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All for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dollars, Ramy DEPOPMA, Britannia Casualty in Life.

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Oh yeah, miss Raymie, thanks
for calling back. I just wanted

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to get something straight. If a
murderer is executed, does his policy payoff?

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That's an unusual question as far as
I know. Yes, but we

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have a famous situation. Well,
put on your makeup, it's liable to

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happen any minute, Edmund O'Brien.
In another transcribed adventure of the Man with

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the action packed expense account, America's
fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly,

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Johnny Dolla. Expense account submitted by
a special investigator Johnny Dolla to Brittannia Casualty

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in Life, Hotford, Connecticut.
The following is an accounting of expenditures during

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my investigation of Stuart Palmer, the
man who wrote himself to death. Expense

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account. I had him one one
hundred and twenty FI dollars and forty two

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cents air and miscellaneous travel expenses from
Hartford to Chicago and the Cook County jail.

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Well, you can make up your
own mind about him. Dollar.

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He's like all those hits. He
isn't guilty, he's crazy. Oh,

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Lieutenant, Oh hi Margaret, it's
this is mister Dollar. It's an insurance

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dick. He wants to talk to
Palmers call him out with him. Short

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thing, Lieutenant, Hey, Parma, mother's here. I'll see you on

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your way out down here. Yeah, thanks a lot, Lieutenant. Here's

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your point, mister Dollar. You'll
have to talk from them through the bridge.

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Stuart Thoma. Yeah, my name
is Dollar, Britannic casualty in life

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sent me out here. Understand you're
in some difficulty. There's anything I can

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do to help you. Didn't come
here to help you. You came to

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investigate my new policy now, Love, I don't need your help or anybody

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else's. I paid my first premium. That's told you where the company need

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be concerned about. They're concerned about
the fact that you're being held on suspicion

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of murders. That doesn't affect the
policy. Have you retained counsel? That's

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not your business. Thanks for the
cooperation. Nice to meet friends in a

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strange city. You're gonna have him
Markowitz? Well, Dollar lovable, isn't

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he have you got on him?
Oh? Not much. Some whiner was

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killed in the Clark Street pool and
Palmer was holding one of the cues.

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We pulled him in with about fourteen
others. When are you going to release

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him? We're not sure he's been
in before, you know, tell me

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what's the matter with him? Who
knows he's a writer? Crime stuff hangs

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around the West Madison district a lot
of the time. Calls it research.

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Does he still have that kenword address? Wait a six, yeah, fifty

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seven fifteen. Well, I hope
it. Wife is jollier than he is.

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Oh, miss Martin, Oh,
I'm sorry. I thought you were

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somebody else. I am. My
name is Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator.

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I'm sorry. We have all the
insurance we can use, I said,

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investigator. I want to talk to
you about your husband. Oh,

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come in, Why do you do
this to him? I why? It's

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like he says, you're all after
him. You don't like him because he's

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a genius. You don't understand him, You'll never understand. You can try

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all you want to, as Stewart
says, when one human being does something

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better than another human being, that's
when they attack him. Well, go

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ahead, look missus, Palmer,
I'm on your side. I'm not the

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police. Oh, now, why
don't you sit down. I'll explain the

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whole thing to you. Come on, that's better. Now. Your husband

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took out one hundred thousand dollars life
insurance policy last week. There's certainly nothing

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wrong with that, is Palmer?
Please? This week your husband is arrested

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on suspicion of murder. There,
I see you don't know anything about him,

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and already you're accusing him of the
most awful thing. I am not

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accusing him of anything, missus Palm, I'm just trying to help. I

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talked with your husband a little while
ago. He wasn't very cooperative. I'd

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hoped you would be. Well,
you put him in jail and then you

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were expecting to be cooperative. Does
he have a lawyer? Yes, of

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course, mister Martin. That's who
I thought you were. How does mister

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Martin feel about this, which he's
been very nice do it isn't worried.

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Dowart knows that mister Martin can string
him anytime he wants to. I see,

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what does your husband write books?
Well, he used to write for

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the radio, but if he says, it is very limited medium. So

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one morning he went to his agent
and tore that contract up writing his face,

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and that very day he started to
write his play one hundred and forty

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Take with real people and everything.
He took, every one of them from

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life is the play about crime.
How did you know that I met your

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husband doing a little research in jail. Well, they put him in jail

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because they don't understand, as he
says. They don't put a doctor to

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bed in a hospital because he's doing
research on a dangerous disease. People don't

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know good from evil. That's what's
wrong. They're afraid of the truth,

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and that's what's right. He practically
lives with this subject, criminals. He

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is. He studies them. Nobody
can write believably about something and theirs are

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familiar with it. That's the sacrifice
he makes. You don't get to see

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much of him, do you.
Well, his work is infinitely more important

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than I am. But as soon
as his play is produced, by going

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Away Together, Atlantic City, you're
permuted. The manuscript has been in New

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York for six months now, so
it shouldn't be long before he is What

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is your husband's income then, for
the past six months, Well, there

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hasn't been much, But great art
is often born of poverty. What one

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hundred thousand dollars insurance policies aren't Who
was this man? Neil Beesley or a

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co beneficiary? Will you're going to
sit here and be insulting. Perhaps you're

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better leave. I've said better.
You mentioned an agent. What's his name?

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George Michael Koff. He's in Ingram
Building. Crazy. The guy's crazy.

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You can't do business with a guy
like that. Art. He talks

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everything's got to be art. Spends
his time with bums and he calls it

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art. Hasn't he done anything for
six months, mister Michael kohf Not with

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me? Well, let's face it, not with nobody. You know.

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He could have been a good writer, this boy, but he was too

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arty, not commercial. Then boom, he's got to write a play.

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And where is it? Probably in
the bottom drawer of Hallstein's desk, and

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he's going to stay there. Here's
a copy, take it along and read

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it. Thanks. What about this
research he does? Research? Is that

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what he told you? I had
to go down to the county jail and

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bill him out twice. That's what
washed me up some. And they they're

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gonna catch him with the goods on
him. You know, maybe it started

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out to be researched, but it
ain't. Now, well, how did

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it start? With a guy named
Neil Beasley? Neil Beasley? Oh you

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heard him? Huh, Yeah,
that's the boy. He took Palmer under

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his wing, and that's where he
still is. I don't know. Maybe

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he can't get out. Beasley came
up to the office with Palmer once.

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What a character. Why does this
Beasley hang out? You know who knows

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nasty neighborhoods? Expense account adam too
eighty cents cab fat to a nasty neighborhood.

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After a lot of questions and bad
bourbon, I came up with a

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character who called himself Roscoe. Roscoe
was the walking who's who of the district.

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When I mentioned the name Beasley,
he swallowed his drink, wiped the

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back of his hand over his mouth, and leaned over the table toward me.

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Beeesly Beasley, see Beesley, come
on, here's something to stimulate your

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memory. Yes, of course,
Beesley. Neil Beasley been a friend of

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mine for years. Slipped my mind, getting old. Beasley was born in

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Cincinnati of well to do parents.
They say he attended Harvard, but best

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it's only a story. You know
how story starts. Get the history?

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Where can I find him? Any
number of places? If the racetrack was

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open, you'd find him there,
But the racetrack ain't open. There is

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his place of residence. Where is
that? I don't know, but he

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must live somewhere, obviously. What
would you suggest you familiar with the atomic

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tavern up the street? Oh,
I'm a stranger in town Peoria. No,

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you have the face of a Peori
a salesman. I don't know something

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in the eyes. Yes, well, the atomic tavern up the street.

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Thanks Rascale. You never did say
where you were from Hartford, Connecticut?

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Have you ever in town? Looked
me up four blocks away, squeezed between

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a delicatessen and a shoe pola.
I came upon the atomic tavern. It

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exploded just as I arrived. Stay
out. I still named the caller lady.

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Oh, I come writing to come
in? Anybody with those several tonguers

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welcome? Paying? Yeah, boy
Neil Disley around eh who went to him?

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The name is Johnny Doll. I'm
a friend of Stuart Thomas. Will

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you tell him that he's at the
back table? All right? Come on

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with you have no bottom name for
you, mister, what's business dollar?

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Insurance investigation ending? I said,
Anne, I'm working for a company that

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holds a policy in the life of
Stuart Thomas insurance racket. I wonder how

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it started. I suppose somebody back
in Rome that Julius sees a ten drop.

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He wouldn't live through the fifteenth of
March and one, what do you

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want with me? I'm looking for
somebody who will makes some sense. Maybe

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you're it. I understand your palmer's
beneficiary. That's right, he's a good

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boy. Yeah, it is not
a good risk. The company enhows a

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radio, right I can out here? And then he's a heady criminal.

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What's your problem, dalla? Why
don't you cancel the policy? And I

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will if I can tell me what
got him started? Well, I'll put

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yourself in his place. He spends
a lot of time around here learning so

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he can write good stuff. He
writes good stuff so good they won't buy

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it, so he falls back on
his education. That's logical but illegal.

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All forget him, get me too. It's fate, but bumps on your

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head, the lines in your hands, the stars, destiny. Who can

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stop it? And it's quite a
philosophy. I was looking toward the front

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of the building. I hadn't seen
him come in, but it was Stuart

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Palmer. He was standing at the
elbow of the bar, obviously looking for

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his friend, but he spotted me. He started for the door. Shut

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down up, sit down, and
leave him alone. The cups released him.

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Just leave him alone, go off. By the time I got outside,

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he was half a block away,
heading west and knopped over several West

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Madison Street characters. And then it
suddenly occurred to me that the only reason

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I was chasing him was because he
was running away from me. I was

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fifty feet behind him when he rounded
a Walgreen drug store on the corner right

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the second I lost him. Then
I saw him. He wasn't running,

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he was turned toward me. Palmer, don't the crown. I bent over

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the newsboy just long enough to see
that he was dead, and I started

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after Palmer again. There was no
mistake about it. He wanted that policy,

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and he'd kill to keep it.
In just a moment, we will

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return to the second act of Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. But first,

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the screen sophisticated caustic mister Belvedere ali
Is Clifton Webb, We'll swap quips

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with Bing Crosby on the Growner CBS
Show this Wednesday night. CBS cordially invites

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you to hear this great show that
promises some of the best laughs of the

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season when it comes your way on
most of these same CBS stations this Wednesday

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night. Mildred Bailey, the Rocking
Chair Lady of Popy Song, also will

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be on hand as guest star.
So remember be listening when Clifton Webb,

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Mildred Bailey, and Bing Crosby get
together tomorrow night. Now, with our

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star Edmund O'Brien, we return to
the second act of Yours Truly, Johnny

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Dollar. I lost Palmer in the
next block. If daylight had held for

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a little longer, maybe I could
have stopped the whole thing. I looked

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at my watch. It was six
oh five. The Hartford office was closed.

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I headed back for a phone in
the Wall Green drug store. I

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got to the corner just as the
police and the person of Lieutenant Karragan pulled

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out a dollar. I double you
were doing here. Look at that kid,

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Karragan, lion. If you hadn't
let that maniac out, the boy

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would still be hawking his papers.
Hey, wait a minute, back off.

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What are you talking about? Who
do you think did it? Palmer?

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Palmer? Are you sure he was
shooting at me? I just let

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him out for him? Oh,
look, Dollar, there are laws.

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I told you earlier. We didn't
have much on him. He was clear.

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Oh you share not clear on this
one? Kid only had three papers?

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Wet. I think you better tell
me what happened Dollar? Well?

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Yeah, oh hey, folks,
why don't you go home? Come on,

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move. I don't know what there
is about people. They're just glad

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it wasn't there kid. Here's the
tale. I came down here to find

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a guy named Neil Beasley, a
friend of Palmer's. Palmer showed up to

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joint. When he saw me,
he made a dash up the street and

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took out after him. And when
I got to the corner, he opened

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up. The kid was standing next
to us. After the gunfiring, I

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went after Palmer again. Believe me, I wish i'd caught him. Yeah,

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sergeant, but I'm a general on
Stuart Palmer, all a dopes in

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my office? Why would he want
to kill you? That's one hundred thousand

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dollars question, Lieutenant. I'll be
in the drug store. Got to make

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a phone call. Hi, Hello, mister Sandel. Yes, went about

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it at home. I'm on the
Palmer case out of your Hartford office.

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Oh oh, yes, mister Dollar, isn't it that's right? How are

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you making out? Well, thing's
gonna be worse. Your only abo is

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to cancel the policy, sir?
How soon can you do that? On

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good grounds? Well, I couldn't
get word from the east until tomorrow afternoon

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at the earliest. If you can't
do it tonight, just forget the whole

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thing. Idstand. Other police have
put out a general alarm for the policy

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holder, dead or alive, and
the odds are on the headside. All

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right, daughter, I'll do what
I can. I'll get on the phone

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to Hartford as soon as I hang
up. Good. I won't keep you

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waiting. Bye, Spencer, count
item four a dollar ady cab fair back

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to missus Palmer's apartment on the way. I suppose I should have been worried

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about the one hundreds half of the
worth of policy, but that didn't seem

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to bother me. It was the
newsboy who never knew what hit him,

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and there was Palmer's wife. I'm
going to have to tell her about it.

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But I knew even before I got
to the apartment that she'd never believe

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me. I don't believe you.
Of course you don't, and you don't

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want to. You don't want to
believe anything bad about him. You want

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to just go on complimenting yourself on
being married to the greatest man on earth.

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But you're way wrong. Where is
he? I don't know, and

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you can't make me believe you.
Why would he kill any party? Guess

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is that he's doing it for people. Oh that's a terrible thing to say.

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He wouldn't do anything wrong, even
for me. He took out an

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insurance policy that he couldn't afford.
Why do you think he did that?

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I don't know. I never understood
about business. Really sure got you?

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Some people have Collie dogs, and
he's got you. He comes home pat

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on the head, so you'll look
up at him and tell him how wonderfully

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is you? Know? Why?
Because nobody else will. You just don't

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understand. You just don't understand it
all. How long has it been since

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he treated you like a woman,
bought your things like candy flowers? When

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was the last time he spent an
evening with you? Why are you saying.

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I'm trying to tell you that he
failed both as a writer and his

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a husband. Don't you see he's
trying to make it up to you.

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He wants the police to kill him
so you'll collect the insurance. That's a

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lie. Where is he? Mariam? Hello? Yes, No, he's

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here. Now why do you say
that? No? Stuart? Where are

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you? He hung up? Yeah? Well, look who's here? I

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wish Farmer was as easy to find
as you are. You won't find him

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here? Does she know where he
is? He just phoned her? Wouldn't

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tell her? Well, it looks
like a long night for her too.

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Mind if I ride back to the
Madison District with you, that's quite a

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theory. Dollar. What happens to
a guy to get him in a mess

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like this? I don't know.
Burn too many bridges, I guess,

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made a stand with his agent,
told everybody'd show him he was right now.

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He can't do it people. I
don't know. Maybe I've been in

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homicide too long. I used to
think a lot about things like this,

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you know, wonder about what started
these characters, What got into the place

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where I'd have to go after him? No more? Their problems aren't mine.

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Worry about now is how to get
them without getting anybody else hurt.

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You've got a nice, simple job, Lieutenant Karan. Yeah, I was

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thinking of that. You want him
alive the insurance company does. I hope

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it works out for you. I
can't take any chances. We always try

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to save them for a trial.
But if you're right about this one,

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he'll come out with gun. Those
are the kind we have to stop.

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You know, this could turn into
a very inferent situation. The lieutenant was

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kind enough to drop the tonic tavern. The place was empty, the sirens

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that frighten most of the clientele out
of the precinct, all except one.

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He sat in the same position,
at the same table, with what looked

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like the same glass of beer.
Hello Beasley, mister Beasley, I was

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expecting you sit down. How's the
insurance business? And sometimes we sell too

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much? You know where Palmer is? Surely always know where Palmer is.

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He tells me things he wouldn't tell
anyone else. You may not care,

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mister Beasley, but you just made
yourself an access rate to insurance fraud.

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Not unless I tell the police where
he is, and then your company is

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out The hundred grand and you're in
ten I'll tell you the truth. I

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don't want that money. I don't
want a penny of that money. Look

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good. At first he wanted to
give his wife a break off of me

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ten grand to help him out.
How did you help him out? We'll

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take right now. For instance,
I could have tipped the cops twice a

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minute since it happened. In fact, I was supposed to. Cops would

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have killed him wife, and I
would have collected our money. But I

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can't do it. Isn't it a
little late for boy scouting? No?

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No, not if you could come
out of it. No cops, no

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cops. Just as soon as I
finish my beer, we walked down Hallstead

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with the red street cars rumbling by, and the fruit trucks and the chicken

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wagons. I didn't notice to make
the street. We turned west on,

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but a block and a half later
we stopped two doors away from a basement

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barbershop. Well that's where he is. You're crazy to go in there,

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are you? Are you staying out
here? No? No, I'm going

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in. But I'm crazy too.
That's why you should never listen to a

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guy like me. Farmer's got nothing
to lose. How much do they pay

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you for getting killed? Come on, if you're going, let's go.

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Okay, Barma, Parma. It's
Beasley that me in good work, and

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me'll bring him in quickly. You've
got a good line, Beasley. Mister

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Beasley, so good. I believe
it myself. What's that supposed to me?

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Oh, Palmer, it's a bad
deal all the way around. What

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do you want to do? Make? You won't go down in any books?

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What's got into you? You help
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Oh? Yes, it looked good, but it won't work. He's right,

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Palma, it won't work. I
put through a cancelation request on your

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policy, but it hasn't got yet. Bad you wouldn't have come in here.

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It's no good, Palmer. Even
if it doesn't come through, they'll

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fight it in court after you're dead. We've got too much against you.

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How far will they get without your
custimony? You aren't going to be around

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to give it. Well, that's
no good either. If you kill me,

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that'll clinch it. Oh, come
on, use your head, Palmer,

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you've got a chance. The newsboy
is only a second degree rap.

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There was no premeditation. You're trying
awful hard to say that company of yours

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a hundre thousand bucks. Listen,
listen, there isn't a commission big enough

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to make me come here. All
right, then why did you come?

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I don't know. Maybe maybe because
way back in my mind I thought to

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myself, I can get to this
guy. Maybe it was your wife that

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he'd become. I just saw her
palma. You know you aren't doing her

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any favors by getting yourself killed.
She loves you too much. You can't

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buy a thing like that off with
one hundred grands. They're coming. I

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didn't tip them. They must have
followed us down. It doesn't make any

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difference how they get here. Just
so they come. He'll watch the dollars.

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Stay away from me. Nobody's gonna
stop me. Now. Hell,

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this is what they all wanted,
Like the big literary agent with the big

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promises, great play. He tells
me, this is the old friends.

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So I've cut the story out of
the papers, and they'll save it in

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the best drawer. Poor stew they'll
say they could have been a good boy.

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Well right, they can save it. It's gonna pay off. That's

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what counts. Won't pay off,
and you know it. The only guy

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that wants it this way is you, because you haven't got the guts to

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go on. Farm. We know
you're in there. We'll give you thirty

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seconds. Farm, help me right
out. Palmer. It's wait, Palmer,

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it's for nothing. It's no use. Salary's going to do it.

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Put all lie down on the floor. Are you in there? Married,

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brun and get away from here.
I want to come on in here,

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Marian. What are you doing here? Don't do it? I don't want

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money that wait wait a minute,
did they make you come in here?

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No? No, I wanted to
do good goodbye Milliaan do we don't go?

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Do? Come? Get on the
floor. Come, there's nothing you

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two stop horror crack. As you
know, Palmer's policy was not canceled before

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he died. But I'm sure that
with a staff of legal geniuses employed by

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the Britannia Company, you'll come out
all right, a soft judge. You

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gave Beasley sixty days for attempted assurance
fraud and that was it. Expenser Count

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Item six same as Item one,
transportation Chicago to Hartford. Spenser Count total

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six hundred and thirty five dollars and
twenty four cents. Oh almost forgot item

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seven thirty five cents tip to Western
Union Boy telegram from Marrying Palmer contents Thought

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you'd like to know Stuart's play accepted
for production on Broadway. Yours Truly Johnny

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Down. Yours Truly Johnny Dollars stars
Edmund O'Brien in the title role. Was

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written by Gildowd and David Ellis,
with music composed and conducted by Lake Stephens.

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Edmond O'Brien can currently be seen in
the Harry M. Popkin United Artists

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production d o A. Featured in
tights cast were Loreen Tuttle, Larry Dobkin,

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Bill Bouschet, Bill Gray, Jack
Krusian, and Herb Butterfield. Yours

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Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed
by Himy del Vai