 proudly we hail from New York City where the American stage begins here is another program with a cast of outstanding players public service time has been made available by this station for your Air Force to bring you this story as proudly we hail another airman of the United States Air Force there always heroes and villains and heroes always get the applause while villains always get the hisses and booze we're going to tell you the story of a nice guy who was unfortunate enough to be known as Harry the villain and that will serve as the title of our story which begins in just a moment first if you're a next-service man experienced in a critical skill needed to keep America's air defense strong you're in luck yes if you possess one of the skills the Air Force needs you may qualify for the Air Force and in a grade that will be a pleasant surprise the Air Force needs men skilled in many important fields so put your service-earned experience to work your best advantage as a member of the 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brain you like books you like art and stuff like that well I went along with her I gave her away I made sure she went to college and she was smart as a whip she was only 21 and she was already teaching school in the kindergarten only one thing bothered me what kind of a guy was she gonna end up with she had a lot of dates but I could never take any of the fellas she went with not that there was anything wrong with them but none of them could speak my language they all used to talk from books used to be lively discussions on stuff like did Shakespeare really write those plays or was it bacon or the earl of this or that and what are the real implications of the latest experiments which tend to support or deny Freud's basic theory of the subconscious well you can see where a guy like me would fall asleep in the living room while this kind of chatter was going on and one day I got real scared we were having breakfast we were having a second cup of coffee before both of us had to leave for work when she said to me I'm being someone home to dinner tonight that's nice a fellow yes any of the ones I know no you've never met this young man well there is this somebody you might be thinking about seriously yes indeed I am does he know it I rather think he does and is he serious about you certainly that's why I want you to meet him you mean things have reached a point where you want to bring the guy home for this might be the fellow you're gonna marry I can never said anything why haven't I heard about him who is he what does he do where did you meet him it's 8 o'clock I'll miss my but now wait a minute I want to know more about this you're gonna meet Harry tonight you'll know everything and now I'm late hey come back here well you can imagine what a state I was in that day on the job so the guy's name was Harry well that was a solid down to kind of me but what else was he one of those brain waves usually went for probably you know so much psychology was tossed around in my house that some of that a rub off on me so I started analyzing myself Jim I said you're selfish you don't want her to get married and then when I was able to convince myself that that was the bunk that I really wanted to be happy I said to myself Jim basically you were disappointed that Jenny was a girl so now you hope for a son-in-law that'll make up for it not a guy Jenny would want but a guy you could be pals with now I had to admit there was some truth to that so I decided that whoever the guy was the important thing was for Jenny to like him and as far as I was concerned he'd be okay with me so that evening I was helping Jenny set the table and I'll rang and I went to answer I opened the door and hello I'm Harry I couldn't believe it first he was big maybe six to 20 and all of it muscle he wasn't pretty boy I don't mean he was a mug but he wasn't good looking either I was sure this guy had the wrong address come in Harry this is my dad I'm pleased to meet you yeah yeah I'm pleased to meet you too dinner's already Harry a power Harry asked if we could eat early because he has a business engagement tonight I hope you don't mind I don't mind what do we stand around for come on in well now you two gentlemen chat and become acquainted while I get the roast out of the oven well a little drink before dinner Harry no thanks I yeah I don't indulge not careful smoke no no I don't use them what kind of business are you in Harry well I travel oh salesman huh no no I'm not exactly a salesman but what is it you do exactly well you see I'm thinking I might join the Air Force gentlemen dinner sir well we didn't do any more talking and even though there was something mysterious about this fellow I admit I liked him from the go I liked the way he ate like me he packed it away with both hands and chewed on both sides of his mouth he filled his plate and cleaned it off and come up for more unlike some guy she brought home for child this this boy wasn't picky wasn't finicky wasn't on a diet he didn't ruin the meal by talking about calories and vitamins now this lad ate me enjoyed it more I watched him the more I liked him but the more puzzled I became too light I couldn't figure the two of them he wasn't like any guy she'd ever known but I could see they were really nuts about each other well when the meal was over even though he was in a hurry for some kind of an appointment he said he insisted on helping with the dishes so naturally I left him alone in the kitchen and after he'd gone I went into the living room with my paper for a while and finally Jenny went over to a desk and started looking at the drawing sir kindergarten kids had made in class you like him Pa oh he seems okay but he isn't exactly the type you've been going around with I know but I guess when you fall in love that's all there is to it he seems like a perfectly nice kid but I feel he is not telling us the whole truth oh Pa you just have to look at Harry and you can tell he's honest sincere and decent still in all I hope you know what you're doing don't worry Pa it's nine o'clock the wrestling is on TV you don't mind what does an intelligent man like you see in such a disgusting barbaric spectacle all right honey now look I'll keep the sound low so I don't disturb you and when your dramatic show comes on we can switch over to it huh so one ignorant loud humiliates another before a crowd what is it proved I'm now for a real grudge fight and I hope there's a doctor in the house and it's kind of a man or rather a fiend in human form oh it's very easy how could it any it's it's honest work hasn't done anything to you with that's how he makes a little wonder he was big no wonder he wouldn't say just wait till I see him tomorrow no why should I wait Papa where is this degrading spectacle taking place well I guess at the stadium I do you have a car keys now look you're all excited I have a key look I'll tell you what I'll drive you down let's go right now all the way down to the stadium she didn't say a word we got there and parked in front of the side door Jenny get out of the car and walked over to a cop is this where the wrestlers come out yes miss has Harry Cramer come out yet no I haven't seen him well that's fine look sister I'm here to keep water see I don't want no rough stuff draw anything on him a jab with a hat pin I'm gonna run you win what are you doing here okay sister run along oh no that's all right officer she's a she's a friend of mine I was a friend of yours hey Harry the mob has spotted you better beat it what are those people want they don't like Harry look it's like this all the time nothing's gonna happen they'll just say a couple of mean things to me that's all in all Harry you better take off Harry come on get in the car yeah yeah hurry up the crowd sounds mean tonight Jenny Harry come on will you how could you do this to me Harry I wanted to tell you but I was I was scared you wouldn't have nothing to do with me congratulations Jenny we hear you're getting married who's the young man must be a very nice fellow I'm going to marry a man named Harry the villain a beast the brood of the man who arouses the hatred of millions of people on TV every time they see it now now Jenny that's going a bit too far Jenny it don't mean nothing you see the promoters figure in every bout you have to have a villain I mean I'm I'm not so good looking so I'm always the villain but it don't mean anything that this guy gentlemen George I wrestled tonight he's my good friend I won't stand for it but it it's just for publicity and I suppose they have children whose father is called Harry the villain now Jenny look maybe Harry could talk to the promoter and get the player the hero once in a while no no they would never let me I look like a villain and that's it I don't care whether you're a hero or a villain a man should do something important meaningful productive what you do is barbaric but Jenny all my life all I done was wrestle I I don't know how to do anything else you'll have to learn or else or else I never want to see you would get you told me you were thinking of joining the Air Force was that a lie to no honey no that's the truth I began thinking about it the day I met you when the Air Force I I can learn all over again I can I can start new on something else of course you can't have of course you can there are many things to learn like like electronic sure it's a field of the future or perhaps you become a weather forecaster or communication why not I know you're intelligent you can go far and then you'll marry me as soon as you finish training wherever you station they're sure to be children in schools I could get a job teaching wouldn't be a wonderful life oh yeah goodbye forever to that horrible wrestling and so Harry enlisted in the Air Force and a couple of weeks later he was on his way to Lackland first basic everything was just dandy or so I thought then I got a letter from Harry in the first place I was surprised he would write to me and second I knew something was up because the letter was addressed to me at the shop give pop that red I have to talk to somebody and I feel I can trust you things are going pretty bad here I mean the guys are swell and training is okay but you see it's this choice of a job I had my apartment with the guidance well Kramer where you've got a settle on your career field oh I know Sarge but I don't know what to say you've seen something that appeals to you something you'd like to do when I get that kind of an assignment it'll be good for you and for the Air Force well what do you think Sergeant but it's not what I think it's what we've shown you and what you think well could you give me some kind of a hand here Sarge all right look what I can't understand is this there's one field you've got experience in you're like it you've done it you could do a good job and you're shy away from it physical training is your field well Sarge no I just don't think it would work out why not look Harry here's a definite job opening it's with strategic air command listen to this instructor in physical conditioning and hand-to-hand fighting and that would include wrestling in various forms of judo all right Harry what's wrong with it nothing's wrong with it there's no doubt you could qualify sure I could qualify not only is it important from the Air Force point of view for reasons we can go into later but it's a day's work you would enjoy wouldn't you you bet I would furthermore Harry unlike many of the fellows who would go out for a job like this you have so much civilian experience you'd be able to bypass most of the formal schooling you could almost step into this assignment at the end of your basic yeah how does it sound oh it sounds great then what are we waiting for I can't do it it's that's my girlfriend well you wouldn't understand look Harry I'd like to help you I've got a lot of experience in counseling all I can tell you is this a man has to do what he thinks is best no one has the right to take away from his life's work yes Sarge but you don't know Jenny and so pop I've been laying awake nights I have to go for this job it's what I want but I don't know how to tell Jenny I'm scared she'll drop me so what I did was I wrote to a letter and I made up a phony story and maybe in time everything will get straightened out meanwhile I leave for physical instructor school tomorrow Papa a letter from Harry listen so the Air Force has decided to train me for a secret kind of assignment it's very important and it's so secret I can't even tell you about it you hear that Papa I knew the Air Force would recognize Harry's great potential gosh what he suppose it is oh I'm so thrilled and so proud of him and just think all he wanted to be before he met me was an ordinary vulgar wrestler you are listening to the proudly we hail production Harry the villain we'll return in just a moment for the second act you former servicemen have you 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me no no no it's it's secret then you're right you mustn't tell me oh I'm so proud of you can you give me even a tiny little hint well I know no you're right you're right say nothing until the proper time after all I have to train also I have to be the right kind of Air Force why cooperate with my husband we can get married as soon as you return from school I won't press you Harry because I'm positive your job has nothing to do with intelligence oh Harry I told you you had brains well why don't I fix some coffee and sandwiches me son you sure got yourself into something you better come clean pop I'm I'm so scared maybe uh would you tell her no no son that's your job yeah well she'll know about it when I come back from Tokyo I'll tell her before the wedding then I guess there won't be any wedding then what are you going to Tokyo for well they they think I'm so hot they they're sending me to the Kadokan Institute for advanced training in judo I'll get a certificate out of it maybe another stripe if only yeah I understand no you don't understand pop that this is what I wanted to do all my life I finally found my job pop I liked wrestling but I never got a kick out of it because I always had to be a villain this is you know teaching guys to take care of themselves and I don't feel like a freak or like a guy putting on a show I'm just crazy about this job but oh brother when she finds out day here and working the kitchen all by myself you come in here and talk to me yeah yeah honey sure pop she'll really be sore when she finds out oh yeah I would say so Harry well don't worry about it just now Papa what is it you haven't addressed a single one of those invitation oh I must have been daydreaming do you realize how short the time is Harry leaves Tokyo tomorrow and he reports for duty at offered Air Force Base next Monday then he gets leave the following Saturday he'll be home Saturday night and the wedding is Sunday that's two weeks and you haven't even sent out a single invitation yeah Jenny you know what might be a good idea and you say Harry reports to the base on Monday well it's only a couple hundred miles from here why don't we drive up then and surprise him huh Papa this is going to be such a hectic week I've so many things to arrange it's less than two weeks to the wedding look Harry's been gone a month aren't you anxious to see him of course well stop arranging so much for change let's just be there to welcome him huh you know Papa you're absolutely right and we can come back and you can complete your arrangements for the wedding I hope well we left for the air base and we arrived a little while after Harry reported in for duty I have to say that Jenny was sure impressed after all offered air base is the headquarters of the strategic air command and it certainly looks important and Jenny figured everything was in keeping with this great big harsh harsh job Harry was supposed to have we asked for Harry and they paged him for us and we went into the service club to wait finally Harry showed up and after the preliminary hello's are over I could see this boy was in deep deep trouble now is the time the hour of reckoning was definitely on hand I wish there was some way I could help him but of course there was nothing I could do if it was any consolation to him I was feeling just as miserable as he was and I hope Papa has sent out all the wedding invitations and we'll have to be at the church at four o'clock Harry you've arranged for the time off I hope oh yeah yeah I'm so thrilled and everybody's been told you have such an important job in the air for it Jenny before we say anything else is there's something I have to tell you I think you kids want to be alone no pop me maybe you better stay here well what is it Jenny say I've been hoping to run into you sir oh I'm sorry to break in here I didn't realize you were with someone oh that's that's all right sir this is miss Scott and her father mr. Scott Colonel Smith my command I do how do you do oh Kramer I understand you're getting married congratulations say would you people mind if I borrowed Harry for about half an hour not at all okay now mr. Scott miss Scott why don't you come along and be my guests we're going to watch Harry put on a demonstration demonstration yes there's a party of visiting offices from Washington I want them to see our new program in action we were lucky to get a man like Harry Kramer you know Kramer I remember you from your wrestling days I was quite a fan of yours yes Colonel but those days are definitely over for her well certain aspects of it of course a Kramer why not get into your athletic suit and meet us over by the recreation field I've had Captain Jones assign us a few of the biggest and toughest fellas in the air please yes sir I I don't understand you know just what is this job of Harry oh really well he's our physical training instructor one aspect of the job is to train men in hand-to-hand fighting his civilian wrestling experience has come in mighty handy father where's the car you know Jenny the Colonel has invited us oh no no no you don't need your car we can drive over to the field and mine it's just outside I knew the fat was on the fire not only from the look on her face but because she had called me father poor Harry and yet poor Jenny I hope she wasn't gonna do something she'd be sorry for the rest of her life hello Colonel shut us to seats in the stands and then he left us to go to the microphone to make an announcement to the visiting brass just as soon as we can I'm going to leave here and never see him again now Jenny is the second time he's lied to me Jenny maybe he lies to you because he has to that's ridiculous is it look you can't tolerate what he really is and he wants to marry you so bad he tries to be something else and it doesn't work out for him I want him to be somebody he's somebody now Jenny a wrestler you helped him he really wasn't happy with the old way you encourage him to find something else in the Air Force now he did I wanted him to find something important something dignified this is important and dignified well I don't think so well he thinks so and so does the Air Force now you outvote it two to one gentlemen and miss Scott you're about to witness a demonstration of physical conditioning exercises that we hear well it was good stuff Harry Sheldon how to protect yourself against an armed enemy how to handle a guy by turning his own strength against him and they may have seen stuff like this before but as the colonel said this time they were watching a master but I was also watching Jenny she had a funny look on her face though she wanted to cry and the demonstration was over we sat there while Harry talked to the officers I think I've been a fool well it's all right Jenny everybody has a right to be a fool provided they realize it in time he's wonderful you know that oh here he comes now I think you two better be alone Jenny I I only have one thing to say I went into the Air Force and I picked out a job I like the job I want to do for the rest of my life and well you'll have to take me as I am or not at all Harry that's not the question at all the question is will you take me or Jenny Jenny do you mean it Harry you're still a wrestler in a way that is but you're no longer the villain I watched you use a hero who cares about that well I don't not really but after all as long as you're the hero we just have to obey the law what law the law that says the hero always gets the girl if you're a former member of any service now is the time to look into the United States Air Force prior service program there are excellent reasons why thousands of veterans are choosing the Air Force as a career all the facts about a career in today's Air Force are contained in a personalized booklet your local Air Force recruiter will prepare for you with no obligation whatsoever call on him right away and find out why today and tomorrow you're better off in the United States Air Force this has been another program on proudly we hail presented transcribed in cooperation with the station proudly we hail is produced by the recruiting publicity center in New York for the United States Air Force this is Ralph Roland inviting you to tune in the same station next week for another interesting story on proudly we hail