August 30, 2025 • 61 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 (00:02):
I'll w r invite you to listen to the Mystery Theater.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Come in, welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm e. G. Marshall. There are fevers for which medicine
has no cure, the fevers that are self inflicted drug abuse, alcohol,
and perhaps the most totally engulfing of all, the rage
to gamble. Gambling the most insidious of all compulsions because
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the weight of figures and odds cannot fail to provide
a justification for the gambler, suggesting that he is unaffected
by emotional stress, operating on sheer scientific principles. A mystery drama,
Hit Me Again, was written especially for the Mystery Theater
by Ian Martin and stars Paul hect. It is sponsored
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in part by Enheuzer Bush Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser, and
contact the twelve hour Cold capsule. I'll be back shortly
with that one. It is a magic moment. You are
at your Buick dealers, about to drive home, and you
brain you buick less saver. It's lean and trimmed classic
lines as buick you can remember. You get in a
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heady new car. 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 the six engine is doing great.
You rub your hand and the seat. Six people could
be really comfortable in here. You swing in your driveway,
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your wife, 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 number's saber are great.
Lend me the dogs shouldn't set on the seats. I'm E. G.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Marshall, host of Mystery Theater.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's Christmas time and you are Santa Claus, the Spirit
of Christmas, and with your generosity, the reality of Christmas
will be brought to thousands of needy children in the
WR listening area. Your contribution means gifts of toys and
clothing for each of them under Christmas trees in hundreds
of hospitals and institutions. You light up those little faces
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on Christmas Morning because you have taken the time now
to send your check to the WR Children's Christmas Fund.
The nicest thing about your contribution is that one hundred
percent of it, the entire amount, is used to buy
gifts for the children send your check today to the
WR Children's Christmas Fund Box seven to ten times Square Station,
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New York one, double three six.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Thank you to Outward View.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
No one could be more happily establishment than Jeremy Dykman,
a nice buttoned down bridge playing commuter from Westchester, financial
consultant in a brokerage firm already tabbed to go all
the way to the top, an expensive split level ranch
house in the suburbs, and a honeycolored wife, the epitome
of the American dream, except that, for one reason or another,
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there are no children yet till the evening this story begins.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Hi, Darling, Carte's already too great.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You don't know, Virginia, you are going to need them
more than me.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
What are you looking so grouchy about?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh, hi darling, that's not pre sure.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Huh, far be it from me? Shall I pour?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Maybe you better hold up till I hit you with
the news?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
What news? On?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Second thought, Yeah, let's have the drink first.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Don't you want to change of clothes?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
You usually do.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Tonight it's different.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I've already made my change into what it is, something
rich and strange, a sea change, as mister Shakespeare had it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Oh, you know, I'll take that drink you offered.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You certainly are a little weird husband mine.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Huh. Here's to the future when we might.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Own the world to us, to the stars, and to
the time we can smile down on the Rockefellers and
all the oil boys in Texas.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
You're not drinking, Ginny, it's kind of spoiled for me
since I don't know what we're drinking too.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
First off, to my freedom, What do you mean freedom?
I quit the firm today. I'm on my own, Jerry.
You see there it is criticism, fear, antagonism.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I didn't mean anything, It's just why would you quit?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Because I was drowning, I couldn't breathe, and most.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Of all, because I finally saw if the object was
just making money, well, they had to be a better way,
a surer way, at least a more exciting way. How
well it would start with just one little pack of
cards like this?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
You must be crazy.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
How could you, a mathematician, a computer expert even think
that in games of chance?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
But that's just the point. I am also an expert
on games of chance. Now, now that a friend has
pointed the way, what friend? A man I know you don't.
That's on it important. What is is a principle that
he taught me, and the principle card county, well, not
just a simple manner of remembering what cards are in
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and out of the deck, but.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The mathematical odds on the hidden ones.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
With a little practice, I can now go to a
town like Las Vegas and know that I'll would.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I don't think I can believe what I'm hearing.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
You should know that the odds are all with the house.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Of course, I could quote you chapter and verse one,
armed bandits between ten and twenty percent craps dice.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Even averaging all the way, you still run behind the
house by one percent.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Keino Gibucket twenty five percent, edge mad Roulette played in Europe,
you still stand to lose, but at less than half
what we do.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
In this country. But black jack twenty one, that's something else.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Again, what are the odds there?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I never mind what they are in actuarial figures. The
point is that the odds can.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Be tipped in the better's favor.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
There is no reason to do worse than fifty to fifty.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
And if you really watch what you're doing and learn
to play your luck, you can draw down from the house.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
And you quit your job because that's what you expect
to do.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh, I quit my job for so many reasons. I
guess he'll be the only one to regret it.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well, that isn't fair, Jerry. I'll be with you.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Oh will you?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Are you ready to give up the house? Or I'm
all your friends?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Look?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
If I play cards, Jenny, I have to go. I
have to go where the play is, Vegas, the Islands.
You're a macaw. I mean, it's a gypsy life, but
it's not all that bad.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
But what do we do with the house?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Show it?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Rennet? Who cares? We have no children, no ties?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You mean you'd just wonder and gamble?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I know what's at the bottom of all this.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
What I never gave you a child or I never
gave you one?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Is that why you're doing this?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I'm not doing it. It's already done. Now where do
we go from here?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Damn it? Care of me?
Speaker 7 (08:13):
It just doesn't make any sense. I mean, it just
doesn't program.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I'm sorry, KG.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
I can't really explain it myself, except well, it's a challenge.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You insist on resigning. I want to take a whirl
at this idea of mine. It doesn't make sense. You know,
I'll never know until I prove it out. How long
is that going to take? As long as it has to? Now,
what does that mean?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I just want to break out of the cage, take
a flyer at something I believe might work.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
You have a contract with us, and I'm damned about
let you go too valuable amount of waste chasing a rainbow.
I'll give you a leave of absence, no strings, long
as you want within reason.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
What would you say was within reason? Kg, you're the nut?
What would you say? Nothing? No time is with reason.
The whole point in a gamble is that there are
no deals, nothing held back. It's all right out on
the table, not even a hedge bet on a side.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
No, no kidchy, Because no matter how I tried to
forget it, if I knew, I wasn't laying my neck
on the line every time, somehow it would fudge out
the whole deal.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's gotta be all or nothing.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Okay, Jerry, you want it that way? Remember you said it.
If it doesn't prove out, don't you come crawling to me.
You've had it.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It's also senseless, Jerry, I won't defend it, but you're
going through with it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's something I gotta do.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
But I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, that's up to you.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
If I walked out, you wouldn't even try to stop me.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I wouldn't have any right, darling.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Would you see Frank first, just talk it over with him.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Wouldn't do any good. What do you mean, well, I mean,
I'm well. I guess you could say a closet gambler.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
What does that mean.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I've been gambling for years without you ever knowing horses,
football games, the numbers, dice cards.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Maybe it's just a reaction to.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
What I've always done for a living, always dealing with
about as close to predictable results as possible.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, what am I talking about?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
I sound like I really needed Frank, when actually he's
the last person in the world I need a psychiatrist, Virginia.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He's perfectly right, Jerry is well.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Not needing a psychiatrist.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That's a terrible thing to say.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Trying to be honest. There are certain areas where, at
least I feel psychiatry doesn't work. Alcoholism, drugs, and gambling.
In many ways, gambling is the worst compulsion of all
because there is a kind of arguable rationale for it.
You can't get rich quick, and that's what our society
seems to be all about.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
You're not much help, Frank, I.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Don't really know how to be Virginia. First off, anyway,
Jerry'd have to come to me by himself.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You know he'll never do that.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, so that brings me something else. He isn't my patient.
But what about you?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
We're friends? For heaven's sake. Do you think I need
a psychiatrist?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
It could have been the real reason you're here.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Don't be silly.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'll try not to be. You're walking the ragged edge.
You're going to have to fall one side or the other.
Either way, I think you'll need help.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What do you mean either way?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We don't have to cut corners, Virginia. Either you go
with him or you walk out on him. One way.
The only thing I can offer you is something to
stave off hypertension at the least the other.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
What about the other?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, you are the girl I loved and lost.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Hum you'd still be interested in damaged goods.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I only see the goods. The damage could be repaired
if you break away.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Is that what you'd advise me to do?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You'll have to make that decision.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
I guess I've already made it, Frank, now that I
found out that Jerry has had a mistress for all
these years, I'm not about to settle for second best.
Let him get married to Dame Fortune, and I wish
both him and the lady luck.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Six of hots hit me again, war clubs, stay guards, ma'am,
big king. That puts you over? What about you?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Gentleman stands pat Lady draws a nine busted the only
shows seventeen of the stand pay eighting.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Hey me, all right, slammer, what is it?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We got another counter?
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Sure, I was daling, but you can check it out
with the pit boss and the cameras.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
He's a counter, all right. How's he doing? Treading water?
He could get better, so few winds is good, pr
if you don't get too much better. That's what we
set about the last guy.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
He was taking care of I do. What about the
new talent.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
We'll watch him figure what it's worth. If we have
to turn it over, it's no skin in our pharoses.
We don't have to fit him for the concrete boots
and dump them in the lake. The troops handle that,
So what else is new? Not suck as still rolling?
And since you brought it up, let's just keep remembering
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what puts us where we are. Anybody takes a real
shot at throwing a monkey mention, it works.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
He's going to be around to even have the chance.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Jeremy Dyckman has rejected his predictable world to enter a
world of chance, and whatever his system, whatever his dreams,
he already seems well on the way to being the
classic gambler, a loser, his job, his wife, and even
now his life seemed to have been thrown away because
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of his compulsion. Now, let's say a better word is obsession,
and the first Dictionary definition for that word is an
act of the devil in telling a person to action
from without. I shall return shortly with that too.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
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Speaker 4 (15:27):
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Speaker 9 (15:28):
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Speaker 2 (15:32):
Bobby, you've said the word that means you like to do.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
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Speaker 8 (15:41):
Bobby, you say you're car enough too all you want no.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Coming.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Because that you're not.
Speaker 10 (15:58):
I can say.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
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Speaker 3 (18:17):
When I left you, we were concerned with the definition
of obsession, But what of another definition for possession? It
is an active and a passive state, active in the
sense that one takes over something or someone, passive in
that you are the one taken over, as wouldn't you agree.
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Jeremy Dykman has been.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Hello, Hi, It's Jerry, Jerry.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Are you? Jen?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Don't call me that Hi has too many overtones. I
don't like. Okay, Virginia, that has some overtones. I don't
care for either. I'll settle for Jinny.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Okay, Jenny?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
How are you I survive? What's more? To the point?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
How are you the same? You don't sound as if
it's good it isn't. Are you out of money?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Just about?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But not out of hope and belief? Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Why did you call?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Just to touch base?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And that's good because I.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Want to ask you one thing? What's that? I don't
know about lawyers? But our agreement is pretty well drawn up,
isn't it. Yes? And part of it was we could
split the joint account. Yes. Well, I don't mean to
make anything difficult. But could I draw on that thousand
or two right now? I can't even need it.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
It's all right with me, Jerry.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
But but what.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I'll throw it away?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Jerry?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Please?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Don't throw everything away?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Why make it tough? Do I get it or not?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Wouldn't you rather have me?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
How do I answer that?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
It doesn't seem so difficult. It's just a yes or
a no.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I forget it. I'll raise the nose somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Jerry Jerry, Oh no, oh lord?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Why why your fault?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
You said you stamp back. Yes, ma'am queen, you're busted,
you said. Hit me, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Three of spades, hit me.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Again, five an ilands, eight showing stand you have a
king of that's what shows?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Hit me again. I have a clubs I showed twenty.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
One nine and a hall a twenty year old. Pay
me that's your bed?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Hello, Jerry, Jenny?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
What am I doing anywhere? You're not?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You just brought me good luck? I cleaned up.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
You mean it hasn't been going so well?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
I just started to turn. No, don't leave, don't leave,
just stick around. Make your beds, please, all right?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
For blood this time, I let it all ride.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Will make your own bets, mister everyone in yea gods
and a seven of the dealer second.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Guards Jenny Jenny, Oh, Jerry, come on, honey, come on,
let's get you under the covers into bed.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Oh what time is It's half past four and.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I came up to the room just after twelve.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Did you miss me, sure, Jenny, Only well, I figured
you were tired and wanted to get to bed.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
I was tired tired of that silly game, same old thing,
over and over.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, not tonight, not tonight, that's the same thing one bit. Look,
I think I've got it all put together, all what
put together, the system, the counting, the way to beat
the house. Look who read them and weep?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Thirty five hundred guilt edged American dollars that I parlayed
at the twenty one table out of my.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Last three hundred. You run, Oh, you better believe it.
Maybe from here on in we've got it, made got
what made us life the big steak. Oh, darling, you
don't know what luck you brought me? And how I'm
gonna need you now?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
How will you need me?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I have got the whole system. Now, it proves out,
it works. It's it's infallible.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Even if they switch to more than one deck, even
as many as four, the constants are set. It's just adjustment.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
What I have to do is study, study, study, and practice,
practice and study, and.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You can help.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Look, here's a pack of cards, brand new. I'll shuffle
clear off the table.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
There eh, Jerry, there's something I want to say. First.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Oh, look in a moment, honey. I just want to
show you how it works, and no tricks, just me
and my mind against the house.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Clear the table. Okay, now, deil.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Jerry, I don't know anything about black chest.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You know how to handle cards. You play bridge, Jinny.
Take the cards. I will say, four hands and the dealer.
I'll be number one hand three dummies and you're the dealer.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Jerry. Please listen to me.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
A card.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Three more, face down to the dummy players, and now
yourself one face up. Fine, Now deal all five of
us another card face down.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Now the object is yet is near twenty one in
your card count without going over, because that's a.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Bus but a score more than the dealers count to win.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Jerry, Honestly, I couldn't care less.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Listen, listen, just let me show the beauty part here.
Now I've got a ten and a three, so I
ask for a hit.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Deal five of diamonds.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I stand on that, but that's plus one card in
my system. Next guy, hit him, deuce, hit him again.
Ten That busts him, but the ten is a minus
one card, so they cancel out. Hit the next guy six,
he stands, but that's another plus one though, because it's
a six, I try the last one deuce hit him again.
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Four he stands, but that's two more pluses. That's plus four.
But who wins in this case? You have to stand
on seventeen as the dealer, so I win. But that's
not important. It's only one hand. What counts is if
the plus score stays high, I bet more units, higher wagers.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Why Because the longer.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
The plus score stays high, the more chance there is
to draw down a face card or a ten, because
more and more of them are left in the deck.
And the thing is to keep it all computed in
the head. And that's why you can be so valuable me.
You can deal for me, set me up in game conditions,
allow me to concentrate on the count. Oh, honey, you
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don't know what a lightesaber you are turning up just
at this moment.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You are just what I need. We've got it made.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Oh if only you knew we have sure or sure.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Tonight I really prove it.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I can play the house at the worst fifty to
fifty on my system, and most times I can tip
the odds my way.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
What more do you want what we had, Jerry, just
what we had.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
No pie in the sky, and not this sickness that's
got you.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
I wanted to tell you something. Now doesn't seem the time.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Where are you going away from you to another guy?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Maybe maybe there's one who wants me.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Frank Dexter, Yes, it could be better off. Maybe he
can give you a child. I haven't figured a system
on that one yet.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Okay, go oh, Jerry, you can't say that You've got
to give me a chance to change your mind.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
No, I'm seeing this through to the bitter end, and
there isn't.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Any point in my sticking around. You don't even want
to listen.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
You never guess, would you that I was sitting up
in this plastic room praying that you would lose your
shirt because I knew if you won, I'd lose.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Goodbye, Jerry.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
I hope Lady Luck can give you more than I
seem to be able to.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
And you didn't tell him, Virginia, No, Frank, I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
I mean, it's his right to No, it wouldn't have
made any difference to him. Nothing would. He's in love
with another woman who possesses him body and soul.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
There's another woman as well, No, just the same.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Old spellbinder, Lady Luck, Dame Fortune, the Queen of Spades,
whatever you want to call her.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Well, if you had told him you were in news,
perhaps that.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You honestly think it might.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Frank, you were the one who first diagnosed Jerry's sickness
gambling fever, chronic prognosis negative, no cure.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Oh and you were right.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I still say he has the right to know he's
going to have a child.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Who says he is.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
I don't have to bring a child in the world
to be hurt as his father could hurt him. That's
another gamble. I'm afraid I may not be able to take.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Plus two minus.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
One, linus two, even us three. Ja ah yeah yeah,
in a minute, When do you split nine?
Speaker 9 (28:06):
When dealer shows no sevens but anything from two to nine?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
What you understand? You see it now? Jenny, Jenny, who
who are you?
Speaker 9 (28:21):
The woman you really love?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I love Jenny, your little queen of hearts.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Don't worry, Jerry.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
Look at her closely in the pack so like yet
so I'm.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Like, I'll make you forget her light.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
Beauty for my dogue one.
Speaker 13 (28:43):
Who are you your lady lack just call me the
Queen of Spade, or.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Oh it's the phone. Yeah, yeah, what is it? Oh yeah,
that's right. I'm sorry. I did leave a call. I
don't know. Thank you, thank you, give me give me
room service. Will you come tally? She put it down. Slammer.
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I'll check it out in the moment. Good night. Let
be wise.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
A counter took us from a bundle? How much about
twelve grand?
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Yeah, it's a nice round summer. It's four times in
the last week he stings is.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, we uh moving on him.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
We might just have to waste them. I'm gonna think
about that, slammer. I'm gonna do a lot of thinking
about that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Well.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Jeremy Dickman may have found a formula for winning at
the tables, but it looks as though he's a loser.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
All the rest of the way down the line. He's
lost his wife, he's thrust.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
His child, and now two very hard men are in
the process of considering whether or not he might lose
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In a lonely house where she once lived with her
husband and love, Virginia Dykeman wrestles with the problem of
her bleak future. In a lonely hotel room, Jerry Dyckman
tosses and turns through dreams of a surrogate wife who
is fast becoming the symbol of the success of his
system to win at blackjack and in the casino office.
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Two hard men considered dispassionately whether his system is to
be tolerated or even Jerry Dyckman himself a.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Couple of questions, shout boss, he's sure he's no mechanic
checked bout every way, No rise a plate, pieces under
the nails, no other market gimmick, No computers like the
guy had last year under his raincoat.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
No switches, he was sort of films.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yeah, I studied him. I agree, just a straight counter.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Them guys really get the met Well, why do you.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Get so mad at them, slammer.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
There's still plenty of suckers even and out, and a
fair to heavy winner within reason is.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Good pub relations. Yeah, but a cow.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Everybody's a counter one way or another, black jack.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Some are just better than others.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Yeah, maybe I'll have a little chat with him, like
maybe the next time he tries to draw to his credit.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Oh evening, Frank Virginia.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I h I've been a little concerned about you. I
tried to call, but the phone was busy.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
I've had it off the hook.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh well, I I was in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I drove by and saw the lights and do you
want to come in? Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Why not.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
You're not looking well.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I don't feel very well.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Then, for Heaven's sake, with you.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
It isn't physical, just sheer, brutal mental exhaustion. Let's go
in the living room.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yes, have you uh spoken to Jerry?
Speaker 15 (35:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
No, he doesn't need me anymore. If he ever did, you.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Haven't done anything else? Uh foolish?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Not yet?
Speaker 6 (35:21):
If you mean anything about my baby, Jerry ought to
be told. You know, it wouldn't make any difference.
Speaker 10 (35:29):
You know, I know?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Well, what do you plan to do? I mean, I
feel well. I think I have some right to ask.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Oh, dear Frank, of course you do. But I can
only give you one answer.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
What pray? Pray that I'm not really going to lose
Jerry forever to arrival. I don't even know how to fight.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Jerry, Jerry?
Speaker 9 (36:04):
What are you dreaming about?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Jenny? Jenny? How can I make you understand?
Speaker 9 (36:10):
Is it Jenny? Jenny's gone? It's me now, Jerry? Me?
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Who's me?
Speaker 9 (36:20):
You're lucky queen, the Queen of Spain.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Oh no, I don't want I want Jenny.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
Jenny's gone, Jerry, She's long gone.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Time to wake up, But start.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Counting, counting now I'm so tired, so tired.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
Oh, I go on with her because you can't help yourself.
It's the challenge. Nothing matters but the challenge.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
What I can to earn money other ways.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
It isn't the.
Speaker 9 (36:56):
Money, It's the dream, pursuit, the battle that you love.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I love Ginny, not anymore, Jerry.
Speaker 9 (37:09):
Not anymore. It's me you love now, me, your lady of.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Fortune, And you can't take your love for me, because
only I can show you the way.
Speaker 16 (37:26):
Only I.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
No, Hi, wait I what? Oh yeah? Who?
Speaker 5 (37:42):
No, I won't accept the call. Tell doctor Dexter, the
patient is long since out of his hands. Oh be
an angel to send me up some coffee where you
gotta clear my head before I get back to the casino.
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I'm doubling down.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Sorry, mister Dykeman, your betters over the table limit.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Will be House extend the courtesy.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I'm told you are better is accepted. Do I hit you?
I'll stand Pat Madam one god a queen busted one
card to you, sir. Five Again, King puts you over
on the table, told to the next gentleman, and again
vandams House wins, and the last gentleman stands. Pat Dealer
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has a six showing and in the hall dealer must
draw five A spades to the house twenty one pay
no one, sorry, mister dykman.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Yeah wow, you win one, you lose one. Wipes the
five thousand chips. I started with what you asked the
pit boss to credit me with another.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Five He signals me, we can't extend that credit.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I have twenty five thousand undeposit.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Well, I'm sure it can all be arranged if you
don't mind just stepping over to the cashier's cage.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Okay, hold my seat, Well you gotta be right back.
Come in, mister dyckman. What's all this run around?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Mister rue Ace? True you want to make any jokes
about it?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
No, no jokes. None of this is very funny.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
I have twenty five thousand undeposit with you, and I
ask for a five thousand credit. The dealer ducks it
to the pit boss, the pit boss to the cashier's cage.
I'll finally I end up here. Look, I want to
know what's the run around?
Speaker 7 (39:40):
You play black check? Mister dyckman. What do you know
about counting?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
I know an ACE council either one or eleven.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
Or what percentage of press and minus cards are out
of the deck, or what the percentage on a stiff
is when a bit maximum when you read the deck
is flush?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Or a thousand the tricks? What are you leading up to?
Are you going to close your tables to me?
Speaker 7 (40:04):
Our competitors already have this. Here's the only game in
town for you. No, no, I don't want to close it.
You're too valuable to us me. But the more you hit,
the more the roops trying to follow you. The only
thing is you getting too much action. That's uh, that's
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why I want to see you private.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
A deal, A deal, I leave you alone. You count
all you want. I just want my kit? How much
I'll settle for seventy five? To you?
Speaker 6 (40:46):
To me?
Speaker 11 (40:47):
Who?
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Brother? Am I in the lion's den? And the lion
takes his share? Suppose I refuse? You don't play anymore?
That is still the Caribbean, Micile the island. If you
get there? What does that mean? He'll figure it out? Well?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
I couldn't we have talked at the hotel.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
I'd say I didn't wanna share our conversation with anyone else.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
You mean your room is bugged?
Speaker 5 (41:17):
I mean my life is wired programmed compute it, to
pick the term of your choice.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I'm just an end result no money.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I ask you to commit yourself, not even myself. You
could get out. Uh maybe, isn't it worth trying the
other thing?
Speaker 2 (41:32):
I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Yeah, certainly you'd be the last one to want me
to write. And that's what you're up here for, to
talk about me and Jenny.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
The reason I came up here is to tell you
what Virginia won't tell you herself. What she's pregnant. Jerry.
I I should go back to her. Of course you should,
only you know I won't. That's what you came up
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here to clear away. I'm not going to sort out
my motives. I offer you a fact. You give up
all this and come back to Virginia now or or what?
Or do you face a fact? I've have to face that.
I don't even think this is enough to bring you back,
which really gives you some big left not really. I
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love Virginia, but she loves you. She just can't live
with you as you are. No one could. If she
can't have you, I want her to settle the second best.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Yeah, I'd better have her settle, And I'm not downgrading
you think m even with a child. I want good,
am I to anyone or anything except to win a game.
But the prize is worth fighting for, only the compulsion
that I cannot end a loser.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
What's the matter, Jerry boy? You ready to be counted out?
Speaker 5 (43:06):
Has to be a losing streak, just a streak, the
count The count still must be right, right, don't be
too sure?
Speaker 6 (43:15):
The cars and even me our fickle.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Why do I have to win? Why can't I accept losing?
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Because you're a gambler.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
You're caught, you are.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
I can't caught caught.
Speaker 9 (43:33):
Jenny heard Jerry, She's gone.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
She can't help me, Jenny? What have I What have
I done?
Speaker 8 (43:41):
You?
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Stay ahead, mister dykman. I want to double down. The
house will accept it.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
But okay, okay, I get get as over here. He's
right at the next table, mister drill. Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Gentleman wants to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
What can I do for you? Mister dyckman? I want
you to raise the table limit? How high will you go?
Speaker 10 (44:12):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Do you want to push it? You want to let
me meet? Five thousand? A deal? You got your limit? Okay, dealer?
Five grand? Says I can beat you probable twenty draw
to eighteen. Hit me blackjacket, pay me doubles.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Gentleman has a jack in a nice house.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
Phase double, hit me, deuce, hit me five, hit me
big age to give me five under at twenty one.
Hit me tennis, spades, nine and deuce in the hole.
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Name it a game, twenty one, go ahead, beat me.
Del has a queen up six in a hole. He
draws seven o' clubs. I'll space everyone.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Did you look here him?
Speaker 9 (45:05):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (45:05):
We blew fifty two thousand. He took the house for tonight, and.
Speaker 7 (45:09):
The big Boss had to be here and should tell
him about the public relations and all.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (45:13):
Sometimes he can get too expensive, so we find him.
If he's smart, he'll duck out on his high have
let the big boil. Let me handle him certain reasons.
I don't want him to look into this whole deal
too careful. I can't handle the roast. And we took
just so long as mister Jerry Deikman never shows up again.
Speaker 4 (45:41):
I can't believe it, Jerry, but I want to.
Speaker 5 (45:45):
You can, my darling, my little mother to be. I
can promise you I'll never gamble on cards again as long.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
As I live, darling.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
I don't mean to doubt your promise, but.
Speaker 5 (45:58):
How can you be sure? Yes, oh, it won't be easy.
But let me try to explain gambling. Gambling is a
macho thing. It's no use denying it. I bet my
manhood against the house trying to make me just another nobody.
I mean, they have the odds. I tried to beat them,
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and if I flogged my brain twenty four hours a day,
maybe maybe I found a way to make them close
to even. But then suddenly a miracle happened. A miracle
I c I can't explain it, and I don't intend
to try to. But something happened, which means I will
never touch a card game again.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
What is the miracle?
Speaker 5 (46:42):
Well, it's all gone, the thrill, the combat. What makes
much is more work kind.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
I don't know how or why, But.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Ginny, before a dealer deals any card, I can see
exactly what it is. It isn't a matter winning or losing.
Speaker 16 (47:02):
I know.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
So it's like taking the alcohol out of whiskey, the
kickout of heroin. What's the point without that? So I'm home.
I'm home to say I only wish I knew what
miracle made it possible.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Oh, darling, will you buy me?
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Eh? What do you have to say?
Speaker 6 (47:22):
Just something very simple and don't ask me what it means.
I get at least one free statement without a question.
What don't ever underestimate the power of prayer?
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Jerry and Virginia moved to a small town on the
East Coast and opened a community shop for local artisans
and artists. It enjoys a comfortable success, and not the
least of its values are Jerry's watercolors, which are fast
becoming collectors Iteas so with apology peez may I paraphrase
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an old aphorism. It's better to have lost and won
than never to have lost at all.
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is fresh orange juice, freshly scrambled eggs, fresh flowers, caviare,
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Speaker 2 (48:37):
Just a few reasons.
Speaker 17 (48:39):
Many professional travelers call Mine the best first class service
across the Atlantic. But I won't go into greater detail
about them. There is a better way for both of us.
Fly my first class first class on your next strip
to Europe. You'll never fly second class first class again.
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Perhaps the most curious psychological factor in the Gambler's makeup
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is that one would think that constant losses would eventually
lead to a cure, teach him that he can't win.
But the truth is that the Gambler is the one
man who expects and welcomes failure. The only thing he
may not be able to withstand his success, and therein
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may lie his only cure, a pleasant one.
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Even if Jeremy Dykman didn't choose.
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This during the noon hour.
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The man who reportedly fired the shots was released from
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Court has sent the Gary Gilmore case back to the
state of Utah. The fate of that convicted killer, who
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they said he'd rather die than face life in prison,
now rest with the Fourth District Court in Provo Utah.
The High Court refused to further postpone Gilmore's execution. Lawyers
for the death row inmate last week called on the
state court to free Gilmore. They said, a condemned man
to be executed not less than thirty days no more
than sixty days from the date of his sentencing unless
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he appeals. The legal period expired six days ago. The
Supreme Court justices today voted five to four to deny
a request from Gilmore's mother that her son's life be
spared until lawyers representing her could file a formal appeal
with the High Court. Earlier in the day, it appeared
the court had postponed at least for one week, any
decision in the Gilmore case, but that was not the case.
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New Jersey legislators are considering death penalty legislation. W orr's
Ed Nash reports the state.
Speaker 15 (56:47):
Senate is going through an unprecedented evening of soul searching.
This is the debate on a capital punishment bell introduced
by Senator John Rousseau of Ocean Cavy. Without much difficulty,
Russell won approval for amendments to his bill, amendments that
would prescribe the death penalty not only for a murderer,
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but also for anyone who engages another to commit murder.
But then came another move for amendment. This time it
came from Senator James Dugan of Hudson County. Dugan made
a quiet, impassioned plea for rejection of the death penalty.
Dugan offered a substitute punishment, mandatory life imprisonment for murder,
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but without chance of probation, parole, or pardon, and it's
on that subject Dugan's amendment. That debate continues at this hour.
This is at nash w O our news at the
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The Wine Dance Teachers Association has been without a contract
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doesn't look good. Wyandanch has one hundred and fifty union
teachers and twenty eight hundred students. O'donnald says the union's
rank and fire will meet at seven am tomorrow to
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thirty four percent. When northwest at thirteen gusting now to
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Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Charles Schultz, who is President elect Carter's.
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Economic Council to Be, describes himself as a liberal economist.
New Jersey State Legislature tonight debates death penalty. US Supreme
Court throws Gary Gilmore case back to Utah. And that's
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the station. Always a moment, it happens, Next schedule news.
I'll be back with you at nine o'clock tonight, nine
o'clock straight up. Now we go to Barry Farmer, tossing
questions and getting answers.
I'll w r invite you to listen to the Mystery Theater.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Come in, welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm e. G. Marshall. There are fevers for which medicine
has no cure, the fevers that are self inflicted drug abuse, alcohol,
and perhaps the most totally engulfing of all, the rage
to gamble. Gambling the most insidious of all compulsions because
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the weight of figures and odds cannot fail to provide
a justification for the gambler, suggesting that he is unaffected
by emotional stress, operating on sheer scientific principles. A mystery drama,
Hit Me Again, was written especially for the Mystery Theater
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You rub your hand and the seat. Six people could
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Marshall, host of Mystery Theater.
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No one could be more happily establishment than Jeremy Dykman,
a nice buttoned down bridge playing commuter from Westchester, financial
consultant in a brokerage firm already tabbed to go all
the way to the top, an expensive split level ranch
house in the suburbs, and a honeycolored wife, the epitome
of the American dream, except that, for one reason or another,
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there are no children yet till the evening this story begins.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Hi, Darling, Carte's already too great.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You don't know, Virginia, you are going to need them
more than me.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
What are you looking so grouchy about?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh, hi darling, that's not pre sure.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Huh, far be it from me? Shall I pour?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Maybe you better hold up till I hit you with
the news?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
What news? On?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Second thought, Yeah, let's have the drink first.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Don't you want to change of clothes?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
You usually do.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Tonight it's different.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I've already made my change into what it is, something
rich and strange, a sea change, as mister Shakespeare had it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Oh, you know, I'll take that drink you offered.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You certainly are a little weird husband mine.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Huh. Here's to the future when we might.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Own the world to us, to the stars, and to
the time we can smile down on the Rockefellers and
all the oil boys in Texas.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
You're not drinking, Ginny, it's kind of spoiled for me
since I don't know what we're drinking too.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
First off, to my freedom, What do you mean freedom?
I quit the firm today. I'm on my own, Jerry.
You see there it is criticism, fear, antagonism.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I didn't mean anything, It's just why would you quit?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Because I was drowning, I couldn't breathe, and most.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Of all, because I finally saw if the object was
just making money, well, they had to be a better way,
a surer way, at least a more exciting way. How
well it would start with just one little pack of
cards like this?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
You must be crazy.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
How could you, a mathematician, a computer expert even think
that in games of chance?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
But that's just the point. I am also an expert
on games of chance. Now, now that a friend has
pointed the way, what friend? A man I know you don't.
That's on it important. What is is a principle that
he taught me, and the principle card county, well, not
just a simple manner of remembering what cards are in
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and out of the deck, but.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The mathematical odds on the hidden ones.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
With a little practice, I can now go to a
town like Las Vegas and know that I'll would.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I don't think I can believe what I'm hearing.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
You should know that the odds are all with the house.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Of course, I could quote you chapter and verse one,
armed bandits between ten and twenty percent craps dice.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Even averaging all the way, you still run behind the
house by one percent.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Keino Gibucket twenty five percent, edge mad Roulette played in Europe,
you still stand to lose, but at less than half
what we do.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
In this country. But black jack twenty one, that's something else.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Again, what are the odds there?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I never mind what they are in actuarial figures. The
point is that the odds can.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Be tipped in the better's favor.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
There is no reason to do worse than fifty to fifty.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
And if you really watch what you're doing and learn
to play your luck, you can draw down from the house.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
And you quit your job because that's what you expect
to do.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh, I quit my job for so many reasons. I
guess he'll be the only one to regret it.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well, that isn't fair, Jerry. I'll be with you.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Oh will you?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Are you ready to give up the house? Or I'm
all your friends?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Look?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
If I play cards, Jenny, I have to go. I
have to go where the play is, Vegas, the Islands.
You're a macaw. I mean, it's a gypsy life, but
it's not all that bad.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
But what do we do with the house?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Show it?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Rennet? Who cares? We have no children, no ties?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You mean you'd just wonder and gamble?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I know what's at the bottom of all this.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
What I never gave you a child or I never
gave you one?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Is that why you're doing this?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I'm not doing it. It's already done. Now where do
we go from here?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Damn it? Care of me?
Speaker 7 (08:13):
It just doesn't make any sense. I mean, it just
doesn't program.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I'm sorry, KG.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
I can't really explain it myself, except well, it's a challenge.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You insist on resigning. I want to take a whirl
at this idea of mine. It doesn't make sense. You know,
I'll never know until I prove it out. How long
is that going to take? As long as it has to? Now,
what does that mean?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I just want to break out of the cage, take
a flyer at something I believe might work.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
You have a contract with us, and I'm damned about
let you go too valuable amount of waste chasing a rainbow.
I'll give you a leave of absence, no strings, long
as you want within reason.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
What would you say was within reason? Kg, you're the nut?
What would you say? Nothing? No time is with reason.
The whole point in a gamble is that there are
no deals, nothing held back. It's all right out on
the table, not even a hedge bet on a side.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
No, no kidchy, Because no matter how I tried to
forget it, if I knew, I wasn't laying my neck
on the line every time, somehow it would fudge out
the whole deal.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's gotta be all or nothing.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Okay, Jerry, you want it that way? Remember you said it.
If it doesn't prove out, don't you come crawling to me.
You've had it.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It's also senseless, Jerry, I won't defend it, but you're
going through with it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's something I gotta do.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
But I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, that's up to you.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
If I walked out, you wouldn't even try to stop me.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I wouldn't have any right, darling.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Would you see Frank first, just talk it over with him.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Wouldn't do any good. What do you mean, well, I mean,
I'm well. I guess you could say a closet gambler.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
What does that mean.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I've been gambling for years without you ever knowing horses,
football games, the numbers, dice cards.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Maybe it's just a reaction to.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
What I've always done for a living, always dealing with
about as close to predictable results as possible.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, what am I talking about?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
I sound like I really needed Frank, when actually he's
the last person in the world I need a psychiatrist, Virginia.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He's perfectly right, Jerry is well.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Not needing a psychiatrist.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That's a terrible thing to say.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Trying to be honest. There are certain areas where, at
least I feel psychiatry doesn't work. Alcoholism, drugs, and gambling.
In many ways, gambling is the worst compulsion of all
because there is a kind of arguable rationale for it.
You can't get rich quick, and that's what our society
seems to be all about.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
You're not much help, Frank, I.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Don't really know how to be Virginia. First off, anyway,
Jerry'd have to come to me by himself.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You know he'll never do that.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, so that brings me something else. He isn't my patient.
But what about you?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
We're friends? For heaven's sake. Do you think I need
a psychiatrist?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
It could have been the real reason you're here.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Don't be silly.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'll try not to be. You're walking the ragged edge.
You're going to have to fall one side or the other.
Either way, I think you'll need help.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What do you mean either way?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We don't have to cut corners, Virginia. Either you go
with him or you walk out on him. One way.
The only thing I can offer you is something to
stave off hypertension at the least the other.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
What about the other?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, you are the girl I loved and lost.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Hum you'd still be interested in damaged goods.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I only see the goods. The damage could be repaired
if you break away.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Is that what you'd advise me to do?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You'll have to make that decision.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
I guess I've already made it, Frank, now that I
found out that Jerry has had a mistress for all
these years, I'm not about to settle for second best.
Let him get married to Dame Fortune, and I wish
both him and the lady luck.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Six of hots hit me again, war clubs, stay guards, ma'am,
big king. That puts you over? What about you?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Gentleman stands pat Lady draws a nine busted the only
shows seventeen of the stand pay eighting.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Hey me, all right, slammer, what is it?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We got another counter?
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Sure, I was daling, but you can check it out
with the pit boss and the cameras.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
He's a counter, all right. How's he doing? Treading water?
He could get better, so few winds is good, pr
if you don't get too much better. That's what we
set about the last guy.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
He was taking care of I do. What about the
new talent.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
We'll watch him figure what it's worth. If we have
to turn it over, it's no skin in our pharoses.
We don't have to fit him for the concrete boots
and dump them in the lake. The troops handle that,
So what else is new? Not suck as still rolling?
And since you brought it up, let's just keep remembering
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what puts us where we are. Anybody takes a real
shot at throwing a monkey mention, it works.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
He's going to be around to even have the chance.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Jeremy Dyckman has rejected his predictable world to enter a
world of chance, and whatever his system, whatever his dreams,
he already seems well on the way to being the
classic gambler, a loser, his job, his wife, and even
now his life seemed to have been thrown away because
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of his compulsion. Now, let's say a better word is obsession,
and the first Dictionary definition for that word is an
act of the devil in telling a person to action
from without. I shall return shortly with that too.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
When you say Benny, you've said a lot of things
not body else can say. When you say many, you've
gone as far as you can go.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
To get them.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
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Bobby, you've said the word that means you like to do.
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Bobby, you say you're car enough too all you want no.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Coming.
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Because that you're not.
Speaker 10 (15:58):
I can say.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
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When I left you, we were concerned with the definition
of obsession, But what of another definition for possession? It
is an active and a passive state, active in the
sense that one takes over something or someone, passive in
that you are the one taken over, as wouldn't you agree.
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Jeremy Dykman has been.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Hello, Hi, It's Jerry, Jerry.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Are you? Jen?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Don't call me that Hi has too many overtones. I
don't like. Okay, Virginia, that has some overtones. I don't
care for either. I'll settle for Jinny.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Okay, Jenny?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
How are you I survive? What's more? To the point?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
How are you the same? You don't sound as if
it's good it isn't. Are you out of money?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Just about?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But not out of hope and belief? Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Why did you call?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Just to touch base?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And that's good because I.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Want to ask you one thing? What's that? I don't
know about lawyers? But our agreement is pretty well drawn up,
isn't it. Yes? And part of it was we could
split the joint account. Yes. Well, I don't mean to
make anything difficult. But could I draw on that thousand
or two right now? I can't even need it.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
It's all right with me, Jerry.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
But but what.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I'll throw it away?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Jerry?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Please?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Don't throw everything away?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Why make it tough? Do I get it or not?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Wouldn't you rather have me?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
How do I answer that?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
It doesn't seem so difficult. It's just a yes or
a no.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I forget it. I'll raise the nose somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Jerry Jerry, Oh no, oh lord?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Why why your fault?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
You said you stamp back. Yes, ma'am queen, you're busted,
you said. Hit me, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Three of spades, hit me.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Again, five an ilands, eight showing stand you have a
king of that's what shows?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Hit me again. I have a clubs I showed twenty.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
One nine and a hall a twenty year old. Pay
me that's your bed?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Hello, Jerry, Jenny?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
What am I doing anywhere? You're not?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You just brought me good luck? I cleaned up.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
You mean it hasn't been going so well?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
I just started to turn. No, don't leave, don't leave,
just stick around. Make your beds, please, all right?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
For blood this time, I let it all ride.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Will make your own bets, mister everyone in yea gods
and a seven of the dealer second.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Guards Jenny Jenny, Oh, Jerry, come on, honey, come on,
let's get you under the covers into bed.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Oh what time is It's half past four and.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I came up to the room just after twelve.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Did you miss me, sure, Jenny, Only well, I figured
you were tired and wanted to get to bed.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
I was tired tired of that silly game, same old thing,
over and over.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, not tonight, not tonight, that's the same thing one bit. Look,
I think I've got it all put together, all what
put together, the system, the counting, the way to beat
the house. Look who read them and weep?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Thirty five hundred guilt edged American dollars that I parlayed
at the twenty one table out of my.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Last three hundred. You run, Oh, you better believe it.
Maybe from here on in we've got it, made got
what made us life the big steak. Oh, darling, you
don't know what luck you brought me? And how I'm
gonna need you now?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
How will you need me?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I have got the whole system. Now, it proves out,
it works. It's it's infallible.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Even if they switch to more than one deck, even
as many as four, the constants are set. It's just adjustment.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
What I have to do is study, study, study, and practice,
practice and study, and.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You can help.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Look, here's a pack of cards, brand new. I'll shuffle
clear off the table.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
There eh, Jerry, there's something I want to say. First.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Oh, look in a moment, honey. I just want to
show you how it works, and no tricks, just me
and my mind against the house.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Clear the table. Okay, now, deil.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Jerry, I don't know anything about black chest.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You know how to handle cards. You play bridge, Jinny.
Take the cards. I will say, four hands and the dealer.
I'll be number one hand three dummies and you're the dealer.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Jerry. Please listen to me.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
A card.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Three more, face down to the dummy players, and now
yourself one face up. Fine, Now deal all five of
us another card face down.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Now the object is yet is near twenty one in
your card count without going over, because that's a.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Bus but a score more than the dealers count to win.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Jerry, Honestly, I couldn't care less.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Listen, listen, just let me show the beauty part here.
Now I've got a ten and a three, so I
ask for a hit.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Deal five of diamonds.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I stand on that, but that's plus one card in
my system. Next guy, hit him, deuce, hit him again.
Ten That busts him, but the ten is a minus
one card, so they cancel out. Hit the next guy six,
he stands, but that's another plus one though, because it's
a six, I try the last one deuce hit him again.
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Four he stands, but that's two more pluses. That's plus four.
But who wins in this case? You have to stand
on seventeen as the dealer, so I win. But that's
not important. It's only one hand. What counts is if
the plus score stays high, I bet more units, higher wagers.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Why Because the longer.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
The plus score stays high, the more chance there is
to draw down a face card or a ten, because
more and more of them are left in the deck.
And the thing is to keep it all computed in
the head. And that's why you can be so valuable me.
You can deal for me, set me up in game conditions,
allow me to concentrate on the count. Oh, honey, you
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don't know what a lightesaber you are turning up just
at this moment.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You are just what I need. We've got it made.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Oh if only you knew we have sure or sure.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Tonight I really prove it.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I can play the house at the worst fifty to
fifty on my system, and most times I can tip
the odds my way.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
What more do you want what we had, Jerry, just
what we had.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
No pie in the sky, and not this sickness that's
got you.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
I wanted to tell you something. Now doesn't seem the time.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Where are you going away from you to another guy?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Maybe maybe there's one who wants me.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Frank Dexter, Yes, it could be better off. Maybe he
can give you a child. I haven't figured a system
on that one yet.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Okay, go oh, Jerry, you can't say that You've got
to give me a chance to change your mind.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
No, I'm seeing this through to the bitter end, and
there isn't.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Any point in my sticking around. You don't even want
to listen.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
You never guess, would you that I was sitting up
in this plastic room praying that you would lose your
shirt because I knew if you won, I'd lose.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Goodbye, Jerry.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
I hope Lady Luck can give you more than I
seem to be able to.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
And you didn't tell him, Virginia, No, Frank, I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
I mean, it's his right to No, it wouldn't have
made any difference to him. Nothing would. He's in love
with another woman who possesses him body and soul.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
There's another woman as well, No, just the same.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Old spellbinder, Lady Luck, Dame Fortune, the Queen of Spades,
whatever you want to call her.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Well, if you had told him you were in news,
perhaps that.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You honestly think it might.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Frank, you were the one who first diagnosed Jerry's sickness
gambling fever, chronic prognosis negative, no cure.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Oh and you were right.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I still say he has the right to know he's
going to have a child.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Who says he is.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
I don't have to bring a child in the world
to be hurt as his father could hurt him. That's
another gamble. I'm afraid I may not be able to take.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Plus two minus.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
One, linus two, even us three. Ja ah yeah yeah,
in a minute, When do you split nine?
Speaker 9 (28:06):
When dealer shows no sevens but anything from two to nine?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
What you understand? You see it now? Jenny, Jenny, who
who are you?
Speaker 9 (28:21):
The woman you really love?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I love Jenny, your little queen of hearts.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Don't worry, Jerry.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
Look at her closely in the pack so like yet
so I'm.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Like, I'll make you forget her light.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
Beauty for my dogue one.
Speaker 13 (28:43):
Who are you your lady lack just call me the
Queen of Spade, or.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Oh it's the phone. Yeah, yeah, what is it? Oh yeah,
that's right. I'm sorry. I did leave a call. I
don't know. Thank you, thank you, give me give me
room service. Will you come tally? She put it down. Slammer.
(29:23):
I'll check it out in the moment. Good night. Let
be wise.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
A counter took us from a bundle? How much about
twelve grand?
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Yeah, it's a nice round summer. It's four times in
the last week he stings is.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, we uh moving on him.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
We might just have to waste them. I'm gonna think
about that, slammer. I'm gonna do a lot of thinking
about that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Well.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Jeremy Dickman may have found a formula for winning at
the tables, but it looks as though he's a loser.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
All the rest of the way down the line. He's
lost his wife, he's thrust.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
His child, and now two very hard men are in
the process of considering whether or not he might lose
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Speaker 2 (31:43):
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Speaker 3 (32:55):
In a lonely house where she once lived with her
husband and love, Virginia Dykeman wrestles with the problem of
her bleak future. In a lonely hotel room, Jerry Dyckman
tosses and turns through dreams of a surrogate wife who
is fast becoming the symbol of the success of his
system to win at blackjack and in the casino office.
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Two hard men considered dispassionately whether his system is to
be tolerated or even Jerry Dyckman himself a.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Couple of questions, shout boss, he's sure he's no mechanic
checked bout every way, No rise a plate, pieces under
the nails, no other market gimmick, No computers like the
guy had last year under his raincoat.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
No switches, he was sort of films.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yeah, I studied him. I agree, just a straight counter.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Them guys really get the met Well, why do you.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Get so mad at them, slammer.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
There's still plenty of suckers even and out, and a
fair to heavy winner within reason is.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Good pub relations. Yeah, but a cow.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Everybody's a counter one way or another, black jack.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Some are just better than others.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Yeah, maybe I'll have a little chat with him, like
maybe the next time he tries to draw to his credit.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Oh evening, Frank Virginia.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I h I've been a little concerned about you. I
tried to call, but the phone was busy.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
I've had it off the hook.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh well, I I was in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I drove by and saw the lights and do you
want to come in? Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Why not.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
You're not looking well.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I don't feel very well.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Then, for Heaven's sake, with you.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
It isn't physical, just sheer, brutal mental exhaustion. Let's go
in the living room.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yes, have you uh spoken to Jerry?
Speaker 15 (35:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
No, he doesn't need me anymore. If he ever did, you.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Haven't done anything else? Uh foolish?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Not yet?
Speaker 6 (35:21):
If you mean anything about my baby, Jerry ought to
be told. You know, it wouldn't make any difference.
Speaker 10 (35:29):
You know, I know?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Well, what do you plan to do? I mean, I
feel well. I think I have some right to ask.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Oh, dear Frank, of course you do. But I can
only give you one answer.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
What pray? Pray that I'm not really going to lose
Jerry forever to arrival. I don't even know how to fight.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Jerry, Jerry?
Speaker 9 (36:04):
What are you dreaming about?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Jenny? Jenny? How can I make you understand?
Speaker 9 (36:10):
Is it Jenny? Jenny's gone? It's me now, Jerry? Me?
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Who's me?
Speaker 9 (36:20):
You're lucky queen, the Queen of Spain.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Oh no, I don't want I want Jenny.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
Jenny's gone, Jerry, She's long gone.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Time to wake up, But start.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Counting, counting now I'm so tired, so tired.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
Oh, I go on with her because you can't help yourself.
It's the challenge. Nothing matters but the challenge.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
What I can to earn money other ways.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
It isn't the.
Speaker 9 (36:56):
Money, It's the dream, pursuit, the battle that you love.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I love Ginny, not anymore, Jerry.
Speaker 9 (37:09):
Not anymore. It's me you love now, me, your lady of.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Fortune, And you can't take your love for me, because
only I can show you the way.
Speaker 16 (37:26):
Only I.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
No, Hi, wait I what? Oh yeah? Who?
Speaker 5 (37:42):
No, I won't accept the call. Tell doctor Dexter, the
patient is long since out of his hands. Oh be
an angel to send me up some coffee where you
gotta clear my head before I get back to the casino.
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I'm doubling down.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Sorry, mister Dykeman, your betters over the table limit.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Will be House extend the courtesy.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I'm told you are better is accepted. Do I hit you?
I'll stand Pat Madam one god a queen busted one
card to you, sir. Five Again, King puts you over
on the table, told to the next gentleman, and again
vandams House wins, and the last gentleman stands. Pat Dealer
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has a six showing and in the hall dealer must
draw five A spades to the house twenty one pay
no one, sorry, mister dykman.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Yeah wow, you win one, you lose one. Wipes the
five thousand chips. I started with what you asked the
pit boss to credit me with another.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Five He signals me, we can't extend that credit.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I have twenty five thousand undeposit.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Well, I'm sure it can all be arranged if you
don't mind just stepping over to the cashier's cage.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Okay, hold my seat, Well you gotta be right back.
Come in, mister dyckman. What's all this run around?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Mister rue Ace? True you want to make any jokes
about it?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
No, no jokes. None of this is very funny.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
I have twenty five thousand undeposit with you, and I
ask for a five thousand credit. The dealer ducks it
to the pit boss, the pit boss to the cashier's cage.
I'll finally I end up here. Look, I want to
know what's the run around?
Speaker 7 (39:40):
You play black check? Mister dyckman. What do you know
about counting?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
I know an ACE council either one or eleven.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
Or what percentage of press and minus cards are out
of the deck, or what the percentage on a stiff
is when a bit maximum when you read the deck
is flush?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Or a thousand the tricks? What are you leading up to?
Are you going to close your tables to me?
Speaker 7 (40:04):
Our competitors already have this. Here's the only game in
town for you. No, no, I don't want to close it.
You're too valuable to us me. But the more you hit,
the more the roops trying to follow you. The only
thing is you getting too much action. That's uh, that's
(40:29):
why I want to see you private.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
A deal, A deal, I leave you alone. You count
all you want. I just want my kit? How much
I'll settle for seventy five? To you?
Speaker 6 (40:46):
To me?
Speaker 11 (40:47):
Who?
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Brother? Am I in the lion's den? And the lion
takes his share? Suppose I refuse? You don't play anymore?
That is still the Caribbean, Micile the island. If you
get there? What does that mean? He'll figure it out? Well?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
I couldn't we have talked at the hotel.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
I'd say I didn't wanna share our conversation with anyone else.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
You mean your room is bugged?
Speaker 5 (41:17):
I mean my life is wired programmed compute it, to
pick the term of your choice.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I'm just an end result no money.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I ask you to commit yourself, not even myself. You
could get out. Uh maybe, isn't it worth trying the
other thing?
Speaker 2 (41:32):
I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Yeah, certainly you'd be the last one to want me
to write. And that's what you're up here for, to
talk about me and Jenny.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
The reason I came up here is to tell you
what Virginia won't tell you herself. What she's pregnant. Jerry.
I I should go back to her. Of course you should,
only you know I won't. That's what you came up
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here to clear away. I'm not going to sort out
my motives. I offer you a fact. You give up
all this and come back to Virginia now or or what?
Or do you face a fact? I've have to face that.
I don't even think this is enough to bring you back,
which really gives you some big left not really. I
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love Virginia, but she loves you. She just can't live
with you as you are. No one could. If she
can't have you, I want her to settle the second best.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Yeah, I'd better have her settle, And I'm not downgrading
you think m even with a child. I want good,
am I to anyone or anything except to win a game.
But the prize is worth fighting for, only the compulsion
that I cannot end a loser.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
What's the matter, Jerry boy? You ready to be counted out?
Speaker 5 (43:06):
Has to be a losing streak, just a streak, the
count The count still must be right, right, don't be
too sure?
Speaker 6 (43:15):
The cars and even me our fickle.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Why do I have to win? Why can't I accept losing?
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Because you're a gambler.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
You're caught, you are.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
I can't caught caught.
Speaker 9 (43:33):
Jenny heard Jerry, She's gone.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
She can't help me, Jenny? What have I What have
I done?
Speaker 8 (43:41):
You?
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Stay ahead, mister dykman. I want to double down. The
house will accept it.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
But okay, okay, I get get as over here. He's
right at the next table, mister drill. Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Gentleman wants to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
What can I do for you? Mister dyckman? I want
you to raise the table limit? How high will you go?
Speaker 10 (44:12):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Do you want to push it? You want to let
me meet? Five thousand? A deal? You got your limit? Okay, dealer?
Five grand? Says I can beat you probable twenty draw
to eighteen. Hit me blackjacket, pay me doubles.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Gentleman has a jack in a nice house.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
Phase double, hit me, deuce, hit me five, hit me
big age to give me five under at twenty one.
Hit me tennis, spades, nine and deuce in the hole.
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Name it a game, twenty one, go ahead, beat me.
Del has a queen up six in a hole. He
draws seven o' clubs. I'll space everyone.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Did you look here him?
Speaker 9 (45:05):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (45:05):
We blew fifty two thousand. He took the house for tonight, and.
Speaker 7 (45:09):
The big Boss had to be here and should tell
him about the public relations and all.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (45:13):
Sometimes he can get too expensive, so we find him.
If he's smart, he'll duck out on his high have
let the big boil. Let me handle him certain reasons.
I don't want him to look into this whole deal
too careful. I can't handle the roast. And we took
just so long as mister Jerry Deikman never shows up again.
Speaker 4 (45:41):
I can't believe it, Jerry, but I want to.
Speaker 5 (45:45):
You can, my darling, my little mother to be. I
can promise you I'll never gamble on cards again as long.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
As I live, darling.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
I don't mean to doubt your promise, but.
Speaker 5 (45:58):
How can you be sure? Yes, oh, it won't be easy.
But let me try to explain gambling. Gambling is a
macho thing. It's no use denying it. I bet my
manhood against the house trying to make me just another nobody.
I mean, they have the odds. I tried to beat them,
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and if I flogged my brain twenty four hours a day,
maybe maybe I found a way to make them close
to even. But then suddenly a miracle happened. A miracle
I c I can't explain it, and I don't intend
to try to. But something happened, which means I will
never touch a card game again.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
What is the miracle?
Speaker 5 (46:42):
Well, it's all gone, the thrill, the combat. What makes
much is more work kind.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
I don't know how or why, But.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Ginny, before a dealer deals any card, I can see
exactly what it is. It isn't a matter winning or losing.
Speaker 16 (47:02):
I know.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
So it's like taking the alcohol out of whiskey, the
kickout of heroin. What's the point without that? So I'm home.
I'm home to say I only wish I knew what
miracle made it possible.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Oh, darling, will you buy me?
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Eh? What do you have to say?
Speaker 6 (47:22):
Just something very simple and don't ask me what it means.
I get at least one free statement without a question.
What don't ever underestimate the power of prayer?
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Jerry and Virginia moved to a small town on the
East Coast and opened a community shop for local artisans
and artists. It enjoys a comfortable success, and not the
least of its values are Jerry's watercolors, which are fast
becoming collectors Iteas so with apology peez may I paraphrase
(48:02):
an old aphorism. It's better to have lost and won
than never to have lost at all.
Speaker 17 (48:12):
There are two kinds of first class service, first class
first class and second class first class. As the red
baron of Luftanz the German airlines, I would like to
explain the difference. Mine is first class first class. There
is fresh orange juice, freshly scrambled eggs, fresh flowers, caviare,
(48:34):
and you'll find at least seven entrees on the menu.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Just a few reasons.
Speaker 17 (48:39):
Many professional travelers call Mine the best first class service
across the Atlantic. But I won't go into greater detail
about them. There is a better way for both of us.
Fly my first class first class on your next strip
to Europe. You'll never fly second class first class again.
Speaker 18 (49:02):
Here's a free minute from Pippin Broadways musical comedy Sensation,
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Speaker 3 (50:00):
You can see the other one hundred and nineteen minutes
of Pippen live at the Imperial Theater without commercial interruption.
Perhaps the most curious psychological factor in the Gambler's makeup
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is that one would think that constant losses would eventually
lead to a cure, teach him that he can't win.
But the truth is that the Gambler is the one
man who expects and welcomes failure. The only thing he
may not be able to withstand his success, and therein
(50:43):
may lie his only cure, a pleasant one.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
Even if Jeremy Dykman didn't choose.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
To exercise his special powers, he ended up happier just
letting life deal the cards and allowing them to fall
as they may. Cast included Paul Hect, Patricia Elliott, Jackson Beck,
and Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction
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Carter's economic brain and what he calls himself death on
forty second Street taxi fairs in New York going up.
It's thirteen degrees that's minus ten celsius in very cold
and windy mid Manhattan whether watch outlook high wind warnings
and in fact, for this evening, bitterly col tonight with
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northwest winds gusting to more than forty miles an hour
at times. This evening, hi John Wingate with the eight
o'clock report from w r News, the man President elect
Carter is expected to name his chairman of the Council
of Economic Advisors. Now describes himself as a liberal economist.
Charles Schultz got his doctorate degree in economics from the
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University of Maryland in nineteen sixty and has taught economics
at Indiana University and Maryland. He's a native of Alexandria, Virginia. Schultz,
now sixty two years of age, was budget director under
former President and Johnson from nineteen sixty five to sixty seven.
He has been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution,
the think tank since nineteen sixty eight. At Brookings, Schultz
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helped author a number of major studies, including a nineteen
seventy five report on the impact of the nineteen seventy
three increase in world oil prices on the American economy.
The study concluded that the full impact to the price
increase should be felt and passed through the economy by
nineteen eighty without lasting adverse consequences. Schultz has also argued
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the next administration made a mistake by trying to fight
the inflationary effect of the oil price increase through conservative
economic policies. Shaws contends the Nixon policies helped to bring
on the recession of nineteen seventy four and nineteen seventy five.
Violence in Midtel, Manhattan, one parole officer killed a woman
passer by wounded when a man allegedly opened fire on
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Busy forty second Street.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
This during the noon hour.
Speaker 19 (54:35):
The man who reportedly fired the shots was released from
Taconic State Prison two months ago. Wor gets these details
from New York City Police Inspector Milton Schwartz.
Speaker 16 (54:44):
Three New York State parole officers, on information that they
had were looking for a parole violator Mammy named Donald Wiggins.
They went to sixteen East forty second Street and there
Wiggins are highly recognized one of the part as being
a para officer. He tried to leave and they tried
to stop them. One of the para officers tried to
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stop them by wrestling with him. Wiggins had a very
two caliber revolver. At that time he fired two shots,
striking the prol officer, and that officer subsequently has died
at w hospital. He fired another shot which struck a female,
a bystander, and she's in w hospital now and her
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condition is serious, but at this time she's not likely
to die.
Speaker 19 (55:35):
New York City believes inspector of Milton Schwartz cold outside
thirteen degrees may get colder w or or seven ten
years time three minutes exactly past eight o'clock. The Supreme
Court has sent the Gary Gilmore case back to the
state of Utah. The fate of that convicted killer, who
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they said he'd rather die than face life in prison,
now rest with the Fourth District Court in Provo Utah.
The High Court refused to further postpone Gilmore's execution. Lawyers
for the death row inmate last week called on the
state court to free Gilmore. They said, a condemned man
to be executed not less than thirty days no more
than sixty days from the date of his sentencing unless
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he appeals. The legal period expired six days ago. The
Supreme Court justices today voted five to four to deny
a request from Gilmore's mother that her son's life be
spared until lawyers representing her could file a formal appeal
with the High Court. Earlier in the day, it appeared
the court had postponed at least for one week, any
decision in the Gilmore case, but that was not the case.
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New Jersey legislators are considering death penalty legislation. W orr's
Ed Nash reports the state.
Speaker 15 (56:47):
Senate is going through an unprecedented evening of soul searching.
This is the debate on a capital punishment bell introduced
by Senator John Rousseau of Ocean Cavy. Without much difficulty,
Russell won approval for amendments to his bill, amendments that
would prescribe the death penalty not only for a murderer,
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but also for anyone who engages another to commit murder.
But then came another move for amendment. This time it
came from Senator James Dugan of Hudson County. Dugan made
a quiet, impassioned plea for rejection of the death penalty.
Dugan offered a substitute punishment, mandatory life imprisonment for murder,
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but without chance of probation, parole, or pardon, and it's
on that subject Dugan's amendment. That debate continues at this hour.
This is at nash w O our news at the
New Jersey State House.
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Cool outside thirteen degrees all of thirteen on the thirteenth
of December w or seven ten news time have been
its pest.
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Eight o'clock Good Happy pay Vision.
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Fort Lee in Lynnwood Plaza Shopping Center Root nine w
open daily ten to nine Saturday until five o'clock. Fleet
owners of New York City taxes have made a proposal
which their taxi drivers have accepted tentatively.
Speaker 2 (58:25):
This prevents a threatened strike.
Speaker 19 (58:27):
Both sides have agreed to ask the Taxi and Limousine
Commission to okay a fair increase of thirteen percent. Industry
spokesman Arthur Gore tells w ORR as Lester Smith, this
fair hike will be used to cope with rising costs. Apparently,
we will not hear for mister Gore at the moment,
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but we will try later. Last minute talks have been
scheduled for tonight for the Wayan Dance Long Island school
teachers who are threatening to go on strike tomorrow morning.
The Wine Dance Teachers Association has been without a contract
since June thirtieth. Union president John O'Donnell said earlier today
that the prospect of a settlement before tomorrow, to quote him,
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doesn't look good. Wyandanch has one hundred and fifty union
teachers and twenty eight hundred students. O'donnald says the union's
rank and fire will meet at seven am tomorrow to
take a strike boat, and if the motion carries the walkout,
he says, will take effect immediately. Now we come to
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the w OUR weatherwatch update for New York City in Vicinity.
High wind warnings in effect for this evening. Forecast bitterly
cold tonight, with northwest winds gusting to more than fourteen
miles an hour at times this evening, then tapering off
after midnight. Clear skies with record breaking low temperatures near
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ten here in the city and mostly from five to
ten in the colder suburbs. Mostly sunny and not quite
so cold tomorrow, with highest tomorrow reaching the low thirties.
Fair tomorrow night with a low from twenty five two
thirty Bartley, Cloudy and mile Are on Wednesday, and a
high Wednesday in the forties. The chance of snow it's
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near zero tonight, up to ten percent tomorrow and tomorrow night.
Winds northwest at fifteen to twenty five miles an hour,
with strong gusts of forty miles an hour or more,
gradually diminishing to ten to fifteen by morning, becoming southwesterly
at ten to fifteen miles an hour Tomorrow and tomorrow night.
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In very cold and extremely windy mid Manhattan. We're now
down to thirteen degrees. That's minus ten celsius humidity. That's
thirty four percent. When northwest at thirteen gusting now to
thirty four miles an hour, barometer is thirty point four four,
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and that barometer is riseing the top stories of the hour.
Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Charles Schultz, who is President elect Carter's.
Speaker 19 (01:01:10):
Economic Council to Be, describes himself as a liberal economist.
New Jersey State Legislature tonight debates death penalty. US Supreme
Court throws Gary Gilmore case back to Utah. And that's
the eight o'clock news. John Wingate reporting next news on
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the station. Always a moment, it happens, Next schedule news.
I'll be back with you at nine o'clock tonight, nine
o'clock straight up. Now we go to Barry Farmer, tossing
questions and getting answers.
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