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From Hollywood. It's time now for
Johnny Dollar. I kidd o Carter at

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Universal Adjustments, Jim, how are
you in a rush? I have to

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catch a plane at Tucson, Arizona. Lucky you nice there this time?

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He listen. One of our brokers
out there rode a fifty thousand straight life

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policy. And a man named James
Lancing. Lancing dropped dead two days ago.

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Hu, and you'll never guess why, I'll bite why mister Lancing starved

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to death what with a fifty dost
He died of mal autrition. Got the

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corner's report from Tucson right in my
hand. Well, if a man could

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buy a fifty thousand dollars policy,
you ought to be able to buy himself

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a square meal. Yeah, Johnny, Flight two oh three leaves a ten

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forty five. You interested see at
the airport, Jim, tonight and every

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weekday night, Bob Bailey in the
Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action

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Packed Expense Account, America's Fabulous Freelance
Insurance Investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

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Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny
Dollar to the Universal Adjustment Bureau Home

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Office, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of expendit yours during

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my investigation of the Lansing fraud expense
account. Item one one hundred and seventy

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eight dollars and thirteen cents cost a
plane ticket Hartford to Tucson. I shaved,

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showered, packed, and got out
to the airport in time to have

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breakfast there. Jim Carter found me
at the cashier's cage. Hey, kiddo,

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you won't need a code out there
in a desert country. As usual,

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Jim Carter was bigger than I thought. A man who stands six foot

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five always is a little ruddier,
a little more blustery, but as efficient

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as ever. I wrote a special
delivery air mail to the Insurance Commission in

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Arizona this morning and explained to the
worldwide. They wrote the policy, we're

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holding up payment pending investigation. Are
you gonna tell them that in person?

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We'll be out there as soon as
the letter? Well, I like to

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be formal on these things, especially
with the State Commission. Beside, I

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just soon let him think we'll get
around to a routine investigation later in a

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week or two. In other words, you didn't tell anybody we're coming no,

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I didn't. Maybe we can work
it better this way. The faster

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we moved in and find out what's
what and aren't bothered by anybody, the

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better off we'll be. Hey,
give me a ticket, Yeah, sure,

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her pal, Thank you, sir. Yeah, Johnny, ed commission

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is going to get formal sooner or
later and ask a lot of questions,

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mainly why doesn't world Wide honor to
claim and pay off the beneficiary? So

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we'll have to skidaddle and get ourselves
some good answers for him. Yeah,

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yeah, thanks, pale. Has
anybody asked that question yet the beneficiary?

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Sure? James Lansing's sister named Arlene
Kennedy. She called the broker and he

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referred her to claims division at Worldwide, and she called long distance and then

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they called me. I told her
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telling her it was just routine.
Let's see. She gonna be tough man.

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She could be, Johnny. I
understand she has money of her own,

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and she has some influence in and
around Tucson, a lot of money.

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Yeah. Trust, she's very comfortably
fixed it. Watch yourself, get

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up. It's missus. Kennedy's pretty
upset by the whole business. Can't blame

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her for that. James Lancing died
on the street with no identification on him.

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By the time police found out who
he was, a routine PM has

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already been performed to determine cause you
know, the county was going to bury

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this guy with fifty dollars worth of
insurance. Yeah, imagine that. Oh

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excuse me, lady. Yeah,
the post mortem never had happened unless Lancing

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dropped dead on a public street.
Yeah, I see what you mean.

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I requested the coroner's office and Tucson
to hold the body until it and get

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something done. Better fix your seatbelts. Oh yeah, yeah. The first

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thing that occurred to me when I
saw the PM plannings was that it might

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not be James Lansing at all.
Chronic heart condition, long history, debility.

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Doesn't sound like anybody worldwide would ensure
Lancing took a physical before the policy

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was issued. Of course he did, see if you got any material on

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his insurance examination, sure right here. Standard for James Lancing was one hundred

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percent okay when the policy was issued
a couple of years ago. Malnutrition,

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lung history, chronic heart How could
he get in that bad shape in two

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years. That's a pretty good question, Johnny, I'll be the answer is

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gonna be great. Yeah. What's
the examining physician's name? I see examining

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here a doctor Carl Mayhood Sweet nine
thirty two, Valley National Building, Tucson.

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He's our first job, Johnny.
Hey, cute stewardess. Yeah.

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Well, back to business, kiddo. It was a long trip, and

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I spent most of it going over
the material in Jim Carter's briefcase. By

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the time we circled Tucson Airport at
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had the facts pretty well in mind. Expense account Item two three point fifty

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Camp Fair, Tucson Airport to the
Pioneer Hotel. Jim Carter and I took

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a joining room. I unpacked my
clothes and got on the phone. A

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Sergeant Younger Tucson Police had made the
doa report on James Lansing. Yes he

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was in, Yes, he'd be
glad to talk to me. I left

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Jim Carter contacting the State Medical ward. Let me meet you, miss Donner.

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How do you like Tucson. Well, I've gone here two hours.

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Sergeant Weather's certainly nice. I like
this all through the winter months. It's

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a little warm in the summer,
though, sir, this Lancing matter,

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Yeah, it isn't really much to
tell you, mister dollar, one of

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the cars answered. The car man
was found dead in the doorway of a

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jewelry store about four blocks down the
street. Uh huh. This was a

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day before yesterday, Sergeant. Yeah, I went down to the scene and

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called the corner's office. No identification
on him, so we started to check

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him out. Took us a little
while. By the time we got a

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make on him, the corner had
already performed an autopsy. Yeah, I

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understood. That was about the way
it was. So tell me, how

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did you identify him as Lancing?
One of his prints matched up on our

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cards here. Lancing was booked on
a traffic beef year ago. Otherwise we'd

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still be trying to make him.
You're sure it's Lancing over him the more,

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Yeah, we're sure. His sister
came down identified him, named Kennedy.

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Yes, What did missus Kennedy have
to say about the cause of death?

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Nothing? That malnutrition BT didn't do
a thing for her, a thing.

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We all thought Lancing is some sort
of TRANSI you know, just some

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old bum until we identified him.
Any witness to see him dying? No,

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I haven't found any. According to
the corner, he'd been dead an

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hour or so before anybody noticed him
at all. Happened early in the morning.

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I see, say, did Lansing
have any other business down here other

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than that traffic violation? Nope?
All right? Who do I have to

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see to get into the mark?
Go off? Phone the corner for you.

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Won't be any trouble there. You
want to go now? No?

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Later on? Maybe? Uh dollar. Yeah, death was from natural causes.

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There's no doubt about that. Yeah. Then, no matter how much

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you investigate, you people are gonna
have to pay off. Well, aren't

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you? Maybe we just have to
be sure of one thing. What's that

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that we ensured the right man.
By the time I finished with Sergeant Younger,

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it was six o'clock. I phoned
a hotel in Jim Carter busy and

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the fishing, as always, had
already gotten the vital statistics on doctor Carl

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Mayhood, Northwestern University Medical School,
nineteen forty Army Medical Corps nineteen forty one

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to forty five. Doctor Mayhood's license
to practice medicine in Arizona was issued in

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June of nineteen forty six, married
two children. Income and practice, according

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to Carter, was average. In
person. Doctor Mayhood was a tall,

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blonde man in his late thirties.
He looked like he needed a week's rest

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and a few lights in night.
You have an alarme clock around the house,

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Missus Garland, and here's that?
Yes, goodbye, Yes, sir,

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doctor Mayhood. My name is Johnny
Dollar. I'm from Hartford. I

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represent the Adjustment Bureau, handling a
claim for Worldwide Insurance. Well, what

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does that mean? I'm an investigator. So July fourteenth, nineteen fifty three,

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you examined a man I'd like to
get some information about. I hope

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this won't take too long. Was
it an insurance examination? Yeah? The

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man's name was James Lancing. Do
you happen to remember James Lancing? No?

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I can't say that. I do
remember mister Dollar. What about him?

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Well, I'd like to show you
the standard examination for him. First.

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Is this your signature? M Is
that your signature? Doctor? I

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suppose so? Yes, I don't
know. Aren't you sure? How many

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people are certain of their signatures?
It looks like my signature, mister Dollar.

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I can't say for sure if it
is a risen? All right?

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What about these? Are these notations
on the form in your handwriting? I

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would think so, I don't know. It looks like my handwriting. I

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can't say according to this form.
You gave mister Lansing a complete physical and

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pronounced him sound. That's my job
as a doctor on these insurance examinations.

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Anything unusual about that? Mister Lansing
died two days ago? Doctor, there's

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nothing unusual about that either. Did
they send you all away from Hartford?

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So I could tell you to go
back there and buy a book on heart

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disease? You can get them anywhere
in the country, the simplest kind,

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not even a doctor's book. Read
it, know it, and don't take

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up my valuable time. Now,
let me hear that. Sure, this

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patient Lancing was forty one years old. If he had no heart condition when

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I examined him two years ago,
obviously he didn't. According to my findings,

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it's entirely reasonable to assume that he
could have developed hard trouble in a

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very short while, even the day
after I examined him. You people gauge

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those things in your premiums. Why
do you bother me? Are you finished.

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Huh, I'd take it. You've
had yourself a tough day, doctor,

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and you don't want to be bothered
with anybody. Now. Look,

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I'm not here to bother you.
Just from what's on this sheet and what's

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happened. You're in enough trouble to
get yourself involved in a police investigation.

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I'm here to try to avoid all
that for you as well as me,

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And please don't lecture me on heart
trouble. Incidentally, we know the statistics

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by age, race, color,
climate, state, religion, occupation,

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geographical area, and sex. It
so happens we don't have to go into

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that. Doctor. James Lancing died
of malnutrition. I said, Lancing died

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of malnutrition. I'll be dog corner's
report. Look for yourself. Well,

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he should know now. Was it
possible for you to overlook that condition at

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the time you examined Lancing? If
he'd been suffering from malnutrition in any degree,

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I would have discovered it and noted
it. According to the coroner's findings,

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James Lancing had been ill several years. The long and heart condition existed

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at least ten years. Can you
explain how you were able to pronounce some

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physically fit, doctor, No,
I can't how about this the angina condition.

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I could have missed that, but
it's unlikely with the degree of aggravation

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noted here on the corner's report.
Have you had much experience reading chest x

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raise doctor? Of course, a
lesions reported by the If there had been

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any lesions on Lancing's chest, I
would have reported them. I can't explain

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that either. Or now you understand
why I'm here. Certainly I wish I

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could help you. You can just
let me see your file copy of the

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examination and the X ray you took
at that time. I'll have my nurse

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look them up. I don't keep
files over a year old up here.

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We have a place down on the
basement. Okay, I'll have them for

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you tomorrow. What time tomorrow,
as soon as possible, like to have

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them first thing. Doctor, You're
kind of on me, aren't you.

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That's all right, doctor, I'm
kind of on you. There'll be another

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intriguing episode in our story of the
Lansing fraud tomorrow. Tomorrow. Dollars is

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a good price for killing most anybody
will listen for that kind of money.

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Join us, won't you? Yours? Truly? Johnny Dull Yours Truly Johnny

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Dollar is starring Bob Dailey, is
transcribed in Hollywood. Written by John Dawson,

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it is produced and directed by Jack
Johnstone. Be sure and join us

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tomorrow night, same time in Station
for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly

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Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking