September 1, 2025 • 63 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Come in, Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. It's a little
game many people play on a train or a bus.
You look at a complete stranger seated across the aisle.
Your mind begins to speculate who is he or she?
And you go through the standard answers, which person, poor person,
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beggar person, chief, doctor, lawyer, indian chief. It's a harmless
diversion and it passes a time. But is it possible
to look at someone's faith and say murderer and be right?
Our mystery drama, A Quiet Evening at Home was written
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especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars
Tammy Grimes. It is sponsored in part by Buick Mortar
Division and True Value Hardware Stores. I'll be back shortly
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Speaker 2 (01:47):
And these west Point.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Convertible bicycles from your nearby True Value Hardware store come
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just a name. It's their way of doing business.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And tell them.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Pat Somemmer All sent you. Alicia Merrowether, or, as she
is listed in the Society columns, Missus Albert Emmons Merriweather
the third is having breakfast in her luxurious penthouse apartment
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in an eastern city. Her maid has the day off
and her cook is on vacation, and so Missus Merrowether
is quite alone and has been compelled to brew her
own coffee and burn her own coast, even as you
and I. But Missus Merroweather doesn't mind. She's a good
sport and not bad looking either. As a marath Oh,
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there goes the telephone and she will have to answer
it herself.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Hello, my dear, Yeah, oh, I was so.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Alarmed a long Why are the dear?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Well, the session broke up rada late last night, and
I returned to the hotel and I telephoned you, and
the phone rang.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And rang without an answer. I couldn't imagine where you
might be.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Why was here?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'd gone to sleep.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well that's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Just a nice quiet evening at home.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I do hope you aren't bored.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh I loved it. How is the convention?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh it's rather a drag.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, try to have a good time.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh, darling, I.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
May be compelled to remain here the rest of the week.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Just be a deer and get everything done and hurry home.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
And I have to say goodbye.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's time for my speech. And I know you'll bring
them shouting to their feet.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well I'll get through it somehow.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Goodbye, darling, goodbye, dearest. Yes, such a dear little man.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Not just adorns, really adoring.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hell dearest Alicia, Yes, that you're darling, Alicia. Have you
forgotten last night?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh? How can I forget last night? But can you
shouldn't call me here?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
She de o?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That can be just suspicious. Unftunately she has a golf date.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Then you can tell me you love me.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I love you, Alicia.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Even a train announcer puts more passion into his voice
than that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I love you, Darling, And I love you, Bruce. Oh,
I love you.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Okay, it's only ten o'clock. You're something wrong.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yes, it's wrong that I have to wait two whole
hours before I can see you.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, those two hours will pass before you know it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You sound so cool, so sure of me, Darling.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I'll see you at Marvetti's at noon. Bruce.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
It's possible that we might be seen today, and all that.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Is, it's possible, but it looks as if we merely
are in into each other. All right, signs by this
time tomorrow? Will it matter what people think? Alicia? Sit down, bros.
I've already ordered your drink and without ice.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I see you remembered.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Have so much to learn about you and so much
to remember. Are you sure you want to go through
with us? Yes? And you well, you know when you
think of how short life really is, can you waste
even a moment without the one you love? Have you
really thought about it? What's the thinking about she's a
very wealthy woman. Well, you're Albert's a very wealthy man.
You have no money of your own life, neither, do you? Yes?
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But are you trying to talk me out of it? Oh? No,
it's just that you've become used.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
To to the ease.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The luxury of life with her. Well, I'll tell you what.
You can never get used to, the knowing glances and
the self righteous smirking of people who consider you a
kept man. Bruce. Yeah, yeah, you marry a woman who's
ten years older and wealthy, and what's the world supposed
to believe? And it's true I married her for her money,
for her position, and for her influence. Surely you must
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have loved her a little bit. Well, I loved her
as much as you loved Albert. Emmon's Merriweather the Third.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I try to love Albert. I'm trying to be a
good wife to him. I just can't leave this kind
of lie. I won't any longer.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Neither can I. Oh, darling, it's wonderful that we found
each other and fell in love, and we can save
each other. You won't be sorry.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I'll be with you.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
How could I be sorry?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Neither of us have any money of our own.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, I have a degree in engineering. You know I
can get a job. I can even teach in high school. Man,
what's funny?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You are, Bruce Tyler, former millionaire sportsman, teaching mathematics, and
I can see you in a ready made corduroy jacket
with leather patches on the elbows patches.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I myself so done. Oh and that beautiful socialize missus
Albert Emmon's Merriweather living in some dusty suburb doing our
own laundry.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I won't be Missus Merriweather. I'll be missus Bruce Tyler.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Uh, let's finish launch here. There's a lot to do,
and we'll each take one suitcase I need at the
station and catch the ten thirty. Well, no, that's rather late,
now that I think of it. I mean for you
to go to the station alone. I'm not afraid. Well,
I'll get there early, you know. Still we could drive
to New York.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
No, your first instinct was right. If you took a car,
it would be her car. Let's each leave with nothing
that belongs to.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Them, Darling, you won't be sorry. How can I be sorry?
I'll have you?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Will you be sorry?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Never?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
This is the happiest day of my life. Booce, I'm
mus I'm not Bruce. Oh excuse me, No, No, it's
quite all right. I was expecting to meet someone. Here
is Bruce? Yes? Which train you're making?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
The ten thirty to New York? I think i'm a
bit early.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well i'm early myself. I'm catching a ten thirty five,
and I'm going the other way to Washington.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
It's rather deserted here in the station.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
No, and the old days, this railroad station was a busy,
bustling place at all hours. As you seem rather young
to remember the old days, I remember some of them.
So where's Bruce? Oh you'll be here? Ohz of him?
He has to be here. I don't see anybody come
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up the street either. What time is it? I have
ten twenty five. He'll be here any minute. Sold the train?
Are you sure it's ten twenty five? Well not anymore.
In about thirty five seconds, it'll be ten twenty six.
Some of the matter. He has to be here, he promised.
Well he used the last a few minutes. What are
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you grinning at? I'm sorry? Middle aged romance should be
touching rather than humor. What are you talking about? Are
you and Bruce whoever he is running away. I'm sure
that's not your affair. Of course, it's your affair somehow,
And then don't ask me why I feel that Bruce
is not worthy. I thank you to mind your own business.
Well here, there's train has some time. But where is Bruce? Easy?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He'll be here, Bruce, or please please conduct a hall
the train. Someone's coming, he'll be here. You promised you'd
be here.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh please wait.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
He's not here. Well, the evening doesn't have to be
a total lawes. How would you like to go to Washington?
He isn't here. I can promise you an exciting weekend
and you'll never forget. Is there a telephone? Doesn't manner?
The train's leaving? Yes, I see one just up ahead
of booth. I never did, like Bruce. Something must have happened. Yeah, hurry,
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the Washington train will be here in five minutes. Sir,
I am not going to Washington with you. You don't
have to get angry. Besides, these things happen for the best,
you know. Please excuse me. Oh damn, sir, sir? Could
you how can I help? I don't have any change.
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You simply weren't prepared for anything. Now the nice time.
Do you have a dime? Yeah, sure of course you're here.
Thank you. I wonder what I'll have to say for himself.
Poor fella watched his nerve at the last minute. I'll wager.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Ah ah huh huh.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh, Now don't tell me, I'll bet. His wife answered,
you're so smart? Do you think you know everything? You know?
There's are familiar dramas well. We have three minutes and
thirty seconds before the Washington train gets in. So why
don't you Why don't you get out of here? What?
Get out of here? That's a gun. You get a gun.
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You're holding a gun.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
There is going to be trouble. What are you saying
you'll have to run for it? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Who's that he's shooting at us?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Quick, get on the.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Other side of the billboards and now run run toward
the other end of the platform. That's why. Now, if
there's only one of them, I got a chance. Now run,
But you'll be killed. Does that mean you have to
be killed too? And I'm frightened.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You don't have time for that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He's working his way in. Why does anyone want to
kill you? Run as fast as you can. Down to
the end of the platform. Man, he just stuck behind
the post. A shortstop. Do what I tell you. Run
to the end of the platform, down the stairs, into
the street, and around the corner. Get going, I'm scared.
Run Run Taxi, Taxi take me.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Take me to a seventeen Rosville Circle and hurry, hurry, please, Hello.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Bruce, Bruce.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I am afraid you must have the wrong number.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Bruce.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Is she standing there? Is that why?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I'm sorry? This is no one here by that name, Bruce.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And there you are right this morning, my dearest, Yes, yes,
just fine.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Did you do anything last night, darling.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Did I do anything last night?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I'll no, I just stayed at home and went to bed,
just to quiet evening at all.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Now, dear, you should get out and have some fun,
some excitement.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
That's all right, dear, I un't miss it.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Well, then I must hang up now we have a
breakfast meeting. I'll be home at the end of the week.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Goodbye, Albert.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Henrietta get the door, will you please? Damn that's right,
I gave you the time.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Off just a minute. Yes, good morning, I'm detective Lieutenant Berger, Homicide.
Oh my credentials. I see may come in, thank you.
May I ask the purpose of this visit, lieutenant, and
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let say, ask you to come to police headquarters. Police headquarters?
Why what for? There's been a murder? Wow? How does
that concern me? Well, at the very least your material witness.
That's impossible. You might even be an accessory. It's ridiculous.
I'm required to tell you that anything you say may
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be loosed against you. Material weakness, accessory. What's this?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We were there.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
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All that Osha Merriweather wanted to do was run away
with Bruce Pennington. They would to meet at the railway
station late last night. Well, train time came, but Bruce
failed to appear. Another gentleman, however, did show up, but
he was murdered. And now a police detective is saying
to missus Merriweather, Missus Merriwether. At about ten thirty last night,
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a man named Cleveland Rodgers was shot to death at
the North Side Railroad station. Yes, the camp driver named
Barney McCool was cruising about a block away. He heard
the shots, but he supposed at the time that they
were backfires for a car or a truck. And you
follow this well, and he saw you me, He described
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you most accurately. He saw you're running from the railroad station.
He got into his cab and when he heard about
the murder, and naturally he reported it.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
To the police.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Is he sure it was me? The address is recorded
on his trip sheet. Is anyone else living here who
resembles you? No? But do you deny you were at
the railroad station?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Well?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Are you doing there at that hour? Did you deny that?
You know? Mister Rogers. Now you don't have to talk
to me, but you'll have to talk to somebody. I'd
advise you to call your attorney, my attorney. Look, missus Merriweather,
I'm sure your husband has an attorney. Oh no, I
heard of your husband. A man like him, he's got
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to have an attorney. No, I couldn't talk to him.
All right, let's go go where. Well you think we've
been talking about the police headquarters. But I come to that,
my husband will find out. I don't see how that
can be avoided, But it must be avoided. It must
be avoided it all costs. Missus Merriweather, we're dealing here
with murder, but I had nothing to do with it.
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What were you doing at the railway station?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Why do you refuse to answer that question? Because because
I can't. If you won't say why you were at
the station, we will have to conclude it's for a
reason you don't want them. For instance, why was Cleveland
Rogers at the station a lonely place like that, especially
since he knew certain people may.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Have been looking for him?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This is Merriweather. Were you the decoy? What are you saying?
Rogers had an eye for a good looking woman? Were
you the one used by the killers to lure him
to his death? Lure him to his death?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
This sounds like like a thing in a tabloid paper.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I'm afraid it does. You're talking to me.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I am the wife of mister Albert Emmons, Merriweather, IID
what would I know about gangster's mobsters killers?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't know what you're doing your spare time. This
is monstrous. Yeah, yeah, murder is. And it's not just
the murder itself, which is bad enough, but the company,
it keeps, the trail it leaves. The victim isn't the
only one whose life has been destroyed. If you do
not explain your presence on that platform, people will form
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their own conclusions. But how and they will not be
flattering to you? And what would you do if the
killer claims you were in it with him and then
turn state's evidence to save his own neck. Please please
believe me, I had nothing. Believe me. I'd like to
believe you, But you must meet me halfway. What were
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you doing there? I please leave me alone? Are you
protecting someone? How did you know?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I'm protecting someone and I'm also protecting myself.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Now now you're not protecting yourself, You're destroying yourself. Now,
whether there's somebody else were you were? You're supposed to
meet someone at the station, of course, it's the only
thing that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Who I'm not at liberty to tell you?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Missus Merrickwether, you must tell me.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Why?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Why do you have to know who he is? Because
he has to corroborate your story? Oh, yes, that's what
it comes down to. Oh you see, missus Merriwether, Sooner
or later you'll have to tell us his name. Mister Pennington,
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do you know Missus Alicia Merriweather. Yes, God, I believe
I do. Al Merriweather's wife. May we speak freely here
we alone? Yes, and my wife's at playing golf deep
and golfer that woman?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
What's the it's all about?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Had you planned to leave your wife and go away
with Missus Merriwether? Had I planned? Look, I don't understand
why you should ask me such a question, because I
want a man said. This is one of the police
concerned in such personal matters.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
We're always involved in personal matters where murder is concerned. Murder.
According to Missus Merriwether, you and she had planned to
run away together to meet at the North Side station
and cash at ten thirty trains in New York. While
she was waiting, there was another man on the platform
and he was shot to death. Huh oh oh, yes, yeah, yeah,
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I read about it in the morning paper. Had you
planned to meet Missus Merrowether at the station? I still
don't see why the law would ask such a question.
If the two of you had not planned to meet there,
Missus Merriwether could be in trouble. Trouble considerable trouble because
how could she account for her presence at the station?
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Oh huh, you still haven't answered my question. Your question.
Had you and Missus Merriweather planned to meet at the
station last night? Well? No, of course not, she says
you did. Does she ask, how do you account for it?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I can't account for it. On the other hand, maybe
I can. Is that?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So how she uh?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, you know, she always had kind of a crush
on me and simply a romantic woman, and so perhaps
she let herself imagine. Let me get this straight here.
What you're saying is you made no arrangements to meet
Missus Merriweather at the railway station last night. Well, of
course not. Oh this is the first I've ever heard
of it. But it's true. It's true. I'm sorry, Missus Merriweather.
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We'll see it about it.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Missus Merriweather, we agreed to meet. Something happened. He must
have been ill.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I bet his wife answered, he's ill. That's why I
couldn't meet me. He's ill. He appeared in pretty good
shape to me, but we we decided I wouldn't call
again if I were you. The way it looks, he's
not going to answer that phone for a long time.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You don't understand we're in love.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I understand this. You're holding the bag, Okay, I believe you.
Sure you did decide to run away together. You did
decide to meet last night at the train station. But
I spoke to him just before, and he had the
look of a guy who changed his mind. Don't say
that he said it to me. He told you he
changed his mind. His manner told me. The tone in
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his voice told me. It's her money, isn't it. How
How did you know these things shown? I caught a
glimpse of her as I was leaving, big horse face, dame,
not at all pretty like you, no style. I can
see where a guy could get fed up with her.
But at the last split second he remembers why he
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married her in the first place, the money. But he
loves me. Well, I'm sure, but he loves the money more. Meanwhile,
you're in a jam. You can't account for your being
at the railroad station. I told you it was to
meet Bruce. I know you told me. You believe me,
don't you. I believe you as a man, But it
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won't help you. Why not because he's going to deny
that story. How Kenny. I'll face him out.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
He has to.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
If he admits it, she'll throw him out in his
ear so it doesn't look good. Huh, you want to
sit down, missus Merriweather Lieutenant. I'm frightened. My husband is
going to find out. I'm sorry. What was a madness?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I see now it was a temporary madness. The whole
thing was Bruce. But he came to his shinges before
I did.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
And now I'm going to be disgraced before the entire world.
I'm going to be disgraced. I'll be ruined.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Now. Look, I'll try to help you as much as
I can.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Nobody can help me. I got into this myself. I'll
have to get out of it myself. My problem is
I'm I'm getting panicky. I have to become I have
to think this thing.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Through logically and arrived right. Yes, yes, I've got it.
I'll deny everything. What will you deny?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I'll start right here, right now, and I'll deny everything
I ever said to you. And so therefore, if you
have come here to talk to me, you're wasting your
time and mine. I was not at the railway station.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh come on now, missus Mariweather. We have this cab driver, yes,
and he has this trip ticket. You've already told me
about him. What else have you got? What else do
we need?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
He says, he picked me up a block from the
railway station, less.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Than a block, and you're in a highly agitated state.
Was I that's what he says.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
You realize it's his word against mine. Oh, now, Missus
marrow won't say whatever he pleases, I'll deny it.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I see, Well, explain why he should falsely identify you.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I haven't the faintest idea isn't my problem.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
But what reason could he possibly have?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Well, let me see. Suppose I put it this way.
At one time I had refused him my favors, and
he wants his revenge. Missus Marrowell, please make sense. He
identifies me, does he? I'll identify him. Let him dared
open his mouth. I'll point to him in that courtroom.
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I'll recognize him as a cab driver who picked me
up some time ago and made me an indecent proposition.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I laughed at him. That's the worst thing you can
do to a man. Now, Look, you know, and I
know you're at the station last night. I know nothing
of the sort. But you admitted it to me. You
can't prove it. I deny everything.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I'll insist this is all some evil plot designed to
destroy me and my husband.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Remember, all you have is that unsupported.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Word of a cab driver. I say his word against mine.
And now, sir, I bid you good morning, unless, of course,
you intend for me to accompany you to police headquarters,
in which case you will have to take me there
by force.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Oh look, this isn't your style. You're basically a very
nice lady who's been caught up in an endiscretion. I
must ask you to leave now. First I must tell.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You a story.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm not interested. It's very brief. A playboy named Cleveland
Rogers runs up a very large gambling debt with an
underworld organization. I've heard that before, and they decide for
a number of reasons to kill him. You've already told me,
and they do kill him last night at the station.
You are a witness. You can't prove I was right.
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I can't. The law can't. But the law is not
your problem. Your problem is with the killers of Cleveland Rogers.
They know you were there, they know there's a witness,
and they know they have to kill you. And I
know when somebody's trying to scare me.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Let me put it to you this way, we found you.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Now, can you be sure that the killers won't be
able to find you? How can they find me? They
didn't even see me from a distance. Maybe, but they
don't know what I look like? And furthermore, yes, good lord, hey,
hey missus Merriwell, what's wrong? Do you want a glass
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of water? I my suitcase? Your suitcase? I brought a.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Suitcase, and when I ran away, I didn't think. I
was so scared I forgot I had it. I'd have
to right there on the platform, outside the telephone booth.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
We didn't find a suitcase on the platform.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Then they have it, the ones who killed mister Rogers.
They have it, and it has things in it with
with my name and address.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
She doesn't do things by halves, does she? And when
her plans go awry, they go all the way, don't they?
Poor Aliciamara with it. All she wanted was some love,
some romance, a dashing husband instead of a dull one.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Is that so terrible?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Who are we to judge? Well, let's see how things
develop in Act three. It is a magic moment. You
are at your buick dealers, about to drive home, and
you bring you buick less savor. It's lean and trim,
classic lines. It looks quite unlike any full size Buick
you can remember. You get in the heady new car
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smell surrounds you. You're a saber. Feels the way it
looks tight. You turn the wheel a little, no wasted
motion in this car, big brush metallic gauges look back
at you. That' me six engine is doing great. You
rub your hand on the seat. Six people could be
really comfortable in here. You swing in your driveway, your wife,
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the kids, the dog, everyone with the parakeet descends on
the car and gets in off your gold and nowhere
in particular life and your Newbert Saber are great. Maybe
the dog shouldn't sit on the seats.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Very giftless, very giftless.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
You know what's really going to make the holidays marry
this year? Very free gifts and high infra savings accounts
of a new place in town. Franklin Society Federal savings alone.
We're so or branding the grand opening of our two
new branches in Brooklyn and Staten Island by giving depositors
their choice of sixty three great free gifts with a
deposit of two hundred and fifty dollars or more, and
savings plans that offer the highest interest allowed by law,
so you can save money two ways. Oh ho, that
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sounds like the happiest holiday ever. It will be for
anybody who opens a new account and.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Selects a free gift. That could save me a lot
of workers here, sure.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Could, Santa, So stop by today and open your high
interest Frankness Society Savings account, the association that's been helping
people saved since eighteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Merry gift, Miss Santa. Yes, very Giftmas to you. Eighteen
eighty eight. Ah, that was a great year, I remember
the still.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Our new convenient offices are located in Brooklyn at eighty
five fifteen Bay Parkway near eighty sixth Street and on
Staten Island at twenty three seventy five Richmond Avenue in
the Heartland Village shopping Center, insured by FSLIC. You know
all of dime, it's.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
When you know about sales.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Sales is the dime n the store. You don't buy.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
Dinings every day, so sales show you the way because
we know what you're looking at for.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
We're the number one jours the whole world.
Speaker 10 (33:07):
Around it, but we're people in you know your hometown
diamond store.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
We know diamonds and you know US Sales is the
diamond store.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Where people that you know where the.
Speaker 11 (33:24):
Name that you trust saying sales is the diamond stone.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
We know diamonds and you know US.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Sales is the diamond stone.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Where people that you know where the name that you
trust saying sayings is the diamond stone. Hi, I suppose
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you can blame it all on love. The fact is
everybody wants love. The problem is some people look for
it after they're married. Missus Alicia Merriweather, bored with an
unexciting husband, thought she could do better by running away
with someone else, with results that you were already aware of.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
He knows who I am. That man knows who I am.
Which man the man who killed mister Rogers. Then you
saw the killer.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I heard the shot. I looked down toward the other
end of the station.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
He was running towards us, A short, stocky man, a
short he didn't know mister Rogers had a gun. Mister
Rogers let him get close and then he fired. He missed,
and the man duck behind a post.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
But I saw his face. His face was such an
evil face.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
No, what do you mean evil?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
You look at that face and you saw evil, You
felt evil, you knew there was evil?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Why what did it look like?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
It was heet around, small eyes, thin lips, A horrible
scar across his cheek, a scar. For a moment, a
terrible thought flashed through my mind. I was committing evil
in leaving my husband, and now he was being punished.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, it figures honeycombs sweet. I thought he had come
to punish me. Donald's sweet. None as honeycomb some name
for a hitman. Huh, returned Why should he want to
kill me? Is she a witness to a murder? His murder?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Who who says I'm going to testify? I mean, is
there some way I can assure him he's safe as
far as I'm concerned?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Now? Look, missus murraw, whether you're becoming hysterical? Certainly and
a good reason.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Could I place an ad in the paper to the
gentleman who committed murder on the ninth of April eleventh
on the North Side station platform. I will not testify
against you.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Sign the witness let me get your glass of water.
I can't become involved. I can't. Please get control of yourself.
All over me, all over. If this evil man doesn't
kill me, Albert will divorce me. The story will come out,
it will wound it whoa some of it? Yeah? And
I deserve it? Why? Why did I ever what did
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I ever seen? Bruce Pennington? Calm yourself?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Weakling, a coward, a foolish, insipid. He didn't mean a
word of what he said to me. And the last
minute is true.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Man, You must try to think rationally.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
What do you suppose I'm doing? Yes, Albert, calm patient kindly.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Oh Albert, now that it's too late. That's how much
I love you, Missus Merriweather.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
About the murder, Do you realize I've ruined my life completely?
Albert was quiet so much of the time, but that's
because he was thoughtful. Bruce talked all the time. And
I see now it was the chatter of a parrot.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Your life is in danger?
Speaker 8 (37:00):
What am I going to live for?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Missus Merriweather. We have to go downtown. Why you're not
safe here? We'll have the place you under protective custody.
This mean I'm under arrest. It means we're going to
protect you, and of course everyone will know. I will
try to keep it as quiet as we can. I
guess your husband will have to know that. Everybody just
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can't be helped. Suppose I refuse to go with you.
If you agree to drive downtown with me in my car,
we can do it quietly. On the other hand, if
you want to make an issue of it, you're asking
for publicity.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I have one hope, one slim, forlorn hope, and that
is that this is a dream, a nightmare, and I'll
wake up.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I'm sorry, I'm ready. There we go. Will will there
be reporters? No? No, not yet, not yet. You'll be booked,
quietly booked. You see, you're a material witness. But I'll
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be under arrest. Brow exactly. It's all kind of a
gray area. But my connection with this it will come out. Ah. Yes,
if we go to trial, I see course, mister Merriwether,
I'll have to know. Yes, I can tell by that.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yes, it's you're frightened, how unbelievably perceptive you undutend.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Tell him everything? Confess? Are you mad? No? No? If
you love him and he loves you, then the truth
will only make that love stronger. Where did you read that, Lieutenant,
I happen to believe it. Oh out, lieutenant. Could you
stop here for a moment in front of that drug store? Mm? Wow?
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Uh a few things I have to pick up. Uh,
all right, I won't be a minute. Do you have
a telephone?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Grup?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Oh? I see it? Oh Blue, Bruce, don't hang out, Alicia.
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You're alone. Yes, you're not as alone as I am.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Alicia. I am sorry. The truth is I'm just not
worthy of you.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I didn't have the courage to go through with it.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I'm in trouble, Bruce. I know my life is in danger, Alicia.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
If there's anything I can do, I mean in a quiet,
discreet way.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
I just called to say goodbye, goodbye. It's enough that
I destroyed my own life. I won't ruin, Albert.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Where are you going?
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Oh I'm supposed to go to police headquarters. Well you'll instead,
I'll just sneak out of there the back way. You
go as far as my money takes me, and hope
that no one ever finds me.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Good Bye, Yes, good luck, thank you. Do you have
a rear entrance?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Never mind, I see it taxi, are you free? Oh?
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Excuse me, I I didn't know you had a fair
insistent it's don't make it sound really cool.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
You're right here, Get in and sit down. Man on
the platform, that's Kelly you. You're the man who who?
That's right, I'm the man who. I'm always the man who.
Where are you taking me? I can hear that, Curly.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
She wants to know where I'm taking And what are
you gonna do with me? Is that's one of those things?
One of which things? Why do you use euphemisms? I
beg your pardon?
Speaker 4 (41:12):
Why didn't you come out and say what you mean?
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Why don't you admit you're going to kill me?
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Most people, you know, they don't like to hear the
real way?
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Why do you want to kill me? I don't wanna
kill you. I have to kill you. Why you know why?
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Because I can identify you as the murderer of Cleveland Rogers.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
I tell you, Curly, this is a dame that lays
it right in there.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Suppose I promise you I won't do that? Yeah? Yes,
What do you think I was doing on that platform
last night? I never gave it a thrown.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
I was running away from my husband, what's what I do?
But the man didn't show up. He's a chimp. Then
you came along and killed mister Rogers. If I identify you,
then I'll have to answer.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
A certain question, namely, what were you doing on the
station that hour of the night exactly?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
And it would be better for me if that question
never came up. I'm married to a very conservative man.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
I see the diagram.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
So I will give you my word that I will
never testify against you, and that sh solve the problem. Yeah,
it should, but I won't.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
It won't.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Why not in the first place.
Speaker 6 (42:23):
If I knock you off, I know you'll never testify
against me, and I only bet on sure things.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
But it's against my own interest to identify you. I
would never endanger my marriage.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
I know you're saved.
Speaker 6 (42:36):
I mean it, you think you mean it, But you
can't beat the way you were raised, which was straight.
Sooner or lady, your conscience is gonna start to bother you.
You're gonna have to do the right thing. You can't
fight the way you made and you're gonna suffer plenty too.
So look, believe me, what I'm gonna do is gonna
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be the better with the both of us. Hey, curly,
it's a cops con back of us.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
That bullet. He's gaining on us. Let me brush out
the rear window. See if I can stop him.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
They jump up the road.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
You can't shoot back at us. They'll be scared. The
dame that made everything twice get back him with the
next shot.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Go out.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
They go on me your dying, Let go my arm.
You go get you kill me anyhow. You know you're crazy.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
D you behind the wheel, you curry. I've got this
gum pointed at your head and I think you better
slow down. That's it.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I'll pull over. Go on, pull on to the side,
A small one, okay, yeah, please take this couver. I
think I'm gonna faint. It was self defense, so you're
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in the clear. But when I get my name in
the papers, well, we decided for your own safety to
keep you out of it. The papers will say he
was killed in a high speed chase. So missus, Mariwela,
I think you're out of it. Thank you, lieutenant, Thank
you for everything. You never did tell me how you
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happened to come along at the right time.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
There was nothing to it.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
I watched you come out of the phone both and
head for the rear exit. I drove around the block
just as the cab was pulling away from the curb.
Oh I am, I guess this is goodbye? Yes, goodbye,
this is Mariwela Alicia, my dear. Oh, but you're back. Yes, yes,
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I had enough for the convention. Oh, Albert, may I
present Lieutenant Burger the police. Yes, yes, I'm selling tickets
for the police Department dance. Oh well, let's buy some.
By all means I already have. Oh, thank you so much,
and good night, No no bother. I can love myself out.
Speaker 6 (45:22):
You know, when I heard he was a police officer,
for a moment, I was afraid something might have happened, right.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Albit, darling, what could possibly happen? Tell me?
Speaker 5 (45:37):
How did you spend your time tonight?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Oh? It was just another quiet evening at home as
Alicia learned her lesson. I don't know, does anyone ever
really learn a lesson? You think she'll be happy with Albert?
(46:04):
Or will she have her head turned by the next
handsome guy who happens along? Another thought? Albert? Was he
really at a convention? Who can tell? All I know
is I'll be back before you have a chance to
(46:24):
miss me.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
The table looks wonderful.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Sweet, Oh, thank you darling.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Reverend Burkie will just.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Want to thank you, darling.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Is the way a minute?
Speaker 1 (46:32):
What's this new minud?
Speaker 12 (46:34):
Pure lemon juice because they use only fresh lemons, because
we're having lobster. Lobster needs lemon because the.
Speaker 6 (46:41):
Leading lemon juice is reconstituted, it has chemical preservatives.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Minute made lemon.
Speaker 12 (46:45):
Juice is pure lemon juice, and it's frozen for freshness. Here,
just taste minute made. No, you can taste the difference. Sure,
it tastes like lemon. Minabad has the juice of six
fresh lemons in this plastics.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Did you r the door? Let him in, Reverend Brooky
evening that evening. Now here's Reverend Burkey. They why is
your husband talking like that? He was tasting lemon juice
at the cooking sharing Pure lemon juice in your grocer's
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fraser case. It's got a fresh taste. People really notice.
Here's a free minute from pippin Broadways musical comedy Sensation,
directed by Bob Fosse. You can see the other one
(48:15):
hundred and nineteen minutes of Fitten live at the Imperial Theater.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Without commercial interruption.
Speaker 8 (48:26):
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Speaker 1 (49:38):
There's a moral to our story, and that is it
may be good to be born intelligent, but it's better
to be born lucky. Good looks will probably take a
lady further than mere virtue. Consider most of the ladies
who have made it in this world as a rule,
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were they homely and virtuous or lucky and beautiful? Well
homely or handsome, intelligent, virtuous or fortunate or whatever. You
are all welcome to assemble with us here. Our cast
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included Tammy Grimes, Robert Dryden, Leon Janney and Earl Hammond.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by True Value Hardware
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Stores and Buick Motor Division. Missus e G. Marshall inviting
you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure
in the macabre until next time.
Speaker 8 (51:00):
Les Tonight's WR Mystery Theater was also brought to you
in part by Shotwright Supermarkets, where you get a lot
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more for a little less. The preceding program is furnished
by CBS Radio from the WR Community Calendar. The new
Group Theater presents a seasons greeting Christmas Show tomorrow at
two pm and the Coal Auditorium of the Public Library
in Greenwich, Connecticut. Half the proceeds will be donated to
the WOR Children's Christmas Fund. Stay tuned now for the
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latest news with John's Wingate reporting It's the.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
News at eight.
Speaker 8 (51:50):
Coming up next on WR New York.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
The Talk of New York.
Speaker 13 (51:57):
One dead, three hurt in mid Manhattan fire. Secretary Simon
kills tax move that would have affected sales clerks, and tonight,
of course, the Knightly Financial Review. It's thirty five degrees
too celsious in mostly cloudy mid Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (52:16):
Hi.
Speaker 13 (52:17):
John Wingate with the eight o'clock report from w o
R News featuring the Nightly Financial Review. One person was
killed and three were injured in a fire that roared
through a single unit of a Midtown apartment house today,
the spokesman for a fire department set the fire broke
out in a third floor apartment of the nine story
apartment house at one five oh West fifty fifth Street.
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One person, whose name was withheld pending notification of relatives,
was dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital, so say police.
Another person was taken a New York hospital and two
were taken to Saint Clair's Hospital. Their conditions were not
immediately known, according to hospital spokesman. The fire department spokesman
said the fire did heavy damage to the third floor
apartment before robe was declared under control. One and one
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half hours later, former Republican Congressman James Hasting of New
York was convicted by a federal court jury of mail
fraud and filing false payroll documents with the House in
a congressional kickback scheme. The jury, bad women and four
men return their verdict to U. S District Judge June
Green after more than four hours of deliberation. Hastings was
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found guilty on twenty eight of thirty five counts of
the indictment, including twenty per mail fraud and eight for
filing the false payroll information. As that verdict was read,
Hastings stood without expression in back of the defense table,
looking at the jury.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
Under the conviction, the.
Speaker 13 (53:40):
Former congressman faces up to five years imprisonment and one
thousand dollar finds on each of the mail fraud charges,
and five years imprisonment and ten thousand dollar finds on
each of the false document convictions. Sources in Washington say
Treasury Secretary William Simon has killed a government move to
collect taxes on fringe benefits from added to employees in
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various fields. Now, these fringe benefits, such as free travel,
fair line workers, and discounts for sales clerks, represent about
one hundred million dollars in potential taxes, but the reported
government move generated massive protests from employees who received such benefits.
Simon had announced that Treasury withdrew a plan to exempt
from taxation only those benefits which cost an employer nothing
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and which are available to all employees. But the sources
say Simon privately killed about a dozen planned revenue rulings
which would have required certain people to pay taxes on
benefits that are now tax free. W or seven ten
news time precisely three minutes past eight o'clock coming up
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Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 10 (54:50):
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besides your love will ever mean so much.
Speaker 11 (55:27):
Says is the diamond stone we know?
Speaker 10 (55:33):
Says, is the dial stone.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
We've been lessen the name of interest.
Speaker 11 (55:43):
Save Sace is the diamond stone.
Speaker 13 (55:49):
The Spanish government has refused demands by the kidnappers of
a top official to free all of Spain's political prisoners.
Antonio Maria de Oriola, an advisor to King One Coulos,
was did six days ago by Maoist guerrillas. The announcement
came at the same time as a deadline set by
the kidnappers, who threatened to kill the sixty three year
old industrialist unless their demands were met.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
US Supreme Court has rejected.
Speaker 13 (56:13):
A request by lawyers for the mother of convicted killer
Gary Gilmore to reconsider its lifting of his stay of execution.
The court rejected the request without comment. The thirty six
year old Gilmour is recovering in Salt Lake City Hospital
from a second suicide attempt. Senate Ethics Committee member Edward
Brooks says he'll press for changes to strengthen the panel
and impose a stricter code of ethics on the Senate.
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The Massachusetts Republicans says the American people have lost confidence
in Congress because of its apparent inability to weed out
unethical members. President elector Jimmy Carter thanked Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates for breaking with the Arab Oil
Cartel to hold a price increase at five percent. President
Ford sharply criticized the other eleven members of the Organization
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of Petroleum Exporting Countries for what he called called irresponsibility
in their price boost of ten percent. Meantime, economists say
the split level price hike were forced gasoline and heating
oil prices in the US upward by one to two
cent SA gallon coming up today on Wall Street w
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or seven ten. News time is coming up on six
minutes past eight o'clock. The Nassau County health spokesman says
there are four confirmed cases of quiet Baret syndrome in
the county, but none of the victims received swine flu shots.
Federal health authorities yesterday ordered an indefinite suspension of the swine.
Speaker 2 (57:36):
Flu inoculation program.
Speaker 13 (57:39):
After receiving reports from throughout the nation of incidents of
the little understood disease that see yeh Baret syndrome, including
across the nation four deaths. Doctor Theodore Cooper, head to
the federal swine flu program, says other immunization programs are
not in any way affected by the swine flu halt.
Speaker 1 (57:58):
I want to reassure every every that the decision I
made yesterday is specific to this program. There is no
reason to interpret that any immunization program at this point
of the usual kind that we have on measles, polio, diptheria, tetanus, hooping,
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cough should be in any way interrupted.
Speaker 13 (58:27):
That's doctor Theodore Cooper, head of the Federal swine flu
inoculation Program. President elector Jimmy Carter has met with Idaho
Governor Cecil Andrews amid indications Carter will pick Andrews for
Secretary of the Interior.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
He is expected to make the announcement tomorrow.
Speaker 13 (58:43):
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has overturned the nineteen seventy five
manslaughter conviction of doctor Kenneth Edlin in the death of
a fetus during a legal abortion at the Boston Hospital.
Transportation Secretary William Coleman has given the go ahead for
the construction of the nation's first offshore super ports, to
be located off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. Federal
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officials say five days of talks between the US and
Japan over fishing regulations within the new US two hundred
mile limit have made some progress, but differences still remain.
Speaker 2 (59:17):
The talks enter today.
Speaker 13 (59:19):
The Reverend Jesse Jackson says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has
agreed to investigate possible links between q Clux clan members
in the Marine Corps and right wing paramilitary groups. Ebenezer Scrooge,
a former miser who eventually displayed warmth for the needy,
will keep the Christmas seat in Congress for another year.
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Scrooge defeated challenger Santa Claus in the Congressional Staff Club's
sixth annual race for the Make Believe seat at a
dollar a vote. Contest is expected with Ebeneze A. Scrooge
as winner to yield sixteen hundred dollars for needy children.
Whether for the week end is coming up w or
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seven to news time now twelve minutes past eight o'clock
and now a Christmas story from the folks at Flemington Fir.
Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Once upon a time there was a lovely.
Speaker 13 (01:00:12):
Princess who looked forward each year to Christmas when one
of the handsome princes who sought her hand would give
her a gift. One Christmas, a very practical prince gave
her a microwave muffin warmer with the stereo tape deck,
somewhat useful, very expensive, but not what a princess dreams of.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
The Next Christmas, a.
Speaker 13 (01:00:31):
Very observant prince saw that all the fine ladies wearing
jewelry made from unicorn horns, so he gave the princess
a royal ransom of unicorn jewelry. Lovely, frightfully expensive. Oh
me expensive, but the princess didn't really want to look
like all the other ladies. Then a devoted prince who
knew his princess was a special lady deserving of a
very special gift ce left. Oh, he just went out
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and selected by himself a magnificent mink coat from the
Flemington Ferry Company, where was superb, the style extraordinary, and
the price was right. That Christmas, the princess at last
received the gifts she has longed for her own exquisite
Flemingden Fir, and they lived happily ever after. The Flemingden
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Fair Company in Flemingden, New Jersey, is open Sunday and
every day until six p m. Flemingden Firs and The
weather watch up date for New York City and Vicinity. Cloudy,
windy and cold to night, with the chant of an
occasional snow flake. Low in the upper twenties. Sunny, breezy
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and seasonably cold to morrow with the high in the
low forties. We're in cold to morrow night, low in
the low thirties, mostly sunny and mild. Are on Sunday
with the high in the upper forties. The chance of
that snow flake is thirty percent to night, ten percent
Tomorrow n to Morrow night. Wind's northwest increasing to fifteen
to twenty miles an hour, with strong augusta knight in
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to Tomorrow morning, diminishing to ten to fifteen miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Tomorrow afternoon, mostly cloudy.
Speaker 13 (01:02:04):
Now in middwn Manhattan it's thirty five degrees that's too celsius,
humidity seventy percent. Wind northwest at sixteen gusting to twenty
seven miles an hour. Barometer two nine point six o,
and that barometer is rising. The top for the news
at eight, One person killed, three injured in fire that
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roars through middwn Manhattan apartment house on West fifty fifth Street.
No identifications yet, say Treasury Secretary Simon Kills. Government move
to collect taxes on fringe benefits given workers in certain fields,
such as free travel for airline workers and discounts for
sales clerks. And that's the eight o'clock news. John Wingate
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reporting next news, as always on the station, the moment
it happens, when it happens, Get there, next schedule news.
I'll be back at nine o'clock tonight. And coming up
now on Radio seven ten, you got very farmer
Come in, Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. It's a little
game many people play on a train or a bus.
You look at a complete stranger seated across the aisle.
Your mind begins to speculate who is he or she?
And you go through the standard answers, which person, poor person,
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beggar person, chief, doctor, lawyer, indian chief. It's a harmless
diversion and it passes a time. But is it possible
to look at someone's faith and say murderer and be right?
Our mystery drama, A Quiet Evening at Home was written
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especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars
Tammy Grimes. It is sponsored in part by Buick Mortar
Division and True Value Hardware Stores. I'll be back shortly
with that one this Christmas. True Value Hardware stores offer
convertibles for people who don't know how to drive Hi
pat Some are all here to explain right now, you're
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a nearby True Value Hardware store features a selection of
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And these west Point.
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Convertible bicycles from your nearby True Value Hardware store come
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just a name. It's their way of doing business.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And tell them.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Pat Somemmer All sent you. Alicia Merrowether, or, as she
is listed in the Society columns, Missus Albert Emmons Merriweather
the third is having breakfast in her luxurious penthouse apartment
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in an eastern city. Her maid has the day off
and her cook is on vacation, and so Missus Merrowether
is quite alone and has been compelled to brew her
own coffee and burn her own coast, even as you
and I. But Missus Merroweather doesn't mind. She's a good
sport and not bad looking either. As a marath Oh,
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there goes the telephone and she will have to answer
it herself.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Hello, my dear, Yeah, oh, I was so.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Alarmed a long Why are the dear?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Well, the session broke up rada late last night, and
I returned to the hotel and I telephoned you, and
the phone rang.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And rang without an answer. I couldn't imagine where you
might be.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Why was here?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'd gone to sleep.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well that's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Just a nice quiet evening at home.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I do hope you aren't bored.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh I loved it. How is the convention?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh it's rather a drag.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, try to have a good time.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh, darling, I.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
May be compelled to remain here the rest of the week.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Just be a deer and get everything done and hurry home.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
And I have to say goodbye.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's time for my speech. And I know you'll bring
them shouting to their feet.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well I'll get through it somehow.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Goodbye, darling, goodbye, dearest. Yes, such a dear little man.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Not just adorns, really adoring.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hell dearest Alicia, Yes, that you're darling, Alicia. Have you
forgotten last night?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh? How can I forget last night? But can you
shouldn't call me here?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
She de o?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That can be just suspicious. Unftunately she has a golf date.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Then you can tell me you love me.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I love you, Alicia.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Even a train announcer puts more passion into his voice
than that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I love you, Darling, And I love you, Bruce. Oh,
I love you.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Okay, it's only ten o'clock. You're something wrong.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yes, it's wrong that I have to wait two whole
hours before I can see you.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, those two hours will pass before you know it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You sound so cool, so sure of me, Darling.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I'll see you at Marvetti's at noon. Bruce.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
It's possible that we might be seen today, and all that.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Is, it's possible, but it looks as if we merely
are in into each other. All right, signs by this
time tomorrow? Will it matter what people think? Alicia? Sit down, bros.
I've already ordered your drink and without ice.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I see you remembered.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Have so much to learn about you and so much
to remember. Are you sure you want to go through
with us? Yes? And you well, you know when you
think of how short life really is, can you waste
even a moment without the one you love? Have you
really thought about it? What's the thinking about she's a
very wealthy woman. Well, you're Albert's a very wealthy man.
You have no money of your own life, neither, do you? Yes?
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But are you trying to talk me out of it? Oh? No,
it's just that you've become used.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
To to the ease.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The luxury of life with her. Well, I'll tell you what.
You can never get used to, the knowing glances and
the self righteous smirking of people who consider you a
kept man. Bruce. Yeah, yeah, you marry a woman who's
ten years older and wealthy, and what's the world supposed
to believe? And it's true I married her for her money,
for her position, and for her influence. Surely you must
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have loved her a little bit. Well, I loved her
as much as you loved Albert. Emmon's Merriweather the Third.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I try to love Albert. I'm trying to be a
good wife to him. I just can't leave this kind
of lie. I won't any longer.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Neither can I. Oh, darling, it's wonderful that we found
each other and fell in love, and we can save
each other. You won't be sorry.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I'll be with you.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
How could I be sorry?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Neither of us have any money of our own.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, I have a degree in engineering. You know I
can get a job. I can even teach in high school. Man,
what's funny?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You are, Bruce Tyler, former millionaire sportsman, teaching mathematics, and
I can see you in a ready made corduroy jacket
with leather patches on the elbows patches.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I myself so done. Oh and that beautiful socialize missus
Albert Emmon's Merriweather living in some dusty suburb doing our
own laundry.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I won't be Missus Merriweather. I'll be missus Bruce Tyler.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Uh, let's finish launch here. There's a lot to do,
and we'll each take one suitcase I need at the
station and catch the ten thirty. Well, no, that's rather late,
now that I think of it. I mean for you
to go to the station alone. I'm not afraid. Well,
I'll get there early, you know. Still we could drive
to New York.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
No, your first instinct was right. If you took a car,
it would be her car. Let's each leave with nothing
that belongs to.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Them, Darling, you won't be sorry. How can I be sorry?
I'll have you?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Will you be sorry?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Never?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
This is the happiest day of my life. Booce, I'm
mus I'm not Bruce. Oh excuse me, No, No, it's
quite all right. I was expecting to meet someone. Here
is Bruce? Yes? Which train you're making?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
The ten thirty to New York? I think i'm a
bit early.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well i'm early myself. I'm catching a ten thirty five,
and I'm going the other way to Washington.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
It's rather deserted here in the station.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
No, and the old days, this railroad station was a busy,
bustling place at all hours. As you seem rather young
to remember the old days, I remember some of them.
So where's Bruce? Oh you'll be here? Ohz of him?
He has to be here. I don't see anybody come
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up the street either. What time is it? I have
ten twenty five. He'll be here any minute. Sold the train?
Are you sure it's ten twenty five? Well not anymore.
In about thirty five seconds, it'll be ten twenty six.
Some of the matter. He has to be here, he promised.
Well he used the last a few minutes. What are
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you grinning at? I'm sorry? Middle aged romance should be
touching rather than humor. What are you talking about? Are
you and Bruce whoever he is running away. I'm sure
that's not your affair. Of course, it's your affair somehow,
And then don't ask me why I feel that Bruce
is not worthy. I thank you to mind your own business.
Well here, there's train has some time. But where is Bruce? Easy?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
He'll be here, Bruce, or please please conduct a hall
the train. Someone's coming, he'll be here. You promised you'd
be here.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh please wait.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
He's not here. Well, the evening doesn't have to be
a total lawes. How would you like to go to Washington?
He isn't here. I can promise you an exciting weekend
and you'll never forget. Is there a telephone? Doesn't manner?
The train's leaving? Yes, I see one just up ahead
of booth. I never did, like Bruce. Something must have happened. Yeah, hurry,
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the Washington train will be here in five minutes. Sir,
I am not going to Washington with you. You don't
have to get angry. Besides, these things happen for the best,
you know. Please excuse me. Oh damn, sir, sir? Could
you how can I help? I don't have any change.
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You simply weren't prepared for anything. Now the nice time.
Do you have a dime? Yeah, sure of course you're here.
Thank you. I wonder what I'll have to say for himself.
Poor fella watched his nerve at the last minute. I'll wager.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Ah ah huh huh.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh, Now don't tell me, I'll bet. His wife answered,
you're so smart? Do you think you know everything? You know?
There's are familiar dramas well. We have three minutes and
thirty seconds before the Washington train gets in. So why
don't you Why don't you get out of here? What?
Get out of here? That's a gun. You get a gun.
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You're holding a gun.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
There is going to be trouble. What are you saying
you'll have to run for it? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Who's that he's shooting at us?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Quick, get on the.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Other side of the billboards and now run run toward
the other end of the platform. That's why. Now, if
there's only one of them, I got a chance. Now run,
But you'll be killed. Does that mean you have to
be killed too? And I'm frightened.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You don't have time for that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He's working his way in. Why does anyone want to
kill you? Run as fast as you can. Down to
the end of the platform. Man, he just stuck behind
the post. A shortstop. Do what I tell you. Run
to the end of the platform, down the stairs, into
the street, and around the corner. Get going, I'm scared.
Run Run Taxi, Taxi take me.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Take me to a seventeen Rosville Circle and hurry, hurry, please, Hello.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Bruce, Bruce.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I am afraid you must have the wrong number.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Bruce.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Is she standing there? Is that why?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I'm sorry? This is no one here by that name, Bruce.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And there you are right this morning, my dearest, Yes, yes,
just fine.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Did you do anything last night, darling.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Did I do anything last night?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I'll no, I just stayed at home and went to bed,
just to quiet evening at all.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Now, dear, you should get out and have some fun,
some excitement.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
That's all right, dear, I un't miss it.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Well, then I must hang up now we have a
breakfast meeting. I'll be home at the end of the week.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Goodbye, Albert.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Henrietta get the door, will you please? Damn that's right,
I gave you the time.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Off just a minute. Yes, good morning, I'm detective Lieutenant Berger, Homicide.
Oh my credentials. I see may come in, thank you.
May I ask the purpose of this visit, lieutenant, and
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let say, ask you to come to police headquarters. Police headquarters?
Why what for? There's been a murder? Wow? How does
that concern me? Well, at the very least your material witness.
That's impossible. You might even be an accessory. It's ridiculous.
I'm required to tell you that anything you say may
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be loosed against you. Material weakness, accessory. What's this?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We were there.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
All she wanted to do was run away with her lover.
Evidently that can turn out to be a hazardous pastime,
and in this case it doesn't become very much safer
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Speaker 7 (15:28):
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Speaker 1 (15:41):
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Speaker 1 (16:34):
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Speaker 9 (16:37):
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
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Jest for breakfast Tas life is filled with little surprises.
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All that Osha Merriweather wanted to do was run away
with Bruce Pennington. They would to meet at the railway
station late last night. Well, train time came, but Bruce
failed to appear. Another gentleman, however, did show up, but
he was murdered. And now a police detective is saying
to missus Merriweather, Missus Merriwether. At about ten thirty last night,
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a man named Cleveland Rodgers was shot to death at
the North Side Railroad station. Yes, the camp driver named
Barney McCool was cruising about a block away. He heard
the shots, but he supposed at the time that they
were backfires for a car or a truck. And you
follow this well, and he saw you me, He described
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you most accurately. He saw you're running from the railroad station.
He got into his cab and when he heard about
the murder, and naturally he reported it.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
To the police.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Is he sure it was me? The address is recorded
on his trip sheet. Is anyone else living here who
resembles you? No? But do you deny you were at
the railroad station?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Well?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Are you doing there at that hour? Did you deny that?
You know? Mister Rogers. Now you don't have to talk
to me, but you'll have to talk to somebody. I'd
advise you to call your attorney, my attorney. Look, missus Merriweather,
I'm sure your husband has an attorney. Oh no, I
heard of your husband. A man like him, he's got
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to have an attorney. No, I couldn't talk to him.
All right, let's go go where. Well you think we've
been talking about the police headquarters. But I come to that,
my husband will find out. I don't see how that
can be avoided, But it must be avoided. It must
be avoided it all costs. Missus Merriweather, we're dealing here
with murder, but I had nothing to do with it.
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What were you doing at the railway station?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Why do you refuse to answer that question? Because because
I can't. If you won't say why you were at
the station, we will have to conclude it's for a
reason you don't want them. For instance, why was Cleveland
Rogers at the station a lonely place like that, especially
since he knew certain people may.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Have been looking for him?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This is Merriweather. Were you the decoy? What are you saying?
Rogers had an eye for a good looking woman? Were
you the one used by the killers to lure him
to his death? Lure him to his death?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
This sounds like like a thing in a tabloid paper.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I'm afraid it does. You're talking to me.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I am the wife of mister Albert Emmons, Merriweather, IID
what would I know about gangster's mobsters killers?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't know what you're doing your spare time. This
is monstrous. Yeah, yeah, murder is. And it's not just
the murder itself, which is bad enough, but the company,
it keeps, the trail it leaves. The victim isn't the
only one whose life has been destroyed. If you do
not explain your presence on that platform, people will form
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their own conclusions. But how and they will not be
flattering to you? And what would you do if the
killer claims you were in it with him and then
turn state's evidence to save his own neck. Please please
believe me, I had nothing. Believe me. I'd like to
believe you, But you must meet me halfway. What were
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you doing there? I please leave me alone? Are you
protecting someone? How did you know?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I'm protecting someone and I'm also protecting myself.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Now now you're not protecting yourself, You're destroying yourself. Now,
whether there's somebody else were you were? You're supposed to
meet someone at the station, of course, it's the only
thing that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Who I'm not at liberty to tell you?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Missus Merrickwether, you must tell me.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Why?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Why do you have to know who he is? Because
he has to corroborate your story? Oh, yes, that's what
it comes down to. Oh you see, missus Merriwether, Sooner
or later you'll have to tell us his name. Mister Pennington,
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do you know Missus Alicia Merriweather. Yes, God, I believe
I do. Al Merriweather's wife. May we speak freely here
we alone? Yes, and my wife's at playing golf deep
and golfer that woman?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
What's the it's all about?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Had you planned to leave your wife and go away
with Missus Merriwether? Had I planned? Look, I don't understand
why you should ask me such a question, because I
want a man said. This is one of the police
concerned in such personal matters.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
We're always involved in personal matters where murder is concerned. Murder.
According to Missus Merriwether, you and she had planned to
run away together to meet at the North Side station
and cash at ten thirty trains in New York. While
she was waiting, there was another man on the platform
and he was shot to death. Huh oh oh, yes, yeah, yeah,
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I read about it in the morning paper. Had you
planned to meet Missus Merrowether at the station? I still
don't see why the law would ask such a question.
If the two of you had not planned to meet there,
Missus Merriwether could be in trouble. Trouble considerable trouble because
how could she account for her presence at the station?
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Oh huh, you still haven't answered my question. Your question.
Had you and Missus Merriweather planned to meet at the
station last night? Well? No, of course not, she says
you did. Does she ask, how do you account for it?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I can't account for it. On the other hand, maybe
I can. Is that?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So how she uh?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, you know, she always had kind of a crush
on me and simply a romantic woman, and so perhaps
she let herself imagine. Let me get this straight here.
What you're saying is you made no arrangements to meet
Missus Merriweather at the railway station last night. Well, of
course not. Oh this is the first I've ever heard
of it. But it's true. It's true. I'm sorry, Missus Merriweather.
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We'll see it about it.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Missus Merriweather, we agreed to meet. Something happened. He must
have been ill.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I bet his wife answered, he's ill. That's why I
couldn't meet me. He's ill. He appeared in pretty good
shape to me, but we we decided I wouldn't call
again if I were you. The way it looks, he's
not going to answer that phone for a long time.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You don't understand we're in love.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I understand this. You're holding the bag, Okay, I believe you.
Sure you did decide to run away together. You did
decide to meet last night at the train station. But
I spoke to him just before, and he had the
look of a guy who changed his mind. Don't say
that he said it to me. He told you he
changed his mind. His manner told me. The tone in
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his voice told me. It's her money, isn't it. How
How did you know these things shown? I caught a
glimpse of her as I was leaving, big horse face, dame,
not at all pretty like you, no style. I can
see where a guy could get fed up with her.
But at the last split second he remembers why he
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married her in the first place, the money. But he
loves me. Well, I'm sure, but he loves the money more. Meanwhile,
you're in a jam. You can't account for your being
at the railroad station. I told you it was to
meet Bruce. I know you told me. You believe me,
don't you. I believe you as a man, But it
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won't help you. Why not because he's going to deny
that story. How Kenny. I'll face him out.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
He has to.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
If he admits it, she'll throw him out in his
ear so it doesn't look good. Huh, you want to
sit down, missus Merriweather Lieutenant. I'm frightened. My husband is
going to find out. I'm sorry. What was a madness?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I see now it was a temporary madness. The whole
thing was Bruce. But he came to his shinges before
I did.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
And now I'm going to be disgraced before the entire world.
I'm going to be disgraced. I'll be ruined.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Now. Look, I'll try to help you as much as
I can.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Nobody can help me. I got into this myself. I'll
have to get out of it myself. My problem is
I'm I'm getting panicky. I have to become I have
to think this thing.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Through logically and arrived right. Yes, yes, I've got it.
I'll deny everything. What will you deny?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I'll start right here, right now, and I'll deny everything
I ever said to you. And so therefore, if you
have come here to talk to me, you're wasting your
time and mine. I was not at the railway station.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh come on now, missus Mariweather. We have this cab driver, yes,
and he has this trip ticket. You've already told me
about him. What else have you got? What else do
we need?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
He says, he picked me up a block from the
railway station, less.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Than a block, and you're in a highly agitated state.
Was I that's what he says.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
You realize it's his word against mine. Oh, now, Missus
marrow won't say whatever he pleases, I'll deny it.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I see, Well, explain why he should falsely identify you.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I haven't the faintest idea isn't my problem.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
But what reason could he possibly have?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Well, let me see. Suppose I put it this way.
At one time I had refused him my favors, and
he wants his revenge. Missus Marrowell, please make sense. He
identifies me, does he? I'll identify him. Let him dared
open his mouth. I'll point to him in that courtroom.
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I'll recognize him as a cab driver who picked me
up some time ago and made me an indecent proposition.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I laughed at him. That's the worst thing you can
do to a man. Now, Look, you know, and I
know you're at the station last night. I know nothing
of the sort. But you admitted it to me. You
can't prove it. I deny everything.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I'll insist this is all some evil plot designed to
destroy me and my husband.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Remember, all you have is that unsupported.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Word of a cab driver. I say his word against mine.
And now, sir, I bid you good morning, unless, of course,
you intend for me to accompany you to police headquarters,
in which case you will have to take me there
by force.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Oh look, this isn't your style. You're basically a very
nice lady who's been caught up in an endiscretion. I
must ask you to leave now. First I must tell.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You a story.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm not interested. It's very brief. A playboy named Cleveland
Rogers runs up a very large gambling debt with an
underworld organization. I've heard that before, and they decide for
a number of reasons to kill him. You've already told me,
and they do kill him last night at the station.
You are a witness. You can't prove I was right.
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I can't. The law can't. But the law is not
your problem. Your problem is with the killers of Cleveland Rogers.
They know you were there, they know there's a witness,
and they know they have to kill you. And I
know when somebody's trying to scare me.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Let me put it to you this way, we found you.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Now, can you be sure that the killers won't be
able to find you? How can they find me? They
didn't even see me from a distance. Maybe, but they
don't know what I look like? And furthermore, yes, good lord, hey,
hey missus Merriwell, what's wrong? Do you want a glass
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of water? I my suitcase? Your suitcase? I brought a.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Suitcase, and when I ran away, I didn't think. I
was so scared I forgot I had it. I'd have
to right there on the platform, outside the telephone booth.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
We didn't find a suitcase on the platform.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Then they have it, the ones who killed mister Rogers.
They have it, and it has things in it with
with my name and address.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
She doesn't do things by halves, does she? And when
her plans go awry, they go all the way, don't they?
Poor Aliciamara with it. All she wanted was some love,
some romance, a dashing husband instead of a dull one.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Is that so terrible?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Who are we to judge? Well, let's see how things
develop in Act three. It is a magic moment. You
are at your buick dealers, about to drive home, and
you bring you buick less savor. It's lean and trim,
classic lines. It looks quite unlike any full size Buick
you can remember. You get in the heady new car
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smell surrounds you. You're a saber. Feels the way it
looks tight. You turn the wheel a little, no wasted
motion in this car, big brush metallic gauges look back
at you. That' me six engine is doing great. You
rub your hand on the seat. Six people could be
really comfortable in here. You swing in your driveway, your wife,
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the kids, the dog, everyone with the parakeet descends on
the car and gets in off your gold and nowhere
in particular life and your Newbert Saber are great. Maybe
the dog shouldn't sit on the seats.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Very giftless, very giftless.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
You know what's really going to make the holidays marry
this year? Very free gifts and high infra savings accounts
of a new place in town. Franklin Society Federal savings alone.
We're so or branding the grand opening of our two
new branches in Brooklyn and Staten Island by giving depositors
their choice of sixty three great free gifts with a
deposit of two hundred and fifty dollars or more, and
savings plans that offer the highest interest allowed by law,
so you can save money two ways. Oh ho, that
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sounds like the happiest holiday ever. It will be for
anybody who opens a new account and.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Selects a free gift. That could save me a lot
of workers here, sure.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Could, Santa, So stop by today and open your high
interest Frankness Society Savings account, the association that's been helping
people saved since eighteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Merry gift, Miss Santa. Yes, very Giftmas to you. Eighteen
eighty eight. Ah, that was a great year, I remember
the still.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Our new convenient offices are located in Brooklyn at eighty
five fifteen Bay Parkway near eighty sixth Street and on
Staten Island at twenty three seventy five Richmond Avenue in
the Heartland Village shopping Center, insured by FSLIC. You know
all of dime, it's.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
When you know about sales.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Sales is the dime n the store. You don't buy.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
Dinings every day, so sales show you the way because
we know what you're looking at for.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
We're the number one jours the whole world.
Speaker 10 (33:07):
Around it, but we're people in you know your hometown
diamond store.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
We know diamonds and you know US Sales is the
diamond store.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Where people that you know where the.
Speaker 11 (33:24):
Name that you trust saying sales is the diamond stone.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
We know diamonds and you know US.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Sales is the diamond stone.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Where people that you know where the name that you
trust saying sayings is the diamond stone. Hi, I suppose
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you can blame it all on love. The fact is
everybody wants love. The problem is some people look for
it after they're married. Missus Alicia Merriweather, bored with an
unexciting husband, thought she could do better by running away
with someone else, with results that you were already aware of.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
He knows who I am. That man knows who I am.
Which man the man who killed mister Rogers. Then you
saw the killer.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I heard the shot. I looked down toward the other
end of the station.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
He was running towards us, A short, stocky man, a
short he didn't know mister Rogers had a gun. Mister
Rogers let him get close and then he fired. He missed,
and the man duck behind a post.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
But I saw his face. His face was such an
evil face.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
No, what do you mean evil?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
You look at that face and you saw evil, You
felt evil, you knew there was evil?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Why what did it look like?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
It was heet around, small eyes, thin lips, A horrible
scar across his cheek, a scar. For a moment, a
terrible thought flashed through my mind. I was committing evil
in leaving my husband, and now he was being punished.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, it figures honeycombs sweet. I thought he had come
to punish me. Donald's sweet. None as honeycomb some name
for a hitman. Huh, returned Why should he want to
kill me? Is she a witness to a murder? His murder?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Who who says I'm going to testify? I mean, is
there some way I can assure him he's safe as
far as I'm concerned?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Now? Look, missus murraw, whether you're becoming hysterical? Certainly and
a good reason.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Could I place an ad in the paper to the
gentleman who committed murder on the ninth of April eleventh
on the North Side station platform. I will not testify
against you.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Sign the witness let me get your glass of water.
I can't become involved. I can't. Please get control of yourself.
All over me, all over. If this evil man doesn't
kill me, Albert will divorce me. The story will come out,
it will wound it whoa some of it? Yeah? And
I deserve it? Why? Why did I ever what did
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I ever seen? Bruce Pennington? Calm yourself?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Weakling, a coward, a foolish, insipid. He didn't mean a
word of what he said to me. And the last
minute is true.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Man, You must try to think rationally.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
What do you suppose I'm doing? Yes, Albert, calm patient kindly.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Oh Albert, now that it's too late. That's how much
I love you, Missus Merriweather.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
About the murder, Do you realize I've ruined my life completely?
Albert was quiet so much of the time, but that's
because he was thoughtful. Bruce talked all the time. And
I see now it was the chatter of a parrot.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Your life is in danger?
Speaker 8 (37:00):
What am I going to live for?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Missus Merriweather. We have to go downtown. Why you're not
safe here? We'll have the place you under protective custody.
This mean I'm under arrest. It means we're going to
protect you, and of course everyone will know. I will
try to keep it as quiet as we can. I
guess your husband will have to know that. Everybody just
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can't be helped. Suppose I refuse to go with you.
If you agree to drive downtown with me in my car,
we can do it quietly. On the other hand, if
you want to make an issue of it, you're asking
for publicity.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I have one hope, one slim, forlorn hope, and that
is that this is a dream, a nightmare, and I'll
wake up.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I'm sorry, I'm ready. There we go. Will will there
be reporters? No? No, not yet, not yet. You'll be booked,
quietly booked. You see, you're a material witness. But I'll
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be under arrest. Brow exactly. It's all kind of a
gray area. But my connection with this it will come out. Ah. Yes,
if we go to trial, I see course, mister Merriwether,
I'll have to know. Yes, I can tell by that.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yes, it's you're frightened, how unbelievably perceptive you undutend.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Tell him everything? Confess? Are you mad? No? No? If
you love him and he loves you, then the truth
will only make that love stronger. Where did you read that, Lieutenant,
I happen to believe it. Oh out, lieutenant. Could you
stop here for a moment in front of that drug store? Mm? Wow?
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Uh a few things I have to pick up. Uh,
all right, I won't be a minute. Do you have
a telephone?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Grup?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Oh? I see it? Oh Blue, Bruce, don't hang out, Alicia.
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You're alone. Yes, you're not as alone as I am.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Alicia. I am sorry. The truth is I'm just not
worthy of you.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I didn't have the courage to go through with it.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I'm in trouble, Bruce. I know my life is in danger, Alicia.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
If there's anything I can do, I mean in a quiet,
discreet way.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
I just called to say goodbye, goodbye. It's enough that
I destroyed my own life. I won't ruin, Albert.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Where are you going?
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Oh I'm supposed to go to police headquarters. Well you'll instead,
I'll just sneak out of there the back way. You
go as far as my money takes me, and hope
that no one ever finds me.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Good Bye, Yes, good luck, thank you. Do you have
a rear entrance?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Never mind, I see it taxi, are you free? Oh?
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Excuse me, I I didn't know you had a fair
insistent it's don't make it sound really cool.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
You're right here, Get in and sit down. Man on
the platform, that's Kelly you. You're the man who who?
That's right, I'm the man who. I'm always the man who.
Where are you taking me? I can hear that, Curly.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
She wants to know where I'm taking And what are
you gonna do with me? Is that's one of those things?
One of which things? Why do you use euphemisms? I
beg your pardon?
Speaker 4 (41:12):
Why didn't you come out and say what you mean?
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Why don't you admit you're going to kill me?
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Most people, you know, they don't like to hear the
real way?
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Why do you want to kill me? I don't wanna
kill you. I have to kill you. Why you know why?
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Because I can identify you as the murderer of Cleveland Rogers.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
I tell you, Curly, this is a dame that lays
it right in there.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Suppose I promise you I won't do that? Yeah? Yes,
What do you think I was doing on that platform
last night? I never gave it a thrown.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
I was running away from my husband, what's what I do?
But the man didn't show up. He's a chimp. Then
you came along and killed mister Rogers. If I identify you,
then I'll have to answer.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
A certain question, namely, what were you doing on the
station that hour of the night exactly?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
And it would be better for me if that question
never came up. I'm married to a very conservative man.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
I see the diagram.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
So I will give you my word that I will
never testify against you, and that sh solve the problem. Yeah,
it should, but I won't.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
It won't.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Why not in the first place.
Speaker 6 (42:23):
If I knock you off, I know you'll never testify
against me, and I only bet on sure things.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
But it's against my own interest to identify you. I
would never endanger my marriage.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
I know you're saved.
Speaker 6 (42:36):
I mean it, you think you mean it, But you
can't beat the way you were raised, which was straight.
Sooner or lady, your conscience is gonna start to bother you.
You're gonna have to do the right thing. You can't
fight the way you made and you're gonna suffer plenty too.
So look, believe me, what I'm gonna do is gonna
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be the better with the both of us. Hey, curly,
it's a cops con back of us.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
That bullet. He's gaining on us. Let me brush out
the rear window. See if I can stop him.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
They jump up the road.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
You can't shoot back at us. They'll be scared. The
dame that made everything twice get back him with the
next shot.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Go out.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
They go on me your dying, Let go my arm.
You go get you kill me anyhow. You know you're crazy.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
D you behind the wheel, you curry. I've got this
gum pointed at your head and I think you better
slow down. That's it.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I'll pull over. Go on, pull on to the side,
A small one, okay, yeah, please take this couver. I
think I'm gonna faint. It was self defense, so you're
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in the clear. But when I get my name in
the papers, well, we decided for your own safety to
keep you out of it. The papers will say he
was killed in a high speed chase. So missus, Mariwela,
I think you're out of it. Thank you, lieutenant, Thank
you for everything. You never did tell me how you
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happened to come along at the right time.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
There was nothing to it.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
I watched you come out of the phone both and
head for the rear exit. I drove around the block
just as the cab was pulling away from the curb.
Oh I am, I guess this is goodbye? Yes, goodbye,
this is Mariwela Alicia, my dear. Oh, but you're back. Yes, yes,
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I had enough for the convention. Oh, Albert, may I
present Lieutenant Burger the police. Yes, yes, I'm selling tickets
for the police Department dance. Oh well, let's buy some.
By all means I already have. Oh, thank you so much,
and good night, No no bother. I can love myself out.
Speaker 6 (45:22):
You know, when I heard he was a police officer,
for a moment, I was afraid something might have happened, right.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Albit, darling, what could possibly happen? Tell me?
Speaker 5 (45:37):
How did you spend your time tonight?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Oh? It was just another quiet evening at home as
Alicia learned her lesson. I don't know, does anyone ever
really learn a lesson? You think she'll be happy with Albert?
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Or will she have her head turned by the next
handsome guy who happens along? Another thought? Albert? Was he
really at a convention? Who can tell? All I know
is I'll be back before you have a chance to
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miss me.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
The table looks wonderful.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Sweet, Oh, thank you darling.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Reverend Burkie will just.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Want to thank you, darling.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Is the way a minute?
Speaker 1 (46:32):
What's this new minud?
Speaker 12 (46:34):
Pure lemon juice because they use only fresh lemons, because
we're having lobster. Lobster needs lemon because the.
Speaker 6 (46:41):
Leading lemon juice is reconstituted, it has chemical preservatives.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Minute made lemon.
Speaker 12 (46:45):
Juice is pure lemon juice, and it's frozen for freshness. Here,
just taste minute made. No, you can taste the difference. Sure,
it tastes like lemon. Minabad has the juice of six
fresh lemons in this plastics.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Did you r the door? Let him in, Reverend Brooky
evening that evening. Now here's Reverend Burkey. They why is
your husband talking like that? He was tasting lemon juice
at the cooking sharing Pure lemon juice in your grocer's
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fraser case. It's got a fresh taste. People really notice.
Here's a free minute from pippin Broadways musical comedy Sensation,
directed by Bob Fosse. You can see the other one
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hundred and nineteen minutes of Fitten live at the Imperial Theater.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Without commercial interruption.
Speaker 8 (48:26):
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They're as good to eat as they're convenient to serve,
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Speaker 1 (49:38):
There's a moral to our story, and that is it
may be good to be born intelligent, but it's better
to be born lucky. Good looks will probably take a
lady further than mere virtue. Consider most of the ladies
who have made it in this world as a rule,
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were they homely and virtuous or lucky and beautiful? Well
homely or handsome, intelligent, virtuous or fortunate or whatever. You
are all welcome to assemble with us here. Our cast
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included Tammy Grimes, Robert Dryden, Leon Janney and Earl Hammond.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by True Value Hardware
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Stores and Buick Motor Division. Missus e G. Marshall inviting
you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure
in the macabre until next time.
Speaker 8 (51:00):
Les Tonight's WR Mystery Theater was also brought to you
in part by Shotwright Supermarkets, where you get a lot
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more for a little less. The preceding program is furnished
by CBS Radio from the WR Community Calendar. The new
Group Theater presents a seasons greeting Christmas Show tomorrow at
two pm and the Coal Auditorium of the Public Library
in Greenwich, Connecticut. Half the proceeds will be donated to
the WOR Children's Christmas Fund. Stay tuned now for the
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latest news with John's Wingate reporting It's the.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
News at eight.
Speaker 8 (51:50):
Coming up next on WR New York.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
The Talk of New York.
Speaker 13 (51:57):
One dead, three hurt in mid Manhattan fire. Secretary Simon
kills tax move that would have affected sales clerks, and tonight,
of course, the Knightly Financial Review. It's thirty five degrees
too celsious in mostly cloudy mid Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (52:16):
Hi.
Speaker 13 (52:17):
John Wingate with the eight o'clock report from w o
R News featuring the Nightly Financial Review. One person was
killed and three were injured in a fire that roared
through a single unit of a Midtown apartment house today,
the spokesman for a fire department set the fire broke
out in a third floor apartment of the nine story
apartment house at one five oh West fifty fifth Street.
(52:40):
One person, whose name was withheld pending notification of relatives,
was dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital, so say police.
Another person was taken a New York hospital and two
were taken to Saint Clair's Hospital. Their conditions were not
immediately known, according to hospital spokesman. The fire department spokesman
said the fire did heavy damage to the third floor
apartment before robe was declared under control. One and one
(53:02):
half hours later, former Republican Congressman James Hasting of New
York was convicted by a federal court jury of mail
fraud and filing false payroll documents with the House in
a congressional kickback scheme. The jury, bad women and four
men return their verdict to U. S District Judge June
Green after more than four hours of deliberation. Hastings was
(53:24):
found guilty on twenty eight of thirty five counts of
the indictment, including twenty per mail fraud and eight for
filing the false payroll information. As that verdict was read,
Hastings stood without expression in back of the defense table,
looking at the jury.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
Under the conviction, the.
Speaker 13 (53:40):
Former congressman faces up to five years imprisonment and one
thousand dollar finds on each of the mail fraud charges,
and five years imprisonment and ten thousand dollar finds on
each of the false document convictions. Sources in Washington say
Treasury Secretary William Simon has killed a government move to
collect taxes on fringe benefits from added to employees in
(54:01):
various fields. Now, these fringe benefits, such as free travel,
fair line workers, and discounts for sales clerks, represent about
one hundred million dollars in potential taxes, but the reported
government move generated massive protests from employees who received such benefits.
Simon had announced that Treasury withdrew a plan to exempt
from taxation only those benefits which cost an employer nothing
(54:23):
and which are available to all employees. But the sources
say Simon privately killed about a dozen planned revenue rulings
which would have required certain people to pay taxes on
benefits that are now tax free. W or seven ten
news time precisely three minutes past eight o'clock coming up
(54:46):
Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 10 (54:50):
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eight convenient ways to buy it. Perhaps no other gift
besides your love will ever mean so much.
Speaker 11 (55:27):
Says is the diamond stone we know?
Speaker 10 (55:33):
Says, is the dial stone.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
We've been lessen the name of interest.
Speaker 11 (55:43):
Save Sace is the diamond stone.
Speaker 13 (55:49):
The Spanish government has refused demands by the kidnappers of
a top official to free all of Spain's political prisoners.
Antonio Maria de Oriola, an advisor to King One Coulos,
was did six days ago by Maoist guerrillas. The announcement
came at the same time as a deadline set by
the kidnappers, who threatened to kill the sixty three year
old industrialist unless their demands were met.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
US Supreme Court has rejected.
Speaker 13 (56:13):
A request by lawyers for the mother of convicted killer
Gary Gilmore to reconsider its lifting of his stay of execution.
The court rejected the request without comment. The thirty six
year old Gilmour is recovering in Salt Lake City Hospital
from a second suicide attempt. Senate Ethics Committee member Edward
Brooks says he'll press for changes to strengthen the panel
and impose a stricter code of ethics on the Senate.
(56:35):
The Massachusetts Republicans says the American people have lost confidence
in Congress because of its apparent inability to weed out
unethical members. President elector Jimmy Carter thanked Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates for breaking with the Arab Oil
Cartel to hold a price increase at five percent. President
Ford sharply criticized the other eleven members of the Organization
(56:57):
of Petroleum Exporting Countries for what he called called irresponsibility
in their price boost of ten percent. Meantime, economists say
the split level price hike were forced gasoline and heating
oil prices in the US upward by one to two
cent SA gallon coming up today on Wall Street w
(57:19):
or seven ten. News time is coming up on six
minutes past eight o'clock. The Nassau County health spokesman says
there are four confirmed cases of quiet Baret syndrome in
the county, but none of the victims received swine flu shots.
Federal health authorities yesterday ordered an indefinite suspension of the swine.
Speaker 2 (57:36):
Flu inoculation program.
Speaker 13 (57:39):
After receiving reports from throughout the nation of incidents of
the little understood disease that see yeh Baret syndrome, including
across the nation four deaths. Doctor Theodore Cooper, head to
the federal swine flu program, says other immunization programs are
not in any way affected by the swine flu halt.
Speaker 1 (57:58):
I want to reassure every every that the decision I
made yesterday is specific to this program. There is no
reason to interpret that any immunization program at this point
of the usual kind that we have on measles, polio, diptheria, tetanus, hooping,
(58:21):
cough should be in any way interrupted.
Speaker 13 (58:27):
That's doctor Theodore Cooper, head of the Federal swine flu
inoculation Program. President elector Jimmy Carter has met with Idaho
Governor Cecil Andrews amid indications Carter will pick Andrews for
Secretary of the Interior.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
He is expected to make the announcement tomorrow.
Speaker 13 (58:43):
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has overturned the nineteen seventy five
manslaughter conviction of doctor Kenneth Edlin in the death of
a fetus during a legal abortion at the Boston Hospital.
Transportation Secretary William Coleman has given the go ahead for
the construction of the nation's first offshore super ports, to
be located off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. Federal
(59:05):
officials say five days of talks between the US and
Japan over fishing regulations within the new US two hundred
mile limit have made some progress, but differences still remain.
Speaker 2 (59:17):
The talks enter today.
Speaker 13 (59:19):
The Reverend Jesse Jackson says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has
agreed to investigate possible links between q Clux clan members
in the Marine Corps and right wing paramilitary groups. Ebenezer Scrooge,
a former miser who eventually displayed warmth for the needy,
will keep the Christmas seat in Congress for another year.
(59:42):
Scrooge defeated challenger Santa Claus in the Congressional Staff Club's
sixth annual race for the Make Believe seat at a
dollar a vote. Contest is expected with Ebeneze A. Scrooge
as winner to yield sixteen hundred dollars for needy children.
Whether for the week end is coming up w or
(01:00:02):
seven to news time now twelve minutes past eight o'clock
and now a Christmas story from the folks at Flemington Fir.
Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Once upon a time there was a lovely.
Speaker 13 (01:00:12):
Princess who looked forward each year to Christmas when one
of the handsome princes who sought her hand would give
her a gift. One Christmas, a very practical prince gave
her a microwave muffin warmer with the stereo tape deck,
somewhat useful, very expensive, but not what a princess dreams of.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
The Next Christmas, a.
Speaker 13 (01:00:31):
Very observant prince saw that all the fine ladies wearing
jewelry made from unicorn horns, so he gave the princess
a royal ransom of unicorn jewelry. Lovely, frightfully expensive. Oh
me expensive, but the princess didn't really want to look
like all the other ladies. Then a devoted prince who
knew his princess was a special lady deserving of a
very special gift ce left. Oh, he just went out
(01:00:54):
and selected by himself a magnificent mink coat from the
Flemington Ferry Company, where was superb, the style extraordinary, and
the price was right. That Christmas, the princess at last
received the gifts she has longed for her own exquisite
Flemingden Fir, and they lived happily ever after. The Flemingden
(01:01:15):
Fair Company in Flemingden, New Jersey, is open Sunday and
every day until six p m. Flemingden Firs and The
weather watch up date for New York City and Vicinity. Cloudy,
windy and cold to night, with the chant of an
occasional snow flake. Low in the upper twenties. Sunny, breezy
(01:01:35):
and seasonably cold to morrow with the high in the
low forties. We're in cold to morrow night, low in
the low thirties, mostly sunny and mild. Are on Sunday
with the high in the upper forties. The chance of
that snow flake is thirty percent to night, ten percent
Tomorrow n to Morrow night. Wind's northwest increasing to fifteen
to twenty miles an hour, with strong augusta knight in
(01:01:58):
to Tomorrow morning, diminishing to ten to fifteen miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Tomorrow afternoon, mostly cloudy.
Speaker 13 (01:02:04):
Now in middwn Manhattan it's thirty five degrees that's too celsius,
humidity seventy percent. Wind northwest at sixteen gusting to twenty
seven miles an hour. Barometer two nine point six o,
and that barometer is rising. The top for the news
at eight, One person killed, three injured in fire that
(01:02:27):
roars through middwn Manhattan apartment house on West fifty fifth Street.
No identifications yet, say Treasury Secretary Simon Kills. Government move
to collect taxes on fringe benefits given workers in certain fields,
such as free travel for airline workers and discounts for
sales clerks. And that's the eight o'clock news. John Wingate
(01:02:48):
reporting next news, as always on the station, the moment
it happens, when it happens, Get there, next schedule news.
I'll be back at nine o'clock tonight. And coming up
now on Radio seven ten, you got very farmer
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