September 27, 2025 • 26 mins
Box 13 is a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. It ran during 1948 and 1949. The episodes involved Holiday running classified ads to get new ideas for his fiction. "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything – write Box 13, Star-Times". The episodes followed Holiday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Box thirteen with the Star of Paramount Pictures Alan Ladd
as Dan Holliday.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Box eighteen care of Star Times. I'm a betting agent
my state where betting agents are legal. I'm one of
the many who are being taken for plenty. I think
there's something, Hey why, but none of us have been
able to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Now, since you'd be a stranger here, we figure you'd
have a better than even chances.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Losing around and finding out how we're getting clipped. If
you do, we'll pay. If you don't, maybe you'll have
yourself an adventure. Anyway, My name is Bert Hendrix. Looked
me up at six seven to nine craway and clotheses,
enough money to take care of immediate expenses. Have a
look huh yeah, I had a look all right, right
(01:05):
into the muzzle of a nasty twenty five automatic. Now
back to Box thirteen and Dan Holliday's newest adventure, Much
(01:29):
too lucky?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Are you going to be going along, mister Holliday?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, I don't know, Susie. That all depends and what
on what happens?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Oh what could happen?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, I'm concerned anything.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Oh yeah, sometimes I get worried about you, mister holiday.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Sometimes most times it's just like a nomination. Oh what
am I running for nothing? I just had a premonition.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But you didn't have.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Will you work on it until I get back Susie.
I'm off to the races. The plane trip was quick
and pleasant, and eight hours after I said goodbye to Susie,
I was talking with Bert Hendrix, a big, nice looking fellow,
but with a worried looking on his face. After we
had introduced ourselves, HENDRICKX let me know what was putting
(02:23):
the wrinkles between his eyes. Oh, it's got us roped
and tired like a Christmas package. Dam huh? How much
are you losing?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Plenty runs into four or five figures every week.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Maybe somebody's being lucky. To be that lucky, a guy
had had to be born with a silver horsehoe in
his mouth. Look yesterday, I paid off on a long
shot at forty to one.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
The clip ran to the tune of twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Thousand and that, as I say in books, is sugar
with a capital less hitted by a lot of coffee. Anyway,
we figure we're getting it the wrong way. Clip bamboozled. Oh,
why don't you go to the police.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
With what troubles? That's not the answer.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Have you tried to find a you kidding? We ran
ourselves into a lather trying to catch the angle. No dice, Dan,
somebody in this town's plenty smart, smart enough to know
our boys, and that brings me in. That's right, you're
a stranger. They won't take a second look at you.
I caught you red in the Star Times and played
the bet. Here you are, there's nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
How much do you want?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, believe it or not? Bert, I do this for nothing. Yeah,
I hate you say that before, but I don't get
your dodge my what your gimmage? Dodge?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Racket? Angle?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh well, I figure if the plot's good enough, I
can use it in the story.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, but no dough.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I'll tell you what, Bert, If I figure this, will
you turn over what you'd give me to any charity
I name here.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Here's a blank check filling the amount. I'll sign it.
But try to catch the capers that are putting the
shallac on us.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
There's nothing to start on. I've got a job. They're smart,
plenty smart. What they win is over and beyond the
run of luck or chance, any ideas? Yeah, one, no,
what's that? They got a guy with a crystal ball
that the best you're gonna do. Come out in the
wire room with me. See if we can catch anything
up front.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Uh huh, this way, and we're getting ready now for
the third race today.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We've got a radio back here broadcasting direct from the track,
comes off the local station. Oh and where are the bets?
Places right here or by phone? And I see, and
you take bets up until the time the horses at
the post. And that's right. Once the race starts, no
more bets. Listen to the race. Now he's in place,
We're ready, and they're all I have, Billy, how's it going?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Somebody called up and got a century on party.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Line the twenty one shot, and that's right. Oh, Billy,
this is a friend of mine, Dan Holliday. Hello, Billy,
party line wins bird.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
It's the fourth long shot this week.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's lay off. Yeah, yeah, I know each one was
bet on? Is that it? But heavy? I still there's
one of them guys that's doing it by telepathy. Listen,
I have the help that's mine own by Applelover Candle
Ever Rocket is third and falling. Back with old Joe
as party line still swings wide and moves up on
the outside, coming in with the turn. Now with mine
owned by a head over candilever and moving up fast
on the outside his party line.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
And third, there he comes.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Who made that bet on party line? Mike the okay,
get me to the name of the guy who made
the bet. Sure, listen to that party line. It's mine
own half over party line, and it's a driving finish
with mine own and fun buy an O party line,
getting up the woman moving up, I am across the
finish his party line by a head over my own.
Oh twenty to one? Uh huh a one hundred dollars
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twenty don't one? Don't say it, don't say it. Come on,
let's go back to my office. Oh damn, I don't
get it. How can they pick long shots like that?
Is it only long shots? Oh no, not always. Sometimes
it's the favorite, but it's always a winner. And I
say no, guy can pick a winner every race, especially
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every long shot.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Come in, want to know who placed that one hundred
on partty line?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Bird? Yeah, here's the tab. Oh hurry again, she's awful,
lucky too lucky? Who is it name's Vorn Terry Vaughn, singer.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
At one of the clubs here.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
She's done this before her, Yeah, she's done it before,
twenty grand to day five last week. Why doesn't she
retire and leave here if she can? Look, Dan, we've
got this betting narrowed down to about twenty people. Twenty Yeah,
the most consistent winners. They never lose a ring, is
that it? That's right?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But not one of them is ever at the track.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You mean they just don't go that's right. Never. I
don't get it, neither do we or Billy. Yeah. This
call from Terry Vaughan came in just before the horses
with the post, huh.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Sure we take bets up to the break.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What are you thinking about? Dan? I was just wondering
if there was any way of getting advanced information on
a race. Kidding, not a chance. This is a business
with us legitimate on the level. We know every angle
and dodge. There's no way anyone could know before the
race that a long shot like party Line was going
to nose a cross fished. You've got yourself a problem,
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all right about taking a slice of it, Dan? What
I said about that blank check still goes okay, you've
got yourself a boy good. I don't know where I'll start,
but as they say in books, everything has a beginning,
So why not start with Terry Vaughan waiter? Yes, sir,
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I wonder if you deliver this note for me?
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Certainly, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Where to miss Terry Vaughan.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
I'll see about it, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well this make you see any better? Yes, sir?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh, and tell miss Vaughan I'm a journalist, newspaper man. Yes,
I guess that's it. You see, I'd like an interview.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I'll see what i can do, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'll do my very bed waited. I didn't know what
Miss Terry Vaughan could tell me or wouldn't tell. There
was a chance she didn't know me, so she wouldn't
be suspicious. It was ten minutes later that the waiter
came back to my table.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Missus Vaughan will see you, mister Holliday.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh how did you know my name?
Speaker 7 (08:16):
It was on the card you sent with a note?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Simple, isn't it, Doctor Watson. I beg your pardon? Oh
never mind, Now where's miss Vaughan.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Oh, she'll be here in a moment.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
No, okay, I'll wait.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Yes, sir, you're glad to have been of service.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I waited, and I'll admit the waipers worthwhile Miss Terry
Vaughan glided across the floor of my table and smiled
five thousand dollars worth of tea, tossed a million dollars
in red hair over her shoulder, and put ten million
dollars of the rest of her in the chair across
from me.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You're mister Holliwood, you're Miss vonn.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Your note said you wanted to interview me.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's why. Well, I'm flat. I imagine that's a fairly
common situation with you.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
For you, with mister Holliday.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I have a connection with the Star Times.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Oh you're a big city boy.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I didn't know what showed.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Why do you want to interview me?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Lots of reasons, Miss song name one. Well, I've heard
you were very lucky today.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Lucky?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
How or do you win twenty thousand every day?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
What does this have to do with an interview?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well, it's human interest stuff, Miss farm very human and
very interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I see. But why pick on.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
My lucky streak?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Because well, because it was so lucky.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh, I've always been lucky.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I understand that. Oh, how did you happen to pick
a party line today?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I like long shot always when I feel lucky?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Do you ever lose sometimes? Why?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Oh, I'm just asking, mister Holliday. This is a peculiar interview.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Why I don't think so? Just pleasant?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
What paper did you say you were with?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
The Star Times?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
And what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Vacation?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
When is it.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Over a couple of weeks?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I see, Well, mister Holiday, as far as I'm concerned,
it's over. Now, have a nice time.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh wait, I'm I'm sorry, Please stay here? Why I
feel that I owe you an apology for what? For
being so curious?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
All right, we'll forget it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Let's do let's forget all about twenty thousand dollars long
shots and lucky.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Streaks and what shall we substitute Terry Vaughn?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Do you mind?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Hm? I don't mind if I do. Mister Holiday.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well, it was a pleasant way to spend an evening.
But when it was over, I was just as smart
as at the beginning, which was zero. Maybe Terry Vaughn
was lucky, and how lucky can you be? The next
day I met Bert Hendrix, and he had more trouble well,
somebody did it again today, Dan, Not quite as big
as Terry's play yesterday, but enough enough. One of the
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same twenty people. You've tapped one of the twenty. If
it weren't for the fact that it's those same twenty
people all the time, it could be just luck. Could
be you saw Terry last night. Yeah, oh yeah, I
saw Terry and a very lovely girl. I wish I
had her money it's mine. That's funny. Oh, I'm sorry, Bert,
(11:25):
I don't have to ask if you watched those twenty people. Oh,
sure we have. They don't talk to anyone connected with
the track as far as I know, though, you don't
even know anyone there. There's got to be a gimmick.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, that's what I keep telling myself on the head.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Look, Bert, let's try to figure it out logically. You
say every one of those bets is placed just before
the race is run. That's right, and each of those
twenty people takes a winner. Yeah, not only with me,
but with all the other agents who have the same
set up I've got. And how could they get advanced information?
They can't. They've got to Bert, Dan, We've been all
over that. Yeah, maybe there's an angle you've overlooked? K
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name it and I'll by it. Is there? Is there
any particular race or races they always bet? M What
races do you lose the most heavily on? Wait a minute?
That is an angle? You think of something? Maybe? Wait
a second, I'm going to check. I think I'm Robert,
but I'll make sure. Hello, Hello, Billy, this is big?
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What race is being run? Now?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Time for the six?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Do you have any big bets? Were there any of
the twenty on this one? Which ones? Did they hit?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Third?
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Fourth?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Fifth? That's all? Yeah? Why nothing? See you later? Well, third,
fourth and fifth, that's what I thought. Never the first, second,
or the sixth, seventh or eighth. Always the third, fourth
or fifth. That's right. But where's the gimmick? I don't know,
But hand me the phone here? Thanks? Oh what's the
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phone number of the club where Terry Vaughan works? No,
I don't know what's in the directory. But why what's
that going to do with this? But I don't know yet,
But I'm going to ask the lovely Terry Vaughan if
she'll go out with me tomorrow afternoon afternoon? What are
you getting at your money? I hope hand me the directory.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And now back to Much Too Lucky, another Box thirteen
adventure with Alan Ladd.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
As Dan Holliday. Well, I had an idea, not a
big one and not one that made sense yet, but
I was going to play it. So the next afternoon
I met Miss Terry Vaughan for lunch. I arranged the
time so we'd be together just about the same time
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the horses went to the post for the third race.
We sat. I'm a little cafet.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I was really surprised that you call me Dan.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh why Terry? Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I don't know. Maybe because you seem more interested in
my luck than in me.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
The two go together, I suppose.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
So do you ever play the races? No?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I never have, But there's always the first time.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's what they all say.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Why do you ask? Got something good? As they say
in the vernacular, Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I never get tips?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Ah, but you win occasionally. What's your secret?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
What makes you think it's a secret?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
That was just a figure of speech. Let's talk about
something else.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh? Two twenty hy thinking of leaving me so soon?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
No, but I have something to do around three important
to me?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yes, I see, Well, shall we take a walk yes,
I'd like to. Okay, that's it. So we walked. Perry
was very charming. I was beginning to wonder about my hunch.
Maybe it was luck after all. Then a few minutes after.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Three, Dan, will you excuse me for a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh, you're important. Three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
That's it. I have to make a phone call. Call
me away, Yes, if you want to, Oh, I do,
I'll make it from this drug store.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
All right, I'll wait right here.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I won't be more than a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
She went into the drug store and start to a
phone booth. I slipped inside, went to a counter. The
clerk came up to me.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
May I help you, sir?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh, yes, yes, let me see a pair of those binoculars, will.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
You these they're not very good. I except for children,
just toys.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Uh, I like to play with toys. Now I see
a pair.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Certainly, here you are.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
If you point them outside, you'll get a better idea
of what they'll do.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh, getting a good idea right here.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Excuse me, I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Uh huh. I watched Miss Terry Vaughan and that phone booth.
The binoculars weren't very good, but I saw the numbers
she dialed and remembered them. She spoke for a few seconds,
hung up, drop another car and dialed it up a number.
I got that one too. Then the clerk came back.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
They work all right.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh they're marvelous, just marvelous. How much elie? Here you are?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Shall I wrap them?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Got any kids?
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I mean why?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Yes, Well here's a present for them, but you just
bought them.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, you see, I like your kids.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
You take these, But but sir, I can't take these,
can I?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I walked back outside and got to the pavement before
Terry Vaughan finished her second phone call. I was standing
there when she came out. All set, make a call?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
All right, yes, now, how'd you like to see the town?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'd love it. Come on, let's go. We spent a
pleasant afternoon, but my mind wasn't on my work. I
was trying to keep those phone numbers straight in my head.
Then Terry had to go to the club's rehearsal. As
soon as she left me, I headed for a phone
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booth and dialed the first number she'd called. Hello, Hello, Bell.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
What number do you want?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Is Bill? There?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Uh, there's no Bill here.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I'm sorry, you're sure, there's no bell there.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Oh uh, you got a wrong number, bud.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
On those but wrong number? Huh maybe maybe not. I
dialed the second number she'd called. Hello, Hello, who's this Hendrix?
Who's that Hendrix? This is Holiday Hollow. What's up? Listen
to Tarry Vaughan places about this afternoon? Yeah? On the
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fourth did she win? She had fifty on the winner's nose. Look,
she was with me when she made the bet.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
You had a maker?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
No, she was in a phone booth. Was that? The
only bet she made was enough? How many winners did
you have in that race? Six of the other twenty
people had the winner? How about the other races? Fade,
fourth and fifth? All winners among the twenty people? Uh? Huh.
You got the gimmick. Eh, maybe, but I've got to
prove it. Listen, just sit tid bird, don't open your mouth,
don't let out a pap and above all, don't try
to see me. Damn if you know anything, I don't
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know whether I know anything or not, but I'll find
out tomorrow at the track. Later that evening, I made
a purchase, a very important one. Then I called Terry
Vaughan and asked you to go to the track with
me the next day. It took a little persuasion, but
she finally said yes. So the next afternoon, with my
purchase in the pocket of my top coade, Miss Vaughan
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and I went to the track and up in the stands.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Do you know, Dan, this is the first time I've
been here this season.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I thought you liked racing.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Oh I do, But well, being at the track makes
me nervous.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Nervous?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Why, oh, no reason at all.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Which horse do you like in this race?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh? I'm not going to bet. Oh now with your luck,
I don't want to force it.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I see, well, I don't blame you.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Why don't you go ahead and bed for me?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
All right? You pick a horse for me?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I think my luck will rub off on you.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It could be go ahead, pick one.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Well, let's see. How does this one sound? Bright Angel?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Bright Angel? It is in the third.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
It's almost post time. Huh it's a good seat, Yes
they are.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I reached through my pocket and took out the important
purchase I had made the previous evening and started to
unwrap it.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
What's that guy?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh, I just bought this affordable radio. I wonder if
I can hear the race on her.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Don't turn that on? But why not put down that radio?
Mister Holiday?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Put it down?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Why don't you want me to turn it on?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
You're just a little too smart, mister Holiday. This is
a gun in my purse. You're getting out of here.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Go on, ik radios. Do you carry guns? You're well equipped?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Go on, lead the way.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Okay. She was as cool as an artic winter, and
she handled the gun nicely, kept it in the small
of my back under her handbag. Somehow I knew she'd
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use it if she had to. We got to her car,
and a half hour later she marched me into a
room where a man sat wearing a pair of headphones.
He looked up as we came in.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
H hello, Terry, who's this.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
A smart boy? Tim? I'm leaving him with you?
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Smart boy?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Mm hmmm. He's wise. How he got that way, I
don't know. But after the fifth race clean up, we're
leaving town.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Oh it's about time. We couldn't run this racket forever.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You know, mister Holliday, you're lucky you didn't come along sooner.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yes, I know, before you made your take.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
That's right. How did you figure it through?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
A two ninety five pair of binoculars. I saw the
numbers you dialed yesterday.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Oh, you should be with us.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Let's see that thing. There is a wire recorder. You
tap into the broadcast line that runs from the track
to the radio station. Without the station's knowledge. You record
the broadcast then played back into the broadcast line two
minutes after the regular airtime. You are smart, and those
two minutes give you enough time to place bets on
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sure things. You already know the winners, but the bookmakers
don't correct. But you only pull this on the middle
three races of the card, so that late commers and
those who leave the track early won't catch wise by
listening to their radios.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Right again, the broadcast is delayed two minutes. The race
is already over before the bookmakers even think it started.
Sit down, mister Holiday, watch him tim, Yeah, okay, I'm
going to clean up a few odds and ends. Goodbye,
mister Holliday.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Oh we'll see each other again.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Oh I doubt that very much. Goodbye, and be very
happy that some of my luck did rub off on you.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Smart dame smart dame nose angles.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I can see that, and we.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Make a take here and then move on. Now, you
just sit still, Bubba. I got some work to do,
but I can still watch you.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I watched him too. The wire recorder was spinning. He
flipped a switch and I knew what happened. The third race.
The track was over, but the broadcast of it was
going over the air. Now two minutes later, then.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Eh ah, Now we sit tight for a while.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Say that wire recorder. I've never seen one before.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Huh, huh great, gadgets great. I make recordings of my
own voice all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh do you mean all you do is talking to
a little microphone and your voice is recorded right away?
M hm.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Hey, you you want to say something?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Hey, you're obliging?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Oh sure, anything to pass the time gets dull in here,
go on, say something and we'll play it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Back for you. Go on, Well, what'll I say? Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Anything? First thing comes to your mind?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Well, my name is Dan Holliday. I'm being held prisoner
at seven five eight Condos Street at the point of
a gun. Please.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Oh great, just great. Don't you wish someone on the
outside could really hear that?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, I guess I do. Now you mean that thing,
I'll play it right back. Huh. Sure.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
I just got to switch from the record to play back.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
That's all. He turned his back for a second and
flipped the switch. I flipped the switch too, and waited. Well,
my name is Dan Holliday. I'm being held prisoner at
seven five eight Condo Street at the point of a gun.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Please help see that tellor is do it?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well? Well? Well, what do you know about that? Isn't
science wonderful? Yeah? Sure is.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Too bad you had to come along and spoil this ranking, mister,
But I guess we made a big enough taken. Keep
your hands up, mister, I can shoot and answer the
phone at the.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Same time, Eh, Tim, What happened?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Happened? Nothing?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Why the guys get out.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Of there fast and take him with you. We'll take
care of him later. But get out of there.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Fast, Terry, Terry, something wrong, I don't know, Get up
and move out.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Go on. I did, but I did something else first.
We walk out of the place, a gun in my ribs.
I hope what I'd done would work. We walk up
the street at peace, and then.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
That's cops.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
All right, duck in here, go on in this hallway. Ah,
just keep quiet and let him go past. I guess
they won't find nobody there, will We.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
No, I guess not well what no, no.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Wait for a minute.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Then we go.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Hi and get in front of me and stay there.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Go on rop that gun? Who better drop it into
a lot of cops.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Okay, okay, don't shoot, damn damn Holiday.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You all right, sir Hendrix? Did you hear my broadcast? Yeah?
Your voice cut in right in the middle of the
regular broad.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
I don't get it. I don't get it. How the finders,
how the trailers.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Oh, look on your coattail, Tim, you didn't know it.
When we left that room, I hooked the end of
the wire from the recorder on your coat. You see, Tim,
you were wired for sound.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Gee, that's sure was a clever idea they had, mister Holliday.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
And you were clever too. That wire left the trail
right to you and that man he.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Was wired for sound, Susie. Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
And I'll get you got a racy store? Are you
out of it?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Now, don't you get it, mister Holliday. I made a joke,
racy story.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Get it?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah? Yeah, I got it. Good night, Sissy. Next week,
same time.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Alan Ladd stars as
Dan Holliday and Box thirteen. Box thirteen is directed by
Richard Sandville. This week's original story by Robert m Light
and mister Sandville. Original music is composed and conducted by
Rudy Schraker. Part of Susie is played by Sylvia Picker,
and production is supervised by Berne Carstenson.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Box thirteen is a.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Mayfair production from Hollywood Watch for Alan Ladd and his
latest Paramount picture.
Box thirteen with the Star of Paramount Pictures Alan Ladd
as Dan Holliday.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Box eighteen care of Star Times. I'm a betting agent
my state where betting agents are legal. I'm one of
the many who are being taken for plenty. I think
there's something, Hey why, but none of us have been
able to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Now, since you'd be a stranger here, we figure you'd
have a better than even chances.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Losing around and finding out how we're getting clipped. If
you do, we'll pay. If you don't, maybe you'll have
yourself an adventure. Anyway, My name is Bert Hendrix. Looked
me up at six seven to nine craway and clotheses,
enough money to take care of immediate expenses. Have a
look huh yeah, I had a look all right, right
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into the muzzle of a nasty twenty five automatic. Now
back to Box thirteen and Dan Holliday's newest adventure, Much
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too lucky?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Are you going to be going along, mister Holliday?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, I don't know, Susie. That all depends and what
on what happens?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Oh what could happen?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, I'm concerned anything.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Oh yeah, sometimes I get worried about you, mister holiday.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Sometimes most times it's just like a nomination. Oh what
am I running for nothing? I just had a premonition.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But you didn't have.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Will you work on it until I get back Susie.
I'm off to the races. The plane trip was quick
and pleasant, and eight hours after I said goodbye to Susie,
I was talking with Bert Hendrix, a big, nice looking fellow,
but with a worried looking on his face. After we
had introduced ourselves, HENDRICKX let me know what was putting
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the wrinkles between his eyes. Oh, it's got us roped
and tired like a Christmas package. Dam huh? How much
are you losing?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Plenty runs into four or five figures every week.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Maybe somebody's being lucky. To be that lucky, a guy
had had to be born with a silver horsehoe in
his mouth. Look yesterday, I paid off on a long
shot at forty to one.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
The clip ran to the tune of twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Thousand and that, as I say in books, is sugar
with a capital less hitted by a lot of coffee. Anyway,
we figure we're getting it the wrong way. Clip bamboozled. Oh,
why don't you go to the police.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
With what troubles? That's not the answer.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Have you tried to find a you kidding? We ran
ourselves into a lather trying to catch the angle. No dice, Dan,
somebody in this town's plenty smart, smart enough to know
our boys, and that brings me in. That's right, you're
a stranger. They won't take a second look at you.
I caught you red in the Star Times and played
the bet. Here you are, there's nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
How much do you want?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, believe it or not? Bert, I do this for nothing. Yeah,
I hate you say that before, but I don't get
your dodge my what your gimmage? Dodge?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Racket? Angle?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh well, I figure if the plot's good enough, I
can use it in the story.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, but no dough.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I'll tell you what, Bert, If I figure this, will
you turn over what you'd give me to any charity
I name here.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Here's a blank check filling the amount. I'll sign it.
But try to catch the capers that are putting the
shallac on us.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
There's nothing to start on. I've got a job. They're smart,
plenty smart. What they win is over and beyond the
run of luck or chance, any ideas? Yeah, one, no,
what's that? They got a guy with a crystal ball
that the best you're gonna do. Come out in the
wire room with me. See if we can catch anything
up front.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Uh huh, this way, and we're getting ready now for
the third race today.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We've got a radio back here broadcasting direct from the track,
comes off the local station. Oh and where are the bets?
Places right here or by phone? And I see, and
you take bets up until the time the horses at
the post. And that's right. Once the race starts, no
more bets. Listen to the race. Now he's in place,
We're ready, and they're all I have, Billy, how's it going?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Somebody called up and got a century on party.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Line the twenty one shot, and that's right. Oh, Billy,
this is a friend of mine, Dan Holliday. Hello, Billy,
party line wins bird.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
It's the fourth long shot this week.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's lay off. Yeah, yeah, I know each one was
bet on? Is that it? But heavy? I still there's
one of them guys that's doing it by telepathy. Listen,
I have the help that's mine own by Applelover Candle
Ever Rocket is third and falling. Back with old Joe
as party line still swings wide and moves up on
the outside, coming in with the turn. Now with mine
owned by a head over candilever and moving up fast
on the outside his party line.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
And third, there he comes.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Who made that bet on party line? Mike the okay,
get me to the name of the guy who made
the bet. Sure, listen to that party line. It's mine
own half over party line, and it's a driving finish
with mine own and fun buy an O party line,
getting up the woman moving up, I am across the
finish his party line by a head over my own.
Oh twenty to one? Uh huh a one hundred dollars
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twenty don't one? Don't say it, don't say it. Come on,
let's go back to my office. Oh damn, I don't
get it. How can they pick long shots like that?
Is it only long shots? Oh no, not always. Sometimes
it's the favorite, but it's always a winner. And I
say no, guy can pick a winner every race, especially
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every long shot.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Come in, want to know who placed that one hundred
on partty line?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Bird? Yeah, here's the tab. Oh hurry again, she's awful,
lucky too lucky? Who is it name's Vorn Terry Vaughn, singer.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
At one of the clubs here.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
She's done this before her, Yeah, she's done it before,
twenty grand to day five last week. Why doesn't she
retire and leave here if she can? Look, Dan, we've
got this betting narrowed down to about twenty people. Twenty Yeah,
the most consistent winners. They never lose a ring, is
that it? That's right?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But not one of them is ever at the track.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You mean they just don't go that's right. Never. I
don't get it, neither do we or Billy. Yeah. This
call from Terry Vaughan came in just before the horses
with the post, huh.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Sure we take bets up to the break.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What are you thinking about? Dan? I was just wondering
if there was any way of getting advanced information on
a race. Kidding, not a chance. This is a business
with us legitimate on the level. We know every angle
and dodge. There's no way anyone could know before the
race that a long shot like party Line was going
to nose a cross fished. You've got yourself a problem,
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all right about taking a slice of it, Dan? What
I said about that blank check still goes okay, you've
got yourself a boy good. I don't know where I'll start,
but as they say in books, everything has a beginning,
So why not start with Terry Vaughan waiter? Yes, sir,
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I wonder if you deliver this note for me?
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Certainly, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Where to miss Terry Vaughan.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
I'll see about it, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well this make you see any better? Yes, sir?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh, and tell miss Vaughan I'm a journalist, newspaper man. Yes,
I guess that's it. You see, I'd like an interview.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I'll see what i can do, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'll do my very bed waited. I didn't know what
Miss Terry Vaughan could tell me or wouldn't tell. There
was a chance she didn't know me, so she wouldn't
be suspicious. It was ten minutes later that the waiter
came back to my table.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Missus Vaughan will see you, mister Holliday.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh how did you know my name?
Speaker 7 (08:16):
It was on the card you sent with a note?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Simple, isn't it, Doctor Watson. I beg your pardon? Oh
never mind, Now where's miss Vaughan.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Oh, she'll be here in a moment.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
No, okay, I'll wait.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Yes, sir, you're glad to have been of service.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I waited, and I'll admit the waipers worthwhile Miss Terry
Vaughan glided across the floor of my table and smiled
five thousand dollars worth of tea, tossed a million dollars
in red hair over her shoulder, and put ten million
dollars of the rest of her in the chair across
from me.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You're mister Holliwood, you're Miss vonn.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Your note said you wanted to interview me.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's why. Well, I'm flat. I imagine that's a fairly
common situation with you.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
For you, with mister Holliday.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I have a connection with the Star Times.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Oh you're a big city boy.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I didn't know what showed.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Why do you want to interview me?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Lots of reasons, Miss song name one. Well, I've heard
you were very lucky today.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Lucky?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
How or do you win twenty thousand every day?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
What does this have to do with an interview?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well, it's human interest stuff, Miss farm very human and
very interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I see. But why pick on.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
My lucky streak?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Because well, because it was so lucky.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh, I've always been lucky.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I understand that. Oh, how did you happen to pick
a party line today?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I like long shot always when I feel lucky?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Do you ever lose sometimes? Why?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Oh, I'm just asking, mister Holliday. This is a peculiar interview.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Why I don't think so? Just pleasant?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
What paper did you say you were with?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
The Star Times?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
And what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Vacation?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
When is it.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Over a couple of weeks?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I see, Well, mister Holiday, as far as I'm concerned,
it's over. Now, have a nice time.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh wait, I'm I'm sorry, Please stay here? Why I
feel that I owe you an apology for what? For
being so curious?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
All right, we'll forget it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Let's do let's forget all about twenty thousand dollars long
shots and lucky.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Streaks and what shall we substitute Terry Vaughn?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Do you mind?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Hm? I don't mind if I do. Mister Holiday.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well, it was a pleasant way to spend an evening.
But when it was over, I was just as smart
as at the beginning, which was zero. Maybe Terry Vaughn
was lucky, and how lucky can you be? The next
day I met Bert Hendrix, and he had more trouble well,
somebody did it again today, Dan, Not quite as big
as Terry's play yesterday, but enough enough. One of the
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same twenty people. You've tapped one of the twenty. If
it weren't for the fact that it's those same twenty
people all the time, it could be just luck. Could
be you saw Terry last night. Yeah, oh yeah, I
saw Terry and a very lovely girl. I wish I
had her money it's mine. That's funny. Oh, I'm sorry, Bert,
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I don't have to ask if you watched those twenty people. Oh,
sure we have. They don't talk to anyone connected with
the track as far as I know, though, you don't
even know anyone there. There's got to be a gimmick.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, that's what I keep telling myself on the head.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Look, Bert, let's try to figure it out logically. You
say every one of those bets is placed just before
the race is run. That's right, and each of those
twenty people takes a winner. Yeah, not only with me,
but with all the other agents who have the same
set up I've got. And how could they get advanced information?
They can't. They've got to Bert, Dan, We've been all
over that. Yeah, maybe there's an angle you've overlooked? K
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name it and I'll by it. Is there? Is there
any particular race or races they always bet? M What
races do you lose the most heavily on? Wait a minute?
That is an angle? You think of something? Maybe? Wait
a second, I'm going to check. I think I'm Robert,
but I'll make sure. Hello, Hello, Billy, this is big?
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What race is being run? Now?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Time for the six?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Do you have any big bets? Were there any of
the twenty on this one? Which ones? Did they hit?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Third?
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Fourth?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Fifth? That's all? Yeah? Why nothing? See you later? Well, third,
fourth and fifth, that's what I thought. Never the first, second,
or the sixth, seventh or eighth. Always the third, fourth
or fifth. That's right. But where's the gimmick? I don't know,
But hand me the phone here? Thanks? Oh what's the
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phone number of the club where Terry Vaughan works? No,
I don't know what's in the directory. But why what's
that going to do with this? But I don't know yet,
But I'm going to ask the lovely Terry Vaughan if
she'll go out with me tomorrow afternoon afternoon? What are
you getting at your money? I hope hand me the directory.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And now back to Much Too Lucky, another Box thirteen
adventure with Alan Ladd.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
As Dan Holliday. Well, I had an idea, not a
big one and not one that made sense yet, but
I was going to play it. So the next afternoon
I met Miss Terry Vaughan for lunch. I arranged the
time so we'd be together just about the same time
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the horses went to the post for the third race.
We sat. I'm a little cafet.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I was really surprised that you call me Dan.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh why Terry? Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I don't know. Maybe because you seem more interested in
my luck than in me.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
The two go together, I suppose.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
So do you ever play the races? No?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I never have, But there's always the first time.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's what they all say.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Why do you ask? Got something good? As they say
in the vernacular, Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I never get tips?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Ah, but you win occasionally. What's your secret?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
What makes you think it's a secret?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
That was just a figure of speech. Let's talk about
something else.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh? Two twenty hy thinking of leaving me so soon?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
No, but I have something to do around three important
to me?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yes, I see, Well, shall we take a walk yes,
I'd like to. Okay, that's it. So we walked. Perry
was very charming. I was beginning to wonder about my hunch.
Maybe it was luck after all. Then a few minutes after.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Three, Dan, will you excuse me for a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh, you're important. Three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
That's it. I have to make a phone call. Call
me away, Yes, if you want to, Oh, I do,
I'll make it from this drug store.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
All right, I'll wait right here.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I won't be more than a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
She went into the drug store and start to a
phone booth. I slipped inside, went to a counter. The
clerk came up to me.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
May I help you, sir?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh, yes, yes, let me see a pair of those binoculars, will.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
You these they're not very good. I except for children,
just toys.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Uh, I like to play with toys. Now I see
a pair.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Certainly, here you are.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
If you point them outside, you'll get a better idea
of what they'll do.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh, getting a good idea right here.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Excuse me, I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Uh huh. I watched Miss Terry Vaughan and that phone booth.
The binoculars weren't very good, but I saw the numbers
she dialed and remembered them. She spoke for a few seconds,
hung up, drop another car and dialed it up a number.
I got that one too. Then the clerk came back.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
They work all right.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh they're marvelous, just marvelous. How much elie? Here you are?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Shall I wrap them?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Got any kids?
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I mean why?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Yes, Well here's a present for them, but you just
bought them.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, you see, I like your kids.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
You take these, But but sir, I can't take these,
can I?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I walked back outside and got to the pavement before
Terry Vaughan finished her second phone call. I was standing
there when she came out. All set, make a call?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
All right, yes, now, how'd you like to see the town?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'd love it. Come on, let's go. We spent a
pleasant afternoon, but my mind wasn't on my work. I
was trying to keep those phone numbers straight in my head.
Then Terry had to go to the club's rehearsal. As
soon as she left me, I headed for a phone
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booth and dialed the first number she'd called. Hello, Hello, Bell.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
What number do you want?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Is Bill? There?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Uh, there's no Bill here.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I'm sorry, you're sure, there's no bell there.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Oh uh, you got a wrong number, bud.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
On those but wrong number? Huh maybe maybe not. I
dialed the second number she'd called. Hello, Hello, who's this Hendrix?
Who's that Hendrix? This is Holiday Hollow. What's up? Listen
to Tarry Vaughan places about this afternoon? Yeah? On the
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fourth did she win? She had fifty on the winner's nose. Look,
she was with me when she made the bet.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
You had a maker?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
No, she was in a phone booth. Was that? The
only bet she made was enough? How many winners did
you have in that race? Six of the other twenty
people had the winner? How about the other races? Fade,
fourth and fifth? All winners among the twenty people? Uh? Huh.
You got the gimmick. Eh, maybe, but I've got to
prove it. Listen, just sit tid bird, don't open your mouth,
don't let out a pap and above all, don't try
to see me. Damn if you know anything, I don't
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know whether I know anything or not, but I'll find
out tomorrow at the track. Later that evening, I made
a purchase, a very important one. Then I called Terry
Vaughan and asked you to go to the track with
me the next day. It took a little persuasion, but
she finally said yes. So the next afternoon, with my
purchase in the pocket of my top coade, Miss Vaughan
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and I went to the track and up in the stands.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Do you know, Dan, this is the first time I've
been here this season.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I thought you liked racing.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Oh I do, But well, being at the track makes
me nervous.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Nervous?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Why, oh, no reason at all.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Which horse do you like in this race?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh? I'm not going to bet. Oh now with your luck,
I don't want to force it.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I see, well, I don't blame you.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Why don't you go ahead and bed for me?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
All right? You pick a horse for me?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I think my luck will rub off on you.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It could be go ahead, pick one.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Well, let's see. How does this one sound? Bright Angel?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Bright Angel? It is in the third.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
It's almost post time. Huh it's a good seat, Yes
they are.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I reached through my pocket and took out the important
purchase I had made the previous evening and started to
unwrap it.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
What's that guy?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh, I just bought this affordable radio. I wonder if
I can hear the race on her.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Don't turn that on? But why not put down that radio?
Mister Holiday?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Put it down?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Why don't you want me to turn it on?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
You're just a little too smart, mister Holiday. This is
a gun in my purse. You're getting out of here.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Go on, ik radios. Do you carry guns? You're well equipped?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Go on, lead the way.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Okay. She was as cool as an artic winter, and
she handled the gun nicely, kept it in the small
of my back under her handbag. Somehow I knew she'd
(20:05):
use it if she had to. We got to her car,
and a half hour later she marched me into a
room where a man sat wearing a pair of headphones.
He looked up as we came in.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
H hello, Terry, who's this.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
A smart boy? Tim? I'm leaving him with you?
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Smart boy?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Mm hmmm. He's wise. How he got that way, I
don't know. But after the fifth race clean up, we're
leaving town.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Oh it's about time. We couldn't run this racket forever.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You know, mister Holliday, you're lucky you didn't come along sooner.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yes, I know, before you made your take.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
That's right. How did you figure it through?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
A two ninety five pair of binoculars. I saw the
numbers you dialed yesterday.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Oh, you should be with us.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Let's see that thing. There is a wire recorder. You
tap into the broadcast line that runs from the track
to the radio station. Without the station's knowledge. You record
the broadcast then played back into the broadcast line two
minutes after the regular airtime. You are smart, and those
two minutes give you enough time to place bets on
(21:09):
sure things. You already know the winners, but the bookmakers
don't correct. But you only pull this on the middle
three races of the card, so that late commers and
those who leave the track early won't catch wise by
listening to their radios.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Right again, the broadcast is delayed two minutes. The race
is already over before the bookmakers even think it started.
Sit down, mister Holiday, watch him tim, Yeah, okay, I'm
going to clean up a few odds and ends. Goodbye,
mister Holliday.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Oh we'll see each other again.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Oh I doubt that very much. Goodbye, and be very
happy that some of my luck did rub off on you.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Smart dame smart dame nose angles.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I can see that, and we.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Make a take here and then move on. Now, you
just sit still, Bubba. I got some work to do,
but I can still watch you.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I watched him too. The wire recorder was spinning. He
flipped a switch and I knew what happened. The third race.
The track was over, but the broadcast of it was
going over the air. Now two minutes later, then.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Eh ah, Now we sit tight for a while.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Say that wire recorder. I've never seen one before.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Huh, huh great, gadgets great. I make recordings of my
own voice all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh do you mean all you do is talking to
a little microphone and your voice is recorded right away?
M hm.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Hey, you you want to say something?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Hey, you're obliging?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Oh sure, anything to pass the time gets dull in here,
go on, say something and we'll play it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Back for you. Go on, Well, what'll I say? Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Anything? First thing comes to your mind?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Well, my name is Dan Holliday. I'm being held prisoner
at seven five eight Condos Street at the point of
a gun. Please.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Oh great, just great. Don't you wish someone on the
outside could really hear that?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, I guess I do. Now you mean that thing,
I'll play it right back. Huh. Sure.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
I just got to switch from the record to play back.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
That's all. He turned his back for a second and
flipped the switch. I flipped the switch too, and waited. Well,
my name is Dan Holliday. I'm being held prisoner at
seven five eight Condo Street at the point of a gun.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Please help see that tellor is do it?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well? Well? Well, what do you know about that? Isn't
science wonderful? Yeah? Sure is.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Too bad you had to come along and spoil this ranking, mister,
But I guess we made a big enough taken. Keep
your hands up, mister, I can shoot and answer the
phone at the.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Same time, Eh, Tim, What happened?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Happened? Nothing?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Why the guys get out.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Of there fast and take him with you. We'll take
care of him later. But get out of there.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Fast, Terry, Terry, something wrong, I don't know, Get up
and move out.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Go on. I did, but I did something else first.
We walk out of the place, a gun in my ribs.
I hope what I'd done would work. We walk up
the street at peace, and then.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
That's cops.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
All right, duck in here, go on in this hallway. Ah,
just keep quiet and let him go past. I guess
they won't find nobody there, will We.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
No, I guess not well what no, no.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Wait for a minute.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Then we go.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Hi and get in front of me and stay there.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Go on rop that gun? Who better drop it into
a lot of cops.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Okay, okay, don't shoot, damn damn Holiday.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You all right, sir Hendrix? Did you hear my broadcast? Yeah?
Your voice cut in right in the middle of the
regular broad.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
I don't get it. I don't get it. How the finders,
how the trailers.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Oh, look on your coattail, Tim, you didn't know it.
When we left that room, I hooked the end of
the wire from the recorder on your coat. You see, Tim,
you were wired for sound.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Gee, that's sure was a clever idea they had, mister Holliday.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
And you were clever too. That wire left the trail
right to you and that man he.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Was wired for sound, Susie. Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
And I'll get you got a racy store? Are you
out of it?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Now, don't you get it, mister Holliday. I made a joke,
racy story.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Get it?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah? Yeah, I got it. Good night, Sissy. Next week,
same time.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Alan Ladd stars as
Dan Holliday and Box thirteen. Box thirteen is directed by
Richard Sandville. This week's original story by Robert m Light
and mister Sandville. Original music is composed and conducted by
Rudy Schraker. Part of Susie is played by Sylvia Picker,
and production is supervised by Berne Carstenson.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Box thirteen is a.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Mayfair production from Hollywood Watch for Alan Ladd and his
latest Paramount picture.
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