The Inner Panic

[Pulsing tone] [Theme music] [Furnace blast] [Announcer] "The United States Steel Hour," from New York. [Theme music] [Announcer] Next, a young boy tackles a problem he has let grow big enough to ruin his life. [Music continues under Main Titles] [Excited chatter] Hey, hey! [Secretary's voice] I did not. [Secretary's voice] Now, there you're mistaken. [Secretary] I don't think it's so much to ask. Just once you could call me the day before. I'm not even dressed. [Secretary] Yes? [Secretary] I am not saying I'm so popular. I'm just saying you take things too much for granted. That's all. You got an appointment? [Lenny Stevenson] I, [Secretary] What am I, last on the list or something? That's the way it sounds. I could be somebody's mud fence the way you're playing it. [Secretary] No, no give a little thought to moral, huh. Like in the Army. Have you got an appointment or not? [Lenny] Yeah, uh. [Lenny, stuttering] Uh, It-It's about the, uh [Secretary] Well, listen you know I got feelings too. I don't like being low girl on the totem pole. [Secretary] What's with you? I haven't got all day. [Lenny, stuttering] I-I-I, [Secretary] What's the matter? Are you tongue-tied or something? [Secretary] So which way is it gonna be? [Footsteps thumping down stairs] [First boy] Hey, here comes Lenny. [Second boy] Okay. We'll sing it. [Mickey's voice] Well, so we go back tomorrow and pretty soon we wrap it up, okay, buddy. [Lenny Stevenson] You got your job, Mickey. [Mickey] Oh listen. Wait a second. I forgot to tell you. I'm not taking that job at the, right off. First, I want to go with you to the Associates, okay? [Lenny] What for? [Mickey] What for? What, are you chickening out? [Lenny] No. [Mickey] We work together or we don't work at all. That's the rules of the house, pal. [Lenny] You don't fool me for a minute. [Mickey] Who's trying to? No, seriously, [Boys, singing together] L-L-L-Lenny, Good looking Lenny, [Mickey, yelling over them] Hey, come on! [Boys singing] You're the only b-b-b-boy the girls adore! [Mickey] Hey, Lenny! Very funny man. What's wrong with you two anyway, huh? [First Boy] What'd we do? [Mickey] What, what do you always make fun like that? What's he ever done to you? [Second Boy] Everybody does it. Why can't we. [Mickey] Well, because everybody does it, does that make it right? [First Boy] So, how come he talks like that? [Mickey] Go away, will ya. Go on beat it. Lenny? [Music] [Door slams] Lenny! Lenny? Hey, Lenny. Don't let those little kids scare you. [Mickey] They don't know what they're doing. [Lenny] Just go back tomorrow to that place and tell 'em you accept that job. [Mickey] Okay, but don't get sore at me, pal. I'm not doing you any favors. I'm supposed to be your friend remember? [Lenny] I, I, didn't mean to get sore. [Mickey] I'm sorry too, Lenny. [Mickey] I, I never figured that guy'd hire me. [Mickey] I mean you should see me when he asked me what my grades were like. I was ready to jump up and run. [Laughs] [Lenny] I wish they'd ask what my grades were like. I never get that far. Yeah. Hey, this is great stuff. You know that, buddy. [Mickey] No, I'm serious. It's real nice. I don't know how you can stay here and do it all the time. I'm in my room five minutes, I go bug house. This is nice. [Lenny] I like it. Yeah, I'll bet. What are you going to do when you finish this set? [Stuttering] I-I don't know. [Lenny's voice] S-start another one, I guess. [Sets down chess piece] You want this open or closed? [Mickey's voice] Hey, will ya answer me? Open or closed? [Lenny] I don't care. [Mrs. Helen Stevenson] Hello, Mickey. How'd it go today? [Mickey] Well, I got a job, Mrs. Stevenson. [Mrs. Stevenson] That's wonderful! [Mickey] Yeah, but, I don't know about Lenny. [Mrs. Stevenson] Congratulations are in order now, not long faces. [Mickey] Yeah, but he's so down in the dumps, ma'am. [Mickey] I guess it wasn't such a hot idea to go looking together after all. [Mrs. Stevenson] I didn't think it was, when I heard about it. [Mickey] Didn't you? [Mickey] Well, you know, I, [Mickey] I thought it would help him not to feel so scared and instead he runs out on me. [Mrs.Stevenson] We can't always tell how our good intentions are going to turn out can we? [Chuckle] [Mrs. Stevenson] Mickey. Nobody's gonna be hurt if you enjoy your success. Now, come on, come on, smile. [Mickey] I'll drop back later, okay? [Mrs. Stevenson] Okay. [Music] Hi! [Mrs. Stevenson] Mickey tells me, you didn't find anything you liked today. [Mrs. Stevenson] Well, I went three whole months before I found this job, remember? Something will turn up soon. [Lenny] You've been saying that all along, Mom. [Mrs. Stevenson] Did you talk slowly? [Lenny] I talked slowly. I had alternate words ready. [Lenny] Position wouldn't come out. I said, [Lenny] j-j-j-job! An application wouldn't come out. I said form. [Lenny] Mom, nobody's gonna hire a guy who stutters. [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh, that isn't true, Lenny. [Mrs. Stevenson] I know one thing. Sitting in this room carving these chess pieces all day. That isn't the answer. [Mrs. Stevenson] What are all these papers? Anything important? [Lenny] Cards. [Lenny] Forms. [Lenny] [?] [Lenny] You're supposed to fill them out. Supposed to come back with them and they'll consider you. They all tell you that. [Mrs. Stevenson] Well, then that's exactly what you should do. Your ballgames on. [Chess piece clatters on table] [Lenny] Mom. [Lenny] Am I turning into a whiner? [Mrs. Stevenson] Maybe. Just a little. [Lenny] What am I gonna do, Mom? [Mrs. Stevenson] Well, right now, you're going to listen to your ballgame. [Mrs. Stevenson] And tomorrow, you'll start all over again, with the introductions and the interviews and then suddenly just like everybody else you'll get your first job. [Mrs. Stevenson] And you've got to give it the best you know how. [Lenny] They won't give me a chance, Mom. They, [Lenny] won't even listen to me. [Mrs. Stevenson] Hmm. You'll get your chance, Lenny. You'll see. [Door bangs open] [Barney McGinnis] Well, let me ask you something, fella. Why should I do it? [Barney] Because it's not in my department, that's why. [Barney] Oh, don't tell me not to holler. [Barney] I don't know what that guy in personnel thinks he's doing. Making such a big deal out of a 62.50 a week, mail clerk job. [Charley] What'd he want? [Barney] Since when do we interview mothers, that's what I want to know. What is this, Mother's Day? [Charley] You have to be polite for a change. [Barney] What do you mean polite? When was I not polite. I'm libel to knock a few heads together when I get back in here. [Barney] That means you, kid. Look at that complete collapse and so much to live for too. Look out. [Barney] Now, this one. [Pete] Aw, cut it out, Barney. [Barney] Who's boss around here, Pete? [Pete] You are, now cut it out, will ya? [Barney] Down, laughing boy, down. No wonder why the wife says I'm crabby. Look what I have to put up with all day. [Barney] Work! Work! Come on, get at it! Move! Let's go! [Mrs. Stevenson] Mr. McGinnis? [Barney] Yeah. [Mrs. Stevenson] My name's Helen Stevenson. Your personnel director sent me. Did he call you? [Barney] Oh, yeah. He called me. He said there was a job open in the mailroom, and I'd like my son Lenny to have a chance at it. [Barney] Oh, so why isn't he here? Well, you see, he stutters, and I thought you, [Barney] He what!? He stutters. That's why I'm here. And I may lose my nerve any minute. [Barney] Would you, ah, like to sit down? [Mrs. Stevenson] Thank you. [Mrs. Stevenson] Lenny graduated from high school a week ago. But he started looking for a job way back in April. He's a bright boy, Mr.McGinnis, but when he's nervous, he stutters badly. [Barney] Oh. [Mrs. Stevenson] I don't even remember when it started. I began noticing it about the time his father died. [Barney] Oh, well, ah, do you work yourself Mrs. Stevenson? [Mrs. Stevenson] Yes, yes, I work nights for the phone company. Seemed to work out better for us that way. [Barney] Mm, hmm. [Mrs. Stevenson] And I, I saw your brochure when I came in this morning, and it sounded so friendly I thought that, [Mrs. Stevenson] well, if you expected it of him. If you knew. [Barney] I don't know how friendly the brochure is, but it's gonna depend on the boy himself. Oh, no. No it isn't. It depends on how frightened Lenny is of you. Well, I can't promise anything. Well, won't you just see him. You don't have to give him a job if you don't think he's worth it. But won't you just see him? Well, he's, he's, ah, never worked in a mailroom before has he? [Mrs. Stevenson] No, no. [Barney] Ah, well. [Barney] Ah, can he handle phone calls? Well, he, Oh. Oh, no. Now, I didn't realize that. No, he hates the phone. [Mrs. Stevenson's voice] I guess that lets him out, huh? [Barney] Okay you get them up here, and we'll see what's what. Oh, thank you. That's very kind of you. Oh, I, I think it'd be better if he didn't know I'd been up here. [Barney] Oh, sure, sure. [Mrs. Stevenson] Thanks! [Charley] Sylvia forgot to phone down for the tally. [Barney, talking over] Sylvia forgot to phone down for the tally. Charley, get it up there yourself. Or they'll be on my back in five minutes! [Barney] Hurry it, will ya! Pete! [Barney] Watch out for that postage meter, I'm warning ya! [Barney] Come on you guys! What're ya getting paid for! Move it! Come on, let's get the show on the road, so you can all go home. [Answering groans] [Transition music] [Lenny] You didn't have to get up for me. [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh, ho. [Mrs. Stevenson] It was quiet on my switchboard last night and I just wasn't sleepy this morning. [Lenny] I don't feel like breakfast, Mom [Mrs. Stevenson] Then just drink some juice, dear. [Mrs. Stevenson] You know, Lenny, I have a hunch about today. [Mrs. Stevenson] I don't know. I just have a feeling. [Mrs. Stevenson] About this one in particular. [Lenny] Which one is that? [Mrs. Stevenson] This one. [Mrs. Stevenson] I looked at it when I came in this morning, and I said to myself, Associated, whatever you are, [Mrs. Stevenson] I know a young man in a lucky blue tie who's going to fit right into your organization. [Lenny, stuttering] Well, they, they didn't ro-roll out any red carpets yesterday. [Juice glass clatters on table] [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh, oh. That's all right, dear. [Lenny] Sorry, Mama. [Lenny] Little shaky, I guess. [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh sure, everybody who goes looking for a job shakes. [Mrs. Stevenson] But just remember, a guy's own two feet, [Lenny talks over her] Own two feet, [Lenny] are the only ones that he can stand on. [Mrs. Stevenson] Get on out there now and fight the world. You must smile and knock 'em dead. [Lenny] You're always in there pitching that. [Mrs. Stevenson] Mm, hmm. [Mrs. Stevenson] Remember my hunch, Associated! Oh, good luck, Lenny. [Barney] Hey, Pete. [Charley] Barney, there's this, [Barney] Hold it, Charley, will ya. Pete, shoot this upstairs, right away, will ya? [Charley] Barney, this kid is, [Barney] Charley, I heard you. I heard you. Tell him to keep his shirt on. Now, fellas look, [Barney] this has to get out right away, tonight. You understand, tonight? Move it. Let's get going. [Barney] All right. What do you want? [Lenny, stuttering] Mr. McGin-gin-ginnis. [Barney] Yeah. [Lenny, stuttering] T-t-the personnel office sent me down. [Barney] Oh, well, ah. They give you a card? [Barney] Oh, yeah. Yeah, Leonard Stevenson. [Barney] All right. Sit down, Leonard. [Barney] Ah, what do they call you, Lenny? [Lenny] Yes, sir. [Barney] So, you want to work in the mail room, Lenny, eh? [Lenny] I'd-I'd like to, yes, sir. [Barney] Well, I tell you. If you like to goof off, this is no start for you, but if you like to work, [Barney] that's a different story. You like to work? Yeah, I-I-I like to work. [Barney] Mm-hmm. Are you smart? [Barney] Nothing to be ashamed of. If you're smart, you're smart. Are ya smart? I'm pretty smart. [Barney] Okay now figure how things are with me, Lenny. I figure there's room for only one loudmouth around here, and that's me. I get cranky, but I'm allowed to because I'm the boss. Now does that bother you? [Lenny] No, sir. [Barney] Okay. [Barney] Now, I got no time for nonsense. You gotta stay in till nine o'clock one night a week. That goes with the job. [Lenny] Well, that's, ah, that's perfectly all right. [Barney] You're darn right it is. I have to stay three nights, so it shouldn't kill an infant like you. [Barney] Now, will it conflict with your mother's job? [Lenny] My mother's job? [Barney] Ah, yeah. [Barney] Yeah, uh-huh yeah, I thought I saw it on a card here. [Barney] Yeah, there it is, she works for the telephone company. You wrote it yourself right. [Lenny] Oh, yes, sir. No, that's all right. [Barney's voice] Ahh, something on your mind? Yes, sir. I, ah, I stutter a little bit. Pete, watch that postage meter. If you bust that thing, I'll bust your head. Charley, watch him, will ya? Keep your eye on him. [Barney] Now, what was that? [Lenny] I just said, I stutter a little bit. [Barney] I heard what you said. What I want to know is, so what. I just thought you should know. [Barney] Well, I think that you should know that if you work for me. You don't keep your jacket on. [Baarney] Where's that pencil. What did I do with it? [Lenny] Oh. [Barney] Yeah. [Barney] Okay. All right, let's get on to the mailroom, and we'll meet some of the boys, okay. [Barney] Hey, Joey. New mail room boy. [Joey] Hi. [Barney] Hey, Jack. [Sylvia] Barney, what's this jazz about coming down for the tally everyday? [Barney] I'll tell you later, Sylvia. [Sylvia] Well, what's the matter with the phone? [Barney] Syliva, I want you to meet the new mail room boy, Lenny. [Sylvia] Hi. [Lenny] Hi. [Barney] Every morning at 10:00 a.m. Sylvia'll come down for a count. I thought you worked here, boy. Get that jacket off, shake a leg, go. [Barney] Charley, I want to see ya a minute. [Sylvia] Right here. [Sylvia] Honestly, they change a system around here every time you turn around. Call off the overlay figures first. They're on the second column. [Lenny stuttering] Um, i-i-it s-s [Lenny] It says, [Lenny] 323. [Sylvia] I'll read if you like. [Lenny] Yeah, I, ah, I stutter a little bit. [Sylvia] I didn't mean because of anything, I know the numbers and what it looks like. [Lenny] No, it'll be [Lenny] faster if you read. [Sylvia] I'll tell you what. Suppose I read them for a week or so, 'til you get acquainted. [Sylvia] And then you'll know where to look. [Lenny] All right. [Sylvia] Now, when I call off the numbers, you write them in these columns. Ready? [Lenny] Yeah. [Sylvia] Warehouse teletypes 32. [Lenny] Mm, hmm. [Sylvia] A 13. [Lenny] Mm, hmm. [Sylvia] B 11. [Lenny] Mm, hmm. [Sylvia] C 8 [Sylvia] Did anyone tell you why I need these figures? [Lenny] Unh, uh. [Sylvia] Well, this goes to the costume report, and the letters are warehouse locations. [Sylvia] We send them the orders, and they ship out the goods. This your first day? [Lenny] Mm-hmm [Sylvia] Just graduate? [Lenny] Yeah, last week. [Sylvia] I quit a year ago. That was dumb, but I'm going to night school for the summer term. [Pete] Ha, ha. I never thought he'd fall for it. He bent down and I squirted him right in the eye. [Sylvia] Ah, Pete. I can't stand him. [Syliva] I talk too much, and, and you're too polite to tell me. [Lenny] No, go on. [Barney] Ah. I don't care what they say down in that shipping department. There always taking on another responsibility down there. [Barney] I'm not, I'm not gonna do it. I don't, [Barney] Hey, Charley, [Barney] Remember. You never saw his mother. She was never here. [Charley] I know. I know. [Barney] Okay. [Charley] What're you knocking yourself out for, Barney? [Barney] Well, Charley, when I was fifteen years old, I weighed 210 pounds. Now, if you'd been called fatso half your life, [Baarney] you'd understand. [Sylvia] Well, we're finished. Anyone show you where the cafeteria is. [Lenny] No, not yet. [Sylvia] Tenth floor, maybe I'll see you there. [Lenny] All right.. [Sylvia] That's a, very pretty tie. [Lenny] Thank you. [Sylvia] That's a compliment. Now, you ought to pay one back. [Lenny] Oh, what kind? [Sylvia] Any kind. [Lenny] Maybe I'll think of one tomorrow, huh? [Pete] I'm Pete. [Lenny] Oh, ah, I'm Lenny. How are you? [Pete] You like that chick, huh? [Lenny] Huh? [Pete] Sylvia. You like that type? [Lenny] I don't know. I, I just met here. [Pete] She think she's something, but, she's nothing. [Lenny] If you say so. [Music] How about that wiseguy. Sneaks off and lands a job first crack. [Lenny] You're rich now, get yourself a lawyer. [Mickey] You're clever pal, real clever. [Mrs. Stevenson] I thought we'd have something to celebrate today, so I bought this cake. [Lenny] Yeah, mom had a feeling about the didn't ya, Mom? [Mrs. Stevenson] Yeah. I guess I did. I, I did it myself. I did it myself. [Mrs. Stevenson] Well, that's not important. The important thing is for you to do a good job. [Lenny] I know and to stand on your own two feet. Well, I did. Oh, listen. They got bowling down there on Monday nights too. [Mickey] Oh, yeah? [Lenny] Yeah, except, I can't go because it's my night to work late. [Mickey] Hey listen, buddy. I'm picking the prettiest girl in my office and first paycheck we're double dating, okay. Easy come, easy go. [Mrs. Stevenson] Are there pretty girls in your office, Mickey[sic]? I, I was too busy to notice. [Mickey] What?! You were what? [laughter] [Lenny] Listen, buddy, I'm gonna work hard. I'm gonna work my head off for that guy. He's gonna depend on me, and he's gonna need me. [Mickey] Hey, relax! A big executive, you understand. [Mrs. Stevenson] Yes. [Mickey laughs] Oh, Mom. You know this tie? [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh yeah, you mean, you're lucky one. [Lenny] Yeah. Made quite a big hit today. [Mrs. Stevenson] It did? [Lenny] Mm, hmm. [Mrs. Stevenson] Mm, hmm. Somebody said it was a real nice tie. [Music] [Theme music] [Announcer] This is, "The United States Steel Hour." And now, Tex Antoine. [Tex Antoine] Good evening. Say, how do you like your steel? Hot rolled? Or cold rolled? [Antoine] Or perhaps you didn't even know there were such animals. [Antoine] Well, there's not much reason for you to know the difference between steels. [Antoine] Even when you buy a steel product. The manufacturer has already picked the right steel for the job. [Antoine] Now, cold rolled steel for example, is the best thing yet, for many home appliances. Like perhaps, your new refrigerator freezer unit. [Antoine] Cold roll steel is also the best thing [Antoine] for automotive body panels. [Antoine] Fenders and doors. It's also the best for, say, the cabinets in your kitchen. [Antoine] And also, for many smaller housewares like well, maybe a new toaster. [Antoine] But even the best things can be improved. [Antoine] And they usually are, in a competitive industry like the steel making industry. [Antoine] Where there are over eighty companies, constantly improving their steels in an effort to serve their customers better. [Antoine] And right now, we have a dramatic example, of how competition, [Antoine] leads to better steels and better things for all of us. [Antoine] For recently, U. S. Steel announced the construction of a new kind of mill. It will be the finest of its kind in the world. [Antoine] Exclusively for producing wide cold rolled steel sheets. [Antoine] Now, very briefly. This mill will run the steel, not just through the conventional three, perhaps four roller stands. [Antoine] But through a new fifth set of rollers. [Antoine] Sound simple? Well, believe me, it isn't. This is a feat of modern engineering. A real first. [Antoine] And the results will be rather spectacular. For this mill can produce a wider sheet, of thinner steel. [Antoine] So smooth, so flat, so uniform in quality, it will be unmatched by any existing product on the market. [Antoine] Now where is this new mill being built? Right here. In Gary, Indiana. [Antoine] Where it can serve, from close by, the great automotive and appliance manufacturing centers of the Midwest. [Antoine] Yet, this modern mill is only one example, of many things that are needed, to keep up in the competitive race. [Antoine] And, how are they to be paid for? [Antoine] Well, partly, out of profits. And when profits are not enough to meet these competitive demands, a business like U. S. Steel, must, [Antoine] borrow money. [Antoine] And then pay that money back out of, future profits. [Antoine] As an example, in the past four years alone, to help pay for modernization, [Antoine] new mines, [Antoine] new mills, like the one we just told you about. [Antoine] U. S. Steel has borrowed, [Antoine] Eight hundred million dollars. [Antoine] This is because U. S. Steel wants to keep on being a top contender for business. This means having faith in the future. [Antoine] And risking money for new and better mills to make new and better steels. [Antoine] This is what competition is all about. It brings out the best in a product, in an industry, and in a company like, U. S. Steel. [Antoine] One of more than eighty steel making companies competing in a growing America. [Music] [Announcer] We return to Act Two of, "The Inner Panic," from New York. [Barney] Hey, Pete. Hey, Pete. Why weren't these orders drafted yesterday? [Pete] They [?] the traffic, that's why. [He's screaming upstairs. These orders are late. [Pete] I've only got two hands, Barney. [Barney] Get a move on, will ya. Come on fellas, move it. [Barney] Hey, Lenny. Come on over here a minute, will ya. [Barney] Now look, we babied you for three weeks now. Today you learn the postage meter, okay? [Barney] Ah, what's the matter? [Lenny] Oh, nothing, Barney. Only I thought that, [Barney] You work here, don't you? Yeah, Pete can handle it, so can you. It's easy. [Barney] You see, month, day, time. Ah, come on, Charley. [Barney] All right now, you batch them up like this, you keep 'em level, you keep them in front of you, and you feed 'em one at a time. [Barney] Only watch out for if she jumps around like a Dancing Dora. [Lenny] All right, ah. [Barney] Right in that slot there. [Lenny] In the sl? [Barney] In the slot, right? [Barney] Well, go ahead, push, push it all the way in. What are you so afraid of? [Lenny] I'm not afraid of anything, Barney. It just got stuck. [Barney] So don't act like a scared rabbit all the time. [Pete laughs in background] Shut up! [Lenny] I don't want to mess anything up. I just want, [Barney] Lenny. [Barney] Okay, you take it easy. Take it as slow as you have to at first, okay. Now, go ahead, feed it. [Lenny] It doesn't seem to work. [Barney] There we are. All right, try it. [Lenny] I didn't have it on. [Barney] Well, I make mistakes too, fella you know. There we are! Easy, right! [Lenny] Can't you bolt this thing down? [Bareny] Do I look dumb? [Barney] Now, look I've been trying to get them to bolt this thing down for the past four years now. [Barney] But, they're not gonna do it. Because shipping department comes up and takes it downstairs. They use it too, understand. [Lenny] I see. [Barney] Okay. What are you looking at? [Lenny] Oh, nothing, only it's almost 10 o'clock and, ah, [Lenny] Sylvia will be down for the count. [Barney] Oh, well, get that out of the way as fast as you can. This stuff has got to move, you understand, move! [Lenny] right. [Barney] Come on fellas! Let's go! [Pete] Hey. [Pete] Oh, it's your favorite time of day, huh? [Pete] You know, I'm still trying to figure out what's your type. Is it simple over there? [Sylvia] Leave him alone, Pete. [Pete] I don't know. He must have something special. I wish I knew what it was. [Sylvia] Maybe it's sincerity. [Barney] Hold it. All right, Sylvia, please girlfriend, no gabbing today, he has a lot of work to do. A lot of work. [Sylvia] Barney's terrible, I don't know what gets into him. [Sylvia] Gee, are you using the postage meter? [Lenny] I was just learning. [Sylvia] Barney wouldn't trust anybody with it. He must like you. [Lenny] He's always telling me how slow I am. [Sylvia] He'd say that to a jet pilot. [Lenny] Sylvia, you're gonna be up in the cafeteria today? [Sylvia] Sure, why? [Lenny] Oh, no reason, I just wanted to ask you something. [Sylvia] What? [Lenny] It's nothing important. [Sylvia] Now, you've got me all curious. [Lenny] It's just something my friend, Mickey wanted me to ask you, that's all. [Sylvia] Something nice? [Barney's voice] Come on a couple of you guys, help me get this into the store room. You take that side, [Lenny] We better, we better do this work. Barney wants these orders out. [Sylvia] I get teased upstairs about how long I'm down here every day. [Lenny] You used to telephone for the figures before didn't you? [Sylvia] Too many mistakes. [Lenny] You stopped the day I came, huh? [Sylvia] Barney thought you might not like to use the phone at the beginning. [Lenny] Yeah. [Lenny] I freeze up. [Sylvia] Even if you know who's on the other end? [Lenny] You never know who's on the other end. [Sylvia] It's silly to be afraid of a telephone. [Sylvia] I'm going to call. Someday, I'm gonna call for the tally. [Lenny] What's the first number? [Sylvia] Overlay 20. [Sylvia] You read the numbers today, Lenny. [Lenny] Why? [Sylvia] I don't know. I just thought about it. [Lenny] But you said until I got used to it. [Sylvia] Are you afraid I'll criticize you, Lenny? Do you think I'd criticize? [Lenny] No. [Lenny] Overlay. [Lenny] Twenty. [Lenny] S-s-s, [Lenny] S-sp, [Lenny] Special Delivery, Los Angeles. [Lenny] 22 [Lenny] It's gonna take forever. [Lenny] Teletypes, [Lenny] 19. [Lenny] That's 19 not 9. [Sylvia] Got 19 see. [Sylvia] Don't be so quick to think something's wrong. [Sylvia] There's nothing wrong. [Lenny] Hey, you know. I, I finally thought of a complement to pay you back. I like your hair. Short like that. [Barney] Sylvia, ah, I don't understand any of these figures. You're gonna have to come in here and straighten me out. [Pete] You sure do enjoy those tallies don't you, Lenny? [Pete] I-I-I call that, making out with the ladies. [Lenny] Come on, Pete, cut it out, huh. This machine's all I can worry about right now. [Pete] Yes, sir, this guy Lenny's got something, all right. [Lenny] I don't have anything, Pete. [Pete] You must have something. [Pete] Maybe it's a golden tongue. [Mail room boy] Pay no attention to him, Lenny. He just thinks he's smart. [2nd mail room boy] Anybody going upstairs for lunch. [Pete] Yeah, I am, but, I don't know about Lenny here. [Lenny] Yeah, well I was supposed to meet somebody, but ah, [Pete] What's-her-name reserving you a table for [stuttering] t-t-t-two. [Mail room boy] That's not funny, Pete. Come on, Lenny, let's go. [Pete] Lenny! [Stuttering] La-la-la-latin lover. [Laughing] You mean lou-lou-lousy lover, don't you, Pete? [Pete] Yeah, yeah come on. [Music] [Time passing music] [Music] [Syliva] Lenny! [Sylvia] I shouldn't even talk to you. I saw you in the lunchroom laughing at Pete's stupid jokes. I waited at my table the whole hour. [Lenny] I'm sorry Sylvia. I, I just forgot. [Sylvia] You didn't forget. You looked straight at me. [Sylvia] There was something you wanted to ask me. [Sylvia] Thought it might be important [Lenny] Nah, it wasn't anything important. [Pete] Good night, Lenny. [Lenny] G-g-good night, Pete. [Pete] See you, ah, t- [Pete] tomorrow. [Lenny laughs] Yeah, Pete. [Sylvia] Don't laugh when he's being mean like that. [Lenny] Pete's all right. He's okay. [Sylvia] He's not all right. I went out on a date with him once. That was a mistake. [Sylvia] I thought he was some kind of human octopus or something. [Sylvia] Besides, I'm [Sylvia] choosy who I go out with. [Sylvia] It has to be someone nice. [Sylvia] Lenny, if you were going to ask me out or anything. I'd go. Is that what you're going to ask? [Lenny] No, it wasn't anything like that. [Sylvia] Oh, I guess I put my foot in. [Sylvia] Good night, Lenny. [Lenny] Good night, Sylvia. [Sylvia] I'll see you tomorrow, I guess. [Lenny] Sure. [Music] [Mickey] You know what. She said she'd go out with you. She practically gave you a golden invitation. [Mickey] I mean, she asked you. She did practically give you a golden invitation, didn't she? [Lenny] Yeah, yeah. I just, I couldn't ask her. I just couldn't. [Mickey] Well, for crying out loud. [Slaps pants] [Mickey] Ah, don't worry about it, buddy. I'll just get you a blind date for Saturday, okay. [Lenny] Oh, no you don't. I'm not going on any blind dates again. Unh, unh. [Mickey] Well okay, buddy. Stay in your room and be a hermit, why don't you. Count all your money. [Mickey] You want to go out for a coke? It's on you, I'm busted. [Lenny] All right. I'll be out in a minute. [Mickey] Where's my jacket, anyway? Do you know? [Lenny] You left it outside. [Mickey] Oh, yeah? [Mickey] Hey, you haven't touched your new set have you. [Lenny] Oh no, I haven't had time. I've been too busy. [Mickey] Too busy, huh. Well, if you don't do something about Sylvia pretty quick you'll have the whole weekend to finish it, won't you? [Mickey] I'll wait for you outside. [Mrs. Stevenson] Well, summit conference? [Mickey] Ah, sorta. [Mrs. Stevenson] Girls? [Mickey] Ah, sorta. [Mrs. Stevenson] Hey. [laughs] Is Lenny stuck on Sylvia, that girl down at the office? [Mickey] I don't know, I, [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh, you men. [Mickey laughs] [Mrs. Stevenson] You stick together like beads. You think I don't know when there's something brewing? [Mickey] Ah, she's just a girl. He hasn't said boo to me. [Mrs. Stevenson] Mickey, I'm on your side. And his and hers. [Mrs. Stevenson] Look, I can depend on you to help me, can't I? [Mickey] Well, of course you can, you know that. [Mrs. Stevenson] Mickey! [Noisy kiss] [Mrs. Stevenson] That's because you're so good to us. [MIckey laughs] [Mickey] Hey! Hey, Lenny, hurry up there, will ya, buddy? [Phone rings] [Charley] Mail room, Charley. Hold on. [Charley] Lenny, for you pick it up on 617. Sounds like Sylvia. [Charley] Look, come on. [Barney] Isn't she supposed to come down here for the tally? What's going on, Charley? [Lenny] Hello. Lenny, I, I can't leave my desk right now, and I need the tally. [Lenny stuttering] I-I-I [Lenny stuttering] I-I'll get it for you. [Lenny] Sylvia, look I'm [Lenny] I'm sorry about yesterday. It's all right, Lenny. It's all right. No, I, I wasn't really angry, or anything. [Lenny] Yeah, well, uh, I did want to ask you out, you know. [Lenny stuttering] S-S-S-Saturday night, to a movie. A double date. I'd be very happy to go out with you, Lenny. Only, don't wait so long next time, huh? [Barney clapping] All right, kid's finally getting smart. Did she say yes? [Barney] There's no telling some girls tastes. [Barney] How's your bowling? [Barney] I'm getting my September lineup ready, and I'm desperate. I'm putting you in. [Lenny] Well, Monday's my late night. [Barney] Well, starting September, Thursday's your late night. [Barney, slaps desk] Where's a pencil, a pencil. [Barney] You do know how to bowl, I hope. [Lenny] Well, don't expect miracles. [Barney] Who expects miracles. You don't have to be good. You just have to be there. I score all the points anyway. [Barney] All right, see, [Lenny] Hey, you're never serious about anything, are you? [Barney] What do I got to be serious about? [Barney] Relax, that's my motto. Have a good laugh at yourself once in a while. You live longer. [Barney] Now do you join the team or do you continue to rent shoes on Monday night. [Lenny] Yeah, put me down. [Barney] Okay. [Barney] Hey kid, one more thing. [Barney] You don't have to kill yourself around here, you know. [Barney] You're making out okay. [Phone rings] [Barney] Hello, Sylvia. Oh, you forgot to come down for the tally. Well, this isn't the mail room anymore. It's a Lovers' Lane. A Lovers' Lane. [Lenny] Shut up. [Music] [Sylvia] I had a very nice time, Lenny. [Sylvia] I like Mickey. He's a lot of fun. And Linda is very pretty. [Lenny] Yeah, so are you. [Sylvia] Well, I'm [?] about it. [Lenny] Sylvia, could we sit down here, for a second? [Sylvia] Sure. [Lenny] This isn't a brownstone, stupid. It's a Lovers' Lane. [Lenny] Barney. The guy's a nut, isn't he. [Sylvia] He sure is. [Sylvia] Lenny, Why don't you surprise me sometime and call me for the tally? [Lenny] Yeah, imagine what Barney would say about that. [Sylvia] I bet a dozen girls call you up at home, and you don't freeze out. [Lenny] No. [Lenny] No, they don't. [Lenny] You. You probably have a lot of boyfriend's, huh. [Sylvia] Oh, I wouldn't say a lot. I have a few. [Lenny] Sylvia. [Lenny] Would you be my girl? [Sylvia] I don't know, Lenny. I, [Sylvia] I'd like to, but, I'll have to think about it. Is that all right? [Lenny] Oh, yeah, sure. [Lenny] Yeah, I guess so. [Lenny] Mickey's the one the girls chase all the time. [Sylvia interrupting] Have you ever tried to do anything about your stuttering? [Lenny] Why? [Lenny] What makes you bring that up? [Sylvia] Nothing. It's not that you asked me to be your girl. [Lenny] There must be some reason. [Sylvia] Well, it's, it's just that you get hurt so easily. [Sylvia] Well, Lenny, I hope you don't mind. I talked to my English teacher at night school about you. [Lenny] Well, now, what did you want to do that for, Silvia? [Sylvia] I didn't say anything. Who you were or anything. [Sylvia] I just thought he could help. [Sylvia] Please don't be angry. [Lenny] What'd he tell you? [Lenny] Same old stuff. [Sylvia] He asked me if you had been in speech classes and I didn't know. [Lenny] I was in all of them. [Lenny] Talk slow, they said, and breathe right. [Lenny] Look, I tried and they tried. [Sylvia] Then you are angry, I, [Sylvia] I just thought that, [Sylvia] They have a speech class. [Sylvia] I thought if you wanted to, we could take it together, next term. [Sylvia] I get nervous too, when I have to speak in front of people. [Sylvia] That's all Lenny. That's all I meant. I'm a pretty lucky guy. I really am. I mean, I've got so many things now that I never had before, you know. I've got a job. Barney wants me to join the bowling team Now, night school. I'm gonna be busy, you know. And for the first time in my life, I'm really gonna be busy. [Sylvia] Lenny, my teacher told me, people who stutter, can sing in a group sometimes. Is that true? [Lenny] Yeah. Yeah, we used to do that in class. [Sylvia] Well, could you sing if I sang? [Lenny] You mean now? [Sylvia] Sure. [Lenny laughs] It's after one o'clock. That's crazy. [Sylvia] Oh, no, it isn't. Come on, I want to hear you sing. [Lenny] I don't know any songs. [Lenny] I don't know what to sing. Hey, wait a minute. I do know a song. One I've wanted to sing for a long time. [Sylvia's voice] Good, which one? [Lenny singing] K-K-K-Katy. [Sylvia] Lenny, don't do that. [Lenny] Hey. [Lenny] I want to see what the fun of it is, Sylvia. Have a good laugh at myself. [Lenny] Barney says you, you live longer. [Lenny] I want to sing. Come on. Sing it with me, huh. Come on. [Lenny] And you better shut it. [Sylvia laughs] [Lenny] Come on. [Duet] K-K-K-Katy. [Duet] Beautiful Katy. [Duet] You're the only, g-g-g-girl that I adore. [Duet] When the m-m-m-moon shines, over the cow shed [Pete] I'm not getting temperamental. I just think that postage meter's too risky with two guys working on it, that's all. [Barney, interrupting] Pete, suppose you get sick one day. [Pete] I'm not gonna get sick, and if I do, well, Charley can handle it. I tell you, that guy Lenny's clumsy with it anyway. [Pete] Go take a look at golden boy. [Lenny whistling] [Barney] Kid. Kid. Hold it, hold it. What're you so excited about? [Lenny] Oh nothing, Barney. [Barney] Ah, hold it. No one's to get excited on Monday mornings. It tires us old folks out. [Barney] Now, that's orders from headquarters, understand? [Lenny] Right, Barney. [Barney] Easy. [Lenny] Right. [Barney] Move it. Come on, let's go, let's go. [Lenny] M-mail room, Leonard Stevenson speaking. [Lenny] I have the tally ready. Lenny, I knew you'd call. How do you feel? Ha, numb, that's because I kept you out so late Saturday. [Postage meter noises continue under dialogue] You don't know what I'm doing Sylvia. I'm doing something right now, no two people ever did around here before. Ya see, I got, I got the tally going with one hand and I got the postage meter going with the other, that's all. That sounds like bragging to me. What? Yes, I hear it. You should see her hop around. Let Barney tell me I'm slow, now. I'm the best man he's got working down here, that's all. [Crashing noise] [Pete] Man. [Pete] Man, you've done it, now. You have done it. [Barney] What the devil did you do here? [Barney] You know that machine cost $750? [Barney] 750 bucks. Now, look at it, just look at it. [Lenny] Barney. [Barney] Oh for cryin out loud, your mother didn't tell me you had dropsy too. [Charley's voice] Barney! [Barney] But, she didn't tell me that. [Barney] Well, say something stupid. Don't just squat there, say something. [Lenny] I don't know, [Barney] Quick, say something, you jerk. [Lenny] I-I-I [Barney] Well, go ahead, what are you gonna say? Say something! [Smashing noise] [Lenny] Shut up! [Lenny] You shut up! You shut your big fat mouth! [Dramatic music] [Theme music] [Announcer] This is, "The United States Steel Hour." [Female Announcer throughout commercial] A gal can be a rave with her roasts. [Announcer] A whirlwind at whipping up cakes. [Announcer] She can be as adept at boiling Bouillabaisse as she is at boiling water. [Announcer] Go from French to Italian to Oriental style cooking, with the greatest of ease. [Announcer] And she can still feel as flat, [Announcer] as flat as a pancake, when it comes to cleaning up the pots and pans. [Announcer] It's a job she can't hide from. [Announcer] She can't make it go away. [Announcer] But she can make short work of it, when her cookware is easy to clean stainless steel cookware. [Announcer] Stainless. 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[Announcer] Anything from cooking tools, [Announcer] to cookie sheets. Count on stainless to stay bright. [Announcer] The beauty of stainless is not just the way it looks when it's brand new. [Announcer] But the way it will look after many, many years of good cooking. [Announcer] So look for the tag that tells you, the cookware you're buying is made of lifetime stainless steel. [Announcer] And stop in soon to see all that's new and bright in the, "Steel Product of the Month," displays in stores near you. [Announcer] Start making your cooking as easy, [Announcer] as only easy to clean stainless steel can make it. [Music] We return to Act Three of, "The Inner Panic," from New York. [Pete] Your friend put on a real show here. You should have seen it. He nearly wrecked the joint throwing that machine around. [Pete] And you should have heard him tell Barney off. [Sylvia] What did he say to Barney? [Pete] Plenty. [Pete] He's through, I'll tell you that. Sylvia, [Sylvia] Barney. Barney, what happened was my fault. [Barney] Ah, go back to your desk, Sylvia, will ya. [Sylvia] It was my fault. I kept after him to use the phone. You know how I kept after him. [Barney] Oh you don't know what you're talking about. You know, [Barney] You don't know anything about it. [Sylvia] Did he throw it? Did he do it on purpose? [Barney] Yeah? He threw it, okay? Now, will you go? [Barney] Get back to work, will you. [Sylvia] Lenny, won't be working here anymore? [Barney] What does it look like to you? [Charley] We can't save any of, any of it, Barney. [Charley] The regulating mechanism's shot. [Barney] I told 'em, I told 'em it would happen someday. [Charley] Well, we better see those guys upstairs, but what'll I say to 'em? [Barney] What do you mean? What will you say? [Charley] You know them, they'll want the whole case history. [Barney] Okay, give it to 'em. [Charley] Well, the kid had an accident. It could happen to anybody. You, me. [Barney] Oh, come on. [Barney] What are you, deaf, blind? [Barney] Charley, you saw him. You heard him. [Charley] Barney, you opened up on the kid. Everybody heard about his mother. What do you expect? [Barney] Well, if he was watching what he was doing, it wouldn't have happened. [Charley] Come off it, Barney. First, it's, don't let on she ever came up here. Then you're the one who blows it. You'll take it out on her now. [Barney] Okay, so it's his mother's turn now. [Charley] So call her, Barney. That way she'll know what to expect at least. [Music] [Phone rings] [Phone rings] [Phone rings] [Operator] [Ball game announcer] The pitch is no strikes, one ball. [Ball game announcer] He lines the pitch, [Phone rings] [Ball game announcer] Count is now one and one. [Phone rings] [Phone rings] [Grocery bags rustle] Hello? Mr. McGinnis? Oh, Barney! Oh, I'm sorry. I was out shopping. Is anything wrong? Well, I think he's home. Oh, I'm, I'm sorry. What happened? Oh, oh that's too bad. [Ball game announcer] He swings and he fouls it off. [Mrs. Stevenson, background] Oh, I'm so sorry. [Ball game announcer] Count is now one and two. It's the top half of the sixth inning. There's one away, a runner on first. [Knocking on door] [Mrs. Stevenson's voice] Lenny! [Ball game announcer Play by play continues in background] [Mrs. Stevenson] Lenny. [Ball game annoucer] And he swings and fouls it off again. [Lenny] I don't answer phones anymore, if that's what you want to know. [Mrs. Stevenson, clicking off radio] That was Barney. [Lenny] I was listening to that ballgame, Mom. [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh, Lenny. [Lenny] And I broke a machine. [Lenny] So what. [Mrs. Stevenson] I know, I know, but what are you doing home? It was an accident. Barney's not the kind to hold that against you. [Lenny] How do you know? [Lenny] You've never met him, have you? [Mrs. Stevenson] Well, I don't think you'd understand about that, right now. [Lenny] Why did you go down there to see him, Mom, why? [Mrs. Stevenson] I don't know. It just seemed the right thing to do at the time. [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh, Lenny, you were tearing yourself in two, telling yourself nobody wanted you. I couldn't watch that happen day after day. I had to do something. [Mrs. Stevenson] You said you wanted a chance. Well, all I did was ask Barney to give it to you. [Lenny] I thought I was something, this morning. [Lenny] I thought I was the greatest guy in the whole world. [Mrs. Stevenson] But you did the work, you proved yourself. [Lenny] Why did he have to yell at me like that. [Lenny] Standing there, yelling at me. [Lenny] Say something. [Lenny] Well, I said something all right. [Lenny] Shut your big fat mouth. [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh, so, that's it. [Lenny] Yeah, that's it. Didn't he tell you about it. [Mrs. Stevenson] No. No, he didn't tell me. But, I'm going to tell you something. [Mrs. Stevenson] Turning on Barney like that, was a mean cruel thing to do. [Lenny] He turned on me first. [Mrs. Stevenson] I don't care how it happened. You had no right to hurt him. You have no right to hurt anyone. [Mrs. Stevenson] Barney handed you everything on a platter, and this is the way you repay him. [Lenny] What do you expect me to do, Mom, just stand there? [Mrs. Stevenson] I don't know, but I know what you're going to do now. You're going right back down there and apologize. [Lenny] I can't. [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh, yes, you can. [Lenny] I'm never going back there again. That's exactly what they want. [Lenny] Here he comes, [Lenny, stuttering] Here comes L-L-L-Lenny. [Mrs. Stevenson] What do you want me to do, Lenny? Feel sorry for you? [Mrs. Stevenson] I'm tired of feeling sorry for you. I'm tired of working nights, so I can be here every day when you come home. [Mrs. Stevenson] I'm tired of worrying about you. [Lenny] All right all right, all right, Mom. I know I'm such a big burden. [Mrs. Stevenson] I've let you be a burden and so has Barney. It was wrong of us to treat you as if you were somebody special. [Mrs. Stevenson] Oh, Lenny. [Mrs. Stevenson] Things are always going to be a little more difficult for you than for most people. But that doesn't excuse what you did today. [Mrs. Stevenson] You think being a stutterer is the hardest thing in the world don't you? [Mrs. Stevenson] Well, I'll tell you something harder. Being a friend of one, like Barney. That's harder. [Mrs. Stevenson's voice] And being the mother of a stutterer. [Mrs. Stevenson, crying] That's harder too. [Melancholy music] [Chess pieces clatter] [Voices outside window] [Siren in background] [Siren growns louder] [Dramatic music] [Pete] Are you still here? [Pete] Don't you have a class somewhere? [Sylvia] I decided not to go tonight. [Pete] Well, what are you hanging around for? [Sylvia] No reason. [Pete] I'll buy you sandwich. [Sylvia] No, thank you. [Pete] Well, I can't do any business here. [Door opening] [Pete] You didn't have to show. I, I already did all your work for you. [Sylvia] Lenny. [Lenny] Sylvia. [Sylvia] I thought you might come back. I hoped you would. [Lenny] I-I, [Sylvia] Lenny, no one minds, if you're not perfect. [Sylvia] They worry about you, because you mind so much. [Melancholy music] [Machine punching noise] [Barney] What are you doing here? You don't work here anymore. [Lenny] I want to ap- [Lenny] apologize for what I said to you. [Barney] Yeah. Well, thanks a lot. It's a little late for that stuff. [Lenny] I never meant to talk that way to you, Barney. [Lenny] Not to you. [Barney] Well, you should have thought of that before. [Barney] You think a boss is supposed to take that kind of talk. You think I'm gonna forget about it. [Barney] Do you think any of my boys will? I have a lot of work to do. I can't talk now. [Lenny] Can I help out? [Barney] When a guy quits, he quits. Besides, you're fired. [Lenny] I know I made a mess of everything. [Lenny] Just let me fix it up again, all right? [Barney] You can't fix nothing up. So, stop trying. [Lenny] Well, I want to pay for the postage meter. You know something every week [Barney] Pay for it. It'll take you four years and three months. Forget it. We can't wait that long. [Lenny] I want to come back, Barney. [Lenny] I like it here. [Lenny] I like coming here. [Barney] Well, you wouldn't like it for long. [Barney] Not with all these guys knowing how you got the job, and all. [Barney] No, it wouldn't work. [Lenny] I'll make it work. [Barney] Look, I'll give you a reference, okay. I'll make it a good one. You'll need it. [Lenny] Barney, I want this job. [Barney] Why? What's the big deal here? [Lenny] You gave me a break here. And I blew it, that's all. [Lenny] Now, just give me a chance to fix it up again. I'll do anything you want. I'll work my head off for you. [Lenny] I'm not going back to what I was, Barney. [Lenny] You gotta let me work. [Barney] Hey, kid. Your jacket. [Box drops on floor] [Barney] What are you doing here? [Sylvia] I just wanted to see how things were. [Barney] Well, your boyfriend's just lucky I'm stuck for somebody on the bowling team. [Lenny] Relax, Barney, you'll live longer. [Music] [Announcer] On October 3rd, "The United States Steel Hour," presents Darren McGavin, starring in, [Announcer] [Jump cut/footage missing] "The Young Avengers," on October 3rd, produced by, The Theater Guild," on, "The United States Steel Hour." [Music] [Announcer] Competition takes the winners. Competition sharpen skills. [Announcer] Competition brings out the best in a man. And in a product. [Announcer] Today more than twenty companies make television sets. At least fifteen companies make electric toasters. [Announcer] More than thirty companies make coffee makers. And more than eighty companies, make the steels that go into our modern products. [Announcer] More than eighty steel companies, competing for business, every day. [Announcer] To meet this tougher competition, U. S. Steel has brought out an average of one new or improved product, [Announcer] every month, in recent years. [Announcer] U. S. Steel, one of more than eighty steel making companies, competing, in a growing America. [Announcer] Here's a message from our alternate program. [Announcer] On September 26, "The Armstrong Circle Theater," will begin it's eighth season of bringing you exciting true dramas with, "The Cross and the Dragon." [Announcer] That's two weeks from tonight on, "The Armstrong Circle Theater." [Music continues under closing credits] [Announcer Andre Baruch] Now here is tonight's cast starring Tommy Sands as Lenny. [Baruch] Cynthia Pepper as Sylvia. [Baruch] Special guest star, Glenda Farrell as Mrs. Stevenson. [Baruch] And Simon Oakland as Barney. [Baruch] Technical consultation was provided by the National Hospital for Speech Disorders. [Baruch] "The United States Steel Hour," from New York. This is Andre Baruch speaking. 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