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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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in on NBC's award winning science fiction series X minus one.
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
Fire from the far horizons of the unknown. Come tales
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of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories
of the future adventures in which you'll live in a million,
could be years, on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National
Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Hecks one.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Tonight, Saucer of Loneliness by Theodore Sturgeon.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
But first hear this.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I'm Dorothy Olsen, singing school teacher on NBC's big weekday
musical show Bandstands. But right now I'd like to talk
to you parents. I'd like to ask you a few questions.
As you're getting ready to send your youngsters back to school.
Are you helping your child get the most out of
his school? Do you make his home conditions favorable enough
for him to do his home work? You show an
(02:08):
interest in his school work, remember your child's success in school,
and later on in life depends to a large degree
on your attitude towards his schooling to day. And there's
another important thing. Everyone needs a good send off in
the morning, and that goes for children too. Be sure
your children have a substantial breakfast and a cheery good
(02:29):
bye before they head for school each day. Remember you
can't expect your child to do it all himself. Encourage
him in his schooling, both in your attitude and in
your actions as he goes back to school this fall.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now x minus one. The story Passer of Loneliness by
Theodore Sturgeon.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
My name is Jason Varnardes. I'm a newspaper reporter thirty
one years old. I write poetry, but I don't show
it to anybody because they might laugh. The things I
write about are very important to me. I was an
only child and never went much with girls because I'm
too ugly and too sensitive, and they used to hurt me.
I live alone. It is much fun. I'm not painting
(03:25):
this picture of myself to get sympathy. I don't need it,
but it's important you should know the kind of person
I am, Otherwise you won't understand what I'm going to
tell you about tonight, the twenty fifth of June nineteen
sixty two. I was down on the beach. There was
a girl out there in the surf, alone, struggling. I
plunged in after it got her, brought her ashore and
(03:46):
carried her where a doon was between us and the water.
Then I rubbed her wrists. She had a pale, beautiful
face with ancient, bottomless blue eyes. She opened them and
looked at me after a.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Moment's sorry, not yeah, put my coat over.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Why couldn't you leave me alone with me?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I couldn't because it's important to me.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I suppose you want to know why I didn't.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
No, No, I know, how.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Could you know?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Maybe I know what it means to be Oh that
that's it, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I don't be afraid.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I've been looking for you for a long time, looking
for me all my life.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
How did you know?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
I don't believe you too.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I found your message, You found my message. You see.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
There's nothing to be afraid of, not anymore.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Just just rest, Yes, I'd like to rest for a while.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
She didn't remember it, of course, but I was one
of the reporters who had covered the story when it
first happened five years ago. I'll never forget that day.
I was working the police spotter.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was a quiet summer afternoon when they brought her in,
two big cops in blue uniform.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
All right, come on, now, come on, all right, we
arend story taking the.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Disturbing the peace. This that central park course, Yeah, this
is it. I thought you radioed there was a near
riot up there.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well you should have seen the place. All right, give
me the report.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Me and Bennett got up there. There was a mob
of people all surrounding this girl.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
See.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
So we bust through and there.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
In the middle of maybe six hundred people, she's lying there.
It's sort of in a faint.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
I asked a couple of people what the difficulty was.
They tell me it's a flying saucer, you see.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So I tell you what the flying saucer?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Misster gag it happened? It did? Suppose you tell me
your version.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Well, I was standing in the park and I looked
up and and there it was.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Describe it, well, it was beautiful.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
It was golden, with a dusty finish like well, like
an unripe concord grave. And it made a faint sound,
a chord of two tones, and it circled over my
head like some great round humming bird. Go on for
other people must have seen it, because they were all
looking at me and pointing. And I saw one man
cross himself, and then it came down and touched me
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and spoke to me.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
This flying saucer spoke to you. Yes, m Just what
did it say to you?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
I said?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
What did it say? I? I? I can't tell you
a secret?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yes, I see, Finney.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Scarls for Belleville. Such of the plain fact is that
had happened just like that.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Ten witnesses all.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Agree with it.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Are you trying to tell me that such a thing
as this Warren humon bird of a saucer?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Well there was that, sergeant, And just how do you know, Connelly?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
We got the Fiant and the squad Bennett is bringing
it in right now.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
See about thirty six inches across it is and covered
with strange marking. Holy Mackerel't you call the bomb squad?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I didn't think of it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Well think of it, man, this may be some kind
of atomic weapon.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The renter a send it over. I'll turn it over
to blist.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Never mind about ballistics.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Call the FBI, right, tell us we got yep.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Now back to X minus one and sorcer of loneliness. Now, miss,
let me be very frank. I'm not a policeman. I'm
a security agent. That means i'd deal with problems affected
security of our country.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Do you understand. Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Now, we've examined this flying saucer enough to know it
is not of American manufacture. It also possesses an extremely
high radioactive count. That means it was in an area
where radioactive materials are in great abundance, such as an
area where atom bombs are made. That's why we want
to know the message you received from the saucer.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
There was no message.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You just made it up. Yes, I'm afraid you're lying.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
There is a communications device on the saucer, and many
people heard it make some sound as it touched.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Please doesn't leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
All you have to do is tell us what the
saucers said and you can go home and we won't
ever bother you again. No, well, gentlemen, we will get
nothing out of her. I don't believe she really knows
what that humming noise was. You better have a psychiatrist examiner.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
They took her to the city hospital and placed her
in a guarded room. Whenever the door opened, she could
see the policeman outside. The door opened quite often. There
were a lot of important people, some in army uniforms,
who came up from Washington just to see her and
talk to her. A few days later, she was released
from the hospital and returned to court to be tried
on the disorderly conduct charge.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
They found her guilty and find her fifteen dollars and
turned her loose. When she walked out of the courtroom,
she was handed a subpoena to appear before a congressional
committee in a private session. She answered all their questions
except one. My newspaper sent me to cover the hearing.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
Now, young lady, I want to remind you that I
am a Senator of the United States. I am empowered
by the people of this country to ask questions relating
to matters of security.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Do you understand?
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Yes? Your name is Damnit Boyce, is it not.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
I told you that.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Now, this flying saucer you said it talked to you.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
You did say that, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (10:07):
And then you denied it?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Why?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Because I was tired of answering questions young woman.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Let me put something to you squarely by the way,
I think if there are members of the press here,
I can divulge a rather spectacular.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Piece of information to you. This flying saucer.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Has been thoroughly examined and analyzed, and I wish to
inform the people of this great nation that it definitely,
I repeat it, definitely did not originate on this planet.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
The furor was fantastic, and the contempt trial that followed
was spectacular. She was convicted and sentenced to five years
in prison. Six months ago she was released.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I found out she'd gotten a job cleaning at night
in offices and stores down near the beach front. There
weren't many to clean, but that meant there weren't many
people to remember her face from the newspapers.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I tracked her down.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
And caught up with her in a one armed coffee
joined about four in the morning. Still name, if I
sit here.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Now, which are you security, newspapers or just somebody out
for a good time.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You're pretty bitter ant, shouldn't I be? I guess you shouldn't.
My name's uh, Jason Donaides. I'm with a newspapers.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well, it's been nice meeting you. I have to go now.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Please.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Look, I can't blame you. Please tell me.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
How it's been so you can write about it.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I promise you. I won't write anything you don't want
me to write.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Okay, you want to know how it's been, I'll tell you.
Right after I got out of jail, I met a
man at a restaurant, a nice man. He asked me
for a date. I spent every cent I had on
a red handbag to go with my red shoes, and
I was very excited about the date. We went to
a movie. Afterward. He didn't even try to kiss me
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or anything. He just wanted to know what the flying
saucer had told me.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
I didn't say anything. I just went home and cried
all night.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
That was it.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Oh No, I had another day. I get pretty lonely.
This time they arrested the man I was with. He
was a Russian agent.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Now you go away and leave me alone. Yes, aren't
you going to ask me the big question?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Everybody does not mean. Oh you will sooner or later.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Bertie, Look, can I take you home?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Can I see you again?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Look?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I just yes, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I'm afraid to let myself like anyone, I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Make it your last chance.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Trust me? Will you?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Maybe maybe I'll wait here for you tomorrow night.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
All right.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
The next night I went back to the coffee joined
to wait for it. I knew she got through about
four in the morning, and I got there about fifteen
minutes earlier.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Mister Beniades yees say, you're the chief of security section.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I'm saying you have a good memory. You mind if
I sit down?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Well, I'm expecting somebody, Yes, I know, Oh I see,
I'd like to.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Talk to you. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You probably know that we've been trying to gain the
confidence of this girl.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
For some years now.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yes, we have reason to believe that this girl is
a courier for some alien power on.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
What do you base that, Well, there was the incident
of the saucer.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Of course, we've definitely established that it came from some
other planet. And recently she's been throwing messages inside bottles
into the ocean.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
What sort of messages? They are always the same. I
have one right here. We welcomes. We didn't see if
it makes any sense, We've.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Had every decoding expert in the service trying to break it,
but we can't seem to find the key. I see,
she's thrown literally hundreds of these messages and bottles into
the sea.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
We've got many of them, but not all.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Naturally, what we're most interested in is locating the contact. Naturally,
that's where you fit in. We'd like you to gain
this girl's confidence even further. Try to find out just
what these messages mean, and beyond that, what the saucers
said to her. You'll be doing as a favorite and
your country of great service. You're certain this is some
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subversive activity on her part. How else can you explain
the fact that she won't tell us his secrets? Maybe
because it's hers. Everybody has a right to have something
of his own. Are you trying to tell me that
you won't cooperate.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I'd like to remind you, mister Benaiades, that you have
a duty to us.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I know that I.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Also have a duty to myself and a god.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Now, if you'll.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Excuse me, I folded the bottle message and put it
in my pocket and waited for her to show up.
The minutes went by, and the ours, and I knew
she wasn't coming or she had come and seen me
with the chief and changed her mind. That's when I
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left the cafe and walked down to the beach. That's
when I had dragged her out of the surf before
she could follow one of her bottles into the water.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Ah, how do you feel now? You're cold?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Why should you care?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Wh I do?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Is that why you were sitting with the security chief
in the cafe?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Why I didn't arrange that meeting?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
He asked me to spy on you.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
I suppose he told you about the bottles. Yes, Oh,
I wonder how much of the taxpayer's money they've spent
gathering him up. What they wanted was a new weapon,
you see, some super scientific super science from some alien
super race. Science. That's all they think of.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Well, that's pretty important.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Would it have ever occurred to them that this super
race from another planet might have super feelings or super
longings or super loneliness. Oh no, all they think about
is weapons. Well, isn't the time you asked me what
the sauces said?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
No, well they all ask me.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I don't have to ask you. I know.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, And let me read it to you.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
There isn't certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable,
so great it be shared as company is shared by
lesser beings, such a loneliness as mine.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So know by this.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
That in immensity there is one lonelier than you.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
How did you know?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
That's the message you put in the bottles. There's message
that some lonely, strange being in some other world put
into a bottle. Only his bottle was a flying saucer
and sent across space to you.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I'm lonely too.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Look at me.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I've never had the love of a woman. They think
I'm pretty ugly.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I have beautiful thoughts in my head, but I write trash.
I have this nose, not ugly, you know I I
don't feel ugly right now?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
See it again, the message from the saucer.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
No, by this.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
That in immensity there is one lonelier than you.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I wonder if whoever first wrote it is found someone.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I think perhaps he has.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Fred Collins speaking, And I'll have another word for you
about X minus one.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
In a moment, I like to look.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Deep into the human heart with my camera, so speaks
Margaret Burke White, one of the outstanding.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Photographers of our time.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Perhaps you remember one of her favorite pictures, the tremendously
moving photograph of two South African gold miners sweltering in
dank airlessness, deep under Africa's green hills.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
We agree with Miss.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
White that all the sorrow of mankind is in the
miner's eyes. And what if those miners could speak? What
is the story behind their sorrow? This is the objective
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Joe Harvey at least, robots weren't the least bit nice.
He had a feeling they had something up their sleeve, valves,
and in time he found out what it was. Galaxy Magazine,
on your new stand Today Tonight X minus one has
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brought you Saucer of Loneliness, a story written by Theodore
Sturgeon and adapted for radio by George Leffards. Featured in
our cast were Lynn Cook as Jason Beniades and Lydia
Bruce as the Girl. Others in our cast were Joseph Bell,
Harvey Hayes, Ross Martin, and Roger Dick Covin. This is
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Now escape to a world of the future. Come down
for blast Off X minus five four three.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Two X minus one.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Fire from the far horizons of the unknown. Come tales
(01:09):
of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories
of the future adventures in which you'll live in a million,
could be years, on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National
Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Hecks one.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Tonight, Saucer of Loneliness by Theodore Sturgeon.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
But first hear this.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I'm Dorothy Olsen, singing school teacher on NBC's big weekday
musical show Bandstands. But right now I'd like to talk
to you parents. I'd like to ask you a few questions.
As you're getting ready to send your youngsters back to school.
Are you helping your child get the most out of
his school? Do you make his home conditions favorable enough
for him to do his home work? You show an
(02:08):
interest in his school work, remember your child's success in school,
and later on in life depends to a large degree
on your attitude towards his schooling to day. And there's
another important thing. Everyone needs a good send off in
the morning, and that goes for children too. Be sure
your children have a substantial breakfast and a cheery good
(02:29):
bye before they head for school each day. Remember you
can't expect your child to do it all himself. Encourage
him in his schooling, both in your attitude and in
your actions as he goes back to school this fall.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now x minus one. The story Passer of Loneliness by
Theodore Sturgeon.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
My name is Jason Varnardes. I'm a newspaper reporter thirty
one years old. I write poetry, but I don't show
it to anybody because they might laugh. The things I
write about are very important to me. I was an
only child and never went much with girls because I'm
too ugly and too sensitive, and they used to hurt me.
I live alone. It is much fun. I'm not painting
(03:25):
this picture of myself to get sympathy. I don't need it,
but it's important you should know the kind of person
I am, Otherwise you won't understand what I'm going to
tell you about tonight, the twenty fifth of June nineteen
sixty two. I was down on the beach. There was
a girl out there in the surf, alone, struggling. I
plunged in after it got her, brought her ashore and
(03:46):
carried her where a doon was between us and the water.
Then I rubbed her wrists. She had a pale, beautiful
face with ancient, bottomless blue eyes. She opened them and
looked at me after a.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Moment's sorry, not yeah, put my coat over.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Why couldn't you leave me alone with me?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I couldn't because it's important to me.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I suppose you want to know why I didn't.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
No, No, I know, how.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Could you know?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Maybe I know what it means to be Oh that
that's it, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I don't be afraid.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I've been looking for you for a long time, looking
for me all my life.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
How did you know?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
I don't believe you too.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I found your message, You found my message. You see.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
There's nothing to be afraid of, not anymore.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Just just rest, Yes, I'd like to rest for a while.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
She didn't remember it, of course, but I was one
of the reporters who had covered the story when it
first happened five years ago. I'll never forget that day.
I was working the police spotter.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It was a quiet summer afternoon when they brought her in,
two big cops in blue uniform.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
All right, come on, now, come on, all right, we
arend story taking the.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Disturbing the peace. This that central park course, Yeah, this
is it. I thought you radioed there was a near
riot up there.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well you should have seen the place. All right, give
me the report.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Me and Bennett got up there. There was a mob
of people all surrounding this girl.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
See.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
So we bust through and there.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
In the middle of maybe six hundred people, she's lying there.
It's sort of in a faint.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
I asked a couple of people what the difficulty was.
They tell me it's a flying saucer, you see.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So I tell you what the flying saucer?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Misster gag it happened? It did? Suppose you tell me
your version.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Well, I was standing in the park and I looked
up and and there it was.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Describe it, well, it was beautiful.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
It was golden, with a dusty finish like well, like
an unripe concord grave. And it made a faint sound,
a chord of two tones, and it circled over my
head like some great round humming bird. Go on for
other people must have seen it, because they were all
looking at me and pointing. And I saw one man
cross himself, and then it came down and touched me
(06:31):
and spoke to me.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
This flying saucer spoke to you. Yes, m Just what
did it say to you?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
I said?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
What did it say? I? I? I can't tell you
a secret?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yes, I see, Finney.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Scarls for Belleville. Such of the plain fact is that
had happened just like that.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Ten witnesses all.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Agree with it.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Are you trying to tell me that such a thing
as this Warren humon bird of a saucer?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Well there was that, sergeant, And just how do you know, Connelly?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
We got the Fiant and the squad Bennett is bringing
it in right now.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
See about thirty six inches across it is and covered
with strange marking. Holy Mackerel't you call the bomb squad?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I didn't think of it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Well think of it, man, this may be some kind
of atomic weapon.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The renter a send it over. I'll turn it over
to blist.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Never mind about ballistics.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Call the FBI, right, tell us we got yep.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Now back to X minus one and sorcer of loneliness. Now, miss,
let me be very frank. I'm not a policeman. I'm
a security agent. That means i'd deal with problems affected
security of our country.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Do you understand. Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Now, we've examined this flying saucer enough to know it
is not of American manufacture. It also possesses an extremely
high radioactive count. That means it was in an area
where radioactive materials are in great abundance, such as an
area where atom bombs are made. That's why we want
to know the message you received from the saucer.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
There was no message.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You just made it up. Yes, I'm afraid you're lying.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
There is a communications device on the saucer, and many
people heard it make some sound as it touched.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Please doesn't leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
All you have to do is tell us what the
saucers said and you can go home and we won't
ever bother you again. No, well, gentlemen, we will get
nothing out of her. I don't believe she really knows
what that humming noise was. You better have a psychiatrist examiner.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
They took her to the city hospital and placed her
in a guarded room. Whenever the door opened, she could
see the policeman outside. The door opened quite often. There
were a lot of important people, some in army uniforms,
who came up from Washington just to see her and
talk to her. A few days later, she was released
from the hospital and returned to court to be tried
on the disorderly conduct charge.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
They found her guilty and find her fifteen dollars and
turned her loose. When she walked out of the courtroom,
she was handed a subpoena to appear before a congressional
committee in a private session. She answered all their questions
except one. My newspaper sent me to cover the hearing.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
Now, young lady, I want to remind you that I
am a Senator of the United States. I am empowered
by the people of this country to ask questions relating
to matters of security.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Do you understand?
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Yes? Your name is Damnit Boyce, is it not.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
I told you that.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Now, this flying saucer you said it talked to you.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
You did say that, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (10:07):
And then you denied it?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Why?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Because I was tired of answering questions young woman.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Let me put something to you squarely by the way,
I think if there are members of the press here,
I can divulge a rather spectacular.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Piece of information to you. This flying saucer.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Has been thoroughly examined and analyzed, and I wish to
inform the people of this great nation that it definitely,
I repeat it, definitely did not originate on this planet.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
The furor was fantastic, and the contempt trial that followed
was spectacular. She was convicted and sentenced to five years
in prison. Six months ago she was released.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I found out she'd gotten a job cleaning at night
in offices and stores down near the beach front. There
weren't many to clean, but that meant there weren't many
people to remember her face from the newspapers.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I tracked her down.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
And caught up with her in a one armed coffee
joined about four in the morning. Still name, if I
sit here.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Now, which are you security, newspapers or just somebody out
for a good time.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You're pretty bitter ant, shouldn't I be? I guess you shouldn't.
My name's uh, Jason Donaides. I'm with a newspapers.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well, it's been nice meeting you. I have to go now.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Please.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Look, I can't blame you. Please tell me.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
How it's been so you can write about it.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I promise you. I won't write anything you don't want
me to write.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Okay, you want to know how it's been, I'll tell you.
Right after I got out of jail, I met a
man at a restaurant, a nice man. He asked me
for a date. I spent every cent I had on
a red handbag to go with my red shoes, and
I was very excited about the date. We went to
a movie. Afterward. He didn't even try to kiss me
(12:22):
or anything. He just wanted to know what the flying
saucer had told me.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
I didn't say anything. I just went home and cried
all night.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
That was it.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Oh No, I had another day. I get pretty lonely.
This time they arrested the man I was with. He
was a Russian agent.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Now you go away and leave me alone. Yes, aren't
you going to ask me the big question?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Everybody does not mean. Oh you will sooner or later.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Bertie, Look, can I take you home?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Can I see you again?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Look?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I just yes, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I'm afraid to let myself like anyone, I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Make it your last chance.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Trust me? Will you?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Maybe maybe I'll wait here for you tomorrow night.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
All right.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
The next night I went back to the coffee joined
to wait for it. I knew she got through about
four in the morning, and I got there about fifteen
minutes earlier.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Mister Beniades yees say, you're the chief of security section.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I'm saying you have a good memory. You mind if
I sit down?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Well, I'm expecting somebody, Yes, I know, Oh I see,
I'd like to.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Talk to you. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You probably know that we've been trying to gain the
confidence of this girl.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
For some years now.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yes, we have reason to believe that this girl is
a courier for some alien power on.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
What do you base that, Well, there was the incident
of the saucer.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Of course, we've definitely established that it came from some
other planet. And recently she's been throwing messages inside bottles
into the ocean.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
What sort of messages? They are always the same. I
have one right here. We welcomes. We didn't see if
it makes any sense, We've.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Had every decoding expert in the service trying to break it,
but we can't seem to find the key. I see,
she's thrown literally hundreds of these messages and bottles into
the sea.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
We've got many of them, but not all.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Naturally, what we're most interested in is locating the contact. Naturally,
that's where you fit in. We'd like you to gain
this girl's confidence even further. Try to find out just
what these messages mean, and beyond that, what the saucers
said to her. You'll be doing as a favorite and
your country of great service. You're certain this is some
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subversive activity on her part. How else can you explain
the fact that she won't tell us his secrets? Maybe
because it's hers. Everybody has a right to have something
of his own. Are you trying to tell me that
you won't cooperate.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I'd like to remind you, mister Benaiades, that you have
a duty to us.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I know that I.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Also have a duty to myself and a god.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Now, if you'll.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Excuse me, I folded the bottle message and put it
in my pocket and waited for her to show up.
The minutes went by, and the ours, and I knew
she wasn't coming or she had come and seen me
with the chief and changed her mind. That's when I
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left the cafe and walked down to the beach. That's
when I had dragged her out of the surf before
she could follow one of her bottles into the water.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Ah, how do you feel now? You're cold?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Why should you care?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Wh I do?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Is that why you were sitting with the security chief
in the cafe?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Why I didn't arrange that meeting?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
He asked me to spy on you.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
I suppose he told you about the bottles. Yes, Oh,
I wonder how much of the taxpayer's money they've spent
gathering him up. What they wanted was a new weapon,
you see, some super scientific super science from some alien
super race. Science. That's all they think of.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Well, that's pretty important.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Would it have ever occurred to them that this super
race from another planet might have super feelings or super
longings or super loneliness. Oh no, all they think about
is weapons. Well, isn't the time you asked me what
the sauces said?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
No, well they all ask me.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I don't have to ask you. I know.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, And let me read it to you.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
There isn't certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable,
so great it be shared as company is shared by
lesser beings, such a loneliness as mine.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So know by this.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
That in immensity there is one lonelier than you.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
How did you know?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
That's the message you put in the bottles. There's message
that some lonely, strange being in some other world put
into a bottle. Only his bottle was a flying saucer
and sent across space to you.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I'm lonely too.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Look at me.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I've never had the love of a woman. They think
I'm pretty ugly.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I have beautiful thoughts in my head, but I write trash.
I have this nose, not ugly, you know I I
don't feel ugly right now?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
See it again, the message from the saucer.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
No, by this.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
That in immensity there is one lonelier than you.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I wonder if whoever first wrote it is found someone.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I think perhaps he has.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Fred Collins speaking, And I'll have another word for you
about X minus one.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
In a moment, I like to look.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Deep into the human heart with my camera, so speaks
Margaret Burke White, one of the outstanding.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Photographers of our time.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Perhaps you remember one of her favorite pictures, the tremendously
moving photograph of two South African gold miners sweltering in
dank airlessness, deep under Africa's green hills.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
We agree with Miss.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
White that all the sorrow of mankind is in the
miner's eyes. And what if those miners could speak? What
is the story behind their sorrow? This is the objective
of the program. We could all Life and the World
to add new dimensions in sound to the picture stories
in each week's issue of Life Magazine, to bring you
the actual voices of the people most intimately associated with
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stories of human interest, gathered from the four corners of
the Earth. This is Frank Blair inviting you to keep
a rendezvous with Life and the World every week night
over most of these NBC stations. You have just heard
X minus one presented by the National Broadcasting Company in
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cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this month features
the Gordon R. Dixon short story Robots are nice. To
Joe Harvey at least, robots weren't the least bit nice.
He had a feeling they had something up their sleeve, valves,
and in time he found out what it was. Galaxy Magazine,
on your new stand Today Tonight X minus one has
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brought you Saucer of Loneliness, a story written by Theodore
Sturgeon and adapted for radio by George Leffards. Featured in
our cast were Lynn Cook as Jason Beniades and Lydia
Bruce as the Girl. Others in our cast were Joseph Bell,
Harvey Hayes, Ross Martin, and Roger Dick Covin. This is
Fred Collins X minus one was directed by George Boutsas
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