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day it was supposed to air.
Somehow or another, we had a bit

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of a mix up where the mister
Moto recording didn't get recorded, and yesterday

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people heard Johnny Dowler apologize for that
mix up, and I'm doing what I

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can to rectify it. So fortunately
I did not have the commentary originally recorded,

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so I'm Marie recording that commentary for
mister Moto. Today's episode is called

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Smokescreen, and there was one lost
episode in between. So let's go ahead

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and we'll take a lesson. This
is mister Moto. Mister I A.

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NBC presents the world's greatest international secret
agent, Mister I A. Moto,

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the popular Japanese character created by a
Kulater Prize winner John P. Marquan.

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With a straightforwardness of his American heritage
and with the subtlety of his Oriental ancestors.

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Mister Motto is fighting the war against
communism ruthlessly and bravely. His only

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weapons are his brains, his courage, and his fabulous knowledge of the world,

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from Norn to Cape Horn, from
Cape Town to Mrmantz. Tonight's story

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The Smoke Screen starring Mister Motol Mister
I A. Moto, the boy unbelievably

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young, writhed on the floor of
my New York apartment. His legs convulsed

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in the rope which tied them together, his thin adolescent wrists strained hopelessly at

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the handcuffs. It is impossible not
to feel sympathy for a human being possessed

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by such a devil. He had
bitten his forefinger almost through. He screamed

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about a white, crippled cat that
clawed at him. There were hollows of

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anguish under his eyes, his skin
grittened, bloodless, and his ropes wretched

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with supper. Mister Morrow, please
please tell me the truth sush not me.

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A canon I will, please,
mister Morrow, mont me some of

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God's messy. I can stand it
much longer than Usosh, and I have

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plenty of time going crazy, crazy
dash. They are out a hundred tons

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of opium somewhere on Manhattan Island,
you know where. Now tell me if

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I can't, don't kill me,
they won't be will the devils? Please

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mister Morrow. I'm an addict,
and I'll give it to me. You

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can break that habit, slush.
I'll help you. You can be strong

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again. Because you are young.
I can't kick it. I tell you,

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I'm hooked. I'm not young,
I'm old. Assignment smoke screen began

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in several cities of a world at
once, and at first I was the

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only one in America who knew of
its beginning. My information came to a

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friend from Okiu, a Count Takahashi, a man of immense wealth, who

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flew from Japan to New York to
have one hour's conversation with me. Immediately

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after my talk, I called on
Captain Beresford on an arcotic bureau in his

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New York office. Captain Beresford,
he's a quiet, cultured man who seldom

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swears, seldom raises his voice.
My story shocked him into a hard faced,

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stunned silence. Mister Moto, I
can't believe it. I am afraid,

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Captain beresfaid that it is quite quite
true. Tell me about this,

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Count Taka Whatever you said, Count
Takahashi, an old Japanese family my house

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once served his house with honor and
self sacrifice. He feels he owes me

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a debt. Do you mean to
say he flew all away from Japan just

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to talk to you for an hour? He did? You See, he

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knows what opium has done to the
aurience, and you're sure his information is

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accurate as I am that the sun
will rise in the morning. He is

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an ex addict himself. See,
he knows how dangerous a weapon it can

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be. For seven hundred years,
this drug has debilitated, weakened, ruined.

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While we may think it is impossible
here, the fact remains that at

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one time in history, twenty five
percent of the population of the audience either

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smoked opium or addicted to its more
fine derivatives. But surely in the United

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States work I wonder if we are
we are an erratic, excitable people.

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Opium has an enchantment that is difficult
to resist. That is why it is

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so terribly dangerous. Yes, I
know, Count Takahashi has reason to believe

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that four months ago a shipment of
fifty tons of raw opium or dumped on

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the market in Hong Kong. From
there it went to Tokyo. In Tokyo,

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it disappeared, how it vanished,
as completely as if it had been

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swept into the sea. Five days
ago, an additional two hundred tons did

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the same thing, vanished, disappeared
from sight as completely as a tea bug

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in the heart of a puppy.
Four hundred tons of opium, Captain Darrisforth

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would supply the entire medical needs of
a world for two years, the whole

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world for two years. But frankly, I just can't believe the four hundred

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tons of anything could get into this
country without the customs department getting wind of

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it. Somewhere the drug will smuggled
to America aboard a submarine owned by the

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Chinese Communist Navy. It was taken
a short night on Stuart Island, the

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San Juan Island in the state of
Washington. From there it came across the

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continent in trux as a shipment of
can salmon, and your friend believes it

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has international implication. Count Takahashi assures
me it is another tentacle of a communist

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octopus. Spread the door puppet,
devour the blood of America's young men and

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women, lower the birthrate. You
know, of course, that prolonged drug

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addiction frequently results in sterility. Certainly, I know, Motho. We've got

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to work fast, exactly, Captain
Dresford, I have asked that this be

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made my personal assignment. Two weeks
later, the resolution condemning the Chinese Communists

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for pubmitting an international profited book Him
was adopted by the United Nation. The

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next month, the Kiffa Committee was
informed that large quantity of the DUG would

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be routed through Japan to America.
Captain Beresford was getting alarmed, Moto,

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I'm getting stepped on from higher up
in what way? There were twenty six

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rejections yesterday from one one Army recruiting
center. The draftees claimed exemption on the

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grounds of dope addiction. There's been
forty three cases in the last week of

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teachers discovering addiction and children as young
as ten ten snet sickly man's in humanity

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to his brothers. A lot of
people are getting excited. I've been given

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two weeks to break this case.
We've got to work through the children.

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I have exhausted every possible alternative.
Yet for me, the children are difficult.

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What remain for the Japanese bachelor To
make friends with teen agers is more

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difficult than it sounds. Boys as
well as girls, are suspicious of older

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men who attempt casual conversation, very
such. But I've had an idea.

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Jeffrey Allington, who say? I
read in the paper yesterday that he had

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recently been appointed chairman of the board
of trustees of Halsey College. You know

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him. I knew him casually in
the audience. We were never close friends,

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but I would have no hesitation in
California. What for he might invite

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me to the school to lecture on
Japanese culture. That doesn't sound too hopeful,

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But we're at the end of our
rope. What's he like? I

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should say he is one of the
most charming men I have ever met.

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He was born in the Audient.
His father, an Englishman, left him

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fostate holdings in the South Pacific,
which he sold to the British government for

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something over two million pounds study.
He lives in New York, Yes,

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in a vast house on Fifth Avenue. He's a little aged now and he

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his time to philosophy and his money
to charity. He ended his leg as

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a boy. He has difficulty working, and as a result he's intensely interested

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in young people and youth work.
Wants to see them get every opportunity for

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self development. With that attitude and
two million pounds, he might be very

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useful. I shall telephone him immediately
and invite myself to luncheon. Yes,

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but motto, I don't quite understand
why or suddenly so interested in meeting young

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people, Jeffrey May, I'd be
very rude and not tell you, oh

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your work, I see. Well, as a matter of fact, you've

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chosen a good time in what way? Oh, do you mind if we

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have allkers at the table instead of
in the drawing room? My legs acting

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up a bitch today at all?
Did I mention I have just recently been

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elected chairman of the board of trustees
for Halsey Coror. Yes, I read

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about it. Time beginning to center
my ambitions in the coming generation. I'd

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like them not to lose faith in
their elders. I would like them not

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to lose faith in themselves. Then
you may count on my complete cooperation.

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The reason I say you've chosen a
good time is that tomorrow night I'm giving

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a sort of graduation party for Halsey
students. Be about two hundred of them.

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Would you like to come? You
can meet every single one of them

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if you want to. I should
like that very much. Fine for faith,

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supper and dancing. Come anytime you
like. After nine o'clock the next

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night, the huge house blazed with
light. Two hundred young people were dancing

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and dreading champagne. In a way. They were representative of the young of

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our country, please decent, honest. Watching them well around the big ballroom,

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I felt proud, yet sadly nostalgic. These are troubled times for the

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young. They live in the threat
of war. The drafs tangs over their

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career than their manches. Tonight there
is a desperate quality to their merriment,

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And though they were snatching one last
hour of dancing before settling their bill with

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a piper yourself, how are we
not, both at the age everywhere enjoyment

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to be really favored should be taken
in small doses. Yes, I suppose

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we are personally. I wonder where
they get the vitality that boy there is

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getting us from a sauce other than
the young ladies laughing eyes of what the

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one dancing with the girl in the
white captain, the big blondo. Have

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you noticed his eyes? Oh?
What do you mean? The pin point

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bring in pupils. I was introduced
to him. When I shook hands with

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him, I was shocked, shocked. Oh boy, the skin temperature is

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at least a hundred and two se
loto, what are you getting? I

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am suggesting that the young man is
a more fematic. Yes, a rather

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recent addiction for you. Your joke
on the contrary, Jeffrey, I'm deadly

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serious, don't. Addiction in adolescence
is all I think about these days.

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I'm working on it constantly. Would
you care to tell me about it?

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Certainly if you are interested, But
come along up to my day. It's

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upstairs, away from the rest of
the house, and the party will run

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quite smoothly without then, by all
means, you lead the way through that

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door. I had a small elevator
in stalled from the garage to the ball

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floor after you go ahead. The
elevator is automatic. Thank you. H

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how wonderful to be able to afford
private elevators. And my leg bothers me

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quite a bit stals difficult for me, motto, are you sure about this

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dope buitness business? Right? Shan? This is my own private hideaway.

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In here, I can be quite
cut off from the rest of the house.

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Sit down, make yourself comfortable.
Thank you. Would you like a

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drink? Yes? Thanks? Good
good. I have some very special rye

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whiskey Hanfield Royal art. I believe
it sells in the shamboard for twenty five

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dollars a pony, really, and
you'all wasting it on me, not at

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all. I only serve it to
my very special friends there you are.

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Thank you? What superbooky you'll forgive
me if I don't join you? My

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doctor forbidsess certainly, now tell me
about this dreadful business. Oh excuse me?

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What of this? Phone neverings unless
it's something important? Hello? Oh

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yes, Senator, I'm afraid I
can't tell you yet, but I can

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let you know by tomorrow noon.
But yes, of course I'll call you

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tomorrow then. Oh, not at
all, good night, forgive the interruption.

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Now you were saying, I have
been working without success for some time

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now on the problem of dope prediction
among teenages. I have readen to believe

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that, Jeffrey, how'd it suddenly
gotten very warm? Here? Oh go?

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What what is it? Are?
You will help me up? Quickly?

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What's the metal motor? I don't
know? Don't joo moto? I

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do rapop? Get over here quickly. I found the thought of our interference.

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Use the garage entrance in the elevator
and hurry, will you? M

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oh? What a pity that Japanese
haven't learned to mind their business. Well,

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it's about time I got here as
soon as I could. Mister Rington,

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who's that? His name is a
motto? And don't underestimate him tripping

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a bout? Ask? Can you
do it tonight? Sure? And get

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him out of here? Anybody see
you'll come in. I drove into the

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garage took the other day. They'll
pick him up and get him out of

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here. What did you give him? The usual? You'll be unconscious for

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at least three hours? Good?
Okay, he's small, isn't he?

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Saw rattlesnakes? You come in?
Yesk ahead, all right, don't worry,

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mister Rington. Everything's okay. Anything
to report, Yes, in the

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car. I don't want peddlers who
are addicts themselves. It's dangerous. Sage's

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okay. Take him to the house
on Long Island tomorrow. No, we've

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drawl. He'll kick at cold turkey. No, doctor Hollison cut him off

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cold. That's an order, all
right, mister righton anything else? Yeah,

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Nick got folly new pedlan in the
last week. Get young ones,

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really young, fourteen thirteen. The
younger the better, Okay, Will I

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put our friend in the back sheet? Yeah, he'll be out for three

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hours and those are hi. He's
just hitched up the monkey. He's floating.

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I mean a trip off. He
kicks it tomorrow. Okay, boys,

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Now what about the chink? Oh? Listen, boys, Now I

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react to that kind of word.
It's bigger than discusting. He is not

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Chinese. He's actually an American of
Japanese decay. I didn't mean anything.

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What are you? What are you
so touchy on that stuff? Someday I'll

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tell you. All right, take
mister motor up in the boat, shoot

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him and dump an overboard as far
off short as you can get and still

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be back by do and take Zosh
out to the Long Island house and report

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back here to me. All right, boys, and trip off yas this

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dragon. Tell the good doctor Holliston
that I'm quite aware of the process involved

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in developing morphine from opium. Tell
him I expect him to do much better.

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I want five thousand decks a day
out of that lab and I go

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now, yes, and I'm sorry
I struck you. Some day I'll explain

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why I feel so strongly about well, good night, trip off. I

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think meat here? Does he think
he's pushing around all I get overs?

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I should stay awake. Hi,
boy, I tell you they cat swinging

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higher than I. I don't way
with anybody. This is Fifth Avenue,

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gentlemen, I am quite capable of
shooting you both. And don't turn around,

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mister Trepoff. Just drive my apartment
if you please left down seventy seconds

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and didn't you don't do as I
tell you, I will blow your head

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off. Keep quite still, top
off, I'm warning you. Come in

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cappen I got here, sim as, Hey, what's first? This is

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a man named Trepof. He was
commissioned by Jeffrey Arrington to kill me.

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Arrington incredible, isn't it. Arrington
tried to rub me with claul hidbrak and

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whiskey. He made a slight error, which I will explain later. I

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wish to have been taken out of
the boat. I overheard enough information to

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send Harrington and he's going to jail
for twenty years. Take this man and

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book him for felonious assault, attempted
murder. Whatever you like. All right,

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what's the matter with the boy hire
Copper having fun? That is Rush?

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He's ragging morphine a million miles away. Okay, now, come on

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you you can make a steak Capper. Never leave me your handcuffs? Will

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your captain? What are you going
to do? Perform an experiment, Say

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thank you and come back here as
soon as you can. And then began

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the heart breaking vigil. The boy
dozed down the floor alone in a world

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of bunting chances. I tied his
feet together, restrained the thin wrists with

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Bresfa tancuffs. By the time the
captain got back, Dash was conscious normally

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the fight and belittle thing. I've
got a spell anything. You guys are

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nuts. We've got lots of times. By five in the morning, he

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was white face stand pleading. Listen
what I've got two decks with me,

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so three of us can jump together. Come on, Captain, there's an

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eagle in a box in my pocket. Please no, sash no. By

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seven he was crying. Why.
Ten he was screaming. I knew he

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was suffering. Unbelievable. The packing
attics cooff rapped at his fai lungs.

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A thousand devils start at every whit
blashed quickly, nuf, I'm dying.

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I tell him, I'm dying,
Die and dying. At one in the

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afternoon, he talked names, and
this is everything. Captain Barrison took it

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down, and then, because we
were afraid complete withdrawal might kill him,

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we called the doctor. The doctor
gave him two grains in his right arm,

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as always the results of Polly.
As the morphine hit, his eyes

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became doing bright, the glow of
health returned to his cheeks. He went

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quite happily with the doctor to Bellevue. I wish every kid in America could

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have seen that. They knew what
it could do. They's so rotten.

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Yes, well, take twenty men
to the Long Island House. You will

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catch doctor Holliston doing at them.
Thuty send another detail to bathe the warehouse

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in the box. Right. Oh, and what about Errington? Mister Errington

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I shall deal with personally in the
fift Avenoe house. Yes, he really

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moves quite slowly. He injured his
hip as a boy. I shall step

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out of the elevator with a gun
in one hand and this in the other.

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What is it at night? In
Japan? It is the national form

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of honorable suicide. Literally translated,
it means bellicutt. You know it better,

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perhaps as a chilly but I'm a
cripple. I I sign it.

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No, I take that knife away
from my eyelid. Pennington, There is

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no time for discussion. I have
a right to a trial and a free

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democratic trial. You have no right
at all. This morning I watched a

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voice of aragonists. But what is
the use of telling you? You know?

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In five seconds I shall go to
work with this knife. I believe

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me you will not enjoy it.
Listen too, go in saying your free

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alright, alright I will, I
will if I haven't say, picked that

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night away from my eyelids. Frank
it. Thank you. And now before

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I take you to Captain Barriss at
one question, why what is behind this

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monstrous in your manage. You have
no idea sort of that's the logical insanity.

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None. Hi, I'm a your
age. You know what. Yes,

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I'm surprised you didn't guess. I
really look very white, don't.

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I gifted? Educated? But I
committed an unpardonable sin. My mother was

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a singerly is peasant. I knew
it. I knew there must be something

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quite Daisiatics forbid my cleaning toilets.
They also forbid me the answered their clubs

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or their homes. Neither white nor
yellow black. I'm not a European,

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I'm not an Asiatic. What I
might tell me it is so useless to

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beat it useless. It's health for
nothing, the wandering, hopeless, marginal

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man. Outside of a barefoot,
savage peasant girl, there isn't one woman

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in Asia who would marry me.
I marry a white woman here and take

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it a Singapore. What do I
let her in for? Insults? Heartbreak,

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misery. I want to live in
the East. Singapore is the only

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civilized city in the world. But
I can't. I can't. I can't

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join the spinky bullswork club. But
angine democracy, democracy, I spill at

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it. I hate it. I
hate the world, don't you see?

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It is this? Do you know
how I was crippled a gang of males

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beat my hip to a pump in
a Singapore street fight? Eight moto,

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You don't know them meaning of the
world? And if grain of morphine in

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the veins of an American boy means
one less enemy for Communism and I don't

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care who the boy is. You
must I don't not even thus is my

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son? Well, no, you
can know, you know, you can

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take me down to your busby's station
and introduce me to justice. Do you

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know why she's pictured with a bandage
over her eyes because of justice? Could

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see she'd throw up. Mister Motow, we've died twenty six indictments and charging

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conspiracy to one port opium. We've
got every single one them angry cover the

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opium, over five hundred tons of
it. Good, then the smoke screen

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has lifted. I have one of
my own. But surely everything is quite

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quite clear that whiskey Arrington gave you
the night of the party. Why didn't

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you drink it? He had to
be dramatic. He told me it was

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Hanfield Royal arc special rye. It
so happens, it is distilled in England.

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During the war, the warehouse was
bombed. All but five cases of

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Hanfield Royal arc were destroyed. They
never manufactured that particular blend again. But

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Arrington is wealthy. Wasn't it impossible? No, no, no. Of

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the five remaining cases, Sir Graham
Hanfield gave three to King Farouk of Egypt

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as a wedding gift on the occasion
of his first match. Don't tell me

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that the other two were yes,
in return for a trifling service some years

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ago, Sir Graham gave them to
me. You're incredible. Don't you ever

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make a mistake? Sometimes sometimes I
winced and lash out in sight when people

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call me a dirty chap. I
was born in San Francisco. I am

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as American as you are. But
surely these people are well, that is

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true. They are ignorant to now, and their number is decreasing. Yes,

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I think we're growing up slowly,
maybe, but growing I hope it

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is not too slowly. I hope
we achieve maturity before it is too late.

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That is one way everybody can fight
communism, simply by growing up and

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out of prejudice. It is a
battle in which every one of us can

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be a soja. You have just
heard the world's greatest international secret agent,

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mister I A Moto in Smoke Screen. James Monk starred as mister Moto.

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The script was written and directed by
Harry W. Junkin, produced by Carol

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Irwin. Others in the cast were
Ross Martin, Bob Haig, Bernard Grant,

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and Edwin Bruce. The music was
transcribed This is Fred Collins speaking,

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and here were the preview of next
week's story. Is mister I a mortal

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point? Fine Chua has written A
man who lives a falsehood must each day

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die a little. Next week the
story of Truth Twisty, A journey into

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horror made by a gracious woman and
the desperate sun, both caught in a

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sickening wed of Blackney. And now
may sleep fall upon your eyes as softly

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as puppy petals on a plastic pool. May your sould be blessed with repose

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your dreams with enchantment. Welcome Back. Definitely a very dramatic episode and it's

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touched on a lot of hot Biden
topics. It's pretty rare, I think

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for a Golden Age drama to you
know. In the same half hour program,

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to touch on drug the drug trade, communism, racial prejudice, a

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pretty strong style for nineteen fifty one. Mister Motto perhaps already emerging as one

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of radio's most ruthless and terrogators,
which isn't far out of line from some

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of the nineteen fifties or the Mister
Moto movies when you think about it,

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right, Well, that'll do it
for today. Join us tomorrow for Sherlock

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Holmes, and hopefully we'll be back
on track next Tuesday, another episode of

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Mister Moto. In the meantime,
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