November 21, 2023 • 26 mins
Archie Andrews was a teenage sitcom directly adapted from the very popular comic strip of Bob Montana. It began to be heard on NBC Blue on May 31, 1943 and lasted on-air until September 5, 1943—the period during which radio adaptations of comic characters were trending. The show was also broadcasted on Mutual from 1944 to 1945.
Kenneth Banghart served as the announcer, while Bob Hastings played the lead character Archie during the show's NBC times. Other actors that took over the main role include Burt Boyar, Jack Grimes, and Charles Mullen. The other important character role, Jughead, was given to Cameron Andrews and Hal Stone. Up to now, Archie Comics is still popular and loved by many fans.
Kenneth Banghart served as the announcer, while Bob Hastings played the lead character Archie during the show's NBC times. Other actors that took over the main role include Burt Boyar, Jack Grimes, and Charles Mullen. The other important character role, Jughead, was given to Cameron Andrews and Hal Stone. Up to now, Archie Comics is still popular and loved by many fans.
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M Hi, Archie, what doyou want, Come on out right away.
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Joke here, it's a matter oflife or death. I relax,
Archie reli it is here. Heis again the anster millions of readers of
Arty Comics Magazine. No one wantsa well brought to you by Swifting Company,
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and all his days. Listen hearthat, folks, You listening to the
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Brookfield Sausage is the sausage with ajust right seasoning. It's just good reasoning
to get the sausage with a justright seasoning. Now for our weekly visit
to Riverdale. It's Saturday afternoon aswe're looking on the Andrews home and at
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the moment we find mister Andrews alonein the living room, sitting in his
favorite armchair reading the newspaper. Landscolding while he was over reaching with the
Kik said he would have to bemore mannerly if he has itself pastic cake
to him, He replied, Oh, I mean what just manners get you?
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Every time Daddy gets polite in thetrain or bust because to his seat.
Okay, yes, dear, Yeah, I hear it. Well,
Mary, I'm reading my Yes,dear, I'll answer it, mumble fine
singer, Hello, Hello, yes, oh hello veronicay, Yes, Auntie's
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home. Did you want to talkto him? No, I don't,
all right, I'll call it.Oh you don't, I love you?
Just gave him a mess oh,of course, Veronica, what is it.
Well, Archie was supposed to comeover here this afternoon at three o'clock,
yes, but ask him to makeit four o'clock and four o'clock instead.
I'm going down to Stacey's department storeto do some Christmas shopping this afternoon.
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It is about the last chance I'llhad, all right, Barana Gay.
I'll tell him thank you, missOh, but don't tell him I'm
going shopping, you see, it'sfor his presence. Jump tell him the
part about changing the date from freeto poland all right, paranic Ga,
I'll tell him thanks much, missdangerous, Bye, bye, bye,
shorte. It's a good thing,Veronica called. I'd forgotten all about Christmas
shopping, and I still don't haveanything from Marry or Archie. I better
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get my hat and get down toStation's right now. This is the last
chance i'll have. Oh fine,yes, dear, I hear it,
Dear, I hear it. Ohall right, dear, all right,
then I never have a chance toOh good grief, jughead. Could you
expect Jersey Joe Wolcott? Yeah,no, jug heead, And I don't
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wanna fight with you either. HurryIe, hiat Judge, what are you
doing here? Oh? Hi,Achie. I came over to see what
you're doing? Well, I was, Oh, Archie, Veronica just calls.
She did, Yes, Hachie,she did, and she I never
heard the phone ring? Well,and didn't you tell me? Archie?
Yes? Dad? Do you careto hear what Veronicas said? And not?
Well? Sure Dad, Sure he'llbe quiet and I'll tell you.
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Okay, Dad, okay, shesaid to uh. Oh, yeah,
she said to change your appointment withher from three o'clock to four o'clock from
three to four. Yes. Anhour later, she was, I wonder
why now she had some things todo it and I'm going out. I'll
see you later. Yeah, okayDad, goodbye, Wymys. She was,
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that's great. Huh. Well,now that Veronica has made our date.
An hour later, I have timeto get my Christmas shopping done.
But I is practically the last chancei'll happen. But that's a good thing.
I thought of it. But Ihaven't bought a thing for anyone yet,
including me, including you, Archie. It's timing. Did your Christmas
shop? That's right, Joe,come on, we'll go right down the
stakes. Oh where are you gonnaget me? Huh, jug you'll red
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yellocos ready? Fred? Fred?Can't you answer when I call? I
think it? Well, that's funny, he's gone, for pity's sake.
Hello, Missus Andrews. This isBetty. Oh, hello, dear,
how are you five? Thanks?Missus Andrews. Is Archie home? Yes,
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dear, I think he's upstairs.Uh, Archie Archie. That's funny.
He must have gone on too.I wish people had tell me when
they're going out. Hello, Betty, yes, mister and Archie doesn't seem
to be home, dear. Ohhe answered no, Dear, and Betty.
I hate to cut you short,but I have to run now.
I'm just leaving to do my Christmasshopping. Golly, I'm glad you mentioned
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that, Missus Andrews. I haven'tdone my shopping yet either. Oh you
have him? Oh? Would youlike to go with me? Dear?
I'd loved you. Missus Andrews.All right, I'll pick you up right
away and we'll go down to Stacey's. She is so I can't never saw
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such crowd. Yes, Joe head. But when we got in that elevator
and everyone started pushing, did youhave to push back. Listen, Archie
and that crowd, even though soI Dean would have pushed back. Well,
never mind, we're here now,and the first thing I want to
buy is a compact for Veronica.I wonder where the cosmetic department is.
Cosmetic department, yeah, she is, Archie. Let's go up to the
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toy department first. Jug I toldyou, we'll go up to the toy
department later. Now, come on, I'll ask that floor walk of where
the cosmetic department is. She isokay, Oh mister, yes, yes,
could you tell me where the cosmeticdepartment is? Please? Yes,
count her seven? Thank you?Jug Where is he counter seven? Where
is that? Gee? I don'tknow. Oh mister yes, where is
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counter seven on the north side ofcounter six? Oh? Thank you.
I'll just see mister. Well whatnow, which way is not? Oh
my lambs, Sonny, you seethe boy's clothing department right there. Yes,
we'll go right down on that aislefor the dummies are and turn right.
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Oh okay, mister, thanks alot. You're welcome. Yes,
madam, can I help you?Wait? Do you say it is right
down at the next ale, Judge, Come on, okay, boy,
he's sure, not a very friendlyfloorwalker. Maybe his wife beats him and
I wouldn't be surprised. I Oh, what was that you bumped into?
That dummy? Gee? Was Inot the hat of us? For a
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minute, I thought that dummy wasa real person. Wait a second,
judge, so I put the hatback on. Okay, if that floorwalker
ever saw me pulling around this dummy, he probably throw us out of the
store or something. Matter. There'sVeronica, Veronica, she wish. I
don't want her to see me here. She's coming right towards. Oh boy,
Jug, I'm gonna be a dummy. Huh. I'm gonna climb up
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on this platform with the rest ofthese dummies, and I'll wear this hat
for Archie. Oh you can't,don't huge, you don't hunt you?
Yeah, how do I look?You're the most natural looking dummy I ever
saw. Don't be funny, Jug, and put that price tag on me
quick. Okay, here had aboy. Now, remember, don't give
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me away no matter what happens.Well, okay, Bush, what juck
here? Oh hi, Veronica,what y'all doing here? Ooh? Just
a little shopping? I am too, Thank goodness, I have most of
it done. Oh, that's good. The only thing I still have to
get is a gift for Archie.Archie, uh huh, I don't know
what to get him. He's sucha problem. Yeah, he sure is.
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I can't get him a book oranything because he's not the intelligent time.
I can't get him a baseball loveror anything because he's not much of
an athlete. Can't get him atire or anything because he just doesn't know
anything about style. In fact,sometimes I think Archie is an awful dummy.
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But then again, with prices beingwhat they are, there isn't very
much you can get for a dollar. Did you say something, jack Heads?
Not a word? Not a word? Oh well, I better go
get some more shopping done. Wouldyou like to come along? Oh I
no, Veronica, I can't meetingsomeone here in a minute. Oh well,
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I run along then by not jacket, bye vernicer, bye, okay,
dummy, you can relax now Afine thing, A fine thing.
Juck had helped me down off thisplatform, was not now huh here comes
a floor walker. Oh boy,I couldn't be a dummy. Some more,
asked madam. That doesn't take youcan return at any time. Yes,
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ma'am. Oh, never have Iseen such a rush, never in
all my land sakes? Who putthat dummy here? Oh boy, oh,
if that isn't the silliest looking dummyI've ever seen anymore, I don't
know why that stark room can't standone that looks at least half alive.
I have never seen one with suchan insipid expression and such a ridiculous posture.
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Mister. Yes, I'm I'm notreally a dummy. That makes absolutely
no difference. They still shouldn't.Oh, good, heavens, you're alive.
Uh huh oh, for pity's sake, young man, Come down off
there, yes, sir. Well, just what were you doing on that
platform looking like a dummy? Wellthat's a long story, sir, you
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see. Oh good, Hi heavens, young man. Will you do me
a favor? Yes, sir,as soon as you paid for that jacket,
leave the store, huh, Isaid, as soon as you have
finished buying that jacket, this jacket, Yes, that jacket with the price
tag on it. You're buying it, aren't you? But this is my
jacket, your jacket. Hmmm?Do you have the sales with Well no,
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I bought it here last year.Mm hm, and you haven't removed
the price tag yet removed the Oh, mister, you don't understand. The
young man, I understand perfectly.The price is fourteen ninety five and I
want it right now. Oh butmister, now, I said, but
you don't understand. This is myown jacket. No fooling juck head.
Tell the man, this is myjacket and chuck head, young man,
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are you calling me names? No, no, no, sra. I
was talking to my friend. Whatfriend, Well, that's just it.
He was here a minute ago,he was. I bet he went up
to the toy department. Mister.If you just come up to the toy
department, we can find my friendand he'll tell you the man. I'm
not going up to the toy departmentor anywhere else until I have the fourteen
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dollars and ninety five cents for thatjack. But that's all the money I
have. And I I, oh, wait a minute, I know,
mister, if I paid you forthis jacket, you'd give me a sales
slip and then I could take itover to the exchange department and get my
money back, couldn't I. Yes, you like, Oh, well,
in that case, it's all right, I haven't anything to worry about.
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Here's the money, thank you,And here's your sales slip. Thank you.
You're quite welcome. Good day.I guess I fooled him. Yes,
sir, it's a good thing.I think fast. For a minute
there it looked like I wouldn't haveany Christmas money. But now all I
have to do is take this coatand go to the exchange counter and give
them this jacket, and then i'llshe whiz. If I do, I
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won't have any jacket left. Ohboy, how do I get into these
things? Well, now, let'ssee. First thing I better do is
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get that bottle of perfume from Mary. Ah. Here's a perfume counter right
here. Let's see. Now whatkind should I get her? Well,
they certainly have quite assortment. Chaseme twenty five dollars, hide and seek
thirty two dollars, wallflower, nomore forty dollars, and never smell anything
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worth that kind of money. Oh, here's another one evening in Riverdale.
Ten dollars. Well that's a littlebetter. I think Mary likes this perfume.
That's just what I'll get her.Oh, miss, I'll take this
bottle. Well, Chuckhead. Hello, what are you doing here? Strangers?
I'm looking for I thought you werewith that she. I'm trying to
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get one of these salesgirls to waitdown me here, but they're also busy.
What's the matter? He's missus AndrewsMary where right over there? Oh?
Good grief. If she sees mewith this bottle of perfumes, you'll
know what I'm getting here for Christmas. She's coming this way. Yes,
I know, I see. I'lljust gut the bottle in my pocket there,
right in this pocket. Now shesees me, please, yeah,
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I saw that? So what oh? Oh oh oh, now, mister
you don't understand it. You don'tunderstand Oh, I don't don't know you.
Did you or did you not?Just had a bottle of perfume in
your pocket? Oh? Yes?But have you paid for it? Well?
No, but well I don't knowwhat you call it, but we
call it shoplifting. Yes, ofcourse it's shoplifting. Oh now, wait
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a minute, mister, I canexplain. I can explain the entire thing.
I'm listening. Well, you see, I've been trying to get one
of the sales girls to wait onme, and now I just saw my
wife over there, and I hitthe bottle because I didn't want her to
know what I'm getting it for Christmas? Just where is your wife? Well
she was right over over. Oh, good heaven, she's gone, I
thought, so. Oh he wasright there. Jug heead tell the man
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how we saw my wife? Well, now where did he go to?
Who? Juughhead? He was standingright here just a second to go.
I don't know where, mister.Do you imagine these things very often?
Imagine? Do you have delusions?Puts before your eyes? Now, keep
calm, keep calm, No needto get excited. Just give me back
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to perdume and we'll forget the wholething and you can go ride home and
lie down, lie down. Butwho was the lifume? Please? Yes,
sir, I have it right inmy mind. Oh something wrong?
It leaked? What leaked perfume bottle? It leaked all over my pocket?
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Jeeves half empty? Oh, forLand's sake, Now you'll have to pay
for it. What that's right?I was going to forget the whole incident,
but I can't return the damaged bottleto the counter. Well, I'm
certainly not going to pay for aleaky bottle of perfume. Mister, If
you're not satisfied with the item,you can take it to the exchange department.
But I must be paid for it. But I said I must,
Oh me, you win. I'llgo to the change department. With how
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I get into these things, I'llnever know which bathroom do you like best,
Betty? The dark blue one?I think I do too. Blue
is Aunt Hattie's favorite colors. Butis it her size, Missus andrew And
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there's only one way to tell,Betty. I'll have to try it on.
Try it on. Uh huh.I wear the same size as Aunt
Hattie does, and if it fitsme, it'll fit her. Here,
oh my coat, dear, whileI step into this dressing room and put
this bathroom back, all right,Missus Andrews, He'll just take me a
second, deer. I'd hate togo to all the trouble of buying this
and sending it to Hattie and thennot have it fit. Uh huh.
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Then I don't have to return itfor her since she lives out of Oh
dear, what is it? There'sno hangar in here for my dress?
Oh well, hand it to me, Missus Andrews. I'll hold it all
right, dear. Here you are, I have it, Thank you,
dear. I'll have this grill,Bonnie, just a minute there. Oh
how does it look, Betty?Well it looks a little big to me.
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Well I better take a look inthis mirror. Oh, Betty,
you don't have to hold my coatand dress. Just put them on that
empty rack. Oh, missus andrewsNow, let's see hmm, yes for
a little big yesterday. This I'llhave to ask the salesgirl she has a
smaller size. You ate here,Betty? Oh what miss Betty? Jock
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head? What are you doing here? Looking for Archie? Archie? Is
he here? Well? I thinkso. We can't hit it, get
it? But he got separated?Oh? Well, where'd you see him?
Last? On a dummy platform?What you see? He was being
a dummy? What a dummy?You know, the kind that looks like
this juck? What are you talkingabout? Oh? I'm sorry, okay,
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get the other on the chuck,cad. What are you trying to
tell me about Archie? Benny?It's an awful long story. Oh I
want to know is have you seenhim? No? I haven't. Well,
then I bet it Keith looking hemay be in trouble. What kind
of trouble. I can't kill younow, Betty see later. Bye.
But jog wait jog. Oh golly, that's jog ahead. He's the strangest.
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It's how you like this bathroom?Oh that's fine, missus Andrews.
But I just size? Does itmuch better? Does he? Yes?
Missus Anders? But go daddy?What happened to it? What happened to
what? The rack? What rack? The rack? You put my dress
on? Oh golly, I don'tknow my dress. My dress and coat
were on it. Oh golly,was here a minute ago? Dress?
But Benny, would I do somethingwrong? Matter? Yes, I lost
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my dress. I beg you,I beg your pardon my dress. We
put it down here for a minutewhile I tried it on this bathroom.
But now it's gone the bathroom.No, the dress, But it couldn't
be. But it is, isn'tit? Oh? Yes, indeed,
missus Andrews. Oh, my land, I have never seen such a day.
Living dummies, men hiding from theirwives, and now this woman her
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dress, And I tell you itwas right under my nose. I should
hope so well, do something,Do something, madam? What can I
do about your dress? Find itnow? Madam, be calm, be
calm. I was probably taken bymistake, and they'll be turned into the
lost and Found department. Well,where's that at the other end of the
floor, next to the exchange department. Come on, daddy, madam,
where are you going to the Lostand Calm department? But madam, certainly
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not in our bathroom? Well,certainly not without it. Come on,
daddy, we'll go see if Ihave my dress? How these things happen
to me? I'll never know,Archie? Yes, John, Now can
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I tell you who I meant?Yes? John? Well first time?
Rany what guitar nation? Are youdoing here? She was? Dad?
Where'd you come from? Never knowwhere I came from? Archie? What
are you doing standing here? Inyour shirt? Leaves? Well that I
can explain you. See, Icame over. What are you doing here?
Mary? What are you doing inyour bathroom? It's not my bathroom?
But Fred Andrews. You smell whatyou positively? Reek of perfumes?
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Oh? No, yes, Ido, don't I? Well? As
what are you doing here? Veronica? Jack? Why didn't you tell me?
Was he here? Seems to thetrouble here? Oh the floor walker,
mister, I'm trying to find outwhy my son is standing here in
his shirt sleeves. There's no needto get here. And I want to
know why you smell of perfume,lady, and what are you doing in
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that bathroom? Please exchange my owncolleague? Just why? Why? Why?
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That's better? Now listen to me, all of you. This nonsense
has gone far enough, too farin fact, yes, mister Andrew,
Yes, dear, yes dat,it certainly has. But wh afternoon.
You people have made my life quitemiserable for me, quite miserable, yes,
sir, Now, if there's anyreason for it, I feel I'm
entitled to an explanation. Well,mister, you know the coat, the
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one you thought I was buying.Yes, well, my mother and father
and jug Head and Veronica can allidentify it as my old coat. Course,
ads are Chie's cold? I knowthat gold there? You mean it
really is? Yes, And maybeyou'll recall that you didn't believe my wife
was in the store when I hitthe perfume bottling in my pocket. Well,
yes, well this is my wife. Oh how do you do?
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I'm very sorry? And I justfound out that two of your men moved
an empty rack while I was talkingto jug Head here, didn't they jug
Head? Sure they did, andthat was the rack that had my dress
and coat it. Well, misterFloyd Walker, what do you say to
that? Yeah? Please, I'mnot at all. No tempers please,
no tampers, no trampers. Thecustomer is always right at Jail Stacey's.
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We'll make amends, make amends.Mistakes will happen, you know, young
man. Since that does seem tobe your own coat, you may keep
it and I'll give you a cashcredit slip for what you paid me.
Thank you, and you, sir, I'll be glad to give you another
bottle of perfume compliments of the store. Well, that's better. And madam,
I'm sure we can find your dressand coat in the lost and found
department and you may keep that bathrobe, but no charge. Well, thank
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you, I'm here too, udshut up. Well, people, that
satisfy you? Well, yes,I think that strengthens everything out. All
right, I'm sorry there's been somuch misunderstanding. That's quite all right,
quite all right, And now folks, I have everything's settled. Let's stop
hiding from each other and get thisChristmas shopping over and done with once and
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for all. Yes mister, yes, dear, yes dad, all right,
what was that five o'clock, ThankHeaven stores closing? You have to
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to the Andrews. It's Monday nightas we look in on the Andrews' home
and the family has just come homefrom Stacy's department store. Oh, Mary,
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it's certainly as good to be home. Oh, he certainly is.
And how hill I'm dead? OhI am too, dear. I've never
seen such a mob. Me too, But at least we got all our
shopping gun. And you know,Mary, have I never set foot in
a crowded store again. It'll betoo soon. And she is what is
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it, Archie? This letter fromUncle George. Uncle George. Uh huh
he sent us a fifty dollars giftcertificate from J. L. Stacy's department
store. Oh no, you'll belistening to another chapter of the Adventures of
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Archie Andrews, written by Carl Champelland based on the copyrighted feature appearing in
Archie Comics magazine. Archie was playedby Bob Hast. Chughead was Harlan Staud.
Mom and Dad Andrews were played byAlice Yorman and Arthur Cole. Veronica
and Betty by Gloria Mann and RoseMurray. Rice the Foroe Walker was Ray
Hedge. This program was produced anddirected by Kenneth McGregor. Listen next Saturday
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when Swift and Company, makers ofSwift Premium Franks and Swift Brookfield Sausage,
bring you more the merry adventures ofArchie Andrews. This is Bob Sherry,
wishing you a very pleasant weekend.So long Swift and Company invite for the
state Tune for Meet the Meet whichfollows immediately over most of these stations.
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This is NBC, the National broadcastingCompany.
M Hi, Archie, what doyou want, Come on out right away.
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Joke here, it's a matter oflife or death. I relax,
Archie reli it is here. Heis again the anster millions of readers of
Arty Comics Magazine. No one wantsa well brought to you by Swifting Company,
makers of script screening of frig sincelet's look for your sussrage Archie Andrews
and all his days. Listen hearthat, folks, You listening to the
(01:00):
actual sounds of two delicious links ofSwift's Brookfield Sausage sizzling in the skillet.
A sound that's an appetizing invitation toenjoy America's favorite pork sausage, Swift's Brookfield
Sausage. In these days when everyoneis conscious of making food go further,
Swift's Brookfield Sausage makes an ideal meatfor Swift's Brookfield Sausage is all meat,
(01:22):
and you eat every delicious bit onyour plate. Cook it slowly for best
results. You'll enjoy every tasty biteof it. Made of carefully selected,
pure fresh pork cuts that are extratender and delicious. Swift's Brookfield Sausage is
then seasoned with rare, delicate spicesthat give you just the right blend of
delicacy and zest you want, nottoo spicy, not too mild. Swift's
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Brookfield Sausage is the sausage with ajust right seasoning. It's just good reasoning
to get the sausage with a justright seasoning. Now for our weekly visit
to Riverdale. It's Saturday afternoon aswe're looking on the Andrews home and at
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the moment we find mister Andrews alonein the living room, sitting in his
favorite armchair reading the newspaper. Landscolding while he was over reaching with the
Kik said he would have to bemore mannerly if he has itself pastic cake
to him, He replied, Oh, I mean what just manners get you?
(02:28):
Every time Daddy gets polite in thetrain or bust because to his seat.
Okay, yes, dear, Yeah, I hear it. Well,
Mary, I'm reading my Yes,dear, I'll answer it, mumble fine
singer, Hello, Hello, yes, oh hello veronicay, Yes, Auntie's
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home. Did you want to talkto him? No, I don't,
all right, I'll call it.Oh you don't, I love you?
Just gave him a mess oh,of course, Veronica, what is it.
Well, Archie was supposed to comeover here this afternoon at three o'clock,
yes, but ask him to makeit four o'clock and four o'clock instead.
I'm going down to Stacey's department storeto do some Christmas shopping this afternoon.
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It is about the last chance I'llhad, all right, Barana Gay.
I'll tell him thank you, missOh, but don't tell him I'm
going shopping, you see, it'sfor his presence. Jump tell him the
part about changing the date from freeto poland all right, paranic Ga,
I'll tell him thanks much, missdangerous, Bye, bye, bye,
shorte. It's a good thing,Veronica called. I'd forgotten all about Christmas
shopping, and I still don't haveanything from Marry or Archie. I better
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get my hat and get down toStation's right now. This is the last
chance i'll have. Oh fine,yes, dear, I hear it,
Dear, I hear it. Ohall right, dear, all right,
then I never have a chance toOh good grief, jughead. Could you
expect Jersey Joe Wolcott? Yeah,no, jug heead, And I don't
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wanna fight with you either. HurryIe, hiat Judge, what are you
doing here? Oh? Hi,Achie. I came over to see what
you're doing? Well, I was, Oh, Archie, Veronica just calls.
She did, Yes, Hachie,she did, and she I never
heard the phone ring? Well,and didn't you tell me? Archie?
Yes? Dad? Do you careto hear what Veronicas said? And not?
Well? Sure Dad, Sure he'llbe quiet and I'll tell you.
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Okay, Dad, okay, shesaid to uh. Oh, yeah,
she said to change your appointment withher from three o'clock to four o'clock from
three to four. Yes. Anhour later, she was, I wonder
why now she had some things todo it and I'm going out. I'll
see you later. Yeah, okayDad, goodbye, Wymys. She was,
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that's great. Huh. Well,now that Veronica has made our date.
An hour later, I have timeto get my Christmas shopping done.
But I is practically the last chancei'll happen. But that's a good thing.
I thought of it. But Ihaven't bought a thing for anyone yet,
including me, including you, Archie. It's timing. Did your Christmas
shop? That's right, Joe,come on, we'll go right down the
stakes. Oh where are you gonnaget me? Huh, jug you'll red
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yellocos ready? Fred? Fred?Can't you answer when I call? I
think it? Well, that's funny, he's gone, for pity's sake.
Hello, Missus Andrews. This isBetty. Oh, hello, dear,
how are you five? Thanks?Missus Andrews. Is Archie home? Yes,
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dear, I think he's upstairs.Uh, Archie Archie. That's funny.
He must have gone on too.I wish people had tell me when
they're going out. Hello, Betty, yes, mister and Archie doesn't seem
to be home, dear. Ohhe answered no, Dear, and Betty.
I hate to cut you short,but I have to run now.
I'm just leaving to do my Christmasshopping. Golly, I'm glad you mentioned
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that, Missus Andrews. I haven'tdone my shopping yet either. Oh you
have him? Oh? Would youlike to go with me? Dear?
I'd loved you. Missus Andrews.All right, I'll pick you up right
away and we'll go down to Stacey's. She is so I can't never saw
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such crowd. Yes, Joe head. But when we got in that elevator
and everyone started pushing, did youhave to push back. Listen, Archie
and that crowd, even though soI Dean would have pushed back. Well,
never mind, we're here now,and the first thing I want to
buy is a compact for Veronica.I wonder where the cosmetic department is.
Cosmetic department, yeah, she is, Archie. Let's go up to the
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toy department first. Jug I toldyou, we'll go up to the toy
department later. Now, come on, I'll ask that floor walk of where
the cosmetic department is. She isokay, Oh mister, yes, yes,
could you tell me where the cosmeticdepartment is? Please? Yes,
count her seven? Thank you?Jug Where is he counter seven? Where
is that? Gee? I don'tknow. Oh mister yes, where is
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counter seven on the north side ofcounter six? Oh? Thank you.
I'll just see mister. Well whatnow, which way is not? Oh
my lambs, Sonny, you seethe boy's clothing department right there. Yes,
we'll go right down on that aislefor the dummies are and turn right.
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Oh okay, mister, thanks alot. You're welcome. Yes,
madam, can I help you?Wait? Do you say it is right
down at the next ale, Judge, Come on, okay, boy,
he's sure, not a very friendlyfloorwalker. Maybe his wife beats him and
I wouldn't be surprised. I Oh, what was that you bumped into?
That dummy? Gee? Was Inot the hat of us? For a
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minute, I thought that dummy wasa real person. Wait a second,
judge, so I put the hatback on. Okay, if that floorwalker
ever saw me pulling around this dummy, he probably throw us out of the
store or something. Matter. There'sVeronica, Veronica, she wish. I
don't want her to see me here. She's coming right towards. Oh boy,
Jug, I'm gonna be a dummy. Huh. I'm gonna climb up
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on this platform with the rest ofthese dummies, and I'll wear this hat
for Archie. Oh you can't,don't huge, you don't hunt you?
Yeah, how do I look?You're the most natural looking dummy I ever
saw. Don't be funny, Jug, and put that price tag on me
quick. Okay, here had aboy. Now, remember, don't give
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me away no matter what happens.Well, okay, Bush, what juck
here? Oh hi, Veronica,what y'all doing here? Ooh? Just
a little shopping? I am too, Thank goodness, I have most of
it done. Oh, that's good. The only thing I still have to
get is a gift for Archie.Archie, uh huh, I don't know
what to get him. He's sucha problem. Yeah, he sure is.
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I can't get him a book oranything because he's not the intelligent time.
I can't get him a baseball loveror anything because he's not much of
an athlete. Can't get him atire or anything because he just doesn't know
anything about style. In fact,sometimes I think Archie is an awful dummy.
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But then again, with prices beingwhat they are, there isn't very
much you can get for a dollar. Did you say something, jack Heads?
Not a word? Not a word? Oh well, I better go
get some more shopping done. Wouldyou like to come along? Oh I
no, Veronica, I can't meetingsomeone here in a minute. Oh well,
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I run along then by not jacket, bye vernicer, bye, okay,
dummy, you can relax now Afine thing, A fine thing.
Juck had helped me down off thisplatform, was not now huh here comes
a floor walker. Oh boy,I couldn't be a dummy. Some more,
asked madam. That doesn't take youcan return at any time. Yes,
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ma'am. Oh, never have Iseen such a rush, never in
all my land sakes? Who putthat dummy here? Oh boy, oh,
if that isn't the silliest looking dummyI've ever seen anymore, I don't
know why that stark room can't standone that looks at least half alive.
I have never seen one with suchan insipid expression and such a ridiculous posture.
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Mister. Yes, I'm I'm notreally a dummy. That makes absolutely
no difference. They still shouldn't.Oh, good, heavens, you're alive.
Uh huh oh, for pity's sake, young man, Come down off
there, yes, sir. Well, just what were you doing on that
platform looking like a dummy? Wellthat's a long story, sir, you
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see. Oh good, Hi heavens, young man. Will you do me
a favor? Yes, sir,as soon as you paid for that jacket,
leave the store, huh, Isaid, as soon as you have
finished buying that jacket, this jacket, Yes, that jacket with the price
tag on it. You're buying it, aren't you? But this is my
jacket, your jacket. Hmmm?Do you have the sales with Well no,
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I bought it here last year.Mm hm, and you haven't removed
the price tag yet removed the Oh, mister, you don't understand. The
young man, I understand perfectly.The price is fourteen ninety five and I
want it right now. Oh butmister, now, I said, but
you don't understand. This is myown jacket. No fooling juck head.
Tell the man, this is myjacket and chuck head, young man,
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are you calling me names? No, no, no, sra. I
was talking to my friend. Whatfriend, Well, that's just it.
He was here a minute ago,he was. I bet he went up
to the toy department. Mister.If you just come up to the toy
department, we can find my friendand he'll tell you the man. I'm
not going up to the toy departmentor anywhere else until I have the fourteen
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dollars and ninety five cents for thatjack. But that's all the money I
have. And I I, oh, wait a minute, I know,
mister, if I paid you forthis jacket, you'd give me a sales
slip and then I could take itover to the exchange department and get my
money back, couldn't I. Yes, you like, Oh, well,
in that case, it's all right, I haven't anything to worry about.
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Here's the money, thank you,And here's your sales slip. Thank you.
You're quite welcome. Good day.I guess I fooled him. Yes,
sir, it's a good thing.I think fast. For a minute
there it looked like I wouldn't haveany Christmas money. But now all I
have to do is take this coatand go to the exchange counter and give
them this jacket, and then i'llshe whiz. If I do, I
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won't have any jacket left. Ohboy, how do I get into these
things? Well, now, let'ssee. First thing I better do is
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get that bottle of perfume from Mary. Ah. Here's a perfume counter right
here. Let's see. Now whatkind should I get her? Well,
they certainly have quite assortment. Chaseme twenty five dollars, hide and seek
thirty two dollars, wallflower, nomore forty dollars, and never smell anything
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worth that kind of money. Oh, here's another one evening in Riverdale.
Ten dollars. Well that's a littlebetter. I think Mary likes this perfume.
That's just what I'll get her.Oh, miss, I'll take this
bottle. Well, Chuckhead. Hello, what are you doing here? Strangers?
I'm looking for I thought you werewith that she. I'm trying to
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get one of these salesgirls to waitdown me here, but they're also busy.
What's the matter? He's missus AndrewsMary where right over there? Oh?
Good grief. If she sees mewith this bottle of perfumes, you'll
know what I'm getting here for Christmas. She's coming this way. Yes,
I know, I see. I'lljust gut the bottle in my pocket there,
right in this pocket. Now shesees me, please, yeah,
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I saw that? So what oh? Oh oh oh, now, mister
you don't understand it. You don'tunderstand Oh, I don't don't know you.
Did you or did you not?Just had a bottle of perfume in
your pocket? Oh? Yes?But have you paid for it? Well?
No, but well I don't knowwhat you call it, but we
call it shoplifting. Yes, ofcourse it's shoplifting. Oh now, wait
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a minute, mister, I canexplain. I can explain the entire thing.
I'm listening. Well, you see, I've been trying to get one
of the sales girls to wait onme, and now I just saw my
wife over there, and I hitthe bottle because I didn't want her to
know what I'm getting it for Christmas? Just where is your wife? Well
she was right over over. Oh, good heaven, she's gone, I
thought, so. Oh he wasright there. Jug heead tell the man
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how we saw my wife? Well, now where did he go to?
Who? Juughhead? He was standingright here just a second to go.
I don't know where, mister.Do you imagine these things very often?
Imagine? Do you have delusions?Puts before your eyes? Now, keep
calm, keep calm, No needto get excited. Just give me back
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to perdume and we'll forget the wholething and you can go ride home and
lie down, lie down. Butwho was the lifume? Please? Yes,
sir, I have it right inmy mind. Oh something wrong?
It leaked? What leaked perfume bottle? It leaked all over my pocket?
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Jeeves half empty? Oh, forLand's sake, Now you'll have to pay
for it. What that's right?I was going to forget the whole incident,
but I can't return the damaged bottleto the counter. Well, I'm
certainly not going to pay for aleaky bottle of perfume. Mister, If
you're not satisfied with the item,you can take it to the exchange department.
But I must be paid for it. But I said I must,
Oh me, you win. I'llgo to the change department. With how
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I get into these things, I'llnever know which bathroom do you like best,
Betty? The dark blue one?I think I do too. Blue
is Aunt Hattie's favorite colors. Butis it her size, Missus andrew And
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there's only one way to tell,Betty. I'll have to try it on.
Try it on. Uh huh.I wear the same size as Aunt
Hattie does, and if it fitsme, it'll fit her. Here,
oh my coat, dear, whileI step into this dressing room and put
this bathroom back, all right,Missus Andrews, He'll just take me a
second, deer. I'd hate togo to all the trouble of buying this
and sending it to Hattie and thennot have it fit. Uh huh.
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Then I don't have to return itfor her since she lives out of Oh
dear, what is it? There'sno hangar in here for my dress?
Oh well, hand it to me, Missus Andrews. I'll hold it all
right, dear. Here you are, I have it, Thank you,
dear. I'll have this grill,Bonnie, just a minute there. Oh
how does it look, Betty?Well it looks a little big to me.
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Well I better take a look inthis mirror. Oh, Betty,
you don't have to hold my coatand dress. Just put them on that
empty rack. Oh, missus andrewsNow, let's see hmm, yes for
a little big yesterday. This I'llhave to ask the salesgirl she has a
smaller size. You ate here,Betty? Oh what miss Betty? Jock
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head? What are you doing here? Looking for Archie? Archie? Is
he here? Well? I thinkso. We can't hit it, get
it? But he got separated?Oh? Well, where'd you see him?
Last? On a dummy platform?What you see? He was being
a dummy? What a dummy?You know, the kind that looks like
this juck? What are you talkingabout? Oh? I'm sorry, okay,
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get the other on the chuck,cad. What are you trying to
tell me about Archie? Benny?It's an awful long story. Oh I
want to know is have you seenhim? No? I haven't. Well,
then I bet it Keith looking hemay be in trouble. What kind
of trouble. I can't kill younow, Betty see later. Bye.
But jog wait jog. Oh golly, that's jog ahead. He's the strangest.
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It's how you like this bathroom?Oh that's fine, missus Andrews.
But I just size? Does itmuch better? Does he? Yes?
Missus Anders? But go daddy?What happened to it? What happened to
what? The rack? What rack? The rack? You put my dress
on? Oh golly, I don'tknow my dress. My dress and coat
were on it. Oh golly,was here a minute ago? Dress?
But Benny, would I do somethingwrong? Matter? Yes, I lost
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my dress. I beg you,I beg your pardon my dress. We
put it down here for a minutewhile I tried it on this bathroom.
But now it's gone the bathroom.No, the dress, But it couldn't
be. But it is, isn'tit? Oh? Yes, indeed,
missus Andrews. Oh, my land, I have never seen such a day.
Living dummies, men hiding from theirwives, and now this woman her
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dress, And I tell you itwas right under my nose. I should
hope so well, do something,Do something, madam? What can I
do about your dress? Find itnow? Madam, be calm, be
calm. I was probably taken bymistake, and they'll be turned into the
lost and Found department. Well,where's that at the other end of the
floor, next to the exchange department. Come on, daddy, madam,
where are you going to the Lostand Calm department? But madam, certainly
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not in our bathroom? Well,certainly not without it. Come on,
daddy, we'll go see if Ihave my dress? How these things happen
to me? I'll never know,Archie? Yes, John, Now can
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I tell you who I meant?Yes? John? Well first time?
Rany what guitar nation? Are youdoing here? She was? Dad?
Where'd you come from? Never knowwhere I came from? Archie? What
are you doing standing here? Inyour shirt? Leaves? Well that I
can explain you. See, Icame over. What are you doing here?
Mary? What are you doing inyour bathroom? It's not my bathroom?
But Fred Andrews. You smell whatyou positively? Reek of perfumes?
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Oh? No, yes, Ido, don't I? Well? As
what are you doing here? Veronica? Jack? Why didn't you tell me?
Was he here? Seems to thetrouble here? Oh the floor walker,
mister, I'm trying to find outwhy my son is standing here in
his shirt sleeves. There's no needto get here. And I want to
know why you smell of perfume,lady, and what are you doing in
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that bathroom? Please exchange my owncolleague? Just why? Why? Why?
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That's better? Now listen to me, all of you. This nonsense
has gone far enough, too farin fact, yes, mister Andrew,
Yes, dear, yes dat,it certainly has. But wh afternoon.
You people have made my life quitemiserable for me, quite miserable, yes,
sir, Now, if there's anyreason for it, I feel I'm
entitled to an explanation. Well,mister, you know the coat, the
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one you thought I was buying.Yes, well, my mother and father
and jug Head and Veronica can allidentify it as my old coat. Course,
ads are Chie's cold? I knowthat gold there? You mean it
really is? Yes, And maybeyou'll recall that you didn't believe my wife
was in the store when I hitthe perfume bottling in my pocket. Well,
yes, well this is my wife. Oh how do you do?
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I'm very sorry? And I justfound out that two of your men moved
an empty rack while I was talkingto jug Head here, didn't they jug
Head? Sure they did, andthat was the rack that had my dress
and coat it. Well, misterFloyd Walker, what do you say to
that? Yeah? Please, I'mnot at all. No tempers please,
no tampers, no trampers. Thecustomer is always right at Jail Stacey's.
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We'll make amends, make amends.Mistakes will happen, you know, young
man. Since that does seem tobe your own coat, you may keep
it and I'll give you a cashcredit slip for what you paid me.
Thank you, and you, sir, I'll be glad to give you another
bottle of perfume compliments of the store. Well, that's better. And madam,
I'm sure we can find your dressand coat in the lost and found
department and you may keep that bathrobe, but no charge. Well, thank
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you, I'm here too, udshut up. Well, people, that
satisfy you? Well, yes,I think that strengthens everything out. All
right, I'm sorry there's been somuch misunderstanding. That's quite all right,
quite all right, And now folks, I have everything's settled. Let's stop
hiding from each other and get thisChristmas shopping over and done with once and
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for all. Yes mister, yes, dear, yes dad, all right,
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and the family has just come homefrom Stacy's department store. Oh, Mary,
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it's certainly as good to be home. Oh, he certainly is.
And how hill I'm dead? OhI am too, dear. I've never
seen such a mob. Me too, But at least we got all our
shopping gun. And you know,Mary, have I never set foot in
a crowded store again. It'll betoo soon. And she is what is
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it, Archie? This letter fromUncle George. Uncle George. Uh huh
he sent us a fifty dollars giftcertificate from J. L. Stacy's department
store. Oh no, you'll belistening to another chapter of the Adventures of
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Archie Andrews, written by Carl Champelland based on the copyrighted feature appearing in
Archie Comics magazine. Archie was playedby Bob Hast. Chughead was Harlan Staud.
Mom and Dad Andrews were played byAlice Yorman and Arthur Cole. Veronica
and Betty by Gloria Mann and RoseMurray. Rice the Foroe Walker was Ray
Hedge. This program was produced anddirected by Kenneth McGregor. Listen next Saturday
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