July 25, 2025 • 24 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful old time radio programs during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror genres - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now a tale well calculated to keep you in spence.
Listen now to The Old Man, starring Leon Jenny in
the title role and Reynold Osborne as the director, written
especially for suspense by Bob Corkran.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Madam, madam, you're standing on my table. I'm your staff.
Thank you, and a happy New Year to you too.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen from New York's famous Times Square.
We're in less than six short hours. Thousands of people
will celebrate the moment we're all waiting for. Goodbye to
nineteen sixty one and welcome to nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
How does one get to.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Pencydy in your states? Right that way? Sir? Thank you
such even now.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Thanks for getting a bit crowded here as more and
more people arrive, anxious to be as close to the
center of the crush if possible. But I would miss
it for the world, Lord, No, not for the world.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
My folks.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, from my advantage point here on Godway, just north
of forty fourth feet, I can see the excitement in
both directions.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Excuse me, sir, Oh yeah, I see.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
How does one get a pincers that way?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Sir, the famous lights of old Broadway are blazing, and
I'm reminded of testing in common about what a Wonderland
Broadway must be to the man who can't read. Instead
of cigarettes and beer and tissue paper, to such a man,
the lights might spell out hope and feed or advertise charity, goodwill, peace.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well, now let's talk about one of the good evening sir.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You yeah, and now here's the cab driver who, sir,
the cable way.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Why are you living?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
When you relaxed, big body?
Speaker 6 (01:57):
I have to all that deserally.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What's that? It's a radio cable, sir. We're on the
air on the.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
You mean people who listeners with you say, of.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Course, this is a CBS radio network.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Hooray, Hey give me that microphone chaty. I got a
great joke, A great joke, oh boy, Joe Philip pull.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
At this party I was at.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
It's a little lady, but this is.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I mean, that's very kind of you. But I'd like
to talk to this gentleman here. What's your name, sir,
J Walston? And you're a cab driver.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Well, he's sitting behind the wheel of a tactic crab.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What else, how do you feel mister Walton working New
Year's Eve? Oh gestion of the night only worsh but
no complaint. Do you always work New Year's Eve?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (02:39):
I didn't used to do now, I mean you got
a party to go to someone once you're around as German. Look,
I'm working an old guy like me. That's gotta be good, right,
I agree, sir. That's the girl you see, and she's
got a cuckeye parrot.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yes, that's very good, very good, sir.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Why you got a joke?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Here's your cab, sir?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Right, so I want to care while you know how
hard they are to get the.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
New Year's e Oh yeah, pick that said.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Step right up there. Thanks for talking to me, mister Walton.
Thanks for the fair and there, ladies and gentlemen, a
picture and minuture of what's going on all over this
great city the whole country. Some people celebrating, some working,
but all mindful of the moment coming closer off with
the old year and on with a new the ending
(03:29):
that is really a beginning.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
I believe that is all miss father.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yes, sir, sorry to have kept relate particularly tonight, but
these reports had to be completed. I mean, if we
haven't reports. Where are we?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I agree it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You're a young lady of great desent.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Now everything all said for the diamond ceremony. Yes, sir,
I detected distinct change of tome is Vaula. There's something wrong.
Fan's not well laid, organization is organized.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Everything's working smoothly.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
When does they and why aren't too happy?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I'm happy?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, it's just well, since you ask, it's the old man.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
What about the old man?
Speaker 7 (04:20):
But I just hate to see him pushed out, losing
his job.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I see your new year, So I will explain this vola.
It is become a cliche which I nevertheless use when appropriate.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
That business is business.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
I've heard you. I mean, yes, there is.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
No room for sentiment here, no matter how well meaning
your feelings.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Do your heart good, but our organization ill. Retirement is
the way of the world. Age must give way to youth.
When a man's job is done, he must step aside.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I know that, but it seems a shame not to.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
The man coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So the poor old fellow is just to be shutd out.
We have a nice party plan.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He knew when he took the job that it wasn't
going to be forever I mean, it's not as if
it were civil service.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
I agree with everything you say, sir, but it's still
a shame.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And we're giving you a lovely present, the stunning gold watch.
My assistant is giving him the good news at this
very much, you go.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Back and tell your boss I don't want a gold watch.
He'll pull of.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Me a bit.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
There are hello presents and goodbye presence.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Oh I couldn't talk like that to the director.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Chids.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
I don't need a watch, got a time piece and
I didn't need him to get.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Whatever you say. If you don't want to watch, well,
we'll just have your farewell party without it.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
Maybe there won't be any farewell body either.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
What you can't mean, you just never can tell, no
matter of BacT you can tell.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Him for means answer.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
He looked at me in the strangest way, ow strange
like this.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's strange, all right. He's senile at the very least, sir.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
He said he wasn't sure if he'd come to his
farewell retirement party.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
In fact, well gone.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
It's just that you'll get angry when I tell you
go on, he said, he might not retire at all.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
What you got angry not retire, but that's impossible. Retirement
is mandatory.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
There's no toy.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
That's what I told him.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
What did he say?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
He laughed?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
When you get that old I think it's called a cackle.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
There's it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Important thing here is to handle this quiet day and
division day. We wouldn't want this sort of thing to
come to the attention.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Of the chairman of the board, would we.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Oh no, sir, we might be out of our director's job.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I will deal with the impertinence lurking in that sentence.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
As soon as this matter is straightened out.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Now you will tell him that the rules are clear
and that no exceptions can be made.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
We are sympathetic but firm.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
His retirement is here today and it follows from this
that tomorrow he.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Won't be.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Hell Johnson, you see the old man here?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I think it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Old man been around here and.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Sil tell him I'm looking for him.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Can't find him? Is the way you carry on my orders?
That simple matter, sir. We booked everywhere. Since you haven't
found him, that is an obvious This.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Is what comes up setting the retirement age so late.
You are right, sir, he's senile.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I don't go here.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
What he is?
Speaker 6 (08:14):
You get him in here.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Mister, I've driven you clockwise around Manhattan.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Now counterclockwise. It's your money.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
But hey, hey, mister, oh.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Oh oh, well, there's this girl see, and she's got
a cock eye parrot.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You told me, mister six times, very funny.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Hey, look at that old guy.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Over there, miss stars full nuts?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
No, no, no, no, he's low nuts. It's New Year's Eve.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Probably got lost on the way to a masquerade, bunny.
He's gonna freeze in this, will it? How about picking
him upper?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Man?
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Anyway, there's this girl see, and you're going to a party.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Well, I was invited to one.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
It's fake?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Is that?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Get up there? Up been?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I give you a lift. There's a guy back there,
but he's sleeping things up.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
Excuse me, sir, but you're not a young man, not
for a long time. In fact, now that I look
more closely, not what even might be called middle a.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I guess you could say that you're an old man too,
just like me.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And now wait, wait, okay, maybe not middle age. But
here you are working.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
No one's trying to push you out of a job.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Look, mister, you want to get in. I haven't got
a year.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
You have now.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
H I get it.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I get very good.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah ah yeah, it's a real rig you got on mystery.
That's how I got your crack about me having a year.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
You go to a masquerade party, you go all the
way huh, a complete bit long white hair, the beard,
the white chimney or whatever you coote, the hourglass and
that thing a side.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, you weren't slippers in this say kind of weather? Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Sandals?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Why sandal? Can you?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
You don't take it from me. You're a cinch for
first prime. They want to give me a gold watch.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Nice prize.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
How come you already know you're gonna win it?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
It's for my retirement masquerade retirement party.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, no, just the time.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I see where can I drop you?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Huh? Your hair is just as white as mine. Look,
my hair is just as white as your wick.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
Like. No one is prying to make you retire.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Like see someone try.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Well you're very fortunately they giving you the squeeze out
play at work?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yes, yeah, how.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Long you've been on a job three one hundred and
sixty five days?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh well, I thought you've been there like, you know,
thirty years.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
It's about the time they all out the gold watches
and waved by my.
Speaker 9 (11:22):
I don't need to watch this hour glass works perfectly.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Where can I drop you?
Speaker 9 (11:31):
I've been reading lately about geriatrics.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Oh sure, yeah, be true.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
A man's age should have nothing to do with his
holding a job as long as he can do it.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
What can proven?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I agree with you one hundred percent, So don't quit.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
And another thing.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
I said, just him, not those other two flowers.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Sorry, sir, I thought speed was the important.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
It was his full officide. I gave a clear hand signal. Hey,
what did we hit anyhow? Are you satisfied with the
trouble you cause us?
Speaker 8 (12:16):
No, get out of bear.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
I've had a very interesting talk with my friend.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I wait for me, Poundy.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
At least you, I know what's with all this. We
crack up and we're we're dead's mill or something. Please,
you are not dead, del Nutsville. I refuse to pursue
this conversation.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Remain quiet, and as soon as this matter is taken out,
you will be returned.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Look, mister, my meter is running. I did down.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
All of you.
Speaker 10 (12:55):
Nineteen sixty one. You sit there right nineteen sixty one, Yes,
nineteen sixty two, here right on schedule. At least something
is going right. Bring nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Years nineteen sixty two, let's will there will be no muttering.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
This lamorable matter can be cleared up quickly, smoothly and.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Efficiency as the long tienty twin trains.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Boy, we should drove them all the way to gain here.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Sit right here quietly, please, Oh so oh o games,
Oh that's great where it curls?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Well, one is better than nothing. But what kind of
a party will pay peace?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Like none we were ever had?
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Buddy attention, attention, please, I believe I conveyed that good
Sorry sir, nineteen sixty one, to put.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It in briefly possible, I'm appalled in your conduct. We
all are from time out of mind. We have always
run things here for the fashion.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
So maybe it's time someone rains there one year getting
way to the no sense to as far as I
can see now, if I couldn't do the job well.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Up is no longer yours to do now, sixty one,
I may call you sixty one, Nutsville. Yours has been
a good average record. If I'll show that you did
things sometimes you started Spring and Marks twentieth, three thirty
two pm. Summer, as agreed at ten thirty am June
twenty first, and so on and so on. One Now
(14:26):
suddenly I find that you refuse to set beside at
midnight night so that your rightful successor can take your place.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Why should I quit?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
For hear it the way you got the job.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
That nineteen sixty was falling down on his face. I'm
as good as ever I was. The baby looks a
lot of stupid to me anyway. Didn't do anything but sleep.
Now you see, I've been reading about Jerry Address.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I know that's what started this whole mess.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
And I had a nice stock with my friends. I
know that, well, something you didn't know. You can call
off your big fancy body that you got all set
up at twelve o'clock the night, because I'm not gonna.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Be there, Oh dear, December thirty second, December thirty third,
December two.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
It's just a level.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I haven't been drinking, and I'm hearing the same thing.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Will you be quiet well, nineteen sixty one, Now that
you've had a chance to think over this matter, I'm
sure you see the whole thing in an entirely different light.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
And I'll say one thing for you, you're off and wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I took this job a year.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Ago and a joyous occasion, and I had things all planned,
going to a lot of things, make the world better,
people happier.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
He's like that what you did find I had, Miss Fowler,
I got some of your pup things together.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Give them to a miss follow.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Here you are highlights of nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Very nice. See for yourself.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
I saw not just a good part. Oh I gotta
messle clippings not so good. So I figure, with my experience,
I'll just stay on the job and make a little
better name for myself.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Well, you just can't. And that's all there is to it.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
Well, I checked, and you can't get me out of
this job.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Unless I walk out, mister director, Is that true the rule?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
I was not.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Always In the beginning, certain niceties of organizational seizure were overlooked,
the obvious excitements of exploding particles and expanding gases.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Gues is still expanding until this important moment. This oversight
has never occasioned any trouble. In fact, nineteen twenty nine
wanted to quit before this term was up.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
That was his business. My idea is to keep on
the job.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
But think of all the nineteen sixty two, all the
actor calendars. The speech is starting that we are on
the threshold of a new year.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I don't care about any of that.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Look, mister director, I don't mean to butt in, but
you're spinning your wheels. You said, right mac Lester, Director,
You're son.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
The nineteenth sixty one is not by Maybe we just
shut it.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Why I do not need to Odd Morco to tell
me times past, present in future. Assistant director speaking assistant
to the director.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes sir, yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
He should tell him more well.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And stop smiling.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
That was the chairman of the ball He told me
to tell you to be quiet me you so be quiet.
It seems that these gentlemen are not here accident. The
chairman planned that they would encounter nineteen sixty on Fulton Street.
He said he might be able to do, but you
(18:08):
obviously cannot.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Well.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
I know the chairman of the board is a very
smart fella, even with some of the people he's got
working for him.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
But you boys aren't making me change my mind.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I wouldn't try to anyway.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Now I'll be neither. Well, that's more than I can say.
With some around here.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
In nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
You got any idea why the chairman wanted us to
talk to you?
Speaker 9 (18:31):
Nope, unless he got tired of listening to this this
blammer mouth here.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
As much as I did, I've been wondering myself.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
We're such a clean cut type, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Maybe maybe it's.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Because we sort of know more about you than anyone here.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I mean, we lived you, you know, you know?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Yeah, I guess you did.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
And even though this is where you keep time or
dole it out or whatever goes on around here.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Use it.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Go to the consumer every time if you want.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
For facts, you know, could be that we know things
about you and your job that never occurred to you.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Now, you two aren't gonna try to soft soap me
into the trash file too. Look, we were talking about
Jerry Athletes, remember you bet well, I guess there's no
worse feeling than being useless, unwanted, rejected.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
You know too.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
A guy doesn't push a cab around town New Year's Eve.
If someone likes say a daughter and son in law,
ask him to stay home and.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Join their party.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
They want to give a body to get rid of me.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Well, that party's going on all over the world.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Sure, that's the anks. I get the appreciation. What have
they gone against me? Was I that bad to you?
What kind of a.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Year was I?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
For you?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
The worst year of my life?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Me?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Yeah, My wife and I were always always gonna take
this crip. Say when we got a little ahead, you know,
Oh sure, sure me. Then all of a sudden, just
a little cold in the chest. I tell you, old man,
(20:19):
I won't be sorry to see you go.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
What about you?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Oh me, Well, I don't know. I say this, go ahead,
it's alright, whatever you gotta say. Well, I can't remember
a better year. Got the breaks all away, a lot
of laps my alf I hope it's.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You know, yeah, that's not so bad as it.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Oh, it's fine for him and millions like him, for
some other millions like me, even worse off.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Not so fine.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
You see, old man, you're not just one year, not
just three hundred and sixty five days and nights hooked together.
Seems to me you're as many years as there are people,
and for each of them in their own special way.
You're you're a good year or a bad year, or
all the mixtures in between.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
But my job, my record is these.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Highlights, not yours, old man.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
People's the low lights too. All you surprise the time.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That's not true. And when you were young, like this.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Little guy here, you brought hope to a feeling that
the old slate was sort of clean.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
We were all standing over. Yeah, that's right, kind of
get the past behind you. All in one lumping is
a whole new.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Year, you know, to use any way you like. You're
you're not lying to me for what I can always use.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Some hope, but I wouldn't make a federal case.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
People all over the world are looking to say goodbye
to you tonight and hello to the kid.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I'm with them.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
What if I say no, you got me? Well, we'll
see what happened in school.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
You're gonna you're gonna tell anyone what happened. Ah now
when I'm sober, Oh, I'm you're glad I left my
cab up there till tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
What you gotta do in New York? Get a place
to park? What do you think the old man is
gonna do?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I can't say I blame him.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
You know, I think he's gonna pack it in after
he thinks that over guy talks big then it comes
down to it.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Me goes along and I hope you're right. What are
you gonna do now?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Hey, how about going over the Times Square? Make it
just about time for the big blast when they let
that light go on a time spelling.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Okay, we'll get our answer there. That's whether or not
the Old Man quit. Everyone will, for that matter, even
if they didn't know about what happened tonight. Oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
You see if.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
When the whistles blow and the bells ring and everyone
hollers Happy New Year, we get that good feeling of hope,
something beginning, better days coming, everyone all over the world
will know your man quit.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Siruspence, you have been listening to The Old Man, starring
Leon Jenny in the title role, Reynold Osborne as the director,
written especially for suspense by Bob Corchran. In a moment
a word about next week's story of suspense going places tonight,
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lots of people are and not everyone will reach his
destination somply. Unscheduled stops for many of this night of
nights will be emergency wards, hospital beds, and the morgue.
It needn't be, so be extra careful extra courteous and
moderate into Night's celebration. Sas Spence is produced and directed
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by Brunos Arato, junior musical supervision by Ethel Huber. Featured
into Night's story were Lawson Zervi as Joe Walston, ib
Francis as the assistant to the director, Larry Haynes as
the Tippler, Ralph Carmargo as the announcer, Prita Lloyd as
Miss Pawler, and Guy Repp as Johnson. Next week, we
(24:37):
will return with Breakthrough, written by William M. Robeson another
tale well calculated to keep you in SA Spence. Happy
New Year from the CBS Radio Network.
And now a tale well calculated to keep you in spence.
Listen now to The Old Man, starring Leon Jenny in
the title role and Reynold Osborne as the director, written
especially for suspense by Bob Corkran.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Madam, madam, you're standing on my table. I'm your staff.
Thank you, and a happy New Year to you too.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen from New York's famous Times Square.
We're in less than six short hours. Thousands of people
will celebrate the moment we're all waiting for. Goodbye to
nineteen sixty one and welcome to nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
How does one get to.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Pencydy in your states? Right that way? Sir? Thank you
such even now.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Thanks for getting a bit crowded here as more and
more people arrive, anxious to be as close to the
center of the crush if possible. But I would miss
it for the world, Lord, No, not for the world.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
My folks.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, from my advantage point here on Godway, just north
of forty fourth feet, I can see the excitement in
both directions.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Excuse me, sir, Oh yeah, I see.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
How does one get a pincers that way?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Sir, the famous lights of old Broadway are blazing, and
I'm reminded of testing in common about what a Wonderland
Broadway must be to the man who can't read. Instead
of cigarettes and beer and tissue paper, to such a man,
the lights might spell out hope and feed or advertise charity, goodwill, peace.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well, now let's talk about one of the good evening sir.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You yeah, and now here's the cab driver who, sir,
the cable way.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Why are you living?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
When you relaxed, big body?
Speaker 6 (01:57):
I have to all that deserally.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What's that? It's a radio cable, sir. We're on the
air on the.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
You mean people who listeners with you say, of.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Course, this is a CBS radio network.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Hooray, Hey give me that microphone chaty. I got a
great joke, A great joke, oh boy, Joe Philip pull.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
At this party I was at.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
It's a little lady, but this is.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I mean, that's very kind of you. But I'd like
to talk to this gentleman here. What's your name, sir,
J Walston? And you're a cab driver.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Well, he's sitting behind the wheel of a tactic crab.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What else, how do you feel mister Walton working New
Year's Eve? Oh gestion of the night only worsh but
no complaint. Do you always work New Year's Eve?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (02:39):
I didn't used to do now, I mean you got
a party to go to someone once you're around as German. Look,
I'm working an old guy like me. That's gotta be good, right,
I agree, sir. That's the girl you see, and she's
got a cuckeye parrot.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yes, that's very good, very good, sir.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Why you got a joke?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Here's your cab, sir?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Right, so I want to care while you know how
hard they are to get the.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
New Year's e Oh yeah, pick that said.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Step right up there. Thanks for talking to me, mister Walton.
Thanks for the fair and there, ladies and gentlemen, a
picture and minuture of what's going on all over this
great city the whole country. Some people celebrating, some working,
but all mindful of the moment coming closer off with
the old year and on with a new the ending
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that is really a beginning.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
I believe that is all miss father.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yes, sir, sorry to have kept relate particularly tonight, but
these reports had to be completed. I mean, if we
haven't reports. Where are we?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I agree it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You're a young lady of great desent.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Now everything all said for the diamond ceremony. Yes, sir,
I detected distinct change of tome is Vaula. There's something wrong.
Fan's not well laid, organization is organized.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Everything's working smoothly.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
When does they and why aren't too happy?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I'm happy?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, it's just well, since you ask, it's the old man.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
What about the old man?
Speaker 7 (04:20):
But I just hate to see him pushed out, losing
his job.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I see your new year, So I will explain this vola.
It is become a cliche which I nevertheless use when appropriate.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
That business is business.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
I've heard you. I mean, yes, there is.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
No room for sentiment here, no matter how well meaning
your feelings.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Do your heart good, but our organization ill. Retirement is
the way of the world. Age must give way to youth.
When a man's job is done, he must step aside.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I know that, but it seems a shame not to.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
The man coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So the poor old fellow is just to be shutd out.
We have a nice party plan.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He knew when he took the job that it wasn't
going to be forever I mean, it's not as if
it were civil service.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
I agree with everything you say, sir, but it's still
a shame.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And we're giving you a lovely present, the stunning gold watch.
My assistant is giving him the good news at this
very much, you go.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Back and tell your boss I don't want a gold watch.
He'll pull of.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Me a bit.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
There are hello presents and goodbye presence.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Oh I couldn't talk like that to the director.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Chids.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
I don't need a watch, got a time piece and
I didn't need him to get.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Whatever you say. If you don't want to watch, well,
we'll just have your farewell party without it.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
Maybe there won't be any farewell body either.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
What you can't mean, you just never can tell, no
matter of BacT you can tell.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Him for means answer.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
He looked at me in the strangest way, ow strange
like this.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's strange, all right. He's senile at the very least, sir.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
He said he wasn't sure if he'd come to his
farewell retirement party.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
In fact, well gone.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
It's just that you'll get angry when I tell you
go on, he said, he might not retire at all.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
What you got angry not retire, but that's impossible. Retirement
is mandatory.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
There's no toy.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
That's what I told him.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
What did he say?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
He laughed?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
When you get that old I think it's called a cackle.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
There's it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Important thing here is to handle this quiet day and
division day. We wouldn't want this sort of thing to
come to the attention.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Of the chairman of the board, would we.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Oh no, sir, we might be out of our director's job.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I will deal with the impertinence lurking in that sentence.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
As soon as this matter is straightened out.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Now you will tell him that the rules are clear
and that no exceptions can be made.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
We are sympathetic but firm.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
His retirement is here today and it follows from this
that tomorrow he.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Won't be.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Hell Johnson, you see the old man here?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I think it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Old man been around here and.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Sil tell him I'm looking for him.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Can't find him? Is the way you carry on my orders?
That simple matter, sir. We booked everywhere. Since you haven't
found him, that is an obvious This.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Is what comes up setting the retirement age so late.
You are right, sir, he's senile.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I don't go here.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
What he is?
Speaker 6 (08:14):
You get him in here.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Mister, I've driven you clockwise around Manhattan.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Now counterclockwise. It's your money.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
But hey, hey, mister, oh.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Oh oh, well, there's this girl see, and she's got
a cock eye parrot.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You told me, mister six times, very funny.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Hey, look at that old guy.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Over there, miss stars full nuts?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
No, no, no, no, he's low nuts. It's New Year's Eve.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Probably got lost on the way to a masquerade, bunny.
He's gonna freeze in this, will it? How about picking
him upper?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Man?
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Anyway, there's this girl see, and you're going to a party.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Well, I was invited to one.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
It's fake?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Is that?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Get up there? Up been?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I give you a lift. There's a guy back there,
but he's sleeping things up.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
Excuse me, sir, but you're not a young man, not
for a long time. In fact, now that I look
more closely, not what even might be called middle a.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I guess you could say that you're an old man too,
just like me.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And now wait, wait, okay, maybe not middle age. But
here you are working.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
No one's trying to push you out of a job.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Look, mister, you want to get in. I haven't got
a year.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
You have now.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
H I get it.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I get very good.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah ah yeah, it's a real rig you got on mystery.
That's how I got your crack about me having a year.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
You go to a masquerade party, you go all the
way huh, a complete bit long white hair, the beard,
the white chimney or whatever you coote, the hourglass and
that thing a side.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, you weren't slippers in this say kind of weather? Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Sandals?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Why sandal? Can you?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
You don't take it from me. You're a cinch for
first prime. They want to give me a gold watch.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Nice prize.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
How come you already know you're gonna win it?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
It's for my retirement masquerade retirement party.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, no, just the time.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I see where can I drop you?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Huh? Your hair is just as white as mine. Look,
my hair is just as white as your wick.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
Like. No one is prying to make you retire.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Like see someone try.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Well you're very fortunately they giving you the squeeze out
play at work?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yes, yeah, how.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Long you've been on a job three one hundred and
sixty five days?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh well, I thought you've been there like, you know,
thirty years.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
It's about the time they all out the gold watches
and waved by my.
Speaker 9 (11:22):
I don't need to watch this hour glass works perfectly.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Where can I drop you?
Speaker 9 (11:31):
I've been reading lately about geriatrics.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Oh sure, yeah, be true.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
A man's age should have nothing to do with his
holding a job as long as he can do it.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
What can proven?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I agree with you one hundred percent, So don't quit.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
And another thing.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
I said, just him, not those other two flowers.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Sorry, sir, I thought speed was the important.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
It was his full officide. I gave a clear hand signal. Hey,
what did we hit anyhow? Are you satisfied with the
trouble you cause us?
Speaker 8 (12:16):
No, get out of bear.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
I've had a very interesting talk with my friend.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I wait for me, Poundy.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
At least you, I know what's with all this. We
crack up and we're we're dead's mill or something. Please,
you are not dead, del Nutsville. I refuse to pursue
this conversation.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Remain quiet, and as soon as this matter is taken out,
you will be returned.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Look, mister, my meter is running. I did down.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
All of you.
Speaker 10 (12:55):
Nineteen sixty one. You sit there right nineteen sixty one, Yes,
nineteen sixty two, here right on schedule. At least something
is going right. Bring nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Years nineteen sixty two, let's will there will be no muttering.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
This lamorable matter can be cleared up quickly, smoothly and.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Efficiency as the long tienty twin trains.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Boy, we should drove them all the way to gain here.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Sit right here quietly, please, Oh so oh o games,
Oh that's great where it curls?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Well, one is better than nothing. But what kind of
a party will pay peace?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Like none we were ever had?
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Buddy attention, attention, please, I believe I conveyed that good
Sorry sir, nineteen sixty one, to put.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It in briefly possible, I'm appalled in your conduct. We
all are from time out of mind. We have always
run things here for the fashion.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
So maybe it's time someone rains there one year getting
way to the no sense to as far as I
can see now, if I couldn't do the job well.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Up is no longer yours to do now, sixty one,
I may call you sixty one, Nutsville. Yours has been
a good average record. If I'll show that you did
things sometimes you started Spring and Marks twentieth, three thirty
two pm. Summer, as agreed at ten thirty am June
twenty first, and so on and so on. One Now
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suddenly I find that you refuse to set beside at
midnight night so that your rightful successor can take your place.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Why should I quit?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
For hear it the way you got the job.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
That nineteen sixty was falling down on his face. I'm
as good as ever I was. The baby looks a
lot of stupid to me anyway. Didn't do anything but sleep.
Now you see, I've been reading about Jerry Address.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I know that's what started this whole mess.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
And I had a nice stock with my friends. I
know that, well, something you didn't know. You can call
off your big fancy body that you got all set
up at twelve o'clock the night, because I'm not gonna.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Be there, Oh dear, December thirty second, December thirty third,
December two.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
It's just a level.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I haven't been drinking, and I'm hearing the same thing.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Will you be quiet well, nineteen sixty one, Now that
you've had a chance to think over this matter, I'm
sure you see the whole thing in an entirely different light.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
And I'll say one thing for you, you're off and wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I took this job a year.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Ago and a joyous occasion, and I had things all planned,
going to a lot of things, make the world better,
people happier.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
He's like that what you did find I had, Miss Fowler,
I got some of your pup things together.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Give them to a miss follow.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Here you are highlights of nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Very nice. See for yourself.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
I saw not just a good part. Oh I gotta
messle clippings not so good. So I figure, with my experience,
I'll just stay on the job and make a little
better name for myself.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Well, you just can't. And that's all there is to it.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
Well, I checked, and you can't get me out of
this job.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Unless I walk out, mister director, Is that true the rule?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
I was not.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Always In the beginning, certain niceties of organizational seizure were overlooked,
the obvious excitements of exploding particles and expanding gases.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Gues is still expanding until this important moment. This oversight
has never occasioned any trouble. In fact, nineteen twenty nine
wanted to quit before this term was up.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
That was his business. My idea is to keep on
the job.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
But think of all the nineteen sixty two, all the
actor calendars. The speech is starting that we are on
the threshold of a new year.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I don't care about any of that.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Look, mister director, I don't mean to butt in, but
you're spinning your wheels. You said, right mac Lester, Director,
You're son.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
The nineteenth sixty one is not by Maybe we just
shut it.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Why I do not need to Odd Morco to tell
me times past, present in future. Assistant director speaking assistant
to the director.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes sir, yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
He should tell him more well.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And stop smiling.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
That was the chairman of the ball He told me
to tell you to be quiet me you so be quiet.
It seems that these gentlemen are not here accident. The
chairman planned that they would encounter nineteen sixty on Fulton Street.
He said he might be able to do, but you
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obviously cannot.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Well.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
I know the chairman of the board is a very
smart fella, even with some of the people he's got
working for him.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
But you boys aren't making me change my mind.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I wouldn't try to anyway.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Now I'll be neither. Well, that's more than I can say.
With some around here.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
In nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
You got any idea why the chairman wanted us to
talk to you?
Speaker 9 (18:31):
Nope, unless he got tired of listening to this this
blammer mouth here.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
As much as I did, I've been wondering myself.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
We're such a clean cut type, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Maybe maybe it's.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Because we sort of know more about you than anyone here.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I mean, we lived you, you know, you know?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Yeah, I guess you did.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
And even though this is where you keep time or
dole it out or whatever goes on around here.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Use it.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Go to the consumer every time if you want.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
For facts, you know, could be that we know things
about you and your job that never occurred to you.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Now, you two aren't gonna try to soft soap me
into the trash file too. Look, we were talking about
Jerry Athletes, remember you bet well, I guess there's no
worse feeling than being useless, unwanted, rejected.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
You know too.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
A guy doesn't push a cab around town New Year's Eve.
If someone likes say a daughter and son in law,
ask him to stay home and.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Join their party.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
They want to give a body to get rid of me.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Well, that party's going on all over the world.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Sure, that's the anks. I get the appreciation. What have
they gone against me? Was I that bad to you?
What kind of a.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Year was I?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
For you?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
The worst year of my life?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Me?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Yeah, My wife and I were always always gonna take
this crip. Say when we got a little ahead, you know,
Oh sure, sure me. Then all of a sudden, just
a little cold in the chest. I tell you, old man,
(20:19):
I won't be sorry to see you go.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
What about you?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Oh me, Well, I don't know. I say this, go ahead,
it's alright, whatever you gotta say. Well, I can't remember
a better year. Got the breaks all away, a lot
of laps my alf I hope it's.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You know, yeah, that's not so bad as it.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Oh, it's fine for him and millions like him, for
some other millions like me, even worse off.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Not so fine.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
You see, old man, you're not just one year, not
just three hundred and sixty five days and nights hooked together.
Seems to me you're as many years as there are people,
and for each of them in their own special way.
You're you're a good year or a bad year, or
all the mixtures in between.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
But my job, my record is these.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Highlights, not yours, old man.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
People's the low lights too. All you surprise the time.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That's not true. And when you were young, like this.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Little guy here, you brought hope to a feeling that
the old slate was sort of clean.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
We were all standing over. Yeah, that's right, kind of
get the past behind you. All in one lumping is
a whole new.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Year, you know, to use any way you like. You're
you're not lying to me for what I can always use.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Some hope, but I wouldn't make a federal case.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
People all over the world are looking to say goodbye
to you tonight and hello to the kid.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I'm with them.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
What if I say no, you got me? Well, we'll
see what happened in school.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
You're gonna you're gonna tell anyone what happened. Ah now
when I'm sober, Oh, I'm you're glad I left my
cab up there till tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
What you gotta do in New York? Get a place
to park? What do you think the old man is
gonna do?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I can't say I blame him.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
You know, I think he's gonna pack it in after
he thinks that over guy talks big then it comes
down to it.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Me goes along and I hope you're right. What are
you gonna do now?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Hey, how about going over the Times Square? Make it
just about time for the big blast when they let
that light go on a time spelling.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Okay, we'll get our answer there. That's whether or not
the Old Man quit. Everyone will, for that matter, even
if they didn't know about what happened tonight. Oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
You see if.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
When the whistles blow and the bells ring and everyone
hollers Happy New Year, we get that good feeling of hope,
something beginning, better days coming, everyone all over the world
will know your man quit.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Siruspence, you have been listening to The Old Man, starring
Leon Jenny in the title role, Reynold Osborne as the director,
written especially for suspense by Bob Corchran. In a moment
a word about next week's story of suspense going places tonight,
(23:46):
lots of people are and not everyone will reach his
destination somply. Unscheduled stops for many of this night of
nights will be emergency wards, hospital beds, and the morgue.
It needn't be, so be extra careful extra courteous and
moderate into Night's celebration. Sas Spence is produced and directed
(24:16):
by Brunos Arato, junior musical supervision by Ethel Huber. Featured
into Night's story were Lawson Zervi as Joe Walston, ib
Francis as the assistant to the director, Larry Haynes as
the Tippler, Ralph Carmargo as the announcer, Prita Lloyd as
Miss Pawler, and Guy Repp as Johnson. Next week, we
(24:37):
will return with Breakthrough, written by William M. Robeson another
tale well calculated to keep you in SA Spence. Happy
New Year from the CBS Radio Network.
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