"Witches of the world, unite to make it clean, clean, clean, Witch clean,—NOW!"
At the corner of the screen, the child-body in the wheel chair shuddered suddenly. Mary took a deep breath, went white and then red. With a forceful gesture she threw off the shawl and looked at her legs. Her hand reached down to touch them.
On the stage itself, one witch stopped dancing to watch. The others noticed, stopped. The jingle died, half through....
And Mary stood up, looking at her legs. She took a step towards the camera, and another. Her blue eyes lifted to the camera, widening.
In the absolute quiet, as everyone on stage stood frozen, Mary walked towards the camera, her eyes like saucers looking into it. Her voice, barely above a whisper, spoke.
"I'm ... I'm walking," said Mary.
The papers called it the cruelest hoax of all.
They carried the story side by side with the withdrawal of the Witch program from the network, both by network and by International Witch Corporation order.
The carried the statement of FCC officials that an investigation would be made.