Radio-TV mirror (Jan-June 1953)

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the SECOND Mrs. BURTON 3. Stan disguises himself as a truck driver, goes to the Lonely Hearts Club. Spotted as an "outsider," he is slugged into unconsciousness. 4. Panicked by the discovery that the outsider is publisher Stan Burton, his attackers strip him of all identification and put his unconscious body in a truck heading out of town. a social hall, with an orchestra and a master of ceremonies, where happy couples who wanted publicity and a free wedding could have their vows exchanged in public. The night of Stan's disappearance, he'd dressed in clothes disguising him as a truck driver and had gone to the Eighth Street Lonely Hearts Club, telling Terry he thought this might be the logical jumping-off spot for his investigation. Now Terry wished she'd questioned him closely about all he knew, but at the time it seemed like just another interview type of assignment they'd given each other, like the time she'd posed as a client to gain the information Pictured here, as on the air, are: Terry Burton : Patsy Campbell Stan Burton Dwight Weist Mother Burton Ethel Owen The Second Mrs. Burton, CBS Radio, M-F, 2 P.M. EST, for Swans Down Cake Mixes, Instant Maxwell House, Jell-O. from Farrell. . . . Terry began pacing the floor as she re-lived the night of Stan's disappearance. The same terror enveloped her now as it had while the hours crept toward dawn and there had been no sign of her husband, no telephone message, just blank, horrifying silence. There had followed her frantic visit to the Eighth Street Lonely Hearts Club, the blank wall of ignorance — no one had seen Stan, no one had even seen a man who looked like a truck driver! Then, there had been the days when the police tried every avenue possible to turn up a clue. Finally, pin-pointing in time and space a moment of hope, the telephone call from Dickston's Chief of Police saying there was a routine report of an "unknown" in an upstate hospital — an unknown who had been involved in a truck accident— and the truck in which he'd been found had come from Dickston. ... It seemed to Terry that shock had followed hard on the heels of hope. Perhaps, had Terry not been accompanied by Mother Burton, the magnitude of the shock might not have been so great — but ever present was the emotion of the event itself, compounded with the attempt to soften the disappointing , blows before they could fall on Mother Burton. Immediately after arriving, Terry found that a girl by the 60