 As I say, get out of your heads and I'm a hero. I'm not. I'm just a dog-based soldier. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight the makers of Hallmark Cards are proud to present the true story of Major General William F. Dean, United States Army, and to salute him on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, communist prison camps of North Korea. You will also hear the transcribed voice of General Dean, who's our distinguished host on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, Mr. Lionel Barrymore. He's come home from the communist prisons of North Korea to his capture, but of the black times that followed, we're going to bring you the actual story now. Bring it to you from the lips of the men who lived it, and in the very words of their gallant leader. Remember a special person on a special day, let Hallmark Cards speak for you. They are the symbols of friendship, and they can carry your thoughts right next door or half a world away. And here's something nice to know, even though the quality of Hallmark Cards improves through the years, their prices remain the same. So look for the Hallmark and Crown on the back of each card you choose. It always means you carry enough to send the very best. I think you know something very important, the Geneva Convention, that's all I can soldier before. You want me to believe it? I suppose that is impossible. At this stage of the game, yes. Then we will change the subject. He has prescribed for your dysentery. He gave me some pills. They didn't do any good. You are very thin. I could say I've lost a little weight. Yes, I used to weigh around 195. Yes, I've lost 50, 60 pounds. And I felt sympathized with him because his wife had had a baby. He was about a month old, and his wife, unlike most cream women, didn't have enough milk. It's only 20 miles, can't they drop you by one of these nights so you can see how your family's getting along? I don't think you understand, General. I'm a member of the People's Army. The authorities won't let me go. I see. How do you like the book I brought you? It's all right. Some of the battle scenes are well written, but the propaganda. Do they have to lay an answer thick? Please. Here they do them on page. The Russians, they keep dying for the greater glory of Stalin. You can't tell me soldiers die that way. I know how they die. Perhaps you're right. It does get a little strong in places. Did you like it? I? No, I didn't. You see, I don't like war. He couldn't understand how anybody could be a soldier in any cause. He told me that. He used to be a Christian, and he couldn't understand. I told him I didn't know where my son had made the military academy or not. But I can't see how you can let your son enter a profession where you kill other people and so on. I mean, he was a piece of any past man if I've ever heard one. And he was well read, good music, and tried to get me good and good at your. The cooking lesson goes, I don't know. I tried to teach her how to bake those apples the way you told me. But he didn't seem to make much of an impression. Well, I gotta get something to straighten me out. The dysentery, is it worse? Don't seem possible for anything to be worse than it was, but it is. If you follow me. I spoke to the cook about not putting so much oil in your food. She said the guards like it oily. That's a cook girl of two years old who's a captain doctor. Frank, she said you'll be pleased to know that this year I'm really ahead of Santa Claus. Right in this, and she told me how it happened. It seems she was in a store where hallmark cards are sold and noticed that the new hallmark Christmas albums had arrived. So she took time out then and there to browse through them. In other words, she said I rested and accomplished an important errand at the same time. Well, you know, October is the ideal time to order the hallmark Christmas card you'll want imprinted with your name. Selections are complete, salespeople are unhurried. And by ordering now, you'll have your hallmark cards at home in plenty of time for leisurely addressing. Yes, and you can count on it. The hallmark and crown on the back of the card you choose is your assurance of quality. It will tell your friends you'll carry enough to send the very best. And now Lionel Barrymore continues the true story of Major General William Dean. All the interrogation began. They came in pairs. Their thick wooden coats buttoned tight, breath-blowing white clouds in the dark chill air. An hour after hour, the questions handlessly repeated and interpreted and denied. And as each team tired, they were replaced. Crew after crew of the Communists. Probing one mind demanding one answer in that small back room. Got that information. And if I had a dozen times in the last 24 hours. You can see things if you're Monday morning quarterbacking, if you have more facts. I think we was just making face. Would be to make a fine statement repudiating Truman and his Wall Street cronies. He got the idea to be nice if I just had me in shorts. So I could really be cold. Probably wasn't with that over going on. My teeth were chattering so I said, What's the matter, are you cold? And he couldn't say it to me directly. He wants to know if you're cold. Either feet hurry up and get the change off interrogator better. The other one's still sleeping. So mad he pounded the table and I was so skinny. I don't know, I imagine I weighed 130 when I was captured. When I was just coming across the line, I put off the plane in San Francisco last week. He had just one thing to say. Seems to say, this is how I feel about Christmas. This is the greeting I want to share with you. Now many of you will soon be going to a fine store where hallmark cards are sold to look through the hallmark Christmas card albums. So you'll be glad to hear what these new albums have to offer in the way of beauty and variety. If you like hallmark cards by famous artists, you'll find reproductions which have never before appeared on Christmas cards, tile designs by Grandma Moses, pen and ink sketches by Steinberg, paintings by newcomers to the hallmark artist series, like Doris Lee or Hulda. Yes, and among all the new hallmark Christmas cards, you are sure to find the one you want imprinted with your name. Remember, they familiar hallmark and crown on the back of each card you mail will tell your friend. Here again is Lionel Barrymore. There is a marvelous selection of hallmarks and sharing it with it. It all started in young engraver apprentice named Bill Eggley, read a story by a young author and designed and wrote that he's how the custom began. Well, Frank, what about a little preview? Next week we're going to honor a man who has influenced your life every time you've driven up to a gas station and said, fill her up. He's Edwin Lawrence Team Drake and he had the great vision and courage to attempt and finally succeed in drilling the first oil well in the world. How he did this makes an enthralling and gripping story. I hope you all be with us next week on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Remember, you're also invited to the Hallmark Hall of Fame on television on Sundays starring Mr. Churchill. Well, until next week then, this is Lionel Barrymore saying goodnight. To give you expert and friendly service, remember a Hallmark card when you'll carry enough to send the very best. Our producer-directors, William Gaye, we wish to take this opportunity to thank Radio Station KCBS San Francisco for helping make this broadcast possible. The story of Major General William F. Dean was based on transcribed interviews with the general and was prepared for radio by James Poe. In the dramatic scenes General Dean was played by Herb Butterfield, also heard were Philip Ahn as Lee, with Ralph Ahn, Jack Edwards, Byron Cain, Clayton Post, Dan Copperley, Henry Oh, and Owen Song. Special music for tonight's broadcast was composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. This is Frank Goss saying goodnight to you all until next week at the same time. When we present another true story of an inspiring moment in the life of a famous person. Next week we honor Edwin Laurentine Drake on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. This is the CBS Radio Network. This is KMBC, Kansas City, Missouri.