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CITY HOSPITAL
A boy named Checkers found it was easy to hate — but even easier to love — once he knew how !
Checkers stood belligerently in front of Dr. Crane and Robert Baker in the living room of the Baker home, located on the grounds of the State Training School where Baker was assistant superintendent. Checkers' freckled twelve-year-old face held fear but, over and above that, defiance and hate. Yes,' he'd stolen Dr. Crane's pen — yes, he'd destroyed a picture with his knife — and what did he care that Baker was going to lose his job because Baker had defended him against the head of the institution, who had wanted to throw him into solitary for his latest escapade? . . . This had been the scene Dr. Crane had witnessed some two nights before. Mary, Baker's wife, had tried to tell Baker he should allow Checkers to be punished and, now that Checkers had run away, it was Mary who kept reminding her husband that she'd "told him so." The evening grew late and Dr. Crane started to retire as Mary and her husband were still arguing. It must have been a short time afterwards that Dr. Crane heard the sounds of crying and muffled, running steps as if urgent things were going on below. Dr. Crane descended to the living room and the scene that met his eyes made his throat suddenly tighten. Mary knelt beside Checkers, whose freckled face was covered with tears. "It wasn't until we heard the radio in the car we'd stolen that I realized what it meant — I didn't want Mr. Baker to get fired over me — honest, I didn't. Then Wally and I got in a fight over my returning and he knifed me and I bound him up in the back of the car — and, well, Mr. Baker gave me a break, so I just had to give him one, too." For an instant, Mary looked deep into Checkers' eyes, "You know, Checkers, you and I were both wrong. I was fighting with my husband because I felt he was giving too much of himself to you. You were fighting him, too, because no one had ever given you anything of himself." "Yes," interrupted Checkers, "it's funny about us people, isn't it? When you're hurt, you sure try to hurt back!" "You're right," replied Mary and the tears in her eyes shone as brightly as Checkers'. "But," she added softly, "when you're loved, you want to love in return." For a moment Checkers hesitated as Mary went on treating his leg wound, then slowly, painfully he reached out and patted her head. . . . Dr. Crane knew in that moment a human life had been saved, not by medicine, but by the miracle of love.
City Hospital, CBS, Sat., 1:30 P.M. EDT; CBS-TV, alternate Tuesdays, at 9 P.M. £DT; for Carter Products. Pictured in their radio roles are: Santos Ortega as Dr. Crane; Charlotte Manson as Mary; Joey Walsh as Checkers: Mason Adams as Baker.
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