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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now for.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Johnny Dollar. Fred Willis is Surely Mutual Limited.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Johnny.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Oh hi, Fred, what's on your mind at the moment?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
San Francisco?
Speaker 5 (00:12):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Nice? Twan to have on your mind? What's new out there?
That's what I hope you're going to tell me? What
do you mean, Johnny doesn't importer out there?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Name of Andrew Foreman.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
We're carrying a fifty thousand dollar policy on his life.
So have you ever heard of an importer getting exported?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I don't get you, Fred, I'm afraid that's what's happened
to Foreman last night.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
He disappeared.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm on my way.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
While Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the Action Practic Spenser Caud America's fabulous freelance insurance Investigators,
Truly Johnny Dollar, and now act one of yours, Truly
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Expense account submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to
the home office Shorty Mutual Limited, Hartford, Connecticut, following as
an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the
Blinker Matter. Expense account at a one one hundred and
seventy eight dollars fifty cents transportation and incidentals to San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
On the flight out, I studied the dope.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Fred Wills at Saint Andrew foreman aged fifty one occupation
importer health good, judging from the hefty premium he had
to pay. His importing business must be okay. Wife Marcia
Foreman aged thirty five, sixteen years younger than her husband,
and Marsha was the sole beneficiary. My plane landed about
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eight in the morning. An hour later I was at
the Farming's apartment. It was spacious matter with a lot
of glass and the kind of view of the bay
that you had to pay plenty for. Yeah, there was
money written all over the place, and Marsha Foreman looked
right at home.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
I'm just having coffee on the terrace, Mitter Dollar, won't
you join me?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Thanks, I could use some out here. I'm sure got
a beautiful view here.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
Yes, I never get tired of watching the bay, the ships.
There's always something going on. Oh here you are, thanks,
What is it, mister Dollar?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh I'm just looking at the bay.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Alcatez.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, such a looking place. Yeah, it's a real exclusive club.
But I managed to get a couple of new.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Members into it.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
I don't think I care for the kind of job
you have, mister Dollar. Trouble wherever you go.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Suppose we talk about your.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Troubles, all right?
Speaker 8 (02:54):
I told the police all I know when I filled
out the missing person's reports.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
But I'll go over it again for you, if you
don't mind.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Your husband disappeared the night before last.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Is that's right?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What time?
Speaker 7 (03:05):
I'm I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Around nine o'clock that night, somebody came to see him,
a strange sort of man.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
How do you mean strange?
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Well, he was dressed in rough clothes, a seaman's jacket.
He said he was an old friend of my husband's.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Did he give you his name, missus Farman?
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Only blinker Blinker? Yes, he said that's what everybody called him.
I guess because he kept blinking.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
His eyes very rapidly.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I see.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Well.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
I showed this this blinker person into the den where
my husband was, and left the two of them together.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
A few minutes later.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
My husband came out and told me he was going
to drive Blinker downtown and find him a hotel room.
So I went to bed. I was tired and went
right to sleep. And well, my husband and I have
adjoining bedrooms. When I went in to call him yesterday morning,
he was gone the bed. It hadn't been slept in.
I called him off, thinking he might have decided to
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work late, but they hadn't seen him.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Then you call the police, Yes, missus Foreman, had your
husband ever mentioned this man Blinker before?
Speaker 8 (04:11):
No, I'm quite certain he hadn't. Can you describe him well?
He wasn't above medium height, age, oh maybe in the forties,
a scar on his right cheek, his thin nose, and dark,
rather beady eyes.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
I'm afraid that's the best I can do.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, considering that you only get a brief look at him,
I'd say that was a pretty complete description.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Mister Dollar. Do you think this person Blinker could have
done anything to my husband?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I don't know, but I'm sure the police are looking
for him. Just one more question, missus Foreman. Suppose Blinker
had nothing to do with your husband's disappearance.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I I'm afraid I don't follow you.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh well, what I mean is, can you think of
any reason, any reason at all, why your husband might
want to disappear?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
No, mister Dollar, absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
My chaffetman sounded pretty certain of that. Last answer, maybe
just a little bit too certain expense. Acount had him
to a tolerated cab fait of the office of an
old friend of mine, Detective Lieutenant Scapella. Jonathan Foreman took
this character Blinker to a hotel. It's no hotel we
ever heard of. We've covered them all. You think Blinker
could have killed Foremans possibility? What's another? Maybe there is
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no Blinker. Yes, Skipella, I thought about that too, Johonnaal
didn't hit you. There was something strange about missus Foreman's story.
She said she let Blinker in the apartment, she showed
him to the den. Now, she could have only seen
him a couple of minutes. Yet she rattled off a
complete description. Yeah, she rhit to me, Scapella, right between
the eyes and the way she described. Yeah, I know
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Seeman's jacket, beady, blinking eyes, scar on the right cheek
or real distinctive, real distinctive or real fate. The trouble
is smelling of Fake's one thing, proving it's another.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What do we got for a motive? For one thing?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Fifty thousand bucks? She was Foreman's soul beneficiary. That's interesting,
that's real interesting. Excuse me gen Pabella. Oh, oh yeah,
what I see? Yes, okay, just all right, thanks mister
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Ronald Johnah, looks like we've got to back up and
start all what you mean? That was Wayne Arnold. That's
Foreman's attorney. He had a telephone call this morning from Foreman. No,
but from somebody just as interesting. Blinker yeah, blinker.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
In a moment, Many of us on the job are
clock watchers and time clock punchers, just waiting for time
to quit. When is it really time to quit? The
man with a set day of work as a schedule
to adhere to. But the fighting man quits only when
the job is done, and to him, capture by the
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enemy does not mean the end, but perhaps only the
beginning of the most important part of his job. One
of the points of the Code of Conduct for the
American Fighting Man says quote, if I am captured, I
will continue to resist by all means available. I will
make every effort to escape and aid others to escape.
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I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.
The strong ideals set forth there are the same ideals
that gave great determination to one young officer of the
United States Navy, half an hour after Lieutenant Edward V. M.
Eazak's ship was sunk by three torpedoes in the Atlantic Ocean.
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In May nineteen eighteen, at the height of World War I,
he was taken prisoner by the commander of the German
submarine U ninety. During the U boat's trip back to Germany,
Lieutenant Eazac learned a great deal of vital secret information
about U boat movements. Determined to make this information available
to the United States and Allied naval authorities. Lieutenant Eazac,
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while on his way to a prisoner of war camp,
risked his life by jumping through the window of a
rapidly moving train. Severely injured by his fall, he was
again captured months later. Aided by several American Army officers
who short circuited the prison lighting system, Lieutenant Eazak escaped
through barbed wire fences and amid heavy.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Rifle fire from the guards.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
After seven days and nights of rugged travel over the mountains,
and with only raw vegetables for food, he swam the
swift current of the Rhine River right under the noses
of the enemy sentries, evading many enemy soldiers. He reached
the American legation in Burns, Switzerland and completed his self
assigned mission. For risking his life many times above and
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beyond the call of duty, Lieutenant Edward Eazac was awarded
the Medal of Honor. His personal code of conduct had
made him realize that war doesn't end with confinement as
a prisoner of war. That is when the real responsibility
may begin.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
And now act too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the Blinker matters. Like Schappella said, we had to back
up and start all over again, just when we talked
ourselves into thinking. Marcia Forman's story about Blinker was funny.
A missing husband's lawyer fawn and told us he just
I heard from Blinker. I had him three a dollars
seventy care for to the office of Wayne Arnold, Foreman's attorney.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I met him just coming out his door. Did you
wish to see me, mister Arnold. Yes, I'm Johnny Dollar.
Oh yes, the insurance investigator. Missus Foreman told me you'd
been questioning her. Look, I'm sorry, but I'm in rather
a hurry.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I have an appointment and I'm late.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
For Sorry, but this will only take a minute or two.
I was in Lieutenants Capella's office when you falled a
while ago about this man Blinker. Mister Arnold, Oh yeah,
what did you hear from him? Just a little while ago?
I called Marshall Foreman right away.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And she thought I ought to called Capella. What did
Blinker say on the phone?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
The strange conversation sounded nervous, excited, almost out of breadth.
Said he wanted money, ten thousand dollars. If he didn't
get it, he'd.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And that's as far as he got.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
He stopped suddenly, said he'd contact me later, then hung up.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
What do you make of it, mister Dollar and on?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
All?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Could be he's holding Foreman for ransom. That's what it
sounded like to me.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I take it you.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Don't know this blinker'ver heard of him until Marsha told
me about him showing up night before. Le Okay, just
one more thing, mister Arnold. How long have you been
Foreman's attorney? Three four years? Why any reason you know
of why he might want to disappear?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
None that I can think of?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Another woman, Maybe I got it very much? How about
his importing business? As far as I know it's an
excellent shape. Okay, thanks mister, mister Dollard, it's man blinker.
Why would he have it in for Andrew Foreman? Good question,
n Sorry, I don't have an answer to it. I
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went down the elevator and outside. I stopped at the
corner to get some cigarettes. And that was my first
lucky break because just as I was leaving the counter,
I saw Arnold come outside, and the way he looked
up and down the street made a plane. He wanted
to see if anybody was watching him. He got into
his car.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
And drove off.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I grabbed a taxi that's sign him for and trail him.
He drove into Golden Gate Park and stopped. I got
out down the road and worked my way toward him
behind some bushes. Pretty soon a woman came over and
got into his car. I couldn't hear what they were saying,
but I didn't need to because when I saw the kiss,
I got the message. The woman was Marsha Faman. I
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went back into town and waited for Marsha outside her
apartment door. She showed up about half an hour.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Lady, what I mister dollar? But is it is something wrong?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, something's real wrong. Missus Faman, I want to talk
to you.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
All right, come in, but I've already told you all.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I know the story you told me about this man Blinket.
There's no such person as there. What you and Nold
made it up?
Speaker 7 (12:48):
I know that's not true.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
What about you and Nold? Missus Foreman, I don't know
what you're talking about. Well, then tell me. Did you
enjoy your visit with him in Golden Gate Park an
hour ago?
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That yeah?
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Well all right, mister Dollar, Wayne Arnold and I have.
Have we been in love for some time?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Did your husband know?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
I'm not sure. We were trying to find the right
time to tell him. I don't think he'd really have
cared very much. My husband and I haven't gotten along
very well.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
The last year or two.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
I guess I really didn't know him when I married him.
Mister Dollar, this has nothing to do with my husband's disappearance.
You must believe that.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That's all.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
I didn't make up the story about blinker I didn't
kill my husband.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
If that's what you're thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Has he been killed?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I I don't know you. It got me confused if.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You didn't do it. How about Arnold?
Speaker 8 (13:38):
No, he'd have no reason, said he wasn't even in
town the night before life.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I can check that.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I know you can, Missus Foreman. Maybe you're telling me
the truth and maybe you're not. Sooner or later, I'm
going to find.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Out which I am telling you the truth?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And can you give me any reason at all why
your husband has disappeared.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
There's there's one possibility, mister Dollar. It might have something
to do with his importing business.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
What's that mean?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
My husband? Well, he seems to.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Have made a lot of money out of his importing business,
more than the kind of thing he usually imports with warrant.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
What does he import?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Drinkets, curios from the Orient? Mostly?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Have you a katy your husband's office? Yes, let me
have it. I want to take a look around. I
went over the papers in Foreman's office and found out
his last ship and had come in three days ago
on the Indian Princess. Missus Foreman had said Blinker was
wearing a seaman's jacket. I had it for the waterfront,
but the ship was gone. The other pier was a
beat up eating place called Gus's Cafe. A woman with
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an apron came over. She was about six feet tall,
and almost that.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Why what can I do for you? Buddy? Want to
talk to the owner? Gus?
Speaker 9 (14:50):
That's me, your Gus short Forgutsie. What's on your mind, buddy,
Johnny Johnny Dollar? I want some information? You a cop, Betty, No,
I'm not a cop, and you look like I got
I Listen that freighter that shoved off from this pier,
the Indian Princess.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
That's their regular You know, any of the sailors from her,
all of them, they all come in here.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Look I see got Okay, Gus, you ever happen to
hear of a sailor named blinker?
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You know him?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Sure about medium height? Scar in the right chet blinks
his eyes all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I said, I know him?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
What do you want? Nappadavit?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, Gussie, are the most beautiful thing that's happened to
me all day.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
That's what they all tell me, buddy, flattery, don't get
him a thing might help you though.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're kind of cute.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Uh yeah, Look, did blink your sail on the Indian Princess?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Then where is he the act?
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Did?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I don't know?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Blinkers disappeared? Act three of yours? Truly Johnny Dollar In
a moment.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Times have changed, and so has the man. Through the ages,
man has advanced both physically and mentally. Prehistoric man's concept
of war and living is like that.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Of an animal.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
His implements were crude, his knowledge simple. It was survival
of the fittest. From his club and stones to bows
and arrows and spears, from muskets and sabers to atomic
rifles and missiles, man has progressed in the art of
attack and defense with each new phase. Man's knowledge has developed. Today,
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the warrior, if he can be called such, is not
a stone thrower, a bowman, or a swordsman. He's a
technician who needs knowledge of all that science has developed.
He's a sonarman, a radar man, a rifleman, or a
torpedo man, a missileman, or a pilot. But whatever his job,
he needs the skill and the technical know how to
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do the job and do it well. As times have changed,
and so has the man.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
And now Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the Blinker matter.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
And you don't have any idea where Blinker is now.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Gus not the slightest buddy, Oh great, And I'm right
back where I started from him Blinker was mixed up
in something.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
All right, what do you mean? The Indian Princess dots
the other night? Blinker come in here for a cup
of coffee.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
That's one thing the sailors around here all miss when
they're out to see my coffee?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Is no one makes coffee like me. Why there's nobody
on the hole?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah? I know about Blinker now.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Well, he seemed pretty pleased with.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Us though, that he was onto something good. Did he
say what he meant by that?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
It set there looking pleased with hisself. Oh yeah, he
showed me the elephant that it was gonna make him
a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
What elephants?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
He had a carved elephant about six inches high.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Mu's have picked it up somewhere.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Maybe he was gonna sell it.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
I don't know, hmm.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Foreman imported curios from the Orient. This last shipment came
in on the Indian Princess. That elephant could have been
part of it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Foreman, who's he? And never mind? Well, I wonder where
I go from here. I wonder what I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Gonna do with all blinker stuff if you don't show up?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Or maybe what did you say about Blinkers stuff? What stuff?
Speaker 6 (18:12):
I've got a.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Back room where I let the boys keep their gear.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
When they're sure.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
You've got blinkers things there. Now, why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You never asked me?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
In the back room, I went through a blinker seabank.
Near the bottom, I found the carved elephants. An ordinary
looking elephant until I twisted one of the legs loose.
It was hollow and inside a little paper packet full
of white powder. Suddenly the whole deal slid into place.
And just as suddenly, the whole deal made me slightly sick.
Now I wanted to see the rest of those elephants
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real bad. According to the records Informant's office, the shipment
was in a warehouse. I went outside over to the pier. Johnny,
oh Cus, Look, look, I'm in a hurry. Thanks everything,
I'll see you later. This over here near the pier.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Wait up a minute, Yeah, good body, all right, one
of the boys that fished it out of the water
and sent him.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
To call the cops. Looks like I'd spent in the
water quite a few hours.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yes, yeah, a blinker all right. I knew I had
to work for us now. I headed out on the
pier of the warehouse. Once, I thought I heard footsteps
somewhere behind me. I stopped and listened.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
There was no sound. It was dark inside the warehouse.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
With the help of matches, I located for him and shipping.
I took a crow bar and over one of the crates.
It was full of carved elephants. I picked up one
of them. Yeah, I had a hollow leg, and the
hollow leg was full of the same white powder.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
At the floor.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Fast The shot had come from over near the door.
I eased my gun out and waited. Five ten minutes
went by.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I kept quiet.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Then suddenly a shadow wound up near the crates. We
saw each other at the same time.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
My shoulder.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Oh well, the missing man himself Andrew Foreman, and I
found out what you were importing in those carved elephants.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
He tried to blackmail. I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
You probably told him you'd pay off. That's when you
drove him downtown night before last. Then you tried to
kill him, but he must have got away. He called
your lawyer. Tried to put the squeeze on through him,
but he had to hang up in a hurry. You
were probably getting close. You're finally caught up with him,
didn't you. Foreman.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Look, you've got no proof of anything.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Why should Blinker tried to blackmail meet?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Like I say, he found out about the narcotics and
those hollow elephants.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Was put there without my knowledge. You have no proof
I was involved, you.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Know, Foreman, it doesn't much matter. You've got even bigger
troubles than that. Staring in the face. I don't understand
Blinker's body has been recovered from the bay.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I wouldn't know anything about that. You got no proof
of that either. Huh.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
There were two bullet holes in Blinker. Five will get
your ten the slugs and him came for this gun
of yours.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The gun.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, this is something that can be proved.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
Well, yeah, all right, Hey just didn't have any choice,
right them five one hundred and eighty three dollars even
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transportation and Incidental's hall expenser.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Count total four hundred and thirty four dollars fifty cents.
Remarks Andrew Foreman made a complete statement of the police.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I made a case against him is open and shut.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
So it looks like he's going to beat the narcotics
rap after all the hard way.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yours truly Johnny Dall.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, originates in
Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Today's
story was written by Robert Stanley. Heard in Arkas with
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Speaker 3 (24:00):
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