What happens
Peggy Martin, a typist at the Prudential typewriter company in New York, hears that Lieutenant Dan Bellamy has died after diving his plane into a Japanese carrier, and she is left to face public attention as his sweetheart. Newsreel crews and the company president, Mr. Maglen, fix her as the grieving fiancee. Then word arrives that Dan is alive and returning home, and Peggy must decide how to handle the mix-up. The episode aired on Lux Radio Theatre on August 27, 1945, starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland.
New York City, 1945, including a midtown apartment, the Maglen house, and an airport welcome.
Characters: Peggy Martin, Lieutenant Dan Bellamy, Mr. Maglen, Mrs. Maglen, Commander Harper, Uncle Ben, Albert Begail, Miss Martin
Listen for: The moment Peggy learns Dan is alive and the awkward attempts to keep up the engagement story.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.