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As a child—before she could scrawl her name on a blackboard—Elaine Sterne would recite weird and im¬ aginative stories to her family. At 12, she penned an exotic tale called For Love’s Sake, followed by a bombard¬ ment of stories which were signed “Elaine Sterne, G.A.” (She kept the riddle of the initials secret for a time, then confessed they meant “Great Author.” Inspiration At Home Elaine sold her first story at 18, then began winning writing contests regularly. In the early days of radio she stopped in at NBC one day with some scenarios revolving around a mother raising two young children. The network liked the idea of the serial—called “Red Davis”—and put it on the air with a young actor named Burgess Meredith playing a lead part. “Red Davis” soon became Pepper Young’s Family. “Pepper,” the writer confesses, “is really the story of my family.” Even Mrs. Carrington is amazed at the way some of her listeners “lose” themselves in belief of her fiction. “During one broadcast of Pepper,” she relates, “I had cleared up one messy situation and then arranged for Mrs. Young to develop a severe pain in her side. (That was my cliff- hanger for the day). Well, right after the show a frantic woman called and asked for Mrs. Young. She. blurted out, ‘Oh, Mrs. Young, I just know it’s an appendicitis. You should have it out immediately.’ ” Mrs. Carrington, a warm, alive per¬ son who is as modern and as up-to- date as the zipper, is the favorite gal of the actors and actresses who have placed in her soap-sponsored brain children. The Carrington alumni, which include “Buzz” Meredith and Martha Scott, get together at least once a year in her penthouse apart¬ ment to laugh over old times. Always Complications Follow Your Heart’s theme, while tidier than many soapers’ plots, nevertheless has its snags to happi¬ ness. Society heroine Julia Fielding, a deb with a heart as soft as mutton, tries her darndest to convince her 24-carat crowd that it’s possible for 19