Radio and television mirror (Jan-June 1949)

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You're alivays "set" with De Long Hair Pins • Curl Setting Pins • Safety Pins • Hooks and Eyes • Snaps • Pins • Hook and Eye Tapes • Sanitary Helta stood between us at our parting fell away and we were frankly happy. It was easy now to ask the question that was uppermost in my mind. "Lawson, tell me honestly, how do you feel — your heart, I mean?" "Better than when I left," he assured me. "Have you seen your doctor yet?" "No, but I have an appointment for tomorrow at two. If you're free — why don't you come along?" "This young man is a bad patient," the doctor told me when the nurse finally summoned me into the consulting room. "The last time I saw him I ordered him to the country for a long rest and now I find that he's been overseas driving an ambulance. That might kill some people but in his case it's seemed to prove that radio work is harder on the heart than anything else." "Then he's better?" I asked eagerly. "He's in better health generally but if he goes back to those ten-hour-a-day studio grinds, he'll get worse." "He has to give up radio then?" The doctor looked across the room to where Lawson was sitting. "I'm not going to say that," he said. "If I did, I don't think he'd take my advice anyway. How about a compromise. Lawson? You can work on an average of five hours a day, provided you take one day off each week and sleep for ten hours every night." Lawson drew a long breath. "It's half a loaf, but I'm grateful for it," he said slowly. "Now all I have to do is find those radio jobs." Lawson had no trouble at all getting back into the radio swing. As soon as directors learned that he was available, the calls started coming. We made some weekly work charts with Sundays eliminated. He would accept jobs for other days up to the five-hour limit, but a ten-hour sleeping period was charted for every twenty-four hours. This schedule eliminated any active participation in sports, of course, and that angle worried me. Then fate took over again. Lawson was chosen for the role of Frank Merriwell on a new adventure series on NBC. As everyone knows, Frank Merriwell excelled in every type of sport and scarcely a script was without a thrilling touchdown, a last-minute home run or some other sports feat. I soon discovered that Lawson was getting a vicarious thrill out of playing this part, for he could let his imagination take wing and carry him over the goal line or into home plate. I used to listen to this program gratefully and to the parts he played for Hi Brown on Bulldog Drummond, The Thin Man and Inner Sanctum and I could feel the impact of his' expert pretending as I had never felt it before — for now he actually lived these adventures in his imagination. They were his escape from the bonds of his own physical limitations. He had found a way to compromise with destiny and he was safe. As I helped Lawson make these adjustments to his new life our friendship deepened and I began to think once more about the future. He had accepted the "half a loaf" philosophy for himself so it was up to me to show him in the hundred subtle ways that only women know that it was everything I wanted too. I must have succeeded rather well, for on one of those bright false-Spring afternoons that sometimes come in late winter as Lawson and I were walking through the park he asked abruptly, "Doris have you ever thought of getting married?" "Why yes — of course I have," I answered promptly. "I've thought about it for a long time and hoped you'd ask me." This wasn't any time to be coy, I decided. I wanted Lawson to understand how I felt about him. "Well I've thought about it a lot too. I knew I loved you even before I went away but I couldn't say anything about it then because I really thought I was washed up. Now things look fine again, but—" "Lawson, for heavens' sake, if you love me that's all I want to know." "I do love you. More than I ever thought one person could love another, but—" "Are you asking me to marry you or not?" I interrupted. "If you are, let's do it right away." By the following Wednesday we had our license and set about comparing work schedules because we wanted to leave for my home in Washington the moment the ceremony was over. Finally we figured out that we could both be free from eleven o'clock Saturday morning until the following Wednesday morning if Murray Burnette would replace me on True Detective on Sunday and if we didn't accept any other jobs in the meantime. So our marriage, like everything else connected with radio, was neatly fitted into a schedule. The story books usually end with "They lived happily ever after" — and \ that is certainly an excellent finale — but for those who have been challenged , by some artful quirk of destiny, I thinkJ it's more cheering to remember some-j thing Shakespeare said: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven." WOMAN'S FIRST RIGHT . . . THE RIGHT TO HAPPINESS \\ II Listen to Carolyn Kramer's courageous struggle for security and peace of mind on "The Right To Happiness," one woman's search for a richer, more meaningful life. TUNE IN every afternoon Monday to Friday (3:45 EST) on NBC stations. If you have overcome obstacles to your own happiness, write Carolyn Kramer about it and you may win $50. For details see the current issue of EXPERIENCES magazine. Now at newsstands.