Radio-TV mirror (Jan-June 1954)

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rated 4-F by the Army because of a punctured ear-drum and was in Europe with the USO when it happened. "I'd gone to my brother's camp in England to visit him. ... I had some time off, and eagerly anticipated a reunion with him. It was evening and his commanding officer sent for me immediately. He said, 'Mr. Murray, I don't know how to tell you this. You must understand there's a war on — and Davey didn't get back tonight.' We learned that he had bailed out, and this gave us a kind of hone that could only be called forlorn. Still, hope. He might be in a hospital somewhere. Or perhaps a POW. I stayed overseas a year hoping to get some word. Finally I did. The Red Cross notified me that the German Government had notified them that Davey was dead. I finally located his body. It's a long story," Jan said, "and too bizarre, too unhappy, to dwell on here. "The next blow fell when my dad began to fail. There were doctors, diagnoses, treatments — but no improvement. Finally, I took him to the Mayo Clinic. He didn't want to go. 'I'm only in my fifties. I should be working,' he'd say. 'I don't want to be any further expense to you.' I tried to kid him along. 'I'm not feeling too good myself,' I told him. 'We'll both have a check-up and get the score.' At the Mayo Clinic we were given the correct diagnoses. Except for my punctured ear-drum, I was fine. My dad had lung cancer. "All this happened in my twenties, the formative years. They would have been good years if so many bad things hadn't happened. As an entertainer, I'd started to move. It had begun to look as if I was going to make the grade. Then— boom! That was one of the times when it didn't seem as if I'd inherited the stuff of which my dad was made. After the doctors pronounced what was virtually the sentence of death over my father, I just sat and drank — and I'd never had a drink in my life before! I just couldn't get with it. This went on until a friend — one of those real friends who lets you have it when you've got it coming to you — said to me, 'Give your father something to root for, why don't you? One son is dead, another sitting here with a bottle . . .' He really laid it on the line, and I listened. "That really shook me up and made me face things. I quit drinking, cold, and went back to work. While I was performing at the Martinique in New York, my agent booked me for Ciro's in Hollywood. But I never got there, because I received word that my dad had collapsed. I cancelled out of Ciro's, came home and told my agent to accept no bookings for me. I just stayed with my father. Seventeen weeks later, he died. Those seventeen weeks seemed like an eternity to me. . . . "So much for personal tragedies. Professionally, like all other actors, I have had my ups and downs. I'll never forget my first terrible disappointment in my career. It was back in 1940 ... 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