Classic Radio 09-01-25 - It aired 68 years ago - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now the greatest radio shows of all time.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Suspense, Shadow, Node Washington, calling David Honey, count.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
As my classic Radios Theater.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
The Great Yonderslide, Zipper McGee, and Molly Dragon gun Alone
rain Zo.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine.

Speaker 6 (00:31):
It's your host, Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 7 (00:34):
Good evening friend, Vionna.

Speaker 6 (00:36):
Tanco for the bulk of this Monday edition of the podcast.
We're going to spend our day on a Sunday, September one,
nineteen fifty seven, sixty eight years ago, with episodes of Suspense,
the CBS Radio Workshop, Yours tru Lee, Johnny Dollar, and
the Stan Freberg Show. And we will wrap today's podcast

(00:59):
up with an episode of Lomon Abner from eighty three
years ago. That's what's coming up on this Monday, the
first day of September, two hundred and forty fourth day
of the year, one hundred twenty one days remaining. It
was on this date in eighteen oh seven former Vice
President Aaron Burr found innocent of treason. In nineteen twenty three,

(01:22):
a devastating earthquake struck the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama.
One hundred and fifty thousand people killed, more than two
million left homeless without warning. On this date. In nineteen
thirty nine, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, setting World War II
into motion quickly.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
In Britain and France, significant moves have been made. In France,
the cabinet has called a general mobilization which brings six
million men into the field.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
CBS's Robert Trout. Adolf Hitler blamed Poland for intransigence in
the two nations border dispute and assured England and France
he had no designs on Western Europe.

Speaker 8 (02:03):
Poland has missus my offer for a friendly settlement.

Speaker 7 (02:07):
Of our relations as neighbors.

Speaker 9 (02:10):
Instead, she has taken up.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
Arms Hitler's speech, as translated. In nineteen sixty nine, a
coup in Libya toppled the monarchy of King Idris and
brought Mumar al Kadapi to power. In nineteen sixty nine,
a Coing, a Korean Airline's Boeing seven forty seven shot
down on this date. In nineteen eighty three by a

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Soviet jet fighter, killing all two hundred and sixty nine
people aboard.

Speaker 10 (02:38):
It would be easy to think in terms of vengeance,
but that is not a proper answer. We want justice
and action to see that this never happens again. Our
immediate challenge to this atrocity is to ensure that we
make the skies safer and that we seek just compensation
for the families of those who were killed.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
Among those killed on the airliner, Georgia Congressman Larry MacDonald
aircraft en route from Anchorage, Alaska, to Seoul, South Korea,
when it flew through Soviet prohibited airspace around the time
of a US aerial reconnaissance mission. Soviet Union initially denied
knowledge of the incident, later admitted shooting it down, claiming

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the aircraft was on a spy mission. In nineteen eighty five,
a joint US French expedition located the wreckage of the
Titanic five hundred and sixty miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
In two thousand and four, Chechen rebels took about twelve
hundred school children and others hostage in Beslon, and Russia

(03:38):
COMMU commandos stormed the school two days later. It was
on this date. In two thousand and seven, Idaho Senator
Larry Craig announced his resignation in the wake of his
arrest and guilty plea in the Minnesota Airport gay sex sting.

Speaker 7 (03:54):
I apologize for what I have caused.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
I am deeply sorry.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
Craig later rebursed his decision, saying he'd serve out the
rest of his term. He did serve out the term,
but did not run for re election in two thousand
and eight, effectively ending his political career. Twenty seventeen, Russian
President Vladimir Putin expelled seven hundred and fifty five diplomats
in response to US sanctions, and it was three years

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ago today. A UN inspection team entered Ukraine's Zavarishka nuclear
power plant on a mission to safeguard it against catastrophe.
Reaching the side amid fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces
that prompted the shutdown of one reactor and underscored the
urgency of the task. The chief of the IAEA, Raphael Grossi,

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told reporters they had observed some damage to the facility.

Speaker 11 (04:50):
It is obvious that the plant and the physical integrity
of the plant has been violated several times by chance,
by by deliberation. We don't have the elements to assess that,
but this is a reality that we have to recognize,
and this is something that cannot continue to happen.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
Among those passing away on this date in history, journalist
Drew Pearson, singer Ethel Waters, Jerry Reid, singer, songwriter and actor,
songwriter and composer, Hal David, actor, singer Dean Jones in
passing away just a couple of years ago today Jimmy Buffett.
Birthdays on this date include Don Wilson.

Speaker 12 (05:34):
The Jellal Program starring Jack Benny with Mary Levingston, Phil Harris,
Kenny Baker, and Yours Truly.

Speaker 13 (05:40):
Don Wilson.

Speaker 12 (05:46):
Signs of the American Legions Squadron number two forty one
in Philadelphia gave an officer's dinner a short time ago,
and they sign was one of their main news. Well,
here's what topped off the meal dessert all Jack Benny.

Speaker 14 (05:59):
Yes, sir, you guessed it. That was Jello.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
Don did just an absolute ton of work in radio,
best known though for his work with Jack Benny. Don
Wilson born on this date, one hundred and twenty five
years ago today. Writer Edgar Rice Burrows also born on
this date. In history, Yvonne de Carlo, Lily in The Munsters,
boxer Raqi Marciano, singer Conway Twitty and pro wrestler bam

(06:26):
Ban Bigelow, all born on this date in history. They
have left the building.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

Speaker 15 (06:33):
It is now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 16 (06:36):
The following people are now officially older than dirt.

Speaker 6 (06:40):
Among those who are still with us on this date,
Lily Tomlin turns eighty six today.

Speaker 17 (06:47):
One ringy Dingy to ringy Danny, A gracious good afternoon.
Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking.
This is Tomlin of the Telephone Company. I have I
reached a mister aristotle Onassis. Miss good, mister Nasis. I

(07:11):
was wondering personally, what does the O stand for? Oh, oh,
my goodness, and true irishmen certainly do have a way
with words. Now then, mister Nassis, I'm calling in regard
to an order we received from your wife. She wants
a solid gold princess phone. I think I should warn

(07:34):
you this instrument could cost five thousand dollars. This strikes me,
mister Nassis, as being well or rather callous disregard for money.
I said, callous disregard for money. Callous callous.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Hello, she came to light so wonderfully with her many
roles in Rowan and Martin's laugh In and of course
there you heard her as Ernestine the telephone Operator. She
did so many great comedic roles. Lily Tomlin eighty six
years old today. Archie Bell of Archie Bell and the

(08:16):
Drills Tighten Up eighty one years old today. The Beg's
Barry Gibb is seventy nine. Today, Doctor Phil is seventy five.

Speaker 16 (08:25):
Please says if Amy would keep her mouth shut, he
wouldn't have to hit her.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
Doctor Phil seventy five years old today. Somebody that we
miss on our radios, the crazy Phil Hendry is seventy three.

Speaker 18 (08:39):
Mister Chickens that have become so popular with so many
of the people that love the Ted Beverly Hills Primary Room.
Of course, the Primary Room is where it all takes
place now.

Speaker 19 (08:48):
That is that's the main lounge at Ted's Beverly Hills,
the Prime Rib Room, and you also have the big
screen TV.

Speaker 18 (08:56):
Why it's the Prime Rib Room is a bar, It's
our lounge general. That's where we have people wait to
be seated. It's where people like to go and relax
and have a cocktail, have a tad, have a couple
of deads and we do have two widescreen TVs. We
will have our Super Bowl buffet, which we we we
never ever scrimp on. And uh and the famous miniature chickens. Uh.

Speaker 7 (09:17):
Now what I want to ask you a question.

Speaker 18 (09:19):
Let me guess you're gonna ask what are the miniature chickens?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
You got it?

Speaker 18 (09:22):
Yeah, Well these are a specialty of Teds and Beverly Hills.
These are small, undersized chickens. They've got the little tiny
drumsticks and the little tiny wings, and you you just
enjoy because you can have as many as you want.
You don't get too full. People enjoy it, especially the kids,
the little miniature drumsticks. And for my money, and for

(09:45):
for the family and for anybody who's just coming in
to watch the ball game. It's a lot of fun.
It's a novelty and certainly is something that we like
to specialize at Teds of Beverly Hills.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I want to ask a question because we had some people.

Speaker 20 (09:56):
Who called, no, God, hold hold on, hold on.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
What's what's well?

Speaker 19 (10:00):
We have some people calling about the miniature chickens.

Speaker 18 (10:03):
Okay, Phil, this is a time that I'm paying.

Speaker 19 (10:05):
For, right, but you also agreed that you would take
questions regarding any kind of customer complaint.

Speaker 18 (10:13):
Okay, is this the same family that says the little
the drumsticks are too small?

Speaker 19 (10:19):
Well, they said the drumsticks are only about the size
of like a cigarette.

Speaker 16 (10:22):
But they said it was about the size of a
lipstick container.

Speaker 6 (10:27):
And Phil Hendry was every one of those voices you
just heard. There a great loss to radio when Phil
went off the radio, but he does everything online now
at philhendrishow dot com. Seventy three years old today, the
remarkable Phil Hendry ty Bo martial artist Billy Blanks seventy

(10:52):
years old today. Gloria Estefan is sixty eight. Top chef
host Padma Lashmi is fifty five, and she won a
Primetime Emmy Award for HBO's Euphoria twice. Zendaia is twenty
nine today. Those just a few of the people celebrating
the first day of September is their birthday. If this

(11:13):
is your birthday, hi.

Speaker 15 (11:15):
We're the four Freshmen and we just want to say
birthday to you.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
And we'll start off with our first of four in
a row from this date sixty eight years ago September one,
nineteen fifty seven, with an episode of suspense Frank love
Joyce starring as the Man from Tomorrow.

Speaker 21 (11:36):
That's up next, Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 22 (11:45):
The chief hope of our enemies is to divide the
United States along racial and religious lines and thereby conquerors.
Let's not spread prejudice. A divided America is a week America.
Through our behaviors, the respect of our children, and make
them better neighbors to all races and religions. Remind them
that being good neighbors has helped make our country great

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and kept her free.

Speaker 21 (12:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (12:12):
It was a tumultuous time at CBS Radio. Changes were
coming and it was going to be absolutely insane. And
already changes had been made over at NBC, which had
given up on all of its regular programming and had
gone to the weekend Monitor news magazine format, which was,

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if you will, the forerunner to today's talk radio, which
has succeeded very well on radio. But here's what was
running on NBC. CBS's NBC was running their Monitor program.
They still maintained a block of Sunday program and it

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was all dedicated to many of the great radio At
four h five Eastern, the CBS Radio Workshop at four
point thirty Suspense five o'clock after five minutes of news,
the program Indictment, a criminal investigation show at five thirty
years Truly Johnny Dollar. Then at six o'clock on CBS,

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after the News, it would be the FBI in Peace
and War. At six point thirty, gunsmoke still held sway.
At seven o'clock you had the Quiz Show Says Who,
hosted by Henry Morgan, where people had to guess who

(13:39):
was being portrayed in certain audio clips, what celebrity was it.
Then at seven point thirty you had the Stan Freiburg Show,
followed at eight o'clock by the Mitch Miller Show, following
News of course, then Sports at eight forty five, followed
at nine o'clock by CBS going to News and the World.

(14:03):
Tonight CNN Face the Nation. That was all that there
was as far as long form drama on CBS Radio,
it still survived, but not for long because, as people know,
it kept winding down from there as cost cutting hit

(14:25):
the drama division on CBS Radio, and eventually it would
disappear just about five years September thirtieth, nineteen sixty two,
with the end of Suspense and years to lead Johnny Bellar.
Let's listen to the first of our four shows today

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from that date Sunday, September one, nineteen fifty seven. We
have an Armed Forces recording here of a great program
starring somebody that we enjoy having on here a lot,
Frank Lovejoy. This episode from sixty eight years ago, September one,
nineteen fifty seven, four thirty in the afternoon. It is

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entitled A Man from Tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (15:16):
Suspense.

Speaker 23 (15:19):
And the Producer of Radios Outstanding Theater of Thrills, Semester
of Mystery and Adventure William and Robeson.

Speaker 24 (15:27):
Those who know about such things tell us that an
engine delivers little more than fifty percent of the energy
potential of its fuel. The rest is dissipated in waste, waste, motion, waste,
energy gases ash. The same can be said of man,
has been said in fact, getting and spending, we lay
waste our powers. If an average man were trained to

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use his faculties to the utmost, he could be a superman.
If a superior man were so trained, what could he
not accomplish? The answer is implied in the upcoming story.
Listen listen then, as mister and missus Frank Lovejoy star
in Man from Tomorrow, the last radio play written by
the late Irving Reese, which begins in exactly one minute.

Speaker 25 (16:14):
American folklore is filled with legends about men who were
as tough as nails, like the one about Pacus Bill,
who went out for a walk one day. Unfortunately a
big ten foot rattler crossed his path. I say unfortunately
for the rattler. You see, Bill was a mighty fair fighter.
Why he gave that rattler the first three bites, just

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to make things even. Then he waded into that reptile
and he everlastingly thrashed.

Speaker 7 (16:40):
The poison out of him. By and bye.

Speaker 25 (16:43):
That old rattler yelled for mercy and admitted that when
it come to fighting, Bill started where he left off.

Speaker 14 (16:52):
Yeares that was Pacus Bill.

Speaker 25 (16:53):
A legendary American folklore belongs to every nation's legendary past.
And I guess the Americans have our share of some
tall ones like the one about but we'll have to
save that one for the next time we travel your way.

Speaker 7 (17:08):
See you then.

Speaker 23 (17:10):
And now, Man from Tomorrow, starring mister and missus Frank Lovejoy,
a tale well calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 21 (17:23):
Suspense even in these days, if so called full employment,
you'll be surprised how few job opportunities come up for
a next jet jockey. So it was with more than
passing interest that I read this ad while I was
scanning the classified section of the Sunday paper. It said

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wanted ex jet pilot, unmarried, without family obligations, must be
in perfect health and prepared for rigid tests. Successful candidate
will receive good pay and to give an opportunity to
contribute to daring experiment and world betterment. Apply to Tuesday
ten am, Science Associates, one twenty six West Street, Well

(18:05):
Science Associates. You just got yourself a boy. It turned
out there were quite a few boys with the same idea.
By ten o'clock Tuesday morning, nearly fifty of us were
crowded in a windowless air conditioned room in the windowless
out from modern building of Science Associates. Oh hi, hi magent,

(18:26):
Why hi Randy, It's been a long time. Yeah. Some
of the faces were familiar guys that have been in
the Air Force with me in Korea. And afterwards we
sat there and waited an hour two hours, nothing happened.

Speaker 14 (18:42):
I don't know about the rest of you.

Speaker 13 (18:43):
Guys.

Speaker 14 (18:44):
But this place was beginning to give me claus tophobia.
I'm getting off.

Speaker 13 (18:48):
Hey, Hey, it's locked. Hey, we're locked in here.

Speaker 21 (18:56):
Even before this had a chance to sink in, another
door open on the fire side of the room, a
guy with a white mask on his face came in
carrying a Thompson submachine gun. Every party flatting on the
floor except me. I made a dash for the man
in the mask, but he disappeared as quickly as he covers. Okay, Major, betcha,
how come you didn't hit the floor?

Speaker 13 (19:17):
You tired of living?

Speaker 21 (19:18):
He was shooting blanks.

Speaker 14 (19:19):
He was shooting.

Speaker 21 (19:20):
Wouldn't you see that there weren't any bullets chipping anything. Besides,
I know it was a gag from the way he
held that machine gun. When those babies are loaded with
live ammo, you gotta fire them from the waist.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, I don't like this.

Speaker 8 (19:31):
Come on, guys, let's crush the door and get out
of this, right, say, Brandy.

Speaker 21 (19:34):
That won't do you any good. That door is as
thick as a bank vault. And then something else, thick,
black acrid smoke pouring out of the air conditioning vents,
and a sound from somewhere on an airplane and diving.
Every pilot remembers with horror the smell of burning oil

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from a plane out of your turn. It hit us
way back and keep it down and some of the
guy has got and then the blowers reversed and the
smoke were sucked out quickly. Attention please, A loud speaker
cut in from nowhere.

Speaker 26 (20:17):
For the past two hours, you have been under close
observation as a necessary part of this test. You're warned
in advance the test would be rigid. As you file
out past the guard, you will receive a token compensation
for your time and discomfort. We now ask you all
to leave, except the man who ran for the gunner.
The door is now opened.

Speaker 18 (20:37):
Thank you.

Speaker 13 (20:38):
You're welcome.

Speaker 14 (20:39):
Boy. Well, Maure, looks like you got the job.

Speaker 21 (20:43):
Also looks like I'm gonna shove it right back in
their faces.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Well, I don't blame you.

Speaker 14 (20:47):
Well, so long song, Randy.

Speaker 21 (20:49):
Take it easy. For a moment, I was alone in
the empty room, and then an inner door opened, and
I wasn't so sure I wanted to shove the job
in theres not in this face anyway. Your name please,
whoa wow. I hardly expected to find a blonde at
the bottom of this, you will come with me, please, Well,

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I'll do nothing of the sort. Now, don't give me orders, Blondie.
I want to see the guy responsible for this, and
then I'm getting out of here.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
I take it you have lost interest in contributing to
world betterment.

Speaker 21 (21:21):
Oh, yes, that's what it's said in the end. Well,
whatever your lofty purpose, I don't like cold blooded cruelly.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Unfortunately, we cannot allow personal feelings to interfere with our objectives.
Whether your objectives are wrong, you will be better able
to judge that when you know what they are.

Speaker 21 (21:35):
But I don't think I'm interested. And if I may
indulge a personal feeling, callousness is unattractive enough in a man,
but in an attractive girl.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Neither your feelings nor mine will matter in this project. Major,
I believe you were addressed.

Speaker 21 (21:49):
It was just plain, mister, mister Kentman. The war has
been over for some time, Miss doctor Frost. That's appropriate.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
I beg your pardoner.

Speaker 21 (21:58):
Oh nothing, nothing, I sometimes muttered to myself. The last
thing I said to you, doctor is that the war
is over.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
If it is possible for you to unlock your quite
superior intelligence from emotional reactions common to schoolgirls and housewives.
My senior colleague, Professor Baird, and I will attempt to
convince you on the only basis that should appeal to
the mature mind. Facts.

Speaker 21 (22:22):
Well, you go ahead and try, but I doubt you'll
be successful.

Speaker 23 (22:31):
The second act of suspense continues in one minute.

Speaker 7 (22:38):
This is Johnny Baker with Communism on the spot.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
The Communist attitude toward faith in God is based on
the statement by Karl Marx that religion is the opiate
of the people. In keeping with his view, the Soviets
established as a primary aim the destruction of all religious faiths.
Communism can't tolerate religion which preaches that there is a
supreme being who is higher than any human authority. For

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Communism itself is a political religion whose high priests are
the dictatorial rulers of the Soviet State. They'll settle for
nothing less than total control of the lives of their subjects.
They are not only concerned with their victims bodies and minds,
they seek equal domination over their hearts and souls.

Speaker 7 (23:23):
And now.

Speaker 23 (23:26):
We continue with that Two of Men from Tomorrow starring
mister and Missus Frank Lovejoy a tale well calculated to
keep you in.

Speaker 7 (23:39):
Suspense.

Speaker 21 (23:44):
It was a big, a sceptically bare room, with an
uncluttered desk at one end. Behind the desk was the
cartoonist conception of an egghead, a thin, bespectacled man whose
eyes were so intelligently alive that I couldn't look away
from them long enough to mark his other features. This
was Professor Baird, keeper of the facts.

Speaker 27 (24:04):
You are asking yourself why we limited our appeal to
former jet pilots. Simple, only one man in ten thousand
was able to qualify mentally and physically for jet training.
The Air Force therefore indirectly performed the first of our
processes of elimination. Fact additional eliminations due to flunk outs,

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mortality in training and combat brings the total to one
in twenty thousand.

Speaker 28 (24:29):
Fact, the standards we.

Speaker 27 (24:31):
Applied during the two hours in which we observed your
every action and reaction raises the mathematical incidence of your
sensory acuity to approximately one in one hundred thousand.

Speaker 21 (24:41):
Well, I'm flarid.

Speaker 27 (24:43):
You will have greater reason to be If our experiment
proves successful, you will be the only man on earth
possessed of your powers.

Speaker 28 (24:50):
You will be the man from tomorrow.

Speaker 21 (24:52):
Well, how do you propose to go about that?

Speaker 27 (24:55):
We will first show you how we've trained other individuals,
Doctor Frost.

Speaker 28 (24:58):
Will you proceed with the demo?

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yes, Professor, come in, mister Logan. Mister Logan, have you
ever been in this part of the laboratories before?

Speaker 18 (25:11):
No?

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Would you describe it please?

Speaker 26 (25:14):
It's a rectangular room forty by twenty. The ceiling is
eighteen and a half feet high.

Speaker 14 (25:23):
There's a death twelve feet.

Speaker 26 (25:25):
From me, slightly to my right.

Speaker 14 (25:27):
There are two people seated at it. One has just risen.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
That will be all, thank you, mister Logan.

Speaker 21 (25:35):
Well, mister Kentman, Hello, would be very impressive if any
schoolboy with normal vision couldn't do as well? Agreed, But
mister Logan is totally blind. Looking back now, I can
hardly believe my own impressions. The blind man was followed
by a death mute, then a paraplegic who lost all

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sense of touch and smell. The demon creations were incredible.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Not one of these persons possessed physical senses above the average,
mister Kentman. The deprivation of one sense or another, in
the case of the blind or deaf man stimulated nature's
desire to compensate.

Speaker 21 (26:16):
For the loss. But what are you trying to prove?

Speaker 27 (26:19):
That man has powers even now that are beyond his comprehension.
We wish to explore those powers. Suppose one nearly perfect
man with superior sensory perception to begin with, could develop
the extension of his five senses to the maximum degree
we just observed.

Speaker 21 (26:35):
What do you think would happen? I don't know, neither
do we, but it is.

Speaker 27 (26:40):
Our conviction that this man would also acquire a new sense,
a sixth sense, that would endow him with a power
never dreamed of before.

Speaker 28 (26:48):
Don't you think it's a dimension worth exploring?

Speaker 21 (26:51):
Baby? But how could anybody accomplish it?

Speaker 27 (26:54):
Training by producing the circumstances that surround the blind man,
the deaf man, the handicapped, you would have to agree
to cut yourself off from the outside world for three years.
You would spend six months living in a pitch stock laboratory.
You would sleep, eat, function in a world of darkness.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Various sound devices will be used to train and measure
your hearing responses. After that, six months would be devoted
to simulating the world of the deaf mute, and so on.

Speaker 27 (27:21):
You will be paid twenty thousand dollars at the end
of the three years. All the necessities of living will
be provided during that time. Then a test will be
made and if our predictions are realized, you will be
signed for an additional five years at twenty thousand dollars
per year. Doctor Frost will be in charge of the
training program. Do you wish to undertake it? Well, it's sir,

(27:44):
that's a pretty serious move.

Speaker 21 (27:45):
I like to think about it.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
You have all the facts, mister Kentman. We would like
a decision.

Speaker 21 (27:49):
Now, are they feeling might enter into my considerations? Doctor?
Is that what you're afraid of?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Afraid here is merely an emotion, mister Kentman, I have
learned to.

Speaker 28 (27:58):
Control all my motions.

Speaker 21 (28:00):
I wonder I was muttering again, But what I meant
to say is I agree. I want to take the experiment.
I was led into a pitch dark room, blacker than
the blackest night. It was to be my home for
six months. It had a bad bathroom closets. All I
had to do was to find them. I won't waste

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time telling you what that was like. Just close your
eyes tight and try to find your way around a
room that's familiar to you, and you'll get the idea.
I was still stumbling around three days later when I
reported for my training with doctor Frost in the adjoining laboratory,
which was even blacker if possible.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh, are you hurt?

Speaker 21 (28:45):
You wouldn't care if I broke a leg.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
There's a chair nearby.

Speaker 21 (28:49):
I know I just fell over it.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
We can begin as soon as you're settled.

Speaker 21 (28:56):
Lucky, it's so dark. I don't have to apologize for
wearing my pajamas.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Don't you like dressing?

Speaker 21 (29:01):
I love it when I can find my pants.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Today's exercise will be recognition of pure tones. Here is
an example that is one thousand cycles or one thousand
vibrations per second, stripped of all harmonics. Now, what would
you say? That was?

Speaker 21 (29:25):
Oh, eleven hundred?

Speaker 1 (29:28):
It is fifteen hundred cycles. Now, please tell me when
you begin to hear the next tone and what the
frequency is.

Speaker 21 (29:43):
I couldn't make the slightest dent in that glacial reserve.
I tried to match her at her own game for
a while, but she loved it, and I'm human anyway.
At the end of the six months, I could ramble
through the whole place and never stub it till it
was amazing how you learned to say things in the
dark and what your ears could do. Eight hundred out,

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four thousand, five hundred.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Out good, excellent, mister Kentman. Your threshold of hearing is
twenty decipels greater than the average ear.

Speaker 21 (30:23):
Doctor Frost. I can't see you, but do I detect
a note of enthusiasm and your voice satisfaction?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Perhaps, mister Kentman, the experiments so far.

Speaker 21 (30:32):
Doctor Frost, have you ever let yourself go?

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Mister Kentman, I am not nearly so naive as you assume,
nor have any of your innuendows or mumblings for the
past six months escaped me. I told you in the
beginning that neither your personal feelings nor mine would have
any bearing on this project.

Speaker 21 (30:53):
You haven't answered my question.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I am fully aware of the nature of biological stresses.

Speaker 21 (30:57):
In a scientific way. Of course, what.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Distinguishes man and from the animal is his understanding of
these stresses, but mostly his control.

Speaker 21 (31:06):
Well control is a traffic cop with a stop signed, doctor,
but eventually the traffic has to go somewhere.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
I can understand the frustration of your masculine ego, especially
in this enforced loneliness of the experiment. Thank you, we
have only begun. We have two years or more to go.
The first phase is highly successful. As a scientist, I
am very.

Speaker 21 (31:30):
Pleased, strange that my hearing is so good, but I
have yet to hear your heart beat.

Speaker 7 (31:51):
Act three of.

Speaker 23 (31:54):
Suspense follows in one minute.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Do you know the Social Security benefits which you will
be entitled when you separate from the service and take
a civilian job.

Speaker 7 (32:05):
Here's a tip from Social Security.

Speaker 16 (32:08):
Here's one do it yourself project that costs you nothing
and won't end up in cuts and bruises. The Social
Security Administration wants each one of you that pays Social
Security taxes to check up on your account to make
sure you are getting credit for every dollar that's coming
to you. With records of millions of people to maintain,
it's a pretty big job to catch an air that

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you or your employer might make in reporting your wages
and income. You can help by checking every three years
to see that your record is correct. How easy, simply
by mailing a special postcard. Just write to Social Security Department,
fifteen Hollywood, twenty eight, California and ask for Form seven

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ll all four mail it, and in a couple of
weeks you'll receive a notice that will verify the spelling
of your name, your Social Security number, and the wage
is credited to you for each of the past three years.
Do it tomorrow you'll be glad that you did.

Speaker 23 (33:06):
And now we continue with a three of Man from Tomorrow,
starring mister and missus Frank Lovejoy, a tale well calculated
to keep you in.

Speaker 7 (33:22):
Suspense.

Speaker 21 (33:28):
Now that my hearing was phenomenal, they turned off my ears.
They devised some new fangalier plugs, and I began six
months of silence, six months of being deaf as a
door knob. Deaf, but not quite deaf, because I began
to see sounds, to feel sounds like waves against my skin.

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I began to hear with my body and with my pores.
Have you ever touched the Have you ever seen thunder?
You get so you look at sounds and almost see
the waves they make trembling in the air. Have you
ever tried silence? Try not saying a word, not uttering

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a syllable for an hour a day. I tried it
for six months, until all the unsaid words piled up
inside my head. They clung like unborn sounds at the
back of my throat. Whoever said silence is golden never
felt the lump of lid that accumulates inside you.

Speaker 14 (34:45):
Silence.

Speaker 21 (34:55):
And then the six months ended. The day came when
she removed a fancy ear plugs and a little canyon
i'd been living in widened into a continent.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 29 (35:06):
Now?

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Can you hear me? Not to me? Or raise your
finger when you can hear the sound of my voice?

Speaker 21 (35:10):
I I heard you coming down the hall a minute ago.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Were the plugs defective?

Speaker 21 (35:18):
Oh no, incidentally, I take I take that It's all
right for me to talk down.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yes, of course.

Speaker 21 (35:26):
Have I been a good boy? Have I done everything
that you've wanted?

Speaker 1 (35:31):
So much so, mister Kentman, that we're giving you a
few days rest before we begin your training for taste
and touch?

Speaker 21 (35:37):
Well, can I do anything I want?

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Anything within reason?

Speaker 21 (35:41):
Well? Then I'd like to have a drink, And strangely enough,
i'd like to have you join me.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Perhaps that can be arranged.

Speaker 21 (36:03):
All that wonderful sound of the clink of glasses And
I cannot tell you how dull a piano sounds when
you only look at it.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
You missed the sound of music.

Speaker 21 (36:13):
Oh, yes, music and the sound of a woman's voice.
Or maybe they're the same thing. Oh, incidentally, doctor Frost,
when I say woman, I even includes female.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Doctor kind of you.

Speaker 21 (36:26):
By the way, do you have a first name or
are you only a title followed by Frost and followed
by a long string of degrees.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
My first name is Jessica, Jessica.

Speaker 21 (36:36):
That's more like it, Jessica, Jessica. Why after all that silence,
it's good just to say a woman's name.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Until the experiment is completely over, mister kentman, it had
better remain doctor Frost.

Speaker 21 (36:52):
Well, okay, doctor Jessica Frost plus degrees. I give you
a toast to you.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
You've been very cooperative about all this, mister Kenton. I
want you to know that I really like you very much.

Speaker 21 (37:12):
Well, now I'm sure the experiment is a success. I've
finally developed a sixth sense.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Oh.

Speaker 21 (37:19):
I distinctly heard a lovely lady saying I liked you
very much, and it couldn't possibly have been you. I
rather enjoyed the touch tests. It was one area I'd
never realized Hell's such hidden possibilities. After a few months,
my fingertips. Knew the difference between crystal and diamonds. I

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could tell if you had a sun tan merely by
touching your cheek. As for the taste tests, food suddenly
became a symphony concert Sourness had many degrees, and sweetness
had a range as wide as the spectrum of a rainbow.

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And then all of my highly developed senses brought on
a new perception, something over and beyond, and added to
the rest. By the time my training was finished, I
know I had acquired a knowledge beyond knowledge.

Speaker 28 (38:21):
Sit down, mister Kentman.

Speaker 21 (38:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 27 (38:23):
Your period of training has been completed, you have passed
the final tests, and we have decided to retain you. Now,
will you sign the contract please, mister Kentman. It's the
arrangement has agreed twenty thousand dollars a year for the.

Speaker 28 (38:37):
Next five years. Mister Kentman, is anything wrong?

Speaker 21 (38:42):
Oh no, no, there's nothing wrong.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Mister Kentman. What are you doing?

Speaker 21 (38:45):
Well, obviously I'm not signing it. Why Because I'm afraid
What is there to be afraid of? Myself? And what
I know now and what I'm going to know in
the field. What you and doctor Frost may ask me
to do.

Speaker 27 (39:03):
Afraid to make contributions to scientific progress.

Speaker 21 (39:06):
Well, I respect science progress. I'm for that too, But
I can see beyond the microscopes and the telescopes and
all your theories and experiments, and I don't see one
important thing. I don't see happiness, only fear and falling buildings.
That's what I see coming out of my super sense.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
And you'd waste this great down of yours, throw it away,
turn your back on progress.

Speaker 21 (39:33):
I didn't say that I'll look for a new kind
of progress. Slicing an atom sideways or sending a phony
moon up into God's skies. These aren't the things people
are crying for, not this year, next year, or ever.
They want security, dignity, and a little peace of mind.

Speaker 27 (39:51):
I suppose then you think that all our work is
to end in death and destruction.

Speaker 21 (39:55):
It might that's not fair, isn't it. Well, what happens
if I signed the tract? Who makes the decisions?

Speaker 28 (40:02):
These are things I can't honestly, and.

Speaker 21 (40:05):
I know, and that's what I mean. It might be
out of your hands. Then governments would pay billions for me.
Our own country would guard me like Fort Knox. I'd
be the most valuable thing in the world alive and
even more valuable for some people dead. I think not
a man. Uh uh No, that's not going to be
for me, not that way.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
All this work, everything we've done, doesn't mean anything. Then
it's all for nothing.

Speaker 21 (40:31):
Well, I don't know. I'm sorry. I guess you picked
the wrong man for the job.

Speaker 28 (40:37):
What are you going to do now, mister Kentman?

Speaker 21 (40:39):
Pack my things and go away? I don't know where.
It doesn't really matter, Jessica. I probably won't see you
again before I go. Thank you for everything. I'm sorry
to let you down like this, But well, so long.

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Well that is that.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Oh I was just going.

Speaker 21 (41:14):
To try and talk me out of it.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
No, yes I was, but not anymore.

Speaker 21 (41:22):
I'm glad you changed your mind.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Will you tell me something? What are you going to do?

Speaker 21 (41:29):
I don't know yet. It's kind of funny. I'm going
out of here almost the way I came in, one suitcase,
one hat, one coat. The only difference. I've got all
the knowledge of the world up here, and I don't
know what I'll do with it. I haven't been able
to think, not clearly. I know one thing, though, there

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are a lot of things I can try. What have
you hear of cancer, heart disease, common cold? It does
in other things. Man doesn't know anything about. Yes, might
not be bad for starting.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
No, that's not bad for a start. Do you think
you might need someone to help you?

Speaker 21 (42:07):
Yes? I might.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
I've talked to Professor Baird. I think perhaps he understands. Yes,
it's a little uncomfortable for a woman. I'm not supposed
to say anything until you do. And you already know
what I'm thinking, don't you.

Speaker 21 (42:27):
Well, let's be old fashioned. I love you. Will you
come with me? Yes? I love you too, I know.
Come on, let's go.

Speaker 23 (42:50):
Suspense, in which mister Emmasy's Frank Lovejoy starred in William N.
Robeson's production of Man Tomorrow, written for radio by Irving Reese. Listen,
listen again next week when we return with another tale

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well calculated to keep you in suspense. Supporting mister Lovejoy
and Man from Tomorrow were Missus Lovejoy, Jan Banks says
doctor Frost, John Hoyt as Professor Baird, Peter Leeds as Randy,
and Normaldon as mister Logan.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
As.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
It was broadcast at four thirty Eastern Time on Sunday,
September one, nineteen fifty seven, sixty eight years ago. Today,
suspense here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. Yes,
Missus Lovejoy co starring in that with her husband Joan Banks,
and we remember her from my friend Durman so many

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other shows she did. Coming up next on Classic Radio
Theater with Wyatt Cox, we'll have an episode of the
CBS Radio Workshop, which are thirty minutes prior to this
at four or five Eastern time on September one, nineteen
fifty seven. Grief drives a black Sedan.

Speaker 30 (44:27):
Ladies and gentlemen, make tomorrow your d day. Get an
extra bond for defense. Step into any bank or post office,
and buy yourself a profitable share in America's future. As
an investment, bonds are better than ever. They can help
you save safely, conveniently, and profitably. So whether you already

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buy on the payroll savings plan where you work or
the Bond a month plan where you bank, get an
extra bond for defense tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
We continue now on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox.
Going to believe it is four or five Eastern time,
Let me this roll back here, Yes, four or five
Eastern time on Sunday, September one, nineteen fifty seven, for
an episode of the CBS Radio Workshop, Greet Drives a

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Black Sedan.

Speaker 7 (45:27):
Honey for those thoughts.

Speaker 31 (45:30):
I was thinking. I'm glad we're going home, Roger. I
hope this summer has given us both ample time to
think this thing out.

Speaker 7 (45:41):
Well, actually, Darling, we have too much invested in this marriage.
Ten years cannot be dispelled by one summer.

Speaker 31 (45:49):
Well, that isn't exactly what I meant. Oh, let's listen
to the radio, shall we.

Speaker 7 (46:01):
I hope we've had an end to the sulking.

Speaker 31 (46:03):
And what was that? Roger felt like we hit something.

Speaker 7 (46:11):
Nonsense. I ran off the road.

Speaker 31 (46:12):
Oh, Roger, please slow down. Roger sounds like a woman screaming,
Oh please, please, let's go back. I'm sure you've hit something.

Speaker 7 (46:24):
I didn't hear anything. Kay, I'm sure we didn't hit anything.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
This is the CBS Radio Workshop, the theater of the mind,
dedicated to man's imagination.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Our story.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Grief Drives a Black Sedan stars Alice Frost and Leevines, written,
produced and directed by the Angel Bach.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Well driver black Snam pullover, please, driver, bullover.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
Roger, we should have gone back, came none of your
hysterics now, please, will you, oh just be quiet?

Speaker 7 (47:30):
Do you realize how fast you were going?

Speaker 4 (47:32):
Yes, Officer, I was going forty miles an hour and
that doesn't really seem like an excessive amount of speed
to me.

Speaker 32 (47:37):
It is at twenty five miles zone. Although you can't
see it from the road, this area is quite thickly populated.
There are always children about.

Speaker 7 (47:46):
I see it. Driver's license. Hey, Tom, look here a moment.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
Okay, Roger should Hey, there's nothing these state police would
rather do than to stop a car with a New
York state license.

Speaker 7 (48:05):
And I was only going forty miles an hour.

Speaker 14 (48:07):
I'm agred.

Speaker 7 (48:08):
It's more serious than that, more serious than what both
over police say. What's all this about? I'm taking you
to the police barracks in Westport.

Speaker 31 (48:16):
What have we done? Officer?

Speaker 32 (48:18):
That's for you to tell me. Madam. You see your
front left fender is dented.

Speaker 7 (48:23):
Is that a crime in this state? We'll have to
find out. You see around that dent? His blood captain

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would like to see you in his office.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
May I come along, Rocher, No, darling, you stay out
of this. I'll find out what this is all about.
Stay out of this.

Speaker 7 (48:56):
I'll be back in a moment. Sit down please.

Speaker 9 (49:12):
You are Roundja Wickens twenty five Park cross A Road,
New York City.

Speaker 7 (49:17):
Yes, I am. What's this all about.

Speaker 9 (49:20):
I'm returning your driver's license and your car registration. We've
checked the New York Police. You've not had any previous
accident record. What happened tonight, mister Wickens, What do.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
You mean what happened? I drove up here from New
York City to take my wife home. She's been summering
up here, and that's all there is to it. And
I want you to stop treating me like a criminal.
I was driving down across highway when the police stopped
me for driving forty miles an hour.

Speaker 9 (49:46):
Exchus man. Yes, yeah, well keep checking. Check every hospital
within twenty five miles. When you finish that, check all
the doctor's resident it's in the vicinity. Send someoneunder a
trace cross Highway.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (50:06):
Well, I think you'll find somewhere not too far from
where the Wickans car will stop, some blood stains and
possible pieces of glass. Report backs responsible, Get whom or
docs out there were? Centermen, Captain, what about this? Are

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we under arrest?

Speaker 14 (50:29):
Well?

Speaker 9 (50:29):
There are two ways we can do this we can
technically arrest you for driving forty miles an hour and
to twenty five miles zon or of your own volition.
You can wait until all these things check out. Look,
I think you're in trouble. I think you've hit somebody
and run away from the accident.

Speaker 7 (50:51):
Of all the stupid things that I've ever heard of.

Speaker 26 (50:53):
I oh, okay, what is it?

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (50:59):
Excuse me, Doc? Well what will it be? Mister wickens?
I'll wait? What about my wife?

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Or she'd better wait too?

Speaker 7 (51:13):
He seems rather touchy.

Speaker 9 (51:15):
Yeah, Doc wants to take some blood samples, run through
the lab, report back to me as soon as you can.

Speaker 7 (51:23):
I believe it's a case of hitting run. I want
to have all my facts. Another no cooperation, guy, Huh,
that's right back.

Speaker 9 (51:32):
They never learn, do they cigarette?

Speaker 1 (51:49):
M hm, thanks to.

Speaker 31 (51:59):
Roger. Did you tell them?

Speaker 7 (52:00):
Tell them what?

Speaker 21 (52:01):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (52:01):
Please, darling. Remember when we ran off the road, I
told you I thought I heard a woman's scream.

Speaker 33 (52:07):
Kay.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
I did not hear a woman's scream, and I did
not hit anything. This is all a fantastic nightmare. It
seems it started when you came up here. There was
no reason for all of this. We should have gone
to Europe this summer and behaved like two mature people.
Ten years of marriage and we're still trying to figure
out whether or not.

Speaker 7 (52:26):
It will work.

Speaker 31 (52:28):
It's not going to work, Roger. I believe this was
all for a reason tonight. I believe we're both in trouble. Nonsense, Roger,
we must share that responsibility.

Speaker 7 (52:43):
Oh, for heaven's sake, Kay, what responsibility?

Speaker 31 (52:46):
The blood on the fender?

Speaker 7 (52:56):
Allow me? Yes? You found what where?

Speaker 9 (53:03):
Baby Lane? Let me get this down there? Babury Lane
and Cross Highway. Yeah, yeah, I'm a regular Sherlock Holmes.
I don't know what I don't mind about that. No
one at the house?

Speaker 2 (53:19):
Huh?

Speaker 7 (53:20):
Will you stay there? Keep calling in now? Doc?

Speaker 9 (53:24):
Still working standing report here. Wiggins denies everything. Okay, stay
with him?

Speaker 7 (53:33):
Right? Do you want me to send out for some coffee?

Speaker 21 (53:43):
I'm not well.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
It's past midnight. Eddie and Joan said they would wait
at the Morocca until one. What a wonderful homecoming party
that's turned out to be.

Speaker 34 (53:54):
Well, you win the Superficiality Award for the year. He
and Joanne, the morocc the whole stupid silly pattern, Roger,
don't you realize you may have killed someone tonight.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Hey, let's stop this, this bickering, this hammering at each other.
I did not hit anyone tonight. Now, starting with that premise,
let's see if we can discuss intelligently our own problems.

Speaker 31 (54:23):
This is not the time nor the place, actually, Roger,
there is no problem. I'm leaving you. I don't blame you, Roger.
I really don't know whose fault it is. Perhaps it's mine.

Speaker 4 (54:43):
Oh no, no, no, it's mine. All I've ever done
was given into every little whim you ever had, have you, Roger?

Speaker 35 (54:52):
Oh yes, you've given me things, money, beautiful home, Oh
so much loneliness.

Speaker 31 (55:05):
What gooder possessions?

Speaker 14 (55:09):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (55:09):
I know this sounds trite and very cliche, but I'm tired, Roger.
We've failed.

Speaker 17 (55:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 28 (55:23):
Whose fault it is.

Speaker 31 (55:26):
I don't know where we really started to grow apart.
I just want out.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
Well, Darling, as usual, your timing is superb.

Speaker 7 (55:37):
I am up to my necking trouble because if you'll.

Speaker 31 (55:39):
Please, no more of the comparisons, no more recriminations until
we know what's happened here. Let's just wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 9 (55:59):
Yes, Tom, you did a sign statement. It was pretty
bad man. Yeah, what about the charges. Mind, I'll hold
him in Tom, Paul.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
Have doc call me.

Speaker 9 (56:19):
Yes, Tom, he was saying, hit about ten o'clock dead
it s too bad? Yeah, yeah, right, a doc drop
your test. We have all we want. Okay, Tom, get

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back here as fast as you can ride. Paul, bring
that Wigan sky in here.

Speaker 31 (57:01):
It's one thirty Roger. Why don't you ask the captain
if they found out anything?

Speaker 7 (57:06):
Yes, I guess you're right, I will, mister Wickins.

Speaker 31 (57:10):
Yes, officer, what have you found out?

Speaker 7 (57:12):
Mister Wickens? The captain wants to see you right?

Speaker 31 (57:33):
Ten years? What do you do with ten years? Can
you write it off? Can you forget it? Ten years?
And you look at someone and that's someone you've known
for ten years.

Speaker 36 (57:54):
And you realize, oh, this night, this long night, what
have we done?

Speaker 9 (58:09):
Ten years?

Speaker 31 (58:11):
Ten whole years? What do you do with memories? Slock
them in a safety deposit box? Ord He had tied
them up neatly in pink ribbons and burned them. What
do you do with plans? Those blueprints for the future?

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And what do you do with love? The community property
of love?

Speaker 36 (58:45):
Split down the middle and share it by no one?

Speaker 37 (58:52):
Ten years?

Speaker 36 (58:58):
Ten years?

Speaker 7 (59:00):
Yes? Okay?

Speaker 31 (59:23):
Okay mm hmmm, sorry, Darling, I must have dozed off.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
Yes, about an hour, and don't be sorry. I needed
the time to think. Kay, I must talk to you.

Speaker 31 (59:43):
Oh haven't we had enough talk for one night?

Speaker 7 (59:47):
Just a bit more patience, Darling.

Speaker 31 (59:52):
Let's sick, right, Roger, For heaven's sake, what's happened?

Speaker 4 (59:56):
Okay, I must tell you this in my my own way,
and for whatever love you once had for me, please
hear me out. I want you to know. I want
you to know. This is no plea or any kind
of sympathy. I know, okay why our marriage failed. You see,

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believe me. This isn't easy.

Speaker 7 (01:00:27):
I know I'm a coward tonight. I did hit something
more than that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
I took a life. Please, Darling, let me finish this.
All my life, I've been hitting and telling myself that
I didn't hit all my life. I've been running away

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all my life. I've been a coward. I wonder how
much I've lost in love, respect, friendship. I wonder how
much of myself has been sacrificed so carelessly, so needlessly,

(01:01:23):
because I didn't take time to stop and go back
to pick up that which I which I had hit
you see, Darling. I guess I've always been driving forty
miles an hour in a twenty five miles zone. And
the ironical part about this whole thing is that the

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police were not going to arrest me for speeding, but
merely warned.

Speaker 7 (01:01:51):
Me to take it easy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
I guess maybe help of any kind has always made
me angry, and.

Speaker 7 (01:02:01):
Truth always hurt my ears.

Speaker 31 (01:02:05):
Roger Darling, would you please?

Speaker 4 (01:02:07):
I know I killed tonight needlessly, carelessly, and kay, I
want you to hear this letter the captain just gave me,
and I want you to know, Darling, that no more
do I blame everybody else for my emptiness. To the

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man who killed my dog, I hope you are going
someplace important when you drove so fast down Cross Highway
across Baybury Lane tonight. I hope that when you got there,

(01:02:57):
the time you saved by speeding meant something to you
or somebody else. Maybe we'd feel better if we could
imagine that you were a doctor rushing somewhere to deliver
a baby, or ease somebody's pain, the life of our

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dog to shorten someone suffering.

Speaker 7 (01:03:22):
That mightn't have been so bad.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
But even though all we saw of you was the
black shadow of your car and its jumping red tail
lights as you roared down the road.

Speaker 7 (01:03:36):
We know too much about you to believe it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:41):
You saw the dog, You've stepped on your brakes, you
felt a thump, You heard a yelp, and then my
wife's scream. Your reflexes are better than your heart and
stronger than your courage. We know that because you jumped
on the gas again and got out of there as

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fast as your car could carry you. Whoever you are, mister,
and whatever you do for a living, we know you are.

Speaker 7 (01:04:13):
You are a.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
Killer, and in your hands, driving the way you drove
to night, your car is a murder weapon.

Speaker 7 (01:04:27):
You didn't bother to look. So I'll tell you what
the thump and the yelp were.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
They were Vicky, six months old, basset puppy, white with
brown and black markings. An aristocrat, was twelve champions among
her forebears.

Speaker 7 (01:04:46):
But she clowned and she chased, and she loved people and.

Speaker 4 (01:04:51):
Kids and other dogs as much as any mongrel on earth.
I'm sorry you didn't stick around to see the job
you did, though a dog dying by the side of
the road isn't a very pretty sight in less than
two seconds, you and that car of yours transformed a

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living being that had been beautiful, warm, clean, soft and
loving into something dirty, ugly, broken and bloody, a poor,
shocked and mad thing that tried to sink its teeth

(01:05:38):
into the hand that had.

Speaker 7 (01:05:40):
Nuzzled and licked all its life.

Speaker 4 (01:05:43):
I hope to God that when you hit my dog,
you had for a moment the sick, dead feeling in
the throat and down to the stomach that we've known
ever since, and that you feel it whenever you think
about beating down a winding country road again, because the

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next time some eight year old boy might be wobbling
along on his first bicycle, or a very little one
might wander up past the gate and into the road
the moment it takes his father to bend down to
pull a weed out of the driveway the way my

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puppy got away from me. Or maybe you'll be real
lucky again and only kill another dog and break the
heart of another family. Signed Richard Joseph, Westport, Connecticut.

Speaker 7 (01:07:01):
Okay, that's it, no charges, no rest, Oh.

Speaker 31 (01:07:10):
Roger, oh Darling, Please.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
Let's go, ladies and gentlemen. The Governor of the State
of New York abra O Harriman.

Speaker 38 (01:07:41):
Thoughtlessness and irresponsibility go hand in hand and cause far
too many tragedies on our highways. The thoughtless driver who
ignores traffic regulations, hoping to get away with it, hides
behind the idea no witness, no crime, But too often
this leads down a road of final accounting. Only by

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constant care, courtesy, and observance of the rules of the
road can you be sure of avoiding the day when
grief drives your car and brings tragedy to your family
or that of another. The stream lined, high powered automobiles
of to day demand of us the same intelligence and

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care in handling that has gone into their design. This
week end and in the future, I appeal to every
one to drive carefully, drive safely, assure a happy holiday
for all.

Speaker 4 (01:08:45):
You be listening to the CBS Radio Workshop. Grief Drives
the Black Sedan written by d Engelbach. A Letter to
the Man who Killed My Dog is from the book
of the same title, written by Richard Joseph and published
by Frederick Fell. To Day's cass Alice Frost, Lee Vines,
Ralph Bell, Bill Mason, Larry Haynes, Jay Johnson. Next week

(01:09:07):
from Hollywood, People are No Good, Ted.

Speaker 7 (01:09:10):
Pearson speaking, This is the CBS Radio Network.

Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
A couple of notes about that show. Of course. Abril
Harriman ran for president in nineteen fifty two and in
nineteen fifty six. He was also Governor of New York
at the time you heard that. And he was a
fairly wealthy man during his life, serving as Secretary of
Commerce under President Harry Truman as well. And he had

(01:09:37):
his political career. Lee Vine is the lead actor. If
he didn't sound like the typical kind of actor, he
really wasn't. He was a radio announcer all his life.
He worked in radio since the late thirties and was
went to the service in a servant in the European

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in Theater in the nineteen forty three and on. And
he also came back worked with Robert Q. Lewis during
the fifties and during the time that he worked with
Lewis and was the announcer for his game shows The
Names the Same and Make the Connection and the other

(01:10:21):
shows that Robert Q. Lewis did. He also did a
lot of other things, singing, dancing, comedian and other impersonations
as well. He announced for much of his life, but
during his time with Lewis he took on shows like
The Second Missus Burton and this character role you heard

(01:10:41):
here on the CBS Radio Workshop. He lived into his
nineties and he passed away from complications of pneumonia. How
to follow the convalescent facility in North Hollywood in July
of twenty eleven at the age of ninety two. There
you go to CBS Radio Workshop here on Classic Radio
Theater with Wyatt Cocks. In a moment, we'll take a

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look at some of the news items of that date.

Speaker 7 (01:11:13):
Keep your Guard up.

Speaker 39 (01:11:14):
That's the key slogan of the nineteen fifty National Guard
recruiting drive, and it's a slogan as timely as today's headlines.
More than ever before, America stands prepared, and the National
Guard must recruit approximately two hundred and twenty thousand men
as soon as possible. By joining the National Guard, young
men will have the advantage of choosing their own unit
and preparing themselves for promotion by being in a job

(01:11:35):
for which they are best qualified. Investigate the National Guard. Now,
help America to keep up its guard.

Speaker 6 (01:11:42):
A quick look at the news headlines from Sunday, the
first day of September nineteen fifty seven, sixty eight years ago. Today,
death stocked the nation's highways faster than expected. Yesterday, and
before the first twenty four hours of the seventy eight
hour Labor Day weekend, traffic fatalities had risen above the

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one hundred mark. At eleven o'clock last night, the holiday
death toll stood at one hundred forty one hundred and thirteen,
of them in highway accidents. Shouting, black shirted followers of
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini nearly rioted yesterday as a funeral
mass being said for their assassinated Il Ducci. Armed police

(01:12:27):
had to hold back the saluting, screaming fascists outside the
church when they tried to attack photographers, calling leave us
here alone with our ducce. Miami Daily News said last
night a US intercontinental ballistic missile fired about twenty four
hundred miles out over the Atlantic, probably two months before
Russia claimed it had developed such a weapon, firing from

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the Air Force Missile Test Center on Florida's Cape Canaveral.
The reporter for the Daily News of Miami, Milt Hosen,
said in a copyright story the missile probably fired in
early June. He described it as a conveyor atlas. He
reported it reached a point in the South Atlantic twenty
four hundred miles from the Florida coast, between the British

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island of Saint Lucia and Ecuador. A leading Soviet army
sciatist said yesterday Russia's new intercontinental ballistic missile alters completely
the military planning of the US and its western allies.
The Major General G. I. Potrowsky of the Soviet Army
Engineers said US bases anywhere on the globe lose their

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importance because they are within range of the Soviet weaponry.
Touring segregationist John Tasper yesterday mounted the soapbox in Winston Salem,
North Carolina, one of three North Carolina cities whose school
boards broke the color line, and was out talked by
a hooting crowd, about half of which were Negroes. A

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counterspy Morris moros Or sees the fall of Soviet Communist
Party boss Nikita Krushchev within the next eight months. He
predicts the successor will be a military dictatorship headed by
Marshall Georgie Zukov. Morris of forecast in close testimony to
the House Committee on on American Activities made public yesterday

(01:14:20):
by the chairman, the Democrat from Pennsylvania Walter, as the
committee issued brief biographical sketches of Zukov and Ivan Koonab. Meanwhile,
doctor and missus Henry Smitz flatly denied yesterday accusations that
they were Russian espionage agents. The accusations made in Washington.

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Representative Walter said the couple were identified as spies by
the House on American Activities Committee. The chairman said the
Spitzes had been members of the Soviet espionage apparatus recently
exposed exposed rather by FBA Counterspy Orris Morrows, the former
veteran administration doctor and his wife now living in Vienna, declared,

(01:15:03):
the allegations we were ever Soviet spies is preposterous and ridiculous.
In a face to facing counter Governor Goodwin Jane Knight
yesterday of California, Warren Senator William F. Nolan he would
face a hard contest to be enters California's nineteen fifty
Republican race for governor. The Senate Minority leader home from

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Congress for an extended statewide speaking tour sidestepped the virtual
challenge and replied, in effect that intimidation would get night
Nowhere those some of the day's top news stories from
the newspapers of Sunday, September one, nineteen fifty seven. On
your radio Wheel, go from Suspense in the CBS Radio

(01:15:44):
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Speaker 6 (01:16:22):
Now we continue on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox
with programs from Sunday, September first, nineteen fifty seven, and
this episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar aired at five
thirty Eastern Time, and it is entitled The Poor Little
Rich Girl Matter from Hollywood.

Speaker 14 (01:16:41):
It's time now.

Speaker 4 (01:16:42):
For Johnny Millar Bert Major Master's Insurance and tau oh
hi bird. What's a poor little rich girl in California
wants to take out a two hundred thousand dollars straight
life policy on her husband with herself as beneficiary. I
want a doll but not too on usual if you
can afford it effective.

Speaker 14 (01:17:00):
In two weeks and hush hush, a surprise.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
But who wants why? Exactly? Nice piece of change for
the company and commissions or for her in payoff if
she's playing that kind of a game. You talk like
you don't know her name only. Deal was arranged pending
through her lawyer in Los Angeles. You can be out
there in the morning, Johnny all right, Bert, who gives
me the filling?

Speaker 14 (01:17:19):
Our agent out there, Roger Hackey. He'll meet you at International.

Speaker 8 (01:17:22):
Airport while Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man
with the Action Fact Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator,
yas Truly Johnny Dollar, now act one of Yours truly

(01:17:46):
Johnny Dollar Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
the Home Office Master's Insurance and Trust Company, Hertford, Connecticut.

(01:18:08):
Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
of the poor little Rich Girl matter expense account item
one two hundred and eighty dollars round trip plane ticket
and incidentals including sunglasses, Hertford to Los Angeles. I arrived, rested,
ready and right on schedule. Also on schedule was Roger Hackey,

(01:18:29):
master's Los Angeles agent, Will turned out to be a
repress comedian become insurance sales YEP.

Speaker 20 (01:18:34):
I said to myself that it's Johnny Dollar. I said,
you are Johnny Dollar, aren't you?

Speaker 4 (01:18:38):
In person? You're Roger Hackey.

Speaker 20 (01:18:40):
Person said you got the oldfield havesip simpatico, we call
it out here. Have an ice trip?

Speaker 14 (01:18:48):
Yeah good, good air be scare me.

Speaker 20 (01:18:50):
Don't like being up there in the wild blue yonder
terra Boehmer's my dish tea slow but sure, they go me. Yeah,
well look now you just follow me. We'll jump in
my and I'll have you at the Beverly Hilton. Before
you can say happy hooligan, you said, oh yeah, here
we go, cloud of dust and all that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:15):
The ryan from the air terminal till the hotel was hot,
silent on my part and unproductive so far as the
case was concerned. Roger Hacke kept up a running commentary
on everything from bad actress to the zodiac. It wasn't
until I was settling in my room with drinking hand
and shoeless feet propped up that I could get him
to switch to the two hundred thousand dollars a prize.

Speaker 20 (01:19:33):
Her name is Cynthia Derban. How much do you know
about it?

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Nothing?

Speaker 4 (01:19:36):
Ert Major said, you'd give me the background.

Speaker 20 (01:19:38):
Now she's a strange one. You know what a chameleon is.

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
Sure, elizard that changes color?

Speaker 20 (01:19:43):
So what So that's the kind of a girl Cynthia
durban is, at least she is.

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
Now you're losing me, Roger, I again at the beginning.

Speaker 20 (01:19:49):
Now you're the doctor as the Siamese twins set after
the operation. What's missing?

Speaker 4 (01:19:57):
How did you meet Cynthia Durbin?

Speaker 20 (01:19:58):
Well, she came into the old yesterday, no call, no appointment.
There she was ill.

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
What'd she like?

Speaker 20 (01:20:04):
Trim, real, trim and expensive?

Speaker 8 (01:20:07):
Just casually announced she wanted to buy two hundred thousand
dollars worth of insurance.

Speaker 20 (01:20:11):
Huh, well not exactly. She started asking about various policies,
you know, and Doowman straight life et cetera, and how
and when they paid off? And she kept giving me
the big eye and cross leg routine.

Speaker 4 (01:20:21):
Hmmm, did she tell you anything about herself?

Speaker 20 (01:20:23):
Oh, didn't have to.

Speaker 14 (01:20:24):
I already knew.

Speaker 20 (01:20:25):
She's practically a fixture in the society section of the
Sunday Papers, garden parties, opening nights and all that, but
only lately.

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
Her husband, Peter Durbin, he's.

Speaker 20 (01:20:34):
Been a public figure ever since I got married about
three years ago. But she has no now just the
last couple of months or so. Hold is she all round?
Twenty five? Blonde, blooming and gorgeous? Iffiguratively speaking, I take
it she has the money.

Speaker 7 (01:20:48):
Huh, y'are right?

Speaker 20 (01:20:49):
He was a well torsoed movie bit player with a
champagne appetite.

Speaker 4 (01:20:53):
And I see now, what about this surprise angle?

Speaker 20 (01:20:57):
Well, she came right to the point, said her husband
had just had a complete physic asked if his doctor's
report would be acceptable.

Speaker 4 (01:21:02):
If so, okay, But you didn't sign her up?

Speaker 14 (01:21:05):
Why wish you didn't give me the chance?

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
What do you mean?

Speaker 20 (01:21:07):
All of a sudden she reached in her purse and
pulled out a piece of paper with a name and
address on it. Announced this was her attorney. See him,
she said, smiled big and walked out.

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Didn't you go and see the attorney right away?

Speaker 20 (01:21:17):
A guy by the name of Crane Collins has big,
plush officers downtown old senior partner type.

Speaker 4 (01:21:23):
What did he have to say?

Speaker 20 (01:21:24):
Oh, nothing except routine questions about filling out the forms,
expediting the procedure, importance of secrecy for the surprise.

Speaker 8 (01:21:31):
Oh why didn't you ask a few questions? Couldn't What
do you mean, couldn't? She was there doing what sitting.

Speaker 20 (01:21:37):
Back in the corner, all huddled up like a mouse
waiting to be pounced on. Didn't say a word while
Collins and I filled out the papers. M yeah, she
signed them as if they were a death Warwick went
back to the corner and stared at the wall. Now
I see what you meant by that, comedian remarked, Yeah,
she's too much for me. Yeah, a leopard can change
its spots too. Expense ac count item two three dollars

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and twenty five cents TAXI fair to the offices of
Crane Collins. So far, all I knew was that the
wealthy young woman wanted a pot full of insurance on
her husband. If it hadn't been for the surprise request,
it would have been routine.

Speaker 14 (01:22:15):
Now it wasn't, and.

Speaker 8 (01:22:16):
The people involved, one of them at least, were not routine.
I was ushered into an oak panel office high above
the streets of Los Angeles.

Speaker 14 (01:22:24):
We'd have to knowon mister dollar.

Speaker 8 (01:22:26):
Mister Collins, your card identifies you as an insurance investigator.
Mister Dollar, I don't believe I understand.

Speaker 4 (01:22:32):
Cynthia Durban is your client.

Speaker 8 (01:22:35):
Yes, you represented this client yesterday and the signing of
an application for a two hundred thousand dollars straight life
insurance policy on her husband. Yes, I represent the company.
Everything is in order, is it not. Insurance is a
lot of things, mister Collins. A surprise to the insured
is one of the things that isn't. My client is
adamant in disrespect. Call it a quirk, if you will,

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you expect a company to wish you what two hundred
thousand dollars policy on a quirk?

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:23:04):
How long have you known missus Durban since she was born?
Then you know her father knew him. I am his executor.
Ah mother also deceased. Both parents died when Cynthia was seventeen.
I was her guardian and have been her legal advisor
since she came of age.

Speaker 4 (01:23:22):
Was she well provided for?

Speaker 9 (01:23:24):
Very?

Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
What kind of a man is her husband?

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
Young?

Speaker 14 (01:23:28):
About thirty, tall, good looking?

Speaker 8 (01:23:30):
No, no, mister Collins, not statistics, your impressions. He plays
an excellent game of golf, gets along well with people
when he wants to.

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
But you don't like him, do you?

Speaker 8 (01:23:44):
In this profession, mister Dolla, I neither like nor dislike people.
I represent them, and that representation is based on fact. Well,
in my profession, we go by feel as well as fact.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
Well.

Speaker 8 (01:23:58):
Tell me candidly, mister Collin, do you think there's anything
strange about this request for insurance on her husband? As
I said, ideal in fact, not feelings. As a client,
she sought professional assistants. Ago, I supplied it. Where did
the Durbins live?

Speaker 14 (01:24:15):
I'd rather?

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:24:16):
Now, look, I can get it from any society editor
in town. My secretary will give you the information.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
Mallent.

Speaker 7 (01:24:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:24:24):
By the way, don't tell missus Durban or anyone else
that we've had this discussion. If you do, there will
be no insurance issued. Interference with investigative procedure. Fact, mister Collins,
I understand expense account adam three two dollars and sixty cents.

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Phone call went taxi to Roger Hackey's office. I need
one story building an America mile on Wilship Boulevard. Purpose
to borrow Roger's company car. The Durbins lived in one
of those colonial mansions out in Beverly Hill, surrounded by
curving driveway, spacious, long swimming pool and cabanas all of
it and closed by thick high walls and electronically controlled gates.

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The mention of insurance on the intercom got me in.
Cynthia Durban was everything Roger said she was the first time.

Speaker 14 (01:25:13):
He met her.

Speaker 37 (01:25:13):
That is, Please excuse my appearance, mister Dollar. I've been swimming.

Speaker 23 (01:25:19):
Oh I don't mind at.

Speaker 7 (01:25:21):
All, Missus Durban.

Speaker 37 (01:25:24):
Really you shouldn't have come here to deliver the policy.
But if my husband had been home, no surprise, no,
that would have spoiled everything. Well, may I have it?

Speaker 21 (01:25:35):
Please?

Speaker 4 (01:25:37):
The paperwork has not being completed yet.

Speaker 37 (01:25:39):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 20 (01:25:41):
What do you want?

Speaker 37 (01:25:41):
Get to the point?

Speaker 8 (01:25:42):
Wow, just a few questions, Missus Durban, and my colleague,
mister Hackey should have handled these details yesterday, but he
was somewhat rushed.

Speaker 37 (01:25:50):
Oh, and there's nothing wrong with did you care for
a drink?

Speaker 7 (01:25:55):
Mister? Thanks?

Speaker 37 (01:25:58):
The bars up by the pool show it.

Speaker 8 (01:26:06):
She was wearing a bikini and high heel beach sandals,
and she led the way. I was hoping it was
two miles to the pool instead of the seventy five yards.

Speaker 7 (01:26:16):
It turned out to be.

Speaker 4 (01:26:18):
I makes the drinks, and we settled down in a
couple of sun louses. Ah, those details just formalities. Actually,
you ought to be the beneficiary.

Speaker 37 (01:26:30):
Yes, that was discussed yesterday.

Speaker 4 (01:26:33):
Ah, yes, so wise, what does your husband do, Missus durban.

Speaker 37 (01:26:38):
He doesn't work, if that's what you mean, he doesn't
have to. I have enough for both of us, Johnny. Yeah,
question my drink?

Speaker 4 (01:26:46):
Oh sure, so tell me. Did you ever contemplate divorce?

Speaker 37 (01:26:52):
Divorce? What have the makes you ask a question like that?

Speaker 4 (01:26:55):
Well, of course not.

Speaker 37 (01:26:57):
We've had our differences, minor ones, a couple hases.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
Yeah, I suppose you got a point there, ye are,
Thank you, Johnny. Why did you pick two weeks from
today to be the effective date of the policy?

Speaker 37 (01:27:12):
Isn't that my business?

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
His birthday? Missus Durbin, your husband the.

Speaker 31 (01:27:15):
Surprise, Yes, yes it is all these questions.

Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
To throw a big party for him.

Speaker 37 (01:27:20):
Yes, No, I don't know, Johnny.

Speaker 8 (01:27:23):
Your husband would be worth a lot more to you
dead than alive, wouldn't he?

Speaker 14 (01:27:26):
Missus?

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Durban?

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
Sure, sure, yeh, But you haven't answered my question.

Speaker 37 (01:27:34):
I'm sorry, You'll have to excuse me. I have a headache,
terrible headache.

Speaker 8 (01:27:40):
Something was definitely wrong here. A girl of her age
should have flared at my questions, should have snapped back
at me.

Speaker 4 (01:27:47):
Instead of flyiningly running away. Yeah, something was.

Speaker 8 (01:27:50):
Wrong, all right, But I'd seen what I'd come to see,
both facets of Cynthia Durbin's personality, and was one of
them actually thinking in terms of murder?

Speaker 14 (01:28:00):
My job find out.

Speaker 8 (01:28:16):
Back two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment,
an interesting parallel hit me the other day. When a
baby takes its first three steps, everybody is happy and
gives a cheer for its progress. The same thing happens
when a country takes important steps toward lasting world peace
and freedom. That great American patriot, Benjamin Franklin outlined three

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important steps in the drive toward a lasting world peace
and freedom of mankind. The last and most important of
these steps was and is to get the people of
the world to talk to each other and to help
each other. This is the essence of the People to
People program that Americans have put into operation all over
the world. It has been such a great success that

(01:28:59):
it has begun to work both ways. Not too long ago,
in Korea, Tom Lawrence, a yeoman in the United States Navy,
lost his wallet on a street in Seoul. The wallet
was found by a fifteen year old Korean boy, who gave.

Speaker 7 (01:29:13):
It to his father.

Speaker 4 (01:29:15):
The father promptly returned it to Lawrence with nothing missing.
Tom Lawrence decided that this kind of honesty should pay off.
He visited the seven members of the Korean family and
gave them eighty pounds of rice. He then promised to
bring the family fifty pounds of rice each month he
remained in Korea. The Korean father said, I think this

(01:29:38):
is much more than I deserved.

Speaker 7 (01:29:40):
Maybe it was, and maybe it wasn't.

Speaker 4 (01:29:44):
But who can put a price on better understanding among
the peoples of the world. For through better understanding of
each other comes an understanding of freedom, the right of
all men everywhere, and now.

Speaker 14 (01:30:00):
Of yours truly. Johnny Dollar and the poor little rich
girl met her.

Speaker 8 (01:30:12):
I sat beside one of the pluscious swimming pools in
Beverly Hills alone.

Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
I finished my drink slowly.

Speaker 8 (01:30:20):
Cynthia Durban was a strange one, all right, but her
actions seemed compulsory rather than natural. If she really was
thinking about murder for two hundred thousand dollars in one chunk,
she was pretty crude about it. If she was trying
to impress her husband for some on her own reason,
she'd selected a mighty offbeat way to do it. If
she was going off her rocker, well, the extension phone

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hung on a post beside the bar. I don't ordinarily
listen in on other people's conversations, but this one.

Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
Anything wrong, Dolly, Eric, I'd got to talk to you.

Speaker 37 (01:30:55):
Something has happened.

Speaker 14 (01:30:56):
I don't know, Cynthia, not on the phone.

Speaker 20 (01:30:59):
Make me year and a half an hour, half an
hour here?

Speaker 14 (01:31:02):
Goodbye, so and via.

Speaker 7 (01:31:06):
Hello Eric.

Speaker 8 (01:31:12):
As I strolled to my car, nobody asked me to
come back again sometime, not that I expected it. I
parked a block down the street, adjusted.

Speaker 4 (01:31:20):
To the rear view mirror, and got comfortable.

Speaker 8 (01:31:22):
A cigarette later, she came zooming out and a CAD
convertible and headed my way. I've tailed a few cars
of my time, but this kid was either scared, silly,
or she'd learned her evasive tactics from Bull Halsey. I
lost her in the first ten blocks, So I drove
Roger Hacke's car back to his office and prepared for
the horse laugh I had coming.

Speaker 14 (01:31:40):
It came.

Speaker 20 (01:31:42):
Yeah, she lost you. Oh that's a dam here, real dad.

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
They tell me. Do you always laugh when you're about
to lose the commission on a two hundred thousand dollar policy?

Speaker 20 (01:31:52):
Yeah? Oh, well then what are you gonna do now, Johny?

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
Who is Eric?

Speaker 20 (01:31:57):
Welly? He's not a brother, that's for sure. Oh I
don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:32:01):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:32:01):
For two cents, I turned in a negative report and
go on back to hot free.

Speaker 20 (01:32:05):
Oh wait, now, you can't do that.

Speaker 14 (01:32:06):
This is a big deal for you.

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
For me, it's a pain in the neck.

Speaker 20 (01:32:09):
But you can't turn in a negative report just because
she's got an extra curricular boyfriend. You don't even know
who he is? And what about her husband?

Speaker 14 (01:32:16):
What about him? Here?

Speaker 7 (01:32:18):
Here?

Speaker 20 (01:32:18):
I got the dope right here, today's paper, and it's
a good picture of him. Read what it says.

Speaker 8 (01:32:23):
Peter Durban, one of Los Angeles Better amateur golfers plays
out of Silver O Country Club, where the State Open
is being held this week. He's expected to finish in
the top Roger, what time is it?

Speaker 20 (01:32:35):
Four point thirty?

Speaker 7 (01:32:36):
Thanks?

Speaker 20 (01:32:37):
Hey, where you go?

Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
I'm gonna turn my head of being a reporter. What
what are you talking about?

Speaker 9 (01:32:41):
Roger?

Speaker 8 (01:32:41):
I'm going to interview mister Peter Durbin for the Interstate
Publicity Press Association. Expense account at him for two dollars
and forty cents. Camp here to the Silver Old Country Club,
which nestled in a big ravine north of Sunset Boulevard,
some fifteen minutes from Roger's office. The last players were
coming in from the afternoon round when I got there,

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and Peter durban was among them. I waited until after
the radio and TV boys had got through, and then
caught him in.

Speaker 14 (01:33:08):
A corner of the locker room.

Speaker 8 (01:33:10):
Yes, who are you, Johnny Dollar? Interstate Publicity Press. I'd
like to ask you a few questions.

Speaker 14 (01:33:15):
Well, I've already given my interviews.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
Well, sure, I know, but this is a feature stuff.
Best part of the day. There's the gallery, body and
stuff like that. Oh all right, I would make it quill. Yes, sir,
is your wife here, No, she never watches me playing.

Speaker 14 (01:33:29):
Oh where you know? Pull at home? Where else?

Speaker 8 (01:33:32):
But now, see, you're playing a great game, mister Durbin.
You figure you're gonna win this tournament?

Speaker 14 (01:33:37):
Huh yes, I think so.

Speaker 8 (01:33:39):
McMahon has turned into sixty nine, of course, but I'm
still three strokes up on him.

Speaker 14 (01:33:44):
I play a much steadier game than he did.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
Oh yeah, sure, this is your home club, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:33:49):
Ah. Yes, it's one of the best in the country.

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
Yeah, I might define. Course, you must be pretty well healed.

Speaker 14 (01:33:56):
That's none of your readers concerned.

Speaker 8 (01:33:59):
Sorry, say you have a birthday coming up soon, haven't you?

Speaker 14 (01:34:02):
How did you know?

Speaker 8 (01:34:03):
Oh, you're a prominent personality, mister durban We keep a
file on this sort of thing, on important people like you.

Speaker 7 (01:34:10):
Oh I see.

Speaker 14 (01:34:11):
Oh sure, I suppose you're gonna have a big affair.

Speaker 29 (01:34:14):
And know.

Speaker 8 (01:34:14):
As a matter of fact, the annual Western Road Races
fall on my birthday each year. As a reporter, you
should recall that I won both last year and the
year before. Oh yeah, sure, Well, happy birthday, mister Durbin,
and good luck.

Speaker 14 (01:34:29):
Well is that all you want?

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
That's all I need to know?

Speaker 14 (01:34:32):
Thanks Fact three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
In a moment, no folklore could be all boastful and dynamic.

Speaker 14 (01:34:44):
Some of it is about.

Speaker 4 (01:34:45):
The man at the bottom of the pile, like the
one they tell of the traveler who just had to
get across a river. He argued with the boatman. But
that boatman wasn't about to move, Nope, not with the
spring thaw making it a mighty ugly river.

Speaker 7 (01:34:58):
The traveler was insistent. Finally the boatman agreed, but.

Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
It was going to cost a whole quarter to get across.

Speaker 20 (01:35:05):
But I ain't got but fifteen cents. You gotta take
me for that. Your regular fairs only ten.

Speaker 7 (01:35:11):
Cents, The boatman stood firm.

Speaker 40 (01:35:14):
I ain't going that soul anybody that ain't got but
fifteen cents. It just don't make no difference which side
of the river he's on.

Speaker 25 (01:35:23):
Anyhow, Folklore belongs to every nation's legendary past, and I
guess we Americans have our share of some good ones,
like the one about ah. But we'll have to save
that one for the next time we traveled your way.

Speaker 7 (01:35:37):
See you then and.

Speaker 8 (01:35:39):
Now Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
Poor Little Rich girl matters expense count adam five six
dollars even TAXI fared at the office of Attorney Crane Collins,
with whom I could now agree on one point.

Speaker 4 (01:35:53):
I didn't like Peter Devin either.

Speaker 8 (01:35:55):
It was six fifteen after hours when I entered the
office of Collins, Douglas, Walsh, Hanley, and James, the senior partner.

Speaker 4 (01:36:01):
Was still there.

Speaker 8 (01:36:02):
His door was slightly ajar and I heard voices, which
stopped abruptly when I heard, Oh, mister Dollar, rather late
in the day, is it I don't keep office hours,
mister callin, I'm very busy.

Speaker 14 (01:36:15):
Then I'll wait everywhere as you wait, I wished.

Speaker 8 (01:36:20):
So I waited, but not for long, because about three
minutes later Collins came out, carefully, closed the door of
his office behind him, and strode easily toward me, oozing
his most charming professional smile. No, mister Dollar, what can
I do for you? Why didn't you tell me the
first time I was here that Peter Durban, in addition
to being a first class golfer, was also a racing enthusiast.

Speaker 14 (01:36:44):
Or it just didn't occur to me.

Speaker 8 (01:36:47):
Do you know any insurance company in the world that
would issue a two hundred thousand dollars policy on a
man who risks his life in a racing car, then
your company will not issue the policy.

Speaker 14 (01:36:57):
What do you think now?

Speaker 4 (01:36:59):
Tell me something?

Speaker 14 (01:37:00):
Oh is Eric?

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
Eric?

Speaker 14 (01:37:01):
That's right, Well, the name is not familiar to me.

Speaker 8 (01:37:06):
Now, look, mister Collins, I have a feeling that even
you will admit that withholding information in connection with a
possible murder is punishable by law. Fact, I am fully
aware of that. But I fail to see what that.

Speaker 14 (01:37:18):
What are you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:37:19):
It didn't invite me into your office. I just wondered,
why zoul have you no ethics?

Speaker 14 (01:37:23):
Man?

Speaker 8 (01:37:24):
Cynthia Durban was in there a few minutes ago, wasn't.

Speaker 14 (01:37:26):
She, mister doll wasn't she?

Speaker 8 (01:37:31):
If it is the intention of your company not to
issue the insurance to my client, I will so inform
her and that will end the matter, so far as
you are concerned. Now, please be good enough to leave.
You really don't know or care what's going on, do you.
You're so wrapped up in the letter of the law
that preventing a possible murder doesn't even occur to you.

(01:37:53):
Another one of your feelings, Well, I don't have the
remotest idea what you're talking about? Good night, mister Dolla,
Good night, mister Collins. Expense account adam six nine dollars
and fifty cents cocktails and dinner. I should have written
my reports negative and high tailored back to Hartford. But

(01:38:15):
when you see in your mind's eye the possibility of
a racing car careening off the road at one hundred
and twenty five miles an hour exactly two weeks from now,
you don't just stick to business and call it quits. Eric,
wherever he tended bar was the key, but how to
find it? I was on dessert in the evening paper,
giving my subconscious wind a chance to work it out,
when all of a sudden I was looking at it

(01:38:36):
on the society page. Expense a count adam seven nineteen dollars,
including taxi fair to Los Angeles Police Headquarters, where I
had a pleasant chat with the captain on duty. Then
a tuxedo rental in the same taxi to the Statlea hotel.
A special pass led me in his guest at a
crowded and bejeweled society benefit.

Speaker 14 (01:38:59):
And the party.

Speaker 8 (01:39:00):
Mister Collins, dollar, what are you doing here? And joining
the party too, mister missus Durban arrived. You are the
most annoyingly persistent individual. I please, no compliments, see you later.
After a few minutes, I spotted it dressed to the tea.

(01:39:22):
She turned suddenly and saw me. I expected surprise, chagrin, fear,
most anything, but what I got.

Speaker 37 (01:39:28):
It's the dollar, Johnny. I am glad to see you.
How is such a boy this afternoon?

Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
Forgive me what your exit was?

Speaker 14 (01:39:36):
Rather sudden?

Speaker 1 (01:39:38):
My headache all gone? Isn't that wonderful?

Speaker 21 (01:39:40):
Fine?

Speaker 28 (01:39:41):
Will you dance with me?

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
Pleasure?

Speaker 1 (01:39:47):
Dollar?

Speaker 37 (01:39:48):
That's such an exciting name.

Speaker 4 (01:39:51):
Is your husband with you tonight?

Speaker 37 (01:39:53):
No, poor dear, he's playing in a golf tournament and
asked to get his rest.

Speaker 7 (01:39:57):
You came along.

Speaker 37 (01:39:58):
Yes, don't you find it warm in here?

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
All these people?

Speaker 37 (01:40:05):
Let's go out on the terrace?

Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
Sure?

Speaker 14 (01:40:08):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (01:40:13):
Once more?

Speaker 8 (01:40:14):
I was following her, and it was just as interesting
as the first time. But my mind and eyes were elsewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:40:20):
Somewhere in this crowd.

Speaker 7 (01:40:21):
Was the eric I was looking for.

Speaker 14 (01:40:23):
He had to be.

Speaker 8 (01:40:24):
Then I spotted him, thirty five, big and broad hawk nose, circling.

Speaker 4 (01:40:27):
Toward the terrace from the left.

Speaker 8 (01:40:30):
She threaded her way to a potted palm in a
far corner of the terrace, turned and looked at me.

Speaker 4 (01:40:34):
Her eyes were feverishly bright in the moonlight.

Speaker 7 (01:40:37):
She was beautiful.

Speaker 37 (01:40:38):
You're a very charming man, Johnnie.

Speaker 14 (01:40:42):
I wish you wish?

Speaker 9 (01:40:45):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:40:46):
Hmm?

Speaker 37 (01:40:49):
Do you find me interesting? You haven't answered my question?

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
Oh, I find you interesting, Cynthia?

Speaker 7 (01:41:00):
Who is Eric?

Speaker 4 (01:41:02):
The man you went to see this afternoon?

Speaker 2 (01:41:04):
After you?

Speaker 7 (01:41:04):
Let me say, do you know who I'm talking about?

Speaker 8 (01:41:09):
Because you and Eric, I don't know how we're planning
to kill your husband two weeks from now and collect
two hundred thousand dollars insurance two weeks from now in
the road race.

Speaker 4 (01:41:18):
Make it look like an accident.

Speaker 18 (01:41:19):
No doubt.

Speaker 8 (01:41:22):
I ducked and whirled around as a fist graze passed
my ear and brought up one from the floor.

Speaker 20 (01:41:25):
With all I had.

Speaker 8 (01:41:30):
Cynthia stood there a moment, then quietly folded up and
lay on the floor, and then heaped sobbing.

Speaker 40 (01:41:37):
Oh they are allah? What have you done to this
poor girl and that man?

Speaker 8 (01:41:46):
Very simple comments I've been combining feel that fact the
house lack, and I got them out of there. Hawk
knows the police headquarters. Cynthia Hospital, Eric turned out to
be a qua psychiatrist who preyed on unstable, rich women
and who was wanted in both New York and Florida.

Speaker 13 (01:42:08):
He had a.

Speaker 8 (01:42:09):
Perfect setup in Cynthia Durvin until he went for murder
in the big money Missus Durvan, while the doctors tell
me she ought to be normal mentally in a couple
of years with proper psychiatric treatment. Expense account total three
hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy five cents. Yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar, Our star will return in just a moment.

(01:42:40):
Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.
North Carolina state flag bears the initial of her name
on either side of a white star. Above, on a
yellow scroll is the date May twentieth, seventeen seventy five. Below,
on a similar scroll is the date April twelfth, seventeen

(01:43:02):
seventy six. The seventeen seventy five date stands for an
early declaration of independence known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
April twelfth, seventeen seventy six was the date of the
first constitutional Convention held in Halifax.

Speaker 14 (01:43:18):
The Halifax Resolve.

Speaker 8 (01:43:20):
Was a document that placed the old North State in
the front rank, both in point of time and spirit,
among those colonies which demanded unconditional freedom and absolute independence
from any foreign power. North Carolina State flag, the flag
of the twelfth State and of the Union, was adopted
on March ninth, eighteen eighty five.

Speaker 14 (01:43:40):
Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story.

Speaker 8 (01:43:43):
Next week, A beautiful yacht, a beautiful charming girl, and
a man who wished he'd never heard of either of them.

Speaker 4 (01:43:50):
Join us, won't you? Yours Tully Johnny Duff.

Speaker 8 (01:44:03):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollars Darling Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood.
Written by Alan Botzer, It is produced and directed by
Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Virginia Grade, Herbellis,
Frank Nelson, Robin Miller, and Peter Leeds. Be sure to
join us next week, same time in station for another
exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.

Speaker 14 (01:44:29):
This is Bud Sewell speaking.

Speaker 6 (01:44:46):
An Armed Forces recording of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, as
it aired at five thirty Eastern Time on Sunday, September one,
nineteen fifty seven. Sixty eight years ago. Hey, what a
fun episode of the program. Okay, coming up tomorrow Comedies
with Milton Borough, my favorite husband, Harold Perry is the

(01:45:11):
Great Yiller Sleeve, and George Burns Gracie Allen. On Wednesday,
Jeff Chandler in an episode of Suspense, the Steel River
River Prison Break, Edward Arnold is Mister President, The Whistler,
and an episode of Romance. On Thursday, Mystery in the Air.
We will hear Peter Lourie starring in the Mask of Medusa,

(01:45:32):
four Star Playhouse, Robert Cummings in the Surprise for the Professor,
Orson Wells and Margot Stephenson in The Shadow, and Wendy
Berry starring in an episode of Inter Sanctum Mysteries. Friday,
we will have the Chasing Sandborn hour idol A Pino
as the guest star along with Edgarberg and Charlie McCarthy
and others. That's from nineteen thirty seven and nineteen forty

(01:45:56):
episode of The Aldridge Family, The Generous Gentleman Willard Waterman,
There's a Great Yilder Sleeve as Leroy buys a car.
On Saturday, Westerns and Tarzan, we will have an episode
of the Adventures of Red Ryder, Have Gun, Will Travel,
Gun Smoke, and as I said, Tarzan Comedies on Sunday
with George Burns and Gracie Allen, CBS Radio Workshop, the

(01:46:20):
Great Gilder Sleeve from the Very Early Show from nineteen
forty one, and Jack Parr. And then on Monday we'll
have Crime Counterspy, The Mysterious Traveler, an episode of Suspense
from nineteen fifty seven, The Old Army Buddy, and an
episode of Wanton. That's all coming up the week ahead
here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyafcog's Up next, we

(01:46:43):
will move to seven thirty Eastern Time on Saturday Sunday
rather September one, nineteen fifty seven for an episode of
The Stan Freyburg Show.

Speaker 41 (01:46:59):
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the ages. You can help destroy juvenile delinquency. You can
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You can do all this with just one gift, a
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(01:47:21):
community living conditions. So make your town a better place
to live. Give generously to your community chest.

Speaker 6 (01:47:28):
We continue now with more classic radio theater and an
episode of the Stan Freiburg Show. In this episode sixty
eight years ago September one, nineteen fifty seven.

Speaker 42 (01:47:41):
This is the Game J.

Speaker 29 (01:47:44):
Brand new radio series from Hollywood.

Speaker 13 (01:47:48):
We present the stand Free Burg Show.

Speaker 5 (01:47:52):
With the music.

Speaker 13 (01:47:56):
What's the Songs of Petty Taylor.

Speaker 29 (01:47:57):
With dous what virtune for a Peter needs of the river?

Speaker 43 (01:48:01):
You may not find us on your TV.

Speaker 44 (01:48:04):
The consentation not nod but to one ready.

Speaker 29 (01:48:33):
Thank you very much, and to start us off tonight,
we've invited back for the second time on our show
these family.

Speaker 13 (01:48:38):
As we told you, they're Swiss.

Speaker 43 (01:48:40):
This way we didn't offend anyone.

Speaker 29 (01:48:44):
Because it is probably one of the finest acrobatic acts
in the business and rather a novelty on radio.

Speaker 43 (01:48:48):
Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 45 (01:48:49):
These like gentlemen, I wish you could see it. And
they're not nobody here. Look at that why holding them
over the air by one hight.

Speaker 18 (01:49:07):
And now we're in purple and look at.

Speaker 45 (01:49:10):
That eighteen men like coming on one end of a.

Speaker 13 (01:49:29):
One to follow won a fall and now on the wedd.

Speaker 29 (01:49:35):
Of the show, one they stand. Well, what are the
dogs by lords? They say in radio? What are we
gonna do next?

Speaker 14 (01:49:44):
Well, I'll tell you dogs.

Speaker 3 (01:49:45):
I was wondering the other day, wondering what how.

Speaker 7 (01:49:48):
The good humor man stand it?

Speaker 29 (01:49:49):
You imagine driving an ice cream truck around all day long,
live alone, all summer long, with the same song flailing
you about the years?

Speaker 3 (01:49:56):
Yeah, and how long do they change that song?

Speaker 7 (01:50:00):
I wonder?

Speaker 26 (01:50:01):
I don't see those chimes that driving me nuts?

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:50:03):
What song?

Speaker 13 (01:50:03):
Do you hear?

Speaker 7 (01:50:04):
Most of them?

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
London Bridge is falling down?

Speaker 7 (01:50:06):
How about you?

Speaker 14 (01:50:07):
I am London Bridge quite a bit.

Speaker 29 (01:50:09):
Pop goes the Weazels very big on our street.

Speaker 14 (01:50:12):
What's write screenplay about?

Speaker 21 (01:50:13):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:50:14):
Okay, and let's have the titles up here on nice
cream bars.

Speaker 26 (01:50:18):
That's good.

Speaker 46 (01:50:18):
That's good.

Speaker 47 (01:50:27):
Twentieth Century Freiberg presents on Interrupted Melody. This is the
story of men in Ula Paul, their loves, their hopes,
their dreams, and of the tasks to which they have
sold devoted their lives. Yes to that gallon core of heroes,

(01:50:51):
the good humor Men of America. Is this picture respectfully dedicated?
You know what it's like after having a day off
with the family to try to sleep on the night
before you report back for action. Do you know what
it's like to lie there and live with fear? Charlie cries,

(01:51:14):
Mayer nose.

Speaker 7 (01:51:17):
Charlie, what are you doing? I'm lying here living with fear.

Speaker 2 (01:51:25):
Try and get some sleep, sweetheart.

Speaker 20 (01:51:27):
Yeah, yeah, just lying here thinking about tomorrow.

Speaker 37 (01:51:32):
Well you just mustn't lie there thinking about tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (01:51:36):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 46 (01:51:36):
It's pop, goes the Weasel, onders of grimy little hands
reaching out for ice cream.

Speaker 29 (01:51:42):
Marsh Walter Yoorda cracked up last week.

Speaker 46 (01:51:49):
I saw him when he took him away, Sue, it
wasn't pretty.

Speaker 10 (01:52:00):
Are you married a good humor man?

Speaker 14 (01:52:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:52:03):
No, no, no, no no no no.

Speaker 15 (01:52:12):
Are you sure no?

Speaker 29 (01:52:19):
Are you sure it wasn't just the glamour of the uniform, Charlie.

Speaker 48 (01:52:27):
I'd love you whether you had that white code or not.

Speaker 9 (01:52:35):
Yes.

Speaker 47 (01:52:35):
Men like Charlie Kasmaia know their job is no easy one,
but they live with it and they report for Judy
every day of the planet where they're boss. The Chief
Commander F. C. Barr is just now entering the building.
He opens the door and confronts a small bald man
with horn rimmed spectacles who looks up from the piano.

Speaker 7 (01:52:59):
Green, Morning, comman, that's what's.

Speaker 43 (01:53:01):
Going on around here.

Speaker 14 (01:53:02):
That's all I want to know.

Speaker 13 (01:53:03):
Green.

Speaker 29 (01:53:04):
Heard one of our trucks over in Westwood playing hound Dog,
but uh listen, I the truck taken out of service immediately.
Nursery song. That's all I want to hear. They don't
cost us anything.

Speaker 3 (01:53:22):
But let's see the men get punchy from nursery songs.
They're cracking up out there. Cracking up, you say, nonsense.
Every American loves nursery song. Besides, they're free.

Speaker 29 (01:53:37):
Yeah, maybe he'd like to go back to television and
write briar patch leg jingles.

Speaker 3 (01:53:44):
Okay, okay, hey, that's my story spot they here's a
little thing I've been working on this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
No, how does this strike you?

Speaker 14 (01:53:56):
The three little kids and they lost their meds and.

Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
They began cry, Oh.

Speaker 29 (01:54:03):
Wait a minute me, hold hold sure you aren't using
a costa linance arrangement.

Speaker 13 (01:54:10):
That's good. I one of our more enthusiastic salesman.

Speaker 3 (01:54:20):
I kilt gard for three days now.

Speaker 13 (01:54:24):
He came in last week. Get him out of here,
take him out, his enthusiastic the acute ward, you say.

Speaker 7 (01:54:38):
Yeah, poor devil. I know him.

Speaker 2 (01:54:42):
His name is heinegirl anth.

Speaker 29 (01:54:44):
The nerve to ask me to take him off London
Bridge and put him on a yankee dudele two weeks
ago he had a month ago. Yet that's the trouble
with labor today. Wishy washy, that's right, I say, you bet,
that's right.

Speaker 14 (01:54:59):
I'll get back to work.

Speaker 29 (01:54:59):
I we got an employee PEP meeting in five minutes.

Speaker 13 (01:55:08):
This is the briefing room.

Speaker 47 (01:55:10):
Well, every morning, two hundred white coated good humor man
sit glumbly staring into space, horribly calm, not daring to
think about the day ahead of them, only anxious to
get the job done.

Speaker 29 (01:55:22):
Alrighty man, Yeah, thank you for that's splendid old vasion.
Let's stand up and sing our little song now, and
let's sing it like we were in a good humor.

Speaker 3 (01:55:33):
A yeah, humor humor, Yes, we are good humor.

Speaker 13 (01:55:45):
That is not no rumor.

Speaker 42 (01:55:47):
Yay, Oh music, how we love them? That's fine, lovely
her three music? Oh here here was we Oh I
we will be said d Yankee, sell it you.

Speaker 5 (01:56:12):
We love you?

Speaker 29 (01:56:13):
YEA, well, that was fine, just fine, man, You can
tell a real gh man. Every time I always say,
you know, you don't eat our bars with your fingers.
There's a stick to it, well man, that's the key
to successful selling.

Speaker 13 (01:56:33):
Stick to it right.

Speaker 29 (01:56:36):
Yeah yeah, ice cream salving or the back pone of
this nation. If you ask me, you men, keep up
the good work, and one day soon I'll have your
chimes tuned.

Speaker 13 (01:56:48):
See if I won't No, I.

Speaker 29 (01:56:49):
Won't hold you because I know you're anxious to get
out in the field for person, mister bar sir well, Charlie, transmi,
what is it?

Speaker 14 (01:56:57):
Well?

Speaker 7 (01:56:58):
I'd been on Pop was a weel for weeks?

Speaker 2 (01:57:00):
Now?

Speaker 29 (01:57:01):
Could I please trade with Jones?

Speaker 1 (01:57:02):
Here?

Speaker 29 (01:57:03):
He's got four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.

Speaker 2 (01:57:07):
You know what rules?

Speaker 13 (01:57:08):
Cransmer cycles eight weeks.

Speaker 47 (01:57:10):
I can't stand Pop goes the weasel like I'm I
can't sleep long.

Speaker 43 (01:57:15):
Here a penny for swoolling through the penny for a needle.

Speaker 13 (01:57:17):
I'm just sicking six seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:57:21):
Let me have his song, sirh I like pop goes
the week, Alana.

Speaker 29 (01:57:24):
Nonsense, Pop goes the wheels. Crans Mere assignment. Just put
that out first, Charlie. You can't have four and twenty
blackbirds at all. When your time is up, you'll get
the farmer in the dell, not.

Speaker 49 (01:57:34):
The farmer in a tell I had that last cycle.

Speaker 13 (01:57:40):
Get back in your seat. Third a week, Get here,
my son. Don't wait, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 45 (01:57:46):
We can talk upout it on you a lot of
put me down, mister sut tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:57:57):
Oh it's bisbees and Barles bees bees a nurse song nuts.
I am the laughing stock of Robin Speiston Miller. I
gotta got away from this. I'll just take a short
cut through the parking lot here. Ay, that's funny. Somebody

(01:58:22):
left their motor running.

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
What's this?

Speaker 3 (01:58:24):
Somebody bound and gagged in the front seat. Heavens do popsicles? FC,
it's you and somebody's died piec ropes around your nice
brown suit.

Speaker 21 (01:58:34):
FC.

Speaker 13 (01:58:35):
That ain't no brown suit.

Speaker 2 (01:58:36):
You've been dipped. I got that gag out of your
mouth there.

Speaker 3 (01:58:50):
Oh gee, boss, you got a little bumps all over.
You must be all pecan crunch underneath the chocolate.

Speaker 47 (01:59:09):
Yes for you, Charlie Krasmaya and thousands of ice cream
men like you. Courage is not a sometime thing, and
a tin ear.

Speaker 13 (01:59:18):
Helps loose you.

Speaker 42 (01:59:21):
Man in my pos you're a brave and yell and
push you stand all.

Speaker 13 (01:59:30):
Right and Leberty.

Speaker 43 (01:59:34):
To say nothing O come craw, thank you well.

Speaker 29 (02:00:00):
We hope you enjoyed our stirring documentary tonight uninterrupted melody. Now,
some folks might think this would be a good spot
on the show for Peggy Taylor to sing. It is
She's going to sing not seventy nine, not eighty one,
but around the world in eighty days, count.

Speaker 50 (02:00:16):
Them around.

Speaker 5 (02:00:24):
The world.

Speaker 31 (02:00:26):
I searched for you.

Speaker 51 (02:00:30):
I traveled on when Hope was gone to keep her
on label.

Speaker 5 (02:00:39):
I knew some way.

Speaker 50 (02:00:44):
Sometimes, somehow you look at me and I would see
the smile.

Speaker 13 (02:00:52):
Your smiling. It might have been in clody down.

Speaker 51 (02:01:04):
Are in New York, r Gay Parry or even lone.

Speaker 5 (02:01:14):
No will I go around the world, for I have
found my world in you.

Speaker 20 (02:01:31):
Oh the moon, jiciit.

Speaker 51 (02:01:39):
A sonsis pland London. Who ut menua con jouse kick
it by kill get brown, kick it well, umelegai isubua

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about the silent.

Speaker 43 (02:02:05):
See low.

Speaker 51 (02:02:09):
At the county job.

Speaker 21 (02:02:13):
Who on your.

Speaker 5 (02:02:15):
Get baggy O Mama, time.

Speaker 20 (02:02:22):
Believe me in the.

Speaker 5 (02:02:29):
More does it by?

Speaker 47 (02:02:46):
Once again, it's time to meet our panel of experts
who are back with us tonight.

Speaker 33 (02:02:50):
As as we ran over two weeks ago, and we
did not finish our discussion. I'm glad then that you
could be back when this doctor line is quiet. I
think it would nice being back, mister g L Spoon.

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
Good eating Friends and radio Land.

Speaker 52 (02:03:04):
And finally, and finally, missus Edna Saint Louis, Missouri.

Speaker 48 (02:03:10):
Passu's all mine, although it does seem to me I
got second billing last time. After all, I do have
a master's degree in.

Speaker 14 (02:03:21):
Tarzan, Missouri.

Speaker 13 (02:03:25):
Well be that at may.

Speaker 47 (02:03:26):
We're not going to bring up tonight any of the
other things we discussed two weeks ago, for example, whether
or not off Nannie has one red dress and one
pair of long white cotton stockings that she washes daily
and wears over and over, or many red dresses and.

Speaker 13 (02:03:41):
Many white cotton stockings.

Speaker 28 (02:03:43):
I know that one, Oh doctor, I know you do.

Speaker 20 (02:03:45):
I know you do.

Speaker 13 (02:03:46):
But do you know that?

Speaker 14 (02:03:47):
Yes, I know you do, but we won't go into
that Jo.

Speaker 29 (02:03:49):
I'm getting doctor's degree in little Orny for.

Speaker 3 (02:03:53):
Well, you know this guy's really got the doctor's degree.

Speaker 43 (02:03:57):
Well shall we shall we move a hell on?

Speaker 2 (02:04:00):
But yeah, I know he did?

Speaker 13 (02:04:04):
Now shall we? Uh?

Speaker 52 (02:04:05):
Well, you Thomas, now you promised you gave me your
word out in the hall before you on the air,
that we wouldn't have any kind of discussion.

Speaker 3 (02:04:11):
Yes, that's absolutely true.

Speaker 48 (02:04:13):
Let's pass the peace pipe here for goodness sake. Now,
I've received my master's degree in chars and you insulted
the idea of my life when you said Tarzan was
seventy two years old and warring AIRPI.

Speaker 3 (02:04:27):
And I'll apologize if mister Spoon, oh that's now, well, okay, look,
I'm sorry. I'll take back what I said about Tarzan's
hairpeat if you will apologize public gave her calling Dick
Tracy a big jerk.

Speaker 7 (02:04:40):
Cracy happens to be and the.

Speaker 3 (02:04:42):
Biographers will agree, one of the greatest living American heroes
and he's just recovering from a severe head.

Speaker 7 (02:04:48):
Wound as well.

Speaker 28 (02:04:52):
Sorry, I apologie.

Speaker 52 (02:04:54):
Oh yes, indeed, aren't we getting along famously to you tonight?

Speaker 21 (02:04:59):
Very nice, that's very nice, Believe me, miss mssurry.

Speaker 20 (02:05:02):
I didn't mean to insult Tyson. Then you and I,
between you and me, that.

Speaker 3 (02:05:07):
Education, that between you and I. He's a great ape man.
And truthfully, if you didn't get right up there on
the newspaper with a magnifying glass, you couldn't tell you
where's a wig?

Speaker 5 (02:05:19):
Where is a wig?

Speaker 53 (02:05:21):
You should have as much hair on your bare skin wrap.

Speaker 33 (02:05:32):
No more discussion.

Speaker 52 (02:05:34):
Sorry, now we'll go to our first question tonight. It's
in Dick Tracy. Now this is the question, does or
does not Junior wear a fright wig?

Speaker 2 (02:05:45):
Well, it has to be negative.

Speaker 3 (02:05:49):
It's the boy's own hair, and it certainly doesn't take
the Tracy to figure out where that question came from.
Miss Missouri your part, Miss to spoof.

Speaker 20 (02:06:00):
I had nothing to do with that.

Speaker 45 (02:06:02):
Oh no, those people people.

Speaker 14 (02:06:05):
I have.

Speaker 13 (02:06:07):
Listen to people people.

Speaker 43 (02:06:10):
It is a fight wig on the boy.

Speaker 13 (02:06:12):
It is not a fright way guy, a light wave.

Speaker 3 (02:06:14):
It is not the same air that any twelve year
old boy, old year old good.

Speaker 48 (02:06:19):
Why he's older than little orphan.

Speaker 13 (02:06:21):
Okay, he works more front, madam.

Speaker 43 (02:06:26):
We've been all through this.

Speaker 29 (02:06:27):
If anybody should be drawing Social Security, it's you and Tarzan.
That rude should look that good and white cotton stocking.

Speaker 3 (02:06:41):
Junior and the something is Junior, right, that's right. He's
a normal American boy that any mother would be proud
to call her son. He's got a good head on
his shoulders. He's an artistic boy as well. How many boys.
Do you know who could sketch pictures for the crime
lab like he does?

Speaker 4 (02:06:57):
Love me?

Speaker 2 (02:06:57):
Don't make me sick to my stomach.

Speaker 13 (02:07:01):
You don't believe that.

Speaker 29 (02:07:02):
You don't believe that kid really draws those pictures? All
oh boy, listen, he's got a ghost artist. And if
he does draw them, I could take that cigar of
yours and draw a better picture with the ash I
could believe.

Speaker 52 (02:07:22):
Gentlemen, we are having just a little bit of fun
at the round table.

Speaker 4 (02:07:25):
To not.

Speaker 29 (02:07:27):
I like to say it's Sandy an I would you
like me to punch you in that big fat, un
educated note.

Speaker 52 (02:07:36):
Now let's move on to the next subject, now, shall we.
All right, now, he could or could not Buck Rogers
beat Flash Gordon in a ray gun fight.

Speaker 48 (02:08:09):
Tom could make monkeys out of both of them.

Speaker 29 (02:08:14):
Take them against Punjab and mister Am with his disintegrator
Kine and be a one sided affair.

Speaker 7 (02:08:18):
I'll tell you that, listen.

Speaker 3 (02:08:20):
I happened to live by the Dick Tracy code, and
we're here to stop raygun fights, not to encourage. You're
talking about a showdown in self defense. Tracy can wipe
up Rogers, Gordon, Punjab, Sandy and the anti gape man,

(02:08:40):
and he can do it with Carwey under.

Speaker 13 (02:08:42):
One arm and a bandaged head. Why a p youre
a piper? That concludes another chapter of Face Up. He

(02:09:02):
got down Friends Hall.

Speaker 52 (02:09:05):
It's it's first of all, it's good night to mister g.

Speaker 14 (02:09:08):
L Spoon.

Speaker 3 (02:09:09):
If someone shoots you in the chest, extract the bullet
and look for small telltale bar markings on the slog
and then call it doctor.

Speaker 2 (02:09:18):
Time.

Speaker 29 (02:09:18):
Stop and it's good night to doctor. Line is quiet
leaping lizards. Some folks don't realize just how lucky they
are until some other folks shows them how much they've
got a little more fan Any King Features Syndicate, nineteen
forty seven.

Speaker 52 (02:09:36):
He finally our tarzan expert miss Edna Saint Louis, Missouri.

Speaker 54 (02:09:47):
Sorry, I'll come down there lay long as they.

Speaker 2 (02:10:11):
Well.

Speaker 14 (02:10:11):
So much for literature.

Speaker 29 (02:10:16):
We have received so many card and letter asking us
to do Saint George and the Dragon that, to say
nothing of countless phone call that we have decided to
dig it out of the trunk that I didn't dust
it off. I'm very fortunate to have the two people

(02:10:38):
who made the original record with me, June.

Speaker 46 (02:10:40):
For A and DAWs butler who also wrote it with me, Peter,
if you.

Speaker 55 (02:10:44):
Please legend you are about to hear is true, only
the needles should be changed to protect the record.

Speaker 7 (02:11:05):
This is the countryside. My name is Saint George. Emma Knight.
Saturday Junlight, ten thighto five pm.

Speaker 2 (02:11:11):
I'm working out of the castle in.

Speaker 7 (02:11:12):
The night and watch when they call come in from
the chief. A dragon had been devouring maidens.

Speaker 33 (02:11:16):
Homicide my job, slam call me chief.

Speaker 3 (02:11:26):
Yeah it's a dragon again devouring maidens.

Speaker 2 (02:11:29):
King's daughter. Maybe next gotta lead. Nothing much to go on.

Speaker 3 (02:11:34):
Say did you take that forty five automatic into the
lab to have him check on it?

Speaker 2 (02:11:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (02:11:39):
You were right.

Speaker 2 (02:11:40):
I was right.

Speaker 7 (02:11:41):
Yeah it was a gun.

Speaker 29 (02:11:46):
Twenty two pm I talked to one of the maidens
would almost been devoured.

Speaker 21 (02:11:54):
Who are you?

Speaker 7 (02:11:57):
I'm Saint George, ma'am homicide. I want to ask a
few questions, ma'am. I understand you were almost devied withy
the man?

Speaker 2 (02:12:03):
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (02:12:03):
Dragon?

Speaker 48 (02:12:10):
He breathed fire on me, he finding me already?

Speaker 7 (02:12:17):
How can I be sure of that, ma'am?

Speaker 37 (02:12:18):
Believe me, I got it straight from the dragon's mouth.

Speaker 7 (02:12:25):
Eleven PM I rode over the King's highway. I saw
a man stop to talk to him.

Speaker 29 (02:12:31):
Pardon me, sir?

Speaker 7 (02:12:31):
Can I talk for just a minister?

Speaker 56 (02:12:33):
Sure, I don't mind.

Speaker 7 (02:12:37):
What do you do for a living?

Speaker 4 (02:12:39):
I'm a name.

Speaker 2 (02:12:40):
Did I pick up in a nile three last year
for stealing tarts?

Speaker 8 (02:12:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 56 (02:12:44):
So why do you want to make a better case
out of it?

Speaker 31 (02:12:50):
All?

Speaker 7 (02:12:50):
Sure?

Speaker 29 (02:12:50):
We we sard it was a dragon operating in this neighborhood,
which wanted if you've seen him?

Speaker 14 (02:12:54):
Sure I seen him?

Speaker 7 (02:12:56):
Could you describe him for me?

Speaker 43 (02:12:57):
What to describe?

Speaker 56 (02:12:58):
You see one dragon? You see them all?

Speaker 7 (02:13:04):
Try and remember surges for the record. We just want
to get the facts.

Speaker 56 (02:13:08):
Well, he was you know, he had orange pok yes, sir,
purple feet feeding fire and smoke, and one big buck
shot I right in the middle of his sparready and.

Speaker 5 (02:13:18):
Now like that?

Speaker 29 (02:13:24):
Notice anything unusual about him?

Speaker 4 (02:13:29):
Now? I was used to run the mill dragon, you know?

Speaker 7 (02:13:32):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 14 (02:13:33):
All right?

Speaker 5 (02:13:33):
You going on?

Speaker 56 (02:13:34):
Hey, by the way, Hi, are you gonna catch him?

Speaker 29 (02:13:37):
I thought you'd never ask a dragon net.

Speaker 7 (02:13:44):
Three or five pm. I was running back into the
courtyard to make my report to the lab. Then it happened.

Speaker 49 (02:13:56):
It was a dragon, bye m the fire freezing dragon.
You must be Saint George. Right, Yes, sir, I see
you got one of them new forty five caliber swords.

Speaker 7 (02:14:10):
That's about the size of it.

Speaker 13 (02:14:14):
You slay me.

Speaker 7 (02:14:16):
That's what I want to talk to you about. What
do you mean I'm taking you into five h two?
You figure it out? What's the charge devouring maidens out
of season?

Speaker 2 (02:14:29):
What season?

Speaker 14 (02:14:30):
You never put the wrap on me? Do you hear me?

Speaker 2 (02:14:35):
Yeah? I hear you.

Speaker 7 (02:14:36):
I got you in a four to twelve too, A
fort whew?

Speaker 21 (02:14:40):
What the fuck?

Speaker 15 (02:14:41):
Wow?

Speaker 7 (02:14:44):
Over acting.

Speaker 47 (02:14:52):
In September the fifth, the dragon was tried and convicted.
His file was put out, and his maiden devouring license revoked.
Maiden devouring out of season is punishable by a term
of not less than fifty or more than three hundred years.

Speaker 29 (02:15:26):
Thanks for my gridinal folks over night late, I mean
wordal good night, So folks late, we're a little well,
never mind till.

Speaker 13 (02:15:33):
The next week.

Speaker 29 (02:15:33):
This is Stan Freeberg saying thanks for listening, God bless you,
and good.

Speaker 13 (02:15:36):
Night, Dan Freeberg. Joy produced in Hollywood by Pete Barton.

Speaker 29 (02:15:52):
I hadn't written by Stan Freebert, Pepe Tarnon Man, John
Fudburd beaturing the music.

Speaker 13 (02:15:57):
Of Billy May John Carlins with the Mayors have a
talk Butler Peter lecon Don pay Bud So.

Speaker 6 (02:16:04):
Speaking sixty eight years ago, September one, nineteen fifty seven,

(02:16:28):
The Stan Freeburg Show Here on Classic Radio Theater with
Wyatt Tucks visitors at Classic Radio Dot Stream. Up next,
Lomon Abner.

Speaker 57 (02:16:42):
Ladies, there's still a shortage of fats to make soap,
so save and sell every pound of used kitchen fats.
And remember you get more money for us fat today,
so keep saving it and keep selling it. Waste fat,
make soap, so don't waste waste fat.

Speaker 4 (02:17:00):
Fill it in and turn it in.

Speaker 58 (02:17:02):
Ladies and gentlemen, May I call a spade a spade
and stopping an entertainer. When this war came, our soldiers
left their homes to defend yours. You stayed comfortably in
your own home during the war with a roof over
your head.

Speaker 7 (02:17:17):
They lived in foxholes. If they lived.

Speaker 58 (02:17:21):
Now, these veterans can't find homes.

Speaker 2 (02:17:23):
To live in.

Speaker 58 (02:17:24):
Remember, if it weren't for them leaving their homes to
protect yours, you might not have yours right now.

Speaker 7 (02:17:31):
So give them a break, will you? Good night?

Speaker 6 (02:17:34):
Okay, we wrap up this podcast on this Monday, with
an episode of lumen Abner eighty three years ago September one,
nineteen forty two.

Speaker 2 (02:17:44):
The makers of Alka Seltzer bring you lumen Abner friends.

(02:18:37):
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(02:18:59):
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(02:19:21):
cold distress. Now, if you do not have any modern
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cent sized package from your druggist right away. And now
let's see what's going on down in pine Ridge. Well,
Lemon Abner have discovered that the watch bearing the same

(02:19:42):
insignia as that in the baby's locket belongs to Squire Skin.
They have also discovered that the gold mine and everyone
connected with it are non existent, all being fabricated by
Squire as part of a plan to gain control of
the store. At least that's what the old fellow believe. However,
one thing still puzzles them. Who does the baby belong to?

(02:20:06):
As we're looking on a little community today, we find
lumb in the Jobam down Store Avenue, very excited, is just.

Speaker 14 (02:20:12):
Entering and something terrible's happened.

Speaker 2 (02:20:18):
Long, something terrible. The baby's gone, um gone, Yes, sir.
We got up this morning and his crib was empty
and the screen was off the window. Oh my goodness.
He must have been taken earlier this morning, because Elizabeth
got up and give him a drink of water in
the middle of the night, and he's I feared something
like this should happen. I bound you. I know who'd

(02:20:39):
taken him too. It was that Finley Feller, Finley Fell, Yes, Suir,
because I'll come by Squire's house on my way down here,
and I seen the barn was open and that out
of town car was gone. It was yeah, So I
knocked at the door, but I reckon Squire was gone
to I never got no answer. Well, did you ask
his woman where he'd went to? Well, she ain't home,
lumb she's been over Missouri. Steam was relayed for the

(02:21:01):
last couple of months. Oh yeah's right, Well I do not.

Speaker 4 (02:21:05):
Well, what can we do?

Speaker 2 (02:21:06):
Long we're gonna find the baby. That's what we're gonna do.
Call up Cedric and tell him to bring his car
over here right away.

Speaker 14 (02:21:13):
His car. Yeah, yeah, I'll get him.

Speaker 21 (02:21:15):
I'll get him.

Speaker 2 (02:21:15):
I call him right now. Tell him to fill it
up with gas. No, tell him how fur we'll have
to go. Oh, no, wish we knowed for sure. It
was that mister Finlay that taking the baby. Uh hollo,
miss we hunt? Uh this is Avenue Peabody is Cedric there?

Speaker 17 (02:21:33):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:21:34):
I see it. Well, this is awful importance. I wish
you'd wake him up. Yes, w'm er here. Wait a minute.
Just tell him to bring his car over the store
as quick as he can. Yes, ma'am, all right, ma'ch obliged, goodbye.
Is he still in bed?

Speaker 4 (02:21:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:21:52):
Him and some other fellas went hunting last night and
they just got in a couple of hours ago. But
she's going to get him up and send him right over. Well,
good wish we know what direction to start out? Yeah?
Well here, how about calling Frank Foster and asked Kim
Peer seeing anybody driving past his filling station early this morning?
He opens up off of early. Yeah, that's a good

(02:22:13):
idea Wait a minute ago, who's coming up out there?

Speaker 31 (02:22:17):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (02:22:18):
Why that squire? Yeah? How he's got enough noarm to
come in here. I'll ever know, all right, doggie, we'll
find out what happened to mister Finley. Though. How bound
you that squire's got a hand in this kidnapping too?

Speaker 21 (02:22:31):
You know?

Speaker 20 (02:22:35):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:22:35):
Good morning gentlemen, Good morning, Yeah morning squire? Whereabouts is
mister Finley? Went to squire?

Speaker 7 (02:22:42):
Where's that?

Speaker 2 (02:22:42):
Abner? I say, where's mister Finley? The baby's men kidnapp Now?

Speaker 26 (02:22:47):
Bound you?

Speaker 2 (02:22:47):
Is that Finley Feller taken him?

Speaker 31 (02:22:50):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:22:50):
Oh, well to be on us? Yes, you're right, Avenuer
on it now. It wasn't kidding at it, That's all
they wanna know Avenuer, get on the phone, called the police.
He's at the county seat. Tell him to start looking
for mister Finlay right now, wait just a minute now, long,
give him a good description of him and the carboy. Yeah, yeah,
I'll get him. I'll get on and tell him he's
got a baby with well, hold on, Abner. Now wait

(02:23:11):
a minute now, don't pick up that phone. I'll let
me explain a few things here first. There ain't no
time for explaining. Gone afay, just a minute now. Finley
is actually the baby's father. The baby's father. Yes, so
you see, lum, he can hardly be accused of kidnapping.
You remember that story that he told you about being

(02:23:33):
in Australia with his wife. Yeah, well that was true.
You see, I'm an old friend of the Finlands. I
used to know his father and show me this. So
when Finley and his wife took this trip where they
needed someone to take care of this baby, and they
wrote me and asked if missus Kimp and myself will

(02:23:53):
take care of him for the time being, and I accepted,
not knowing if Missus Skimp planning to spend a long,
longer time in Missouri. Fool the baby arrived in. I
was just stuck. It's all just a minute. Though that
baby was left with us. Well, yes, I know them,
and in fact I hired the woman that brought him
in here, you did, Yes, I knew the baby couldn't

(02:24:15):
be in better hands than yours.

Speaker 28 (02:24:17):
Fool.

Speaker 2 (02:24:18):
I just decided to let you men and Missed Peabody
take care of the baby for goodness sake. But I
thought that we'd get some fun out of it, so
I played this little joke on you, Joe. This weren't
no Joe. It was a scheme to get the store
away from us. And you don't know now, long cut, cut,
cut cut. Now, let's not let a little misunderstanding order

(02:24:41):
our feelings and make us say things that we will
regret later. This ain't no misunderstanding, though, I know what
I'm talking about.

Speaker 14 (02:24:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:24:48):
What about that watch here, squire, the one with the
same INNI saging on it that was in the baby's.

Speaker 14 (02:24:53):
Locking my watch?

Speaker 2 (02:24:56):
Did I lose that in here? Yeah? How about that
end singing business? Well, you see, lomb I put that
locket on a baby myself. In fact, it was a
locket to die wore when I was just a mere
child and the inn is the crest of an organization
that my father once belonged to, the Seaside Mandolin and

(02:25:17):
Boating Club. Seaside Mandolin and Boat. Yes, that was an organization.
He took a great deal of interest in, Lum, and
so we had the little locket made up with that
insign And then when he died, I got the watcher
that also had the same insignia in it. And as
I thought that was her royalty crest of some kind. No, no, no, Lumb,
it was her gentleman's club that my father belonged to. Well,

(02:25:39):
how did that insignia get in the newspapers and all that?
Where do you see? I hired an old friend of
mine to do that, Lumb. He was also the one
that called you up one night, Lamb.

Speaker 14 (02:25:51):
He was.

Speaker 2 (02:25:52):
Yes, that was all for the joke. I'm sorry that
you men aren't taking this in the same humorous spirit
that it was conceived in. However, I suppose you got
us to sign that eleven hundred dollars note in I
humor spirits. Well, at the time, yes, that was just
a mere jes yes, Lom. Well, how about yesterday when

(02:26:12):
when you told us you was tearing up the note
and then you tore up a blank piece of paper instead.
Oh well, there you've done that to try to get
us to sign the store over to you. And you
know night week. Now just a minute, now, Lom, that
was an accident, sure and simple. I merely got a
hold of the wrong piece of paper by mistake and
never realized it till later. P pradum and another thing.

(02:26:35):
I wait, now'm let me talk now. I'm coming to
the bad news right now. Bad news. That's all we've
hit around here for two or three weeks. Well, I
hate the tardy Lom, but I'm afraid you're gonna hear
some more. You see, when young Finley left here this morning,
he wasn't exactly what you would call a happy man.
I don't reckon he was no. Somehow, he too failed

(02:26:59):
to see the wisdom or humor my plan, and more
than that, he failed to appreciate getting his head bashed
in with a baseball bat. So before he left, he
threatened to take me to court. To court, yes, unless
I was willing to make a settlement of five hundred
dollars for damages. I'm glad he donning. Well, maybe you

(02:27:21):
won't be so glad Abner. Inasmuch as you were the
one who administered the blow with the bat, I feel
that it is your responsibility to pay this five hundred
dollars iron responsibility, Yes, indeed a doulum. But now, just
to show you that I bearing no real feelings and
I'm still a good sport, I'll make you this proposition.

(02:27:43):
You pay the five hundred dollars and I'll return you
your note. Otherwise I'm afraid I'll have to hold you
into that note. But just a mini square you said
that was all part of a joke. Long that note
is properly signed by you, and it's a legal document
that'll stand up in any court. Now what you gentle? Yeah,
looks like he did one choice there and it's women

(02:28:04):
turn to come somebody in it? Oh, why, sleepy, sleepy?
Well what was it you fellers wanted?

Speaker 21 (02:28:15):
Why?

Speaker 14 (02:28:16):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:28:17):
Nothing I reckon, now, saidric. Just a mistake or mistake. Yeah,
don't go anywhere I reckon. This must be my unlucky day.

Speaker 21 (02:28:25):
I'm lucky.

Speaker 2 (02:28:26):
Yes, wom never caught a single thing on her hunting trip. Wow,
never even seen a squirrel. But you know what I've
seen climbing in your window early this morning. Mister Abner,
huh huh? Did you see me? Cedric Er there is?
I mean you, was you the one that climbed in
and got the baby? Squire? Uh? Well, yes, long, but

(02:28:46):
now Findley practically forced me to do that. That's all
I want to know. Avenue, get on the phone. Call
the police at the county seat. Police, tell them to
come out here and rest them, kiss them for housebreaking,
house breaking, I see here not long. Wait just a minute, ahead, Abe,
I'm doing that. It was now a long. You can't
do this now wait a minute now, wait, gentlemen, let's
talk this over now late to talk things over now,

(02:29:07):
hurry up? Have you hello?

Speaker 14 (02:29:08):
Maymy?

Speaker 2 (02:29:10):
Just a minute, Mammy? What I tell her?

Speaker 7 (02:29:12):
Long?

Speaker 2 (02:29:13):
We leave that up to squire. Now here, Wait a
minute now, I'll tell you what I'll do, just to
show you that I'm a reasonable man. I'll return your note.
I've got it here with me some place and see
where they're to trusted there from Rockey Feller. Let's she
tell maybe to hold on a minute there, hold up

(02:29:34):
for a minute, mammy. Oh, I'm fine. Get alum, I'm
fine too. We're here to here right here, yes, now
there you here, take it long. Yeah. Now, now how
about the five hundred dollars settlement? Oh, cut lomb I'll
take care of that. In fact, I intended to do
it all the time. All right, Avenue, you can hang

(02:29:54):
up now, Mammy. We don't want to make a call
after all. Huh, All Squires, just fine, I reckon, goodbye, Yeah,
I reckon. That takes care of all our business now, huh. Yes,
if And I want you men to know, did I
hold an old drudges against you for anything that's happened?

(02:30:17):
Not a thing in the world, and we're not a thing. Well,
good day man, Yeah, good day, Squire.

Speaker 14 (02:30:26):
I know. Did we sure got old Squire that time?

Speaker 2 (02:30:29):
Yeah? Yeah, but we did. His little joke finally turned
out to be a five hundred dollars joke on hisself.

Speaker 21 (02:30:34):
Sure did.

Speaker 2 (02:30:36):
I'm glad to let Sedric come along when he did, though,
bo I say, it's a lucky thing. You've seen Squire
climbing in my window over there? Squire? Yeah, I never
seen him climbing in no window. You never well, didn't
you say? You've seen somebody? Yes, mam, but that weren't
no human. That was that Tom Caddy yours I seen
climbing in well well knowing squire skimp as we'd do,

(02:31:02):
we'd say that Lemon Abner had better continue to be careful.
But sometimes being careful is easier said than done, as
we all know. For example, we know we should not
let our appetites get the better of our good judgment,
but most of us do occasionally when we're especially hungry,
or when our favorite foods are being served. All the
more reason then that yours should be an alkaseltzer home,

(02:31:24):
for with alkalcels are handy too fold relief for the
discomfort that sometimes follows too much to eat or drink
and be yours in a hurry. There's really no describing
the speed with which alcalcelser action and the relief it offers.
You just have to try it for yourself to know.
So take alkacelser whenever your eyes prove to be bigger
than your stomach. Remember you can get alcacelser at all

(02:31:45):
drug stores by the package and also by the glass.

Speaker 6 (02:32:11):
So I guess the baby's all gone and all of that.
Eighty three years ago, September first, nineteen forty two, Lomon
Abner here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. Join
us tomorrow for comedy with Milton Burrell, my favorite husband,
the Great Gilder Sleeve, George Burns and Gracie Allen as

(02:32:31):
George goes on trial, and another episode of Lomon Abner.
Thank you so much for being with us. We'll see
you tomorrow for more classic radio theater. I'm Wyatt Cox.

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