Old Time radio

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My Favorite Husband: "The Gum Machine "

This is the sitcom starring Lucille Ball. She gets in trouble b/c of a penny gumball machine after her husband told her to stick up for herself, and there's an unbelievable brat who shows up.

CBS Radio Workshop: "Jacob's Hands"

Jacob is a farmhand who can heal animals, then people, gets fired, goes to LA with the woman whose lame leg he healed. He works on healing those on skidrow, gets stuck with hucksters, then leaves and goes back to work on the farm.

And just so you remember, this week is Sunday School Week. No matter your religion, give a thought to Sunday school.

Crime Classics: "The General's Daughter"

I must be too used to the emoting on old time radio, b/c some of these people are speaking with no emotion.
"You love her?"
[dead pan]"Yes. Yes I do."
"But you can never be with her."
[dead pan]"Yes, and that breaks my heart." The expected line after that is, "Could you give me that newspaper?"

Well, now, the General's daughter (who the deadpan guy loves), is about to be whipped until she dies. How delightful. And she stuck her lover in a linen closet - which is a trunk - and he suffocated. Her nurse says, "Oh, don't worry your pretty little head. It will be fine."

No - it's a Russian story. It doesn't end fine - there's lots of vodka drinking, and murder and people isolating themselves in their bedrooms until they die.

X-Minus One: "Star Bright"

Super-genius little girl who can read minds, eventually figured out how to travel out of our reality. She's 4 or so, and takes off with a 6 year old. She calls herself a bright, and her smart father, she calls a "tween" - in between brights & stupids.

I feel like I've read this before, some sci-fi I picked up in high school.