Radio-TV mirror (Jan-June 1953)

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Terry finds that courage and faith are sometimes tested to the limit 2. Their doubts increase after Terry visits Farreil posing as a client. What is Farrell's connection with the rather unsavory Eighth Street Lonely Hearts Club? Terry Burton leaned wearily against the mantelpiece. Almost absent-mindedly she noticed its chipped, gritty paint, even as she felt to the depths of her being that she was too tired, too worn out to ever think or feel again. Idly she speculated on the number of persons who, troubled and torn beyond measure, had occupied this hotel room in upstate New York before her. Terry dug at the chipped paint as she reviewed the events of the past few months, going over, once more, the clues to her husband Stan's possible whereabouts. Some strong feminine instinct kept telling her that here in this small town with its apparent air of innocence, yes, even of growth and life as the spring brought on the scent of new birth to a vigorous earth — here Terry felt was the answer she was seeking to her failure to hear from Stan. . . . There was so little to go on, she thought hopelessly. She sensed rather than knew that tied up with Stan's disappearance was the investigation of the "Understanding, Inc." organization, headed by Hanson Farreil, which she and Stan had been carrying on. Now, Farrell's presence in this same upstate town seemed to argue that Terry was on the right track, too. Terry almost smiled to her self as she remembered back to the day when Marcia, Stan's sister, had come to her all excited about the real worth of Hanson and his service to lonely people — his club was a sort of well-to-do matrimonial agency where women paid a small fee to be put in touch with gentlemen of circumstances who were potential prospects for the wedding march. . . . Terry remembered how she had tried to warn Marcia of the possibility of Farreil using her for his own purposes and, finally, alarmed at the seriousness of Marcia's infatuation for Hanson Farreil and her apparent gullibility, had consulted Stan. The grave, serious expression on Stan's face had been reflected in their conversation — a conversation which had sent her to Hanson Farreil, where she posed as a possible client. When she reported the interview with Farreil back to Stan, her husband had been certain they were on the track of a racket, thoroughly in need of exposure. Perhaps their own local newspaper in the little town of Dickston would lead the way to cleaning up what might be a national racket. . . . Tied up with Farreil, but with just what strings Terry had been unable to learn as yet, was the Eighth Street Lonely Hearts Club. Terry knew that outwardly it was just When Hope Flames Bright See Next Page 59