remnants of the coffee table here on the floor. . . . "It'll be better," he said tonelessly, 77 — BE PRETTY AS A PICTURE "if I—if I just leave." With a little spark out of the past, pain crossed his lips and was gone. "You don't under- IN YOUR NEW stand me and I don't understand you any more, Nan. We want different things. Money . . . well, I wanted you. ocjue hair-do A wife." t* Like a rock flung into the still pool of my mind, the word sank. "Wanted." Past tense. Not, "I want you." Kel had said, "I wanted you." Fierce, raging protest ripped me. He couldn't leave me! I loved him too much! "Everything I did, I did for you!" I whispered. "This home, better than we could have had unless—" I stopped. His eyes! So sad. And so pity- ing! As though, for the sake of what we once had, Kel pitied me. . . . But there was no real compassion, nothing I could hold on to, that would keep him here. My lungs were huge and hot in my chest, but my pride forced my eyes up. Up, up, to meet his. To forsake the pleading, the cringing that brought only his pity. I was half-mad with sick realization that somehow all I had lived for had slipped away. Yet I could still say, almost steadily, "All right, Kel. If ." that's what you want . . Is love ever over so simply? Two people who cared the way Kel and I cared can they say goodbye THE ROLL-'N-BRAID Happy combina- — and take tion of upsweep, page boy and braid, this picture- up life as though the thing that made pretty hair-do is a gay deceiver. A Vogue hair roll it worth living had not been cut away? provides the roll-up foundation. A Vogue pin-on braid adds smart sophistication. THE bitter, raging loss began in that moment. Holding myself in, keeping m*v down fear and panic with an iron will, while Kel went upstairs. To pack. To live somewhere else. "You'll be glad," he said inadequate- ly. "It's hard at first, Nan. But it's best for both of us." His hand touched mine. "I can't take it any more, not this way." I had to hurt him. "That's just a lame ^9\ ^UftA I excuse! No man walks out on his wife because she wants to keep on working!" "I'm not walking out on you." Kel's lips tightened. "You walked out, Nan. That day you said you wouldn't quit. I—I've lived with a ghost, ever since." The deep-down defeat, the sick knowledge that nothing was left for me, didn't come until morning. I sat up all night. Where had Kel gone? PHOTO-RING else? Could there be someone Impa- ANY PHOTO OR PICTURE of tiently I brushed that aside. Not Kel. Sweetheart, Relative or Friend, reproduced perma- tt ~BB his glowing eyes, the lips so nently in this beau- 9 Kel with tiful onyx like ring featuring the New firm and thrilling on mine . . . Kel Magnified Setting! Will last a lifetime! Inde- looked at another girl. structible! Waterproof! Enclose strip of paper -^« had never for ring size. Pay postman plus a few cents /t...^.. postage. If you send cash we payP pu»«ge.postaee. l"P*™jp«i"iM But I had lost him. Other things (Photos Returned.) ^ ^ PHOTO ^^ swamped me, as I wandered through MOVETTE RING CO., Dept. C-S9. CINCINNATI. O. the useless, forsaken house, whose a mockery now. would THE CRISS-CROSS—A nattering frame for your beauty was What beauty, from every angle. Soft. High-style. Fashion- I tell Mother? And the people in the wise. Front and sides are upswept over tiny Vogue plant . . . they all knew my husband rolls for contour firmness. The picturesque criss- was back. Humiliation seared me. WflGnER cross low on the neck is turned under a la page boy "Kel left me!" No! I thought of Mary over a Vogue hair roll, then held neatly and surely Brant, and Ab. He'd never leave her, KOMB- KLEANED SWEEPER with a Vogue mesh net. Vogue hair rolls and net's though she was fat and plain. ... I come in "natural" hair shades. Sette*. S*4tei "PICK- UP" thought of their children. Wild, un- • disciplined. Or must children grow up gay and careless and full of spirit? Vogua Hair Rolls Si to 59^ ASK Vogue Braid* 39J!to79J* If we had had children, Kel and I Vogue Note 10(5 The pang ripping through me was In Hair-Hatching Colors . . . Wanted Siiot and Shapes more than I could bear. On tale at 5-and-lOf stores and department stores I couldn't go to work that day. I ,stayed inside my empty, my foolish house. Time limped by. I couldn't even phone, to say I was ill. What would I do? I beat the sofa cushions, uselessly. "I can't live with- out you, Kel! How could you leave me? Why didn't you take me into your arms—why didn't you order me to quit work?" R The money. How he'd harped on m money! The money that made his own The Glemby Co., lac • 111 Eighth Ave. • New York City earnings not important. man's earn- A i. R.WAGNER MFG.CO., Dept. MW, Milwaukee 9, Wit. ings must be the mainstay. ... As 78 " though a veil had been struck from my eyes, I saw suddenly that while NEWEST IN GIFTS... Kel was away I had learned inde- pendence, a competence that, because I flaunted it, shamed him. . . . Were there many wives, like me, clinging the *^^tnu^JX* that says, to their pay envelopes, losing their husbands, now that the need for their labor was gone? In my livingroom I looked at what I'd bought. Things,' things.- Chairs and rugs I had put before our love. What if at night Kel came home to a living- room without luxury? What if the lamps weren't- silk-shaded? I caught breath. I'd been such a fool! Buy- my H^p* ing my own dresses, saying proudly, "Look, Kel, isn't it pretty?" I should have asked him, "Kel, I need a new housedress!" In gingham he had paid for himself, wouldn't Kel have found me lovelier than in crepe I selected, paid for, wore ostentatiously—because I gave it to myself? No gift he could ever give me, I saw clearly, had any value—while I had my own pay envelope, while our mar- riage was crammed into the fringes of my days. . . . Kel hadn't had a home at all. In the shrieking silence of this house he'd left, I remembered one other thing. The night that Kel had talked to me about his job, about his chances for advancement ... "I learned radio en- gineering in the Army," he'd said. "I just worked around the control room before, you know, repairing, moving equipment, setting up remote jobs, and things like that. But I've got my license now. And Ab Brant says that if I study nights, there's a chance that— And I hadn't even really listened. I'd been thinking about my own work, of something I'd left undone, trying to track down in my mind where a mis- take had been made. And I'd been making so much bigger a mistake right then! I should have gone across the room, I should have sat on the floor beside him, my head against his knee, Instead of tying a string around the way he used to like so much. I herfingerso she'll remember you, should have praised him, should have let him think he was the smartest, most tie an "Embracelet" around her wonderful man in the world. No, not wrist — a stunning, stylish URIS- "let him think"—let him know that I thought he was, to me! CRAFT bracelet that carries your Words from me, real faith, real pride, from me would have meant the world name in ten Karat gold letters to him then. Those were the things on a ten Karat gold chain! 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Navy Anchor, $1.50 Extra, at Jewelry and Department Stores, Px's Cap Shield, $2.25 Extra, or Wings, $1.10 Ex- month and tell him to save and Ship Service Stores everywhere. tra .. . Marine Corps Emblem, $1.50 Extra. RADIO MIRROR for you regu- larly. Place a standing order with your dealer — don't risk disappointment. •s^MJMSC URIS SALES CORP., 222 FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK 3, N. Y. 79 " —" that would have counted. And I flung myself on my beautiful sofa, and wept again. I couldn't go to work the second day, either. But I knew that soon I'd have to. I'd need the money, now. . . . In the afternoon I got dressed and went downtown. I didn't have any plan, but my feet led me somehow to MAW AVAILABLE/ the radio station. I thought vaguely ¥V*~% *?%& of seeing Kel, of talking to him. But once I was there, I knew it was no good, and I sank down in a chair in the lobby to rest a moment, to still the trembling of my knees at being so near to Kel, and so *far away. It wouldn't do any good to talk to him, I mot knew. It was too late for words. They wouldn't mean anything. It was too late, even, for actions. It was too late for anything, for us. . . . TDLY, I listened x to the loudspeaker in I the lobby. The network was on—one WATE R of the daytime serials was playing. I thought for a moment how much fun $1 • 250 • 450 they must be to listen to all day as you went about your work. If you had time 1 to listen. If you were a—housewife, and not a working girl. . . . It was a man's voice, coming out of : VARVA : ^zmmimi M the speaker. "It won't do you any ;• Come-hither, compelling "Follow Me" good," he was saying. "It's too late for crying, too late to say that you're in wonderful Eau de Toilette ... for TOItETTE, sorry. What's done is done, and words you to use as lavishly as you like! from you don't mean anything, anyway. n Insist upon this insistent fragrance! I've seen too often how lightly you ». use them. It's too late even to do any- Also in devil-may-care "Nonchalant." thing—nothing that you'd do would have your heart behind it— tea*.*'-" At your favorite drug That, I knew, was what would be and department store: wrong with talking to Kel now. He had Parfum SUIVEX heard too much of my talk, all the $1 to $15. ..Bath MOI Powder, Bubble Foam, wrong kind. And even if I said the Sachet and Face Powder, by right words, he wouldn't believe that my heart was behind them. . . . each $1... Talc, 55c... M i/ARVA (all prices plus taxes) Wearily, I rose to go. And as I stood by the elevator, I heard one of the girls '•!' «J-V* -:->.--, *ws« who worked in the station talking to the switchboard operator. "It's too bad," she was saying. "Ab can't stay ~77ves /fX.ouc /x&sri c& "t/u^ £cisi& cu*v<£, <£ "You're the lady who—who got so mad when Bumpsie broke your table," he said. I walked into the house. If anything could reproach the sterile, severe order- liness of my own livingroom, it was this littered room speaking so eloquent- ly of love and living! Books out of place, and a teddybear on the sofa, and two airplanes hanging from a bridge lamp, as though in flight. A boy's jacket was on the back of a chair, and someone's forgotten bedroom slipper on the floor. But it didn't look messy, somehow—it looked warm and sweet, and inviting. Bumpsie peered down the railing from upstairs, then. "Oh!" Her small, elfin face flushed. She remembered me too. "I've come to take you to my house, Bumpsie," I said, smiling. "It'll make it quiet here for your mother, and she won't worry about you." The other twin came in from the kitchen. Frowning, he said, "Those eggs won't scramble. I dropped one on the floor, Hal." ITAL looked at me, and I was flinging *--* down my hat. "I'll fix it, kids!" Happiness blossomed inside me. I was needed! The four children trailed upstairs with me, a few minutes later, as I brought the tray with the food up to Ab Brant's wife, Mary. Mary lay in bed, pale, circles under her eyes, worry a gaunt specter around her. "Oh, children—" she began. Then she saw me. For a moment, she could not speak. Gently, I set the tray across her lap. I punched the pillow up, and said gaily, "The kids really did most of this. They're wonderful!" "But they can't do it all—" Tears burned her eyes. She bit her lip. "If I'd only get better. But I'm so ." weak . . In a whisper, she added, "The doctor wants me to go to the hospital, but there isn't any room." "Listen," I said swiftly, ""I came to take the children to my house. Oh, Mary, don't worry about them! I'll take good care of them.." I tried to smile. "I—I won't be severe with them. If they—if they bang the whole place up, make firewood of the furniture, it'll be ." all right. . . It trembled on my lips, 'that Kel had left me. But Mary had troubles enough of her own. I mustn't distress her now with my woes. "And my mother will come over here and look after you," I finished comfortingly. "She's a good practical nurse, and what's more, "she enjoys it!'l I broke off a bit of toast and buttered it. "Here, dear. Eat." - The children were all agog at com- ing home with me. Bumpsie was a bit uncertain, shuffling her little foot back and forth across the rug and looking up at me covertly. "But I might do something b-bad again," she whis- Jl, pered. sv I stooped to hug her. "Don't worry, darling! I won't care, even if there are ten accidents!" They packed the clothes they'd need then. Hal stuffed in overalls and shirts Tommy made a big to-do about a boat he wanted to take which wouldn't fit. QUEST It was very noisy. But I didn't mind, somehow. This was absorbing as deco- rating my livingroom had never been. All-purpose DEODORANT We all piled into a cab at last, after the stark moment when Mary kissed each child goodbye and held her hand out to me tremulously. "I don't know how Use this positive deodorant powder on sanitary napkins to thank you," she whispered. "Don't then." I smiled at her. "My — " —— mother's coming in a few minutes." And that night, in the midst of the hubbub, as I raced back and forth from the kitchen, making supper for the children, Kel walked in. I didn't see him at first, because I was bending over, my back to the door. Hal and Tommy were apologetically sweeping up the remains of a vase they had just shattered. I was saying, calm- ly, pointing to a piece of porcelain un- der the sofa, "Every single bit of it, now. Whatever you mess up, boys, you'll have to clean!" Kel whispered, "Nancy!" I straightened. My heart shook. Kel! His eyes were weary. "I couldn't stay away. No matter what—" And then he made a puzzled gesture. "What are they doing here?" I saw then that Bumpsie was jump- ing up and down on the wing chair. Playing horsey. I'd learned by now that playing horsey was her favorite game, that's why they called her Bumpsie. On the floor, turning the pages of a comic book, was Ab Junior, oblivious to the noise and the bits of shattered vase. Hal was sweeping around him. Kel stared at me. I went to him quickly. "Mary's sick. She may have to go to the hospital. C Oh, Kel, I—I'm U hese are the new streamlined pen so glad you came back!" All the things 7 and pencil sets that are literally flying that had lain between us, sharp pointed over paper to make writing history. swords, were gone. "These kids are a handful. I need help." CHECK THESE FEATURES He stared at the shambles of what / 1 4 kt. Gold Iridium Tipped Point. PUT YOUR BEST FACE FORWARD had been my precious, sacred living- 4 Automatic leak-Proof Lock Section. room. "You're 4 14 kt. 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"You remember Belinda Corey, don't you Peg?" It didn't matter that I couldn't answer, for Grif kissed me then. But I could still hear the voices, everyone talking at once. I could still hear them, still see everyone around me, because that kiss was just a kiss. Tender, and sweet—but not the magic I'd waited for, not the heaven on earth I'd dreamed of. "So nice to see you again, Belinda. . . . Are you home for the summer? . . . Oh, yes, home to stay—didn't you know? Doesn't Grif look marvelous? . . . Well, I should say so, especially when you recall that he's been fighting a war and winning buckets of medals. Medals! But where are they, darling? . . . Probably in his pocket. You know ." how modest Grif 's been all his life. . . All his life. All the time they'd been growing up together, Grif and this girl. Belinda was the girl who had worn his class pin, whose autograph was right in the middle of that old ping-pong paddle on the wall. Oh, what was wrong . . . what was wrong?. A ND then Griff's arm, ever so gently, ^*- fell about my shoulders, and much of what was wrong disappeared. No, not disappeared, but went back into the limbo of forgotten things for the mo- ment, banished by his nearness. "Pure luck we came home on the same train," Belinda was saying, her eyes on Grif's face. "We never dreamed ." it would take a war . . Father Baird's voice drowned the rest of it. "Want to drive, son?" Grif shook his head. "No thanks I'm afraid of these contraptions!" More laughter because Grif, who had driven a tank through flaming war, was afraid of traffic on a suburban high- way. We were all in the ear now, Grif last after stowing the baggage and tip- ping the porter. Belinda,- it seemed, had left school a week early. She was sur- prising her folks, so we were driving her home. We pulled up to the curb a few mo- ments later. Dogs barked. A small brother came running down the drive from the Corey place. The whole scene jiggled like a maddening dream before my eyes—people running across a porch, laughter and kisses and a scram- ble after bags. A smooth roll of blonde hair, blue eyes smiling up into Grif's. "It's been fun, Grif darling. Thanks so much— "Don't you remember—you were never going to thank me for anything." To keep precious sweaters longer lasting Things between them, things shared and lovelier looking ... wash them in Wool- that I was alive . . . Foam. Leaves them luxuriously clean, soft before he knew Belinda and Grif! That's what his THE NEW DRY WAY and fluffy! Colors stay bright! Fibres stay mother had meant when she had said alive! Economical! One 25 member and put into practice all the only bitter impatience in his voice, in hind the closet door. Once again there things I'd read about how to treat re- his tired eyes. "Exactly as I left it, would be socks to mend. His feet would turning soldiers, what to expect from Peggy." And, after a moment, "I guess leave long, wet tracks on the bathroom them? After all, Grif had been away I'll shower and change clothes. The floor, avoiding, for some reason known the best part of three years. For each folks are expecting us." only to himself, the bathmat carefully of those years we'd had only a week of Halfway down the hall he paused laid out for him. Grif was home, and living together as husband and wife. suddenly and pushed a hand against his he was farther away from me than he What did I expect? It would take time, ribs. Instinctively frightened, I covered had been when we were separated by the readjustment. It would be like get- the distance between us, crying, "Grif, half a world of oceans and islands and ting acquainted all over again. what is it? Is anything wrong?" continents. Only—only I didn't have to get ac- He shook his head slowly and smiled Blindly I changed my dress, combed, quainted all over again. I knew Grif, I at me, and it seemed to me as if the and took out my lipstick. I smeared it knew him as well as I knew my own smile was reluctant, not something be- and wiped it off, and tried again. I was mind, my own heart. And it hurt, it longing to us now, but something left still there, staring dully at my reflection hurt unbearably, to know that I had over from the past—from the past when in the glass, when Grif came into the not been as close to him in all these we never looked at each other without bedroom in fresh clothes, his red hair months of separation as he had been smiling. Then his eyes swung away, as damp and smooth. to me. if he couldn't bear to look at me. "Ready?" he asked briefly. "Let's go." "Just a stitch. No, Peggy, nothing's And we went out and down the steps 'T'HEN we were home. The Bairds wrong. Everthing's wonderful — per- up which Grif had carried me, laugh- * waved us gaily up the walk and fect,!' he ended bitterly. And then, from ing, a thousand years ago. drove on to their own house, calling halfway up the stairs, he turned again, Quickly, almost not of my own voli- back a reminder that we were to come and this time his voice was gentle. tion, I put a hand on his arm to stay over for dinner in a little while. "Sorry, baby—I guess it isn't your him. "Grif, wait. What's wrong, Grif? We went silently into the house. fault." What's wrong between us? What have When I turned from hanging my coat What isn't my fault? I cried silently I done? You have to tell me—I can't in the hall closet, Grif was standing after him. What isn't my fault? It stand this." there, his bags still in his hands, look- wasn't my fault that he had met Be- ing into, the livingroom with its little linda Corey again, if that was what ITE smiled down at me very gently. alcove that we laughingly called his was wrong. It wasn't my fault that he "--* "Yes," he admitted. "Something's den. I watched his eyes swing across had discovered that he had made a wrong. It's nothing you've done, Peggy. the whole thing and focus upon the mistake in marrying me, that he should It's what you haven't done, you, and plaque board on the wall—the football have married her—if that was what Mother and—look, I want to get it letter, the crazy, autographed ping-pong was wrong. But how could it be? How settled with the folks first. Let me talk paddle. Suddenly, passionately, I found could it be that? You can't mistake to them, and then, tonight, I'll tell you. myself praying that somehow the sight love—and Grif had loved me. He'd But let me get settled with them first, of these small things in the little house loved me so. . . . please, Peggy!" we shared might bring him back to me I heard the thud of his bags as he Then he hurried me across the lawn, from whatever those reserves were into dropped them upstairs. The sound of and I had to be content with that. which he had retreated so frighteningly. his shoes, as he put them down. The Grif sat across the table from me in I said, shakily, "Well, here it is—just whisper of his feet crossing the hall to the Baird diningroom, listening while as you left it." the bathroom. The squeak of the shower Mother Baird described gaily her battle He looked a moment longer before faucet as he turned it on. Grif had with the butcher over the steak, the he answered, his eyes traveling around come home. Once again I'd find his trouble she'd had borrowing red ration the room. "Yes,", he said, and there was discarded shirts in untidy heaps be- points. Grif ate slowly, carefully, as if Add This Festive Touch 'ewe Delightful. . .Delicious. . .Distinguished jtj| Famed Elsa Maxwell suggests : "Serv- ing ROMA California Burgundy is ^SjjyP^' smart and gracious. Lends friendly warmth to holiday meals. Yet so simple." Try ROMA Burgundy— to- night. 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A long way back . . . maybe jaws as he listened to Father Baird re- two thousand years or so, and work my counting the details of the new sub- way forward with them. I don't suppose division. it ever occurred to you that there are "These people are nocking to the people in the world who still grind coast to work," Father Baird was say- their meal on a rock, who are born ing, "making more money than they've hungry and stay hungry as long as they ever seen in their lives, and they haven't live." the faintest idea of the value of prop- "But you have a medical discharge," erty. They'll pay the asking price for Mother Baird reminded him. "You a house, and finish the painting them- can't go back." selves." "Not in the Army. Not with my old "So sir," ." you take them for a ride, crew . . Grif's voice sank down into Grif said evenly. "It seems to be an his throat and rose again. "Maybe I old Baird custom to pick up a sucker can't handle a tank any more, but I wherever you find him." can walk. Those people over there have Father Baird's fork stopped with a been walking for centuries, carrying bite of steak half way to his mouth, and their lives tied up in a dirty sack on an angry flush ran up into the thin hair their backs." on his forehead. Into the sudden silence "Mother," Father Baird's voice broke Mother Baird said, "Griffith! You sound in sarcastically, "I think the boy has almost impertinent." got religion. He's going to be a mis- It was as if she were speaking to a sionary among the sore-eyed heathen." small child, not to a man who carried "Oh, Griffith, is that it, dear?" Moth- nearly three years of war behind his er Baird wailed. tired eyes. "I wouldn't know," Grif told them, I said quickly, "I ... I guess we are his voice held low. "I'm not even sure all sort of mixed up and tired. Grif I know just what you mean by religion. and I have a few things to talk over, Aside from driving to church every if ." you will excuse us now . . other Sunday in a nice washed and I got to my feet and forced myself polished car, I haven't had much con- to walk, not run, from the room. The tact with it." threat of a quarrel always filled me For a moment there was dead silence with this sense of panic. I had lived in the diningroom. Into that silence through so many of them in my child- Mother Baird said briskly, "Come, hood. darling. Let's just forget the whole Grif got to his feet, also, but he thing until tomorrow." didn't follow me "Yes," Grif said out of the room. He just said, "See forget the whole you later, Peg. I They Finished Their Job— thing until to- want to talk to the morrow. Let's not folks." think about any- I was dismissed. Let's Finish Ours! thing unpleasant I walked down now. We're the the hall, leaned BUY VICTORY BONDS! Bairds, and we against the front can't be bothered door for a mo- with the agonies ment. And Grif's of people who are voice caught and not as lucky as held me there. The words were wrong. ourselves, or maybe just not as sharp." He was saying, "I thought for a while "Look here, young man," Father that maybe I was wrong about all this. Baird blustered, "You're being cocky I thought perhaps the war would have and insolent. I* won't have you talking shaken you out of your complacency. like this to your mother." But it didn't. To you it was nothing but "I'm not talking to my mother," Grif another big deal, another lucky break told him quietly. "My mother died in a for the Bairds. And now that it's over, waterfront shack after they pulled her and the plane plant will close down out of San Pedro harbor. She had giv- pretty soon, the guys you have en me away because Dad died and she swindled on these little jerry-built hadn't had anything to eat for quite houses will find themselves stuck with a while. After she got over the shock blown-up payments they can't possibly of it she realized what she had done; meet. So you'll re-possess these cute but it was too late. She had signed the little boxes you've frosted over with adoption papers, and you wouldn't give stucco, take them back on the mort- me back to her. So she walked off the ." gages, the way you got the old farm in dock. . . the first place, and after a while you'll The silence was like something tan- re-sell them to the next batch of gible. It was wind and cold rain, and si_iclctBrs waves washing against a harbor dock. "Griffith, darling," Mother Baird's Grif's words echoed through it, repeat- voice was soft as velvet, as if she were ing themselves in my mind until I persuading a madman, "you are un- grasped the full meaning of what he terrible experiences. said. Not their son at all. . . . Genuine Hand Carved Nut Kings strung by your had ." You must rest, dear . . Father Baird "was saying haltingly, YOU MUST BE PLEASED OR "I've done nothing but rest since "Who told you all this?" they carted me into the hospital at "Guy I met in the Army. Used to YOUR MONEY BACK IN 10 DAYS • Kweilin," Grif broke in. "All I could do know my folks when they were teach- other ing school, before Dad got Send no money! Select ring by number, indi- was lie there and rest and watch in a mission went for cating ring sire by string or paper measure. people sweating their hearts out trying sick and everything wrong hands do the work of six. them." Pay postman $1.94 plus C.O.D. charges. If to make two so tired of resting and doing noth- "But Griffith," Mother Baird broke you send $2 cash or money order, we pay all I'm ing about the whole thing that I could in, "We did what we thought was best postage. PS Also indicate 2nd choice if your these damned, walls down." for you. It seemed wiser not to tell size, is not available due to war shortages. push smug "Griffith, you have never used such you." HAREM CO. (House o.f Rings) ^^ language in your whole life!" "I think I sort of knew it all the 30 Church St., New York 7, N. Y. Dept. fP "Sorry," Grif apologized briefly. "But time," Grif's voice was so low I could it all adds up to this: I'm going back hardly make out the words. "I can't 86 — — remember when I didn't feel it. Maybe this time he would not be coming back. people who care about such things." it was just because I was always so Everything else—the revelations of that There! It was out—the wild jealousy lonesome around here." overheard conversation, the shock of which had been tearing me to pieces. "Of all the ungrateful pups!" Father seeing Mother and Father Baird in This was the core of the whole thing, Baird roared, "We take a homeless waif their true character for the first time the cause for Grif's change toward me. into our home, even give him my was pushed into the background of my What else could it be but another girl? ." name . . thoughts. Tomorrow Grif would be What else could have made him want "I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate all gone, and I'd never see him again. to leave me? you've done for me, but I would be I was still standing there when Grif "I'm a little slow on the uptake," pretty stupid not to realize why you walked out of the night. He came up Grif was saying, "I didn't get what you have done it. You need a son to carry over the summit of the hill and stood were saying about Belinda Corey." on the name, to manage the business for a moment silhouetted against the "It's so darned obvious!" I was trying for you when you decide to retire. I'm sky, blotting out the moon, a tall lank hard to keep my voice from shaking. sorry, sir, but I'm afraid I won't be figure, pausing to push a hand into his "And so right. I can see it all now. You able to make your investment pay off." ribs, sending a shaft into my heart. and Belinda growing up together in the "Peggy?" he called uncertainly. same crowd, and you going away, and HE added, "I'm leaving for Frisco to- I must have answered, for he came her letters, and everything. I guess ,** morrow morning to iron out last toward me and said, "I thought I saw women are pretty blind about such details before taking over this new job you on the slope a while ago. I've been things. I didn't even guess, until I in China. That's what I came home for talking to the folks'" saw you getting off the train together. to tell you all this. I'd like to have "I know." The words stuck in my But now I can see how it is. You're Peg keep the house, if you don't mind. throat. "I was in the hall. I didn't mean just right for each other, that's all. You It means a lot to her, and I'll arrange to listen, but I'm glad I did. Because have so many things in common." about the payments. Just let her go on . . . now you won't have to say it all thinking that it was an outright gift, over again." GRIF was still looking at me through with no strings attached, will you?" After a pause, he said, "Well, that's the stiff spokes of the old wheel. I I didn't wait to hear any more. I was it. I've arranged everything with the was glad it stood between us, to keep out of the house and across the garden, folks. You're to keep the house." me from being crazy and flinging my- running as fast as I could, not caring "I don't want it!" I cried, "I don't self into his arms. where I went, wishing that I might want it!" "Yes," he drawled, and there was the never come back. Grif was going away "You . . . don't?" he was really aston- old familiar edge of laughter in his tomorrow . . . tomorrow . . . tomorrow. ished. voice. "So many things in common, The word became a sick chant in my Funny he didn't know that all I such as the battle of the dining car mind as I climbed the hill path, wind- wanted. ... I jerked my mind away on a crowded train, and sharing the ing up and up until I came out on the from the thought and said, "You're same seat in a chair car after I finally summit where an old warped wagon not their son at all." convinced her that it was a war that wheel had been set upright in a slab "No." He was looking at me strange- caused the cancellation of her pullman of cement as a memorial to the pioneers ly. "Sorry. I didn't know about that, reservations." who died there in an Indian ambush. of course, when I asked you to marry I guess I didn't breathe for a while. I stood there gripping the spokes of me." Finally I said, "You mean . . . that's the old wheel in both my hands, star- "How could that make any differ- all?" ing blindly at the wedge of sky be- ence?" I cried, winking back the tears "That's all." yond, with its impersonal half-moon that kept stinging my eyes. "Except I felt the earth shaking under me, floating serenely across it. that now it may make a difference to or maybe it was just my own body. Grif was going away tomorrow, and Belinda. The Coreys are the sort of "Grif . . . would you mind saying that **k N OUNCE OF %. REVENTION is Worth a Pound of Cure! PHILIP MORRIS are scientifically proved far less irritating to the smoker's nose and throat. LL FOR ;% l < T I I nca's Finest Cigarette " all over again?" And I waited, tensely. proud to call a doctor she couldn't pay He was coming around the wheel, My father got drunk all the time and catching my taut hands off the spokes slapped us around. One night he killed and holding them in fingers that were a man in a drunken fight and died in like a vise. jail before his trial was finished. "Hey!" he said in a funny voice, "I "Those people in China," I hurried didn't know you cared like this." on, "I know just how they feel. I never "You didn't know!" had enough to eat, either, until I got "No, I didn't." big enough to work out on a farm in His voice was still funny and far Kansas, helping to cook for harvest away, as if he were talking to himself hands. The 'first time the woman I more than to me. "I thought it was just worked for told me to sit down at the something I dreamed—feather stuff, big table and eat anything I wanted, soft music, rosy lights. Your letters, for I thought she was crazy." example—nothing but casual, and shiny Grif stood there, not moving, as the as a new paint job. You had a new hat. words spilled out. "You wouldn't The stores were fresh" out of your size know, of course, that I hitch-hiked in really good hose. Stuff like that. west in clothes from a rummage sale, From where I was standing, the whole with three dollars I had saved from a thing began to sound pretty thin and summer's work. They were swell to me ." phony." at the Y . . "But that's what they kept telling I hunted for a handkerchief and Grif me to write!" pushed his into my hand. NO DULL "Who told you?" "I didn't want you to know," I was "Everyone. The magazine articles. mopping angrily at my tears, "I thought DRAB HAIR People. Mother Baird." you would be ashamed. But that's only the beginning of it. There are plenty Whin You U$m Thit Amazing "COUNDS like Mother Baird," he said. of other things we never really knew." Rinse ^ "Fact is, if your handwriting hadn't "Yes," Grif caught my hands and 4 Purpose been different, I wouldn't have been folded them tight between his own. In one, simple, quick operation, LOVALON able to tell which one of you was talk- "Things like how much I love you, will do all of these 4 important things ing." Peg." to give YOUR hair glamour and beauty: "You mean," I was staring up at him "Then why don't you take me with 1. Gives I ustrous highlights. in amazement and unbelief, "you didn't you? I just don't understand how a 2. Rinses away shampoo film. want me to be like Mother Baird . . : man can love his wife, and want to go 3° Tints the hair as it rinses. not ever?" off and leave her." 4. Helps keep hair neatly in place. "Does a man . . . any man . . . want "He can't," Grif's arms were around LOVALON does not permanently dye a beautiful spoiled brat for a wife?" me, now, his face pressed down tight or bleach. It is a pure, odorless hair rinse, "That's funny!" The tears were sud- against mine. in 12 different shades. Try LOVALON. denly flooding down my face and I "Forgive- me, Peg," he said gently, At stores which tall toilet goods didn't even try to check them. "That's "for being so blind. All the time I was so very funny I could laugh myself to in the hospital over there I was thresh- 25f£ for 5 rinses death." Anger washed over me, taking ing it out. No nylons, no electric cake 10fi for 2 rinses the place of hurt and misery. "And all mixers, maybe only a mud hut to live I was dying to tell you about in. girl like Peg had to be where ^» the time A I/* Guaranteed by victory .garden I yGood Housekeeping the bugs that ate up my things are smooth and easy. She and the furniture I built for the day wouldn't understand why I had to go nursery. It would have been so much back and work in a mess like that. Yes, fun to tell you what a time I was hav- believe it or not, that's what I kept ing trying to take care of twenty-seven telling myself." little wigglers while their mothers We both laughed, then, and just stood '1 worked in the plane plant, and how the there, looking at each other. The old PICTURE RING paint curled up and came off the porch wagon wheel waited quietly. Most Precious Keepsake You Can Own floor and had to be scraped with a knife and steel wool before I could 1PUT out a hand and touched it gent- from Any Photo Made paint it again. But of course I musn't ly and said. "The pioneers must have MONEY! worry you with such things. Every- had a great life, really, pushing off into NO thing must be perfect for dear little new country, never knowing what lay Any photo orsnapshot clearly repro- duced as setting In beautlful.onyx- Grif. He mustn't be bothered with the ahead." like Ringl A keepsake of a loved hands." "That's what we'll be doing in China, one you will treasure for years I blisters on my Picture stays sharp and clear— Grif stood there for a long time, just Peg. It's a new country, but it's so piti- withstands rubbing, washing, wear—unharmed by water, looking down at me, then turned my fully old and tired. Does that make tarnish .SEND weather—won' t hands over and pushed his face down sense? Remind me to tell you what I NO MONEY! Just mail photo with strip of paper for ring size. into my cupped palms. mean sometime." only plua Pay postman $1.00 said, could I "Tell now," I laughed. postage. Hand-tinted 25c extra. After a while he "How me Picture returned. Money-back be married to a girl and know so little Grif was looking down at me in the guarantee. ORDERNOW. portrait RING CO., Dept. R-31, Cincinnati, Ohio about her?" moonlight. I could feel his heart pound- "Because it was never really our ing hard against mine as he pulled me marriage. It was theirs! They planned close. l:M:trHrmi,=U ." it down to the last crumb of wedding "No," he said slowly. "Not now. . . cake. They cut out our homesite and * (jenuUte pasted a paper house on it, and I was The moon was a pale gray ghost and QuMartleed too dumb to realize that they were the sunrise was rosy when we started SWISS WATCHES merely using me for bait—a model down the mountain, our hands locked WITH JtWELZD house and starry-eyed bride to show together and swinging between us. MOVEMENTS the prospective buyers." "Funny, isn't it," I said, "yesterday I jerked my hands away and rubbed at this time everything was all mixed LIMITED QUANTITY the tears off my cheeks savagely. Words up between us." Yes . . even these days were crowding my throat now, jerking "But that was yesterday." 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He had no wish to intrude ... to come closer to me. But I was wrong. BEFORE sit- A rare, captivating ¥T was an evening when we were -• perfume that bespeaks ting, tired and relaxed, after two LOSES hours of steady digging to uncover the romance. Its delicate last tender bulbs and pack them. away fragrance is socompletely in warm, dirt-covered boxes for pro- feminine, so appealing, 22 POUNDS tection against the coming frost. Now it it will tempt his heart. was dusk. Kirk had donned a thick IN 5 WEEKS sweater and I had thrown a heavy scarf New Friends and .Interests around my shoulders for protection V chill of the evening. Make New World for Her \ against the | "Jan, it looks as if this might be one Helen Shariter never wanted to BflH of the last evenings we can spend like believe anything. She thought R she was meant to be stout and Ipi this out-of-doors. I hate to see the unattractive. 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Grace, Beauty the window against his own home- and Charm . . . liniment MAIL COUPON TODAY at all whenever a coming! I couldn't—it couldn't be! newsstands. And yet I knew that this was a cross- Joe Bonomo, Personal Please roads. I had been stupid to think that BONOMO CULTURE INSTITUTE, Dept. 2312 1841 Broadway, New York Print Kirk would be content to disappear 23, N. Y. Send me in plain wrapper complete. Bonomo Institute life for Home Effective from my except a casual sleigh Course in Success through Beauty of Face and ride or two. Form. I'll deposit with postman $2.95 plus postage. If not delighted, I may return Course in 10 days and my money Quick Drying I had been stupid not to see that Kirk will be refunded. was falling in love with me. Name Pleasant And what about me? Could I give Address M him up? Could I wrench out of my --.m City Economical life this wonderful, precious closeness ... State Check here if with him? Turn my back and return you enclose $2.95 for delivery postpaid. (Canada and Foreign $3.50 with order.) 91 — — — — to loneliness? Give up everything I For a moment I wavered. His words suddenly saw he had come to mean to had struck a deep core of knowing— me? Kirk! . . . darling! . . . but then my betrayal of Bill rose up I was in his arms. They were strong and confronted me. My promise to and sure around me, holding me as if him had been a dedication and I must we rightfully, naturally, belonged to- not falter again from that trust. I could gether. His mouth was on mine. It not stand that the ghost of Bill should had been so long since a man had leave me or linger, accusingly, outside kissed me—but Kirk was not just any- the circle that would be Jan and Kirk. one. He loved me and my lips were not I turned and stumbled up the path. stiff and cold and unyielding but shaped Behind me, Muffet crouched on the NEGLECTED in the forever answer to his seeking. flagstones at Kirk's feet, bewildered. I CUTICLE NEW The tight, closed shell of my heart had to call, in tear-choked voice, over SAFER WAY opened and the sweeping, yielding tide and over again before the old cat rose of passion rushed over me. and unwillingly followed me into the This was not my first kiss. And I house. Keeps cuticle trim without cutting was not a girl. I was a woman who I must not see Kirk again. That re- knew the meaning of a man's desire solve was firm and stubborn in me, It's often painful, and can be dan- and now body moved irresistibly though it meant tearing out of heart gerous to cut cuticle. Be smart! my my close to his in near-surrender. All of this new, this budding, love by its very Take a tip from professional mani- the deep physical needs in me that roots. Somehow I would have to forget curists. Use Trimal like they do — had been denied so long were on the him. Somehow I would have to regain with a manicure stick wrapped in surface now, heightened by the hard that old tranquillity, that choking-off cotton. Watch dead, loose cuticle firmness of his arms around me, by the of emotions, which had meant peace to soften — wipe it away with a towel! maddening closeness of his strength. me before I met Kirk. You'll be amazed and delighted! There was gladness and joy in our That it wouldn't be easy I knew. Trimal, America's finest cuticle re- kiss. It was right. It was good. And Lying on my bed that night I could mover, comes in 10c and 25c sizes, a strange, unbidden sense came over feel the remembered rapture of his stick and cotton included. Ask for it me that Bill was there and still it was kiss stealing over me. Every word he now at drug, department or 10c glad and joyful. had said to me; the way he would stores. Trimal Laboratories, Los turn his head, slowly, to look at me Angeles, Calif. DUT only for a second. The thought of over those examination papers; the *-* Bill came and came back—and lin- hours we had spent together; the fun gered—and changed. Even as I drew we had had in prowling through his old away from that embrace, even as I felt house and barn, exclaiming over some Kirk's eyes tenderly lingering on new-found treasure buried under the TRIMAL mine—memories were thrusting them- debris of years;. the beautiful panelling selves upon me. Memories of Bill. we had Uncovered together by stripping AND HAVE LOVELY NAILS LIKE THIS But this was Kirk! My heart swung away the layers of cheap wallpaper in in agony. I fought to forget—but the his diningroom words came back to me, those words Unable to sleep I wandered down- of over a year ago, insistently remind- stairs. In my first days of grief over ing: Bill's death I had often done this and "Remember, darling — if anything each time, with every step through the happens to me, it will be all right be- house, I had felt his presence more cause our love is stronger than death. strongly, more closely—until my grief I know you'll always be true to me." had been overpowered by the comfort Bill's last words to me. of his reality to me. Kirk was looking at me, startled and I ... puzzled, and I realized that had re- ¥T was a ritual I knew and my feet WELL those aloud. * carried fa- MANICURED peated words me slowly through every CUTICLE "What is it, Jan? - What are you say- miliar path of the way. Here, by the old ing?" he asked, and there was a waiting clock—here I would find him—or, per- dread in his low voice. haps, here in the kitchen doorway WEDDING "My husband said that to me before where he used to lounge and watch me AND before he was killed." 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I know that you love T pretended it had been an actual Bill and your feeling for him will never whisper from the dark around me, or SiJ Folding die. I couldn't resent it. It could only whether I knew it was only the ful- make you a richer person. But he is ness of my heart speaking, there had uIHEt dead." Now his voice was gentle. "You always been an answer to my yearn- can't give him all there is of passion ings. But now there was nothing. Rehabilitate the and love in you for the living—-for me." Nothing but the wind sighing outside handicapped I shook my head and the shining in the trees. Nothing but the little set- EVEREST & JENNINGS drops fell on my cheeks. "Can't you tling creakings of a house at nighttime. WHEEL CHAIRS understand? It's a pledge, Kirk. Bill Not even the purrings of Muffet who I knows I will always be true to him." was usually at my heels on these noc- " 'To thine own self be true— it fol- turnal pilgrimages. *5* For Travel! Work! 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City, MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY State_ 93 (Continued from page 92) Even Muffet refused to come in ex- cept to eat and sleep. She haunted that corner of the garden that Bill had called his favorite and where Kirk and I had discovered our love. At night I could hear her keening mournfully, as cats do when they sense trouble or when they lose someone they lo e. Her kittens were my only company and at times I could hardly bear their un- thinking, uncaring absorption in their own play. I made a point of never meeting Kirk on the street or venturing out to the tool shed if I knew he was home. Our hours of work were different so the problem was slight. And only once did he send me a message, a folded piece of paper wadded into Muffet's collar. My heart ached as I read it, but it was a numb ache, stunned by the discipline I had imposed upon it: YOU "Jan, darling—I could fight the living WON'T MIND THOSE "DIFFICULT" DAYS for you, but not the dead. 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Box 31, W00DSBORO, MARYLAND. quil satisfaction. Perhaps it wasn't love I felt for Kirk. Couldn't it have been just that he was there and attractive and I was lonely? MOVIE STAR PHOTOS IN COLOR Couldn't it have been that the desires If beauty thrills you—you will be fascinated by these photos awakened in me by my marriage, frus- of your favorite MOVIE STARS, in beautiful LIFELIKE COLORS. These gorgeous photos are 8x10 and are ready trated so long, had spilled over and to frame, put in scrap book or in your movie album. called themselves "love"? That it had TOM DRAKE—JANE RUSSELL—GREGORY PECK—JUDY GARLAND- only been a sex-attraction, trying to ROBERT WALKER—VERA HRUBA R A L ST N—J EANNE CHAIN— DANA ANDREWS— I N G R I D BERGMAN — JOHN HODIAK — GENE justify itself? TIERNEY — FRANK SINATRA — VAN JOHNSON — JUNE ALLYS0N — ALAN LADD— LANA TURNER— ROY ROGERS— BETTY GRABLE — I couldn't be in love with two men ALICE FAYE—S0NJA H EN I E—PAU LETTE GODDARD—JOAN CRAW- at one time. FORD—DANE CLARK—GLORIA D e H A V E N — SHI RLEY TEMPLE— — WILLIAM EYTHE— BOB HUTTON — LON MCALLISTER— Bl NG The evenings I dreaded most of all, CROSBY — CLARK GABLE — BETTY H U T T O N — LAU REN BACALL — especially those hours I had been accus- GREER GARSON—MARGARET O'BRIEN. These photos are printed on heavy coated paper, 8x10, in tomed to spending with Kirk. Then un- FULL COLORS, your choice of any eight listed above for happiness would settle on me like a 50c—16 for $1.00—entire set of 34 only $2.00. DON'T WAIT. weight, the slow hours and unbearable Mail our order NOW. oppression. That particular day two Van Johnson IRVSNG 212 East Mth ST. KLAW, weeks later was one of those special Dept. LL-3 NEW YORK CITY 3, N. Y. ones—crisp, miraculous—that . October sometimes gives us in her caprice. What leaves still remained on the trees were Ideal for wine-stained against the clear blue of the skies. 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It was a stooping, elderly overalled SEND US NAME DESIRED ON SABER PIN figure I him too well to pass Send us $3.75 plus 75c tax, and we pay and knew PUIS 75r ALL Charges—or YOU pay Postman on ar- 4 iktft by without saying hello. rival $3.75 plus tax and few cents C.O.D. "Good afternoon, Mr. Parker. When charges. ~ THIS LOVELY PAIR are you coming over to put up my storm Pearl Heart-shaped Earrings with j!? R CD C C >1 windows for me?" Mr. Parker was odd- »»*- each order of a Jomur Saber Pin. OF PEARL HEART- M SHAPED EARRINGS, PERSON- jobs man for our small town and we JOMUR COMPANY (Dept. E) ALIZED WITH ROLLED GOLD had been acquaintances for years. 542 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 19, NEW YORK STERLING INITIALS. "In a day or two, Miz Thurston. Just 94 " —— as soon as I get through with this job here and then one more— IN A MINUTE!... "This job here?" I echoed him. Then he moved aside and I saw what he had been accidentally obstructing from my view. A sign. A For Sale sign, on Kirk's, lawn. And now I realized other things —that furniture was piled up on the front porch, some of it crated, all of it ready for moving. Already the house had a deserted look, forlorn and un- tenanted. I could hardly speak over the painful lump in my throat. Fear and panic were making my heart race. "Is—is Mr. Meryweather leaving?" "Aye—moving clear across town." Mr. Parker answered, cheerfully. "This is nearly the last of it. I'll have just one more small load tomorrow—beds and stuff. Guess Mr. Meryweather's planning to sleep here tonight but after that you'll be losing a neighbor." I moved on with dragging feet. It was a shock I couldn't quite grasp Kirk's leaving. He'd be way across town From COLD Discomfort... to WARM Smiles from me; his work at the college and mine in the hat shop would never again Rub MINIT-RUB on chest and back. soothe that raspy local irritation. bring us, even accidentally, in touch. I knew what it meant. Kirk had 3. IN A MINUTE, Minit-Rub's active 1. IN A MINUTE, Minit-Rub stimulates finally accepted my decision and was menthol vapors begin to ease that nasal circulation, brings a sensation of warmth. doing what he could to help me. He stuffiness feeling. was moving away so that we would not That quickly helps relieve surface be so painfully conscious of each other's aches and pains. MINIT-RUB is wonderful for both chil- nearness. This was the end. dren and adults. Greaseless! Stainless! 2. IN A MINUTE, Minit-Rub's wel- Disappears like vanishing cream ! Won't TT had been a lie I had been living. I come pain-relieving action begins to harm linens. Get a jar— today! *• had persuaded myself I was trying to put Kirk out of my heart, yet I had never once forgotten that he was there next door, that at any time I could have MINIT-RUB run across to him and his waiting arms. It had been something held in reserve, The Modern Chest Rub a well-if-it-ddesn't-work-out-I-can-al- ways—sort of feeling. 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Across the wide expanse of wintry lawn that stretched An ink of love that odds the deli- REUEF the flower of ^UrsiCCf HERES gentle between our two houses I recognized cate fragrance of gardenias ...... a fine, . word you write (A &'*!&' FROM PERIODIC SUFFERING Kirk's silhouette against the light of love . to every his kitchen door. Then it was gone free-flowing blue-black ink fountain pens You, too, should ease periodic pain and and I knew he was walking toward me, for plain or scent lasts for discomfort the way four generations of slowly, hesitantly. . . . delicate . siie l'/j- women all over the world have found so The little object in my hand was be- months . . large Sie- successful. 1 to 4 tablespoons of Dr. ginning to make an impression on my oz. bottle mailed _ _ R gert's Angostura Bitters in a little water, brain. I couldn't see it—but I knew it in plain wrapper. «»» hot cold, brings blessed easing of pain M or was familiar to me. 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Had he seen that the half-mystic, half-fleshly bonds that held me to the dead were wrong? Bill knew my stubborn pride and my more stubborn loyalty. Had he seen that I would never go to Kirk of my own accord or give up the falsity and the emptiness that held me to the past? PAZO I remembered other things—that it fTHANKS DOC, had been Muffet who had first brought "Why don't you do something about that BROUGHT PROMPT RELIEF me to Kirk. It had been the cat who monthly functional pain? You could try had made possible the beginnings of Chi-Ches-Ters Pills. They work wonders for 1" our friendship. If Muffet's death were thousands of women a sacrifice, was that a cause for grief Chi-Ches-Ters do more than merely deaden and hatred? The cat was old and she simple menstrual pain. One ingredient tends muscular tension usually associ- really since Bill to help relax had never been happy ated with periodic pain. An iron factor tends hacl gone away. Maybe she was hap- to help build up your blood. 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Dr. Coburn, in the course of his Since this proper care can often be be- studies, also discovered that rheumatic yond the means of the majority o] fever is practically unknown in warm families in which rheumatic fever turns and very sunny climates. A tropical up, every community should have suffi- country like Puerto Rico has almost no cient funds to provide each child with cases among its residents. And this the proper care. By proper care Dr. Coburn think. Because meant, children made should sleep alone : Puerto Rico is riddled with poverty well ventilated rooms, lots of warmt one of the contributing factors, Dr. Co- a balanced diet rich in resistence build- burn felt, to the prevalence of the ing foods, and parents who learn tha' disease in northern places. Dr. Coburn overexertion and getting chilled are set out to find out why this was so. bad for the rheumatic child, but out- He took ten of the sickest children in door exercise with other children his ward—one of them close to death not; to Puerto Rico for six months. In ^six That there should be plenty of sana- months, every one of those children toriums so that every child in the acute was completely cured. Dr. Coburn stages of first attack or recurrences may proved that climate had something to have a bed and expert care. And that do with it. He couldn't prove how. each such institution should have He was able to take those ten chil- teachers and occupational therapists in dren to Puerto Rico, because a generous sufficient number to keep the children couple gave him the money. He had to up in their school work and to de- For a reflection after six months, be- velop interests; of perfection, your face bring them back new 'should be sensuously smooth. A cause the money gave out. 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So far, there have been none more children than either one of these to raise money to fight this one. two. Then, remember this—that mil- More and more doctors and health lions of dollars are spent on infantile authorities are coming round to the paralysis research, to every hundred view that rheumatic fever must be thousand spent on rheumatic fever. The taken as seriously as tuberculosis and Federal Children's Bureau estimates infantile paralysis. In some places this that the only way a real fight can be has already started. carried on against- this disease would In Syracuse, for instance, there is a be to spend about fifteen million dol city-wide program to fight this disease. lars a year on it, for at least five years. The Syracuse University College of A lot of interest has to be aroused Medicine, the Syracuse Memorial Hos- in a program, before that much money pital, public schools and parochial can be raised. That kind of interest schools and numerous other agencies was aroused over tuberculosis and in- are tackling rheumatic fever in a con- fantile paralysis. Now it's rheumat . .'r..W£ PAY POSTAGE AND ALL TAXES centrated fashion. The funds come from fever's turn. American Legion Post No. 41 and from There is interest in it. Doctors are Rich, silverplated earrings. Two in- various service clubs and private in- interested. Parents and teachers are t to 9 letters)! dividuals. They are doing a heroic job. interested. And children—most of all For yourself gifts! or personalized But even they are falling far short of The story of rheumatic fever carries moral. I that people will YOU MUST BE SATISFIED or your money will what would be an adequate program its own hope cases of be cheerfully refunded. WE PAY POSTAGE! to fight this menace on a realistic basis. heed it. Having seen many Such a program would require: rheumatic fever,- when I was working hospital, having watched . That all doctors, nurses and teachers in a general rr0it^<4t0^CC of CALIFORNIA in the country's school system be the suffering it causes and knowing Dept.EEJ 6400 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif. specially trained to recognize rheumatic what desperate inroads it makes into fever in school children; the hearts of its victims for all their HOLLYMODE of CALIFORNIA That every community in these Uni- lives, I hope very much that people Dept. MD, 6400 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif. ted States have specially trained medi- will heed that moral. Please send me pairs of Starlet Earrings at cal nursing staffs at public clinics If we are really going to make our $3 pair, postage prepaid, tax included. and open to all—to check every child sus- children's world a better one, we'll PRINT name or initials desired pected of having rheumatic fever. And, have to make their bodies as free from on separate sheet ofpaper. since there's a suspicion that the ten- disease as science can. 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