October 25, 2024 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Sam Sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Nothing that was my teeth scattering?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh did you where I was? Effie?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I've been swimming and you stand there.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh San, you caught it kill.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That's through if I caught a real Russian chill. And
I'm keeping San Francisco Bay as well heated as they.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Might today day and you were swimming where else?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh Sam, you've been drinking only Brian Angel and what
help Deuce? I could Steven shout you all? It was
a taxing experience. If my lesser man couldn't have come
through it. Lay out some dry clothes for me, make
me a hot guard. Get out your pencil, it writes underwater,
and prepare to take down a narrative of international and
Reagan espionage, which we will call let's see the two
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five one, two three five six seventy nine Caper or
the Russian's number is up. NBC invite you to listen
to the greatest private detective.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Of them all, as William Spear.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Radio's outstanding producer director of History and Crime Drama brings.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You the Adventures of Bam baid F. I was just
calling a janitor to see if he could turn on
some more heat. Oh, you got to very well. Well,
I had a dry martini. I'm a way over. Doctor
EAMs called you a few hours ago, Doctor oscar A.
That was nice.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
He was worried about you.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Wonder out you've been found.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
He said you can run a ferry boat.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
And he just supping to have a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And when he came down, yes, surphe, yes, well can't
keep the FB I waiting the eighth beyond?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Who else? You don't think I was playing around with
kids on this caper. No, no, I need to.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'll take a down there. And this one your uncle
Sam was working for his uncle Sam. They fill it
in too, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
DC, care of j Edgar. Oh know that'd be too much.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well why not from Samuel Speed license number one three seven,
five nine six, subject Baris Kargomensky. How do you sell
that to Kargamenski k A r I bark Oh I should.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Have known, b Oris. Dear sir, last night, I let
my secretary.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Off at five thirty so that she could go and
do some Christmas shopping, although I told her repeatedly that
all I want this year is money. The fog was
rolling in off the bay and it was bitter cold
as they came out onto the street, pulling my overcoat
collar up around my ears. Seemed like the night for spaghetti,
A wonderful spaghetti dinner in some pleasant Italian hospitality down
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at Mama Pizza's restaurant on the m Baccadero. I was
at the Ferry Building, so that's where I went. But
Mama Pizza had more than hospitality on her mind. When
she met me at the door, he.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Who, I'm so glad to find you. I would just
calling you out.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
What's the trouble, Mama? Someone been stealing rouvy Only it's.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
My cousin Tony. They tried to kill you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Oh what happened? Mama?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Come on, you eat with us table Tony tell you
he's gonna see this so good, but he can talk?
Or are you gonna see you?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
She led me to the back of the restaurant, to
the table where the family generally said. Her daughters Angelina
and Patty were there with place of food in front
of him.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
But they weren't eating any.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
They were staring in awe at the man who sat
next to him. He was small to start with, but
he was even smaller, unched down in his chair, miserably staring,
unseeing into a glass of wine.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
On the table in front of him was a battered
old concertina. The top of his head was swathed in
a clean new bandage.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Git down, this is about Tony good defend mister.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Hello, Tony, Hello, go on to you tell the TM.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
What's happened on you? Damn you got to be done
at the same time. Don't forget tonight you're going to
be monkey.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, I don't care, mamma. What's that on the on
your plate? Angelina? You're gonna eat that?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I pass it over? Waste, not want. That's what I
always say. What happened on you? Tony?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, I'm on the boat to see?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah? What boat?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
The ferry boat? Oh, cur the ferry boat. Don't you
never hear my music on the boat?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Ah? You play the concertina on the ferry ride?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Sure? Tonight on the six o'clock a boat, Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Boy, tonight on the six o'clock boat.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
What I'm a play in the side the first by
the sign? Would you play? And everybody say, oh boy,
it's gonna use gold? You played good? You play some
more at ten cents a year, five saying two quarters even.
Then I go up the stairs. Oh boy, oh, Then
I go out kind of death. It's a very mist
Before get back, I can say nothing. Now I'm very happy.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I feel it like I play some more.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
So I'm gonna walk away back kind of open and
down to the deck. Can I make a move. And
then all of a sudden, I hear somebody some say
something to me. I can't see nobody, No, I hear him.
What do you think he said to me?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
What cross peridolls as in barn rospid all. Well, so
I'm gonna set back to him cross for all. I
still can see nobody. Then I hear him say, is
that you play bories? So I get him mad that
for now and I play bodies. Pay payachi for my
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donna play boris. That's a fall and stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I see.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Then I'm sorry I said that because of this a fellow.
He sounds like he's a fall.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So I'm a juicy going to say, look at mister,
oh boy, what tony?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
What my tony. I'll get a head on the kick
on the head to smash if a countin I fall
down I'm a breathing I got for my concertina my
head that got a bigger hole on the top. I
let on a bigger yether then on a black house.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh boy, people come.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Running around and go to the lock. There's a doctor
on the board. That carried me down the stairs and
he fixed me off.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Otherwise I'm a die for sure. Well what did it
feel like? What did he hits you with?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Swell? The feel like a baseball of bets? My the doctor?
Oh look, here's the doctor now just to come in. Hey, doc.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
The doctor looked in our direction when Tony called.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And strowed over to the table, A big six foot
three blond guy and the Joel McCrae Gary Cooper tradition. Yeah,
I hadn't like him out of way, no bedside man,
out of his doctor, although he could have had as much.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Of it as he liked. He was all business and
no shitting.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But I told you to go to bed and say that, well, doc,
I us money have a concussion, Tony.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I'll be back here in and now, and then we'll
take the next rap. My name is Sam Spade, doctor,
I'm a front of the family. Oh amys grain, how yeah,
can I get to them. No, thanks, mamas. Male is wonderful,
but I haven't time. Oh, I'll have a cup of coffee.
Maybe you run fun today? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Go on, now, Tony, go lie down. I'll be back
and we'll check you over. That's somewhere, that's in the meantime,
all right, all.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Right from doctor Hens, I don't know X rays the
whole thing. I don't know how I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Never mind that. That's why we charge our nob hilitations
the lexta, so we're able to do something like this
once in a while. This will be on me, Tony.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
He'll go to the kind of man and doctor all right,
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You will go on and let on, Tony, you're embarrassing
that doctor. All right, scory thing, this one, isn't it? Doctor? Sure? Thanks? Yeah?
Sure is Homo title maniac looks like missus Spade. Spade
SAMs are usually take to. Yeah, that's right. Well I
know about you.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You did something for a Collie to mine Murphy after
Raoul Murphy.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
My yeah, I did a job a last summer. Yeah.
He gave you a great standoff. He said, what is
all this to night? Down here?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
De check tease police police, How do you mean? Well,
I think of the police, five or six plain clothes guys.
They were waiting here on this side when the ferry
pulled into slip.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
They're still not holding the boat. I just left him,
and what were they doing? Talked to all the passengers
as it came off, asked us for identification. Hey, what
do you think about Tony's little experience got knocked down
my head? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
They were mighty interested, naturally, especially when I told him
how I thought the wound had been inflicted, which was
done but gun by ehh, I'd say, so always know
as I saw now for those in the war, the
Russians used to club prisoners over the head that way
to stay the ammunition, and then pulling the guys into
the river.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Oh, hey, I've got to go, I said, really right again?
What the fell? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I got patient over in Oakland. I had to come
back over here to pick up some serum. Phoned my
nurse and she met me just out here. Well, thanks
to Senior sam Ortel what's his name, Tony?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Wait a minute, doctor, I've got nothing to do. All right?
Over with you? A little lair won't do this dinner
any harm. We crossed the streets, went into the ferry building.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Everything was normal enough for the main waiting room when
I stopped to buy a cigarette and a pocket flash line.
But outside on the dock, where the open boat was
waiting to take off, there were a number of extra
characters whom you wouldn't think would have chosen a dismal
chili night like this for waterfront lounging. There wasn't anybody
I knew, And in any gathering of plain clothesmen local variety,
I generally spot one.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Or two familiar faces.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Doctor Rains and I got a board, followed by three
of these gentlemen. The broad us one who was built
for endurance, exchanged pleasant graze with.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Us as the boat moved out into the water. How
about doctor Rams, I say, you didn't miss the boat
like they'll.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Say, No, Oh, you're one of the fellas. I talked
to you before and we landed.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I don't think I got your name Connelly, ConA, This
is missus Staden.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, would that be Lieutenant Connelly or Sonzant? Maybe do's Connelly?
Now a special title. I's a little fellow.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Doing doctor Hello, che Tony, he's undercare he talk anymore,
say anything interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I didn't talk to him to stay here? Did Oh? Really? Really?
What do you have to say? Well, you see, I'm
an old friend of his family.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What he told me was in confidence, and I really
have to know a little more about who I'm telling.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
His secret too. I say, spage your name was Will
is nice to meet you, and God go. Spageen means
nothing to you. Uh, it might go. Spagean sounds like
another word. Somebody might think. He said coustable. That's very funny. Hey,
he's gonna stay out here on deck. You haven't made
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up my mind? Is that? Okay? I'll go inside. I
have a little cove at the snack bar. It's comfortable.
Rights over. Before you know it, I hear it's foggy,
wet and miserable. Well I'm going in. I'll say you
let in. Goodbody going.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Well, maybe he's right, although I must say he's not
paperite man in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And mister Farnley, it is strictly an ammonia weather out
here on deck. So going not just yet? For me here,
I think I'll stretch my legs a little. Doc. Tell
me there was it that Tony got caught on the
upper deck. I know, but which side? Uh he was
turned around now, Saber, that's about likely about lower ten.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, uh, don't point doc our friend Connolly and as
the boys or I'm our way out to sea at it.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
No, they went back in.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Do you think they're mysterious as they think?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Oh? Definitely that you know what made him turn back?
Just now decide it wasn't necessary to check whether we
were still here? No? What they can't make us out
out here?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's two docs, but they can see two lighted cigarettes
sans face detective.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Mm hmm. Look, even in the face of pneumonia. You
want to get up there and look around for Tony Way,
don't you I do. I'll hand me your cigarette and
I'll smoke them both the yard apart, and we'll both
be here. Steph you ast Ams MD, masterful thing. Doc,
go ahead, I'll be here.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So I trive this loop theirs for the upper deck.
The fog was as wet as rain. I couldn't see
any more than inches ahead of me with my flashlight.
Finally I stopped about amidshift and looked down over the
rail Aims and his two cigarettes, tiny red dots of
light that grew brighter every now and then as he
cuffed at him. Were almost directly beneath me, so I
knew I would just about write. A sudden noise that
on my head made me shoot my light up toward
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that came from a piece of canvas that had suddenly
ripped loose, the canvas that covered the top of a
life boat. I got up there somehow and perched for carriers,
lay holding out of two seal supports that went on
the piece of canvas had been ripped open with a knife,
a whole large.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Enough for a man's body to get through.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And that's what was in there, spoiled in the bottom
of the life boat, a man's body.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
He'd been stabbed in the neck.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
This was the man who had plugged honey, or so
it seemed, because the gun was still clenched in his
right hand barrel reverse. There was nothing in his pockets,
just a handkerchief from two dollars and changed. But my
flash caught a suck or something white one of his shoes.
It was a bit of paper with two type written
line side. I left myself down to the deck, rubbed
the circulation back into my arm where I've been holding
on and preprayed to read the note.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And that's when my flashlight went dead. I built about,
cursing him for not checking their battery.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Until I found a faint, ghostly glimmer of light over head,
out over the edge of.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The ship, on the outside of the rail.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I climbed over, studied myself against lurching, and with a
couple of matches it said international postcard shot very sweet
SF reading card for poors. I put a bit of
paper in my pocket and turned to climb back over
the rail, and then something came.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Out made from the flash.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It caught me full in the center of the forehead,
and my stagers came.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Again like I would go on the top of my
head and made it burn.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
The sudden fire, tiny points of light glided in the
black same rushing toward me and grew larger, and I
felt clashing over the side.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Way. Tell you a lot about what you remember when
you're going down for the third fine. You know what
I remember.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I remember that Gustav Yeen is Russian for Comrade Sam's
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nine Caper, The Night's Adventure with Sam's fade. I found
myself mechanically keeping a close somehow and trying to get
out of my overcoat.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
My eyes burned, I.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Felt heavy and live, as if I swallowed gallons of water.
My head began to clear a little, but with returning
consciousness came increased pain.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Pretty bad too. From out of the misty blanket, from.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Every direction, and a dozan different keys.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
From near, and five foghorn founded.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I knew that by now the current has swept me
out of the path of the Oakland Ferries. The water
was chilling, and I turned over and began swimming. It's
just hard enough to keep the blood circulating.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
The life of a boot came into sight suddenly, and
I flew back my head and yelled. But the horn,
crying its warnings, drown me out. And the mode went on,
and the fog closed in behind me, and then I
found myself full of a strange and wonderful weariness. The
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water wasn't cold anymore. I was warm, with a comfortable,
soothing numbness, and I knew what to do. I'd swim
until I didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Hear the noise of the horns anymore, and then, in
the quiet of the friendly fog, go to sleep. So
I began to doze, and then some lights came into
my eyes, and I wanted to stay in the dark,
and I turned my face down into the embrace of
the water. And then I wasn't where you'd expect at all.
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I was lying on a baggage truck that was moving.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
People were clotting along.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Walking beside the buck staring at me, a guy in
uniform wheeling. They noticed I had my eyes open.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Wow, Hello, how welcome back to the unitedsh s? Face?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Hello? What part of the United States?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Just landing in Totledo?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
They still, we'll take you over in a hot sauce Soledo.
How long before this bolt getsy like of San Francisco?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Try the way I'm going.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
You aint in no condition, thanks, I'll be okay. Half
an hour later, shivering and shaking in my wet clothes,
keeping my mouth clamped heights or my teeth wouldn't sound
like a dice game, I climbed into a taxi at the.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Ferry Building and went to my apartment. There I swallowed
half a pine or whiskey and.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Rubbed myself with a coarse towel until my skin was sore.
Then I looked in the pocket of the saggy suit
i'd hung up to dry.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Was still there a piece of paper from the dead man's.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Shoe, damp but legible International postcard.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Shop Geary Street. That's a reading card.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But bors I got up to put on a dry
suit and then changed my mind. Put the wet one
back on.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Good evening. Are you the proprietor here.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
This was like that six years at the same location.
Oh you were, my goodness, is it raining out?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You really got a dousing?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I did a nice collection of post currents from all right,
South America, every place.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yes, yes, I tried myself on having the most complete
possible selection.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Was there something you had especially in.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, there was.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I'm looking for a greeting current for Boris. What's the matter,
didn't Jeremy?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Didn't you understand?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Well, well, what's a leader that I didn't exactly expect
somebody like you?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
What did you expect?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Somebody slinking around in a pulse mustache, wearing dark glasses
and an inverness cape.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You know, you know, with your type of thinking, you
may not be the right man for this job.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Guspageing, No, no, wait, please, mister boff I thought you were.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Dead, you brown?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah? Who told you about you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well I didn't drown. I jumped in the water when
I heard him coming. And you can see all what
I still ask?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yes, yes, of course, So you escaped easily enough.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Talk handed over a greeting card for Boris.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Very well, see that's San Francisco's course.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
He turned and reached down onto the counter, and I
slipped my hand under my armpit and held my thirty
eight ready in case he came up with something similar.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
But all he brought forth was a box marked special,
and this she expected something and handed it swimming. I
took it with a knowing expression on my face, but
I didn't know if on nothing as to what it meant.
All it was was an ordinary postcard, that's.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
All, a picture postcard showing the Golden gate Bridge.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Underneath it the caption Wondrous Cities of the World, number
twenty five, one, two, three, five, six, seventy nine, San Francisco,
nothing else.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I was afraid my mouth was open. What's the matter matter?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Don't you know how to read the name? It's so
difficult to cook?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Idiot, certainly, I know how.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I was just admiring no work, That's all it is,
extended me.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Look, you'd better go now you've been here a noticely
long time.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Well, no, of course we don't. I'll go mad.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
That's making so it would be overly cost.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
There is no such thing as overcush Thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You were so well.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
You seem like an annificant.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
So do you? My bo I strode out out.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Of the street, touching my postcard, but I shoved it
inside my sleeve a moment later, because who I saw
was standing under the mystic glimmer of a street light
waiting for me was my heavy set, mysterious friend from
the ferry boat, Connolly. I turned my head around and
glanced down the other end of a block behind me.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Two other guys were there, sure, and they advance slowly
toward me with their hands raised, palms.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Out and if they were showing me they weren't carrying guns.
I reached my hand inside for mine all the same,
but I.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Never got to use it because Connolly rushed me from
the other side.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I caught him on the chan and he.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Went down, clattering into an ash can.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The other two boys grabbed me and held my arms
behind me. Connolly got up, rubbing his face, and.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I waited to get murdered, but no, all right, jealous,
bring it along, and so they did.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
We didn't go far though, Just around the corner there
were a little Hamburger place. I had a sign on
the door staying closed, although there were lights inside. Finally
knocked on the door and a fellow with an apron
came and opened it and locked it after us finally
gave monod and we sat down at a table while
he brought us coffee. Stay, we've checked on you. You
seem to be okay. You sent in good with a
department friend. What department would that be?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Friend? This department? Hum, that's the I oh who? Maybe
you can help any how. We don't want you going
around making a noise and messing it up for us.
So here it is. I'm all ears.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Did you ever hear of a man called Boris Kagaminsky?
Now not many people have, even in Russia. Boris Kagaminski
is the top Soviet agent in America.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
He's the headman.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
He organizes and runs everything for them. Here I see
now he came to this country seven years ago and vanished.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
They've been trying to find him ever since. False passport.
Of course, that didn't help.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
There's nothing anywhere on Kagomensky, no pictures, not even in Russia,
no fingerprints, nothing, Every lead we had, dead end, and then.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
We got word last week. Go ahead, drink it off. Oh,
I'm too interested. We got word last week for another region.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
An unimportant little guy named of Lubov was on his
way to San Francisco and that he would definitely have
to contact the big Gun. Something could do with a
Chinese war business that only Kagaminsky's big enough to handle.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Well. Our man tailed Yu Bob all the way out here,
and then he lost him the Oakland ferry. That didn't
bother us very much. He called us and we were
waiting on this end.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But then pulls the ferry and no, Luba Lubov was
a dead man in the light boat.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Right. He must have been out there waiting to be content,
and then.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
He heard Tony and his concertina thought this might be it.
And then when he realized he made a mistake and
uncovered himself be conk Tony on the head right, and
his Soviet contact got scared of investigations on the boat
following Tony's hew and cry and stab Lubov.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So now way back where we started. Every passenger on
that ferry was okay. What thought you're looking at? Picture?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Postcring found a message on Lubov about the International postcard
shop and are greeting for.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Hey, Hey, you're greeting for Boris.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Boris Kargamensky say that I bulldoze that guy in the shop,
thought and he had it looks like nothing's just a picture.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
But he said he he said, I could read the name.
Give me it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Tell them gay these numbers wondrous Cities of the World
number two five, one, two three, five, six seven nine.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Hey, wait a minute, but they put out the guy's name.
Baris all right? The oh are a legal space?
Speaker 5 (23:22):
K hey r G A M E N s k y.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Now I put numbers. I'll wait a minute. The top
numbers nine.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, I put one, two, three, four five over bars
and then start again one two.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Three up the nine over Cargomenski. Uh uhh, yeah, yeah,
So all.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Right, I a postcard two five, one, two, three, five,
six seven nine. Okay, what's two two two is oh
five s O s now cargo Minsk one uh k
two three A R O s K A R. Well,
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I guess we know the rest of it. Five six
seventy nine A M E s correct correct Oscar ains,
doctor Oscar ains. But I was just thinking he was
worried about me catching pneumonia. I called Mama Pizza, and
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from what she said, we knew where to go. We
picked him up at the emergency hospital. He was just
finishing the operation on Tony's head. Well, he watched them
through the glass, and the other young doctor standing alongside
us said he was one of the greatest surgeons they'd
ever seen. When he unrolled his gloves and took off
his operating mask, he looked up and saw me alive
and the.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Other boys with me.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
His scalp tightened for just a second, and then he
smiled because when he reached into his bag that we
rushed him before he could get the little red bottle
to his lips.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Period end of report. Oh a size god.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yes, it was everything. A chase and being throwing the water,
the serious people, the codex.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
We'll let it. Kept your awake, Angel Sam. What is
it like not to want to be in America, not
to want to live the way we do in America?
I can't imagine. I can't.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Damn about doctoring.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, do you think that?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I mean the way you describe him all? Do you
think you made him sound too sympathetic?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Oh? I described him as he were, that's all.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
But well anybody thinks it there, Well you know he
was attractive.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well you missed the whole point, didn't you. Spies don't
go around wearing monocles and talking with heavy accents and acting.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Like spies, not the good ones.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It's the attractive, lovable, trustworthy strangers that are dangerous. Now,
if you've met doctor Anes on a party somewhere, you'd
be out with him in a nightclub right.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Now, cooling over a drink and giving him the plants
with a Brooklyn Navy yard. Sometimes I can't, Sam, I
don't even.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Know where Brooklyn is. Lucky for our side, you don't
hate me, do you say? Oh? How does that answer
your question? Oh? Good night, good night Sweeter.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited, and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
Loreen Tuttle is Effie. Script Fortnight's Adventure by William Spear,
Musical scoring by Lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrewster. Three
Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. There's no cover charge
at Duffy's Tavern.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Just keep your dial Tune to NBC later as Archie,
the Manager and his delightful friends cook up another mad
and merry session at that remarkable restaurant, duffy Savern.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
This Sunday, The Big Show comes.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Your way on NBC again an hour and a half
of the best in comedy, music and drama, with guests
Bob Hope, Martin and Lewis Roslind Russell, Frankie Lane and Unpredictable.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Tallula as MC go ahead tell him about the Thing.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh yes, Sam Stade and Effie asked me to remind
you about the Thing, The Thing for Kids for Christmas.
You know, the thing can be anything you think an
underprivileged child would like for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
In your town.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
There acidic groups who are cooperating.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
With this Thing for Kids campaigns. Send your new or
used toys to the collection centers in your town and
help make some child Christmas brighter. It'll make you happier too.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with them Fade enjoy the Magnificent Montague. Then it's Duffy
Tavern on NBC
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Boom
The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Sam Sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Nothing that was my teeth scattering?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh did you where I was? Effie?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I've been swimming and you stand there.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh San, you caught it kill.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That's through if I caught a real Russian chill. And
I'm keeping San Francisco Bay as well heated as they.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Might today day and you were swimming where else?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh Sam, you've been drinking only Brian Angel and what
help Deuce? I could Steven shout you all? It was
a taxing experience. If my lesser man couldn't have come
through it. Lay out some dry clothes for me, make
me a hot guard. Get out your pencil, it writes underwater,
and prepare to take down a narrative of international and
Reagan espionage, which we will call let's see the two
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five one, two three five six seventy nine Caper or
the Russian's number is up. NBC invite you to listen
to the greatest private detective.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Of them all, as William Spear.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Radio's outstanding producer director of History and Crime Drama brings.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You the Adventures of Bam baid F. I was just
calling a janitor to see if he could turn on
some more heat. Oh, you got to very well. Well,
I had a dry martini. I'm a way over. Doctor
EAMs called you a few hours ago, Doctor oscar A.
That was nice.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
He was worried about you.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Wonder out you've been found.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
He said you can run a ferry boat.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
And he just supping to have a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And when he came down, yes, surphe, yes, well can't
keep the FB I waiting the eighth beyond?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Who else? You don't think I was playing around with
kids on this caper. No, no, I need to.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'll take a down there. And this one your uncle
Sam was working for his uncle Sam. They fill it
in too, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
DC, care of j Edgar. Oh know that'd be too much.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well why not from Samuel Speed license number one three seven,
five nine six, subject Baris Kargomensky. How do you sell
that to Kargamenski k A r I bark Oh I should.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Have known, b Oris. Dear sir, last night, I let
my secretary.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Off at five thirty so that she could go and
do some Christmas shopping, although I told her repeatedly that
all I want this year is money. The fog was
rolling in off the bay and it was bitter cold
as they came out onto the street, pulling my overcoat
collar up around my ears. Seemed like the night for spaghetti,
A wonderful spaghetti dinner in some pleasant Italian hospitality down
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at Mama Pizza's restaurant on the m Baccadero. I was
at the Ferry Building, so that's where I went. But
Mama Pizza had more than hospitality on her mind. When
she met me at the door, he.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Who, I'm so glad to find you. I would just
calling you out.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
What's the trouble, Mama? Someone been stealing rouvy Only it's.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
My cousin Tony. They tried to kill you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Oh what happened? Mama?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Come on, you eat with us table Tony tell you
he's gonna see this so good, but he can talk?
Or are you gonna see you?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
She led me to the back of the restaurant, to
the table where the family generally said. Her daughters Angelina
and Patty were there with place of food in front
of him.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
But they weren't eating any.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
They were staring in awe at the man who sat
next to him. He was small to start with, but
he was even smaller, unched down in his chair, miserably staring,
unseeing into a glass of wine.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
On the table in front of him was a battered
old concertina. The top of his head was swathed in
a clean new bandage.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Git down, this is about Tony good defend mister.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Hello, Tony, Hello, go on to you tell the TM.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
What's happened on you? Damn you got to be done
at the same time. Don't forget tonight you're going to
be monkey.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, I don't care, mamma. What's that on the on
your plate? Angelina? You're gonna eat that?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I pass it over? Waste, not want. That's what I
always say. What happened on you? Tony?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, I'm on the boat to see?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah? What boat?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
The ferry boat? Oh, cur the ferry boat. Don't you
never hear my music on the boat?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Ah? You play the concertina on the ferry ride?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Sure? Tonight on the six o'clock a boat, Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Boy, tonight on the six o'clock boat.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
What I'm a play in the side the first by
the sign? Would you play? And everybody say, oh boy,
it's gonna use gold? You played good? You play some
more at ten cents a year, five saying two quarters even.
Then I go up the stairs. Oh boy, oh, Then
I go out kind of death. It's a very mist
Before get back, I can say nothing. Now I'm very happy.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I feel it like I play some more.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
So I'm gonna walk away back kind of open and
down to the deck. Can I make a move. And
then all of a sudden, I hear somebody some say
something to me. I can't see nobody, No, I hear him.
What do you think he said to me?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
What cross peridolls as in barn rospid all. Well, so
I'm gonna set back to him cross for all. I
still can see nobody. Then I hear him say, is
that you play bories? So I get him mad that
for now and I play bodies. Pay payachi for my
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donna play boris. That's a fall and stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I see.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Then I'm sorry I said that because of this a fellow.
He sounds like he's a fall.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So I'm a juicy going to say, look at mister,
oh boy, what tony?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
What my tony. I'll get a head on the kick
on the head to smash if a countin I fall
down I'm a breathing I got for my concertina my
head that got a bigger hole on the top. I
let on a bigger yether then on a black house.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh boy, people come.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Running around and go to the lock. There's a doctor
on the board. That carried me down the stairs and
he fixed me off.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Otherwise I'm a die for sure. Well what did it
feel like? What did he hits you with?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Swell? The feel like a baseball of bets? My the doctor?
Oh look, here's the doctor now just to come in. Hey, doc.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
The doctor looked in our direction when Tony called.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And strowed over to the table, A big six foot
three blond guy and the Joel McCrae Gary Cooper tradition. Yeah,
I hadn't like him out of way, no bedside man,
out of his doctor, although he could have had as much.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Of it as he liked. He was all business and
no shitting.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But I told you to go to bed and say that, well, doc,
I us money have a concussion, Tony.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I'll be back here in and now, and then we'll
take the next rap. My name is Sam Spade, doctor,
I'm a front of the family. Oh amys grain, how yeah,
can I get to them. No, thanks, mamas. Male is wonderful,
but I haven't time. Oh, I'll have a cup of coffee.
Maybe you run fun today? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Go on, now, Tony, go lie down. I'll be back
and we'll check you over. That's somewhere, that's in the meantime,
all right, all.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Right from doctor Hens, I don't know X rays the
whole thing. I don't know how I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Never mind that. That's why we charge our nob hilitations
the lexta, so we're able to do something like this
once in a while. This will be on me, Tony.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
He'll go to the kind of man and doctor all right,
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You will go on and let on, Tony, you're embarrassing
that doctor. All right, scory thing, this one, isn't it? Doctor? Sure? Thanks? Yeah?
Sure is Homo title maniac looks like missus Spade. Spade
SAMs are usually take to. Yeah, that's right. Well I
know about you.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You did something for a Collie to mine Murphy after
Raoul Murphy.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
My yeah, I did a job a last summer. Yeah.
He gave you a great standoff. He said, what is
all this to night? Down here?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
De check tease police police, How do you mean? Well,
I think of the police, five or six plain clothes guys.
They were waiting here on this side when the ferry
pulled into slip.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
They're still not holding the boat. I just left him,
and what were they doing? Talked to all the passengers
as it came off, asked us for identification. Hey, what
do you think about Tony's little experience got knocked down
my head? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
They were mighty interested, naturally, especially when I told him
how I thought the wound had been inflicted, which was
done but gun by ehh, I'd say, so always know
as I saw now for those in the war, the
Russians used to club prisoners over the head that way
to stay the ammunition, and then pulling the guys into
the river.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Oh, hey, I've got to go, I said, really right again?
What the fell? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I got patient over in Oakland. I had to come
back over here to pick up some serum. Phoned my
nurse and she met me just out here. Well, thanks
to Senior sam Ortel what's his name, Tony?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Wait a minute, doctor, I've got nothing to do. All right?
Over with you? A little lair won't do this dinner
any harm. We crossed the streets, went into the ferry building.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Everything was normal enough for the main waiting room when
I stopped to buy a cigarette and a pocket flash line.
But outside on the dock, where the open boat was
waiting to take off, there were a number of extra
characters whom you wouldn't think would have chosen a dismal
chili night like this for waterfront lounging. There wasn't anybody
I knew, And in any gathering of plain clothesmen local variety,
I generally spot one.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Or two familiar faces.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Doctor Rains and I got a board, followed by three
of these gentlemen. The broad us one who was built
for endurance, exchanged pleasant graze with.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Us as the boat moved out into the water. How
about doctor Rams, I say, you didn't miss the boat
like they'll.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Say, No, Oh, you're one of the fellas. I talked
to you before and we landed.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I don't think I got your name Connelly, ConA, This
is missus Staden.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, would that be Lieutenant Connelly or Sonzant? Maybe do's Connelly?
Now a special title. I's a little fellow.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Doing doctor Hello, che Tony, he's undercare he talk anymore,
say anything interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I didn't talk to him to stay here? Did Oh? Really? Really?
What do you have to say? Well, you see, I'm
an old friend of his family.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What he told me was in confidence, and I really
have to know a little more about who I'm telling.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
His secret too. I say, spage your name was Will
is nice to meet you, and God go. Spageen means
nothing to you. Uh, it might go. Spagean sounds like
another word. Somebody might think. He said coustable. That's very funny. Hey,
he's gonna stay out here on deck. You haven't made
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up my mind? Is that? Okay? I'll go inside. I
have a little cove at the snack bar. It's comfortable.
Rights over. Before you know it, I hear it's foggy,
wet and miserable. Well I'm going in. I'll say you
let in. Goodbody going.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Well, maybe he's right, although I must say he's not
paperite man in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And mister Farnley, it is strictly an ammonia weather out
here on deck. So going not just yet? For me here,
I think I'll stretch my legs a little. Doc. Tell
me there was it that Tony got caught on the
upper deck. I know, but which side? Uh he was
turned around now, Saber, that's about likely about lower ten.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, uh, don't point doc our friend Connolly and as
the boys or I'm our way out to sea at it.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
No, they went back in.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Do you think they're mysterious as they think?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Oh? Definitely that you know what made him turn back?
Just now decide it wasn't necessary to check whether we
were still here? No? What they can't make us out
out here?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's two docs, but they can see two lighted cigarettes
sans face detective.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Mm hmm. Look, even in the face of pneumonia. You
want to get up there and look around for Tony Way,
don't you I do. I'll hand me your cigarette and
I'll smoke them both the yard apart, and we'll both
be here. Steph you ast Ams MD, masterful thing. Doc,
go ahead, I'll be here.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So I trive this loop theirs for the upper deck.
The fog was as wet as rain. I couldn't see
any more than inches ahead of me with my flashlight.
Finally I stopped about amidshift and looked down over the
rail Aims and his two cigarettes, tiny red dots of
light that grew brighter every now and then as he
cuffed at him. Were almost directly beneath me, so I
knew I would just about write. A sudden noise that
on my head made me shoot my light up toward
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that came from a piece of canvas that had suddenly
ripped loose, the canvas that covered the top of a
life boat. I got up there somehow and perched for carriers,
lay holding out of two seal supports that went on
the piece of canvas had been ripped open with a knife,
a whole large.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Enough for a man's body to get through.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And that's what was in there, spoiled in the bottom
of the life boat, a man's body.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
He'd been stabbed in the neck.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
This was the man who had plugged honey, or so
it seemed, because the gun was still clenched in his
right hand barrel reverse. There was nothing in his pockets,
just a handkerchief from two dollars and changed. But my
flash caught a suck or something white one of his shoes.
It was a bit of paper with two type written
line side. I left myself down to the deck, rubbed
the circulation back into my arm where I've been holding
on and preprayed to read the note.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And that's when my flashlight went dead. I built about,
cursing him for not checking their battery.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Until I found a faint, ghostly glimmer of light over head,
out over the edge of.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The ship, on the outside of the rail.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I climbed over, studied myself against lurching, and with a
couple of matches it said international postcard shot very sweet
SF reading card for poors. I put a bit of
paper in my pocket and turned to climb back over
the rail, and then something came.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Out made from the flash.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It caught me full in the center of the forehead,
and my stagers came.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Again like I would go on the top of my
head and made it burn.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
The sudden fire, tiny points of light glided in the
black same rushing toward me and grew larger, and I
felt clashing over the side.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Way. Tell you a lot about what you remember when
you're going down for the third fine. You know what
I remember.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I remember that Gustav Yeen is Russian for Comrade Sam's
faith detective. You are listening to the weekly adventure of
radio's most famous detective, SAMs Fade. Imagine the greatest names
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in stage, screen and radio, people like Bob Hope, Roslind Russell,
Meredith Wilson, Frankie Lane, and many many others. Imagine an
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NBC has the program It's the Big Show, heard every
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Sunday night over most of these stations. All this and
Tallula too, no wonder It's the a Big Show, and
Sunday Evening also means Theater Guild on the air. This Sunday,
Theater Guild presents Boomerangs starring Kirk Douglass. And now back
to the two five one, two, three, five, six seven
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nine Caper, The Night's Adventure with Sam's fade. I found
myself mechanically keeping a close somehow and trying to get
out of my overcoat.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
My eyes burned, I.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Felt heavy and live, as if I swallowed gallons of water.
My head began to clear a little, but with returning
consciousness came increased pain.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Pretty bad too. From out of the misty blanket, from.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Every direction, and a dozan different keys.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
From near, and five foghorn founded.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I knew that by now the current has swept me
out of the path of the Oakland Ferries. The water
was chilling, and I turned over and began swimming. It's
just hard enough to keep the blood circulating.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
The life of a boot came into sight suddenly, and
I flew back my head and yelled. But the horn,
crying its warnings, drown me out. And the mode went on,
and the fog closed in behind me, and then I
found myself full of a strange and wonderful weariness. The
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water wasn't cold anymore. I was warm, with a comfortable,
soothing numbness, and I knew what to do. I'd swim
until I didn't.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Hear the noise of the horns anymore, and then, in
the quiet of the friendly fog, go to sleep. So
I began to doze, and then some lights came into
my eyes, and I wanted to stay in the dark,
and I turned my face down into the embrace of
the water. And then I wasn't where you'd expect at all.
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I was lying on a baggage truck that was moving.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
People were clotting along.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Walking beside the buck staring at me, a guy in
uniform wheeling. They noticed I had my eyes open.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Wow, Hello, how welcome back to the unitedsh s? Face?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Hello? What part of the United States?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Just landing in Totledo?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
They still, we'll take you over in a hot sauce Soledo.
How long before this bolt getsy like of San Francisco?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Try the way I'm going.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
You aint in no condition, thanks, I'll be okay. Half
an hour later, shivering and shaking in my wet clothes,
keeping my mouth clamped heights or my teeth wouldn't sound
like a dice game, I climbed into a taxi at the.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Ferry Building and went to my apartment. There I swallowed
half a pine or whiskey and.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Rubbed myself with a coarse towel until my skin was sore.
Then I looked in the pocket of the saggy suit
i'd hung up to dry.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Was still there a piece of paper from the dead man's.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Shoe, damp but legible International postcard.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Shop Geary Street. That's a reading card.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But bors I got up to put on a dry
suit and then changed my mind. Put the wet one
back on.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Good evening. Are you the proprietor here.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
This was like that six years at the same location.
Oh you were, my goodness, is it raining out?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You really got a dousing?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I did a nice collection of post currents from all right,
South America, every place.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yes, yes, I tried myself on having the most complete
possible selection.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Was there something you had especially in.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, there was.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I'm looking for a greeting current for Boris. What's the matter,
didn't Jeremy?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Didn't you understand?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Well, well, what's a leader that I didn't exactly expect
somebody like you?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
What did you expect?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Somebody slinking around in a pulse mustache, wearing dark glasses
and an inverness cape.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You know, you know, with your type of thinking, you
may not be the right man for this job.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Guspageing, No, no, wait, please, mister boff I thought you were.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Dead, you brown?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah? Who told you about you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well I didn't drown. I jumped in the water when
I heard him coming. And you can see all what
I still ask?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yes, yes, of course, So you escaped easily enough.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Talk handed over a greeting card for Boris.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Very well, see that's San Francisco's course.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
He turned and reached down onto the counter, and I
slipped my hand under my armpit and held my thirty
eight ready in case he came up with something similar.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
But all he brought forth was a box marked special,
and this she expected something and handed it swimming. I
took it with a knowing expression on my face, but
I didn't know if on nothing as to what it meant.
All it was was an ordinary postcard, that's.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
All, a picture postcard showing the Golden gate Bridge.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Underneath it the caption Wondrous Cities of the World, number
twenty five, one, two, three, five, six, seventy nine, San Francisco,
nothing else.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I was afraid my mouth was open. What's the matter matter?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Don't you know how to read the name? It's so
difficult to cook?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Idiot, certainly, I know how.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I was just admiring no work, That's all it is,
extended me.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Look, you'd better go now you've been here a noticely
long time.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Well, no, of course we don't. I'll go mad.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
That's making so it would be overly cost.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
There is no such thing as overcush Thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You were so well.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
You seem like an annificant.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
So do you? My bo I strode out out.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Of the street, touching my postcard, but I shoved it
inside my sleeve a moment later, because who I saw
was standing under the mystic glimmer of a street light
waiting for me was my heavy set, mysterious friend from
the ferry boat, Connolly. I turned my head around and
glanced down the other end of a block behind me.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Two other guys were there, sure, and they advance slowly
toward me with their hands raised, palms.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Out and if they were showing me they weren't carrying guns.
I reached my hand inside for mine all the same,
but I.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Never got to use it because Connolly rushed me from
the other side.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I caught him on the chan and he.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Went down, clattering into an ash can.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The other two boys grabbed me and held my arms
behind me. Connolly got up, rubbing his face, and.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I waited to get murdered, but no, all right, jealous,
bring it along, and so they did.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
We didn't go far though, Just around the corner there
were a little Hamburger place. I had a sign on
the door staying closed, although there were lights inside. Finally
knocked on the door and a fellow with an apron
came and opened it and locked it after us finally
gave monod and we sat down at a table while
he brought us coffee. Stay, we've checked on you. You
seem to be okay. You sent in good with a
department friend. What department would that be?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Friend? This department? Hum, that's the I oh who? Maybe
you can help any how. We don't want you going
around making a noise and messing it up for us.
So here it is. I'm all ears.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Did you ever hear of a man called Boris Kagaminsky?
Now not many people have, even in Russia. Boris Kagaminski
is the top Soviet agent in America.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
He's the headman.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
He organizes and runs everything for them. Here I see
now he came to this country seven years ago and vanished.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
They've been trying to find him ever since. False passport.
Of course, that didn't help.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
There's nothing anywhere on Kagomensky, no pictures, not even in Russia,
no fingerprints, nothing, Every lead we had, dead end, and then.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
We got word last week. Go ahead, drink it off. Oh,
I'm too interested. We got word last week for another region.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
An unimportant little guy named of Lubov was on his
way to San Francisco and that he would definitely have
to contact the big Gun. Something could do with a
Chinese war business that only Kagaminsky's big enough to handle.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Well. Our man tailed Yu Bob all the way out here,
and then he lost him the Oakland ferry. That didn't
bother us very much. He called us and we were
waiting on this end.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But then pulls the ferry and no, Luba Lubov was
a dead man in the light boat.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Right. He must have been out there waiting to be content,
and then.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
He heard Tony and his concertina thought this might be it.
And then when he realized he made a mistake and
uncovered himself be conk Tony on the head right, and
his Soviet contact got scared of investigations on the boat
following Tony's hew and cry and stab Lubov.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So now way back where we started. Every passenger on
that ferry was okay. What thought you're looking at? Picture?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Postcring found a message on Lubov about the International postcard
shop and are greeting for.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Hey, Hey, you're greeting for Boris.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Boris Kargamensky say that I bulldoze that guy in the shop,
thought and he had it looks like nothing's just a picture.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
But he said he he said, I could read the name.
Give me it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Tell them gay these numbers wondrous Cities of the World
number two five, one, two three, five, six seven nine.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Hey, wait a minute, but they put out the guy's name.
Baris all right? The oh are a legal space?
Speaker 5 (23:22):
K hey r G A M E N s k y.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Now I put numbers. I'll wait a minute. The top
numbers nine.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, I put one, two, three, four five over bars
and then start again one two.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Three up the nine over Cargomenski. Uh uhh, yeah, yeah,
So all.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Right, I a postcard two five, one, two, three, five,
six seven nine. Okay, what's two two two is oh
five s O s now cargo Minsk one uh k
two three A R O s K A R. Well,
(24:00):
I guess we know the rest of it. Five six
seventy nine A M E s correct correct Oscar ains,
doctor Oscar ains. But I was just thinking he was
worried about me catching pneumonia. I called Mama Pizza, and
(24:22):
from what she said, we knew where to go. We
picked him up at the emergency hospital. He was just
finishing the operation on Tony's head. Well, he watched them
through the glass, and the other young doctor standing alongside
us said he was one of the greatest surgeons they'd
ever seen. When he unrolled his gloves and took off
his operating mask, he looked up and saw me alive
and the.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Other boys with me.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
His scalp tightened for just a second, and then he
smiled because when he reached into his bag that we
rushed him before he could get the little red bottle
to his lips.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Period end of report. Oh a size god.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yes, it was everything. A chase and being throwing the water,
the serious people, the codex.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
We'll let it. Kept your awake, Angel Sam. What is
it like not to want to be in America, not
to want to live the way we do in America?
I can't imagine. I can't.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Damn about doctoring.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, do you think that?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I mean the way you describe him all? Do you
think you made him sound too sympathetic?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Oh? I described him as he were, that's all.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
But well anybody thinks it there, Well you know he
was attractive.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well you missed the whole point, didn't you. Spies don't
go around wearing monocles and talking with heavy accents and acting.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Like spies, not the good ones.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It's the attractive, lovable, trustworthy strangers that are dangerous. Now,
if you've met doctor Anes on a party somewhere, you'd
be out with him in a nightclub right.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Now, cooling over a drink and giving him the plants
with a Brooklyn Navy yard. Sometimes I can't, Sam, I
don't even.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Know where Brooklyn is. Lucky for our side, you don't
hate me, do you say? Oh? How does that answer
your question? Oh? Good night, good night Sweeter.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited, and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
Loreen Tuttle is Effie. Script Fortnight's Adventure by William Spear,
Musical scoring by Lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrewster. Three
Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. There's no cover charge
at Duffy's Tavern.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Just keep your dial Tune to NBC later as Archie,
the Manager and his delightful friends cook up another mad
and merry session at that remarkable restaurant, duffy Savern.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
This Sunday, The Big Show comes.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Your way on NBC again an hour and a half
of the best in comedy, music and drama, with guests
Bob Hope, Martin and Lewis Roslind Russell, Frankie Lane and Unpredictable.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Tallula as MC go ahead tell him about the Thing.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh yes, Sam Stade and Effie asked me to remind
you about the Thing, The Thing for Kids for Christmas.
You know, the thing can be anything you think an
underprivileged child would like for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
In your town.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
There acidic groups who are cooperating.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
With this Thing for Kids campaigns. Send your new or
used toys to the collection centers in your town and
help make some child Christmas brighter. It'll make you happier too.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Join us again next week, same time for another adventure
with them Fade enjoy the Magnificent Montague. Then it's Duffy
Tavern on NBC
Speaker 3 (28:10):
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