August 23, 2025 • 45 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 (00:16):
Come is.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Marshall.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
No one can ever forget the shock and horror of
the first nuclear bomb produced by World War II. Now
we realize that wars generate new and unwelcome surprises, dilemmas
which we must face and solve. As a rule, they're
ugly problems. But there was a war in the not
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so distant future that sprang a bomb which might have
been the salvation and delight of mankind if the top
brass had known how to handle it. Our mystery drama
Now you see Them, Now You Don't was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Alfred Bester and stars.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Robert Dryden and Leon Jenny.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It is sponsored in part by the Greyhound Amerapath and
contact the twelve hour Cold Capsule. I'll be back shortly
with Act one. Professor Harry Scrimm is serving twenty years
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hard labor in Alcatraz, which was reactivated for the conscientious
objectors to World War five.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
This is his story to tell, because.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Doctor scrim solves the mystery of the fantastic bombshell which
burst on the Western world in the year twenty one
seventy five. This run wasn't the Last War or the
War end wars. And they didn't even call it WW five. No,
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it was quote the War for the American Dream end quote.
General Harp invented that slogan and repeated it over and
over again.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
My fellow Americans, this great nation of ours is not
fighting for money, or power or conquest. We are fighting
to bring the American dream to the free nations of
the world.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
There are fighting generals, political generals, and public relations generals
who have to sell a war to the consumer.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
You.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The Harp was a great salesman.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
My fellow Americans, we are fighting solely for the American dream.
We are fighting for the American meaning of civilization, for art,
for poetry, for culture, for the only things worth fighting for.
The American dream is the better things in life, which
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must not disappear from the free world. Oh, he sold
the War for the American Dream and weed falls General
high pass for ten thousand n continental missiles. Ten thousand
were delivered to the enemy, and the enemy returned the compliments.
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Most of our cities were destroyed hm New York, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Saint Louis, Washington. Thank heavens, we moved the
government to Colorado, Cleveland, Atlanta, most of the pride of America.
But we can't despair. That's not the American dream. Yes,
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General Hart, get me a thousand mining engineers, one thousand. Yes,
wreathe them their mission to design and supervise the construction
of a hundred underground cities.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yes, General, Hearts, are we going into hiding?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Never?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
We will carry on us before. I also require five
hun hundred of sanitation experts, five hundred managers, communication chiefs,
and personnel specialists.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yes, General I yes, excuse me.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Sir, yes, yes, what is it.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
I've been relaying your requests by.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Telex as you ordered, good, very efficient.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
The replies are coming in. Yes, well, sir, the country
doesn't seem to be able to meet your quota for
technical experts. They don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
What to do.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
They don't eh, I'll tell them. Book me for a
speech to the National Association of American Universities tomorrow. These
long hair intellectuals need a lesson.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
The universities trained then delivered the hardened and sharpened experts
that General Hobbe demanded. The entire nation became a hardened
and sharpened army of specialists to win the war for
the American dream.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
But the American dream.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Wasn't fulfilled on any of the Seven fronts, where millions
of men and women were locked in bitter comeback. No,
it came to life in Ward J of the military hospital.
General hop sent for me.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Major No, I sent for you, Captain Etzel, Oh WHI measure,
because I don't want to bother the General with details
about these reports from Saint Alban's hospital.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
But I'm not attached to Saint Alban's.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Major you will be now.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
There's something funny going on there, and intelligence recommends you
as a reliable expert in psychotherapy.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Oh, thank you, measure.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
It's a question of morale. Something's gone sour at Saint
Alban's Ward J is a mystery or J.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
There's no J classification in military hospitals.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
That's the start of a mystery. Now here's the rest.
The ward is kept locked up. No patients are permitted
to leave.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Or enter M'sall staff doctors.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Have been seen entering and leaving, and they all look
bewildered and absolutely flabbergasted.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That can happen to the best physicians.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Cleaning women who have been in Ward J have been gossiping.
They say that none of the beds look used.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
The kitchen staff has been gossiping. They say that food
trays go into war Jay three times a day and
come out untouched.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
There's no one in war Jay.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
There must be someone. Captain Edful, one of the paramedics
reported passing the locked doors and hearing singing inside, singing.
He was vague about it.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
What do the staff physicians say?
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Nothing, Captain Edvil. Obviously they're afraid to talk.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
What could it possibly be?
Speaker 7 (06:37):
That's why I've taken it upon myself to request your
transfer to Saint Albans. The hospital is in a ferment.
Now you know how sick people can fly into passions, morales, deteriorating.
General harp cannot repeat, cannot be plagued by this, Captain Edvil.
Go into Saint Albans and find out what the devil
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is going on in ward J.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Captain, that's a reporting, go ahead. Percentage of recoveries at
Saint Alban's falling off. The lingering is set in. Suggest
permission to order.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Staff shakeup anything on ward J.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
No, nothing yet?
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Have you inspected?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
WARDJ?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
A promative exactly as Gothip has.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Reported statements from the staff.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
They refuse to talk. They're afraid to talk. That's why
I heard shakeup, Roger.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
We'll assign new Surgeon General to Saint.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Albans Captain as a reporting go ahead. The new chief
is doing no good. Saint Albans is close.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
To open mutiny on account of Ward J.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
That's the plague spot and.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
What's the plague? Captain? Any idea yet?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, I've been in and out of Ward J for
weeks and I'm beginning to figure it out. Yes, go on,
Well it's too soon to report, mostly because I I
can't believe the evidence.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
What evidence?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh and you won't believe it either.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Captain Edsel, what evidence?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Report?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
This is in order?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Respectfully rejected. Major, I'm taking no chances on a Section
eight discharge.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I have read your report, Major, most explicit and mister Fang,
this captain you sent to investigate WARJAY.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Captain Edel, Sir, psychotherapist.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Expert good, this captain has suddenly stopped reporting to you
about WARJ.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Yes, General, but.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
The situation must be remedied.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Yes, General, Saint Albans is in a ferment. I think
he's on to something. He's afraid to talk about.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
What damned if I know, excuse me, sir, you know
my slogan, A job for every man and every man
on the job. This edsel is not doing his job.
Get him ow, sir. In our fight for the American dream,
we must not ignore those who have already suffered for
our ideal. Send the squad of MPs and drag ed
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Sultany by the scrapple the neck. Now look here, Captain Netzel.
We're all of us tools today, hardened and sharpened to
do a specific job. You know my motto, A job
for everyone and everyone on the job. Yes, General, Now,
the majors sent you into Saint Albans to find out
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what is going on in this War J which is
getting the hospital up tight?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
General, all of a sudden you cut off communications.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Why well, sir, I I no one will believe me.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Let's take it from the top. Are their patients in WARJ.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Oh, yes, sir, Ten women and fourteen men.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Then it isn't a spook ward like the reports are saying. No, sir,
all right, So they've got these twenty four crocks in
War J. Their jobs to get well and go back
to the fight. The hospital's job is to get them
shaped up by the morale of us.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Well, sir, because Saint Albans keeps the ward.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I know it's in the reports.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Why to keep the patients in general?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Keep them in? What do you mean when they're trying
to bust out the dangerous, violent or something?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Well, uh no, so they're not not violent, not not dangerous?
Then why I'm afraid to tell.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You, sir, I'll make it easier for you. What about
that J classification? I checked with a filing expert from
the medical cores, and there is no J classification in
our hospitals. From A to I takes care of all
war wounds, left arm amputees, right arm amputees, left leg,
right leg, radiation burns, busted gut, crunched heads and so on.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh yes, sir, I know that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Then what's the J class?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Well, so you see that the staff invented the J
class for something special. There are shopcases blanked out, almost
catatonic sol respiration you examined little Oh yes, sir, as
often as I get the chance.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
But the devil does that mean? Well? Yes, oh wait.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
A minute, so let me just explain. They they don't
eat and they don't sleep.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Never or not in this hospital. Never and why don't
they die? I mean, you can't go without food and sleep.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
We don't know, General, They just disappear, sir, vanish.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
They disappear right in front of your.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Eyes, Yes, sir, now you see them, Now you don't.
I mean they disappear with a kind of a pop,
like a cork being pulled out of a champagne bottle.
And now you know why we're afraid.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
To report it, good lord, why I've.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Seen it over and over again. They'll be in war J,
sitting on a bed or standing around making the strange
noises that shock cases make. One minute you see him,
and the next minute you don't. Sometimes there's two dozen
in ward J, and other times none. They disappear and
reappear without rhyme, horison, General, I don't believe you. They disappear,
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So they disappear.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
No one will believe you. In general, they disappear. All right,
all right, adies, captain, bring me three cases and prove it.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Twenty four men and women in Ward J of Saint
Alban's Military Hospital, all shock casualties of a future war.
They disappear and reappear with the pop of the Champagne court,
without rhyme or reason if this brand new combat injury
of World War five has any meaning?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
What is it that too? May tell us?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
God?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
No?
Speaker 7 (12:42):
What I'd love a Singer selling machine for want?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
You were born in blue jeans, But.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Daddie, it's on sale. Look it has a freeance of
selling necklines and Blauskas flounces.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Maybe you'll even make dresses. I haven't seen your legs
since you were three. Right now, at are someone's special sale.
You can get a stylus machine by Singer for just one.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Daddy, how do you like to dress?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You look too terrific? Why can't you weig jeans like
other little girls? Prices optional? Let participating dealers Remember.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
The first pickup in your life.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You were probably just a kid, and the truck was
probably a dull blue had.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Big round fenders and rolled like a stone.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
You loved it.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Well, your GMC dealer can rekindle that love of truck
in you. With GMC pickups. It can be luxurious like
the family car and do things no car can't.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It was fun once get truck.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
In again with a GM.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Do you remember this old rhyme?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
The other day upon the stair, I saw a man
who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today? My god,
I wish he'd go away. Yes, it's amusing nonsense, but
now we're going to find out whether it really is nonsense,
and if it's not, where the little man goes when
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he goes away?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Hello, operator, this is Nathan Riley in the Fenshouse. Get
me diamond Jim Brady and put in a call to Detroit, Michigan.
I want to talk to a youngster who runs a
bicycle repair shop named Henry Ford. That's right, Hello, Jim,
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It's Matt Riley, our old the diamonds today. Listen, Jim,
that ten thousand. I'm betting on gentlemen Jim against John O'Sullivan.
I want to parlay the payoffs. What hell, I'll win,
all right, they're getting me down for the short end
of the Truman Dewey election. Uh huh. I'll take Truman
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for president at seven to five against Yeah. I know
I'm always taking the short end, but they always come in,
don't they.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I'm also taking Notre Dame over Army and bet the
match to take the pennant, and the series writes him
by love to all the diamonds. Come in.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
It's open.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Breakfast. Just wheel the table right on the terrace. Thanks. Hello,
Oh the Detroit called to Henry Ford put him on. Hello,
good morning, Henry. You don't know me, so I better
introduce myself. My name's Riley, Nathan Riley, and I'm an investor.
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That's right now, Henry. I heard some talk about a
crazy new invention you've got in your bicycle place. I'll
invest two hundred thousands. Yes, you had met two hundred thousand.
I'll make your draft on Johnny P. Morgan's trust today. No, no, thanks,
We're gonna go a long way together. Bye.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Mm.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
This is the life. It's gravy, just great. What are
difference from Saint Albans I really ought to go back
to the award for a last goodbye. I'm gonna miss
some of those out there for equips.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Next one that's private. Riley shut him quick fullseyringe and hold.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
On to him.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Got a light than.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Her, Yes, lady Leila right here, thanks than her?
Speaker 7 (16:39):
You are a think you're the disgrace of all Rome.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
No, lady Lela, no, you are not than her.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
You are Julius Caesar in the sky.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Uh uh I had met? Why did you trick me
to obtain admission to your private bouf rock.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I know you hate general.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
It's not true some of my best friends.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You let me be your best friend, Lilah.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
No Caesar, I will do anything for your favor. I
will divorce Calpernia.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
No Caesar.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I will divide all gall into three persons. No Caesar,
I will cross the Rubican you forget.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I am consecrated to the Goddess Vesta and to the
tending of the sacred fire which burns in her temple.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Consecrate yourself to me, Leela. We can go far together.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
The goddess will release you.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
She will, but she has before her. Ask her, Lila,
tell her the truth. Vesta respects luck.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Oh I'm afraid. Are you worth it, Caesar to give
up everything for you?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I am Lila. Now I will reveal the truth. I
am not Julius Caesar disguised at ben Her.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I am ben.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Her disguised as Julius Caesar pretending to be Julius Caesar
disguised as ben Her. All right, but I'll put it
another way. If anybody asks the real ben Her to
stand up, I will stand.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Can you overcome me?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (18:07):
God?
Speaker 7 (18:08):
I will call the got it on our TV and
I must be alone for the sacred ritual.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
There's another one that's sergeant le The tibbots shoot a
quick ten c c and.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Hold on to her.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
That's true. One more to go, I can say, lamar
intereminal rouse, I will fight for this billau on the beakake.
I will fight in the city, coming gun the cown
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and the hamricks of our breaking iiro will the writer remember,
mister Clive hammer you no, misterisy, I will not hear you.
Will the right remember yield for a question or a
question away, mister dislady, tell the house how much this
(19:08):
canal your is wheel canal shack. Tell the house how
much this series canal hold for which you so eloquently plead,
will cost a Majesty's government one hungry thousand pounds. What
one hungry thousand pounds you have your audacity to anna
(19:29):
to ask how Dat's government to squander one hundred thousand
pounds on a fly by night's titulation called the selles canal.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I dousha I do not ask.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I demand for England, this happy breed of men, little
world nish prayer clown seating at Kilvere. We must own
that who else canal Well done, Clive brother.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
And thanks mister Disraeli.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Lord Heckling came with just the right moment. But the
house priorly on my side.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yes, yes it did, I admit it without false modesty.
I am a brilliant politician, yo, the greatest amash All. No, no, no, no, I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Not sure equal.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I should be prime Minister to her Majesty from day
but you will always be the real power behind the throne.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You're a flax, Amisia.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I only pay just you now. How about glued bones
of tattersals? My Rose Royce is meeting outside? Oh, mister
tray another tree like the ones we had when we
watch school boys together, quilled bone with barbecue shot.
Speaker 11 (20:52):
With what is that?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Something new WANs?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Of course we don't have it yet. I know where
I shall get come.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
You'll go ahead. I'll join you in.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
The rows in a miniche.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
There's number three, Corporal Hammer, grab him, shoot him all
right now? We need three stretchers to hold him to
General Harp. So there they sprawled in General Harp's office.
Private Nathan Riley, Sergeant Layla Tibbott, and Corporal Clive Hammer.
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They were in their hospital graves they were torpid with.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Sodium fire marphing.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
The big Office had been cleared and.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Blazed with lights.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
It was lined with General Harp's experts from Spiona's counter
spion ars, security and intelligence. When Captain Incill saw the
steel faced, ruthless man awaiting him and his patients, he
was frighten. What what's all this?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
My experts want to have a talk with you.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
With me, General, I thought you wanted the patients from WARJ.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
And you didn't occur to you that I mightn't buy
your disappearance bluffy.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
But it's not a bluff. Sorry, you can ask anyone.
It's an albums.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
That staff still isn't talking.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Captain.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
The General has nothing but your story.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's so I'll scut it up for you. The war
is going badly. We've had intelligence leaks that have been disastrous.
And I got my experts together and we agree that
War J may be this horse.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
No, General han't norm and maybe you've been paid off
to cover up you and the Saint Albans staff.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
But they do disappear, they do. It isn't a bluff
for a story.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
That they just came over. Gentlemen, my name is Edward
ad Sol.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
America is my nation, said albans as my dwelling place,
and heaven has my destination?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Has he broken yet?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
No, General, what are they using? Truth?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Tell them to try LSD inhibition release.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
That's against the law, sir'.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Say forget the law. We're fighting a war for civilization, Roger, General, he.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
As is my name, America's my nation, hon me is
my going place? And how is my destination?
Speaker 10 (23:25):
For No?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Major, No break yet? General stubborn, isn't he?
Speaker 7 (23:32):
I don't think there's anything to break, sir?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
You think he's telling the truth.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
No, sir, I think he's suffering from an honest illusion.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Then try the ID and EGO pressure point treatments that'll
break his delusions.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
General, we can't. It may wreck Ed's mind forever.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Don't be squeamish. Major, We've got to protect the American dream,
no matter what the price. Get to it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Break him and so nation. Yes, Uh, it's.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
No use, sir. We've brought Captain Edgill to the breaking
point three times and there is absolutely nothing to break.
He can't tell you anything.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Alright, Let him do. Tell them to go to work
on the patients.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
General Hobbs isn't that a bit much? Two sick men
and a woman who.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Says they're sick. This whole thing may be a cover
up for a covert operation in ward J. And we've
got to get to the bottom.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
I don't think your experts will cooperate, sir.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
What they SWEAMISHO? Alright, I'll show I'm gonna pro is.
Come on, major er, sir, I I don't think I
call yourselves experts. Eh. Where are those crocks? Oh? Still out?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Major me? Three adrenaline shots.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
General harp. You may be risking their lives.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Come on, come on, what's alife when I'm protecting an ideal?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Yes, sir, here you are, here we go.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
This one's Nathan Riley. Eh, come on Riley, wake up
boy and tibbet kay get with a girl, rise and
shine emmy. Everybody, you're going to tell me what's going
on in ward J.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Understand, good Lord Captain Edsall was telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Captain chel are you awake? Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Sir Ah, General you saw them, you saw them disappear?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I did, Captain mitchel Ie, I apologize. I wish to
do the handsome thing, Colonel Ansel. This is a field
promotion for a discovery over and above the call of duty.
You have just won the war for the American dream.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yes, it's all very well to talk about a discovery
that will win a war, provided you know what the
discovery is and how to use it exactly. What has
been taking place? Where are the disappearing patients going? And
how do they get there? Can anyone follow them? Act
three may tell.
Speaker 11 (26:36):
Us when you say you, when you say you carry
up your being up there, become the way you.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
Said it.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
The Bush Headquarters, Saint Louis, Missouri, the nineteen seventy seven
Buick Regal. It comes with Bulick's terrific V six engine.
It carries six people and lots of Buick comfort. It's lead,
it's maneuverbal in city tramped. It's the most luxurious mid
sized car Buick builds. Yeah, this new Regal is pretty
much everything at car should be, except for one thing.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
It isn't yours yet, but it can be.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Just see a Buick dealer for a test drive soon.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And you know all about diamonds.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
May know about sales. Sales is a diamond stole. You
don't buy diamonds every day so much. Sails show the
way because we know what you look at. Here's the
number one you the bull around you. But when people
in home your home diamond Star.
Speaker 11 (28:02):
We know the diamonds and you knows says in the Diamonds.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Soon we're people that you know the name that you.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Dress saying says is the diamonds.
Speaker 12 (28:16):
So we know the diamonds and you know says is
the nine.
Speaker 11 (28:22):
So we're people that you know the name that you
dress saying Star.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
You know, all airline firs to Jamaica are basically the same,
and we all have gleaming, big jets and good pilots.
So what's left. What's left is what happens on board
and on board air Jamaica Jamaica.
Speaker 13 (28:48):
Happens reggae music recorded at the sorts free our own
special concoction, a fantastic fashion show of all the latest
island creations.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Students.
Speaker 12 (29:07):
Is who can tell you secrets about Jamaica that girls
from tallahassee, no matter how helpful, just wouldn't know. What
we have that sets Air Jamaica apart from any other
airline is Jamaica. On Air Jamaica, we give you a
lot more than just a plane. Nd we make you
feel good going over.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
Ask your travel agent about Air Jamaica's special holiday packagings.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
It has been said that when one meets an unusual situation,
one must handle it in an unusual manner. Unfortunately, General
Harp is meeting the unusual situation of disappearing army patients
in his most usual manner. He is re into the
reserve of hardened and sharpened experts that America has become
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for more and more experts.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
All right, colonel itself, you will sum up the medical
aspects of war Jay for us.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yes, General, Well, certain facts are obvious. This must be
a new and fantastic syndrome brought on by the horrors
of modern war. This new syndrome must involve something beyond
strategy and tactics. What teleportation, General, ooh, what portation?
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Teleportation? The power of mind over space?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
You mean those crocs in ward J think their disappearance, Yes, Sir, Evidently,
combat shop while destroying certain known powers of the mind
must develop other latent powers which were unknown up until now.
You're sure of this. They can think themselves somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
They must.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
General, they get food and sleep somewhere else they never
needed in ward J.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's right, Major, Where do they get food and sleep.
I want our intelligence to check.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Or our men might simply be going home, Sir, they
do get homesick.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
General, right, good suggestion. I want security to check family, wives,
sweetheart homes of every one of these crocs. Let the
FBI handle that, but under my command. Right, General, Now,
here's the procedure I worked out, and so you will
set up extra beds in War Jay. I'll send him
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experts to live there and observe.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
And to General. But we'll have to work faster. They
seem to be returning to War j less and less frequently.
In the beginning, they would come and go almost every day.
Now they seem to be staying away for weeks and months.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
My experts will find out what they're doing fast.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I hope so, Sir. The experts hustle, security checks, Intelligence
probed the tension increase.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
General, any reports major.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Yes, they're all negative. Damn security reports. Not one strange
case of unexpected appearance had taken place anywhere in America.
Intelligence reports the enemy has no such cases.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Maybe they're keeping its secret due.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
I'm sure they'd try.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
General, this is all brand new. We've got to get
specialists to handle it. We've got to develop new tools.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
General, excuse my breaking in like this, sir, our first
leap one of your experts in war Jay asked for
the help of another.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Expert, and hey, if you've got him, I've got it all.
What's he want?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
A laboratory?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Do you mean an expert in precious stones? Yes, sir,
what the devil for?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
He picked up a reference to a precious stone. He's
a personnel specialist, and he can't relate it to anything
in his experience.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Now that I approve of a job for every man
and every man on the job, what kind of a stone?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
At some kind of diamond?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Nobody's ever heard of a Jim Brady type, A Jim
Brady type diamond.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
General, we've got it. You're expert delivery, and.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
You won't believe easy, Colonel Major.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
One at a time, what have you got?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
The archeologist identified Jim Brady at once diamond. Jim Brady
the Diamond was a nickname. He was the historic person
who'd been famous in little Old New York sometime between
Governor Peter Staviazant and Governor Fiorella LaGuardia.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
That's ages ago. Who'd the name come from? In ward?
Speaker 4 (33:40):
J private Nathan Riley.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
And where did he get it?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
We don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
He's not a former history student.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Disy an oser I, I'm afraid to say this. There's
no way he could have gotten it, except if if, if, what, well,
if it's something bigger than teleportation, What could be bigger
than colaportation? Time travel?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Time travel? You mean that's where they're going to, somewhere
back in time?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Yes, sir, they're going somewhere back in time.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
How how?
Speaker 7 (34:15):
We don't know, general, And maybe that's why they're not
coming back. They like it better there.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
You mean time travel is here not discovered through expert
research by qualified physicists.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Oh no, sir, it's come as a plague, a disease
of the war, combat injury to ordinary man.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Do you realize the colossal significance. We could send an
army back in time and win the war before it started.
We could protect the American dream of poetry and beauty
and art from barbarism without ever endangering it. Yes, sir,
if if we could find out how they do it,
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that's the point. Those crocs can't communicate the secret of
the miracle. It's for us to find the key. We'll
need advanced specialists, a cerebral mechanist, a cyberneticist, an autonomist,
and a first rate philosophic historian. They'll go into warp
J and they won't come out until they've learned the
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technique of time travel.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
The first three experts were easy to draft from other
war departments. There's some trouble locating a first rate historian
until Alcatraz cooperated with the army and released me and
temporarily for my sentence, me Harry scram Harris, professor of
philosophic history at Stanford, until I spoke my mind about
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Harp's war for the American dream that got me the
twenty years. But I'm still contemptuous of you and your
war general.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Never forget that. Then why'd you agree to come? Scrim Well?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I was intrigued by the problem of ward J. But
I'm not an expert in this benighted nation of specialists.
I'm the last singing grasshopper major.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Get me an entomologist.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Don't bother I'll translate. You're a nest of ants, all
working and specializing for what.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
We're fighting to preserve, poetry and culture and the finer
things in life.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Which means you're fighting to preserve me. That's what I've
devoted my life to. And what do you do with me?
Put me in jail.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
You were convicted of disloyal criticism.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
I was convicted of believing in my American dreams, having
a mind of my own. Don't let's waste time arguing
and me have all those expert reports and lock me up.
And ward J, I've got to talk fast, General, you're
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running out of time. All while I was in ward
J only three came back. They're all disappearing for keeps.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I'm going to give you the clues to something so
fantastic it'll need all your fine edge to cut into it.
Now listen, Nathan Riley goes back in time to the
turn of the twentieth century. There he lived the life
of his fondest dreams. He's a big time gambler, friend
of Diamond Jim Brady. He wins money because he always
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knows the outcome of events in advance, such as Truman
to win the election for president, Corbett to win the
heavyweight title.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
From John L.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
He makes money investing in an auto company Henry Ford
is starting.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Does that mean anything to you not without a sociological analyst.
Time more clues.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Leila Tibbett escapes into the Roman Empire, where she lives
the life of her dreams as a vestal virgin plus
a fan fatale. Every man adores her. Julius Caesar Savaronola
the twentieth legion ben hur Well, did you see the fallacy?
Speaker 5 (38:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
She also smokes cigarettes and uses the CBE radio.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Well.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Clive Hammer escapes into nineteenth century England, where he's a
member of Parliament and a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, who
takes him out in his Rolls Royce for spare ribs
with barbecue sauce. You know what a Rose Royce was, No,
it was an automobile. So general, this is a bigger
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discovery than teleportation or time travel. Why this can be
the salvation of mankind? Those shock victims have been bombed
into something so staggering. It's no wonder your experts couldn't
understand it.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
What could be bigger than time travel?
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Listen, Truman didn't run for president until the middle of
the twentieth century. Riley couldn't have been Diamond, Jim Brady's
friend and bet On Truman at the same time.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
John L.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Sullivan and Henry Ford don't go together either. Riley's time
travel is full of an achronism. What Leyla Tibbott couldn't
have been her for a lover because you never existed.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
He was a fictional character. She's lying.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
And cigarettes weren't invented in Roman times.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
More anachronism.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Automobiles weren't developed until long after Disraeli died. He couldn't
have taken Clive Hammer for a.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Ride in a rolls Royd.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
They're all lying.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
No, They've discovered how to turn dreams into reality, and
they know how to enter them and live a happy
dream life. By heaven harp, this is your American dream.
It's miracle working, immortality, creation, mind over matter. It must
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be studied, explored, given to the world so that everybody
can learn. Will you do it, Swim I can't.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
I'm non creative.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
You need a poet, an artist who understands the creative
process and practices it.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
The poet. Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Certainly, don't you know what a poet is.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
You've been telling us.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
For five years that this war is being fought to
save the poet.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Don't be sarcastic, scrim.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Send a poet into war Jay. He's the only man
who can learn.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
How they do it.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
A poet is half doing it himself anyway. He's the
only man who can tell us and teach us this miracle.
But hurry up, time is running out.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
I believe you're.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
Right, yet, General, get me a poet right away. General, trying, General,
Still trying, General, attempting to locate your poet, sir, still
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locating your poets. General, not to be a poet somewhere
in General, there used to be lots of route.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
That's right, used to be What are you laughing?
Speaker 3 (41:42):
A slim if.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
You'll be patient and wait, General, Sure, Wait, General, Wait,
you sad fool, Wait, wait by your poet. Yes, he
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waited and waited and waited, while America sorted feverishly through
its millions of hardened and sharpened experts, its special tools
to defend the dream of beauty and poetry and the
better things in life.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
General ub Harp waited.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Not understanding the endless delay the hoocalist search for why
Harry Swim laughed and laughed at this final fatal disappearance.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
I'll be back shortly now.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
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Speaker 2 (43:09):
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Speaker 4 (43:11):
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in many major city shopping centers. One more time the
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Speaker 5 (43:40):
Any anyway?
Speaker 14 (43:42):
What you say, hey, Dobda is a really special drink
that started over in Friends, but you can enjoy it
right here, straight up.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
And the wraps they're mixed with.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Your favorite favorite ship to the day before before lunch
or dinner. What heaver you got to cook?
Speaker 9 (43:57):
There's a drink you may not know, a little bow.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
To whispers, what gosu bosa have a show any day?
Speaker 11 (44:09):
Said, it's nothing site.
Speaker 7 (44:11):
Oh no, it's not time.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
Girl, it's made who finish anyway?
Speaker 9 (44:23):
What you say, Supine?
Speaker 13 (44:25):
I bought it of us a.
Speaker 5 (44:39):
Right.
Speaker 14 (44:39):
I'm Fred Feldman, Helicopter seven to ten. I'm also on
the board of directors at the Queensboro Society.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
For the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Speaker 14 (44:46):
Now let me ask you a question. What are you
going to do for Christmas for a six year old
kid who is thrown out of his house without a
stitch of clothing on it. We don't have all the answers,
but the w R Children's Christmas Fund does bring Christmas
to a lot of kids in a of places like
the Queen's Shelter.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
No.
Speaker 14 (45:02):
I know times are tough, but if we don't bring
Christmas to these kids, no one is. So please send
whatever you can to the WR Children's Christmas Fund Box
seventy ten times Square.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Station, New York one three sixth.
Speaker 9 (45:15):
And I thank you.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
No, it's not a happy story, and it's a story
of an unhappy future which we hope will never come
to pass. But there is one consolation. Now, at least
we know where the little man who wasn't there goes
when he goes away to a time that never was.
Of course, there are moments when I dream.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Of going there too, don't we.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
All the people in this dream included Robert Dry
Come is.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Marshall.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
No one can ever forget the shock and horror of
the first nuclear bomb produced by World War II. Now
we realize that wars generate new and unwelcome surprises, dilemmas
which we must face and solve. As a rule, they're
ugly problems. But there was a war in the not
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so distant future that sprang a bomb which might have
been the salvation and delight of mankind if the top
brass had known how to handle it. Our mystery drama
Now you see Them, Now You Don't was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Alfred Bester and stars.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Robert Dryden and Leon Jenny.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It is sponsored in part by the Greyhound Amerapath and
contact the twelve hour Cold Capsule. I'll be back shortly
with Act one. Professor Harry Scrimm is serving twenty years
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hard labor in Alcatraz, which was reactivated for the conscientious
objectors to World War five.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
This is his story to tell, because.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Doctor scrim solves the mystery of the fantastic bombshell which
burst on the Western world in the year twenty one
seventy five. This run wasn't the Last War or the
War end wars. And they didn't even call it WW five. No,
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it was quote the War for the American Dream end quote.
General Harp invented that slogan and repeated it over and
over again.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
My fellow Americans, this great nation of ours is not
fighting for money, or power or conquest. We are fighting
to bring the American dream to the free nations of
the world.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
There are fighting generals, political generals, and public relations generals
who have to sell a war to the consumer.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
You.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The Harp was a great salesman.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
My fellow Americans, we are fighting solely for the American dream.
We are fighting for the American meaning of civilization, for art,
for poetry, for culture, for the only things worth fighting for.
The American dream is the better things in life, which
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must not disappear from the free world. Oh, he sold
the War for the American Dream and weed falls General
high pass for ten thousand n continental missiles. Ten thousand
were delivered to the enemy, and the enemy returned the compliments.
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Most of our cities were destroyed hm New York, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Saint Louis, Washington. Thank heavens, we moved the
government to Colorado, Cleveland, Atlanta, most of the pride of America.
But we can't despair. That's not the American dream. Yes,
(03:43):
General Hart, get me a thousand mining engineers, one thousand. Yes,
wreathe them their mission to design and supervise the construction
of a hundred underground cities.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yes, General, Hearts, are we going into hiding?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Never?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
We will carry on us before. I also require five
hun hundred of sanitation experts, five hundred managers, communication chiefs,
and personnel specialists.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yes, General I yes, excuse me.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Sir, yes, yes, what is it.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
I've been relaying your requests by.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Telex as you ordered, good, very efficient.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
The replies are coming in. Yes, well, sir, the country
doesn't seem to be able to meet your quota for
technical experts. They don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
What to do.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
They don't eh, I'll tell them. Book me for a
speech to the National Association of American Universities tomorrow. These
long hair intellectuals need a lesson.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
The universities trained then delivered the hardened and sharpened experts
that General Hobbe demanded. The entire nation became a hardened
and sharpened army of specialists to win the war for
the American dream.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
But the American dream.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Wasn't fulfilled on any of the Seven fronts, where millions
of men and women were locked in bitter comeback. No,
it came to life in Ward J of the military hospital.
General hop sent for me.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Major No, I sent for you, Captain Etzel, Oh WHI measure,
because I don't want to bother the General with details
about these reports from Saint Alban's hospital.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
But I'm not attached to Saint Alban's.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Major you will be now.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
There's something funny going on there, and intelligence recommends you
as a reliable expert in psychotherapy.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Oh, thank you, measure.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
It's a question of morale. Something's gone sour at Saint
Alban's Ward J is a mystery or J.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
There's no J classification in military hospitals.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
That's the start of a mystery. Now here's the rest.
The ward is kept locked up. No patients are permitted
to leave.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Or enter M'sall staff doctors.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Have been seen entering and leaving, and they all look
bewildered and absolutely flabbergasted.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That can happen to the best physicians.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Cleaning women who have been in Ward J have been gossiping.
They say that none of the beds look used.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
The kitchen staff has been gossiping. They say that food
trays go into war Jay three times a day and
come out untouched.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
There's no one in war Jay.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
There must be someone. Captain Edful, one of the paramedics
reported passing the locked doors and hearing singing inside, singing.
He was vague about it.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
What do the staff physicians say?
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Nothing, Captain Edvil. Obviously they're afraid to talk.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
What could it possibly be?
Speaker 7 (06:37):
That's why I've taken it upon myself to request your
transfer to Saint Albans. The hospital is in a ferment.
Now you know how sick people can fly into passions, morales, deteriorating.
General harp cannot repeat, cannot be plagued by this, Captain Edvil.
Go into Saint Albans and find out what the devil
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is going on in ward J.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Captain, that's a reporting, go ahead. Percentage of recoveries at
Saint Alban's falling off. The lingering is set in. Suggest
permission to order.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Staff shakeup anything on ward J.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
No, nothing yet?
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Have you inspected?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
WARDJ?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
A promative exactly as Gothip has.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Reported statements from the staff.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
They refuse to talk. They're afraid to talk. That's why
I heard shakeup, Roger.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
We'll assign new Surgeon General to Saint.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Albans Captain as a reporting go ahead. The new chief
is doing no good. Saint Albans is close.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
To open mutiny on account of Ward J.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
That's the plague spot and.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
What's the plague? Captain? Any idea yet?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, I've been in and out of Ward J for
weeks and I'm beginning to figure it out. Yes, go on,
Well it's too soon to report, mostly because I I
can't believe the evidence.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
What evidence?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh and you won't believe it either.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Captain Edsel, what evidence?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Report?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
This is in order?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Respectfully rejected. Major, I'm taking no chances on a Section
eight discharge.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I have read your report, Major, most explicit and mister Fang,
this captain you sent to investigate WARJAY.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Captain Edel, Sir, psychotherapist.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Expert good, this captain has suddenly stopped reporting to you
about WARJ.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Yes, General, but.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
The situation must be remedied.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Yes, General, Saint Albans is in a ferment. I think
he's on to something. He's afraid to talk about.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
What damned if I know, excuse me, sir, you know
my slogan, A job for every man and every man
on the job. This edsel is not doing his job.
Get him ow, sir. In our fight for the American dream,
we must not ignore those who have already suffered for
our ideal. Send the squad of MPs and drag ed
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Sultany by the scrapple the neck. Now look here, Captain Netzel.
We're all of us tools today, hardened and sharpened to
do a specific job. You know my motto, A job
for everyone and everyone on the job. Yes, General, Now,
the majors sent you into Saint Albans to find out
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what is going on in this War J which is
getting the hospital up tight?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
General, all of a sudden you cut off communications.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Why well, sir, I I no one will believe me.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Let's take it from the top. Are their patients in WARJ.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Oh, yes, sir, Ten women and fourteen men.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Then it isn't a spook ward like the reports are saying. No, sir,
all right, So they've got these twenty four crocks in
War J. Their jobs to get well and go back
to the fight. The hospital's job is to get them
shaped up by the morale of us.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Well, sir, because Saint Albans keeps the ward.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I know it's in the reports.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Why to keep the patients in general?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Keep them in? What do you mean when they're trying
to bust out the dangerous, violent or something?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Well, uh no, so they're not not violent, not not dangerous?
Then why I'm afraid to tell.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You, sir, I'll make it easier for you. What about
that J classification? I checked with a filing expert from
the medical cores, and there is no J classification in
our hospitals. From A to I takes care of all
war wounds, left arm amputees, right arm amputees, left leg,
right leg, radiation burns, busted gut, crunched heads and so on.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh yes, sir, I know that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Then what's the J class?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Well, so you see that the staff invented the J
class for something special. There are shopcases blanked out, almost
catatonic sol respiration you examined little Oh yes, sir, as
often as I get the chance.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
But the devil does that mean? Well? Yes, oh wait.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
A minute, so let me just explain. They they don't
eat and they don't sleep.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Never or not in this hospital. Never and why don't
they die? I mean, you can't go without food and sleep.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
We don't know, General, They just disappear, sir, vanish.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
They disappear right in front of your.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Eyes, Yes, sir, now you see them, Now you don't.
I mean they disappear with a kind of a pop,
like a cork being pulled out of a champagne bottle.
And now you know why we're afraid.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
To report it, good lord, why I've.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Seen it over and over again. They'll be in war J,
sitting on a bed or standing around making the strange
noises that shock cases make. One minute you see him,
and the next minute you don't. Sometimes there's two dozen
in ward J, and other times none. They disappear and
reappear without rhyme, horison, General, I don't believe you. They disappear,
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So they disappear.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
No one will believe you. In general, they disappear. All right,
all right, adies, captain, bring me three cases and prove it.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Twenty four men and women in Ward J of Saint
Alban's Military Hospital, all shock casualties of a future war.
They disappear and reappear with the pop of the Champagne court,
without rhyme or reason if this brand new combat injury
of World War five has any meaning?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
What is it that too? May tell us?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
God?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
No?
Speaker 7 (12:42):
What I'd love a Singer selling machine for want?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
You were born in blue jeans, But.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Daddie, it's on sale. Look it has a freeance of
selling necklines and Blauskas flounces.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Maybe you'll even make dresses. I haven't seen your legs
since you were three. Right now, at are someone's special sale.
You can get a stylus machine by Singer for just one.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Daddy, how do you like to dress?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You look too terrific? Why can't you weig jeans like
other little girls? Prices optional? Let participating dealers Remember.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
The first pickup in your life.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You were probably just a kid, and the truck was
probably a dull blue had.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Big round fenders and rolled like a stone.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
You loved it.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Well, your GMC dealer can rekindle that love of truck
in you. With GMC pickups. It can be luxurious like
the family car and do things no car can't.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It was fun once get truck.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
In again with a GM.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Do you remember this old rhyme?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
The other day upon the stair, I saw a man
who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today? My god,
I wish he'd go away. Yes, it's amusing nonsense, but
now we're going to find out whether it really is nonsense,
and if it's not, where the little man goes when
(14:06):
he goes away?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Hello, operator, this is Nathan Riley in the Fenshouse. Get
me diamond Jim Brady and put in a call to Detroit, Michigan.
I want to talk to a youngster who runs a
bicycle repair shop named Henry Ford. That's right, Hello, Jim,
(14:30):
It's Matt Riley, our old the diamonds today. Listen, Jim,
that ten thousand. I'm betting on gentlemen Jim against John O'Sullivan.
I want to parlay the payoffs. What hell, I'll win,
all right, they're getting me down for the short end
of the Truman Dewey election. Uh huh. I'll take Truman
(14:53):
for president at seven to five against Yeah. I know
I'm always taking the short end, but they always come in,
don't they.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I'm also taking Notre Dame over Army and bet the
match to take the pennant, and the series writes him
by love to all the diamonds. Come in.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
It's open.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Breakfast. Just wheel the table right on the terrace. Thanks. Hello,
Oh the Detroit called to Henry Ford put him on. Hello,
good morning, Henry. You don't know me, so I better
introduce myself. My name's Riley, Nathan Riley, and I'm an investor.
(15:37):
That's right now, Henry. I heard some talk about a
crazy new invention you've got in your bicycle place. I'll
invest two hundred thousands. Yes, you had met two hundred thousand.
I'll make your draft on Johnny P. Morgan's trust today. No, no, thanks,
We're gonna go a long way together. Bye.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Mm.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
This is the life. It's gravy, just great. What are
difference from Saint Albans I really ought to go back
to the award for a last goodbye. I'm gonna miss
some of those out there for equips.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Next one that's private. Riley shut him quick fullseyringe and hold.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
On to him.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Got a light than.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Her, Yes, lady Leila right here, thanks than her?
Speaker 7 (16:39):
You are a think you're the disgrace of all Rome.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
No, lady Lela, no, you are not than her.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
You are Julius Caesar in the sky.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Uh uh I had met? Why did you trick me
to obtain admission to your private bouf rock.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I know you hate general.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
It's not true some of my best friends.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You let me be your best friend, Lilah.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
No Caesar, I will do anything for your favor. I
will divorce Calpernia.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
No Caesar.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I will divide all gall into three persons. No Caesar,
I will cross the Rubican you forget.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I am consecrated to the Goddess Vesta and to the
tending of the sacred fire which burns in her temple.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Consecrate yourself to me, Leela. We can go far together.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
The goddess will release you.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
She will, but she has before her. Ask her, Lila,
tell her the truth. Vesta respects luck.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Oh I'm afraid. Are you worth it, Caesar to give
up everything for you?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I am Lila. Now I will reveal the truth. I
am not Julius Caesar disguised at ben Her.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I am ben.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Her disguised as Julius Caesar pretending to be Julius Caesar
disguised as ben Her. All right, but I'll put it
another way. If anybody asks the real ben Her to
stand up, I will stand.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Can you overcome me?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (18:07):
God?
Speaker 7 (18:08):
I will call the got it on our TV and
I must be alone for the sacred ritual.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
There's another one that's sergeant le The tibbots shoot a
quick ten c c and.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Hold on to her.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
That's true. One more to go, I can say, lamar
intereminal rouse, I will fight for this billau on the beakake.
I will fight in the city, coming gun the cown
(18:48):
and the hamricks of our breaking iiro will the writer remember,
mister Clive hammer you no, misterisy, I will not hear you.
Will the right remember yield for a question or a
question away, mister dislady, tell the house how much this
(19:08):
canal your is wheel canal shack. Tell the house how
much this series canal hold for which you so eloquently plead,
will cost a Majesty's government one hungry thousand pounds. What
one hungry thousand pounds you have your audacity to anna
(19:29):
to ask how Dat's government to squander one hundred thousand
pounds on a fly by night's titulation called the selles canal.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I dousha I do not ask.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I demand for England, this happy breed of men, little
world nish prayer clown seating at Kilvere. We must own
that who else canal Well done, Clive brother.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
And thanks mister Disraeli.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Lord Heckling came with just the right moment. But the
house priorly on my side.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yes, yes it did, I admit it without false modesty.
I am a brilliant politician, yo, the greatest amash All. No, no, no, no, I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Not sure equal.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I should be prime Minister to her Majesty from day
but you will always be the real power behind the throne.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You're a flax, Amisia.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I only pay just you now. How about glued bones
of tattersals? My Rose Royce is meeting outside? Oh, mister
tray another tree like the ones we had when we
watch school boys together, quilled bone with barbecue shot.
Speaker 11 (20:52):
With what is that?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Something new WANs?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Of course we don't have it yet. I know where
I shall get come.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
You'll go ahead. I'll join you in.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
The rows in a miniche.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
There's number three, Corporal Hammer, grab him, shoot him all
right now? We need three stretchers to hold him to
General Harp. So there they sprawled in General Harp's office.
Private Nathan Riley, Sergeant Layla Tibbott, and Corporal Clive Hammer.
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They were in their hospital graves they were torpid with.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Sodium fire marphing.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
The big Office had been cleared and.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Blazed with lights.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
It was lined with General Harp's experts from Spiona's counter
spion ars, security and intelligence. When Captain Incill saw the
steel faced, ruthless man awaiting him and his patients, he
was frighten. What what's all this?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
My experts want to have a talk with you.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
With me, General, I thought you wanted the patients from WARJ.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
And you didn't occur to you that I mightn't buy
your disappearance bluffy.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
But it's not a bluff. Sorry, you can ask anyone.
It's an albums.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
That staff still isn't talking.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Captain.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
The General has nothing but your story.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's so I'll scut it up for you. The war
is going badly. We've had intelligence leaks that have been disastrous.
And I got my experts together and we agree that
War J may be this horse.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
No, General han't norm and maybe you've been paid off
to cover up you and the Saint Albans staff.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
But they do disappear, they do. It isn't a bluff
for a story.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
That they just came over. Gentlemen, my name is Edward
ad Sol.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
America is my nation, said albans as my dwelling place,
and heaven has my destination?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Has he broken yet?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
No, General, what are they using? Truth?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Tell them to try LSD inhibition release.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
That's against the law, sir'.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Say forget the law. We're fighting a war for civilization, Roger, General, he.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
As is my name, America's my nation, hon me is
my going place? And how is my destination?
Speaker 10 (23:25):
For No?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Major, No break yet? General stubborn, isn't he?
Speaker 7 (23:32):
I don't think there's anything to break, sir?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
You think he's telling the truth.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
No, sir, I think he's suffering from an honest illusion.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Then try the ID and EGO pressure point treatments that'll
break his delusions.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
General, we can't. It may wreck Ed's mind forever.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Don't be squeamish. Major, We've got to protect the American dream,
no matter what the price. Get to it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Break him and so nation. Yes, Uh, it's.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
No use, sir. We've brought Captain Edgill to the breaking
point three times and there is absolutely nothing to break.
He can't tell you anything.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Alright, Let him do. Tell them to go to work
on the patients.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
General Hobbs isn't that a bit much? Two sick men
and a woman who.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Says they're sick. This whole thing may be a cover
up for a covert operation in ward J. And we've
got to get to the bottom.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
I don't think your experts will cooperate, sir.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
What they SWEAMISHO? Alright, I'll show I'm gonna pro is.
Come on, major er, sir, I I don't think I
call yourselves experts. Eh. Where are those crocks? Oh? Still out?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Major me? Three adrenaline shots.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
General harp. You may be risking their lives.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Come on, come on, what's alife when I'm protecting an ideal?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Yes, sir, here you are, here we go.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
This one's Nathan Riley. Eh, come on Riley, wake up
boy and tibbet kay get with a girl, rise and
shine emmy. Everybody, you're going to tell me what's going
on in ward J.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Understand, good Lord Captain Edsall was telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Captain chel are you awake? Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Sir Ah, General you saw them, you saw them disappear?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I did, Captain mitchel Ie, I apologize. I wish to
do the handsome thing, Colonel Ansel. This is a field
promotion for a discovery over and above the call of duty.
You have just won the war for the American dream.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yes, it's all very well to talk about a discovery
that will win a war, provided you know what the
discovery is and how to use it exactly. What has
been taking place? Where are the disappearing patients going? And
how do they get there? Can anyone follow them? Act
three may tell.
Speaker 11 (26:36):
Us when you say you, when you say you carry
up your being up there, become the way you.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
Said it.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
The Bush Headquarters, Saint Louis, Missouri, the nineteen seventy seven
Buick Regal. It comes with Bulick's terrific V six engine.
It carries six people and lots of Buick comfort. It's lead,
it's maneuverbal in city tramped. It's the most luxurious mid
sized car Buick builds. Yeah, this new Regal is pretty
much everything at car should be, except for one thing.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
It isn't yours yet, but it can be.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Just see a Buick dealer for a test drive soon.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And you know all about diamonds.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
May know about sales. Sales is a diamond stole. You
don't buy diamonds every day so much. Sails show the
way because we know what you look at. Here's the
number one you the bull around you. But when people
in home your home diamond Star.
Speaker 11 (28:02):
We know the diamonds and you knows says in the Diamonds.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Soon we're people that you know the name that you.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Dress saying says is the diamonds.
Speaker 12 (28:16):
So we know the diamonds and you know says is
the nine.
Speaker 11 (28:22):
So we're people that you know the name that you
dress saying Star.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
You know, all airline firs to Jamaica are basically the same,
and we all have gleaming, big jets and good pilots.
So what's left. What's left is what happens on board
and on board air Jamaica Jamaica.
Speaker 13 (28:48):
Happens reggae music recorded at the sorts free our own
special concoction, a fantastic fashion show of all the latest
island creations.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Students.
Speaker 12 (29:07):
Is who can tell you secrets about Jamaica that girls
from tallahassee, no matter how helpful, just wouldn't know. What
we have that sets Air Jamaica apart from any other
airline is Jamaica. On Air Jamaica, we give you a
lot more than just a plane. Nd we make you
feel good going over.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
Ask your travel agent about Air Jamaica's special holiday packagings.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
It has been said that when one meets an unusual situation,
one must handle it in an unusual manner. Unfortunately, General
Harp is meeting the unusual situation of disappearing army patients
in his most usual manner. He is re into the
reserve of hardened and sharpened experts that America has become
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for more and more experts.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
All right, colonel itself, you will sum up the medical
aspects of war Jay for us.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yes, General, Well, certain facts are obvious. This must be
a new and fantastic syndrome brought on by the horrors
of modern war. This new syndrome must involve something beyond
strategy and tactics. What teleportation, General, ooh, what portation?
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Teleportation? The power of mind over space?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
You mean those crocs in ward J think their disappearance, Yes, Sir, Evidently,
combat shop while destroying certain known powers of the mind
must develop other latent powers which were unknown up until now.
You're sure of this. They can think themselves somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
They must.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
General, they get food and sleep somewhere else they never
needed in ward J.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's right, Major, Where do they get food and sleep.
I want our intelligence to check.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Or our men might simply be going home, Sir, they
do get homesick.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
General, right, good suggestion. I want security to check family, wives,
sweetheart homes of every one of these crocs. Let the
FBI handle that, but under my command. Right, General, Now,
here's the procedure I worked out, and so you will
set up extra beds in War Jay. I'll send him
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experts to live there and observe.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
And to General. But we'll have to work faster. They
seem to be returning to War j less and less frequently.
In the beginning, they would come and go almost every day.
Now they seem to be staying away for weeks and months.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
My experts will find out what they're doing fast.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I hope so, Sir. The experts hustle, security checks, Intelligence
probed the tension increase.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
General, any reports major.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Yes, they're all negative. Damn security reports. Not one strange
case of unexpected appearance had taken place anywhere in America.
Intelligence reports the enemy has no such cases.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Maybe they're keeping its secret due.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
I'm sure they'd try.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
General, this is all brand new. We've got to get
specialists to handle it. We've got to develop new tools.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
General, excuse my breaking in like this, sir, our first
leap one of your experts in war Jay asked for
the help of another.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Expert, and hey, if you've got him, I've got it all.
What's he want?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
A laboratory?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Do you mean an expert in precious stones? Yes, sir,
what the devil for?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
He picked up a reference to a precious stone. He's
a personnel specialist, and he can't relate it to anything
in his experience.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Now that I approve of a job for every man
and every man on the job, what kind of a stone?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
At some kind of diamond?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Nobody's ever heard of a Jim Brady type, A Jim
Brady type diamond.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
General, we've got it. You're expert delivery, and.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
You won't believe easy, Colonel Major.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
One at a time, what have you got?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
The archeologist identified Jim Brady at once diamond. Jim Brady
the Diamond was a nickname. He was the historic person
who'd been famous in little Old New York sometime between
Governor Peter Staviazant and Governor Fiorella LaGuardia.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
That's ages ago. Who'd the name come from? In ward?
Speaker 4 (33:40):
J private Nathan Riley.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
And where did he get it?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
We don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
He's not a former history student.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Disy an oser I, I'm afraid to say this. There's
no way he could have gotten it, except if if, if, what, well,
if it's something bigger than teleportation, What could be bigger
than colaportation? Time travel?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Time travel? You mean that's where they're going to, somewhere
back in time?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Yes, sir, they're going somewhere back in time.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
How how?
Speaker 7 (34:15):
We don't know, general, And maybe that's why they're not
coming back. They like it better there.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
You mean time travel is here not discovered through expert
research by qualified physicists.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Oh no, sir, it's come as a plague, a disease
of the war, combat injury to ordinary man.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Do you realize the colossal significance. We could send an
army back in time and win the war before it started.
We could protect the American dream of poetry and beauty
and art from barbarism without ever endangering it. Yes, sir,
if if we could find out how they do it,
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that's the point. Those crocs can't communicate the secret of
the miracle. It's for us to find the key. We'll
need advanced specialists, a cerebral mechanist, a cyberneticist, an autonomist,
and a first rate philosophic historian. They'll go into warp
J and they won't come out until they've learned the
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technique of time travel.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
The first three experts were easy to draft from other
war departments. There's some trouble locating a first rate historian
until Alcatraz cooperated with the army and released me and
temporarily for my sentence, me Harry scram Harris, professor of
philosophic history at Stanford, until I spoke my mind about
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Harp's war for the American dream that got me the
twenty years. But I'm still contemptuous of you and your
war general.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Never forget that. Then why'd you agree to come? Scrim Well?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I was intrigued by the problem of ward J. But
I'm not an expert in this benighted nation of specialists.
I'm the last singing grasshopper major.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Get me an entomologist.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Don't bother I'll translate. You're a nest of ants, all
working and specializing for what.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
We're fighting to preserve, poetry and culture and the finer
things in life.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Which means you're fighting to preserve me. That's what I've
devoted my life to. And what do you do with me?
Put me in jail.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
You were convicted of disloyal criticism.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
I was convicted of believing in my American dreams, having
a mind of my own. Don't let's waste time arguing
and me have all those expert reports and lock me up.
And ward J, I've got to talk fast, General, you're
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running out of time. All while I was in ward
J only three came back. They're all disappearing for keeps.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I'm going to give you the clues to something so
fantastic it'll need all your fine edge to cut into it.
Now listen, Nathan Riley goes back in time to the
turn of the twentieth century. There he lived the life
of his fondest dreams. He's a big time gambler, friend
of Diamond Jim Brady. He wins money because he always
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knows the outcome of events in advance, such as Truman
to win the election for president, Corbett to win the
heavyweight title.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
From John L.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Sullivan.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
He makes money investing in an auto company Henry Ford
is starting.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Does that mean anything to you not without a sociological analyst.
Time more clues.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Leila Tibbett escapes into the Roman Empire, where she lives
the life of her dreams as a vestal virgin plus
a fan fatale. Every man adores her. Julius Caesar Savaronola
the twentieth legion ben hur Well, did you see the fallacy?
Speaker 5 (38:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
She also smokes cigarettes and uses the CBE radio.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Well.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Clive Hammer escapes into nineteenth century England, where he's a
member of Parliament and a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, who
takes him out in his Rolls Royce for spare ribs
with barbecue sauce. You know what a Rose Royce was, No,
it was an automobile. So general, this is a bigger
(38:40):
discovery than teleportation or time travel. Why this can be
the salvation of mankind? Those shock victims have been bombed
into something so staggering. It's no wonder your experts couldn't
understand it.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
What could be bigger than time travel?
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Listen, Truman didn't run for president until the middle of
the twentieth century. Riley couldn't have been Diamond, Jim Brady's
friend and bet On Truman at the same time.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
John L.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Sullivan and Henry Ford don't go together either. Riley's time
travel is full of an achronism. What Leyla Tibbott couldn't
have been her for a lover because you never existed.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
He was a fictional character. She's lying.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
And cigarettes weren't invented in Roman times.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
More anachronism.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Automobiles weren't developed until long after Disraeli died. He couldn't
have taken Clive Hammer for a.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Ride in a rolls Royd.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
They're all lying.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
No, They've discovered how to turn dreams into reality, and
they know how to enter them and live a happy
dream life. By heaven harp, this is your American dream.
It's miracle working, immortality, creation, mind over matter. It must
(40:09):
be studied, explored, given to the world so that everybody
can learn. Will you do it, Swim I can't.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
I'm non creative.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
You need a poet, an artist who understands the creative
process and practices it.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
The poet. Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Certainly, don't you know what a poet is.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
You've been telling us.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
For five years that this war is being fought to
save the poet.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Don't be sarcastic, scrim.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Send a poet into war Jay. He's the only man
who can learn.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
How they do it.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
A poet is half doing it himself anyway. He's the
only man who can tell us and teach us this miracle.
But hurry up, time is running out.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
I believe you're.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
Right, yet, General, get me a poet right away. General, trying, General,
Still trying, General, attempting to locate your poet, sir, still
(41:26):
locating your poets. General, not to be a poet somewhere
in General, there used to be lots of route.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
That's right, used to be What are you laughing?
Speaker 3 (41:42):
A slim if.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
You'll be patient and wait, General, Sure, Wait, General, Wait,
you sad fool, Wait, wait by your poet. Yes, he
(42:06):
waited and waited and waited, while America sorted feverishly through
its millions of hardened and sharpened experts, its special tools
to defend the dream of beauty and poetry and the
better things in life.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
General ub Harp waited.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Not understanding the endless delay the hoocalist search for why
Harry Swim laughed and laughed at this final fatal disappearance.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
I'll be back shortly now.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
A warm Christmas message from Scrooge flying home for the holidays.
Bah Humbug Greyhound announces two penny pinching travel plans from
December first through January second, the holiday of metapod two
weeks unlimited travel for only one hundred and thirty nine
dollars save one too even five hundred dollars over regular
(42:58):
round trip air coach Bendy, how are you Journey or
Grayhound time to class fair saves at x arm shot
round trips out of the state charge you bank CLOBs.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Each grand allows you to take your.
Speaker 4 (43:11):
Child under twelve the long free like this tidy check
team rush and growl, and the Greyhound will carry your
gifts to ship them in time for Christmas for shore
from any Greyhounds station or from special gift shipping centers
in many major city shopping centers. One more time the
park Hush you go house.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
Any anyway?
Speaker 14 (43:42):
What you say, hey, Dobda is a really special drink
that started over in Friends, but you can enjoy it
right here, straight up.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
And the wraps they're mixed with.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Your favorite favorite ship to the day before before lunch
or dinner. What heaver you got to cook?
Speaker 9 (43:57):
There's a drink you may not know, a little bow.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
To whispers, what gosu bosa have a show any day?
Speaker 11 (44:09):
Said, it's nothing site.
Speaker 7 (44:11):
Oh no, it's not time.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
Girl, it's made who finish anyway?
Speaker 9 (44:23):
What you say, Supine?
Speaker 13 (44:25):
I bought it of us a.
Speaker 5 (44:39):
Right.
Speaker 14 (44:39):
I'm Fred Feldman, Helicopter seven to ten. I'm also on
the board of directors at the Queensboro Society.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
For the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Speaker 14 (44:46):
Now let me ask you a question. What are you
going to do for Christmas for a six year old
kid who is thrown out of his house without a
stitch of clothing on it. We don't have all the answers,
but the w R Children's Christmas Fund does bring Christmas
to a lot of kids in a of places like
the Queen's Shelter.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
No.
Speaker 14 (45:02):
I know times are tough, but if we don't bring
Christmas to these kids, no one is. So please send
whatever you can to the WR Children's Christmas Fund Box
seventy ten times Square.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Station, New York one three sixth.
Speaker 9 (45:15):
And I thank you.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
No, it's not a happy story, and it's a story
of an unhappy future which we hope will never come
to pass. But there is one consolation. Now, at least
we know where the little man who wasn't there goes
when he goes away to a time that never was.
Of course, there are moments when I dream.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Of going there too, don't we.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
All the people in this dream included Robert Dry
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