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I’ll try to explain it to you.” He did, in complicated terms of which I understood only about one in three. But with the X-rays and all I finally got it down to facts you and I can understand. Like any injury, this one of Van’s has to have time to heal completely. Nature has already done most of it in her own inimitable and glorious fashion. Within a year, a year and a half, two years, it will be entirely healed and well. Meantime, like any other broken bone, too much strain and stress shouldn’t be put on it. No serious results would follow, but in battle, let’s say, or over-exercise, it might not hold. Sometimes he gets those headaches which Lana described, and that’s when he hasn’t followed instructions. Aside from that, he is normal and well and there isn’t anything to worry about. “There isn’t anything more to be done for him medically,” Dr. Branch said, “no further operations, no treatment. Time is the only thing he needs to be 100% okay again — and he’s got plenty of that so I don’t see why anybody need be disturbed about him. Since they won’t have him in the armed forces, so far as I know he should live to be about 102.” “Did the injury have an effect upon his brain at all?” I asked. “Never touched the brain,” said Dr. Branch impatiently, “just the skull. Good thick skull, fortunately for him.” There is the report from headquarters and if you knew Dr. William E. Branch as well as we do you would heave a long sigh of relief. But I thought I might as well ask a few more questions around and about, so I talked to Vic Fleming, who directed him in “A Guy Named Joe” and to Mervyn LeRoy who did the very difficult and wear ing scenes in “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.” Actually, all they had to say was that he was a kid it was a pleasure to work with. A very nice guy, they said. A woman who knows him rather well said an interesting thing to me. There was another report, this time that Van had married a Chicago socialite secretly some months ago. This woman friend said, “I don’t think Van will ever marry secretly. He just isn’t that kind of a guy. I don’t believe he would marry any girl he wasn’t proud to marry, he’s rather an idealist about women, you know. His greatest ideal is Irene Dunne, as everybody knows. You can’t look any higher than that, can you? I know he hopes he won’t fall in love with an actress. You see, he wants a home — he’s very New England about that. And he doesn’t think a home is ever quite the same if a woman doesn’t stay in it and take care of it and love it as her first concern. “That’s why he has never brought his father out here to live. They are closer than any father and son I ever saw. But his father is a New Englander, too, and Van says he would not like to live in California because he wouldn’t like to leave his own home where he has lived so many years. “Besides,” she said, “Van says he likes to think of that home to go back to. He says it gives him a nice warm feeling inside to know that the home where he lived as a boy, where he and his father spent so much time together when he was young, is still right there.” All those things in a town where people are not always inclined to give the guy on top the best of it made me glad that Van Johnson is in good health and is going to continue to be. Made me think we ought always to send him the best thoughts we know how, strong thoughts, good thoughts, and prayers for his well being since he has created so much love in human hearts so badly in need of love. We oughtn’t ever to accept anything but the best kind of thoughts about him — or any other American boy if we can help it. It’s a lot more comfortable for everybody. And if thought has power it’s sort of an obligation to think well. Especially of those we love. The End Lena Horne, back from a U.S.O. camp tour, presents Thomas A. Morgan, national chairman of the United Negro fund, with a check from our Negro service men abroad