Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1951)

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THE SHINING HOUSE JUST A few blocks away from my house in Three Oaks one of the newer streets in town winds pleasantly along on its way toward the river. That's why they call it River Street. All the houses have a shining, sort of newlywed look; you know that they will be equipped with washing machines and tiled bathrooms and good new stoves. But so far as I know only one of them is also equipped with a young girl who at this moment may be crying her eyes out . . . As Sam Williams has repeatedly told me, it's largely Crystal's own fault. And being Gene's father, he's ready to lay a generous portion of the blame at Gene's door. But how can I avoid blaming myself when if it hadn't been for me those two might never have met? Sam says that's my own ego, clamoring for attention. "From what you've told me of Crystal, that first time, do you think she would have given up even if you had turned her down? Not her," Sam says. "She would have found some other way. You were just an accident, Anne. Don't blame yourself. And anyway — who's to say there's blame involved? For all we know it may be the right thing for both of them, the best thing . . ." True enough; for all we know it may be. Certainly I thought I was doing the right thing to listen to Crystal the night, not so many months ago, when she suddenly appeared before me with her startling proposition. To understand just how startling it was, I'll have to explain that we didn't know each other, Crystal and I. I had seen her once at the Clinic, when in my capacity as Supervisor I had interviewed a young girl whom Crystal had apparently bullied into coming to us for a check-up. When Dr. Munson came out and told us the girl was pregnant, Crystal's flare-up was something to remember. It wasn't against us, but against the world at large — for sending Helen's husband off to war just as she needed him most, for being a hard place, for general unfairness. After Crystal left, Dr. Munson told Illustrated by John J. Floherty RADIO TELEVISION MIRROR READER BONUS o Young Dr. Malone is heard Monday " through Friday, 1:30 P.M. EDT on CBS M stations. Sponsor: P & G's Crisco. 94 M