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Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage.
Katty Lewis Elliott Lewis, two of the

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most distinguished names in radio, appearing
each week in their own theater, starring

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in a repertory of transcribed stories of
their own. And you're choosing radio's foremost

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players and radio's foremost plays. Drama, comedy, adventure, mystery, melodrama,

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Ladies and gentlemen. Mister Elliott Lewis, good evening, May I present

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my wife Jack Good Evening. A
thief and his money are soon parted.

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What is there a misquote? It
should be a fool, But I want

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to explain something about tonight's story,
which is called Dig the Thief and is

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about a man named John Digby played
by you, and his adventures in the

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state of New Mexico with a lovely
girl named Cecily played by you. The

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script was written by Morton Sein and
David Freakin, and as a matter of

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fact, there are several thieves involved. I'm not the only one. But

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to find that out, we Dig
the Thief. Oh oh, oh,

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oh, well there it is.
There's the town spread out like she is

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like a little jewel in the valley. Can I say something atter? Digby,

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it's allowed. All the tona is
looking so pretty, full of moon

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and all I love a love people
sleeping peaceful. Ain't gonna last long?

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Is it? Long as I've been
hanging around the ranch? Mister Digby,

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we never had a chivalry like this. Ah you sure something? Well?

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Good to have you bored? Did
Jamison girl? Okay, I'm right here

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beside you, mister Digby. I'm
fine riding the way you said, posting

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the way you said. You know
it works out real night. Well pass

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the word back. Get ready,
I get ready, get ready, get

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ready, you get ready. I'll
sat, mister Digby, I'll set then

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all right, let's go, ah
man, you me uh to me,

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me spream and the board all right
on him. I've hosted there for you.

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You can get out, go home, you can get back to the

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ranch, and you, dig Me, you can drop dead. What'll I

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do? I didn't do anything.
You've been chewing local weeks, dig Me?

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What are they? You take a
bunch of guests from a dude ranch?

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You chew up? It's a town
of otis. What do you use

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blacks? Mister Conell? You to
I told you to take the guests for

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a moonlight ride. I told you
no hanky panky, dig be he specifically,

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I told you, I remember saying
it, haggern Card. You were

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leaning up against the corral fins,
chopping on a straw and covering up the

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turb and I told you yet no, Yeah, now I remember. Uh,

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mister Cornell, you're fired. Mister
Conwell, when you hired me to

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take charge of guest relations, you
said I could have a free reign.

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You impressed me with the importance of
recreating the Old West. I also old

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you no hanky panky. Well,
that's the kind of ombre you are not

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i'd heard. Okay, mister Conel. Three days I worked for you,

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fifteen dollars a day, he means, join me five. Your bar was

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fifty. Well, we'll pay for
him. Wiltie Feller, No sure,

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sure what you're always so sleepy,
mister Southgate. We are taking a collection

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for Digby five dollars. Oh well, I'll pass the words. We're taking.

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Oh, here's five bucks. It
was worth it. You happy now,

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mus Codels, get out of here, dig Me, get back to

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the ranch, get your gear and
get As I was walking the speed,

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some lout radio. Hey, Hey, how about a lift. Hey are

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you a uh hey, hey,
you going my way? As in the

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riot? You got your get inna
sit up front of me? A fine?

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Ah no, what begin to think
this ride would never come? I'm

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sorry I was a little late leaving
the house, he ended. Uh uh,

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ask you a question. Sure what
tribe you come from? Apache left

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the reservation last year? House tricks
can't complain. What are you doing now?

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You know? Yeah, you know, took up a trade at the

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reservation school, or how to drive
a Cadillac? Got a job? All

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the boys are doing that now,
all the boys still wearing the long braids

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like you. I'll have mister Ramsey's
idea for local color. You know how

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mister Ramsey is. Mister Ramsey,
Uh how he is? Oh? Well,

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sure, sure glad I caught you. Else mister Ramsey would have well,

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you know, oh we had your
biting butts. Eh, let's say

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nh uh you got a cigarette if
you like work too? Yeah? Sure

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here that's Oh, mister Ramsey's sure
gonna be glad to see you. Just

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walk right up there into the house. You're expected. Thanks a lot,

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cheafie, get along with thank you, Haldie. Oh Hali, please come

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in. I'm Cicely Ramsey. Uh, of course. Uh, how's mister

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Ramsey? Fine, Dad and I
just came in from a gallop. He's

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tethering the horses. Uh, Dad's
tethering'em. He never let anyone else

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do it. Well, well,
what, well, I hope I'm not

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interrupting anything. Oh no, no, oh, what's the matter Why he's

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staring at me? I'm sorry,
you're not the type, that's all.

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Oh, please don't do that.
It scuffs the rug Yuh sorry, No,

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you're not the type at all.
Well, I've had the virus some

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of who goes around digging in tombs
like you do? What? Uh?

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I guess it's silly of me,
miss Johnny Wall, but I expected someone

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to. Uh Dusty was a pis
helman. No, don't do that the

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rug. No, I'm sorry.
You're the most bashful archaeologian. Oh uh,

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well, we we don't come up
very often. That's why all the

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sunlight. Uh whew. Must be
very interesting work though. Oh my yes,

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digging up artifacts. Well that's the
best part. Uh. You and

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Dennis will get along just fine.
Dennis, my fancy daddy wrote you about

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him. Sure. Oh oh that
Dennis yeah, Dennis. I can hardly

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wait to meet him. Is he
here? He's flying in? Dennis is

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flying in? Is he as soon
as he heard? Oh about the pot?

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Oh, of course he'll be here
the first thing in the morning.

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You too will get along. Wa. Well, he's he's so very interesting

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like you. Oh well, sure
that's because he's in archaeology. Sure.

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Oh yeah, he's just a student. He's at Harvard, you know,

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majoring in archaeology. But he's having
such a difficult time. You know,

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this is the second time he's repeating
Assyrian tombs one. Well, no wonder,

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that's the hardest part. Oh,
royal in here. Look he's here,

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daddy. Well, hello, young
man, howdy good, very good,

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your honeywell, aren't you. I've
made arrangements that mister Honeywell take the

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spare suite in the west wing.
Good, very good. Now, uh

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you run along, Sesaly. Mister
Honeywell and I have a lot to talk

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about. We were having such an
interesting conversation. Isn't he the youngest darkiologist

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ever? It was such a reputation. Yep. Uh, don't do that

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to the rug. Honeywell. Sorry, run along, sessily. You'll see

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mister honeywell, and dinners honeywell,
bye, ma'am whoa honeywell? Let me

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take a look at you, Yes, sir, cert indeed, sir,

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you do. You'll do fine?
Now, Uh look, mister Ramsey,

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my time's pretty valuable. There's digging
to be done. You'll do? You

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do fine? Yes, sir?
Yes, archaeologists come high, expensive education

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supplies, pith helmets and all.
I wrote you in the letter ten percent,

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didn't I ten percent? Well,
yeah, I just dropped in to

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day to tell you wasn't enough.
All the way from Chicago, I was

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passing by anyhow, on my way
to Pultepec, the Inca country. You

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know. Okay, make it fifteen
percent. Well that's a lot better.

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Come on, I'll show it to
you this way, I'll bet you.

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Eh. Well, what have you
got to say? I hardly know?

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I thought so stunners, aren't they
all? Three? Have you ever seen

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better examples of prehistoric Indian pottery in
your life? Hardly? Ever? Those

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pots are four or five thousand years
old, wouldn't you say? Ooh,

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give a little, take a little
without a crack? Well, I really

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build them in those days. I
think we can get ten grand apiece for

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them. Yeah, uh, ten
grand sounds fair, especially since the ceiling's

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off. Huh uh uh? Which
one do you like? Who cares?

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Oh? That middle one is my
favorite? Black buffaloes too. Who's he?

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Who? The Indian boy that made
him four or five thousand years ago

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last Thursday? Now, remember my
daughter thinks they're yours. You shipped him

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a head. That's the story in
case anyone asks you might if I ask

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you a question, mister Ramsey,
well, how else you gonna know who's

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going to give you ten thousand apiece
for last Thursday's pots? Have you ever

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heard of Harvard boy Dennis, your
daughter's fiance, loaded boy, and I'm

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the archaeologist who's gonna tell him they're
worth ten thousand? He worships you?

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Why that boy rocks himself to sleep
reading or pat pipathies? Pots are phony?

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They foods? You didn't they any
well? Or flash judgment? I

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didn't put the calipers on them or
even uh e phony? Yeah, well,

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these Harvard boys haven't got your ear. And Dennis is loaded a four

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million and he ain't reel bright.
He collects old crocs sill. He's my

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intended son in law. I shouldn't
speak too harshly. He's a fine boy,

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great swimmer, always swims underwater,
remarkable, and you're going to swindle

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him out of thirty thousand dollars.
We are you and me for twenty percent.

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I am listen you. I found
out about you. You have You've

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got a good reputation, but you
haven't got two shovels to rub to get

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take it or leave it. I'll
take it fine. Well, what times

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did it? Sir mister Ramsey?
You are listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis

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on stage tonight's play Dig the Thief
in your town, in the next town

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across the nation, you will find
the Red Cross. But the Red Cross

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is above and beyond all boundary lines, for it is infinite in its scope.

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In time of hardships, epidemics,
floods, fires, the Red Cross

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is the symbol and soul of humanity. You are part of that symbol because

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it is the money you contribute that
enables the Red Cross to continue its great

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work. Answer the call, and
humanity will answer you with gratitude. Hey

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with Cecily, Hi, Hi,
Hi, good morning morning. What are

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you doing out here so early?
Scanning the horizon? Where Hey plays the

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whole horizons for Dennis. He's arriving
this morning. He flies, you know,

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oh, his own plane. He'd
be furious if he knew I was

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scanning for it. Oh, he
doesn't like people have watched swims a lot

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underwater, you know. Well,
things like that you have to respect with

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Cecily. Why don't we just take
a walk, work up an appetite for

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breakfast. Just see the haze on
the gorse, you know. Walk.

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I'd love to, But uh huh, what should we talk about? Pick

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a subject? Atioch who Patioch Jans
was telling me about the remarkable work you

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did there. Most are so fascinating
working in those old excavations. Yure,

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Well, there's no excavation like an
old excavation. Dennis always says that too.

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Well, he must have read it
in one of my pamphlets. That

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was the title of one of your
pamples. Don't you remember it? Or

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of you? Necessily. Let's not
talk about old ruins. Let's talk about

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you. Why I'm really nothing?
No, no, I I must tell

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you something that's amazing, and perhaps
you won't believe it, but it's true.

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When I dug up the sarcophagus of
a wondrous and beautiful Egyptian princess.

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No, uh, don't walk,
stay here. I I really must tell

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you about it all right on her
tomb was painted, her portrait unbelievably beautiful,

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with a serenity almost got its slightly. The first time I saw you,

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I said to myself, Princess or
Cyrus of the Seventh Moon, you

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are wade. What let's take off
our moccasins and wade. Yeah, that's

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just what I've been trying to say, necessily, Let's take off our moccasins

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and wade. Yeah. I haven't
had a cold foot bath before breakfast since

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Antiyok, you better hold my hands
to honey, thank you? Yet,

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this is this wonderful Dennis ever goes
in here with me? But you love

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him anyhow, don't you very much? Why? He's sweet, he's charming

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and and really he's only bashful when
other people are around. When Dennis and

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I are a lot, But don't
tell me about it. He's a very

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gentle boy. It's all that's daddy. Yes, I know here we are,

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Daddy. What how did he get
you in that street? Cecily was

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my idea? Daddy, what's the
matter get your shoes on, Honeywell,

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and come with me. You want
to try this, mister Ramsey, I

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was just telling your daughter when I
was an abbey. I heard what I

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said, get your shoes on.
Something's happened, mister Honeywell. You still

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haven't told me. What's the matter, mister Ramsey in here in the library,

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Oh you know, allow me to
introduce myself. I'm mister Honeywell.

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Oh no, you're not well the
heck I'm not. I am Honeywell the

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archaeologist. Oh no, you're not
sure I am. You just asked mister

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Ramsey here. Oh no, you're
not two against one. Huh? All

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right? Who am I? Who
are you eliminate? Honeywell? I'm Honeywell.

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I asked you a question. Who
are you? Your chauffeur said I

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was Honeywell. Your daughter said I
was Honeywell. You said I was Honeywell.

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Now I'm confused. My chauffer was
supposed to pick up mister Honeywell in

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front of that dude ranch yesterday.
He picked you up, so we all

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fought you were Honeywell. How dare
this young man has so Honeywell? Yes,

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how dare you assume mister Honeywell's identity. You assumed it for me,

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Ramsey. Let's not turn blue over
a mistake you made. I must say,

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mister Ramsey, the whole thing is
your Schoffer's fault, just because I

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arrived at the Dud's ranch a few
hours later. Yes, now you what's

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your real name? Digby? Johnny
Digby and your Honeywell, the dishonest archaeologist.

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I won't be called dishonest. Your
profession's robbing graves, isn't it?

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Thirty old babes? Nobody wants them
anyhow? All I can say is you

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fellows that got yourselves in a vine
here. You are gonna cheat Dennis out

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of thirty thousand dollars. Boy mm
hmm, stop at the kitchen and have

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the cook picture a real chuck wagon
lunch. Then blow a real big vine

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and his fifty dollars for your trump. That all right with you, mister

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Honeywell. I don't care if I
never see you again, sir, But

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think what would happen to your reputation
if I went out and spread it around

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among your buddies of the shovel You
were party to a fraud that you verified

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that last Thursday's pots were old in
the relics. How about that? How

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much the honeyway? Hi? Ready
must call Hey, Now wait a minute,

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this young man is perfectly right,
and I listen, Honeyway. We

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had a deal. Those pots in
the closet were supposed to be your pots.

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Dennis would take your word for us
that they're authentic. Ten thousand dollars

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apiece. You can't run out on
me, nily, mister Ramsey, really

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what really? I must go?
Hello, mister Ramsey, Hello, mister

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Honeywell, name is Digbie, Johnny
Digby. A flat fee a thousand dollars?

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Oh listen and now come here to
the window. Plane overhead, get

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away from the window. Dennis don't
like anybody to watch it. Dennis,

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don't huh? Where were you saying? Ramsey? A flat fee one thousand?

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Last night? You offered me twenty
percent of thirty thousand dollars I offered,

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doctor Honeywell, who am I?
How are you? Mister Honeywell?

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Very well, thank you, I'm
just fine. I'll take six thousand dollars.

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Please a loud question. I write
your check. Please do make it

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out to John Digby. Hey you
are boy Ramsey. Yes, you signed

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Honeywell's name to the check I did. Sounds like Dennis's plane is coming in

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for a landing, Ramsey. I'd
hate to disillusion Dennis about his future father

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in law. You better write me
another check. But you're the biggest seat

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from the state of New Mexican.
You write the check, sign your name,

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than call your chauffeur. I want
to get to the bank and cash

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this check before I say hello's to
Dennis. As a matter of fact,

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to the whole Southwest. Write the
check, Ramsey put her there. I'm

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so sorry I wasn't able to meet
you at the plane, Dennis, but

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I had to stop at the bank. Mister Honeywell. Oh yes, mister

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honeywey oh yes, geez, you
don't mention it. Oh I must your

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last paper, the one on the
Ptolemies of eg Yes, it had a

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certain style in this the way you
just looked at that sand dune in the

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middle of the Sahara and then made
an X on the sands and said dig

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here. Oh that was the most
everybody messed everybody else. Oh well,

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from mister Ramsey. My intended father
in law dad to be my boy when

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he wrote that you would be here
expressly to meet me. Oh well,

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well, what didn't it? And
when mister Ramsey, my intended father in

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law yet to be, of course, when he told me that he was

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interceding in my behalf and that the
pots could be bought for only thirty thousand

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dollars or Dad to be drives a
hard bargain. Of course, you know

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I would have paid twice that much, mister Honeywell, may I see you

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for a minute before Well, if
Dennis feels the old pots are under priced,

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we don't wanna take advantage of for
that's no, no, no,

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no, no, my pleasure.
I know they'll be in good hands.

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We're gonna have a place in New
York, and we've got a spot in

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the living room for them. A
niche cicely a nich Oh, Denny's been

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keeping them from me. I haven't
seen them yet. Well, Dennis,

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I I guess now's as good a
time as any. Hell, let's take

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a look Ramsey right uh this way
next door to the sun room, mister

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Honeywell, and I need a display. Well, Dennis, my boy,

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what do you think? Oh my, oh, Dennis, they're in love.

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You feel that quality? Dennis?
Oh my oh, wait on my

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friends at Harvard Cedre. We keep
them away from the hasty pudding boys.

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And only thirty thousand dollars. I
feel like a thief if you've forgotten your

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check book. Boy. Oh no, I brought along a certified check for

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thirty thousand dollars, of course,
made out to mister Honeywell. Oh good,

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here and thank you, thank you
so much. You're white. Welcome,

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Honeywell, what are you doing?
Dennis? He drew up the check.

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Oh, it was too good to
be true. Dennis, will pay

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you any price. These two kids
have got to fiddle their niches. Honeywell,

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Dennis, Yes, sir, will
you go forty thousand? Yes,

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sir Honeywell, forty thousand? Take
it or leave it. Cecily, I

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hate you, Oh I don't hate
you. What do you want, Cecily?

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I think you're one of the loveliest
young ladies I've ever met. How

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much do you want, mister Honeywell? Nothing? Oh no, I don't

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understand you. I don't understand him
either, cessor all the trouble he went

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through digging out these perfect they're yours, a wedding present from me to you.

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Oh, I can't accept them.
Well, of course you can't.

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I'm going to be your father or
no, And I say you can't accept

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them. It's it's impossible, Cecily, you're a very sweet man. I

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want you to have them. Yeah, i'd like to kiss you. Mister

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Honeywell, I wish you would.
Oh, thank you, bless you both,

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my children. This has been the
most touching day of our lives,

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hasn't it been? Dennis, mister
Honeywell, yes, Dennis, you're a

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very superior man. Is I was
walking the streets a movie, you know,

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Hey, how about a lift?
Uh huh? Hop in? Yeah,

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hey give me way ahead of Texas? Nice place, Texas. I

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used to think so, but maybe
I ain't gonna like it anymore. Got

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a couple of hundred acres north Amilla. Used to be peaceful there, I

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gonna be peaceful no more. Oh
what's the matter? Wife called me this

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morning in Albuquerque where I was selling
some hogs. Wife says the hog drought

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back in Texas is running oil.
H Yeah, I know hogs, but

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I don't know oil. I know
oil. Who are you headed for?

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Amarilla? Do tell? Hey?
Uh y, you wouldn't consider I might

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if the deal was right. Yes, cigarette. If you roll your own

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only way, I smoke'em.
Thank you. I like a man rolls

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his own signed honesty. We ain't
gonna have any troubles, none at all.

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Dig The Thief, starring Kathy and
Elliott Lewis in a moment, mister

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and missus, Lewis won't tell you
about that. Next week's play. Colleges

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preoccupy two of our leading programs this
weekend on CBS Radio, The Von Monroe

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Show will originate in Boston College,
with Vaughn and Company serving up the top

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tunes of this week. To mark
the occasion, Gangbusters approaches learning from another

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tangent, bringing us its true crime
case history, The College Caper. Also

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Saturday night on most of these same
stations, The Geneaufrey Show brings us its

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Western drama called The Ruthless Rustler.
And Tarzan Lord of the Jungle introduces us

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to the dreaded Lionmen in an episode
titled Tarzan and the Arena of Death.

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And now once again Kathy and Elliott
Lewis, what did you do when you

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got to Texas? Well, maybe
in about six months, I'll tell you

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if Morton Fine and David Friedkin can
be prevailed upon to continue the adventures of

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dig the Thief tonight while in New
Mexico, John Digby was shrewder than my

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father, John McIntyre, my fiance
Lee Millar, and the legitimate archaeologist Hal

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Gerard. While the same mister Digby
got fired earlier in the play by Ken

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Christie because he shot up a town
with the help of G. G.

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Pearson, Byron Kine and Bob Sweeney, who was a writer a few weeks

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ago. Next week, we're going
to do a new adaptation of a story

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you all know about, but if
you're at all like Elliott and me,

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don't remember very well. In its
original form, it was written by Frank

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Stockton, and it's called The Lady
or the Tiger. We'll be with you

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next week. Until then, thank
you for listening, and good night,

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good night. Music for Tonight's story
was composed by Fred Steiner and conducted by

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lud Gluskins. The Kathy and Elliott
theme is by Ray Noble, and the

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program is transcribed and directed by mister
Lewis. George Wall Streakings, mm HM

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and Remember for Music and Song joined
bon Row Saturday nights on the CBS Radio Network