September 3, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
In Tonight's presentation.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Of suspense, Tonight Auto Light presents the exciting report of
one man's efforts to prevent a national tragedy. It is
based on fact, with only names and places changed. The
story is called Man Alive, Our Star, mister Paul Douglas.
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Speaker 4 (01:51):
You may have seen the name Man Jackson. I run
a column of saucy chat and unimpeachable rumors in the
San Francisco Express under the heading what else overboard? It's
got little paragraph, you know, Man among men. That's the
sports section, and Man's Best Friend, so forth were Beginning today,
I've got a new department called man Alive, just because
(02:11):
I am so lucky I am. Last night I let
my secretary off at five point thirty so she could
go and do some Christmas shopping, although I've told her
repeatedly that all I want this year is money. Well,
the fog was rolling in off the Bay, and it
was bitter cold as I came out in the street,
so it seemed like the night for a spaghetti dinner
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and some pleasant Italian hospitality down at Mama Caruso's restaurant
on the Embarcadero, opposite the Ferry Building. But Mama Caruso
had more than hospitality on her mind when she met
me at the door.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Oh, mister Jackson, I'm so glad to find you. I'm
gonna just call it you office.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh what's the trouble, Mama? Somebody been stealing ravioli.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Lie, it's to my cousin Tony. They try to kill him.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh what happened, mama?
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Come on, mister Jackson, tell you he's so good.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Can talk? All right, You're gonna see.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
She led me to the back of the restaurant, the
table where the family generally sits. The family tonight was
a man small to start with, but even smaller, hunched
down in his chair miserably, staring unseen into a glass
of wine. On the table in front of him was
a battered old concertine. The top of his head was
swathed in a clean new bandage.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Sit down, mister Jackson, go on, sit down. This is
my cousin, Tony Colucci. Tony, this is my good friend,
mister man Jackson.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Hello, Tony, Hello, Go on, Tony.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
You tell mister Jackson what's happened on you.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Well, I'm on the boat.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah what boat?
Speaker 8 (03:45):
The ferry boat, the all kind of fairy boat. Don't
you never hear my music on the boat?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
You play the concertina on the ferry ride?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Sure man? Oh more tonight at that track of killing me?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, you play pretty well, don't you, Tony? I play perfect?
Speaker 9 (04:01):
What's some man?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Some people don't like it, I guess tonight on the
six o'clock boat.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Oh boy, tonight on the six o'clock boat? What what
I play?
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Inside the first by the sandwich? You plays and everybody say,
oh boy, Tony.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You're good.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You play good.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
The play some more ten tensy here, five percent, two
quarters even. And then I go up stairs, oh boy oh.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
And then I go out on the deck. It's a
very mist of foggy black. I can see nothing. I'm
very happy. I feel like a play.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Some are so I walk away back and open down
the deck and I make music. Then all of a
sudden I hear somebody says something to me. I can't
see nobody.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I hear him. And what do you think he said
to me?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Uh? Bravo, Tony, I have no idea. What did he say?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
What he said Cospodor cospodoor as in barrooms. Well, so
I say, back on top of him. I still can't
see nobody. So then I hear him say, is that
you play bories?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So I get mad. I said, no, I know play bories.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
I play Payachi Butterfly, the Oscar for that all my
doughnut play bories.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
That's a that's a foreigner story.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I see.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Then then I'm sorry I said that because this is
a fellow. He sounds like he's a foreigner.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
So I'm used to going to say, look mister, and
oh boy, yeah what tony?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
What that thing?
Speaker 8 (05:35):
I'll get a hit on the head, sing a tongue
a thing.
Speaker 9 (05:38):
I fell down. I'm bleeding.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
I dropped my concertina my head. I got a bigger
hole on the top. I let out a bigger yellow
then a blackout.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Oh boy, people are coming.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Running around, and a good lock. There's a dark tow
on a board they carry down the stairs. And he
fixed me up. Is I gonna die for sure?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah? And you never saw the guy?
Speaker 9 (06:00):
No, I never saw.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Well what did it feel like? I mean, what do
he hits you with? Well?
Speaker 8 (06:04):
It figured just for like a baseball beat. The doctor
he said that. Oh look, look, he said the doctor.
Now you just coming, Hey, doctor.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The doctor looked in my direction when Tony called and
strode over to the table. A big six foot three
blonde guy and the Joe mccraig Gary Cooper tradition. You
had to like him right away. No bedside manner to
this doctor, although he could have had as much of
it as he liked. But he was all business and
no kidding.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
But I told you to go to bed and stay there, doc.
I just told me I had a concussion. I'll be
back in an hour and then we'll take some X ray.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
My name is Man Jackson. Doctor. I'm a friend of
the family. Eames.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Doctor, ask Greames, how are you a doctor?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
EAMs?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Mister?
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Can I get you something to eat?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
No?
Speaker 9 (06:48):
Thanks, thats wonderful, but I haven't time. I'll have a
couple of coffee, maybe.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Sure, mister Jackson.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yes, please, Mama a.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
Doctor, you one.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm a make tone and.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
Go to bed, going not on you. You lie down, I'll
be back in you over. Got some rest in the meantime.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
But all right, my mom my, doctor hims.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
I don't know xral rays and the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I don't know how I'm going.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
To pay you.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Never mind that. That's why we charge our knob. He'll
patience a little extra so we're able to do something
like this once in a while.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
This will be on me, Tony, you'll go with the
kind of man. Doctor.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
You go on and lie down, Tony, you're embarrassing the doctor. Okay, okay,
there's a screwy thing as well, isn't it doctor? Sure is?
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Oh thanks, thank you mam. Yeah, sure is a titled maniac.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
It looks like mister Jackson, Man Jackson, are you the
columnist man overboard?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
That's right?
Speaker 9 (07:40):
Well, I read you all the time, amusing, intelligent, and
you've got a heart. Isn't it a little unusual for columnists?
Well say, yeah, what is all this tonight? Down here? Newspaper? Men?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Police? Please? Uh? How do you mean police?
Speaker 9 (07:53):
Well? I think they will police. Five or six plain
clothes guys. They're waiting here on the side. When the
ferry pulled in the slip, they're still there holding the boat.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I just left them.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What were they doing?
Speaker 9 (08:04):
Oh there talking to all the passengers as they come off,
asked us for identification. They took one passenger away with them.
Uh huh, red haired girl carrying a package of paper parcel.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
What did they think about Tony's little experience getting knocked
on the head.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
They were mighty interested, naturally, especially when I told them
how I thought the wound had been inflicted, which was
gun gun by there? Well, I'd say, so, Hey, I
gotta go take that dreary ride again.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
What the ferry.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Yeah, I've got a patient over in Oakland. I had
to come back over here to pick.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Up some serum.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
Well, nice to see you, Jackson. Tell what's his name, Tony?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Well, wait a minute, doc, I've got nothing to do.
I'll ride over with you. We crossed the street, went
into the ferry building. Everything was normal enough from the
main waiting room, where I stopped to buy a cigarette
it's in a pocket flashlight. But outside on the dock
where the Oakland boat was waiting to take off, there
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were a number of extra characters whom you wouldn't think
would have chosen a dismal, chilly night like this for
waterfront lounging. There wasn't anybody I knew, and in any gathering,
a plain clothesman local variety. I generally spot one or
two familiar faces, but doctor Eames and I got a board,
followed by three of these gentlemen, the broadest one who
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was built for endurance, exchanged pleasantries with us as the
boat moved out into the water.
Speaker 10 (09:32):
Hello, doctor Amason, See you didn't miss the boat like
he'll say.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Now.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Oh, you're one of the fellows I had talked to
before when we landed.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
I don't think I got your name Connolly.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
This is mister Jackson. Yeah, would that be lieutenant Connelly
or sergeant?
Speaker 10 (09:51):
Maybe this Connelly no special title. How's a little fellow doing,
doctor Calucci?
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Tony, he's under care?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
He uh talked anymore? Say anything interesting? I didn't talk
to him, mister Jackson here, did ah really really what
you have to say? Well, you see, I'm an old
friend of his family. What he told me was in confidence,
and I'd really have to know a little more about
who I'm telling his secrets to.
Speaker 10 (10:19):
I see, Jackson, your name is still is nice to
meet you at gh spegin gos. Spadein means nothing to you.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It might yeah, it might go spadein sounds like another
word somebody might think you said cospador is very funny.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
How you're gonna stay out here on dek Well, we.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Haven't made up our minds. Is that? Okay?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
I want to go inside. I have a little carved
at the snack bar. Comfortable ride is over before you
know it. Out here it's foggy, wet, miserable. Well, I'm
going in. I'll see you let it good bye, Doc.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
Oh maybe he's right. Oh, I must say he's not
my favorite man in the world, aid mister Conley. It
is strictly pneumonia weather out here on deck? Shall we
go in?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Not just yet for me? I think I'll stretch my
legs a little, Doctor Eames. Where was it that Tony
got conked on the upper deck? I know? But which side?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (11:20):
We've turned around now starboard, just about directly above where
we're standing, Yes, right.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
About, doc, Doc, don't point our friend Conny and his
boys are on their way out to see us again. No,
they went back in.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
You think they're as mysterious as they.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
See Oh, definitely that. You know what made them turn back?
Just now? Decide it wasn't necessary to check whether we
were still here? No, what are cigarettes? They can't make
us out here? It's too dark, but they can see
two lighted cigarettes. I'd like to get up there on
that upper deck.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Looking for tomorrow's column. Huh, you want to get up
there and knows around where Tony was.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, that's the idea. But those who I've gotten it.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
I hand me a cigarette. I'll smoke them both the
yard apart. When I checked, we'll both still be here.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Masterful, thinking, Oscar, go ahead, I'll be here. So I
tried the slippery stairs to the upper deck. The fog
was as wet as rain. I couldn't see any more
than inches ahead of me with my flashlight. I stopped
about it. I stopped about amidship, so looked down over
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the rail. Doctor Oscar aims and his two cigarettes. Tiny
red dots of light were almost directly beneath me. I
turned back from the rail and my foot squashed into
something that sounded like an egg shell. I bent and
picked it up. It was a mother of pearl ornament
like the ones Tony's concertina were covered with a sudden
noise over my head made me shoot my light up.
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A piece of canvas had suddenly ripped loose from the
top of a lifeboat. I got up there somehow and
looked the canvas had been ripped open with a knife,
a hole large enough for a man's body to get through,
and that's what was in there, a man's body. He'd
been stabbed in the neck. This was the man who
had slugged Tony, or so it seemed, because the gun
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was still clenched in his right hand. The barrel reversed
when my flash caught a speck of something white in
one of his shoes. It was a bit of paper
with two tight written lines on it. I let myself
down to the deck and prepared to read the note,
and that's when my flashlight went dead. I groped about
until I found a faint, ghostly glimmer of light overhead,
out over the edge of the ship, on the outside rail.
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I climbed over, steadied myself and lit a couple of matches.
It said International postcard Shop, Geary Street, SF Reading card
for Boris. I put the bit of paper in my
pocket and turned to climb back over the rail, and
then something came at me from the back. It caught
me form the center of the part and I fell,
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crashing over the side. They tell you a lot about
what you remember when you're going down to the third time.
You know what I remembered. I remembered that gospadine is
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Russian for comrade, auto.
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Speaker 4 (16:14):
I found myself mechanically keeping afloat somehow and trying to
get out of my overcoat from out of the misty
blanket from every direction, and a dozen different keys from
near and far, fog horns sounded. I floated on my back,
trying to figure where I was. I was somewhere in
San Francisco Bay, and that was all I knew. The
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water was chilling me, and I turned over and began swimming,
just hard enough to keep the blood circulating. The lights
of a boat came into sight suddenly, and I threw
back my head and yelled, but the horn, crying as warning,
drowned me out, and the boat went on. The fog
closed in behind me, and then I found myself full
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of a strange, wonderful weariness. The water wasn't cold anymore.
I was warm, with a comfortable, soothing numbness. My head
stopped throbbing. There was no feeling at all in it now,
there was nothing, nothing anywhere. 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
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the water. And then I wasn't where you'd expect at all.
I was lying on a baggage truck that was moving.
People were crowding around, walking beside the truck, staring at me.
The guy in uniform willing he noticed I had opened
my eyes.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Well, hello, pal, welcome back to the United States.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Oh hello, what part of the United States?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Just landing in Sosalita? But they still we're taking over
to the hospital Sausalita.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
How long before that boat goes back to San Francisco,
leaves right away? Well, I'm gone with it.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Hey, wait there, you ain't in no conditions, thanks, I'll
be okay.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Half an hour later, shive and shaking in my wet
clothes and keeping my mouth clamped tight so my teeth
wouldn't sound like a dice game, I climbed into a
taxi at the Ferry Building and went to my apartment. There,
I swallowed a half a pint of whiskey, rubbed myself
with a coarse towel until my skin was sore. Then
I looked in the pocket of the soggy suit i'd
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hung up the dry It was still there, the piece
of paper from the dead man's shoes, damp but legible.
International postcard Shop, Geary Street, SF. Greeting card for Boris.
I got up to put on a dry suit, and
then I changed my mind and put the wet one
back on. Good evening, Good evening. Are you the proprietor here?
Speaker 10 (18:50):
That's right, sir, six years at the same location. My goodness,
is it raining out? You really got a dowsing?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yes? I did a nice collection of postcards from all
over South America, every place.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
I pride myself on having the most complete possible selection.
Was there something you had especially in mind? Yes, there was.
I'm looking for a greeting card for Boris you. What's
the matter? Didn't you hear me?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yes? Didn't you understand? Then? Well, well, what it's only.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
That that I didn't exactly expect somebody like you.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
What did you expect? Somebody slinking around in a false mustache,
wearing dark glasses and an invenous cape.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You're a type of thinking you you may not be
the right man for this job, Gospadin. Oh no, wait, please,
mister lu both. I thought you were dead. You drown? Yeah, yeah,
who told you that? Well? Yes, well I didn't drown.
I jumped in the water when I heard him come.
And you can still see how wet I am, of course,
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so you was escape easily. Now enough talk. Handed over
the greeting card for Boris very.
Speaker 10 (20:05):
Well, let's see, that's uh San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
He turned and reached his hand down under the counter
and came up with a box mark special. From this
he extracted something and handed it to me. I took
it with a knowing expression on my face, but I
didn't know from nothing as to what it meant. All
it was was an ordinary postcard, that's all, a picture
postcard showing the Golden gate Bridge. Underneath it the caption
wonder Cities of the World number two five, one, two, three, five,
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six seventy nine, San Francisco, nothing else. I'm afraid my
mouth was open.
Speaker 10 (20:42):
Well, what's the matter matter? Don't you know how to
read the name. It's so difficult.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Of course idiots, certainly, I know how. I was just
admiring the work, that's all.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Oh, it is excellent, is it? You better go now,
you've been in here an awfully long time. We don't
want to know, of course, don't. I'll go, Gospadine, Gospadine.
I'm sorry to have been overly cautious.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
There is no such thing as over caution. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
You were so well.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
You seem like an American, so do you. I strode
out into the street, clutching my postcard, but I shoved
it inside my sleeve a moment later, because who I
saw standing under the misty glimmer of a street light
waiting for me was my heavy set mysterious friend from
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the ferry boat, Connolly. I turned my head around and
glanced down the other end of the block behind me.
The other two guys were there, sure enough. They advanced
slowly toward me with their hands raised, palms out, as
if they were showing me they weren't carrying guns. I waited,
then all of a sudden, Connolly rushed me. I caught
them on the chin and went down, firing into an
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ash can. The other two boys grabbed me and held
my arms behind me. He got up, rubbing his face.
I waited to get murdered, but no, all right, Joe Louis,
bring him along, and so they did. We didn't go far,
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just around the corner to a little Hamburger place that
had a sign in the door saying closed ath There
were lights inside. Conley knocked on the door and a
fellow with an apron came and opened it and locked
it after us. Conley gave him a knock and we
sat down at the table while he brought his coffee.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Well, Jackson, ly have checked on you. You seem to
be okay. You're standing good with a department friend.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
What the department would that be? Friend? This department? Mmm? Government?
Speaker 10 (22:46):
Oh maybe you can help anyhow, We don't want you
going around making a noise and messing it up for us.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
So here it is.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
I'm all ears have a here of a man called
Boris Kagaminsky.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
No, not many people have, even in Russi.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
Poris Kargamensky is the top Soviet agent of America. He's
the head man. He organizes and runs everything for him.
Here I see he came to this country seven years
ago and vanished.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
We've been trying to find him ever since. False passport.
Of course, that didn't help.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
There's nothing anywhere on Kargominsky, no pictures even in Russia,
no finger brends, nothing, Every lead we had dead end.
And then last week, well, go ahead, drink your coffee.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
No, no, it's all right, I'm too interested.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
Last week we heard that another agent, an important little
guy named a Lubov, was on his way to San
Francisco and that he would definitely have to contact the
big gun, something to do with the Chinese war business
that only Kargamensky's big enough to handle.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Well.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Our man tail Lubav all the way out here and
then lost him at the Oakland Ferry. I didn't bother
us very much. He called us, and we were waiting
on this end. But in pulls the ferry and no Lubov.
Lubov was the dead man in the lifeboat.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
That's right. Must have been up there waiting to be contact,
and he heard Tony and his Constantina thought that this
might be it. Then, when he realized he'd made a
mistake and uncovered himself, he conked Tony on.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
The head right, and his Soviet contact got scared and
stabbed lubob So now we're back where we started. Every
passenger on the ferry was, okay, what's that you're looking at?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
A picture postcard? I found a message on lubov about
the International postcard shop and a greeting for hey, a
greeting for Boris. Boris cargaments. Let me see that. I
bulldozed the guy into the shop and letting me have it.
It looks like nothing, just a picture, but he said
I could read the name Golden Gate. Now give me it.
Give me these numbers wonder Cities of the World number
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two five, one, two, three, five six seven. Wait a minute,
but what will print out the guy's name? Boris b
oh Ris Leave a space?
Speaker 10 (24:52):
Ok A rg A m E ns K.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Now put numbers that Wait a minut, now the top
numbers nine, All right, Now put one two, three, four
five over Boris and start again one two three up
to nine over Cargomenska.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
Nine.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Now let's see the postcard. Two five, one, two, three,
five six seven nine. Okay, what's two? Uh two is
oh five s O s now Kargomensky one o K
two three A R O s K A. R. Oscar. Well,
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I guess we know the rest of it five six
seven nine A and the y s aims correct, correct,
Oscar Ames, dr Oscar Ames. What I was just thinking?
He was worried about me catching pneumonia. I called Mama Caruso,
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and 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. We watched him
through the glass, and the other young doctor standing alongside
of 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 other boys with me. His scalp tightened
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for just a second, and then he smiled. It was
when he reached into his bag that we rushed him
before he could get the little red bottle to his lips.
Well that's about it. I made the morning edition, Okay,
on page eighteen under my usual slug man Overboard by
Man Jackson. They did a cute thing under man overboard
it said he really is see page one, And on
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complete with a photograph of doctor Oscar Ains, a clean cut, smiling, confident,
typically American fellow. The caption said, portrait of a.
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Speaker 4 (01:51):
You may have seen the name Man Jackson. I run
a column of saucy chat and unimpeachable rumors in the
San Francisco Express under the heading what else overboard? It's
got little paragraph, you know, Man among men. That's the
sports section, and Man's Best Friend, so forth were Beginning today,
I've got a new department called man Alive, just because
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I am so lucky I am. Last night I let
my secretary off at five point thirty so she could
go and do some Christmas shopping, although I've told her
repeatedly that all I want this year is money. Well,
the fog was rolling in off the Bay, and it
was bitter cold as I came out in the street,
so it seemed like the night for a spaghetti dinner
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and some pleasant Italian hospitality down at Mama Caruso's restaurant
on the Embarcadero, opposite the Ferry Building. But Mama Caruso
had more than hospitality on her mind when she met
me at the door.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Oh, mister Jackson, I'm so glad to find you. I'm
gonna just call it you office.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh what's the trouble, Mama? Somebody been stealing ravioli.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Lie, it's to my cousin Tony. They try to kill him.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh what happened, mama?
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Come on, mister Jackson, tell you he's so good.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Can talk? All right, You're gonna see.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
She led me to the back of the restaurant, the
table where the family generally sits. The family tonight was
a man small to start with, but even smaller, hunched
down in his chair miserably, staring unseen into a glass
of wine. On the table in front of him was
a battered old concertine. The top of his head was
swathed in a clean new bandage.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Sit down, mister Jackson, go on, sit down. This is
my cousin, Tony Colucci. Tony, this is my good friend,
mister man Jackson.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Hello, Tony, Hello, Go on, Tony.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
You tell mister Jackson what's happened on you.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Well, I'm on the boat.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah what boat?
Speaker 8 (03:45):
The ferry boat, the all kind of fairy boat. Don't
you never hear my music on the boat?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
You play the concertina on the ferry ride?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Sure man? Oh more tonight at that track of killing me?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, you play pretty well, don't you, Tony? I play perfect?
Speaker 9 (04:01):
What's some man?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Some people don't like it, I guess tonight on the
six o'clock boat.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Oh boy, tonight on the six o'clock boat? What what
I play?
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Inside the first by the sandwich? You plays and everybody say,
oh boy, Tony.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You're good.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You play good.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
The play some more ten tensy here, five percent, two
quarters even. And then I go up stairs, oh boy oh.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
And then I go out on the deck. It's a
very mist of foggy black. I can see nothing. I'm
very happy. I feel like a play.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Some are so I walk away back and open down
the deck and I make music. Then all of a
sudden I hear somebody says something to me. I can't
see nobody.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I hear him. And what do you think he said
to me?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Uh? Bravo, Tony, I have no idea. What did he say?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
What he said Cospodor cospodoor as in barrooms. Well, so
I say, back on top of him. I still can't
see nobody. So then I hear him say, is that
you play bories?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So I get mad. I said, no, I know play bories.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
I play Payachi Butterfly, the Oscar for that all my
doughnut play bories.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
That's a that's a foreigner story.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I see.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Then then I'm sorry I said that because this is
a fellow. He sounds like he's a foreigner.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
So I'm used to going to say, look mister, and
oh boy, yeah what tony?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
What that thing?
Speaker 8 (05:35):
I'll get a hit on the head, sing a tongue
a thing.
Speaker 9 (05:38):
I fell down. I'm bleeding.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
I dropped my concertina my head. I got a bigger
hole on the top. I let out a bigger yellow
then a blackout.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Oh boy, people are coming.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Running around, and a good lock. There's a dark tow
on a board they carry down the stairs. And he
fixed me up. Is I gonna die for sure?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah? And you never saw the guy?
Speaker 9 (06:00):
No, I never saw.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Well what did it feel like? I mean, what do
he hits you with? Well?
Speaker 8 (06:04):
It figured just for like a baseball beat. The doctor
he said that. Oh look, look, he said the doctor.
Now you just coming, Hey, doctor.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The doctor looked in my direction when Tony called and
strode over to the table. A big six foot three
blonde guy and the Joe mccraig Gary Cooper tradition. You
had to like him right away. No bedside manner to
this doctor, although he could have had as much of
it as he liked. But he was all business and
no kidding.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
But I told you to go to bed and stay there, doc.
I just told me I had a concussion. I'll be
back in an hour and then we'll take some X ray.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
My name is Man Jackson. Doctor. I'm a friend of
the family. Eames.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Doctor, ask Greames, how are you a doctor?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
EAMs?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Mister?
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Can I get you something to eat?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
No?
Speaker 9 (06:48):
Thanks, thats wonderful, but I haven't time. I'll have a
couple of coffee, maybe.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Sure, mister Jackson.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yes, please, Mama a.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
Doctor, you one.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm a make tone and.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
Go to bed, going not on you. You lie down, I'll
be back in you over. Got some rest in the meantime.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
But all right, my mom my, doctor hims.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
I don't know xral rays and the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I don't know how I'm going.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
To pay you.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Never mind that. That's why we charge our knob. He'll
patience a little extra so we're able to do something
like this once in a while.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
This will be on me, Tony, you'll go with the
kind of man. Doctor.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
You go on and lie down, Tony, you're embarrassing the doctor. Okay, okay,
there's a screwy thing as well, isn't it doctor? Sure is?
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Oh thanks, thank you mam. Yeah, sure is a titled maniac.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
It looks like mister Jackson, Man Jackson, are you the
columnist man overboard?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
That's right?
Speaker 9 (07:40):
Well, I read you all the time, amusing, intelligent, and
you've got a heart. Isn't it a little unusual for columnists?
Well say, yeah, what is all this tonight? Down here? Newspaper? Men?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Police? Please? Uh? How do you mean police?
Speaker 9 (07:53):
Well? I think they will police. Five or six plain
clothes guys. They're waiting here on the side. When the
ferry pulled in the slip, they're still there holding the boat.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I just left them.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What were they doing?
Speaker 9 (08:04):
Oh there talking to all the passengers as they come off,
asked us for identification. They took one passenger away with them.
Uh huh, red haired girl carrying a package of paper parcel.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
What did they think about Tony's little experience getting knocked
on the head.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
They were mighty interested, naturally, especially when I told them
how I thought the wound had been inflicted, which was
gun gun by there? Well, I'd say, so, Hey, I
gotta go take that dreary ride again.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
What the ferry.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Yeah, I've got a patient over in Oakland. I had
to come back over here to pick.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Up some serum.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
Well, nice to see you, Jackson. Tell what's his name, Tony?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Well, wait a minute, doc, I've got nothing to do.
I'll ride over with you. We crossed the street, went
into the ferry building. Everything was normal enough from the
main waiting room, where I stopped to buy a cigarette
it's in a pocket flashlight. But outside on the dock
where the Oakland boat was waiting to take off, there
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were a number of extra characters whom you wouldn't think
would have chosen a dismal, chilly night like this for
waterfront lounging. There wasn't anybody I knew, and in any gathering,
a plain clothesman local variety. I generally spot one or
two familiar faces, but doctor Eames and I got a board,
followed by three of these gentlemen, the broadest one who
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was built for endurance, exchanged pleasantries with us as the
boat moved out into the water.
Speaker 10 (09:32):
Hello, doctor Amason, See you didn't miss the boat like
he'll say.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Now.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Oh, you're one of the fellows I had talked to
before when we landed.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
I don't think I got your name Connolly.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
This is mister Jackson. Yeah, would that be lieutenant Connelly
or sergeant?
Speaker 10 (09:51):
Maybe this Connelly no special title. How's a little fellow doing,
doctor Calucci?
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Tony, he's under care?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
He uh talked anymore? Say anything interesting? I didn't talk
to him, mister Jackson here, did ah really really what
you have to say? Well, you see, I'm an old
friend of his family. What he told me was in confidence,
and I'd really have to know a little more about
who I'm telling his secrets to.
Speaker 10 (10:19):
I see, Jackson, your name is still is nice to
meet you at gh spegin gos. Spadein means nothing to you.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It might yeah, it might go spadein sounds like another
word somebody might think you said cospador is very funny.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
How you're gonna stay out here on dek Well, we.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Haven't made up our minds. Is that? Okay?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
I want to go inside. I have a little carved
at the snack bar. Comfortable ride is over before you
know it. Out here it's foggy, wet, miserable. Well, I'm
going in. I'll see you let it good bye, Doc.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
Oh maybe he's right. Oh, I must say he's not
my favorite man in the world, aid mister Conley. It
is strictly pneumonia weather out here on deck? Shall we
go in?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Not just yet for me? I think I'll stretch my
legs a little, Doctor Eames. Where was it that Tony
got conked on the upper deck? I know? But which side?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (11:20):
We've turned around now starboard, just about directly above where
we're standing, Yes, right.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
About, doc, Doc, don't point our friend Conny and his
boys are on their way out to see us again. No,
they went back in.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
You think they're as mysterious as they.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
See Oh, definitely that. You know what made them turn back?
Just now? Decide it wasn't necessary to check whether we
were still here? No, what are cigarettes? They can't make
us out here? It's too dark, but they can see
two lighted cigarettes. I'd like to get up there on
that upper deck.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Looking for tomorrow's column. Huh, you want to get up
there and knows around where Tony was.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, that's the idea. But those who I've gotten it.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
I hand me a cigarette. I'll smoke them both the
yard apart. When I checked, we'll both still be here.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Masterful, thinking, Oscar, go ahead, I'll be here. So I
tried the slippery stairs to the upper deck. The fog
was as wet as rain. I couldn't see any more
than inches ahead of me with my flashlight. I stopped
about it. I stopped about amidship, so looked down over
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the rail. Doctor Oscar aims and his two cigarettes. Tiny
red dots of light were almost directly beneath me. I
turned back from the rail and my foot squashed into
something that sounded like an egg shell. I bent and
picked it up. It was a mother of pearl ornament
like the ones Tony's concertina were covered with a sudden
noise over my head made me shoot my light up.
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A piece of canvas had suddenly ripped loose from the
top of a lifeboat. I got up there somehow and
looked the canvas had been ripped open with a knife,
a hole large enough for a man's body to get through,
and that's what was in there, a man's body. He'd
been stabbed in the neck. This was the man who
had slugged Tony, or so it seemed, because the gun
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was still clenched in his right hand. The barrel reversed
when my flash caught a speck of something white in
one of his shoes. It was a bit of paper
with two tight written lines on it. I let myself
down to the deck and prepared to read the note,
and that's when my flashlight went dead. I groped about
until I found a faint, ghostly glimmer of light overhead,
out over the edge of the ship, on the outside rail.
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I climbed over, steadied myself and lit a couple of matches.
It said International postcard Shop, Geary Street, SF Reading card
for Boris. I put the bit of paper in my
pocket and turned to climb back over the rail, and
then something came at me from the back. It caught
me form the center of the part and I fell,
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crashing over the side. They tell you a lot about
what you remember when you're going down to the third time.
You know what I remembered. I remembered that gospadine is
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Russian for comrade, auto.
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Speaker 4 (16:14):
I found myself mechanically keeping afloat somehow and trying to
get out of my overcoat from out of the misty
blanket from every direction, and a dozen different keys from
near and far, fog horns sounded. I floated on my back,
trying to figure where I was. I was somewhere in
San Francisco Bay, and that was all I knew. The
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water was chilling me, and I turned over and began swimming,
just hard enough to keep the blood circulating. The lights
of a boat came into sight suddenly, and I threw
back my head and yelled, but the horn, crying as warning,
drowned me out, and the boat went on. The fog
closed in behind me, and then I found myself full
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of a strange, wonderful weariness. The water wasn't cold anymore.
I was warm, with a comfortable, soothing numbness. My head
stopped throbbing. There was no feeling at all in it now,
there was nothing, nothing anywhere. 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
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the water. And then I wasn't where you'd expect at all.
I was lying on a baggage truck that was moving.
People were crowding around, walking beside the truck, staring at me.
The guy in uniform willing he noticed I had opened
my eyes.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Well, hello, pal, welcome back to the United States.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Oh hello, what part of the United States?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Just landing in Sosalita? But they still we're taking over
to the hospital Sausalita.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
How long before that boat goes back to San Francisco,
leaves right away? Well, I'm gone with it.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Hey, wait there, you ain't in no conditions, thanks, I'll
be okay.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Half an hour later, shive and shaking in my wet
clothes and keeping my mouth clamped tight so my teeth
wouldn't sound like a dice game, I climbed into a
taxi at the Ferry Building and went to my apartment. There,
I swallowed a half a pint of whiskey, rubbed myself
with a coarse towel until my skin was sore. Then
I looked in the pocket of the soggy suit i'd
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hung up the dry It was still there, the piece
of paper from the dead man's shoes, damp but legible.
International postcard Shop, Geary Street, SF. Greeting card for Boris.
I got up to put on a dry suit, and
then I changed my mind and put the wet one
back on. Good evening, Good evening. Are you the proprietor here?
Speaker 10 (18:50):
That's right, sir, six years at the same location. My goodness,
is it raining out? You really got a dowsing?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yes? I did a nice collection of postcards from all
over South America, every place.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
I pride myself on having the most complete possible selection.
Was there something you had especially in mind? Yes, there was.
I'm looking for a greeting card for Boris you. What's
the matter? Didn't you hear me?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yes? Didn't you understand? Then? Well, well, what it's only.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
That that I didn't exactly expect somebody like you.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
What did you expect? Somebody slinking around in a false mustache,
wearing dark glasses and an invenous cape.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You're a type of thinking you you may not be
the right man for this job, Gospadin. Oh no, wait, please,
mister lu both. I thought you were dead. You drown? Yeah, yeah,
who told you that? Well? Yes, well I didn't drown.
I jumped in the water when I heard him come.
And you can still see how wet I am, of course,
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so you was escape easily. Now enough talk. Handed over
the greeting card for Boris very.
Speaker 10 (20:05):
Well, let's see, that's uh San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
He turned and reached his hand down under the counter
and came up with a box mark special. From this
he extracted something and handed it to me. I took
it with a knowing expression on my face, but I
didn't know from nothing as to what it meant. All
it was was an ordinary postcard, that's all, a picture
postcard showing the Golden gate Bridge. Underneath it the caption
wonder Cities of the World number two five, one, two, three, five,
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six seventy nine, San Francisco, nothing else. I'm afraid my
mouth was open.
Speaker 10 (20:42):
Well, what's the matter matter? Don't you know how to
read the name. It's so difficult.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Of course idiots, certainly, I know how. I was just
admiring the work, that's all.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Oh, it is excellent, is it? You better go now,
you've been in here an awfully long time. We don't
want to know, of course, don't. I'll go, Gospadine, Gospadine.
I'm sorry to have been overly cautious.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
There is no such thing as over caution. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
You were so well.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
You seem like an American, so do you. I strode
out into the street, clutching my postcard, but I shoved
it inside my sleeve a moment later, because who I
saw standing under the misty glimmer of a street light
waiting for me was my heavy set mysterious friend from
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the ferry boat, Connolly. I turned my head around and
glanced down the other end of the block behind me.
The other two guys were there, sure enough. They advanced
slowly toward me with their hands raised, palms out, as
if they were showing me they weren't carrying guns. I waited,
then all of a sudden, Connolly rushed me. I caught
them on the chin and went down, firing into an
(21:56):
ash can. The other two boys grabbed me and held
my arms behind me. He got up, rubbing his face.
I waited to get murdered, but no, all right, Joe Louis,
bring him along, and so they did. We didn't go far,
(22:18):
just around the corner to a little Hamburger place that
had a sign in the door saying closed ath There
were lights inside. Conley knocked on the door and a
fellow with an apron came and opened it and locked
it after us. Conley gave him a knock and we
sat down at the table while he brought his coffee.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Well, Jackson, ly have checked on you. You seem to
be okay. You're standing good with a department friend.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
What the department would that be? Friend? This department? Mmm? Government?
Speaker 10 (22:46):
Oh maybe you can help anyhow, We don't want you
going around making a noise and messing it up for us.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
So here it is.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
I'm all ears have a here of a man called
Boris Kagaminsky.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
No, not many people have, even in Russi.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
Poris Kargamensky is the top Soviet agent of America. He's
the head man. He organizes and runs everything for him.
Here I see he came to this country seven years
ago and vanished.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
We've been trying to find him ever since. False passport.
Of course, that didn't help.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
There's nothing anywhere on Kargominsky, no pictures even in Russia,
no finger brends, nothing, Every lead we had dead end.
And then last week, well, go ahead, drink your coffee.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
No, no, it's all right, I'm too interested.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
Last week we heard that another agent, an important little
guy named a Lubov, was on his way to San
Francisco and that he would definitely have to contact the
big gun, something to do with the Chinese war business
that only Kargamensky's big enough to handle.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Well.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Our man tail Lubav all the way out here and
then lost him at the Oakland Ferry. I didn't bother
us very much. He called us, and we were waiting
on this end. But in pulls the ferry and no Lubov.
Lubov was the dead man in the lifeboat.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
That's right. Must have been up there waiting to be contact,
and he heard Tony and his Constantina thought that this
might be it. Then, when he realized he'd made a
mistake and uncovered himself, he conked Tony on.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
The head right, and his Soviet contact got scared and
stabbed lubob So now we're back where we started. Every
passenger on the ferry was, okay, what's that you're looking at?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
A picture postcard? I found a message on lubov about
the International postcard shop and a greeting for hey, a
greeting for Boris. Boris cargaments. Let me see that. I
bulldozed the guy into the shop and letting me have it.
It looks like nothing, just a picture, but he said
I could read the name Golden Gate. Now give me it.
Give me these numbers wonder Cities of the World number
(24:38):
two five, one, two, three, five six seven. Wait a minute,
but what will print out the guy's name? Boris b
oh Ris Leave a space?
Speaker 10 (24:52):
Ok A rg A m E ns K.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Now put numbers that Wait a minut, now the top
numbers nine, All right, Now put one two, three, four
five over Boris and start again one two three up
to nine over Cargomenska.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
Nine.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Now let's see the postcard. Two five, one, two, three,
five six seven nine. Okay, what's two? Uh two is
oh five s O s now Kargomensky one o K
two three A R O s K A. R. Oscar. Well,
(25:36):
I guess we know the rest of it five six
seven nine A and the y s aims correct, correct,
Oscar Ames, dr Oscar Ames. What I was just thinking?
He was worried about me catching pneumonia. I called Mama Caruso,
(26:03):
and 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. We watched him
through the glass, and the other young doctor standing alongside
of 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 other boys with me. His scalp tightened
(26:25):
for just a second, and then he smiled. It was
when he reached into his bag that we rushed him
before he could get the little red bottle to his lips.
Well that's about it. I made the morning edition, Okay,
on page eighteen under my usual slug man Overboard by
Man Jackson. They did a cute thing under man overboard
it said he really is see page one, And on
(26:48):
page one, with a byeline was the story just as above,
complete with a photograph of doctor Oscar Ains, a clean cut, smiling, confident,
typically American fellow. The caption said, portrait of a.
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Next week, the story of two men who could really talk,
A young man and an old man Naturally enough they
were liars, they also happen to be bank robbers. The
story is based on fact and is called The Big
Heist Our star mister John Hodac.
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