September 23, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And now stay tuned for a program that has rated
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history. The Signal
Oil Program, the Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline.
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Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler, strange
story kind thought.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Grant Adamson leaned back in the heavy leather chair behind
the broad mahogany desk set diagonally across the corner of
his office, and tried to appear relaxed as he reached
for a cigarette, placed it carefully between his lips, and
flicked a flame from his cigarette lighter. Inside, he was trembling,
his stomach full of sick fear, and he knew the
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man sitting across the desk from him could see it.
This was no time to let down the bars, though
he looked past Dave Matthew's shoulder out the window, gazed
fondly at the stacks and chimneys now covered more than
an acre of ground Adamson Chemicals Incorporated. And all of it,
right down to the last paper clip in that shiny
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mahogany desk at stake, hanging on Dave Matthew's decision.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I've got to admit I hardly recognize the old place. Grant.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yes, Dave, there's been quite a change.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh, that's pretty good. Violent nineteen forty six, Adamson Matthews
sixteen employees are one story building on twenty third Street,
making ink eradicated. I go off to Japan with the
occupation forces, come back five years later, and quite a corporation.
Quite a change, is right.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, I've tried to keep the ball rolling.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes, it seems at this point that I am a
very wealthy man.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I listened, Dave. I tried to make it clear.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It didn't make anything clear.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, I'm referring to the settlement I offered you. I've
given a lot of thought, Dave, and I think it's
only fair.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That I like you by me out. No, you can't
buy me out, Grant, I'm an equal partner, and that's
the way I want.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's not good sense. Look, Dave, be honest with yourself.
You're a small operator. You're all right in a small
incoradicated business.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
But why this is too big for you?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It was too big for you too, wasn't it, Grant?
Meaning what that you're not really a success a business
builder at all. True, you've apparently come a long way
in five years, but you did it because you were
able to get to a few opportunities. As unscrupulous as you.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Are, I'm afraid I don't understand you.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know you're lucky you've got a partner, Grant. After all,
someone's going to have to put this business on an
honest basis while you're gone.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You're going to prison, Grant. I'll wait, No, you wait
a minute. I didn't just come back. You know. I've
been around for five months now putting the pieces together.
They make a very interesting picture, Granted. Graft, bribery, phony
government contracts out now, theft. No business built on dishonesty
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can ever last, Grant Ath, I'm not through while you're away.
I'm going to try and rectify every dishonest deal you've pulled. Oh,
don't look so horrified. You're a grafter more than that,
a plain crook. I pet your signature and a dozen
pieces of paper to prove that.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Oh no, now, look, Dave, you wouldn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Do me a favor, would you please, for the sake
of our old partnership. Don't be a whining hypocrite.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
What do you mean, Dave?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
What proof? Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The usual stuff, letters, signed memorandums, A couple of affidavits,
a set of canceled checks, and that highly profitable phost
Gene contract.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I see, well, Dave, you will give me time to
think this over.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Nothing to think over at all, but a partnership. Just forget.
I'm not for sale. I've got the proof of your
crooked operations in my little brown briefcase. The items I
just mentioned will be in the hands of the investigation
board in Washington Wednesday morning. I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon on
the five o'clock plane.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So that's it, Grant. You build it from nothing, from
a small ground floor operation with sixteen employees. You put
it together like a magic chemical formula without too much
regard for the ingredients, and discover that a nation on
a semi war footing doesn't always take time to ask questions.
And now it's about to explode in your face, isn't
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it grand? You know that Dave Matthews can't be bought,
and that it'll be all over the moment he walks
into that board room in Washington, d C. You wish
you knew some way to stop him. Don't you grant anyway?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Anyway, any way to stop him?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
What did you say, mister Adamson.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Oh, oh, nothing, Miss Williams. I've just got a lot
on my mind.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I think you need a vacation more than I do.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yes, that's right. You are going away tomorrow, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
I feel a little guilty about it. There's so much
to be done.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Oh no, no, no, you randed, Miss Williams.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
I hope. So, mister Adamson, there's something I wanted to
tell you about before I go. Yes, it sounds a
little petty, I know, but well, there was a little
misunderstanding about who was to take my place while I
was gone.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Well I left that entirely emp I.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Know, But you see, I suggested miss Dickens. Oh she's
quite capable, good typist and stenographer, But I forgot all
about Miss Preston Florence Preston. She's been with us so
much longer, and she was a little put out when
I didn't suggest her.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Well, it doesn't matter me either way, Miss Williams. I'm
sure you'll get over.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
She's really very nice. I thought perhaps you would say
something to her, I mean, about how important she is
in the job she's doing. She'd feel a lot better.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
All right, I'll take care of it now if you don't.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I'm sorry to have bothered you, mister Adamson, but I'll
enjoy the trip much more knowing that you'll sort of
smooth things over.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yes, oh, oh, just a minute, Miss Williams. Where did
you tell me you were going?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Baltimore?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Baltimore, that's near Washington, and you're leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Yes, I'm awfully thrilled, mister Adamson. It'll be the first
time I've seen my family in five.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Years, going by train, Miss Williams. Yes, sir, I won't
give you much time with him, will It.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Not a lot, but a few days will still be wonderful.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
How would you like to fly? Fly?
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I couldn't afford that, mister Adminson.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Is that the only thing that stopping you? The expense? Well, yes,
miss Williams, I've felt for a long time I should
do something for you. You've been very capable, very loyal. Ah,
not another word. I want you to run right down
to the railroad office and turn in those train tickets.
You're going to fly to Washington, Miss Williams, at our expense,
and from there it's just a step to Baltimore.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Why, mister Adamson, it's a very kind thought.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
But ah, that's enough. Don't thank me. You've earned it
and you better hurry now.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
But what about reservations?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Say that to me.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Oh, by the way, you'll be leaving tomorrow afternoon on
the five o'clock Washington plane. Hello reservation clerk, please Hello,
this is Grant Adamson speaking Adamson Chemical Company. I want
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to reserve a seat on the five o'clock flight to
Washington tomorrow afternoon. That's right, Yes, it's for my secretary.
Her name is Williams, Margaret L.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Williams.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Your kind thought, as Miss Williams expressed, it is something else,
isn't it, Grant. It has to do with the fact
that Miss williams vacation trip coincides exactly with a trip
Dave Matthews is taking to Washington, d C. That you've
managed to arrange for them to be on the same plane.
And above all, you know now that everything depends on
you are making sure Dave Matthews never gets there. It's
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quite late in the afternoon when you stroll into one
of the company's chemical laboratories.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Well, mister Adamson, surprised to see you down here in
the plane.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Hi, Donald, I guess I'm just the old fireman running
to the fire say you know, Donald, Yes, eh, I'm
sick of being a businessman. I get the edge once
in a while to get my hands on a test tube.
Smell a bunchon burner.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
I don't wonder, sir. I think i'd get a little
tired of sitting behind a desk too.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yes, Hey, Donald, why don't you take the evening off Ritchie?
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Whyet enjoy it?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yes, I'd like to put her around for a few hours.
I got a ideas I want to work out. There's
no use in both of us being here.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
That's nice of you, mister Adamson.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Oh, you're sure that the cabinet's all unlocked. Yes, sir,
and your equipment's all out. You're sure you don't mind
being here alone?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Oh no, I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I'll go to it.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Then help yourself. It's your laboratory after all.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Thank you, Donald. I will.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
The minute Donald leaves, you locked the door and set
to work, praying that you haven't lost the skill you
used to have as a laboratory chemist. Three hours later,
you're getting close.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Now the distillate, that's it, one hundred CC's good.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The gelatin, what a cool little.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I think that ought to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You stop for a minute now, waiting for the gelatine
to cool in a thick insulating layer above the yellowish
liquid in the bottle, a bottle that you pick from
the shelf, about the size of a cologne bottle. Yes, Grant,
you were never more sincere in your life when you
told yourself that you'd do anything to prevent David Matthews
from getting to Washington on that plane. Nothing else matters
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to you so long as you stop him, Not even
the lives of Matthews, Miss Williams, the other passengers on
the plane, nothing, so long as you stop it. The
gelatin's cool, now, Grant, Just the acid on top of it,
and your personally constructed time bomb will be ready.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
That's got it, Yes, mister Dave Matthews, this will dissolve
our partnership in a big way.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
In spring, when Milady's spirits need perking up. You know
how quickly a new spring bonnet can do the trick, Well,
just that quickly. There's a way you can perk up
your car spirits this spring. How Why simply by changing
its diet to signal ethyl, the premium grade of signals
famous go farther gasoline. Yes, with the very first tankful
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of signal ethyl, even tired, grumpy motors sound as sweet
as the Robin's first song. When you step on the accelerator,
you feel signal ethyl whisk you forward like a sudden
spring zephyr. And when you see how effortlessly signal Ethyl's smooth,
ping free power takes you over those steep hills in
high Mark, my word, you'll get the urge to head
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your car for the open highway and enjoy spring. Gosh, friend,
when it's that easy to get more fun out of
every mile you drive, why put it off this week?
For sure? Drive into a signal station, fill up with
a super fuel that's scientifically engineered to bring out the
best in any car of any age, signal ethel that is.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well granted, it's the biggest deal you ever tackled in
your life. Isn't it your plan to kill Dave Matthews
to prevent him from exposing your crooked deals in Washington,
deals that can send you to prison. As you lie
in bed that night thinking it through again, you tell
yourself that it's a gamble. A bomb in an airplane
is a fantastic idea, and unless everything goes off exactly
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on schedule, it might fail. But the moral aspects surrounding
the wholesale murder of the other passengers on the plane
with a time bomb doesn't stop you for a second,
because that's just the kind of a mind you have,
isn't it, Grant. You've never been concerned with rightness or wrongness,
only with the surest, quickest way of getting what you want.
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And you've made up your mind now that Dave Matthews
will never reach Washington with that briefcase and the incriminating
evidence against you. It's earlier than usual when you arrive
at your office the next.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Morning, Good morning, mister Adamson.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Oh Hello, miss Sir Dickens. Sir, Oh, yes, Miss Dickens.
Miss Williams told me about your taking her place yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
She's awfully thrilled over your sending her by plane. We
had a party last night. She told us all about it.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I'm glad she's pleased. Let's see now, we don't want
any disappointments. Did the airline people confirm the reservation?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yes, sir, they called a half hour ago, the five
o'clock flight this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I wonder who's sing her off caller for me, william Yes, sir, Hello,
Miss Williams, this is mister Adamson. Well, I'm very happy
I called to tell you your reservation is made on
the five o'clock plane.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
How are you getting down to the airport the taxi?
Oh that's nonsense, No, no, no, I'll take you down myself.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
No trouble at all.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Now that's enough, Miss Williams, I won't hear of it.
I'll pick you up at four this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Goodbye, Miss Williams.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
There you are, sir. We can give either the clone
or the perfume.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I'll take the cologne.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You sure this is the largest bottle you have, Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I'm sure she'd be quite happy with it.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yes, I suppose you will, all right, and I'd like
it gift wrapped. You know, lots of ribbons, fancy stuff.
Do you have a wrapping department here?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Yes, sir, you can take it over yourself, counter nine.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Thank you, I will.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But before you get to counter nine, you step into
a telephone booth, take off the tissue, paper, wrapping and
the bottle of cologne. Wrap it around the other bottle
you've been carrying in your overcoat pocket. The wrapping click
doesn't give it a second glance. Five minutes later, it's
done up in fancy ribbons and colored paper. A going
away present for Peggy Williams, an extra thoughtful little touch
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from a kind and generous employer. You glance at your watch.
Quarter to four. In a half hour you'll be on
your way to the airport.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I'm awfully sorry to be taking you from your work,
mister Adamson. I know how busy you are to.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Get it, miss Williams. Oh, by the way, here's a
little something I picked up this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
It's quite an occasion, you.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Know, oh, mister Adamson. For me it's just a cologne,
a little. Oh, mister Adamson, this is too much.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
It isn't right, Williams.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
So it isn't right. I just think it is.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Shall we let it go at that, mister Adamson.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I don't deserve all this, of course you do.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Now you just enjoy your trip, have fun, and don't
you dare open that pretty package to your parents can see?
Oh I won't.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I wouldn't think of it. But you've been so perfect,
mister Adamson that.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I well, Miss Peggy, Oh really, I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Please don't be angry with me, mister Adams. I shouldn't
have kissed you, I know, but well I'm awfully sentimentally.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Oh that's quite all right, Peggy.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
In fact, I i'm awfully sorry that you're going away
for such a long time.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
It's such a beautiful package. What kind of cologne is it?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Well, I don't know, I forget what it's called.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
But don't you open it till you get home. I won't.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That's a promise.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yes, grant you're seeing Peggy Williams off on a long trip,
a very long trip with your all partner Dave Mackers.
As the two of you walk into the terminal, you
see that Dave has already arrived, sitting with his back
toward you reading the paper. Seeing him removes the last
twinge of conscience you have regarding Peggy Williams and the
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other passengers. You glance again at the ribbon package in
Peggy William's right hand, knowing that it won't be much
longer before the inulating layer of gelatine dissolves, results in
a stunning explosion two hours if your calculations were correct,
Somewhere between six point fifteen and six thirty. As the
plane passes into Arizona, you walk up to the ticket
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counter to check with a clerk.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Five o'clock.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
He's bound.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Yes, I'm sorry, sir, that flight's going to be a
little late getting off. What'd you say? The five o'clock
flight will be late? Well, Holly it well, we're trying
to arrange a six o'clock takeoff. I'm not sure yet.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
It's all right, mister Adamson.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
You don't have to wait with yes, but I do. Peggy.
You see, I want to be sure that you get
off all right. Uh, clerk, you said six o'clock.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
I hope so, sir, Yes, so, do I.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
You spend almost an hour with Peggy and the terminal
cocktail lounge, running out to the lobby every five minutes
to make certain Dave Matthews is waiting for the takeoff
and the check with a clerk about take off time,
knowing that now the time is getting close, that perhaps
the thing to do is to grab the package from
Peggy's lap and rush out with it, throw it in
a vacant field somewhere. But there's still a chance, Grant,
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you've still a better part of half an hour, and
you're still a gambler. Then at five minutes to six,
you checked with a clerk and find the plane is
taking off in a few minutes. On your way back
to the lounge, you decide that despite what the clerk said,
there might be further delayed, a dangerous delay, that you've
got to get the package back from Peggy. When you
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return to your table, Peggy isn't there now, worsh.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
However, waiter, waiter, where did the lady go?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
The one I was sitting. She'll be right back, says
she er.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
She went out to the check stand, wanted to check
the packages that she was carrying. Said she didn't know
how long she'd have to wait, and she was tired
of carrying her.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
She checked her packages.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Some matterser, something wrong, like.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Twenty one he's found now loading at gate three. Wait
a minute, flight twenty one he's twelve now loading at
gay three.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Wrong waiter.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
No, no, nothing wrong at all.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Mister Adamson.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Oh, oh there you hearty.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Guess what, mister Adamson. There's an old friend of yours
making the trip. No friends to Matthews. I didn't remember him,
but he knew me.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Oh oh yes, I forgot to mention it too.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
He was your partner when you first started out, wasn't.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
He Dave Matthews? Yes, yes, Oh did you?
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Did you tell him I was here?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
He said, he's sorry, he won't be able to see you.
There isn't much time, and he went on board to
get a seats together.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Oh I see why.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
That's nice of Dave to do that. But if they're
leaving soon, hadn't you better get on the plane.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Yes, I just wanted to thank you again, mister Adamson.
No one's ever done so many nice things for me.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
It's beggar.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
You mustn't hold him up. Oh, wait a minute, where's
the bottle of Colone.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I gave you. You didn't forget it.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
You didn't leave it at the checks down, No, mister Adamson.
Mister Matthews took it aboard for me.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Oh that's fine. That's loading, Peggy. You're holding them up.
You better get out there.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
I'll hurry goodbye, mister Adamson.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
All right, you do that, of course, I run along.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Mister Adamson. You won't be angry at me for anything.
I know you enjoy doing nice things for people. And
when a girl.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Talking about Peggy, oh you mean about kissing me? Of
course I won't be a It isn't just that. Please,
Now you're making me nervous. Will you get on that
plane and let them take it?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
All right? And don't forget to tell Florence Preston I'm sorry.
I didn't suggest it to fill in for me while
I'm away. Of course, Pey, I will now, Yes, I'll go. Goodbye,
mister Adamson. I'll think of you all the way you're
You're the kind of sweetest man I've ever known.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Spring or nose. Spring. You wouldn't feel nearly as peppy,
would you if you had to keep right on wearing
heavy winter clothes. Well, that's just how your car feels
about running on tired, old winter motor oil and gear
loub Now that spring is here, so if you want
to put spring into your driving, it's high time you
were treating your car to a spring changeover at a
signal service station. First step is to drain your motor
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and refill with Signal Premium, the new heavy duty type
oil that reduces engine wear due to lubrication fifty percent.
Next step is fresh signal gear loube for transmission and differential,
and a signal double checked lubrication for the chassis. At
the same time, your signal dealer will be glad to
check those other points that need attention every five or
ten thousand miles, such as front wheel bearings, oil filter,
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or air cleaner. Say, a car just can't help feeling
peppier after it spring tonic like this, So for extra
driving pleasure all summer, see your signal dealer this week
for a signal spring changeover.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Well granted at long last, Peggy's on the plane happily
seated next to Dave Matthews. That's interesting, isn't it grand
Like a chemistry equation, each element balancing the other. Dave
on one side with an important briefcase, Peggy on the
other with an even more important bottle. The tension is
worse than ever now as you stand at the edge
of the parking lot watching the plane taxing to the runway.
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You'll feel a lot better after the plane gets into
the air. When you're sure the unexplained explosion will take
place somewhere above five thousand feet and not on the
ground where prying investigators might uncover the answer, you glance
at your watch. Six fifteen. It should only be a
matter of fifteen or twenty minutes now. The plane finally
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turns around in a half circle into the wind. The
pilot guns the engines for a few seconds, and then
the plane rushes down the runway towards you. They're off, granted,
and you are certain you've won.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Yes, sir, oh the blue Cadillac in the second line.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Here's my ticket, Yes, sir, I'll bring it around for you.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
As you drive out of the parking lot, you find
yourself wondering how far away you'll be when the explosion occurs,
and then realize that by now the plane carrying Dave
Matthews and his evidence against you probably been blown the bits.
It won't hurt to take the long way home. I
have all the time in the world. Now you turn
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off the busy highway and onto a quiet country road.
Too bad about Peggy, wasn't it. You'll have to think
of something nice to say about her when the news breaks.
She was so thoughtful, so innocent as she sat there
beside you this afternoon when you gave her the cologne bottle.
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You drive idly along the open road for about ten minutes,
and then glance over at the empty seat where something
catches your eye. A note pin to the feet.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Dear mister Adams. I didn't want to ask you about
this because I thought it might hurt your feelings. I
know you enjoy giving things and want people who receive
them to enjoy them too. Please don't be angry, but
I am still worried about having heard Florence Presson's feelings.
When you speak to her, would you would you give
her the bottle of cologne? I fibbed a little when
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I said, mister Matthews took her aboard the plane because
I wanted Florence to have it. I put the bottle
in the glove compartment of your car.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Wait a minute, no, no, Let that whistle be your
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Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler, strange
story kind thought.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Grant Adamson leaned back in the heavy leather chair behind
the broad mahogany desk set diagonally across the corner of
his office, and tried to appear relaxed as he reached
for a cigarette, placed it carefully between his lips, and
flicked a flame from his cigarette lighter. Inside, he was trembling,
his stomach full of sick fear, and he knew the
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man sitting across the desk from him could see it.
This was no time to let down the bars, though
he looked past Dave Matthew's shoulder out the window, gazed
fondly at the stacks and chimneys now covered more than
an acre of ground Adamson Chemicals Incorporated. And all of it,
right down to the last paper clip in that shiny
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mahogany desk at stake, hanging on Dave Matthew's decision.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I've got to admit I hardly recognize the old place. Grant.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yes, Dave, there's been quite a change.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh, that's pretty good. Violent nineteen forty six, Adamson Matthews
sixteen employees are one story building on twenty third Street,
making ink eradicated. I go off to Japan with the
occupation forces, come back five years later, and quite a corporation.
Quite a change, is right.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, I've tried to keep the ball rolling.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes, it seems at this point that I am a
very wealthy man.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I listened, Dave. I tried to make it clear.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It didn't make anything clear.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, I'm referring to the settlement I offered you. I've
given a lot of thought, Dave, and I think it's
only fair.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That I like you by me out. No, you can't
buy me out, Grant, I'm an equal partner, and that's
the way I want.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's not good sense. Look, Dave, be honest with yourself.
You're a small operator. You're all right in a small
incoradicated business.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
But why this is too big for you?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It was too big for you too, wasn't it, Grant?
Meaning what that you're not really a success a business
builder at all. True, you've apparently come a long way
in five years, but you did it because you were
able to get to a few opportunities. As unscrupulous as you.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Are, I'm afraid I don't understand you.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know you're lucky you've got a partner, Grant. After all,
someone's going to have to put this business on an
honest basis while you're gone.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You're going to prison, Grant. I'll wait, No, you wait
a minute. I didn't just come back. You know. I've
been around for five months now putting the pieces together.
They make a very interesting picture, Granted. Graft, bribery, phony
government contracts out now, theft. No business built on dishonesty
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can ever last, Grant Ath, I'm not through while you're away.
I'm going to try and rectify every dishonest deal you've pulled. Oh,
don't look so horrified. You're a grafter more than that,
a plain crook. I pet your signature and a dozen
pieces of paper to prove that.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Oh no, now, look, Dave, you wouldn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Do me a favor, would you please, for the sake
of our old partnership. Don't be a whining hypocrite.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
What do you mean, Dave?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
What proof? Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The usual stuff, letters, signed memorandums, A couple of affidavits,
a set of canceled checks, and that highly profitable phost
Gene contract.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I see, well, Dave, you will give me time to
think this over.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Nothing to think over at all, but a partnership. Just forget.
I'm not for sale. I've got the proof of your
crooked operations in my little brown briefcase. The items I
just mentioned will be in the hands of the investigation
board in Washington Wednesday morning. I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon on
the five o'clock plane.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So that's it, Grant. You build it from nothing, from
a small ground floor operation with sixteen employees. You put
it together like a magic chemical formula without too much
regard for the ingredients, and discover that a nation on
a semi war footing doesn't always take time to ask questions.
And now it's about to explode in your face, isn't
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it grand? You know that Dave Matthews can't be bought,
and that it'll be all over the moment he walks
into that board room in Washington, d C. You wish
you knew some way to stop him. Don't you grant anyway?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Anyway, any way to stop him?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
What did you say, mister Adamson.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Oh, oh, nothing, Miss Williams. I've just got a lot
on my mind.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I think you need a vacation more than I do.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yes, that's right. You are going away tomorrow, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
I feel a little guilty about it. There's so much
to be done.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Oh no, no, no, you randed, Miss Williams.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
I hope. So, mister Adamson, there's something I wanted to
tell you about before I go. Yes, it sounds a
little petty, I know, but well, there was a little
misunderstanding about who was to take my place while I
was gone.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Well I left that entirely emp I.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Know, But you see, I suggested miss Dickens. Oh she's
quite capable, good typist and stenographer, But I forgot all
about Miss Preston Florence Preston. She's been with us so
much longer, and she was a little put out when
I didn't suggest her.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Well, it doesn't matter me either way, Miss Williams. I'm
sure you'll get over.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
She's really very nice. I thought perhaps you would say
something to her, I mean, about how important she is
in the job she's doing. She'd feel a lot better.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
All right, I'll take care of it now if you don't.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I'm sorry to have bothered you, mister Adamson, but I'll
enjoy the trip much more knowing that you'll sort of
smooth things over.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yes, oh, oh, just a minute, Miss Williams. Where did
you tell me you were going?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Baltimore?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Baltimore, that's near Washington, and you're leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Yes, I'm awfully thrilled, mister Adamson. It'll be the first
time I've seen my family in five.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Years, going by train, Miss Williams. Yes, sir, I won't
give you much time with him, will It.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Not a lot, but a few days will still be wonderful.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
How would you like to fly? Fly?
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I couldn't afford that, mister Adminson.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Is that the only thing that stopping you? The expense? Well, yes,
miss Williams, I've felt for a long time I should
do something for you. You've been very capable, very loyal. Ah,
not another word. I want you to run right down
to the railroad office and turn in those train tickets.
You're going to fly to Washington, Miss Williams, at our expense,
and from there it's just a step to Baltimore.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Why, mister Adamson, it's a very kind thought.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
But ah, that's enough. Don't thank me. You've earned it
and you better hurry now.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
But what about reservations?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Say that to me.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Oh, by the way, you'll be leaving tomorrow afternoon on
the five o'clock Washington plane. Hello reservation clerk, please Hello,
this is Grant Adamson speaking Adamson Chemical Company. I want
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to reserve a seat on the five o'clock flight to
Washington tomorrow afternoon. That's right, Yes, it's for my secretary.
Her name is Williams, Margaret L.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Williams.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Your kind thought, as Miss Williams expressed, it is something else,
isn't it, Grant. It has to do with the fact
that Miss williams vacation trip coincides exactly with a trip
Dave Matthews is taking to Washington, d C. That you've
managed to arrange for them to be on the same plane.
And above all, you know now that everything depends on
you are making sure Dave Matthews never gets there. It's
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quite late in the afternoon when you stroll into one
of the company's chemical laboratories.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Well, mister Adamson, surprised to see you down here in
the plane.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Hi, Donald, I guess I'm just the old fireman running
to the fire say you know, Donald, Yes, eh, I'm
sick of being a businessman. I get the edge once
in a while to get my hands on a test tube.
Smell a bunchon burner.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
I don't wonder, sir. I think i'd get a little
tired of sitting behind a desk too.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yes, Hey, Donald, why don't you take the evening off Ritchie?
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Whyet enjoy it?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yes, I'd like to put her around for a few hours.
I got a ideas I want to work out. There's
no use in both of us being here.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
That's nice of you, mister Adamson.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Oh, you're sure that the cabinet's all unlocked. Yes, sir,
and your equipment's all out. You're sure you don't mind
being here alone?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Oh no, I don't mind.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I'll go to it.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Then help yourself. It's your laboratory after all.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Thank you, Donald. I will.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
The minute Donald leaves, you locked the door and set
to work, praying that you haven't lost the skill you
used to have as a laboratory chemist. Three hours later,
you're getting close.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Now the distillate, that's it, one hundred CC's good.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The gelatin, what a cool little.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I think that ought to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You stop for a minute now, waiting for the gelatine
to cool in a thick insulating layer above the yellowish
liquid in the bottle, a bottle that you pick from
the shelf, about the size of a cologne bottle. Yes, Grant,
you were never more sincere in your life when you
told yourself that you'd do anything to prevent David Matthews
from getting to Washington on that plane. Nothing else matters
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to you so long as you stop him, Not even
the lives of Matthews, Miss Williams, the other passengers on
the plane, nothing, so long as you stop it. The
gelatin's cool, now, Grant, Just the acid on top of it,
and your personally constructed time bomb will be ready.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
That's got it, Yes, mister Dave Matthews, this will dissolve
our partnership in a big way.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
In spring, when Milady's spirits need perking up. You know
how quickly a new spring bonnet can do the trick, Well,
just that quickly. There's a way you can perk up
your car spirits this spring. How Why simply by changing
its diet to signal ethyl, the premium grade of signals
famous go farther gasoline. Yes, with the very first tankful
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of signal ethyl, even tired, grumpy motors sound as sweet
as the Robin's first song. When you step on the accelerator,
you feel signal ethyl whisk you forward like a sudden
spring zephyr. And when you see how effortlessly signal Ethyl's smooth,
ping free power takes you over those steep hills in
high Mark, my word, you'll get the urge to head
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your car for the open highway and enjoy spring. Gosh, friend,
when it's that easy to get more fun out of
every mile you drive, why put it off this week?
For sure? Drive into a signal station, fill up with
a super fuel that's scientifically engineered to bring out the
best in any car of any age, signal ethel that is.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well granted, it's the biggest deal you ever tackled in
your life. Isn't it your plan to kill Dave Matthews
to prevent him from exposing your crooked deals in Washington,
deals that can send you to prison. As you lie
in bed that night thinking it through again, you tell
yourself that it's a gamble. A bomb in an airplane
is a fantastic idea, and unless everything goes off exactly
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on schedule, it might fail. But the moral aspects surrounding
the wholesale murder of the other passengers on the plane
with a time bomb doesn't stop you for a second,
because that's just the kind of a mind you have,
isn't it, Grant. You've never been concerned with rightness or wrongness,
only with the surest, quickest way of getting what you want.
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And you've made up your mind now that Dave Matthews
will never reach Washington with that briefcase and the incriminating
evidence against you. It's earlier than usual when you arrive
at your office the next.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Morning, Good morning, mister Adamson.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Oh Hello, miss Sir Dickens. Sir, Oh, yes, Miss Dickens.
Miss Williams told me about your taking her place yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
She's awfully thrilled over your sending her by plane. We
had a party last night. She told us all about it.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I'm glad she's pleased. Let's see now, we don't want
any disappointments. Did the airline people confirm the reservation?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yes, sir, they called a half hour ago, the five
o'clock flight this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I wonder who's sing her off caller for me, william Yes, sir, Hello,
Miss Williams, this is mister Adamson. Well, I'm very happy
I called to tell you your reservation is made on
the five o'clock plane.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
How are you getting down to the airport the taxi?
Oh that's nonsense, No, no, no, I'll take you down myself.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
No trouble at all.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Now that's enough, Miss Williams, I won't hear of it.
I'll pick you up at four this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Goodbye, Miss Williams.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
There you are, sir. We can give either the clone
or the perfume.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I'll take the cologne.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You sure this is the largest bottle you have, Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I'm sure she'd be quite happy with it.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yes, I suppose you will, all right, and I'd like
it gift wrapped. You know, lots of ribbons, fancy stuff.
Do you have a wrapping department here?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Yes, sir, you can take it over yourself, counter nine.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Thank you, I will.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But before you get to counter nine, you step into
a telephone booth, take off the tissue, paper, wrapping and
the bottle of cologne. Wrap it around the other bottle
you've been carrying in your overcoat pocket. The wrapping click
doesn't give it a second glance. Five minutes later, it's
done up in fancy ribbons and colored paper. A going
away present for Peggy Williams, an extra thoughtful little touch
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from a kind and generous employer. You glance at your watch.
Quarter to four. In a half hour you'll be on
your way to the airport.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I'm awfully sorry to be taking you from your work,
mister Adamson. I know how busy you are to.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Get it, miss Williams. Oh, by the way, here's a
little something I picked up this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
It's quite an occasion, you.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Know, oh, mister Adamson. For me it's just a cologne,
a little. Oh, mister Adamson, this is too much.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
It isn't right, Williams.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
So it isn't right. I just think it is.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Shall we let it go at that, mister Adamson.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I don't deserve all this, of course you do.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Now you just enjoy your trip, have fun, and don't
you dare open that pretty package to your parents can see?
Oh I won't.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I wouldn't think of it. But you've been so perfect,
mister Adamson that.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I well, Miss Peggy, Oh really, I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Please don't be angry with me, mister Adams. I shouldn't
have kissed you, I know, but well I'm awfully sentimentally.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Oh that's quite all right, Peggy.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
In fact, I i'm awfully sorry that you're going away
for such a long time.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
It's such a beautiful package. What kind of cologne is it?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Well, I don't know, I forget what it's called.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
But don't you open it till you get home. I won't.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That's a promise.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yes, grant you're seeing Peggy Williams off on a long trip,
a very long trip with your all partner Dave Mackers.
As the two of you walk into the terminal, you
see that Dave has already arrived, sitting with his back
toward you reading the paper. Seeing him removes the last
twinge of conscience you have regarding Peggy Williams and the
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other passengers. You glance again at the ribbon package in
Peggy William's right hand, knowing that it won't be much
longer before the inulating layer of gelatine dissolves, results in
a stunning explosion two hours if your calculations were correct,
Somewhere between six point fifteen and six thirty. As the
plane passes into Arizona, you walk up to the ticket
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counter to check with a clerk.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Five o'clock.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
He's bound.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Yes, I'm sorry, sir, that flight's going to be a
little late getting off. What'd you say? The five o'clock
flight will be late? Well, Holly it well, we're trying
to arrange a six o'clock takeoff. I'm not sure yet.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
It's all right, mister Adamson.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
You don't have to wait with yes, but I do. Peggy.
You see, I want to be sure that you get
off all right. Uh, clerk, you said six o'clock.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
I hope so, sir, Yes, so, do I.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
You spend almost an hour with Peggy and the terminal
cocktail lounge, running out to the lobby every five minutes
to make certain Dave Matthews is waiting for the takeoff
and the check with a clerk about take off time,
knowing that now the time is getting close, that perhaps
the thing to do is to grab the package from
Peggy's lap and rush out with it, throw it in
a vacant field somewhere. But there's still a chance, Grant,
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you've still a better part of half an hour, and
you're still a gambler. Then at five minutes to six,
you checked with a clerk and find the plane is
taking off in a few minutes. On your way back
to the lounge, you decide that despite what the clerk said,
there might be further delayed, a dangerous delay, that you've
got to get the package back from Peggy. When you
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return to your table, Peggy isn't there now, worsh.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
However, waiter, waiter, where did the lady go?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
The one I was sitting. She'll be right back, says
she er.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
She went out to the check stand, wanted to check
the packages that she was carrying. Said she didn't know
how long she'd have to wait, and she was tired
of carrying her.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
She checked her packages.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Some matterser, something wrong, like.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Twenty one he's found now loading at gate three. Wait
a minute, flight twenty one he's twelve now loading at
gay three.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Wrong waiter.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
No, no, nothing wrong at all.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Mister Adamson.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Oh, oh there you hearty.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Guess what, mister Adamson. There's an old friend of yours
making the trip. No friends to Matthews. I didn't remember him,
but he knew me.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Oh oh yes, I forgot to mention it too.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
He was your partner when you first started out, wasn't.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
He Dave Matthews? Yes, yes, Oh did you?
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Did you tell him I was here?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
He said, he's sorry, he won't be able to see you.
There isn't much time, and he went on board to
get a seats together.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Oh I see why.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
That's nice of Dave to do that. But if they're
leaving soon, hadn't you better get on the plane.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Yes, I just wanted to thank you again, mister Adamson.
No one's ever done so many nice things for me.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
It's beggar.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
You mustn't hold him up. Oh, wait a minute, where's
the bottle of Colone.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I gave you. You didn't forget it.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
You didn't leave it at the checks down, No, mister Adamson.
Mister Matthews took it aboard for me.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Oh that's fine. That's loading, Peggy. You're holding them up.
You better get out there.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
I'll hurry goodbye, mister Adamson.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
All right, you do that, of course, I run along.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Mister Adamson. You won't be angry at me for anything.
I know you enjoy doing nice things for people. And
when a girl.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Talking about Peggy, oh you mean about kissing me? Of
course I won't be a It isn't just that. Please,
Now you're making me nervous. Will you get on that
plane and let them take it?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
All right? And don't forget to tell Florence Preston I'm sorry.
I didn't suggest it to fill in for me while
I'm away. Of course, Pey, I will now, Yes, I'll go. Goodbye,
mister Adamson. I'll think of you all the way you're
You're the kind of sweetest man I've ever known.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Spring or nose. Spring. You wouldn't feel nearly as peppy,
would you if you had to keep right on wearing
heavy winter clothes. Well, that's just how your car feels
about running on tired, old winter motor oil and gear
loub Now that spring is here, so if you want
to put spring into your driving, it's high time you
were treating your car to a spring changeover at a
signal service station. First step is to drain your motor
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and refill with Signal Premium, the new heavy duty type
oil that reduces engine wear due to lubrication fifty percent.
Next step is fresh signal gear loube for transmission and differential,
and a signal double checked lubrication for the chassis. At
the same time, your signal dealer will be glad to
check those other points that need attention every five or
ten thousand miles, such as front wheel bearings, oil filter,
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or air cleaner. Say, a car just can't help feeling
peppier after it spring tonic like this, So for extra
driving pleasure all summer, see your signal dealer this week
for a signal spring changeover.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Well granted at long last, Peggy's on the plane happily
seated next to Dave Matthews. That's interesting, isn't it grand
Like a chemistry equation, each element balancing the other. Dave
on one side with an important briefcase, Peggy on the
other with an even more important bottle. The tension is
worse than ever now as you stand at the edge
of the parking lot watching the plane taxing to the runway.
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You'll feel a lot better after the plane gets into
the air. When you're sure the unexplained explosion will take
place somewhere above five thousand feet and not on the
ground where prying investigators might uncover the answer, you glance
at your watch. Six fifteen. It should only be a
matter of fifteen or twenty minutes now. The plane finally
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turns around in a half circle into the wind. The
pilot guns the engines for a few seconds, and then
the plane rushes down the runway towards you. They're off, granted,
and you are certain you've won.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Yes, sir, oh the blue Cadillac in the second line.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Here's my ticket, Yes, sir, I'll bring it around for you.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
As you drive out of the parking lot, you find
yourself wondering how far away you'll be when the explosion occurs,
and then realize that by now the plane carrying Dave
Matthews and his evidence against you probably been blown the bits.
It won't hurt to take the long way home. I
have all the time in the world. Now you turn
(26:03):
off the busy highway and onto a quiet country road.
Too bad about Peggy, wasn't it. You'll have to think
of something nice to say about her when the news breaks.
She was so thoughtful, so innocent as she sat there
beside you this afternoon when you gave her the cologne bottle.
(26:23):
You drive idly along the open road for about ten minutes,
and then glance over at the empty seat where something
catches your eye. A note pin to the feet.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Dear mister Adams. I didn't want to ask you about
this because I thought it might hurt your feelings. I
know you enjoy giving things and want people who receive
them to enjoy them too. Please don't be angry, but
I am still worried about having heard Florence Presson's feelings.
When you speak to her, would you would you give
her the bottle of cologne? I fibbed a little when
(26:57):
I said, mister Matthews took her aboard the plane because
I wanted Florence to have it. I put the bottle
in the glove compartment of your car.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Wait a minute, no, no, Let that whistle be your
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interest and support of public education are the best guarantee
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where Bill Foreman, Joseph Kerns, Bill Marty Marguet, Nancy Cleveland,
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George w Allen, with story by Joel Malone, music by
Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our troops overseas by
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and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional.
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Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or
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speaking for the Signal Oil Company. Stay tuned now for
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