August 28, 2025 • 57 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 (00:17):
Come in welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
In our world, nothing is lost. The droppings of birds
fertilize the ground. The ground sends up grass. The grass
nourishes the sheep. Evil lives on as well. A bit
of gossip becomes a rumor. The rumor grows into a falsehood.
The falsehood engenders fear, and the fear leads to a killing.
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A malicious word wounds a soul. An act of indifference
congeals a heart for good or for evil.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Nothing is lost.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Our mystery drama Nobody Dies was.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Written especially for the Mystery.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Theater by Elspeth Harry and stars Terry Keane and Anne Shepherd.
It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware stores.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And the Buick Mortar division. I'll be back shortly with
that one.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It is a magic moment. You are at your Buick
dealers about to drive home, and your brand new Buick
les saver. It's lean and trim, classic lines. It looks
quite unlike any full size Buick you can remember. You
get in a heavy new car. Smell surrounds you. You're
a saber feels the way it looks tight. You turn
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the wheel a little, no wasted motion in this car,
big brush, metallic gauges look back at you. That'd be
six engine is doing great. You rub your hand on
the seat. Six people could be really comfortable in here.
You swing in your driveway, your wife, the kids, the dog.
Everyone with the parakeet descends on the car.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And gets in.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Off you go, and nowhere in particular, life and your
doula's saber are great. Maybe the dog shouldn't sit on
the seats.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
This is Dave Herman.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Seats are available for this Sunday afternoon Jet's Bengals football game.
You can get them at the Jets ticket office five
ninety eight mattson Avenue, at Shay Stadium ticket window, and
of course at the.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Gate on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The story has its beginning fifty years ago. It's a
beautiful spring day. A young woman stands at the door
of a large colonial house, dignified and serene, and surrounded
by great stretches of clicked lawn, spotted here and there
by beds of bright flowers. There is something tentative in
the manner of the young woman, timid as she raises
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her hand to touch the button by the door.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And thinking to myself, what am I doing here.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
The advertisement in the local paper had said housekeeper wanted
live in private quarters, apply between nine and ten am.
It had given the address and the name Holt, And
that was all I knew. This was a very fancy
section of our town. In the minute I saw the
big white house with the green shutters, my knees started
to shake. Would anyone trust me with the care of
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such a house?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I pushed the button and said a little prayer. I
was desperate. I needed this job more than anything in
the world. Yes, there she stood, the woman who had
to be missus Holt, who held my future in her hands.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
She was about my own age.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
She was tall, blonde, and so mean, and she was very,
very pregnant. You've come about the position, the per the job. Yes,
well come on there, Oh, thank you very much. Shall
we go into the living room?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yes? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Sit down any place? You look rather young?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
How old are you? Twenty?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Twenty nine? Will tell me about yourself? Or would you
rather I told you about the position first? That would
that would be fine, fright?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
This house has ten rooms, five bedrooms. Two of them
are in the back of the house, and they have
their own bath.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Those would be reserved for whoever takes the position.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That sounds very nice.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
And there's a cook cleaning woman comes in three times
a week. It's a question of making beds and doing
some dusting, answering the door, doing the shopping things like that,
and supervising the cook and the cleaning lady.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It doesn't sound very hard.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Well, it's what I used to do myself til I
got pregnant.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
When are you going to have your baby?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
In a minute?
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Now?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Can't you tell?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Now?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Tell me about yourself. Don't uh think i'd mind? You're
being young. I'd like to have someone my own.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Age around the house.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Well, I I used to have a house, I mean,
not a house like this, just a little house.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
But I did all the work, and I think.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I kept it nice, clean and nice. You know I'm
in attractive. I'm sure you did. But uh, you have
a house now. I couldn't afford it after my husband
left me.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Since he left me up and living in a furnished
room and I've been doing house cleaning by the day.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'm very good at it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
But it's not like living in a real house, I mean,
having something to count on. Oh, of course it isn't
especially when you have a little boy.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
To think of a little boy.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You have a little boy two years old? Well, how
do you manage working old day and other people's home? Mm? Well,
I take him with me. He had his toys and
his coloring books. And he's never any trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Really, he never cries, and he's never been sick never,
I mean, not even a cold.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Alright, all right, I understand. But if we could be
in the same house all the time, I understand, I
really do. What would you want in the way of salary,
oh anything, whatever you want to pay? How be as
generous as I possibly can. What's your little boy's.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Name, Jamie? His name is Jamie.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
That was the beginning of the most beautiful part of
my whole life. Missus Holt's baby was born about three
weeks later, a little girl, and she.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Was named Verity. Isn't that a beautiful name? Verity? It
means truth or reality. I looked it up.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It took me a while to get up the nerve
to ask her where mister hold was the baby's father,
And when she told me he died right soon after
she got pregnant, I cried. Besides running the house I
helped take care of the baby. The little girl's Verity.
And you don't have to believe this if you don't
want to. But Jamie was never one bit jealous of Verity.
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Children are you know, very often they're jealous of new babies,
and you have to be careful. But even missus Hope
noticed how Jamie loved the baby. Alice, you'll never believe this.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
What won't I believe?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I was in the nursery this morning and Jamie was
standing by the baby's crib, and you know what I
heard him say, I want you Verity a bustle and
a pig and a hug around. Really, you heard him.
That's what he said.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
That's what I used to say to him when he
was a baby. I still say it.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Oh you're a wonderful mother, Alice. Life just went on
that way, and I was as happy as it was
possible to be. Look at this what why? It's a
drawing in pastels.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Of a little bird on a branch.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Ah, it's very good, don't you think it's It's very touching,
very sweet. Jamie gave it to me. Jamie he made
it in school, but he's only eight years old. No,
I'm going to frame it, and I'm going to hang
on the wall. That's the way it went. Every day
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better than the one before, and nothing but nice things
to look forward to. Where did Jamie learn so much poetry?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Ellice? Well, I suppose he learned it in school.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I heard him the other day. He and Verity were
out here in the garden, and I could hear them
through the window. Loud and clear, Stay sweet, and do
not rise. The light the Chinese comes from thine eyes.
The day breaks not it is my heart because that
you and I must part, stay, or else my joys
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will die and perish him their infancy. Well, for Heaven's sake,
I happened to know. That's John Dunne from a sixteenth century.
And why a boy of fourteen would bother to learn it?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Jamie went on learning poetry. I never asked him about it.
Why he bothered? I thought it was nice that he did.
One day I heard his voice in the conservatory. I
stopped to listen, and then I realized he wasn't alone.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
For I sweet love remembered such wealth brings that then
I scorned to change my state with kings.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Oh Jamie, that's beautiful at Shakespeare.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Jamie was just sixteen.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I didn't know a line of Shakespeare, and I'd never
known that he did. I couldn't help asking him about it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
By all of Shakespeare's silence, by heart.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
My goodness, I am impressed.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I hope Verity was impressed. I was trying to tell
her how much I love her. Luf you told her
you left her, I've always loved her. She knows that
you're both very young. Romeo and Juliet were even younger.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Mom.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Well, life went on. Jamie got into the local college
right in the same town. Lucky for us, because he
could go on living at home. He'd finished his second
year in Verity was enrolled to start that full Mom.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I'm going to ask Verity to marry me, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't mean right away. I mean when she's finished college.
By then i'll be making a living.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You're sure about that, of course, I'm sure, darling. There's
no need to rush into anything. I'm not rushing. I'm
just asking that you'll meet other girls.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Mom, I've loved Verity my life.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Don't you know that.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
He asked her to marry Well, of course, he didn't
mean right away. After she finishes college, and he wouldn't
expect her to marry him.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Now, that's very considerate, missus Holt.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I don't think we have to take it seriously. They'll
both meet other people, Jamie says, that won't make any difference.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But you never can tell, can you.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I think I'll send Verity away to college, some good
Eastern school. Oh would you do that? They're both so happy?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Here?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Tell us how much did you have to do with this,
with what, missus Holt, with this, this, this attachment, this
liaison between your son and my daughter.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I didn't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
You plotted, didn't you From the beginning. You plotted, and
you schemed to make everything turn out this way.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
No, I had no idea anything right you want to.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Do into this house bringing your son with you. Then
you made yourself indispensable. You pretended to be my I
did not pretend.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I none of this is true.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I am kind of which I think you are. And
you've been weaving spells up there alone in your room,
missus hold No, you've always known that my daughter could
never marry a son of yours. It's unthinkable. But I
had had nothing to do with it. Nothing at all,
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or had I had everything to.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Do with it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I don't know, and I have thought long and hard
about it. I am reduced to calling it fate, simply fate,
or call it the machinations of some spirit, some spirit
perhaps lodged in me, A spirit whose name I don't
know it is. Such a spirit chose to work through me.
It was without my knowledge or my will. I swear
that's true. I swear I believe, I think it's true.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Oh I hope it's true.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Of course, there are spirits in all of us, spirits
full of energy and of huge power. Some drive the
people they inhabit to great accomplishment. Then, of course there
are other spirits, equally potent, spirits which move their possessors
to cowardice, to morbidity, to self destruction, even to the
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Speaker 2 (16:42):
When Alice became housekeeper to the affluent missus hot. It
was a relief from a life of drudgery and anxiety,
and a haven both for herself and for her son,
Jamie two years old, when her employer soon after gave
birth to a daughter. It is only natural that Alice
should retain her position in the household, and that the
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two children.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Should grow up together.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
However, at the close of Act one, we heard.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Alice, how much did you have to do with this?
With what with this, with this, this attachment, this liaison
between your son and my daughter.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I didn't have anything to do.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
You plotted, didn't you. You plotted and schemed and made
everything turn out this way. Surely you know you've always
known that my daughter could never marry a son of yours.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
It's unthinkable.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
My beautiful life in her beautiful house had come to
an end. Our friendship it hended too, if indeed it
had ever been the friendship I.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Thought it to be. For the first time, she had.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Reminded me that I was her servant, and my son
was the son of a servant, and that the marriage
of her daughter to the son of one such as
myself was what was the word thinkable? I started to
pack our clothes Jamie's in mind? Is that you Jamie?
It's missus holds, Alice. Oh, just a minute, I want
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to talk to you, Alice.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well, all right, come in. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You you've been packing. You don't want us here anymore? Oh, Alice,
I didn't mean anything like that. You are afraid Verity
might want to marry Jamie and he's not good enough
for her. You. But as you said, Alice, they're both
very young. They'll meet other people. Now that I've had
a little time to think about it, I realize how
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right you are. I I I it was just a
kind of shock when you first told me very they
isn't old enough to marry anyway. You said I planned
it for them to fall in love and get married.
That was a ridiculous thing for me to say. Please
forgive me. We've been together so long. Won't you forgive me?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Please?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I uh, I suppose the idea was kind of a
shock to you.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
It was.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Oh, I couldn't have said those things. Well if you,
if you, if you really didn't mean I didn't. I didn't,
And I guess it's all right. Oh Alice, thank you.
You'll never regret it, and you will stay on here.
Won't you. I've always loved it here, missus Holt, and
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so with Jamie. Then it's settled, you'll stay on and
so wild Jamie m But she sent Verity away to
a college in the East. Missus Holt had said she
would do it, and she did. Verdi and Jamie wrote
to each other almost every day.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I think he wrote every day his way.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
He grew quieter, more reserved, but he'd always been like that,
more or less, and I didn't worry about him, not
until Verity came home for her vacation.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Verity's engaged to some guy.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Some guy, Oh, some guy she met in the East. Oh, Jamie,
what's the matter? Well, you mean you you don't care?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well, why should I care? She won't marry him?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
How can you be so sure?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Very belongs to me? She always has ever since she
was born.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Jamie's confidence frightened me. I fought back to when missus
Holt had called me some kind of a witch. I
didn't want to hear those words again from her lips. Besides,
Jamie could be right. Maybe Verity wouldn't marry the man
she met in the East. Maybe in some way I
didn't comprehend she belonged to my son.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
But then a year later it happened.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
We'll have the wedding right here in the house, I think,
or would it be better in a church?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I think a church wedding would be the nicest.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
You're probably right. His parents will be here, they'll expect it.
His father's in the diplomatic service. Did I tend you no?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You didn't tell me.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yes. I think we'll have the wedding in the church.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I think that's best.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Alice, of course, Verity will want Jamie to be there,
but he needn't attend if he doesn't want to. We'll
all understand.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
It wasn't their understanding I cared about.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It was Jamie's.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
He had to understand that he'd aspired to something too
far above him, that he would never have the girl
he'd loved from the day she was born. He had
to understand and go on living as best he could
till some other girl could fill the void in his life.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I'll be there, why.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Not, Jamie? If it's too painful.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
It will be painful, but that's all right.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I'm so glad you're taking it this way.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Uh what way am I taking?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Well?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Realistically, facing up to it didn't you tell me?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's what verity means, reality, the truth.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yes, I did tell you that.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, besides, Verity still belongs to me. No matter what
she does with her life or I do with mine,
Verity still belongs to me, and she always will. That's
reality and that's truth.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
His words echoed in my mind all during the ceremony,
Just as he said he'd be. Jamie was in the church,
standing up way in the back, his eyes never leaving
the handsome young couple at the older the young married
couple took off from their honeymoon. Jamie went on to
finish college, and missus Hold and I went on in
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the big house, not quite the friends we once had been,
but on good terms.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
And one day.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Another letter from Verity is from London.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
What does she have to say?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Ah, lots of things, dear mummy. We're settled here in
the dearest flat you've ever seen. It's in Chelsea, a
very old part of London, but fashionable in an arty
sort of way.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
We go to the theater all the time. The theater
is so wonderful here and not too expensive and he.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Compared with other things.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
And we go to parties, mostly with other couples living
the same kind of life we do, diplomatic service life.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I mean, we've made them.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Dear friend friends.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
And here she goes down about their friends, Bibsing and
Punkle and Tupper and Jinky. I can't make out all
the names that here's one here that did somebody come in?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I think it's Jamie, Jamie that you.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I was just going upstairs.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I've got a letter from Verity. Oh, and I was
just reading it to your mother. Do you want to
hear it?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Well, I was just going upstairs, but.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I'm almost finished here. Let's see. Where was I all about?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yes, I've saved the best news for the last mummy.
I'm going to have a baby, a baby.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Artie's going to have a baby.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Oh, why didn't she send me a cable or call up?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
When is she going to her?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
And she says, wait, wait, not for eight months, but
she couldn't resist. Tell Oh. I wonder if I should
go over there or if she'll she'll want to come here. Oh,
dear me, there's so much to think about my first grandchild.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Imagine Jamie, where did Jamie go?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Alice, I'm going to go down to the table office
and tell her to phone me collect tonight. I'll be
back right away, Jamie. And are you up there? And
I'll give her your love? Elle Jamie? Where Jamie? Jamie?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Are you all right, Jamie, I'm not there.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Let it be, don't let it oh, ja mejame me.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
What have you done? I missed the Oh you're bleeding.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I missed twice.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Your head he's bleeding. Not so easy to kill yourself. No,
I get the doctor.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
No, don't leave me.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Stay with me, Jamie, I have to call a doctor. Please,
let go of my arm.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I want you to stay with me.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Mom, whose Jamie? Let me?
Speaker 8 (25:47):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I want you're with me.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It's always been you and me.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You've always been with me.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You've never gone off and let me. Don't go off
and leave me.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Now you've got to let me call the p I
won't die. Nobody dies, Mom, say me. And I want I.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Want you to tell that to Verity. Mom. Would you
would you do that?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Tella? Nobody really dies. Everybody goes on and on. Please
please say that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Good old Mom. Ye, you're really the best.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Oh, always there when I needed Jip, always right nearby,
always well you could see me and hear me. Remember Mom,
all my life from way back. Be near me now, Mom,
listen to me, now, yes, yes, all right?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Did did you understand what I told you about what
to tell Verity?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
You mean.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Nobody dies.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
That's right, Tell her that she'll understand. Just say nobody dies.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
The blood was still running from his poor head, and
he was still staring at me.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
But the hand that had been gripping my arm went limp,
and I knew he was dead. The light had gone
out of his eyes, the light had gone out of
his life. My son was dead. My son was dead.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
I tried to take that in, even if his last
words echoed through my mind. Nobody dies, nobody dies.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
The beginning of mourning is the acceptance of the fact
of death. We twist and turn to evade the reality.
We make up fantasies to deny it. We comfort ourselves
with memories which hurt wildly comfort.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
There simply is.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
No way to escape the awful pain unless, unless, perhaps
we can bring ourselves to believe what appears to be
a flagrant lie, Unless we can believe that nobody dies.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I'll return shortly with Act three.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
When a woman buys a shirt for her men, it's
usually a pretty good sign.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
That she loves me, and because she loves him, she.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Wants that shirt to be something special, something you'll be
happy with for a long time, even if he's hard
to please. Buying a shirt for the man she loves
is one place a woman doesn't want to miss.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
For a long time now, women have been buying more.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
Arrow shirts than any other kind because it's hard to
miss with Arrow.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Arrow makes shirts that look.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
Good, feel good, and fit good from.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
The collar to the table.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Shirts that look like today that don't look like yesterday
a month after you bought it. Shirts that are worth
exactly what they cost, button for button, and stitch for stitch.
For the man you learn, even if he's hard to please,
it's hard to miss with arrows Arrow America's shirt maker.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Exactly this hos what you were looking for?
Speaker 11 (29:44):
Can't get.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Exactly the sup money?
Speaker 8 (29:53):
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sweet Coats produced from ninety nine to sixty nine dollars
Right now Alexander's You saved thirty dollars and these genuine
Swede coats are warm as toast with lush dyed lamb
fur colors and rich furry acrylic pile linings even in
the sleeves, and the suede is butter soft and supple
luxury to the touch in wonderfully flattering belted rap styles
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in black or brown. Missus per trimmed and pile lined
genuine Swede coats were ninety nine dollars right now, just
sixty nine dollars in Alexander's leather and suede shop. What
a warm, luxurious gift for that session woman on.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Your list, Alexanders As thought you were looking bottle. Wow.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Now this message from your four Dealers Assocootation.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Raise hi Arnold for you.
Speaker 12 (30:44):
Ooh, a bouquet of long stem roses. What's the occasion?
Something on your conscience?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Tell me?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
The occasion is that I sold four Granadas today.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Yeah, it's a new record for my four dealers.
Speaker 12 (30:55):
Your idea of putting a Mercedes two eighty on your
showroom floor alongside a comparably equipped went not a really
paid off?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
It Sure it did.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Almost everyone who comes in can't figure out which is
the Granada and which is the Mercedes.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
They look so much alike, that is, until they say
they see.
Speaker 12 (31:09):
Their base Tigger prizes don't look at all like right,
and did you take them for test driving both the
Granada and the Mercedes?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yep, and all four Granada buyers who drove a Mercedes said.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
The Granada had a remarkably smooth and quiet ruck.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
Right.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
He forgot one thing for Sam, you're allergic to roses.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
You're a Ford dealer has the smooth riding Cai that
looks like the Mercedes to eighty but at less than
half the list price the new Ford Granada. Towards the
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end of the act just completed, Alice's son, Jamie, shot
himself after hearing the news that the girl he loved
all his life, who had married another man, was now
preparing to of birth to that man's child. Holding fast
to his mother's hand, Jamie had spoken his last words,
tell her that mom Verity, I'll understand, tell her nobody dies.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Missus Holt, of course, was dreadfully shocked when she came
home and I had to tell her what had happened.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
We never discussed it or referred.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
To it in any way, but I'm certain she knew
as well as I that the fact of Verity's being
pregnant crushed Jamie's last hope.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
That one day she might return to him at any rate.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Missus Hope persuaded her daughter to come back to her
mother's house to have her child. Oh, Alice, it's so.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
Marvelous being here, you know, I really didn't know i'd
be my mother so much that the first time.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
You know how it is. It's also new, so important
your husband.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I didn't come with you, No, not right now.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
They can't spare 'em in London. Maybe later, Verity, I
have something I want to give to you. If you
don't mind, How could I possibly mind? Well, I don't
wanna make you sad. But these are some of Jamie's
baby clothes. Ohh and now they may be old fashioned
by now. I don't know what babies wear these days.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
It's not very much, but they are all made by hand,
and you don't see much of that anymore. Oh very lovely.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
You know.
Speaker 9 (33:31):
Jamie was my dearest friend for years and years, more
than a friend, more like a like a brother.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Loved you, I know he did.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
The last words he spoke before he died, they were
for you, for me, really, he said, nobody dies. Mom
tell Verity that she'll understand. Nobody dies. That was the
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last thing he ever said. A couple of seconds later.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
He was dead.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Alice, Verity, do you know what he meant? Well, no,
not exactly. He said that you would know he was
very definite about that.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Well, perhaps he meant that that as long as a
person is remembered by the people who loved him, that
he isn't really dead.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
You think that's what he meant.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
I can't think of anything else. Well, Verity had her baby,
a darling little boy named John after his father, and
a few months later Verity went back to London, but
she phoned once a week at least, and the letters
flew thick and fast across the ocean. Sometimes Verity would
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write to me about the baby.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Nice che.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I had notes full of all sorts of details. Then
one day I got a present in the mail. Well,
imagine all the way from London. Imagine Verity thinking of me.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
That's really wonderful.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Ever that what is it?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Well, it's a drawing. Well so it is a drawing
of a bird sitting on the branch of a tree.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
So it is. She said, it's little John's first drawing,
and she wants me to have it ten in past Hills.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yes, it's very good, don't.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
You think Alice, how old was Jamie when he did
the picture of the birds sitting on a branch?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I said, I didn't remember. I did.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
It was when Jeremie was precisely the age that little
John was when he painted.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
His bird on a branch. One night the phone rang.
It was London calling.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Verity was on the other end, and Missus Holt told
me to listen in on the upstairs extension. Verity, mother,
how are you done? I'm fine? How are you fine? Fine?
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Ha allah?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
She's on the extension.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Ali say hello, I'm fine, Verity. How's the boy?
Speaker 9 (36:27):
He's marvelous, simply marvelous, almost as tall as I am.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
No, you mean right, you'd hardly believe it. So of
course I'd believe it. Why wouldn't I? Well, I never
was listen. He knows poetry. Really, that's remarkable.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
He recited a whole poem to me today, not a
long poem. Well, I should hold something by John Done,
John Done, sixteenth century. Can you imagine something about stay,
oh sweet, and do not rise?
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I forget the light that shines comes from your eyes?
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Yes, that's it, Alice.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Is that you the day breaks?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Not?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
It is my heart because that you and I must part.
Do you know what?
Speaker 4 (37:10):
You really know? It?
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Stay? Or else my joys will die and perish in
their infancy. That's it.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
Can you imagine a young boy knowing something like that?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Verity, Verity, my dear, we've talked long enough. Oh, but
I have all kinds of things to tell you. Yes,
it'll have to it'll have to do for now. We're
rather busy here.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
Oh oh okay, well i'll call you next week.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Then bye bye, Alice, Alice, Alice, will you come downstairs please?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
There was nothing I could say to missus Holt.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Of course, it was the same poem Jamie had learned
and recited, and exactly the same age. But Jamie had
died a full year before this boy was born. This
boy lived three thousand miles away in a foreign country.
Then came the faithful day Verity arrived from London. Darling,
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how wonderful you've come home?
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Mother? How are you? Verity? Welcome back? Alice? Darling?
Speaker 4 (38:23):
You don't look at all?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Will don't? I? Have you been here?
Speaker 4 (38:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Did your husband come with you?
Speaker 4 (38:31):
No? No, my son came with me. Who if I
Heaven's say, swhere is he?
Speaker 9 (38:37):
Oh? He'll be along presently I wanted to see you
alone first.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Well, I'll just go upstairs and see if Alie, Alice,
please stay here. I I wanna talk to both of you,
all right, Mother, this is going to come as a
shock for you. My husband has left me. Oh old Gertie,
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I'm so sorry to hear that. Perhaps it's it's not
fine your spinal or whatever happened. I'm sure it wasn't
your fault. I don't know whose fault it was, and
always two sides to you. Maybe it was your fault, Alice, bye,
or maybe it was the fault of your son.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
What what could Jermie have to.
Speaker 9 (39:24):
Do with it? I believe that he was some kind
of sorcerer or a wizard of some kind. And you
are a witch and I have Clay, don't don't. I
believe the two of you conspired against me from the
very start, from the day you entered this house.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
What are you talking about? You don't know?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
You really don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I swear I don't know.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Stay where you are, both of you.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I have something to show you. Johnny, Johnny, can you
come in here, please? Missus Holt. What's happened? Quiet cried Alison. Mother, Alice,
this is my son, John, Grandma has been so long now?
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How many years? God?
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Good? Many?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Well you back?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Got a chess for me? Of Christ is my boy,
and you're Alice, Yellow Alice.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
I could only stare dumb struck at the handsome young
man who stood before me, holding out his hand, a warm,
friendly smile on his face. For that face, that smile,
that voice, all were exact replicas.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Of the face and the smile and the voice of
my dead son, Young John.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
In the innocence of his youth, and the ignorant Prince
was the only one of the household who retained any
self possession. Verity moved about the house with a tight
k molk and bailful look. Missus Holt kept her a
room most of the time. When I took her something
to eat, he told me that Verity and John would
stay on with her. John was going to teach at
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the local high school, and Verity, well, where could Verity go?
Verity's child was destined to be the precise image of Jamie. Why,
I don't know, but I don't blame you. Perhaps you should.
I hoped for so many years that they would marry
and have a child. Perhaps all my hoping my wishing,
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my praying for something that never came to pass. But
you mustn't think Jamie had anything to do with it.
Didn't He wish, hope and pray, Yes, But he loved.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Her, so he'd never have wanted anything like this to happen.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
I don't know, I don't know. I cannot tell, but
this I do know for a certainty. There are forces
in the world over which we have no control. Alice,
I think you best leave this house to night, if possible.
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I did leave that night and moved into a furnished room.
I got work almost immediately, cleaning by day, just as
I'd done before. Jamie and I became part of missus
Holt's household.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Every now and then I would walk by the.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
High school just to catch a glimpse of young John,
who was teaching there. It was a thrill, strange, macabre,
but still a thrill to see that straight, young figure,
that fresh young face, so exactly.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Like that of my dead son.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
One day, a school was letting out for the day,
I summoned my courage and spoke to him, mister Holt.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
John, Well, Well it's Alice, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yes, it's Alice.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Well I've asked mother about you.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Why aren't you living with us anymore?
Speaker 4 (43:17):
You moved out so suddenly, well with you and your
mother there you needed the room.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Oh there's plenty of room.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
Now, come on, why don't you move? No, no, Philly,
I couldn't tell me. What are you teaching? What subject?
Speaker 2 (43:33):
English literature? What I've always wanted to teach? Oh that's nice,
with special emphasis on the greatest writer of them all.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
You mean Shakespeare? Of course.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
You like Shakespeare.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I worshiped him, I always have.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
I knew all of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of them by
the time I was sixteen.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
I stayed away from the school after that. I was
afraid of what might happen. Not a tangible fear, you understand,
for I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
What there was to be afraid of.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
Only I think that I might indeed be a witch,
a sorceress. But then came a day when it was
imperative that I see not John but his mother, Verady.
What was it you wanted to tell me, Alice?
Speaker 3 (44:26):
You said it was important.
Speaker 8 (44:28):
It is.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Tomorrow is John's birthday. I know that.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
Did you think I forget my own son's birthday? No,
of course I didn't think that, But you might not remember.
After tomorrow, John will be of the same age as
Jamie was when.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Jennie when he died.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
Is that what you mean?
Speaker 3 (44:53):
When he killed himself? Killed himself, Alice?
Speaker 4 (45:00):
No one ever told me that. Mother said it was
an accident.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Verity. He shot himself twice when he heard that you
were going to have a child.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Oh, Alice, I should have been told, what.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Could you have done?
Speaker 9 (45:13):
Nothing, Alice, Alice, I must tell you something. If there
was any sorcery or any witchcraft, it was wrought by me.
Every day of the nine months I carried John within me.
I wished, I wished with all my heart and all
my soul that I could be carrying Jamie's child.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
A whole year has passed.
Speaker 4 (45:41):
Nothing untoward has happened to John. I believe him to
be safe. I've deliver in a furnished room and go
out to work by the day. But on Thanksgiving and
Christmas and sometimes on other holidays, I go to the
Big White House and spend a pleasant day.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
And when I hear John's voice is laughter. When I
look at his.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
Handsome face, his friendly smile so often directed at me,
then I think to myself. It's true, quite true, what
Jenny said to me at the last Nobody dies, not really,
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nobody really dies.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Our drama appears to end on a placid note. Four
people gathered round the festive table. If you walked in
on them today, you would never guess that behind their
light talk, their pleasant smile, their solicitude for one another,
their consideration, and their kindnesses, lies a deep and mysterious tragedy.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Which no one of them comprehends. I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
There are two kinds of first class service, first class
first class and second class first class. As the red
baron of Luket on 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,
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and you'll find at least seven entrees on the menu.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Just a few reasons. Many professional travelers call Mine.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
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 trip to Europe. You'll never
fly second class first class again.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Testing is this arm Sama's Elves are about to hold
a news conference. We're gutting the production of this year's
Photo Matt Snapshot Christmas cards. And does the band strikes
up pails of the elves? We take you out from porta.
Speaker 13 (48:15):
Listen if you can all just keep your questions as
short as we are. They have heard it, jippy ipy
Oh hard is it.
Speaker 10 (48:19):
To buy these things?
Speaker 13 (48:21):
As hard at cottage cheese is bring a negative of
your favorite family snapshot, You select a card style, and
Photomaton does the cards in about a week.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
Ol number two, Yes, I understand you got a little.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Bit hard while I wear a six waist four instane pan.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
No, I mean are there enough cards for everyone?
Speaker 4 (48:33):
Now?
Speaker 1 (48:34):
What's the opposite of O? Yes?
Speaker 13 (48:35):
Yes, so we got the weekend.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
Say, Elk's got to cover the variety of these custom designs,
a wide variety.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
They must be.
Speaker 3 (48:40):
Expensive, no, chy inexpensive is leasure?
Speaker 2 (48:43):
And your judge here that twenty five cards within Brookes
are just six ninety five here the hot.
Speaker 10 (48:50):
This has been an unrehearsed commercial for Photo mat Snapshot
Christmas cards.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Friday is another tenth was the last data order?
Speaker 3 (48:56):
How do you think it went?
Speaker 4 (48:57):
We're all going to wear red and rings. We said
that I couldn't mind and marain. Notice I don't think
they knowed girl was sitting down.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
If there is a moral to be gleaned from our story,
and I do not think there is, and certainly there
was never meant to be.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
It is the old one.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Be careful what you wish for you might get it.
But if you take my advice, you will not look
for a moral. He will simply accept the whole thing
for what it is, and no more a story. A
cast included Terry Keane and Shepherd, Jack Grimes and Morgan Fairchild.
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United Parcels strike settoled. When is a surplus not a surplus?
Speaker 15 (50:55):
It's twenty six degrees fahrenheit minus three celsius, cloudy outside
whether watch out look cloudy tonight?
Speaker 1 (51:02):
Not so cold as last night? Good evening. John Wingate
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Speaker 15 (51:07):
Eight o'clock report from WR News, New York City has
a big welfare scandal on his hands. Two agencies, the
Investigations Commission and the Human Resources Administration, have come up
with evidence of a really big welfare fraud. This said
to have been on behalf of more than six hundred
public employees. They're accused of collecting almost three million in
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payments they did not deserve. The alleged cheach came from
many parts of government, but the big guys and gals
are said to be on the city payroll.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
For example, two hundred and forty.
Speaker 15 (51:37):
Seven listed is working for the Board of Education, thirty
seven with the Police Department, Investigations Commission Special Assistant Stuart
Holzer tells w Orr as Lester Smith, these workers were
employed regularly.
Speaker 6 (51:50):
People were employees who were earning a living working in
these government agencies. They were not quite commerce.
Speaker 8 (51:56):
Can you tell us, sir, was the matching of the
computer information of welfare recipients against those social security numbers?
Was that something that had been triggered for some particular reason,
or was that a routine operation.
Speaker 6 (52:09):
This was a plan which was put into effect by
the Human Resources Administration to attempt to find individuals on
the welfare roles who were non titled to welfare. After
they called that information out, the matters involved in criminal
fraud were investigated further, and those are the ones that
we're referring through here. In fact, I think the Human
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Resources Administration today projected that they would save some fourteen
and a half million dollars on an annualized basis for
all forms of public assistance chooting which they had discovered
by use of these computer matches.
Speaker 8 (52:43):
Is there a reasona believe, perhaps that this is even
more widespread than you have found, or have the computer's
done a pretty good job of turning up the culprits well, the.
Speaker 6 (52:51):
Computers have turned up a substantial number here and we
intend to continue this kind of thing in the future.
Speaker 15 (53:00):
Investigations Commissions pokesman Stewart Holzer with W. R. Lester Smith
Striking Teams to union members, who overwhelmingly okayed a new
contract with United Parcel Service that ends an eighty four
days strike. There's no immediate word, however, when ups deliveries
will resume in the fifteen eastern states from Maine to
South Carolina affected by the strike. Company and union officials
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that previously indicated operations could resume tomorrow if the new
contract was ratified by the seventeen thousand striking teamsters. The
teams to official in announcing the results of the balloting
said the union members were available to go back to work,
but he didn't indicate when they would return to their jobs.
W Or seventeen News time exactly three minutes past eight
o'clock and the Frank Church has criticized the State Department
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for refusing to give a Senate committee information on negotiations
between Saudi Arabia and a key US oil firm. Church said,
the talks on the future status of Adamco. That's a
consortium of four US oil companies in Saudi Arabian oil
production will directly affect US security and the price of oil. However,
the Idaho Democrats says the state Department contends the talks
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are confidential. A Utah judge will consider tomorrow while the
convicted killer, Gary Gilmore will stand trial on another murder charge.
The thirty six year old Gilmore had been sent to
death for the killing of a Provo motel clerk last July.
The execution has been stayed three times over the strong
objections of Gilmour, who says he wants to die. W
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or seven ten years time now six minutes past eight pm.
Imported by the Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Harrison Golden,
New York City Controller says no gimmick is involved that
is involved in the story. The city has a year
end surplus of three hundred million dollars. However, the money
is there purely in an accounting sense and it did
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not come from additional revenues. Golden tells w R it
indicates improved collections and a better cash flow.
Speaker 11 (55:00):
Sing term that refers to what levels of cash you
have at the end of the year and at the
end of the year, we'll have more cash in hand,
as we now project than had been anticipated before some
of these changes that the city has acted on, and
before some of our costs got reduced borrowing costs because
of lower interest rates and so forth. So it is
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an accurate accounting term, but it doesn't really mean that
we've got a win for and the roll of a
sudden there's a lot more money hanging out there to
do things with than we had anticipated.
Speaker 8 (55:27):
Doesn't mean three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 11 (55:29):
What it means is a substantially improved cash position at
the end of the year, and that cash position could
be three hundred million dollars or even better.
Speaker 15 (55:38):
City Controller Harrison Golden as he was interviewed by w
o RS Lester Smith. New Jersey State Insurance Commissioner James Shuran,
who recently announced a six month freeze on auto insurance
premium rating graces, says he might even cut the existing
rates over there some insurance companies it's threatened to stop
doing business in New Jersey and the Sharon backs away
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from the freezelan and he announced on Monday, but Shearon
now says he has no intention of dropping the plan
and says it's well within the realm of the possible
that the rates they are getting now are too high.
He says, you'll order a full review of all car
insurance rates now in effect. In the Garden State, a
man and his common law wife are found shot to
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death at their upper West Side apartment in what police
described as a homicide. Suicide Department spokesman declines to identify
the victims pending notification of relatives. Spokesman said the woman
usually babysat for a neighbor. When she didn't appear to
sit with the child, the neighbor went to her husband
to The woman sent her husband to the women's apartment
at eleven and a half West one hundred second Street.
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The husband looked through the apartment window from the fire
escape and noticed a body on the floor. He called
the police, who found the woman shot in the neck
and chest and the man once in the head.
Speaker 1 (56:51):
Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Speaker 15 (56:57):
There's also this Teachers at Nassau County Community College devoted
to continue contract negotiations and delay a possible strike until
January twenty fourth. Teachers at the college in Garden City,
Long Island, have been without a contract for three months.
Members of the Federation of Teachers Local three one six
zero met early this evening and authorized the union's executives
to call a strike, but not to do so earlier
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than January twenty fourth. Union local spokesman Dorri Schaeffer says
she still hopes for a contract, and she says wants
to negotiate. We'll have moderating weather coming up, wor seven
ten years time, twelve and a half.
Speaker 1 (57:35):
Then it's past eight pm.
Come in welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
In our world, nothing is lost. The droppings of birds
fertilize the ground. The ground sends up grass. The grass
nourishes the sheep. Evil lives on as well. A bit
of gossip becomes a rumor. The rumor grows into a falsehood.
The falsehood engenders fear, and the fear leads to a killing.
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A malicious word wounds a soul. An act of indifference
congeals a heart for good or for evil.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Nothing is lost.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Our mystery drama Nobody Dies was.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Written especially for the Mystery.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Theater by Elspeth Harry and stars Terry Keane and Anne Shepherd.
It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware stores.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And the Buick Mortar division. I'll be back shortly with
that one.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It is a magic moment. You are at your Buick
dealers about to drive home, and your brand new Buick
les saver. It's lean and trim, classic lines. It looks
quite unlike any full size Buick you can remember. You
get in a heavy new car. Smell surrounds you. You're
a saber feels the way it looks tight. You turn
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the wheel a little, no wasted motion in this car,
big brush, metallic gauges look back at you. That'd be
six engine is doing great. You rub your hand on
the seat. Six people could be really comfortable in here.
You swing in your driveway, your wife, the kids, the dog.
Everyone with the parakeet descends on the car.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And gets in.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Off you go, and nowhere in particular, life and your
doula's saber are great. Maybe the dog shouldn't sit on
the seats.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
This is Dave Herman.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Seats are available for this Sunday afternoon Jet's Bengals football game.
You can get them at the Jets ticket office five
ninety eight mattson Avenue, at Shay Stadium ticket window, and
of course at the.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Gate on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The story has its beginning fifty years ago. It's a
beautiful spring day. A young woman stands at the door
of a large colonial house, dignified and serene, and surrounded
by great stretches of clicked lawn, spotted here and there
by beds of bright flowers. There is something tentative in
the manner of the young woman, timid as she raises
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her hand to touch the button by the door.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And thinking to myself, what am I doing here.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
The advertisement in the local paper had said housekeeper wanted
live in private quarters, apply between nine and ten am.
It had given the address and the name Holt, And
that was all I knew. This was a very fancy
section of our town. In the minute I saw the
big white house with the green shutters, my knees started
to shake. Would anyone trust me with the care of
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such a house?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I pushed the button and said a little prayer. I
was desperate. I needed this job more than anything in
the world. Yes, there she stood, the woman who had
to be missus Holt, who held my future in her hands.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
She was about my own age.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
She was tall, blonde, and so mean, and she was very,
very pregnant. You've come about the position, the per the job. Yes,
well come on there, Oh, thank you very much. Shall
we go into the living room?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yes? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Sit down any place? You look rather young?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
How old are you? Twenty?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Twenty nine? Will tell me about yourself? Or would you
rather I told you about the position first? That would
that would be fine, fright?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
This house has ten rooms, five bedrooms. Two of them
are in the back of the house, and they have
their own bath.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Those would be reserved for whoever takes the position.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That sounds very nice.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
And there's a cook cleaning woman comes in three times
a week. It's a question of making beds and doing
some dusting, answering the door, doing the shopping things like that,
and supervising the cook and the cleaning lady.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It doesn't sound very hard.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Well, it's what I used to do myself til I
got pregnant.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
When are you going to have your baby?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
In a minute?
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Now?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Can't you tell?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Now?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Tell me about yourself. Don't uh think i'd mind? You're
being young. I'd like to have someone my own.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Age around the house.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Well, I I used to have a house, I mean,
not a house like this, just a little house.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
But I did all the work, and I think.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I kept it nice, clean and nice. You know I'm
in attractive. I'm sure you did. But uh, you have
a house now. I couldn't afford it after my husband
left me.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Since he left me up and living in a furnished
room and I've been doing house cleaning by the day.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'm very good at it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
But it's not like living in a real house, I mean,
having something to count on. Oh, of course it isn't
especially when you have a little boy.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
To think of a little boy.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You have a little boy two years old? Well, how
do you manage working old day and other people's home? Mm? Well,
I take him with me. He had his toys and
his coloring books. And he's never any trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Really, he never cries, and he's never been sick never,
I mean, not even a cold.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Alright, all right, I understand. But if we could be
in the same house all the time, I understand, I
really do. What would you want in the way of salary,
oh anything, whatever you want to pay? How be as
generous as I possibly can. What's your little boy's.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Name, Jamie? His name is Jamie.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
That was the beginning of the most beautiful part of
my whole life. Missus Holt's baby was born about three
weeks later, a little girl, and she.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Was named Verity. Isn't that a beautiful name? Verity? It
means truth or reality. I looked it up.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It took me a while to get up the nerve
to ask her where mister hold was the baby's father,
And when she told me he died right soon after
she got pregnant, I cried. Besides running the house I
helped take care of the baby. The little girl's Verity.
And you don't have to believe this if you don't
want to. But Jamie was never one bit jealous of Verity.
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Children are you know, very often they're jealous of new babies,
and you have to be careful. But even missus Hope
noticed how Jamie loved the baby. Alice, you'll never believe this.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
What won't I believe?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I was in the nursery this morning and Jamie was
standing by the baby's crib, and you know what I
heard him say, I want you Verity a bustle and
a pig and a hug around. Really, you heard him.
That's what he said.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
That's what I used to say to him when he
was a baby. I still say it.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Oh you're a wonderful mother, Alice. Life just went on
that way, and I was as happy as it was
possible to be. Look at this what why? It's a
drawing in pastels.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Of a little bird on a branch.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Ah, it's very good, don't you think it's It's very touching,
very sweet. Jamie gave it to me. Jamie he made
it in school, but he's only eight years old. No,
I'm going to frame it, and I'm going to hang
on the wall. That's the way it went. Every day
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better than the one before, and nothing but nice things
to look forward to. Where did Jamie learn so much poetry?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Ellice? Well, I suppose he learned it in school.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I heard him the other day. He and Verity were
out here in the garden, and I could hear them
through the window. Loud and clear, Stay sweet, and do
not rise. The light the Chinese comes from thine eyes.
The day breaks not it is my heart because that
you and I must part, stay, or else my joys
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will die and perish him their infancy. Well, for Heaven's sake,
I happened to know. That's John Dunne from a sixteenth century.
And why a boy of fourteen would bother to learn it?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Jamie went on learning poetry. I never asked him about it.
Why he bothered? I thought it was nice that he did.
One day I heard his voice in the conservatory. I
stopped to listen, and then I realized he wasn't alone.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
For I sweet love remembered such wealth brings that then
I scorned to change my state with kings.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Oh Jamie, that's beautiful at Shakespeare.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Jamie was just sixteen.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I didn't know a line of Shakespeare, and I'd never
known that he did. I couldn't help asking him about it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
By all of Shakespeare's silence, by heart.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
My goodness, I am impressed.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I hope Verity was impressed. I was trying to tell
her how much I love her. Luf you told her
you left her, I've always loved her. She knows that
you're both very young. Romeo and Juliet were even younger.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Mom.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Well, life went on. Jamie got into the local college
right in the same town. Lucky for us, because he
could go on living at home. He'd finished his second
year in Verity was enrolled to start that full Mom.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I'm going to ask Verity to marry me, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't mean right away. I mean when she's finished college.
By then i'll be making a living.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You're sure about that, of course, I'm sure, darling. There's
no need to rush into anything. I'm not rushing. I'm
just asking that you'll meet other girls.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Mom, I've loved Verity my life.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Don't you know that.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
He asked her to marry Well, of course, he didn't
mean right away. After she finishes college, and he wouldn't
expect her to marry him.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Now, that's very considerate, missus Holt.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I don't think we have to take it seriously. They'll
both meet other people, Jamie says, that won't make any difference.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But you never can tell, can you.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I think I'll send Verity away to college, some good
Eastern school. Oh would you do that? They're both so happy?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Here?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Tell us how much did you have to do with this,
with what, missus Holt, with this, this, this attachment, this
liaison between your son and my daughter.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I didn't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
You plotted, didn't you From the beginning. You plotted, and
you schemed to make everything turn out this way.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
No, I had no idea anything right you want to.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Do into this house bringing your son with you. Then
you made yourself indispensable. You pretended to be my I
did not pretend.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I none of this is true.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I am kind of which I think you are. And
you've been weaving spells up there alone in your room,
missus hold No, you've always known that my daughter could
never marry a son of yours. It's unthinkable. But I
had had nothing to do with it. Nothing at all,
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or had I had everything to.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Do with it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I don't know, and I have thought long and hard
about it. I am reduced to calling it fate, simply fate,
or call it the machinations of some spirit, some spirit
perhaps lodged in me, A spirit whose name I don't
know it is. Such a spirit chose to work through me.
It was without my knowledge or my will. I swear
that's true. I swear I believe, I think it's true.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Oh I hope it's true.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Of course, there are spirits in all of us, spirits
full of energy and of huge power. Some drive the
people they inhabit to great accomplishment. Then, of course there
are other spirits, equally potent, spirits which move their possessors
to cowardice, to morbidity, to self destruction, even to the
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annihilation of those they love. I'll be back shortly with
that two.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Just in time for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
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Speaker 7 (14:43):
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Speaker 1 (14:53):
They're mixed with.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Your favorite slippers two to day before before lunch at dinner,
and so whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You have gotten cook off.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
There's a drink you may not know about. The daughter
whispers one knows us have to show any case that's
not to say, oh no, it's not too girl, it's
made potos who finish what they sty.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Anyway, what you say, supine a.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
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fully cooked right in the can. All gristle and bone
have been removed, so you buy only lean, tender meat.
This is great for your budget too. All you need
to do is open the can and slice whatever quantity
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Speaker 2 (16:42):
When Alice became housekeeper to the affluent missus hot. It
was a relief from a life of drudgery and anxiety,
and a haven both for herself and for her son,
Jamie two years old, when her employer soon after gave
birth to a daughter. It is only natural that Alice
should retain her position in the household, and that the
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two children.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Should grow up together.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
However, at the close of Act one, we heard.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Alice, how much did you have to do with this?
With what with this, with this, this attachment, this liaison
between your son and my daughter.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I didn't have anything to do.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
You plotted, didn't you. You plotted and schemed and made
everything turn out this way. Surely you know you've always
known that my daughter could never marry a son of yours.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
It's unthinkable.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
My beautiful life in her beautiful house had come to
an end. Our friendship it hended too, if indeed it
had ever been the friendship I.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Thought it to be. For the first time, she had.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Reminded me that I was her servant, and my son
was the son of a servant, and that the marriage
of her daughter to the son of one such as
myself was what was the word thinkable? I started to
pack our clothes Jamie's in mind? Is that you Jamie?
It's missus holds, Alice. Oh, just a minute, I want
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to talk to you, Alice.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well, all right, come in. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You you've been packing. You don't want us here anymore? Oh, Alice,
I didn't mean anything like that. You are afraid Verity
might want to marry Jamie and he's not good enough
for her. You. But as you said, Alice, they're both
very young. They'll meet other people. Now that I've had
a little time to think about it, I realize how
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right you are. I I I it was just a
kind of shock when you first told me very they
isn't old enough to marry anyway. You said I planned
it for them to fall in love and get married.
That was a ridiculous thing for me to say. Please
forgive me. We've been together so long. Won't you forgive me?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Please?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I uh, I suppose the idea was kind of a
shock to you.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
It was.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Oh, I couldn't have said those things. Well if you,
if you, if you really didn't mean I didn't. I didn't,
And I guess it's all right. Oh Alice, thank you.
You'll never regret it, and you will stay on here.
Won't you. I've always loved it here, missus Holt, and
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so with Jamie. Then it's settled, you'll stay on and
so wild Jamie m But she sent Verity away to
a college in the East. Missus Holt had said she
would do it, and she did. Verdi and Jamie wrote
to each other almost every day.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I think he wrote every day his way.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
He grew quieter, more reserved, but he'd always been like that,
more or less, and I didn't worry about him, not
until Verity came home for her vacation.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Verity's engaged to some guy.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Some guy, Oh, some guy she met in the East. Oh, Jamie,
what's the matter? Well, you mean you you don't care?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well, why should I care? She won't marry him?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
How can you be so sure?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Very belongs to me? She always has ever since she
was born.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Jamie's confidence frightened me. I fought back to when missus
Holt had called me some kind of a witch. I
didn't want to hear those words again from her lips. Besides,
Jamie could be right. Maybe Verity wouldn't marry the man
she met in the East. Maybe in some way I
didn't comprehend she belonged to my son.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
But then a year later it happened.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
We'll have the wedding right here in the house, I think,
or would it be better in a church?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I think a church wedding would be the nicest.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
You're probably right. His parents will be here, they'll expect it.
His father's in the diplomatic service. Did I tend you no?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You didn't tell me.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yes. I think we'll have the wedding in the church.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I think that's best.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Alice, of course, Verity will want Jamie to be there,
but he needn't attend if he doesn't want to. We'll
all understand.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
It wasn't their understanding I cared about.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It was Jamie's.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
He had to understand that he'd aspired to something too
far above him, that he would never have the girl
he'd loved from the day she was born. He had
to understand and go on living as best he could
till some other girl could fill the void in his life.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I'll be there, why.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Not, Jamie? If it's too painful.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
It will be painful, but that's all right.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I'm so glad you're taking it this way.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Uh what way am I taking?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Well?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Realistically, facing up to it didn't you tell me?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's what verity means, reality, the truth.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yes, I did tell you that.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, besides, Verity still belongs to me. No matter what
she does with her life or I do with mine,
Verity still belongs to me, and she always will. That's
reality and that's truth.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
His words echoed in my mind all during the ceremony,
Just as he said he'd be. Jamie was in the church,
standing up way in the back, his eyes never leaving
the handsome young couple at the older the young married
couple took off from their honeymoon. Jamie went on to
finish college, and missus Hold and I went on in
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the big house, not quite the friends we once had been,
but on good terms.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
And one day.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Another letter from Verity is from London.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
What does she have to say?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Ah, lots of things, dear mummy. We're settled here in
the dearest flat you've ever seen. It's in Chelsea, a
very old part of London, but fashionable in an arty
sort of way.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
We go to the theater all the time. The theater
is so wonderful here and not too expensive and he.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Compared with other things.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
And we go to parties, mostly with other couples living
the same kind of life we do, diplomatic service life.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I mean, we've made them.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Dear friend friends.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
And here she goes down about their friends, Bibsing and
Punkle and Tupper and Jinky. I can't make out all
the names that here's one here that did somebody come in?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I think it's Jamie, Jamie that you.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I was just going upstairs.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I've got a letter from Verity. Oh, and I was
just reading it to your mother. Do you want to
hear it?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Well, I was just going upstairs, but.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I'm almost finished here. Let's see. Where was I all about?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yes, I've saved the best news for the last mummy.
I'm going to have a baby, a baby.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Artie's going to have a baby.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Oh, why didn't she send me a cable or call up?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
When is she going to her?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
And she says, wait, wait, not for eight months, but
she couldn't resist. Tell Oh. I wonder if I should
go over there or if she'll she'll want to come here. Oh,
dear me, there's so much to think about my first grandchild.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Imagine Jamie, where did Jamie go?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Alice, I'm going to go down to the table office
and tell her to phone me collect tonight. I'll be
back right away, Jamie. And are you up there? And
I'll give her your love? Elle Jamie? Where Jamie? Jamie?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Are you all right, Jamie, I'm not there.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Let it be, don't let it oh, ja mejame me.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
What have you done? I missed the Oh you're bleeding.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I missed twice.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Your head he's bleeding. Not so easy to kill yourself. No,
I get the doctor.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
No, don't leave me.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Stay with me, Jamie, I have to call a doctor. Please,
let go of my arm.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I want you to stay with me.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Mom, whose Jamie? Let me?
Speaker 8 (25:47):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I want you're with me.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It's always been you and me.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You've always been with me.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You've never gone off and let me. Don't go off
and leave me.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Now you've got to let me call the p I
won't die. Nobody dies, Mom, say me. And I want I.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Want you to tell that to Verity. Mom. Would you
would you do that?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Tella? Nobody really dies. Everybody goes on and on. Please
please say that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Good old Mom. Ye, you're really the best.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Oh, always there when I needed Jip, always right nearby,
always well you could see me and hear me. Remember Mom,
all my life from way back. Be near me now, Mom,
listen to me, now, yes, yes, all right?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Did did you understand what I told you about what
to tell Verity?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
You mean.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Nobody dies.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
That's right, Tell her that she'll understand. Just say nobody dies.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
The blood was still running from his poor head, and
he was still staring at me.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
But the hand that had been gripping my arm went limp,
and I knew he was dead. The light had gone
out of his eyes, the light had gone out of
his life. My son was dead. My son was dead.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
I tried to take that in, even if his last
words echoed through my mind. Nobody dies, nobody dies.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
The beginning of mourning is the acceptance of the fact
of death. We twist and turn to evade the reality.
We make up fantasies to deny it. We comfort ourselves
with memories which hurt wildly comfort.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
There simply is.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
No way to escape the awful pain unless, unless, perhaps
we can bring ourselves to believe what appears to be
a flagrant lie, Unless we can believe that nobody dies.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I'll return shortly with Act three.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
When a woman buys a shirt for her men, it's
usually a pretty good sign.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
That she loves me, and because she loves him, she.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Wants that shirt to be something special, something you'll be
happy with for a long time, even if he's hard
to please. Buying a shirt for the man she loves
is one place a woman doesn't want to miss.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
For a long time now, women have been buying more.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
Arrow shirts than any other kind because it's hard to
miss with Arrow.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Arrow makes shirts that look.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
Good, feel good, and fit good from.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
The collar to the table.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Shirts that look like today that don't look like yesterday
a month after you bought it. Shirts that are worth
exactly what they cost, button for button, and stitch for stitch.
For the man you learn, even if he's hard to please,
it's hard to miss with arrows Arrow America's shirt maker.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Exactly this hos what you were looking for?
Speaker 11 (29:44):
Can't get.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Exactly the sup money?
Speaker 8 (29:53):
Are you in for? A sensational fashion by Missus Genuine
sweet Coats produced from ninety nine to sixty nine dollars
Right now Alexander's You saved thirty dollars and these genuine
Swede coats are warm as toast with lush dyed lamb
fur colors and rich furry acrylic pile linings even in
the sleeves, and the suede is butter soft and supple
luxury to the touch in wonderfully flattering belted rap styles
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in black or brown. Missus per trimmed and pile lined
genuine Swede coats were ninety nine dollars right now, just
sixty nine dollars in Alexander's leather and suede shop. What
a warm, luxurious gift for that session woman on.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Your list, Alexanders As thought you were looking bottle. Wow.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Now this message from your four Dealers Assocootation.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Raise hi Arnold for you.
Speaker 12 (30:44):
Ooh, a bouquet of long stem roses. What's the occasion?
Something on your conscience?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Tell me?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
The occasion is that I sold four Granadas today.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Yeah, it's a new record for my four dealers.
Speaker 12 (30:55):
Your idea of putting a Mercedes two eighty on your
showroom floor alongside a comparably equipped went not a really
paid off?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
It Sure it did.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Almost everyone who comes in can't figure out which is
the Granada and which is the Mercedes.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
They look so much alike, that is, until they say
they see.
Speaker 12 (31:09):
Their base Tigger prizes don't look at all like right,
and did you take them for test driving both the
Granada and the Mercedes?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yep, and all four Granada buyers who drove a Mercedes said.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
The Granada had a remarkably smooth and quiet ruck.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
Right.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
He forgot one thing for Sam, you're allergic to roses.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
You're a Ford dealer has the smooth riding Cai that
looks like the Mercedes to eighty but at less than
half the list price the new Ford Granada. Towards the
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end of the act just completed, Alice's son, Jamie, shot
himself after hearing the news that the girl he loved
all his life, who had married another man, was now
preparing to of birth to that man's child. Holding fast
to his mother's hand, Jamie had spoken his last words,
tell her that mom Verity, I'll understand, tell her nobody dies.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Missus Holt, of course, was dreadfully shocked when she came
home and I had to tell her what had happened.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
We never discussed it or referred.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
To it in any way, but I'm certain she knew
as well as I that the fact of Verity's being
pregnant crushed Jamie's last hope.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
That one day she might return to him at any rate.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Missus Hope persuaded her daughter to come back to her
mother's house to have her child. Oh, Alice, it's so.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
Marvelous being here, you know, I really didn't know i'd
be my mother so much that the first time.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
You know how it is. It's also new, so important
your husband.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I didn't come with you, No, not right now.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
They can't spare 'em in London. Maybe later, Verity, I
have something I want to give to you. If you
don't mind, How could I possibly mind? Well, I don't
wanna make you sad. But these are some of Jamie's
baby clothes. Ohh and now they may be old fashioned
by now. I don't know what babies wear these days.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
It's not very much, but they are all made by hand,
and you don't see much of that anymore. Oh very lovely.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
You know.
Speaker 9 (33:31):
Jamie was my dearest friend for years and years, more
than a friend, more like a like a brother.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Loved you, I know he did.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
The last words he spoke before he died, they were
for you, for me, really, he said, nobody dies. Mom
tell Verity that she'll understand. Nobody dies. That was the
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last thing he ever said. A couple of seconds later.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
He was dead.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Alice, Verity, do you know what he meant? Well, no,
not exactly. He said that you would know he was
very definite about that.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Well, perhaps he meant that that as long as a
person is remembered by the people who loved him, that
he isn't really dead.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
You think that's what he meant.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
I can't think of anything else. Well, Verity had her baby,
a darling little boy named John after his father, and
a few months later Verity went back to London, but
she phoned once a week at least, and the letters
flew thick and fast across the ocean. Sometimes Verity would
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write to me about the baby.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Nice che.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I had notes full of all sorts of details. Then
one day I got a present in the mail. Well,
imagine all the way from London. Imagine Verity thinking of me.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
That's really wonderful.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Ever that what is it?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Well, it's a drawing. Well so it is a drawing
of a bird sitting on the branch of a tree.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
So it is. She said, it's little John's first drawing,
and she wants me to have it ten in past Hills.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yes, it's very good, don't.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
You think Alice, how old was Jamie when he did
the picture of the birds sitting on a branch?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I said, I didn't remember. I did.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
It was when Jeremie was precisely the age that little
John was when he painted.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
His bird on a branch. One night the phone rang.
It was London calling.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Verity was on the other end, and Missus Holt told
me to listen in on the upstairs extension. Verity, mother,
how are you done? I'm fine? How are you fine? Fine?
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Ha allah?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
She's on the extension.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Ali say hello, I'm fine, Verity. How's the boy?
Speaker 9 (36:27):
He's marvelous, simply marvelous, almost as tall as I am.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
No, you mean right, you'd hardly believe it. So of
course I'd believe it. Why wouldn't I? Well, I never
was listen. He knows poetry. Really, that's remarkable.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
He recited a whole poem to me today, not a
long poem. Well, I should hold something by John Done,
John Done, sixteenth century. Can you imagine something about stay,
oh sweet, and do not rise?
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I forget the light that shines comes from your eyes?
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Yes, that's it, Alice.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Is that you the day breaks?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Not?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
It is my heart because that you and I must part.
Do you know what?
Speaker 4 (37:10):
You really know? It?
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Stay? Or else my joys will die and perish in
their infancy. That's it.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
Can you imagine a young boy knowing something like that?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Verity, Verity, my dear, we've talked long enough. Oh, but
I have all kinds of things to tell you. Yes,
it'll have to it'll have to do for now. We're
rather busy here.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
Oh oh okay, well i'll call you next week.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
Then bye bye, Alice, Alice, Alice, will you come downstairs please?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
There was nothing I could say to missus Holt.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Of course, it was the same poem Jamie had learned
and recited, and exactly the same age. But Jamie had
died a full year before this boy was born. This
boy lived three thousand miles away in a foreign country.
Then came the faithful day Verity arrived from London. Darling,
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how wonderful you've come home?
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Mother? How are you? Verity? Welcome back? Alice? Darling?
Speaker 4 (38:23):
You don't look at all?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Will don't? I? Have you been here?
Speaker 4 (38:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Did your husband come with you?
Speaker 4 (38:31):
No? No, my son came with me. Who if I
Heaven's say, swhere is he?
Speaker 9 (38:37):
Oh? He'll be along presently I wanted to see you
alone first.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Well, I'll just go upstairs and see if Alie, Alice,
please stay here. I I wanna talk to both of you,
all right, Mother, this is going to come as a
shock for you. My husband has left me. Oh old Gertie,
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I'm so sorry to hear that. Perhaps it's it's not
fine your spinal or whatever happened. I'm sure it wasn't
your fault. I don't know whose fault it was, and
always two sides to you. Maybe it was your fault, Alice, bye,
or maybe it was the fault of your son.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
What what could Jermie have to.
Speaker 9 (39:24):
Do with it? I believe that he was some kind
of sorcerer or a wizard of some kind. And you
are a witch and I have Clay, don't don't. I
believe the two of you conspired against me from the
very start, from the day you entered this house.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
What are you talking about? You don't know?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
You really don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I swear I don't know.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Stay where you are, both of you.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I have something to show you. Johnny, Johnny, can you
come in here, please? Missus Holt. What's happened? Quiet cried Alison. Mother, Alice,
this is my son, John, Grandma has been so long now?
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How many years? God?
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Good? Many?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Well you back?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Got a chess for me? Of Christ is my boy,
and you're Alice, Yellow Alice.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
I could only stare dumb struck at the handsome young
man who stood before me, holding out his hand, a warm,
friendly smile on his face. For that face, that smile,
that voice, all were exact replicas.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Of the face and the smile and the voice of
my dead son, Young John.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
In the innocence of his youth, and the ignorant Prince
was the only one of the household who retained any
self possession. Verity moved about the house with a tight
k molk and bailful look. Missus Holt kept her a
room most of the time. When I took her something
to eat, he told me that Verity and John would
stay on with her. John was going to teach at
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the local high school, and Verity, well, where could Verity go?
Verity's child was destined to be the precise image of Jamie. Why,
I don't know, but I don't blame you. Perhaps you should.
I hoped for so many years that they would marry
and have a child. Perhaps all my hoping my wishing,
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my praying for something that never came to pass. But
you mustn't think Jamie had anything to do with it.
Didn't He wish, hope and pray, Yes, But he loved.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Her, so he'd never have wanted anything like this to happen.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
I don't know, I don't know. I cannot tell, but
this I do know for a certainty. There are forces
in the world over which we have no control. Alice,
I think you best leave this house to night, if possible.
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I did leave that night and moved into a furnished room.
I got work almost immediately, cleaning by day, just as
I'd done before. Jamie and I became part of missus
Holt's household.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Every now and then I would walk by the.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
High school just to catch a glimpse of young John,
who was teaching there. It was a thrill, strange, macabre,
but still a thrill to see that straight, young figure,
that fresh young face, so exactly.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Like that of my dead son.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
One day, a school was letting out for the day,
I summoned my courage and spoke to him, mister Holt.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
John, Well, Well it's Alice, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yes, it's Alice.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Well I've asked mother about you.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Why aren't you living with us anymore?
Speaker 4 (43:17):
You moved out so suddenly, well with you and your
mother there you needed the room.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Oh there's plenty of room.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
Now, come on, why don't you move? No, no, Philly,
I couldn't tell me. What are you teaching? What subject?
Speaker 2 (43:33):
English literature? What I've always wanted to teach? Oh that's nice,
with special emphasis on the greatest writer of them all.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
You mean Shakespeare? Of course.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
You like Shakespeare.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I worshiped him, I always have.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
I knew all of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of them by
the time I was sixteen.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
I stayed away from the school after that. I was
afraid of what might happen. Not a tangible fear, you understand,
for I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
What there was to be afraid of.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
Only I think that I might indeed be a witch,
a sorceress. But then came a day when it was
imperative that I see not John but his mother, Verady.
What was it you wanted to tell me, Alice?
Speaker 3 (44:26):
You said it was important.
Speaker 8 (44:28):
It is.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Tomorrow is John's birthday. I know that.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
Did you think I forget my own son's birthday? No,
of course I didn't think that, But you might not remember.
After tomorrow, John will be of the same age as
Jamie was when.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Jennie when he died.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
Is that what you mean?
Speaker 3 (44:53):
When he killed himself? Killed himself, Alice?
Speaker 4 (45:00):
No one ever told me that. Mother said it was
an accident.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Verity. He shot himself twice when he heard that you
were going to have a child.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Oh, Alice, I should have been told, what.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Could you have done?
Speaker 9 (45:13):
Nothing, Alice, Alice, I must tell you something. If there
was any sorcery or any witchcraft, it was wrought by me.
Every day of the nine months I carried John within me.
I wished, I wished with all my heart and all
my soul that I could be carrying Jamie's child.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
A whole year has passed.
Speaker 4 (45:41):
Nothing untoward has happened to John. I believe him to
be safe. I've deliver in a furnished room and go
out to work by the day. But on Thanksgiving and
Christmas and sometimes on other holidays, I go to the
Big White House and spend a pleasant day.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
And when I hear John's voice is laughter. When I
look at his.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
Handsome face, his friendly smile so often directed at me,
then I think to myself. It's true, quite true, what
Jenny said to me at the last Nobody dies, not really,
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nobody really dies.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Our drama appears to end on a placid note. Four
people gathered round the festive table. If you walked in
on them today, you would never guess that behind their
light talk, their pleasant smile, their solicitude for one another,
their consideration, and their kindnesses, lies a deep and mysterious tragedy.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Which no one of them comprehends. I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
There are two kinds of first class service, first class
first class and second class first class. As the red
baron of Luket on 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,
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and you'll find at least seven entrees on the menu.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Just a few reasons. Many professional travelers call Mine.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
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 trip to Europe. You'll never
fly second class first class again.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Testing is this arm Sama's Elves are about to hold
a news conference. We're gutting the production of this year's
Photo Matt Snapshot Christmas cards. And does the band strikes
up pails of the elves? We take you out from porta.
Speaker 13 (48:15):
Listen if you can all just keep your questions as
short as we are. They have heard it, jippy ipy
Oh hard is it.
Speaker 10 (48:19):
To buy these things?
Speaker 13 (48:21):
As hard at cottage cheese is bring a negative of
your favorite family snapshot, You select a card style, and
Photomaton does the cards in about a week.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
Ol number two, Yes, I understand you got a little.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Bit hard while I wear a six waist four instane pan.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
No, I mean are there enough cards for everyone?
Speaker 4 (48:33):
Now?
Speaker 1 (48:34):
What's the opposite of O? Yes?
Speaker 13 (48:35):
Yes, so we got the weekend.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
Say, Elk's got to cover the variety of these custom designs,
a wide variety.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
They must be.
Speaker 3 (48:40):
Expensive, no, chy inexpensive is leasure?
Speaker 2 (48:43):
And your judge here that twenty five cards within Brookes
are just six ninety five here the hot.
Speaker 10 (48:50):
This has been an unrehearsed commercial for Photo mat Snapshot
Christmas cards.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Friday is another tenth was the last data order?
Speaker 3 (48:56):
How do you think it went?
Speaker 4 (48:57):
We're all going to wear red and rings. We said
that I couldn't mind and marain. Notice I don't think
they knowed girl was sitting down.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
If there is a moral to be gleaned from our story,
and I do not think there is, and certainly there
was never meant to be.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
It is the old one.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Be careful what you wish for you might get it.
But if you take my advice, you will not look
for a moral. He will simply accept the whole thing
for what it is, and no more a story. A
cast included Terry Keane and Shepherd, Jack Grimes and Morgan Fairchild.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.
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Speaker 1 (49:50):
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Speaker 2 (49:51):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
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Speaker 1 (50:00):
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Speaker 14 (50:27):
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United Parcels strike settoled. When is a surplus not a surplus?
Speaker 15 (50:55):
It's twenty six degrees fahrenheit minus three celsius, cloudy outside
whether watch out look cloudy tonight?
Speaker 1 (51:02):
Not so cold as last night? Good evening. John Wingate
with the.
Speaker 15 (51:07):
Eight o'clock report from WR News, New York City has
a big welfare scandal on his hands. Two agencies, the
Investigations Commission and the Human Resources Administration, have come up
with evidence of a really big welfare fraud. This said
to have been on behalf of more than six hundred
public employees. They're accused of collecting almost three million in
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payments they did not deserve. The alleged cheach came from
many parts of government, but the big guys and gals
are said to be on the city payroll.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
For example, two hundred and forty.
Speaker 15 (51:37):
Seven listed is working for the Board of Education, thirty
seven with the Police Department, Investigations Commission Special Assistant Stuart
Holzer tells w Orr as Lester Smith, these workers were
employed regularly.
Speaker 6 (51:50):
People were employees who were earning a living working in
these government agencies. They were not quite commerce.
Speaker 8 (51:56):
Can you tell us, sir, was the matching of the
computer information of welfare recipients against those social security numbers?
Was that something that had been triggered for some particular reason,
or was that a routine operation.
Speaker 6 (52:09):
This was a plan which was put into effect by
the Human Resources Administration to attempt to find individuals on
the welfare roles who were non titled to welfare. After
they called that information out, the matters involved in criminal
fraud were investigated further, and those are the ones that
we're referring through here. In fact, I think the Human
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Resources Administration today projected that they would save some fourteen
and a half million dollars on an annualized basis for
all forms of public assistance chooting which they had discovered
by use of these computer matches.
Speaker 8 (52:43):
Is there a reasona believe, perhaps that this is even
more widespread than you have found, or have the computer's
done a pretty good job of turning up the culprits well, the.
Speaker 6 (52:51):
Computers have turned up a substantial number here and we
intend to continue this kind of thing in the future.
Speaker 15 (53:00):
Investigations Commissions pokesman Stewart Holzer with W. R. Lester Smith
Striking Teams to union members, who overwhelmingly okayed a new
contract with United Parcel Service that ends an eighty four
days strike. There's no immediate word, however, when ups deliveries
will resume in the fifteen eastern states from Maine to
South Carolina affected by the strike. Company and union officials
(53:23):
that previously indicated operations could resume tomorrow if the new
contract was ratified by the seventeen thousand striking teamsters. The
teams to official in announcing the results of the balloting
said the union members were available to go back to work,
but he didn't indicate when they would return to their jobs.
W Or seventeen News time exactly three minutes past eight
o'clock and the Frank Church has criticized the State Department
(53:45):
for refusing to give a Senate committee information on negotiations
between Saudi Arabia and a key US oil firm. Church said,
the talks on the future status of Adamco. That's a
consortium of four US oil companies in Saudi Arabian oil
production will directly affect US security and the price of oil. However,
the Idaho Democrats says the state Department contends the talks
(54:06):
are confidential. A Utah judge will consider tomorrow while the
convicted killer, Gary Gilmore will stand trial on another murder charge.
The thirty six year old Gilmore had been sent to
death for the killing of a Provo motel clerk last July.
The execution has been stayed three times over the strong
objections of Gilmour, who says he wants to die. W
(54:28):
or seven ten years time now six minutes past eight pm.
Imported by the Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Harrison Golden,
New York City Controller says no gimmick is involved that
is involved in the story. The city has a year
end surplus of three hundred million dollars. However, the money
is there purely in an accounting sense and it did
(54:50):
not come from additional revenues. Golden tells w R it
indicates improved collections and a better cash flow.
Speaker 11 (55:00):
Sing term that refers to what levels of cash you
have at the end of the year and at the
end of the year, we'll have more cash in hand,
as we now project than had been anticipated before some
of these changes that the city has acted on, and
before some of our costs got reduced borrowing costs because
of lower interest rates and so forth. So it is
(55:20):
an accurate accounting term, but it doesn't really mean that
we've got a win for and the roll of a
sudden there's a lot more money hanging out there to
do things with than we had anticipated.
Speaker 8 (55:27):
Doesn't mean three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 11 (55:29):
What it means is a substantially improved cash position at
the end of the year, and that cash position could
be three hundred million dollars or even better.
Speaker 15 (55:38):
City Controller Harrison Golden as he was interviewed by w
o RS Lester Smith. New Jersey State Insurance Commissioner James Shuran,
who recently announced a six month freeze on auto insurance
premium rating graces, says he might even cut the existing
rates over there some insurance companies it's threatened to stop
doing business in New Jersey and the Sharon backs away
(55:59):
from the freezelan and he announced on Monday, but Shearon
now says he has no intention of dropping the plan
and says it's well within the realm of the possible
that the rates they are getting now are too high.
He says, you'll order a full review of all car
insurance rates now in effect. In the Garden State, a
man and his common law wife are found shot to
(56:19):
death at their upper West Side apartment in what police
described as a homicide. Suicide Department spokesman declines to identify
the victims pending notification of relatives. Spokesman said the woman
usually babysat for a neighbor. When she didn't appear to
sit with the child, the neighbor went to her husband
to The woman sent her husband to the women's apartment
at eleven and a half West one hundred second Street.
(56:41):
The husband looked through the apartment window from the fire
escape and noticed a body on the floor. He called
the police, who found the woman shot in the neck
and chest and the man once in the head.
Speaker 1 (56:51):
Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Speaker 15 (56:57):
There's also this Teachers at Nassau County Community College devoted
to continue contract negotiations and delay a possible strike until
January twenty fourth. Teachers at the college in Garden City,
Long Island, have been without a contract for three months.
Members of the Federation of Teachers Local three one six
zero met early this evening and authorized the union's executives
to call a strike, but not to do so earlier
(57:18):
than January twenty fourth. Union local spokesman Dorri Schaeffer says
she still hopes for a contract, and she says wants
to negotiate. We'll have moderating weather coming up, wor seven
ten years time, twelve and a half.
Speaker 1 (57:35):
Then it's past eight pm.
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