Radio romances (July-Dec 1945)

"She's wonderful," Jim admitted. "Then why not let yourself go?" I urged. "What difference does it make?" "I couldn't take another emotional upset," Jim explained. "I don't know — maybe it was the war or being away or being hurt — but, anyway, I'm kind of shot. Another crack on the jaw and I might crack up. That sounds weak, but that's the way it is." "But maybe she loves you," I said, determined to insure his happiness. "You'll never know unless you ask her to marry you." "She'll never fall in love again," he stated emphatically. "She told me so. She said you can't repeat an emotion like that. She gave all of her heart to Don — and there isn't anything left to fall in love with. She said she was wrung dry." "Bosh," I said. It was so clear to me — the outsider — ■ what had happened. Two kids with too much pride — two swell young people who had taken a big crack from life and had crawled under a shell. I began to see that I had been wrong in trying to bring them together. I should have seen that there was too much fear in this relationship. If only one of them had been hurt the other one would have had the courage to fight for love — to break down the other's reserve. This way, both of them were afraid. Neither of them was strong enough to combat their mutual fear. Their previous disappointments were stumbling blocks to love. And I couldn't remove those blocks. DUT once again Fate played into my •*-* hands and into the hearts of Jim and Betty. Fate came in the guise of a teletype message from KWMT — another heart-felt note which Betty wrote in the privacy of her own little office in the traffic department. I wasn't prepared for that note when Betty called from KWMT and asked me to disconnect her machine so that she could practice. Immediately, I set the machine for practice and in just a minute her message came through to my board. At first it was just routine practice material. "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." That kind of stuff. Then, to my amazement, a letter came through — a note that Betty believed she was writing for her own eyes and no one else's. These are the words which appeared on the paper in my machine: "Jim, my darling: — I'm lonely again — but not for Don — for you. That love I felt for Don is all gone. The ache is all gone. It's as if it had never been. You can't know what that means until you get over Marybelle. And, perhaps, you never will. Because she's still in your heart. That's why my heart hurts today. I seem doomed to fall in love with the wrong person. • Oh, Jim, darling, you're everything I want out of life — and I do love you. I pinned my dreams on Don because I was young and romantic and hungry for love. But this is different. This time I fought love, but it came, anyway. That's why I must stay away from you, my darling. I can't be your friend when my heart cries out for your love." That was all, but it was enough. Now I knew that Betty was in love with Jim — terribly in love with him without his knowing it. After the machine \£, How do some girls attract kisses? x%_. Their skin is like satin— so smooth. \J, Just my luck— I have dry skin. A.. This One-Cream Beauty Treatment with Jergens Face Cream is just made to help you. This X cream does the work of 4r creams Fills your skin's daily beauty-needs fully— like a "treatment." For all types of skin. Wards off threats of dry skin. How simple! Just use Jergens Face Cream— but regularly— 1. for Cleansing 2. for Softening 3. for a Foundation 4. as a Night Cream Thrilling— how dry-skin lines smooth away. This is a skin scientists' cream, by the makers of your Jergens Lotion. 10^ to $1.25 a jar (plus tax). Plenty of other girls thank Jergens Face Cream for invitingsmooth skin. Use this new cream, yourself. The only cream you need. JERGENS FACE CREAM USE LIKE 4 CREAMS-FOR A SMOOTH. KISSABLE COMPLEXION 59