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It's All in Your Mind

Suspense · July 20, 1958 · 24 min · 2,763 words

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suspense, and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. Back in the early days of suspense more than a decade ago, we would not have dared present the story you were about to hear.

You would have said it was implausible, too far-fetched. But a lot of things that we thought never could happen are commonplace in this age of flying saucers and satellites. The fantasies of yesterday's science fiction writers are today's humdrum household realities.

It's a long way from the family doctor's sugar-coated pill to the psychiatrist's raw wulfia capsule. And tomorrow's pharmacology holds for us miracles yet undreamped of. Our story concerns one of these wonder drugs, which who knows may even now be in the experimental laboratory stage.

and listen then as Barry Kroger stars in It's All in Your Mind, which begins in just a moment. Another visit with Joe and Daphne Forsyth. Joe, Joe, Joe, stop reading that paper and talk to me.

I'm Lish, then go ahead. Well, I was talking to Mrs. Snyder today. You know, she's the one whose boy had 31% less cavities. Well, she thinks that we should buy bigger savings bonds. Uh-huh. She says that when people can afford it, it makes more sense.

Oh, she says there are a lot of different denominations. They start at $25, but then there were 50, 100, 200, and even 500 dollar bonds. Is that so? And then with the ones we've already bought through the payroll savings plan, we'd have quite a nest egg.

Uh-huh. Are you listening to me? Uh-huh. Did you know that the total accumulated compounded semi-annual interest of the series E savings bond will amount to 93% in the third percent of the original purchasing price?

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