$How about one more encore first?”
Silence.
“Can you hear me?” Brad persisted.
“I said, how about one more encore
first?”
The leader of the orchestra spoke
isuavely: “Sure, I can hear you, buddy,
| Everybody else can, too. We all appre-
(ciate the compliment, but I'm afraid I'll
have to be hard-boiled and tell you no
‘can do. You see, we're on the air and
we run by the clock.” And then the
(leader lowered his voice. ‘Mac,” he
whispered, “go out in the back room
and see what bright college boy is fool-
ing with our extra mike.”
That was all Brad needed. He had
(done it. He had talked back to a station
more than three thousand miles away
and he had put himself on their own
air. He had accomplished what, up to
now, no other man had been able to
accomplish; hopefully what no other
man had as yet even thought of accom-
plishing. He had made radio two way.
Laughing giddily with excitement, he
stepped to his work bench, pulled out a
sheet of drafting paper and began to
draw. In the morning he would get
this into the hands of Mr. Clarkson, the
patent lawyer, and have him shoot it
to Washington by air mail for a search,
Mr. Clarkson listened to Brad with
care, examined his drawings with a
sage eye. Then: “Mmm! Looks inter
jesting, We'll start the search right
| now, and that gives you legal priority
{==unless, of course, somebody has
{beaten you to it. I'd like to see it work.”
+ At five o'clock that afternoon, theree
|fore, Mr. Clarkson’s faded sedan turned
{into the driveway that led to Brad's
iworkshop. Brad hooked up his machine
jand dialed at random. He got a mid-
western station where a shrill soprano
{was singing “Trees.” She reached her
final up-and-down swoop. She keened
it. She informed her listening world
{that only Gahd could-uh make-uh uh
jgree-e-ee. >
Mr. Clarkson beamed at Brad. “Now
may I say something?” he whispered
argently.
*Anything you like.
i#nto the microphone.”
The lawyer caught the instrument to
dim. He said one harsh word: “Rotten!”
Brad heard the singer catch her
Speak straight
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breath. Then: “Who said that?” she
demanded stridently. If it’s one of
you cheap mutts in the control room I'll
have your scalp.”
Instantly Brad switched off his gad
get. As soon as Brad got rid of Mr,
Clarkson he telephoned to Sue. He
hadn’t called her for the past ten days.
SUE RECOGNIZED his voice at once,
She asked him where he had been.
“Been? I've been working. Some.
thing swell, Tell you all about it. Mil-
lion bucks. Me and Henry Ford. Me
and a whole lot of people. How about
this evening?”
‘“Er—why, sure,” said Sue.
she added hastily, “of course.”
“Mad at me or something?’’ Brad in-
quired.
“Do—do I sound mad?
“Not exactly,” said Brad. “You just
sounded as if you couldn’t make up your
mind.”
Sue laughed at him.
always made up.”
Brad cleaned himself up with more
Then
“My mind’s
than usual care and walked two miles
to Sue’s.’ Not till he saw a strange yel-
low roadster parked in front of her
house did it occur to him that he would
not have the evening alone with her.
He guessed at once whose roadster
it was.
person of Mr, Winthrop Throp, who was
sitting beside Sue in the hammock.
Brad went into action. He said te
Mr. Throp: “I've been working on some-
thing that ought to interest you a lot.
Interest anybody who’s in the radio
game, I should think.” He turned te
Sue. “I can talk about it now because
I have the patent machinery under
way.”
So Brad told them about his inven-
tion. At the end he paused, looked ex-
pectant, “Not a bad little idea, huh?”
“Frankly,” said Mr. Throp, “I think
it’s unbelievably atrocious. Why, the
whole idea of radio—""
“Sure,” Brad said easily, “the whole
idea of radio is one way. People can’t
talk back, so radio goes on and on. If
you ask me, the main thing wrong with
His guess was confirmed by the
‘radio is that nobody has ever sassed it
back.”
Mr. Throp glared at Brad. “Young,
man, if you ever attempt to turn your B
little machine on me, I assure you her:
and now that I shall take steps.”
Sue said hastily: “Of course Brac
won't use his machine on you.” Sh
jumped to her feet, “For goodness’ sake,
let’s go out riding!”
Mr. Throp smiled a sickly smile
Brad. “Sorry we can’t take you wit
us, old man.” :
“But Brad’s coming,” said Sue, look:
ing bleak.
Brad said: “Wait a minute. Did yo
have a date with Throp, Sue, when
called up?”
“We—well, yes.” Yes, I did.”
*That’s simple, then. Keep it. Only
—why did you tell me to come over?”
“Because—because I wanted you two
to get to know each other. I mean
wanted you to like each other.”
Mr. Winthrop Throp bowed formall
“It may interest you to know, Mr. Rog
ers, that I have done myself the honor
of asking Miss Brown to be my wife.
Brad forced his features into the
semblance of a smile, “Congratula
tions,” he said. “That makes you
member of our club. When you’ve ask
her a couple of half-dozen times, as
have, you get a leather medal. ‘What
did Sue say?” :
“Sue,” said Sue, “said she didm"
know.” She smiled at Brad.
“Unless my memory fails me,” Brad
murmured, “that’s a long way from be-
ing yes.”
Sue said quietly: “Maybe not such [
long way this time, Brad. Thaf's why
I wanted you to like him.”
Brad walked home. It was sti¥ tw.
miles. It seemed like two hundred,
IT WAS ANOTHER ten days before Mr
Clarkson, the patent lawyer, called
Brad on the telephone. It was the best a
possible news. The search had shown
that the field was clear. The applica-
tion for the patent was even now beiag
prepared and filed.
*What’s my next move?” asked Brad.
*Get yourself on the air,” said ‘Mr.
Clarkson. “Be a nuisance. Get your--
self arrested. Matter of fact, I don’t
see how the federal people can touch
you, because you won’t be broadcast
ing. What we want is publicity and
lots of it. “I'm getting a better idea.
I want to be there myself. Two of us
ean do It better. Wait for me.”
“Let’s go big time and interrupt one
of the New York stations,” proposed
Mr. Clarkson. They interrupted three
_ New York stations in quick succession,
Each time Brad gave his name.
“Now let's try WMXY. We might ges
this Throp bird—"
Continued On Page 6
A LA.
TOWN QUIZ: STIMULATING MENTAL CONTEST
CGREDIT yourself 1 point for each ques
{8ion answered correctly. 12 is conside
{ered average, 14 good, and 15 or more
jexcellent, Answers will be found on
page 10.
1—If you were introduced to Harry
(yon Zell, which of the following remarks
would be appropriate?
“I have heard you often on the
radio.”
“We have copies of several of your
paintings at home.”
“I am in sympathy with your liberal
political views.”
2—~ Chenille may be recognized by
sweet taste
ridges
long hairs
red colors
3—A spectroscope is used . . »
By astronomers to determine the
composition of stars.
By doctors to listen to sounds in the
ehest and abdomen.
By machinists to measure very fine
dimensions.
4—The capital city of the Republie
of Chile iS +p «
Sucre
Bogota
Valparaiso
Santiago
5—The Latin quarter of London is
called .
Montmartre
Limehouse
Piccadilly
Soho
6—Below are alphabet scrambles that
can be made to spell the names of four
big cities in the United States:
LUFABOF ROTIDE®
SONTOB DANROPTY:
T—Here are some words just as they
are written by many people troubled
with spelling. Which are incorrectly
spelled?
miscellaneous
judgement
rhetorie
privelege
8—If an after-dinner speaker was
introduced as a famed raconteur, you
would know that he was .. «
An expert racoon hunter,
A person who relates anecdotes well,
An expert tennis player
9—1In operatic circles an impresario
is... :
A distinguished male singer.
Manager of an opera company.
Conductor of the orchestra which
plays in accompaniment,
10—Recent troubles in Europe have -
brought the word “pogrom” im the
papers. It means...
An arranged plan or course of pre-
ceedings.
An organized massacre of a group er
class.
Bloodless invasion of a country by ie
enemy,
11—Fill in the blank spaces to comm
plete the following proverbs:
Haste makes ————————,
Look before you ———————,
He who hesitates i8 —————y
12 Here is a famous quotation from
David Everett. Can you supply the
missing words?
“Large ‘streams from little fountains
Tall from little grow."
13—And speaking about quotations,
who was it that wrote ‘Kind hearts are
more than eoronets, and simple faith
than Norman blood.”
Shakespeare
Tennyson
Wordsworth
Lowell
14—Do you Yow how many degrees
there are in a circle?
90 180 360 500
A
}§—Whioch ef the following quote
@ons are from the Bible? :
“Whither thou goest, I will go.”
“My punishment is greater than I:
ean bear.”
er have been a stranger ia a strange
and.”
16—Texas is the largest state im the
Union; the second largest is... °
California Montana
Oregon Wyoming
17—The military leader ef ancient
times who crossed the Alps with the a
of elephants was ., .
Caesar
Marc Antony
Attila
Hannibal
18—The word “miscible” means , o »
misty opaque
mixable congenial
19—A person who has an insane de-
sire to set fire te something is ealied
8a.
kleptomaniae
monomaniae
pyromaniae
arsomaniae
20—The largest city im the world in
point of population is...
Caire Shanghai
New York London