| Director | Arthur Lubin |
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Radio quiz-show producer Jim Morgan reads letters to host Jack Bailey from listeners telling of the impact of their appearance as contestants on Queen for a Day on their lives. Three stories are presented.
In "The Gossamer World", Marjorie Watkins thanks the show for sending a toy engine to her six-year-old son Pete, who has a wild imagination. Marjorie tells her husband Dan that she is worried that Pete has no friends his own age. Pete introduces his imaginary friend named Shun, short for "distinction", to his parents and blames Shun for his own accidents. Marjorie worries that Pete will not take responsibility, so Dan chats with him about the subject. On Pete's first day of school, he befriends a boy named Jim, and Pete later admits that inventing Shun was a silly game. Pete later contracts polio, and the train means everything to him because it will be his only mode of mobility until he walks again someday.
In "High Diver", the son of immigrant parents attempts to raise money for college by performing a dangerous high dive.
In "Horsie", an elderly woman, childless and never married, cares for other people's children to gain a sense of fulfillment.