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He thinks with his heart
Galen Drake can tell others how to be happy, because he's already proved what he preaches
By HELEN BOLSTAD
The girl was lonely. While her days were filled with the activity of her secretarial job, her evenings stretched blank and monotonous, with only a radio to fill her room with human sound.
A voice caught her attention. In it, she sensed both zest and contentment, but the speaker's words needled into her own restlessness: "This is Galen Drake again. Are you doing today exactly what you want to do? If your answer is 'No' — why aren't you? Be honest with yourself. Are there any valid reasons why you cannot do it?"
A few days later, the girl wrote him, "You reached me at the psychological moment. I sat down and thought it out. The one thing I really wanted was to go to South America. Yet I'd always felt I was tied to my job and couldn't afford it. You made me think deeper. I knew some Spanish. I had six hundred dollars in the bank. Today I drew out that money and bought travelers' checks and a steamer ticket."
Her second letter bore a Buenos Aires postmark: "I'm here ... I found a job ... I met a fine man who really is quite well off. . . . We fell in love and married. We're wonderfully happy."
This is but one of the many instances where listeners have written that Galen Drake's convincing voice and pithy comment have changed their lives.
He also is credited with having halted at least one would-be suicide and with having put many an alcoholic on the wagon. About the field of marital relations, he has remarked, "Most husbands who are henpecked might try increasing their wives' chicfcenfeed allowance"— and persuaded a stingy spouse to loosen the purse strings. (Continued on page 70 )
The Galen Drake Show, on CBS Radio Network, Sat., 10:05 A.M. Galen is also heard on this network (except WCBS), Sat., 9:15 A.M., and Sun., 8:55 A.M. On WCBS Radio (New York), he is heard in Starlight Salute, seven nights a week at 11:30 P.M., and Housewives Protective League, M-F at 4:00 P.M., Sat. at 9:30 A.M. (All times are EDT)
Armchair strategist: Galen believes in exploring new worlds through reading — and in relaxing whenever possible.
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Variety impresario: He enjoys his new show with Arlene James (of Three Beaus and a Peep), soloist Betty Johnson, orchestra leader Bernie Leighton and singer Stuart Foster.
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