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dot net. Well, now it
is time for this week's episode of the

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Adventures of Sam Spade. The original
air date April sixth of nineteen fifty one

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and the title is The Denny Shanekeeper. The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures

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of Sam Spade, Detective con Spade
Detective Agency. Hi, we else did

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you wind it up? There?
It all over? If you're talking about

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the usual happy ending with the villains
dead and buried and the lover is joining

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hands while a camera does a slow
fade. It is not all over,

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sweetheart. What do you mean say? The villains in this piece are for

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real still doing business at the same
old stand from one end of the country

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to the other. Who stand?
You sound so grim only because I have

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a grim tale to tell little one
so worn all within earshot, that if

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they seek bluebirds of happiness, sweetness
and light and love conquers all to try

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another, detective, Because even now
I am on my way with something that

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might butt into your sleep for the
next few days. So with my report

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on the Denny Shane Caper for NBC, William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director

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of mystery and crime drama, brings
you the greatest private detective of them all,

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starring Stephen Dunn in the Adventures of
Sam Spade. Effie, Yeah,

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I didn't hear you come in.
Ooh tired, Sam, Yeah you look

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pale. I guess maybe I'm a
little sick too, Now, Sam,

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I warned you about heavy lunches when
you're on a cane. Not that kind

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of sick angel. This kind starts
at your shoe tops, runs up your

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backbone, and kicks around in your
head till you're where's the book? Okay?

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Date to John Q. Public from
Samuel Spade, license number one three

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seven five nine six, subject the
Denny's Shane Caper. There, John Q.

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She was sprawled in the corner chair
when I got back from lunch.

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A kid of sixteen or so,
complete with bobby socks, hair ribbons,

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and shoulder bag, the kind you
see every afternoon in the drug store near

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the high school making jive talk over
at soda. But you looked up as

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I walked in, and the eyes
didn't look like jive talk. A tall

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there was trouble at him. You're
misuspaid, yep. A detective, Well,

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according to some people, fine,
I need a detective. You're sure?

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No positive? What would you be
doing with a detective? You're adding

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the classified section said you find people, well, sometimes they're not too badly

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lost. That is what do you
want to find? Did you ever hear

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of Denny Shane? You don't really
want to find Denny's Shane, do you?

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Why not? For most people who
want to lose him, then you

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do know him. I'm glad.
Here's twenty dollars. No, wait a

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minute, hold it, honey,
you don't get anxious. What's the matter.

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Don't you want to be paid for
this? Not if I don't do

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it? What do you mean let's
talk about you. What's your name,

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Mary Johnson? Does it make any
difference? Mary Johnson? Where do you

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live? Mary? Well, I've
never been in San Francisco before. I

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just got in yesterday, staying with
a friend out in the marina. My

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home's in Denver, Denver, Colorado, two two eight fourteenth Street. Okay,

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here you are? You want to
sign the contract? Oh? All

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right? Where do I sign on
the line? Here? No? No,

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no, no? The right name, Sally Joan Michaels. How did

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you know that? Next time you're
using alslee the identification bracelet home, don't

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tell people you're fresh out at Denver
when your coat label says it's fresh shot

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a ruse by the San Francisco.
Now let's try it again. Huh.

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What about Denny Shane? Well,
I I want to find him, that's

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all. Oh that's a lot why
I'd rather not say? Well? In

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that case, Sally, I recommend
another detective you find there's an ad in

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the classifying section just below mine.
You mean you won't do it, Sally?

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If I may get pontifical for just
a moment. Denny Shane is not

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the kind of character I would pick
out for a kid like you. He

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has a reputation for booking horses,
which is illegal, and welching his bets,

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which is worse. He is associated
at one time or another with almost

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every one in the files of the
Key Father Committee. And as for the

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girls, he runs around it wish. Oh oh, so that's it.

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No, that isn't it. I've
never seen Denny Shane in my life.

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If we do find him, you
have to point him out to me.

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Really, he's he's been good to
me. You see, all my life

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he's been good to me, and
you've never seen him. No, Denny

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Shane is my brother, mister spade. My mother died when I was born.

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I was adopted, but Denny went
to an orphanage and I guess he

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sort of ran wild after he got
out. Yeah, yeah, what do

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you mean. He's been good to
you, sent me money on birthdays and

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Christmases sometimes in between. He always
said if I needed help, to tell

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him, but I never knew where
to find him. We need help right

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now, mister spadeen my stepmother has
to have an operation, and I know

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Denny will give me the money if
I can find him. Why did you

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tell me all those black lies?
I was afraid you'd call my folks.

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They'd be horrified if they found out
this is the truth. Now, girls

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scouts on her. Yes, mister
Spade, Okay, you run home and

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study your algebra and I'll look up
Shane in court. No, no,

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I've got to talk to Denny myself. You're sure you want to come along?

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Oh? Yes, okay, but
I'm going to have to leave you

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outside while I talked to his friends. Let's go. I hadn't seen Shane

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since three years ago, when he
conned a client of mine out of three

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thousand dollars on a phony mining stock
there. I knew it was waste motion,

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but I checked the hotel where he
was living then, and finally was

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long gone. Came next in the
following order, one gambling joined in South

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City, one saloon in the mission, and one very dubious apart. I'm

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on Turk Street, run by a
charming wench wearing wedgies, Coulotts and peach

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brandy. She gave me a peachy
smile. Denny, Shane, don't step

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on your laughs. You've seen him
lately, honey? You asking about Denny.

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I saw him yesterday, first time
in two years, coming out of

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Augie Dano's. Who's Algi Dono runs
the gym exercise studio reducing set up on

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Sutter Street. You know, work
a little loose the middle, give us

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Yeah, I got it, but
anyway, thanks, So we took off

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for Aggie Dono's. We've been together
two and a half hours so far.

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In exchange, maybe two and a
half sentences. She just said quietly in

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her corner of the cab, with
her hands folded on her lap, looking

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straight ahead, Sally, Hey,
huh, it's a matter honey, nothing.

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Oh no, come on, come
on, you can tell your uncle

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Sammy. Something's eating you. Now? What is it? I told you

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you're sure it has nothing to do
with Denny and you. We settled there.

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I don't know, did we?
You know? I got an ache

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in my bad knee? Is that
good? Nope? I only get it

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when things are going sour on me. Well, here's Augi Dono's. Come

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on, you can go into this. This place looks respectable for a chake.

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A gold lettering on the door,
said Augustine Dono mesur scientific reducing,

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and inside was an expensive looking reception
room with birch paneling, potted palms,

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and antique leather chairs, into one
of which I stored Sally while I made

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bold went to a door at the
rear marked prior. Oh, now what

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you made me do? I am
sorry? Oh, dear me, you

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should be my best persume. I'm
sorry. I didn't mean to slam the

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door, lady, the draft.
This is a private office. There is

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a button outside clearly mock ring and
wait that I did not see. And

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once again, I am so sorry
about spilling the purpose my too, Sure,

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my regret TV twelve dollars an ounce. Oh, I regret TV too.

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Now look, how about announcing me
to the professor. But now,

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if you mean mister, he's quite
busy with another naked the envelopes already.

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Oh is this you've got me?
My name's Spade, Spade, Spade the

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detective. Yeah, detective, Oh
you have your nerve bodging And my dad,

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I thought you were replying all right, yes, rodneck, all right

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here four bits, now buy yourself
another quarter? Will I never this?

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I can believe? Well, what
do you want, spathe, I'm looking

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for Denny Shane. Someone saw him
walk out of here yesterday, Shane.

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That's right. Well, what's the
matter of some trouble or something. No,

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No, his kid's sister's trying to
look him up. Oh that's funny.

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What, well, that's someone I'm
coming out of here. I never

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heard of the guy. Of course, we got people in here all the

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time, you know, salesmen,
haiden, friends of clients, you know.

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But no, shame not that I
know. What's he looked like.

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Oh about my high blue eyes,
pale complexion, too thin to be coming

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here as a customer. Yeah,
I wish I could help you, pale,

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But like I say, so many
people come in and out of here,

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you know. Thanks anyway, bye
bye, any luck. No,

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I never heard of him. Come
on now, we're a couple of more

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places after you. Calb's gone,
And I told him not to wait.

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I thought we might have something to
eat across the street. I'm not hungry.

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Thanks, Look, you better call
your parents. No, no,

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don't. I I told him I
was spending the night with a girlfriends.

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They wouldn't worry. That's another big
black lie. I'm tired of playing this

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way. I want it all.
I told you you're reading your heart out

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over something and it's not Mama's operation. It's something bigger and it hurts worse.

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And don't tell me any different,
because it's written all over your face.

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Please don't ask me anymore. Please. Ah, skip it. Where's

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a cabin? Don't take me home, that's just where you're going, honey.

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I'm well, what's the matter?
Look coming up the street. Yeah,

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Denny's shame you. Sure, of
course, I'm sure. I've got

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to be positive. I'll prove it
to you. Denny. See, yes,

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Denny, come here a minute.
Ah, Sam Spade, isn't it.

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Yeah? Yeah, well I recognized
the kid. Well, hease your

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little sister, sister? What are
you talking about? I am going It

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all happened in less than a second, so hard, so fast, so

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horrible. It froze me in my
tracks. The shoulder bag flew open.

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There was an automatic in her hand, and then Denny Shane was dead on

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the pavement, and she was turning
toward me, her face a sick gray

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color, handing me the gun handle
first. Yeah, it's done. Now

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you can take me to the police. You are listening to the weekly adventure

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of radio's most famous detective Sam Spade. Three chimes mean good times on NBC.

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Whether it's comedy, music or drama
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also brings you a one hour adaptation
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Side of Paradise, presented by theod
Guild on the Air and starring Richard Widmark

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and Nina Poche. Now back to
the Denny Shane Caper Tonight's adventure with Sam

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Spade. I won't try to give
you the play by play for the hour

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following the show shots on Southern Street, because I was in no shape to

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remember things in sequence. In less
than a minute, we were in the

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center of a milling crowd, cars
jammed up, horns began to blow,

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then the Morgue wagon and a squad
of homicide dicks and flashbulbs going off like

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firecrackers, and Sally standing them all
off with a frozen gray expression on her

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face that never changed while I stood
at her elbow me, Sam Spade,

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who'd seen Lord knows how many murders, With rubber in my knees and a

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feeling in my stomach like I was
going to be sick. Finally, the

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squad car picked us up and headed
for Dundee's office. Mister Spathe, Yeah,

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I've been waiting for you to ask
me why I did it. I

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thought i'd leave that for the professionals. He won't do any good to ask

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me. Mister Spade. Please tell
him that, will you. He'll save

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all of us a lot of trouble. Everything I told you was a lie.

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I had to make Jack to meet
you in some way because I didn't

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know what he looked like. I
hope you know what kind of a stew

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you jumped in the sad because from
here on it's going to be pretty tough.

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I don't care what they do to
me. I've had nothing to live

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for for a long time. Now, What do you mean? Sounds stupid,

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doesn't it? Sixteen years old and
nothing to live for. Sally,

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tell them not to ask me any
questions. Tell them guilty sentence me to

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do whatever they do, he'll ever
tell them, why give me a cigarette?

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Same? Yeah? Why did I
have to grow up to be a

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homicide dick? No dice with him, No dice. It's your old man's

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gun. Hooked it out of his
drawer this morning before she left for school.

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I still think she's mixed up with
Shane. Dundee believed me. That's

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one thing I can guarantee. She
didn't know Shane from Hoppolo on Cassidy.

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Well, I'm only falling back on
the standard answer to this kind of a

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clambake. Sam, This is not
a standard clambank. You're telling me,

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you know? Same? It kind
of scares you. What the same hill's

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happening to our kids? A sixteen
year old girl still in high school walking

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up to someone on the street.
Oh, I'm sorry, it's got me

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too. She's resting on the couch
in there, stick around like it back.

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I gotta go down and wait for
her. Oh excuse me, I

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saw the lutent. Go out and
come on and sit down. I'm a

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friend of Sally's. Do you think
I could talk to her for a minute.

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Well, I don't think she feels
like talking. Look, I got

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to missed right, I got to
talk to her. What's your name,

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Eddie Tucker? I go to school
with Sally. I've been waiting for three

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hours outside for a chance to talk
to her, can't I please? What's

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it about? It's kind of personal? Okay? Through the door there?

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Oh? Thanks, and to leave
it open, yes, sir. The

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minute he went in, I slid
along the wall into a corner between the

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door jam and a firecase, and
through the doorway I could see them both

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in the mirror on the far wall
of the inner office. Sally, what

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are you doing here? I had
to see you, Sally. I heard

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about it, and I had to
see you. That's all. You're wasting

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your time, Addy, It's all
over New North. You shouldn't have done

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it, Sally. You know what
I promised you. I know what you

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promised me all the other times too. This was for keeps honest. So

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are the other times all right?
Look look at this? See out the

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window. Watch now? Now do
you believe me, Eddie? It's not

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your fault anymore? I don't blame
you, honest, follow us promise.

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I'll keep this one, Sally,
honest. I will. No. You're

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a zombie, Eddy, you know
what a zombie is someone who moves and

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walks around, but who's stad inside? Go away, now go. He

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got up slowly and walked past me
out the door, rosy cheeked seventeen with

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a tired old man look in his
eyes. A few minutes later the matron

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came by and I left her with
Sally. The window in Dundee's office opened

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onto a second floor roof below,
and directly beneath it, I picked up

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what Eddie had tossed, A set
of car keys and a leather case.

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Was a third one that looked like
it belonged to a school locker, with

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a number three three nine on it
and written in ink on the leather inside

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like a memo. Was Denny Shade
seven seven eight Turk Street apartment for ha

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okays, Well it's you a get
Yeah? Wow Jack? An't you going

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to wait for an invitation? You've
done me wrong this morning? Honey?

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About Denny? Yeah? Said you
hadn't seen him in two years? Ah,

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I told you about Agid. Did
anyone told you about Denny Shane?

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No? Great loss packs for Riscus? Would you like a dream? Thank

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you? No? Now? What
about I had it coming to him sooner

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or later and never remain an honor
buck in his life. Oh did he

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have it coming to him? Like
he got it? Like they all get

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it? What was his record?
Numbers? You know how it works?

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You buy a number? Yeah?
How do you know? All this curiosity?

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Intellectual curiosity, iant to know things
all the time. I want to

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know things. Follow So one day
when Denny leaves his suit to be cleaned

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and I find a book in his
pocket, I asked the questions. One

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book his numbers book? Stupid?
What's that? Oh? You know,

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with the names and numbers of all
his customers, you wouldn't know where it

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is? Would you? Perhaps?
Perhaps? Up? Oh? Yes,

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yes, how does five bucks look? Bourbon is awful? High? Yeah,

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you probably drink it straight? Ten
better? Come on, I think

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it's I think it's in his top
drawer. Let me see now, high

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there you I fellow black book?
See all the names, all the numbers,

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all the names, all the numbers, and one other feature. It

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was divided into sections label Galileo Balboa, Lowell, George Washington, and a

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couple of more fellows who passed on
long before the numbers record was invented.

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Under each was a list of names
Eddie Tucker's was on the page headed Thomas

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Jefferson. An effort was number three
three nine dashed Seventh Street. At this

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point, several bells rang. The
odd key in Eddie's case didn't belong to

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a locker. It went with a
bus and the main post office on Seventh

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Street. And now, look,
fellow, it's eleven o'clock. Name spade,

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clerk. Look see the license.
I don't care about the license,

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the rules and regulations of the United
States Postals. SI. I know,

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through rain and sleet and snow and
hail. But there's been a murder.

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You see murder? Yeah? Oh
well, in that case, I suppose

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we great, great, where's the
mail for the boxes on the table over

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there, But it isn't distributed.
If you'll wait a shake, I'll wait

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a shake. It took more than
a shake, but we got to it

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just before midnight, a scented envelope. It was addressed simply to Eddie Tucker,

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box three three nine. And then
it was the answer to everything.

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The tired old man, eyes on
the kid, Eddie the zombie, and

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Sally, who figured her life was
over at sixteen because Eddie was through but

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two had sent it to him.
Was something else again, just a plain

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white envelope, the kind you get
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I looked at it a little closer, wondering what manner of stationer would

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deem it fitting a sprinkled perfume on
the kind of envelope most people made like

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bills in. Finally, a possible
explanation took shape in my mind. You

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don't have to hit Spade on the
head with a baseball bat. Any large

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sized mallet will do. Not just
ten minutes. I deserve an expert.

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Get it, you'll get it.
I'm in bed, asleep. What do

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you get off busing my bell this
time of nights? Patience? Look?

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Yeah, good, good? Yeah? Well what are you taking your coat

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off for? Just relax? Or
here's the coat? Hi? Now the

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shoulder holster? Wait a minute and
hour? What is all? Well?

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You know the old soul aggie,
work a little lose the middle. What

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I need is exercise? Great,
all right, you come around to the

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studio sometimes smarter with you? Are
you crazy? Yeah? Get up?

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I want to try it with the
right hand. Look, Spade, I

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got ground rules over at headquarters.
Now age, no white lights, no

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rubber hoses, but they don't apply
to private dicks. Get up, listen

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if you're looking for trouble rights,
even better. Okay, up, you're

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going. I'll come up against the
wall now he go. Let's talk yeah

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about Denny Shane, About the kids
he smeared with his filthy hands, high

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school kids from Balbo High and Lowell
and George Washington, good kids, straight

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kids. I don't know nothing about. They're outside, man. Wasn't it

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your roper turning up in drug stores
and give joints with those dirty little packets

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of heroin? He passed out his
headache clouders. No, I don't know

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nothing. He got him hooked hard
up. There was no more. And

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then they got a mailbox number and
a key. Then they raised money anyway

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they could. I have nothing to
do with it. My studio, your

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studios up front. Does a name
down there know what's in those envelopes emails

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every day? Or does she think
their statements? Come on talk Donald,

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Yeah, okay, okay, I'm
talking. Which he did a full hour's

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worth in Dundee's office and a harrowing
tailor. It was I felt like printing

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up a million copies and mailing it
out to every father and mother in the

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country. They taking him downstairs.
When I happened to glance out of Dundee's

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window and down on the second floor
roof, a point of life was moving

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back and forth slowly from one end
to the other. Eddie, where are

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they? Where are those keys?
I've got to have them here? Oh

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thanks, my car. I couldn't
get home in my car. You see,

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I know all about it. Oh
I I can't do anything about myself,

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mister Spade, I'm helpless. What
she said, stop me. You're

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not helpless. You can't handle little
love maybe, but you're not helpless.

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Other guys have lifted and you can. So you don't want to bad enough.

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I want you, that's what you
need. We'll take care of the

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rest. Let's go. Like I
said, this one doesn't have bluebirds at

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the end, not yet anyway.
The ball fact is that Sally Joan Michaels

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is facing the juvenile version of a
murder rap. However, the best criminal

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lawyer in town is volunteered to defend
her, and the state will be represented

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by the most half hearted prosecution that
ever set foot in the courtroom. Eddie

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Tucker is entering a sanitarium tomorrow,
making him luckier than some of the other

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kids in that Little Black book.
What about yours? John Q period end

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of report. Well, I don't
know what did they say? I feel

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so awful. I guess I better
not make any comments. May too,

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sweetheart. Let us lose ourselves in
our work. Me and this cheap novel

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you were reading, and you and
the merry chatter of that nineteen o six

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model Oliver Scoot Three chimes mean good
times. On NBC this Sunday, there's

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fun for you with two delightful families, The Blandings and the Harrises. Mister

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and Missus Blandings stars Carrie Grant and
Betsy Drake as the troubled but proud owners

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of the famous dream House, and
the Phil Harris Alice Face Show brings you

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Phil and Alice plus brother William Darling, child Julius and the ever present Frankie

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Ramley. Amazing, Oh not really, Sam, nothing amazing. Don't sell

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yourself. Sure now, I'm just
a playing garden Variety secretary Sair. Look

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at that immaculate not a mistake,
oh sa, And in twenty six seconds

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flapped in just the time it took
that man to read a short announcement,

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you type out five copies of a
twenty eight page report in my book.

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That is amazing. All right,
Hi minute, Sam, I'm amazing,

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good good And another thing, what's
that? I'm hungry? Oh, and

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tonight is so rotten night as Schroders
and mac Nie. She's letting girls in

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that sruff as you may have gathered. I didn't collect the fee off this

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one. Oh but Sam, I
still have ten dollars you gave me last

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week to cover my back salary from
six weeks before that, So we sholders.

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It is yes. Let me go
home and put on my other shirt

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and I'll get my side rotten hat. Good night there, Good night sweeter,

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she is amazing. The Adventures of
Sam Spade are produced, edited,

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and directed by William Spear. Sam
Spade is played by Stephen Dunn. Loreen

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Tuttle is Effie. Also in the
cast, where Kathy Lewis, Paul Freese,

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Kathleen Freeman, Lou Merrill, Bill
Tracy, and Jerry Hausner. Script

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Fortnite's Adventure by Harold Swanton, musical
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Armbruster. Join us again next week, same time for another Adventure with Sam

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Tavern Each Friday on NBC. Welcome
back, a very somber episode of Sam

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Spade, covering a very challenging problem
both then and now. It was definitely

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something that was on many minds given
the news of the day. Spade referenced

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the Key Folver Committee, which was
a special Senate committee chaired by Senator Estes

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Key Folver focusing on organized crime and
Internet state commerce, and certainly the dope

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rack would be part of that,
and as this episode brings home, that

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particular racket has a very heavy human
hole. And then appreciate we got one

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break after the commercial break from the
sort of tone when Sam congratulate I did

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Effie on all the work she got
done during a brief thirty second commercial break.

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Now I do want to go ahead
and let you know that we are

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nearing the end of the Stephen Dunn
era. We only have three more weeks

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left now. We do have two
more weeks of Sam Spade after that,

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but again just letting you know that
we are reaching the end of Stephen Dunn's

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time on the podcast. Listener comments
and feedback now, and have a comment

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from Leonard who writes in, just
watched an episode of the sixties Batman Show

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with Ida Lupino and Howard Duff as
special guest villains, and that was the

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episode the Entrancing Doctor Cassandra, and
I believe I did see that episode when

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I was growing up. Of course
I didn't make the connection to Howard Duff

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and Ida Lupino, and I've actually
realized in recent months. I hadn't thought

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about it. But so many of
those actors who played nineteen sixties Batman villains

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had really rich careers in radio,
or at least a career of some sort.

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Now this wasn't true of all of
them. Frank Gorshon Alas never appeared

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on radio during the Golden Age of
radio, and of course he was the

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actor best known for playing the Riddler. Although John Aston did play the Riddler

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in one story, but mostly it's
Gorshen you think of. He didn't have

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anything in the golden age of radio. None of the Catwoman actresses made any

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old time radio either, but so
many of them dead, you know,

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not just Burgess Meredith, Csar Romero, Roddy McDowell who played Bookworm, Lula

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Bankhead who played Black Widow, Milton
Burrell who played Louis the Lilack. And

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I thought that it would be fun
to do a radio series, maybe as

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a summer series on the amazing world
of radio, if people wanted it,

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where we would play an old time
radio episode that starred an actor who also

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played a nineteen sixties batman villain and
talk about one of their stories from the

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TV series. Now, of course, if I were to do that sort

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of thing as a summer series,
I would really limit it to one story

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per villain, because Burgess Meredith and
Caesar Romero were in a lot of stories

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and it would really take forever to
get through the mall. But I do

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find it fascinating growing up watching older
television program and then meeting these actors in

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a different capacity when I get into
listening to old time radio. Thanks so

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much for the comment. Now it's
time to thank our Patreon supporter of the

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day. Thank you to Mark,
Patreon supporter since March of twenty twenty,

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Thank you so much for your support. Mark, And that will do

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back here tomorrow for the start of
a new Yours truly johny Dollar serial Where

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what what? Oh? Oh?
There? Hold, Hey you had a

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couple too many? He's out back
working with a quartet. Now, come

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on over here and like, yes, I guess so, Michael is Michael

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Jeremiah lindsay, I guess, I
guess, I guess I have had a

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couple, a couple too many?
Was right, but none of what I'd

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thought. His ted had code opened
as he fell, and there just below

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the hard two doc red splotches slowly
widened on his ragged shirt, and it

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looked like Peter Branson was right.
The beneficiary of Michael Jeremiah Flynn's life insurance

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policy was anxious to collect. I
hope you'll be with us then. In

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the meantime, do send your comments
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