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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're

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going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways My Beat.

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But now, from January fifth of nineteen fifty two, here

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is the John Dowson murder case.

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Speaker 2: Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest,

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the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

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Speaker 3: Broadways My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

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Speaker 2: In the first week of the new year, Broadways beside

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itself with promises. The new leaves have been turned over,

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the resolutions made, the wife has been kissed in the morning.

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It's the time of only one martini before dinner, the

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high protein diet, and let the blonde stroll by without

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lifting your hat. Also, it's the week of the clearance sales.

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Good slightly handled and non returnable, but in a bargain,

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so buy something. Live it up. It's nineteen fifty two,

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the year the boat will come in. It's got to

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be the year. In the corridor where I was, the

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new year was a thing that came and went, paced

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off for the quiet steps of nurses, the corridor of

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routine and pain emergency hospital. Danny, you got here fast, Danny,

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what's the trouble? Doc Sinsk come on. Report that came

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with the man said his name was John Dobson. He talked, No,

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how bad is he?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm doing everything I can in here. One thing,

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He's not in any pain. There's the report over on

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the table with his effects.

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Speaker 2: Huh. John Dowson, Park Avenue address found in commatast condition

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in a park car on East River Drive, motors still

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running eight twenty pm, forty minutes ago. Danny, what's the

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matter with him? Doctor poison? Carrying a lot of money

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over three hundred dollars in his wallet.

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Speaker 4: I've got saliva samples down in the lab, Danny. Until

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then I have to treat symptoms. Can't tell what kind

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of poison may be self administered.

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Speaker 2: I doubt it. Do you ever hear of anybody drinking

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poison and going for a car ride. I'd say the

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man was driving when the poison hit him. Pull over

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to the side. That's your business. Pardon me, Danny, I've

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got mine. And the shadows gather weight on the edge

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of the circle of light. That is a yellowing barrier

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against them, holding from them the man, locking from them

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his life. The shadows wait for a knight's decision to

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be made, the beggars of darkness, eager for the hand

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out of death, and working quietly within the fortress of light.

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Doctor Sinski, aware of the hunger of shadows, moving quickly

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against them to deny them a man's dying. Watch it,

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then leave them alone with it. Gone out of the

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park avenue address of John Dobson. Be told that his

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wife is at home. Ascend to the thirtieth flor apartment.

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Speaker 5: How clear does it have to be before it penetrates?

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Speaker 6: There's no one home.

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Speaker 2: The woman's anger tears that are heavily creamed. Face intensifies

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the smallness of her eyes, the only color, the pale,

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thin lips like an old scar.

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Speaker 6: Get out before I have you thrown out.

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Speaker 2: I'm from the police, Missus Dobson.

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Speaker 6: I don't know who you are.

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Speaker 5: You've no right to come here to wake me, to

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make me show myself this way.

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Speaker 2: Your husband's in the police emergency hospital. He's been poisoned.

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Speaker 5: Coming you could have phoned you know, that's true. We

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could have and you wouldn't have seen me like this

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in the way you're privileged. Few men have ever seen me,

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and even John here his own bedroom.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I didn't register, Missus Dobson. I said your husband

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has been poisoned. He's in the police emergency hospital.

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Speaker 5: Of course I'll go that's what you're implying. He's only

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phone I could have worn a proper No, just have

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to throw on the first thing that.

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Speaker 6: How bad is it?

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Speaker 2: He's dying?

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Speaker 5: The blow the crushes you say for I finished right

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between the eyes. Is that how it's done?

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Speaker 2: It crushes you.

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Speaker 6: I love him, that answer your foolish question.

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Speaker 2: He was found in a parked car alone. You know

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where he was before that? Missus Dobson with me.

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Speaker 5: We had a candlelight dinner here in the apartment. Over

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a dessert, he kissed me full on the lips, and

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he had to go out for the evening.

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Speaker 2: It was hours ago. You tell you where he was going.

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Speaker 5: He whispered it against my ear. There his old friend,

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Floyd Gilmore. John and he exchanged old school ties for Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Where do I find him? Floyd?

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Speaker 5: He has a devastating little flat and Gramercy Park done

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in bachelor's souvenirs. Along you keep me, you know, the

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longer it'll take me to.

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Speaker 2: Get to John side, I'll drive you down stuff.

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Speaker 5: I want to be lovely for him. That'll take a while.

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So you won't bother waiting, will you? Of course you won't.

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Speaker 2: Hey, what kept? Oh? Yes, what is it? Your name?

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Floyd Gilmore? Well, yes, I'm Danny Clover police. You might

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have I come in what for? It's about John Dobson.

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I understand. What about Joe. Something's happened to him. He

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might die. Yeah, you better come in in here. He

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might die. He's been poisoned. He's found a while ago

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in his car. Joe. I just talked to his wife.

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She said he'd been with you. Oh John never got here.

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Oh it was no matter. Don't you believe me? What

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was he coming to see you? Bus? I ask you something?

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Don't you believe me? I told you John never got

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I asked you something too. He was coming over to

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see me? That so what for to borrow a book?

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Played chess one? You can take fingerprints, mister, I'm telling

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you John wasn't here. It's going to be pretty tough

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to prove, mister Gilmore. John Dobson had plenty of time

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to be here, be poisoned and leave the point. You

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mean me murdered. If John Dobson dies, it'll be murdered.

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I'll tell you why he came here. Came here? You

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said he didn't? All right? So I got mixed up.

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I got a quirk. I get my conjugations mixed when

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I'm under mental stress. Why do you want to listen

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to me? Or want to call me a liar and

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arrest me? Do what you want, mister, Go ahead and

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tell me your story. I had a friend I wanted

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John to meet. Mind. I asked why John doesn't get

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along with his wife? She didn't approve of his outside interest.

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You were going to introduce him to an outside interest. Well,

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this girl, it's this friend of mine is nice kid,

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same kind of personality as John. Oh that's right, Pretty

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sure this friend of mine was well fetching is the

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word that as pretty as Edna, not nearly as pretty

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as John's wife. I can never understand that about John.

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A beautiful wife like Edna all or Doe? Why I

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had so many outside interests? Or do I find this

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friend of yours? Isabel at the New Howard Hotel, ask

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for Isabelle Martin. Mister Andry, I'm sorry, Telly, we couldn't

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make it tonight. The New Howard Hotel a discreete brownstone

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in the discreete East sixties, designed to recall the foamy

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days of Victorian elegance. The reproductions of antique hitching posts

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standing in frozen wonder at the sleek and snarling eight

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cylinder beasts flouting their chrome, and the lobby hung with

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maroon velvet, its frayed tassels swaying gently over simulated marble

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and presiding over it a frocked man savoring a well

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thum pocket edition of Charles Dickens, Take Courage by the hand.

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Break through the mists of old lavender dare to ask

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him for Isabel Martin. The consequence is no more than

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a compassionate smile, a whispered room number, and a ride

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in a self service elevator hung with the framed messages

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of beauty salons and credit dentistry. The elevator finally ascends

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to the heights of the fifth floor.

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Speaker 6: Hither, Hello, you're late. I heard your footsteps in the hall.

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I opened my door and let out a can. Hi.

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Speaker 2: John, not John, I'm from the police, Miss Martin.

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Speaker 6: Please. Lloyd said he'd send me. Johnny sends me you.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Fife, Well, a good old Floyd. I want to

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scratch his face.

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Speaker 2: Let's go inside, Miss Martin.

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Speaker 7: It's a lovely idea, the loveliest idea, the sense you

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let everybody go inside.

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Speaker 6: Let everybody have a drink.

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Speaker 7: Yes, take a sip of mine. I was saving it

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for John. Baby, you'll be here right for him. You

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take a sip of mine.

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Speaker 2: Baby, You think you can understand what I'm going to

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tell you, Miss Martin, The.

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Speaker 7: Things this girl understands. I'm I'm not as gone as

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all that mystery. Lonesome little drinking while waiting clears the brain.

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Speaker 2: So tell me John Dobson is dying. He was poisoned.

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Speaker 6: That's why I stood me up, because he's dying.

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Speaker 2: He waited for me, never showed up. Is it? It's it?

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Do you mind if I look around it? Love it?

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Speaker 6: Not the tasteful arrangement.

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Speaker 2: There's another glass here on the night table, part of

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a drink in it.

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Speaker 6: That's where it's been hiding.

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Speaker 7: Tell me a lonesome little drinky. I put you down

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and forgot all about you, didn't. I impoored myself a

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new one when all the time loan some little baby.

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Pardon me drinking? Don't drink?

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Speaker 2: Hi? Then?

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Speaker 6: Hello, this was Isabelle for you, Mister.

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Speaker 2: Danny Klora speaking, Get down here. There's nothing I can

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do for him right away. Doctor, get me an empty bottle,

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Miss Martin, I'll want to take your forgotten drink with

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me empty. I got a life full of the Missa.

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Take your pick, doctor sinske, How was he? Doctor? Not

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a chance?

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Speaker 4: Missus Dobson, Danny, she's in there with him.

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Speaker 2: It's such a time. Better leave them alone. Did he talk?

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Say anything? Once?

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Speaker 4: For a second, Danny opened his eyes and said his

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wife's name, said Edna said, my beautiful wife, Edna, beautiful,

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even in over grief. I caught myself staring at her, watching.

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Speaker 2: Her look look at her, even in all her grief.

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The circle of shadows was around them, around a man

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and his wife, the man with pale death at his cheek,

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the woman luminous, her face touched with infinite sadness, of

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infinite loveliness, A tear at her eyes edge, not falling,

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but held there, the small glistening despair.

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Speaker 8: Johnny, Johnny, John Doctor, my dear, my husband dead, Johnny.

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Speaker 3: He's dead death.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Martin

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Fine and David Freakin and starring Larry Thor as Detective

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Danny Clover. Two of our CBS radio gals are at

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opposite extremes intellectually. Rie Wilson has empty headed my friend Irma,

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and Eve Varden is English teaching our miss Brooks. But

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in spite of this difference, Irma Peterson and Connie Brooks

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have two things in common. They're both funny, and they're

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both yours to laugh at. On most of these same

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CBS radio stations Sunday evenings, enjoy them both.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow Night, the New year has doled out only so

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many of its night times, and Broadway has already used them,

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drained them of their neon, their glitter, their anguish. Broadway

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takes its place in line to wait for the new

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fallings of darkness, as it did on the dating edge

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of this night time that had come. Like other Broadway nights,

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it sparked the spectaculars in a winking light. It opened

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corridors for solitude to walk that carried on its wind,

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laughter and shock, and Broadway stands dazed and still waiting

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for this night too, to end. Where I was. The

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night wouldn't depart because it must linger on the face

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of a woman, on its beauty, on the tear that

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held the grief for her dead husband. It must listen

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close because her weeping is gentle and distant. Missus Dobson,

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Missus Dobson.

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Speaker 6: Do look at me, don't dare look at me.

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Speaker 2: I'll take you home. There's no need. I'll manage if

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you want to lie down, need something the matron.

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Speaker 6: Will you have a dressing.

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Speaker 5: A room, nothing with a mirror in it, A brightly

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lit mirror.

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Speaker 2: I suppose there's one somewhere, and I.

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Speaker 6: Shock you, mister Clover.

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Speaker 5: Because I insist on being beautiful even while Johnny lies dead.

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Is that something awful for a woman to want to

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be beautiful to her dead husband?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: You know it now, mister Clover. You've seen me ugly,

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and you see me like this, the lovely one of

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the woman Johnny knew, the woman Johnny saw when he died.

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There was never any other. You understand that, mister Clover.

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Speaker 2: I think so good.

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Speaker 5: Now leave me alone with him, would you please? I

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mean alone, No gratuitous sympathizers. No one has seen me

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with tears on my face alone, do you?

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Speaker 9: Danny r good? Good money? You slumpered well in the

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land and not I hope.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a good gen. I didn't get home from

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the hospital until and when I finally got to bed.

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Speaker 9: Well, here's something that will revive an otherwise drab day, Danny.

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Speaker 2: Surprise electric fan? What for?

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Speaker 9: Startles h the self same fan you commissioned me to

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have repaired last July. I saved the department money, all

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fixed and ready to go to it like Miami. This

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is the same same fan by which we have called

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other names. Bout of torn aparty, the quick and revived

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by me Geno Catiglia plus the progo tools missus t

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slipped into my galoshes for Christmas. Professional huh, Phili breeze.

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Speaker 2: It's January, Gino, turn it off, Gino.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, any other putt thing you'd like to have done

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around here?

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Speaker 2: Just sautter the word about the medical examiner's apart.

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Speaker 9: Roger John Dobson did indeed die from a poison which

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doctor Sinski did label as being of the alkaloid family.

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Specific poison and time taken will not be known until

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autopsy has performed on the vital organs.

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Speaker 2: What else did you?

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Speaker 9: There's some background material and mister and missus John Dobson

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dug out by obediently yours and the good detective Muggavin

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if you please. Indeed, mister Dobson lived by no visible

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means of support, nice house, nice clothes, no job prior

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to his exchanging marriage vows with Missus Dobson. He lived

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off hand out some friends there go on. Mister Dobson

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did attach himself and married Missus Dobson while she was

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still in WI those weeks.

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Speaker 2: Oh Heetna Dobson was married before.

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Speaker 9: To a Timothy French deceased.

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Speaker 2: What did mister French die of you know, could you

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find that out?

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Speaker 9: I did? I did from an accident. Mister French was

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a wheelchair case from his youth. Three years after his

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marriage to his wife, he had a misfortune, fell out

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of his chair down the steps.

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Speaker 2: And missus Dobson inherited his estate, isn't it?

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Speaker 9: And I wait a minute, Danny, I look at the reports.

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Just take a second.

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Speaker 2: I'll never mind, you know, put him on my desk.

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You did real fine today.

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Speaker 9: Just wait till July when he can enjoy that fan, Danny,

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the nice things you'll say about me.

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Speaker 2: And study the reports the sergeant leaves on your desk.

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Find that the widow of Timothy French had inherited two

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hundred and fifty thousand dollars, more than half of it

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in insurance. Find the name of the insurance broker who

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had handled it, Jonathan Harvey, twelve Broad Street. Go to him,

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talk to him.

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Speaker 10: Let me make my puny attempt to trying to understand you,

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mister Clover. I'll go right a hen, I'll have to

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block it out on this scratch pad. Let's see, under

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a general heading, we have your reinvestigation of the death

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of Timothy French, Edna's first husband.

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Speaker 2: That's right, and a.

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Speaker 10: Line and underneath your reasons for doing save what shall

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we put down?

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Speaker 2: Mister Clover, Missus Dobson's second husband died last night of

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alkaloid poisoning. Newspapers added at great length.

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Speaker 9: I read the head.

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Speaker 10: Aha, I see what you're after, mister Clover.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 10: Now I can fill in this side. Here we have

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death of husband number one, here death of number two

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in the short space of two years.

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Speaker 2: Hmm.

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Speaker 10: Interesting.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you agree.

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Speaker 10: However, I'm afraid that's as far as it goes, mister Clover.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell me why.

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Speaker 10: Perhaps you don't know that my company conducted a most

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thorough rundown on mister French's death, found it accidental. Though

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I am an insurance man, mister Clover, I am also

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a friend, ah friend, confident to all my clients, as

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I was to Tim French, as.

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Speaker 2: I would be to you who knew him.

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Speaker 10: Well, my dear young man, I nurtured his romance with Edna.

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Speaker 2: How did you do that?

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Speaker 10: Edna was a teller at the Ruxton Bank on Wall.

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One day I wheeled him along with me. Well, I

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made a deposit for.

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Speaker 2: It, and that's where he met Edna Dobson in the bank.

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Speaker 10: She was plain then thoughtless fellow could call her ugly,

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and Tim was a you forgive the word a cripple.

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Unwanted people they meet sometimes fall in love and get married.

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Speaker 2: Then one of them dives in a fall.

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Speaker 10: There you go again, beating your head against a blank wall.

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It's useless, mister clover. We spent thousands of dollars proving

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it to ourselves. Tim died accidentally, So.

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Speaker 2: Leave there and decide a thing. Missus. Edna Dobson, ex

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bank clerk w'd old twice, was a woman you wanted

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to talk to again. Go to her apartment house. She's

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not the home, you're told by a maid who opened

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the door for you and got right down on her

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knees again to dust. Where is she? She's going to

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a funeral tomorrow, so she's down the beauty parlor, naturally,

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which one loss since naturally, So thank the maid who

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waved her feather duster goodbye to you, and go to

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Lawsons and meet another woman dressed fashionably clinical in a

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white jersey uniform, who sits behind a desk and.

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Speaker 11: Asks questions You a husband.

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Speaker 2: No I'm afraid not.

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Speaker 11: I want to see my friend. Eh, we got under

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the dryer belongs to you.

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Speaker 2: I want to see Missus Dobson.

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Speaker 11: What have you been doing all morning?

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Speaker 10: Man?

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Speaker 11: Missus Dobson's been here since nine facials, hair set, contouring, refinishing, reweaving,

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everything on the menu, and you walk in just as

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she walks out. I don't envy you. Oh why if

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you're a fellowho is going to help her through this bereavement? Frankly,

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I don't envy you. Frankly, you don't look as if

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you can afford it. I'd get fired if mine here

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lost in you. I was talking like this. Mine here

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is Dutch.

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Speaker 2: You know, no, I didn't.

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Speaker 11: But I like your face to be blunt, mostly because

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I like men's faces and I hate to see them

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be suckered. I appreciate this, the dough that edn adopts

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and spends on lotions and contours and facials. Since the

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first day she came in here.

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Speaker 2: When was that?

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Speaker 11: I remember, because when she stepped in here, mine here said,

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I accept the challenge. Her first husband's funeral was at noon,

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her appointment was at.

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Speaker 2: Four, and since then she spent a lot of money.

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Speaker 11: Not only with us. Take a walk down the street

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to exports, find out the door. She spends there on

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clothes to make her look of the forum divine. But

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believe me, save yourself the war. I know.

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Speaker 2: Well, I want to thank you for all you've done

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for me.

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Speaker 11: Not that I dislike Missus Dobson, you understand, just that

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I like to be frank. Understand what I mean.

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Speaker 2: Right in here, Missus Dobson. Oh, hello, Missus Dobson, come in. Oh,

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sit down.

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Speaker 11: Here.

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Speaker 4: Well this is police headquarters, Missus Dobson. Taxpayers don't furnish

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us with upholstered furniture.

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Speaker 2: So dusty, oh, Detective Michael, uh huh, Now you can

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sit down. Missus Dobson. Thank you, and I want to

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thank you for coming down here to see me. Did

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I have a choice for well, I didn't want to

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barge in on you. Again, I know like you like

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to ready yourself before you meet people.

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Speaker 6: Thank you again, very consistent.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I was telling me miss Adobson out in the hall,

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how nice I thought she looked, after all she's been through.

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Speaker 2: He's right, Missus Dobson, you do look very lovely. Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Why did you ask me to come here.

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Speaker 2: Well, I have a few things I want to talk

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to you about.

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Speaker 4: I see, we were surprised to hear you've been married

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once before, Missus Dobson.

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Speaker 2: What of it? I think it's important that we should

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know about your first husband.

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Speaker 6: Now, what about him?

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Speaker 2: How he died?

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Speaker 6: He died four years ago. He feld down the steps

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in his wheelchair.

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Speaker 2: Did you push him?

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Speaker 6: I'm sure there's nothing else you want to.

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Speaker 11: Say to me.

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Speaker 2: Did you push him? Missus Dobson, For.

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Speaker 5: Your information, the insurance justice asked me the same thing

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if they hadn't reached the conclusion that it was an accident,

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would I be here?

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Speaker 2: Sit down, mister Dobson, close the door and sit down.

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This'll only take a few moments. Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Why did your mister Mugivin ask me that question?

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Speaker 4: Well, you don't have to ask him, Missus Dobson, ask me.

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I'll tell you why. Because his death left you.

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Speaker 5: A rich woman, and, by your reasoning, every woman who

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inherits money as a murderer.

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Speaker 2: You met your first husband while you were a teller

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in a bank, didn't you? How did you meet your

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second husband, John Dobson?

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Speaker 6: Shall I tell you? Shall I really tell you?

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Speaker 2: If you don't mind, Missus Dobson.

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Speaker 5: I was eating salt peanuts in a bar. He sent

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over a note in a bottle of wine.

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Speaker 2: Who paid for the wine? What? Lieutenant asked you? Who

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paid for the wine? Do you think paid for it?

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I doubt whether mister Dobson did. He was pretty broke

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from what I could find out.

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Speaker 6: That's right, he was broke. I love it. I fell

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in love with him.

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Speaker 5: Not right away, but eventually I fell in love with him.

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Speaker 2: Mister Dobson was a good looking man. I imagine a

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lot of women fell in love with.

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Speaker 6: Him, but I married him.

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Speaker 2: Why did you find out he was running around with

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other women, Missus Dobson dead? Lead him alone, lieutenant asked

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to missus Dabson. When did you find out about it?

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Speaker 6: Leave alone?

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Speaker 2: Did he start taking interest in other women when he

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barched in on you one day like I did, and

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saw you like I did?

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Speaker 6: What difference does it make?

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Speaker 2: Here's the way we figured, Missus DApps.

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Speaker 6: I know what you think.

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Speaker 5: You think I killed my first husband, and you think

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I killed Johnny.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we'll ever know about your first husband

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unless you want to tell us it was an accident.

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Speaker 4: Here's the way we figured, missus Dabson, your first husband

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died and you came into all that money. With money,

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you could make yourself beautiful, beauty salon's customed dresses, the works,

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the way you always wanted to be.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that right, Lieutenant? Then you met a handsome man,

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a man who believed you were beautiful, John Dobson. He

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married you. He had no job, He lived off you.

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You were satisfied to that as long as he believed

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you were lovely. She is lovely, Danny. I don't care

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what you say. Then he changed, He started to go

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around with other women. You couldn't tolerate that. You poisoned him.

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Do you ever see a woman who wear clothes like her? No? No,

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I haven't. And where she does her hair? Yeah? Beautiful?

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Speaker 6: You think so.

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Speaker 2: The reporters will think so too, the photographers too, the

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pictures of you in all the papers, on your exclusive clothes,

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and every woman in the city will be jealous.

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Speaker 5: Woman, look at me. I can tell what they're thinking.

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They are jealous.

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Speaker 2: They'll be interviewed. Understand all the men, the women, the

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women crowding the court room to get one pikachuer. I

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killed them.

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Speaker 6: I killed both of them. Will a reporter be here soon?

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Speaker 2: Broadway's sleeping now, The furious avenue of the night is

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still stretches out in front of you, without beginning, without end,

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the dumping ground of refuse and ashes and leftovers. The

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neon words have turned off. But look there where the

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sidewalk meets the street. It's your name written on water.

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It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile

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in the world. Broadway My Beat.

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Speaker 3: Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,

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with Charles Calfred as Tartaglia and Jack Kruscian as Mugavin.

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The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with

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musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In Tonight's story,

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Idrine Tedrow was heard as Edna Dobson. Featured in the

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cast were Florence Lake, Gene Tatum, Bill Bouchet, and Earl Ross.

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Tomorrow Night, The Girl Who Made Good Tuesday Nights. Audrey

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Totter as Milly joins the Sunday lineup on most of

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these same stations. Yes, from now on you can meet

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Milly and all her hilarious Friends Too, Sunday nights on

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CBS Radio. On the more serious side, Tomorrow marks the

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debut of The People Act, CBS Radio's new series about

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community problems solved by American communities. You'll find The People

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Act a fascinating, rewarding experience every Sunday night on CBS Radio.

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Starting tomorrow night, Bill Anders speaking, and remember those lovable rascals,

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Amos and Andy are here every Sunday on the CBS

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Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, this is one of those cases. It

504
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really was a character study much more than a mystery.

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We really aren't presented any other plausible suspects, and our

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focus is continually brought back to Edna. And in fact,

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they don't really answer any of the typical evidence based

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questions that would be key to find improve in a

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typical mystery. For example, the insurance company made a big

510
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deal of the fact that they investigated the death of

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the first husband and were totally satisfied that it was

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an accident, but she admits that she killed him, and

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it's not really addressed how or what actually virually happened.

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There is also this really tough line between reality and

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fantasy when it comes to her looks. That's me clear.

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This is a story you probably could not have done

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on television, not because of moral concerns, but because you

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couldn't show this on a thirteen inch black and white

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television and have people buy into it. Radio gives you

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words and your imagination fills in the picture. You have

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the insurance agent saying she looked plain, some might even

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have said ugly, and then you have Danny describing her

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now once she's made up and has all of her

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looks together as she wants them. Danny describes her as

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infinite loveliness. So the audience member imagine someone's they might

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rate as war toffair turning into a good to great,

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and that's really in your imagination. I do think Danny's

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suggestion that Dawson cheated because he saw her without her

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makeup or with face cream on, that seems absurd. I

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think I could believe more the idea that Dawson was

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exhausted by the performative nature of her beauty and her

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00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:40,240
insecurity about it. It's at a very extreme level in

533
00:33:40,279 --> 00:33:44,839
this episode, and that does contrast with the woman John

534
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,599
had a d eight with, who was much more spontaneous.

535
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But I think there's also the assumption that she must

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have done something for him that's not really true, as

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it's that's not true part clearly with a lot of men,

538
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particularly with Dawson, because what they uncovered about Dawson is

539
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that he was essentially a jigglow, no source of income,

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living off women. He's sweet, talks women and cheats on

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them because that's what he's done, that's what he's always done,

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and there was no transformation in his character. And I

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guess in a broad sense, Edna becomes this very sad

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figure who really believed that beauty in its maintenance would

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bring her ultimate happiness. Instead, it kind of brought her

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into a state of dependence on it and failed to

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fulfill its promise. On a brighter note, good on Gino

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for fixing the fan and finding something to do with

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his Christmas tools. The open question though, is whether he

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was late or early in addressing the need for the fan,

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But either way he's right. It will be appreciated come July.

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Well listener comments and feedback, and we have a comment

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on YouTube where Stanley Wright's really good show regarding the

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episode the Mary Smith murder case and now it's time

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episode of Broadways My Bait, But join us back here

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tomorrow for Dragnet where.

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Speaker 2: Well when did Abbot call in to notify you?

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Speaker 12: Monday afternoon told us he thought his wife might have

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been spending the weekend with her sister. When he found

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out she wasn't, he called us.

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Speaker 2: You meet the boy when you were out there? Yeah,

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that's another thing.

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Speaker 12: How do you mean a kid came riding up on

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a bike when we were talking at one of the neighbors.

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They tried to talk to him, but the old man

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came out and hustled the boy into the house, and

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then he started chewing us out.

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Speaker 2: What's his trouble?

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Speaker 12: Told us it was our job to find his wife,

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not to go prying into his stepson's affairs.

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Speaker 2: It's a new slat.

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Speaker 10: Well, how about the woman's friends and relatives.

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Speaker 2: They've been checked out, you know.

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Speaker 12: Well she's on it now. I don't think he's had

585
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much luck contacting him so far. I'll tell you the truth.

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I don't like the looks of it.

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Speaker 2: Missus Abbott, have any other relatives here?

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Speaker 10: I mean besides his sister two lands?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got the list right over here. Sure wish

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we had a chance to talk to that boy. Noticed

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anything else? Side of the way about mister abbit owl? Well,

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I don't know. There's that list, Joe, Oh thank you.

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Abbot was upset, all right.

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Speaker 12: I don't know, though he didn't exactly strike me as

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reacting the way a normal man reacts when his wife's disappeared.

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Speaker 2: Well, how about a copy of this report? You got

597
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one to spare? Yeah?

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Speaker 12: Sure, just a minute now, missing persons Spaghetti, that's right, this.

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Speaker 2: Is spaghetti speaking? Was that? Oh? Yeah? Yeah? Sure about what?

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All right? Good four o'clyve, fine, all right? Signed goodbye?

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Speaker 12: Well that was the boy I was telling you about

602
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mister abit stepson, what do you want? And wants to

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talk to a sounded worried about his mother. He thinks

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something's happened to her.

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Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, send

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