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Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you suspense. Suspense
(00:29):
Columbia's parade about standing thrillers, produced and directed by William
Spears and scored by Bernard Hermann. The notable melodramas from
stage and screens, fiction and radio presented each week to
bring you to the edge of your.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Chair, to keep you in suspense. Good evening. This is
Orson Welles.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Happy I am to be back in the United States
and back on the Columbia Network, even for so short
a visit as this one, back with old friends like
Johnny Deetz, who's Tonight's director, and Bernard Hermann. The Mrgery
Theater presented Tonight's radio Price the first time last year.
We came right out then and hailed it as a
classic of the medium.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Nobody argued this point. A lot of people asked us
to do it again.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So it's gratifying to get the chance down and to
find a favorite of ours in this distinguished anthology of
spook shows. Personally, I've never met anybody who didn't like
a good ghost story, but I know a lot of
people who think there are a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Who don't like a good ghost story.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
For the benefit of these, at least, I go on
record at the outset of his evening's entertainment with a
sober assurance that although blood may be curdled on this program,
none will be spilled. There's no shooting, nighting, throttling, acting,
or poisoning here. No clanking chains, no cobwebs, no boney
and or hairy hands appearing from sea, secret panels or
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better yet, bedroom curtains.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
If it's any part of that dear.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Old, phosphorescent foolishness that people who don't like ghost stories
don't like, then again, I promise you we haven't got it,
not tonight. What we do have is a thriller samp
as good as we think it is.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You can call it a shaker.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's already then called a real Orson Well story. Now, frankly,
I don't know what this means. I've been on the air,
directing and acting in my own shows for quite a
while now, and I don't suppose I have done more
than half a dozen thrillers and all that time.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Honestly, I don't think even that many. But it seems
I do have a reputation for the uncanny.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Quite possibly, a little escapade of mine involving a couple
of planets, which shall be nameless. Is responsible, doesn't really matter.
Don't think I disapprove of thrillers.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
A story doesn't have to appeal to the heart. It
can also appeal to the spine. Sometimes you want your
heart to be warmed, Sometimes you want your spine to tingle.
The teingling, it's to be hoped will be quite audible
as you listen tonight to the hitch Hiker.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's the name of our story, The Hitchhiker. I'm in
an auto camp.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
On Route sixty six, just west of Gallup, New Mexico.
If I tell a craft, it'll help me keep me
from going going crazy. I gotta tell us quickly. I'm
not crazy now.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I feel perfectly well, except that I'm running a slight temperature.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
My name is Ronald Adams.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I'm thirty six years of age, unmarried, tall, dark with
a black mustache. I drive a nineteen forty Buick license
number six y one five one eight nine.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I was born in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
All this I know. I know that I'm at this
moment perfect sane, but it's not me.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's gone on fans, something else, something that I leave
beyond my control.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'd love to speak quickly. At any minute, the link
may break.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
This may be the last thing I ever tell on Earth,
the last night I ever see the stars. Six days
ago I left Brooklyn to drive to California.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Goodbye son, good.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Luck to you, my boy, Goodbye mother. Give me a
kiss and I'll go.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I'll come out with you the car.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh no, it's raining. Stare at the door, wants DearS.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I thought you'd probably you wouldn't cry.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
No, dear, I I'm sorry, but I.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Do hate to see you, and I'll be back.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It'll always been on the course three months.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It isn't that. It's just the truth. And I wish.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Oh, there you go again. People do it every day.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I know, but it would be careful, won't you? Tns
me would be extra careful. Don't fall asleep or drive
fast or pick up an exchangers on the room of coss.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I think I was still seventeen.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Here you.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And Ry. I mean as soon as you get to Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Of course. I Why don't you worry?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
They's gonna happen the day days are perfectly simple, driving
on smooth, decent, civilized roads.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Hot dog or Hamburger stand every care mark. I was
a fine skirt trying.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They had an even malone and it seemed like a lot.
I reckoned without hitting. Crossing Brooklyn Bridge that morning in
the rain, I saw a man leaning against the cables.
He seemed to be waiting for a lift. There were
spots of fresh rain on his shoulders. He was carrying
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a cheap overnight bag in one hand.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He was thin, non the script, with a cap fall down.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Over his eyes.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I would've forgotten him completely except for just an hour later,
while crossing the Pulaski Skyway over the Jersey Flats, I
saw him again. At least he looked like the same person.
He was standing now with one sum pointing west. I
couldn't figure out how he got there, but I thought
probably one of those fat trucks had.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Picked him up. Beat me to the skyway and let
him up. I didn't stop through.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
From late that night.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I saw him again.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Saw on the new Pennsylvania Turnpike between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.
It's two hundred and sixty five miles long with a
very high speed lines.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I was just throwing down for.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
All the tunnels when I saw him standing under an
arc light by the side of the rope.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I think I just think that the bag.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Of tap.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Even props of fresh wings trouble. Hello, Hello, Hello, I
stepped on the gas like a shock.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's lonely Country's play out games, And I had no
intention of stopping. Besides the coincidences, whoever it was name
the willis stopped in its gas issue.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Gess fell up, certainly, sir, check your auser. Oh, thanks,
nice night.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Hadn't yes, uh, hadn't been hiding here recently, haven't it?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I did drop a rain all the way?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh? Oh, I suppose that doesn't done here business any harm?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
People drive through here, all kinds of weather, mostly business.
You know there aren't many played your cars out on
the turnpike this season of the year.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Spose, what uh?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
What about hitchhikers?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Hitch hikers here?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's matter? Don't you ever see any not much?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
If we did, it'd be a pike for so ry.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Why, oh, guy, I'd be a fool who started out
to hitch rides on this road. Look at it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Then, you've never seen anybody?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
No, Maybe they get the lift before the turnpike starts,
I mean, you know, just before the toll house. But
then it'd be a mighty long ride.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Most cars wouldn't want to pick.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Up a guy with that long ride.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
And you know, this is pretty ownsome country here, mountains
and woods. You ain't seen.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Anybody like that. No, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
It was just a.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Technical question. That'll be just a dollar forty nine with attacked.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And gradually passed through my mind. A sheer coincidence.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I had a good night's sleep in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I didn't think about the man all next day until.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Just outside of Sainsville, Ohio, I saw him again. It's
a bright, sunshiny afternoon, the peaceful Ohio fields, brown with
the autumn stubble, a greeting and the golden light. I
was driving slowly, drinking it in, and the road suddenly
ended in a detour in front of the barrier he
was standing.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Let me explain about his appearance before I go on.
I repeat.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
There was nothing sinister about him. He was as drab
as a mud fence. I was as attitude menacing. He
merely stood there, waiting, almost drooping a little cheap overnight
bag in his hands. He looked as though he'd been
waiting there for hours, and he looked up he hailed me.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
He started to walk forward.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Oh hello, hello, No not just now, sorry, oh California.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No, not to day the other way, go to New York.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Sorry, I got the car back on the road again.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I can't have thought it, even picking him up, of
having him sit beside me.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
But somehow unbearable the same time, I broke more than ever,
unspeakably alone.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Hour after hour went by sears, the town was picked
off one by one.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
The light changed.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I knew now that I was gonna see him again.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And though I dreaded the sight, I caught myself searching
the side of the road lady for him to appear.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Why sandwich isn't pop here?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Don't you?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
We go the daytime.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I know when I was one of you to cross me.
I have a cup of coffee, black coffee.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Just oh that is cowfe My wife was Jesus, man,
gonna shut the door please?
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Goodten. Just a minute ago, just a minute ago, there was.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
A man standing here right decide to stand a suspicious
looking man. I I don't mean to disturb it. And
you see how I was driving along when I just
happened to look and there he was.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Oh's he doing?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Or nothing?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
You've been taking an that's what you been going.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I want your away before I go on terrible. I
got into the car again and drove on slowly to
get me to hate the car.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
If I could have found a place to stop a
rest of h I was in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri.
Now few resort places there were closed, Only an occasional.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Log cabin, seemingly deserted. That's all that broke and knocked
me into the wild wooded landscape. And I had seen
him at that roadside stand. I knew i'd seen him again,
maybe at the next turn of the road. I knew
that when I saw him next, I would run him down.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I didn't see him.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I didn't see him until late next afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Stopped the car to sleep a.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Little junctions just across the border into Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
The lot of train passed by.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
When he appeared across the tracks, leaning against the telephone pole, perfectly.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Airless, dry day. The red clay of Oklahoma was baking
under the southwestern sun.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yet there were spots of fresh rain on his shoulders.
I couldn't stand there without thinking blankly.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I started the car across the train.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
He didn't look up at me.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
He was starting at the ground.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I stepped on the garden carse during it.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Heel shortly taught him I could hear the train in
the distance.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Now I didn't care them. I went along with the car.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Training was coming closer. I could hilt the bell ringing,
and the crowd was twisting. Still he stood there, and
now I knew that he was beckoning, steckening me to
my desk.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
H I frustrated him that I started working.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
LAS managed to back up.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
In the train pass he was going. I was all
alone in the hot, dry afterno. After that, I knew
I had to do something.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
I didn't know who this man was, but what.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
He wanted of me.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I only knew that from now on I mustn't let
myself alone on the road for one minute. Uh hello, there,
make a ride?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Well what do you say? How are you going?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Where do you want to go?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'll drive you there?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Gee mine?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
If I take off my shoes, I dog a shoe
all right?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Gee?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
What a break there?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Much?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Sure, Tony, it's tough sometimes, and they break open crazes
to get the break.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
She think it would be, though, I'll bet you get
a good pickup and a fast car. He did you
get good places faster than say, another person and another.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Car, couldn't you?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I don't cat you.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Well.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Take me, for instance, suppose I'm I'm driving across the country.
They had a nice steady clip about forty five miles
an hour. I couldn't couldn't go like you, just standing
beside the road waiting for let's beat me to town
or any town. Why did she got picked up every
time in the car doing from sixty five to seventy
miles an hour?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I don't know what difference?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Does it make no difference? It's just crazy. I see
I'm sitting here in the car. Imagine spending your time
in a swell car thinking of things like that? What
would you do in step?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
What would I do if I was a good looking
fellow like yourself?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Why I just enjoy.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Myself every minute of that time.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I'd sit back and relax.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
If I saw a good looking girl on the side
of the.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Man staying inside the barbier fence, I didn't see anybody.
There wasn't nothing but a bunch of cars and the wire.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Fancy, what didn't you was doing trying to run into
the FireWire?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I tell you a ten gray Man of an overrun
bag in Hannah.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I was trying to run him down, let him dunb
kill him. He didn't see him? Maximum you sure I.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Didn't see a soul as far as watching for him.
The next time, I keep watch you guys peeled on
the row, you'll turn up again. There were there? How
does the door work?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
I've got a no.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I didn't see him that time, and personally.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Mister, I don't expect never to see him.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
All I want to do is go on living.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I don't see how I will very long driving with you.
I don't know what came over me.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Please don't go.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
If you'll excuse me, you can't go. Listen, how would
you like to go to California?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I'll grab you to California, seeing pink elephants all the way.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
No, thanks, ha ha thanks, please just just one minute tease?
Speaker 8 (17:36):
You know what I think you need, big boy, Not
a girlfriend, just a good Joseph's Please.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
There, I got it now.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
You can't go.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Please put your friends off me.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
She ran, I were a monster.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I'm gonna later. I saw a passing truck picker up.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I knew then that I was.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Utterly alone.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's in a part of the Great Texas Prairies. There
wasn't a car on the road.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
As the truck went by, I tried to figure out
what to do, how to get cooling myself.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I could find a place to rest, or even if
I could sleep right here.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
In the car for a few hours long on the
side of the road. It's getting my winter overcoat out
of the back seat to use as a blanket.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
When I saw him coming toward me, emerging from the
herd of moving steer, Oh, maybe I.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Should have spoken to him then, fought it out then
and there. But now he began to be everywhere wherever.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I stopped, even for a moment for gas.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
For oil, for a drink of pop.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
A cup of Cosses sandwich.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
He was there. I saw him standing outside the auto
camp in Amarilla that night when I was there, just
slow down, was sitting near the Drinking Fountain, a little
camping spot just inside the border of New Mexico. He
was waiting for me outside the Navajo reservation where I
stopped to check my tires.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I saw him in Albuquerque when I bought twenty gallons
of gas. I was afraid to stop him. I began
to drive faster and faster.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I was.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
In lunar landscape, a great arid mesa country of New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I drove through it with the indifference of a fly
crawling over the space of the moon. Now he didn't even.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Wait for me to stop, unless I drove at eighty
five miles an hour over those endless roads, he waited
for me, and every other mile I'd see his figure, handleless,
flitting before me, still in the same attitude.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Over the cold.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Life was scrawled, flitting over dried up rivers, over broken stones,
cast up by old glacier up evils, flitting in that
pure and cloudy saner.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Was beside myself.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
When I finally reached Gallop, New Mexico's side, there's an
auto cant here, the.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Cold almost deserted this time of the year.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I went inside it asked if there was a telephone,
and the feeling that if only I could speak to
someone from India, someone I above, I could pull myself together.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
You call please long distance.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Longest in Suddenly, this is long Diday.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I'd like to put in a call to my home
in Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I'm Ronald Adams. The number is Beechwood two o eight
two eight.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Certainly I'll try to get up for you.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Albuquerque, New York for Gallup, New York, Gallup, New Mexico.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Calling Beechwood two oh a two eight.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I read somewhere that love could vanish lemons. It's the
middle of the morning. I knew mother would be home.
I pictured her, tall and white haired, and her crisp
postress going about her tasks. Good enough, I thought, just
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to hear the even calmness of her voice.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Will you please deposit three dollars eighty five cents for
the first three minutes.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
When you have.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Deposited a dollar and a half, will you wait until
I have collected the money? Alright, deposit another dollar and
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a half. Will you please deposit the remaining eighty five cents?
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Ready with Brooklyn go ahead?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Please?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Hello is Adam's resident?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Hello? Mother Adam's residence?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Who is it Jewish to speak to?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Please?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
What or who is this? This is missus t Whinney,
missus Winnie.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I don't know any Missus Twinny.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Is this Beechwood two eight two eight?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yes, m Well, whe where's my mother?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Where's missus Adams?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Missus Adams is not at home.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
She's still in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
The hospital.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yes, the West is calling.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Please is it a member of the family.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Well, what's she in the hospital for.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
She's been prostrated for five days, nervous breakdown.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
But who is nervous breakdown?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Well, my grandmother never was nervous.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It's all taken place since the death of her oldest son.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Ronald.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Jeb Jsip, her oldest son, Ronald.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Hey, what's this?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
What number is this? This is Beechwood two o eight
two eight. It's all been very sudden. He was stilled
just six days ago in a notable bile accident on
the Brooklyn Bridge.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
You're three minutes our up, sir, Your three minutes our up, sir,
Your three minutes our ups.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
And so.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
So I'm sitting here in this deserted auto camp and
yell of New Mexico. I'm trying to think, trying to
get a hold of myself, otherwise I.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Am going to go crazy. Outside it's night, the last soulless.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Night of New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
A million stars are in the sky.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Ahead of me, stretch one thousand miles of empty Messa
mountains prairies.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Listen, somewhere among them, He's waiting for me somewhere. I
shall know.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Who he is and who I am, So ends the hitchhiker,
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add to Austin Wells are considerable thanks for his playing
of the title role.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Mister Wells help wanted men, women and children.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Nature of work hard, monotonous, backbreaking labor hours seventy five
a week minimum, a few cents an hour added inducement
two meals a day, including several ounces of bad bread
and a cup of thin soup.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Don't delay, apply at once. How'd you respond to a
wand ad like that, mister and missus American working man
and woman? He'd laugh?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Wouldn't you throw the paper in the trash basket, dismiss
the whole advertisement of some kind of a joke.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Would believe me, It's no joke.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's a simple statement of the working conditions that exist
today in Nazi Germany and the conquered countries under Nazi rule.
It's all some exact statement of the working conditions. It'll
be imposed on you and every member of your family
if the Nazis win this war. You yourself, personally can
stop them from winning. As you know, you don't have
to give up your well paid job to do it.
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You needn't have to be a soldier or a sailor,
or an airman, or a nurse or a war worker
to ensure American victory. Uncle Sam doesn't ask plain ordinary
hard working citizens like you to give him anything.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
All he asks, always, he.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Does ask, very seriously, very urgently, is that you loan
him ten cents out of it every dollar you make.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Lend Uncle Sam a dime to win this war, and
he'll pay you back with interest when he's won it.
The easiest, most convenient way to lend him these dimes
is to enroll in the Payroll Savings Plan. Just tell
your boss to deduct ten cents from every dollar he
pays you and lend it.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
To Uncle Sam in your name.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Sign up for this simple savings plan today, and when
victory comes, you will have war bonds in your pockets
instead of access bonds.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
On your wrists. Suspense will be heard again two weeks
from tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Next Wednesday night, September ninth, the Columbia Broadcasting System will
present over many of.
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These stations at nine thirty p m.
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Eastern wartime and addressed by w Averell Harriman. The United
States lend Lease Administrator in London. Mister Harriman, as the
personal representative of the President of the United States, attended
the Moscow Conferences between Winston Churchill.
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And Joseph Stallion.
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Next Wednesdays broadcast will be mister hamp Brhman's first public.
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Address since his return to this country.
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Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. John Dietz
was our guest director this evening. Tonight's radio drama was
written by Lucille Fletcher. The original score was by Bernard Herman.