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By ALICE FRANCIS
Hal planned to be a doctor, never imagined he would spend long months in hospitals as a patient — he painted picture, above, to banish painful memories after he was severely wounded in France. Today, active in many outdoor sports, he recalls those days only when "my story may help somebody else," prefers to remember that it was while convalescing he found a fine new career — in radio.
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Hal Hackett — Bob Lyle in CBS Radio's Ma Perkins — has the look of a man who can face the lash of rain and storm with the Same equanimity as the calm of a sunlit day. A straight-standing man, six feet tall, eyes an intense blue in contrast to sunburned brown hair, teeth made whiter by a deeply tanned skin. An outdoor man who loves salt air and sea, woods and windswept shore, although much of the time he must be. content within the four walls of a small bachelor apartment in New York.
When a friend recently reminded Hal of events he is now determined to forget, he answered, "If my life so far has taught me anything, it is this: Get the maximum from the minimum." A statement which seems to sum up his own private philosophy, a philosophy wrung from hours of pain and inactivity during two long periods of being hospitalized.
Television viewers in the year 1949 may remember some of the highlights of Hal's story as told on one of the most popular programs of that period, We The People. The story of a U.S. Army sergeant who was so severely wounded in France during World War II that his paralyzed body had to be in a plaster cast for long months. A war casualty who literally sang his way back to health and usefulness.
"I thought it was the saddest story I had ever heard as it unfolded on We The People," Hal says, "but that was only because it seemed no longer to have (Continued on page 66)