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November third, nineteen fifty one, it's the Joe Blair murder case.
Speaker 2: Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3: Broadway is My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
Speaker 2: The November Night has a good hold on Broadway now,
and Broadway purrs in its embrace, rubs its cheek against
the cool touch, then stops fighting it, and the glitter explodes.
The neon rockets its scarlet into darkness, bursts into wishing stars,
cascades down on the happy event. The laughter hoarded during
the week is spent freely now. The budgeted dreams have
one kid. It's on me. It's the long night before Monday.
Give into it. Walk a hotel carter pasted a room
where gayety is registered for the night hungry, please do
not disturb. Sign on its door, and the room next
to it the one you're looking for. Hi dang, and
it's all they're waiting for you. Detective mcavin and the
boy and Warren Dunhams. A faded wolf shirt sprawled in
final exhaustion across the silk sheet of the hotel bed.
The boy dead of a knife for.
Speaker 4: Quite a party next door. You're thinking the hotel this class,
they're ticking the wall.
Speaker 2: What else have you got?
Speaker 4: The kid there, staffed under the heart, couldn't find the knife.
Danny couldn't even bry a visitor out of the hotel management.
Speaker 2: They're discreet, they tell me, don't.
Speaker 4: Notice unannounced visits like this kid must have happened.
Speaker 2: That's why they tell me what I was going to say, Danny.
Speaker 4: They're so discreet in this hotel. That's why the party
keeps going next door. Nobody knows if someone did, except
the manager.
Speaker 2: And a couple of bell hops. What made them sit
up and taking all This.
Speaker 4: Kid's phone was off the hook, kept lighting a light
on the switchboard, but nobody said they wanted anything. A
bell hop came up to find out why who is
he registered Joe Blair identification card?
Speaker 2: And do says Joe Blair. That's about all there wasn't it?
Speaker 4: The card and some loose change and these diamondance tickets.
That's his luggage on the chair, knapsack with a tennis RD.
Speaker 2: This is an expensive hotel.
Speaker 4: How come I asked the same question of the discrete management.
They say, the kid came in, told me he hitched
here from Saint Louis, laid a ten dollar bill in
the desk, says give me.
Speaker 2: What that buys?
Speaker 4: Just goes to show you where really fun time next door,
how Danny.
Speaker 2: The moment gathered together and held an instant composed of
drifting left of the seat through a wall and added
itself to the nice things furnished by the management. Then silence,
the moment of requiem for a dead boy. And later,
when the room has been emptied, considered the few things
neatly stacked on a chair, the paraphernalia for living of
a hitchhiker named Joe Blair. Knapsack, wallet, diamond dance tickets,
seventh Avenue, Paradise. The ticket's read dance hall, no refunds.
So walk down two blocks, turn left, go up a
flight of steps into a place that sells its paradise
for a diam a minute and heaven is twenty girls,
twenty and the four piece band and pink lights. Walk
over to the very large guardian angel and a dinner jacket,
talk to him, watch him as he moves away from you,
and whispers to the lesser angels and evening gowns, and finally,
as he walks back with one of them in tow,
leaves her with you. Hi, Hello, I'm Danny Clover. Imus.
Speaker 5: Tell me it was something special. He wasn't kid mostly,
I tell everybody.
Speaker 6: I don't get up to three police.
Speaker 5: Are you snapping?
Speaker 2: No, you're not.
Speaker 7: Are you?
Speaker 5: The boss just said you were a friend of Joe Blair.
You gotta understand when I said I was off with three.
Speaker 2: The most all I want you to do is tell
me about Joe Blair.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's in trouble.
Speaker 8: Huh.
Speaker 5: Well, if this veale goes over fifty bucks, I'm not
going to be any help at all.
Speaker 2: Joe Blair's debt stabbed to.
Speaker 5: Death dead Joe.
Speaker 2: Oh he was here tonight, wasn't he.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he was early, almost opening time. Bought five tickets. Well,
he was standing where you were and I was standing
over there. We looked at each other and both started running.
Do we met him?
Speaker 2: Did you know him before?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: Just just dango like in Strange Romance's magazine. I didn't
take a ticket from him either. It's a matter of fact. Well,
I threw ten dollars in the pot so he could
have a downy place to put his curly head to
sleep tonight.
Speaker 9: That's how high the boys check.
Speaker 2: Did he tell you anything about himself?
Speaker 5: Just hitch hiked across the country, he broke and he
had a guy to see in the morning, guy named
John John Logan bitch Park Avenue type logan. Other than that,
we just looked flame and fired each other.
Speaker 2: And that's all you can tell me except.
Speaker 9: My name's Vicky.
Speaker 5: You need an ass Jo's did what do you know?
Speaker 9: My name's Vicky.
Speaker 6: H excuse me, Danny, but you know how.
Speaker 2: I got the message. You know it's late, you're tired.
Give me what you got then you can go home.
Speaker 10: Those words like a good night kiss. What I've got
to whit? Having checked the logans who breathed Park Avenues air,
I have come up with a logan who fits our built,
a John Logan whose household.
Speaker 11: Over the phone.
Speaker 6: The name of Joe Blaird, deceased of a knife is
not Alan.
Speaker 2: You talk to him?
Speaker 6: How could I, Danny said.
Speaker 10: John Logan is now in Europe, where he has been
for six weeks, where he is part.
Speaker 2: Taking Who did you talk to him?
Speaker 6: To a wife?
Speaker 10: I think she said she was a wife. She said, yeah,
I know what, Joey Blair, but don't bother me no
more with it, she said, as I am on my
way to a ball in the morning, bother me, honey,
she said, honey, she said, you are stranger you dead good,
you know, go home? You honestly think I did good?
Danny says, I can relate to missus. T did you honestly?
Look you, Danny clob was closed for the night.
Speaker 12: The night you loaded me with a big sorrow, this
big maybe big?
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 12: You walk by me maybe eight twelve times a day?
And I don't register with you?
Speaker 2: Hunh you no, no, you don't warm your hand.
Speaker 12: And Tommy caps Danny boy, Tommy cap address Broadway, profession Broadway.
Speaker 2: He said, I'm made you sad.
Speaker 12: Why you come to my girl and you don't dance
with her?
Speaker 2: Vicky Harper?
Speaker 12: You don't dance with her, and all it costs is dimes.
You talk to her about a hitchhiker? What's stabbed in
a class hotel? This kind of schmooz ups. That's an
innocent thing. Like Vicky gives her migraines up here. I
come to protect them from you.
Speaker 2: Don't you take care of herself, Tommy, take.
Speaker 12: Care of herself. She's so stupid she gives a bag
ten bucks to sleep on silk. That's my VICKI innocent,
good hearted, generous, would have cut some dimes for this.
She has to suffer from policemen who'll come bearing only
mudded hitchhikers.
Speaker 2: Why stick around, Tommy, We can make you suffer too,
because maybe you reach Joe Blair, because maybe.
Speaker 12: Man's a comic. He's a comic, because I got an
alibi ten blocks long. I'll give you a dresses.
Speaker 11: Kid.
Speaker 8: They'll treat you like a baby.
Speaker 12: Why your chick?
Speaker 2: I'll check good night?
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 12: Hey, Danny, you can't. How's about I give you a
lift home? My cars outside we can go any thanks?
How about you such? I'll ride your home wherever you live, Brooklyn,
the Bronx, Gasie, whoever you want.
Speaker 6: It's not out of your way.
Speaker 11: What's that out of my way? It's had man talked
for days.
Speaker 12: Come on, let's go side, Danny.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, just so you won't forget.
Speaker 10: I left the memo on your talent to go see
the park Avenue logan next day in now?
Speaker 6: Is it okay?
Speaker 2: Go ahead? Gin know, it's all right.
Speaker 12: Your man said it was all right. G know trauma,
kiss good night?
Speaker 11: Where do you live?
Speaker 10: Gino?
Speaker 11: What do you want?
Speaker 2: And go home? Back to the room and wonder iightly
at the fact that there were no unfinished chess problems
to solve, or stamps to paste in albums, things that
a man in the profession was supposed to be good at.
Before going to bed. Just go to bed and try
again for the dream you had so long ago. You've
forgotten what it is and not find it again. Just sleep, sleep,
and wake up to morning and dress again, and coffee again,
and to work again. To the Park Avenue address of
missus John Logan. Stop at the desk of the apartment
hotel and be given a floor number. Three flights up
and down the hall and stop because a man woman
are standing in front of the door, and start to
turn away because they're embracing not might make it. Yo,
come here, see what you were looking for. I'm looking for.
Speaker 9: I never saw him before in my life.
Speaker 2: You say something real fine to me, Buster, like why
you run up and down this hallway? You're practically dawn
else poor you big and all you'll bleed Alet, Oh
yes you will, police show me that's right, Missus Logan says, please, Oh.
Speaker 9: Yes you will, Yes you will. You got company, Albert.
You call me missus Logan the way we said, because
I'm your employer and I can hire you and fire you.
Speaker 8: And hire you.
Speaker 2: And now your lucky miesster being a cop at a
time like this, I really would have right through that
wall there at a knock too, and I could have
bob Bell muscle I live. Yeah, it's a fine form
of exercise. I approve of it very much. Who are
you us? Missus Logan's bodygud like she said, I had
to god the body in the home and the welfare
while mister Logan's in.
Speaker 9: Europe and I miss him too. Don't you forget that, Albert.
Speaker 7: I don't want anybody to forget that, you or you
or any of you.
Speaker 9: See. Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2: Yes, boy named Joe Blair mentioned your husband's name, Missus Logan.
Speaker 9: Who is old Joe? How's old Josie today?
Speaker 11: I asked?
Speaker 9: Murdered old Josie's dead and murdered out.
Speaker 2: You better get some sleepers, Logan. Look, mister, I was
bringing a party. It's my missus Logan. How do you
know Joe.
Speaker 7: Blair picked the lad up in Saint Louis said, dumped
him in Indianapolis.
Speaker 9: Hit shikes with me? Hitch hikes, I told you, Albert.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 7: On my way back from sunny California, driving along there
was he Saint Louis mo knapsack on shoulder, thumb in
the air, wind on his cheek.
Speaker 9: Indianapolis. He moved over a niche towards me. I fuilled
up near a cop, smile at Joe and told him
goodbye my life.
Speaker 2: You want anything else with him, mister, Yeah, I do.
When she's sober, see that she gets that way. That's
my job, do it. I'll get around to you later.
Speaker 11: Both.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Danny?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 4: I only asked because I gave you the reports. Watch
you spend fifteen minutes looking at him? How all I
want is a reaction?
Speaker 2: You got me to stand on my head.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I just thought all this data I gave you.
Speaker 2: My you know what's in it as well as I
do Joe Blair as a record of vagrancy in a
half dozen towns, that this doesn't happen to solve a
murder for man? Sorry, but a dozen.
Speaker 11: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 4: I just thought there was something you might know that
I don't know.
Speaker 2: And whatever was in these reports, it You're gonna bite
my head off if I answered, answered.
Speaker 4: Lieutenant Clover's officer to take the muggling speak who oh yeah,
wait till I write it down.
Speaker 2: Sixty eight Then okay, I got it.
Speaker 4: Thanks Danny gull kid named Tommy Cap, the boy that
took our tackle home.
Speaker 2: Call was about him? What about him?
Speaker 4: He's in an alley, better go get him? Come on,
come on, pnice officers, now let us throw break it.
Speaker 2: Why don't you go home, lady?
Speaker 13: It's supper time.
Speaker 2: There he is to him?
Speaker 11: Got him? Yeah, got him.
Speaker 2: It wasn't that way at all. We didn't have him.
The thing that had Tommy Capp, the thing that had
fixed his hands in half open fist for something else.
The heavy nail driven through a fence a long time ago.
It's point beared through a rotting two by four. That
was it. Tommy Cap had been pushed against it and it.
Speaker 13: Held him, killed him.
Speaker 3: You are listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton
Vine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
Danny Clover. The Sunday afternoon edition of a CBS Radio
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and un correspondent Larry Lacer. Every Sunday, CBS Radio's great
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as well as the news that will shape history in
the days and weeks to come.
Speaker 2: The sounds you hear on Broadway are frightments, words broken off,
and wind blow on that drift your way, the swift
dart ofway, noises and a horn and a whistle, and footsteps,
the brief wild sob of the far away river. You've
got to listen close so you'll know if that sound
began with laughter or despair. The difference it makes not much.
Broadway reacts to clowns and death in nearly the same
way the blonde who had a little accident on a
street corner, or the dead man you saw propped against
a fence in an alley. Something to tell your family
about how the policeman pushed you back so you couldn't
see how it all ended. But I saw I had
the state of the end. Until Tommy Capp was lifted
down and shrouded and taken away until Tommy Capp was
made a matter of official concern. Then I left, go
to a place, back to headquarters. Write it down to
be transcribed later by a stenographer, be dated by a dater,
stamped by a stamper, to be put in a file
by a clerk.
Speaker 4: I just came from records, Dandy, just about through running
Tommy CAP's card through the IBM.
Speaker 2: Anything, just about what we figured.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was a steerer, Danny. You know a kid
latched down at convention. People showed them bars tipped into
the village.
Speaker 2: I'll come.
Speaker 4: I had a record little trouble cunning the ladies a
couple of times.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, he promoted him for nick ties.
Speaker 11: Maybe a sport jacket meals.
Speaker 2: A couple of times we know about.
Speaker 4: He tried to put the bite on him for doe
three ducks twice.
Speaker 11: The lady squaggle, Uh huh?
Speaker 2: How did you get his address?
Speaker 4: Sure rooming house off West forty nine.
Speaker 2: It might be something interesting there.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You mean it's an interesting rooming house, muggerlment, a landmark
or something. Why don't you ever let me finish anything, Danny,
I'm sorry, what about it?
Speaker 4: Not the rooming house. The roommate musician, a piano player
named Norm Persak. What's interesting is he plays piano with
the Seventh Avenue Paradise at Diamond Dance Joint.
Speaker 2: You think that's interesting, Danny, Yeah, I think that's interesting.
Thanks Muggerman. Thanks a lot, man.
Speaker 11: I thought you'd never come.
Speaker 2: You, Norm Persac, the.
Speaker 3: Holy nor man.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 11: Don't stand that. O't that way lies madness. First, you
listen to this. You close your eyes and listen to this.
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 11: It spotted. I reached out and Eric was waiting here
that here the meta hear the song.
Speaker 2: It's it's different. You got real taste for a policeman. Man,
How did you know? I are you? Kid?
Speaker 11: Man?
Speaker 2: You made a stir at the Seventh Avenue Paradise last night,
Norm Perseac. Never forget why I'm here. You know that too, sure, man.
Speaker 14: Because I feel it You're gonna ask me why my
room is dead, Why Tommy Capp died like that.
Speaker 2: I'm a man, that's right.
Speaker 11: I don't know like a figure those things.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 14: You see Tommy last night twice, once in the night.
The next time around dog, that's the crazy Tell me
bon night. Tommy walks in here, don to Brooks Brothers
suit you with the bench in the back, Yeah, flips
evns at.
Speaker 2: Me, walks out the other time.
Speaker 14: Don Tommy walks in on me, gathers up a silk shirts,
the ties of glowing. The doc throws a kiss, says,
see you around, kid, this is farewell to Nothing party.
Tell you where he'd been, where he was going? He
said where he was going stands because he hit me
for fifty bucks before he left, fifty bucks.
Speaker 2: Per wives, wires, telegrams. He's on down the corner hotel.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you're lucky man. Yeah, I'll give you a song
to exit Hi.
Speaker 2: And go to the corner hotel. Show a badge, ask
a question, Let the whispers make the rounds of the
palm decked lobby. Finally, let them come back to you
in the show shape of a man who poaches pontne
at your lapel. Anything you said, you.
Speaker 12: Could have come in the back door. This is a
family hotel. Some of our people even have children.
Speaker 2: I'll try to set a good example.
Speaker 12: Mister Rockett, Francis Rockett, Now, just what is it you
want of us?
Speaker 2: Man came here last night, mister Rocket, late to send
some telegrams.
Speaker 12: Sometimes wanderers come in off the street and do that
in here.
Speaker 2: This man was different. He sent them, walked out of here,
then was found in an alley murdered.
Speaker 12: That'd be Tommy Kapp at the Times mentioned it today.
I often told that boyd in that way in an alley.
If he persisted.
Speaker 2: You told me, mister Rockett, who he sent them to.
He could keep a record or something that.
Speaker 12: Will hotel to every major hotel between here and sent
them to what pay attention please to hotels the exclusive
ones between here and Saint Louis, the Maighbury and Indianapolis,
the region and Columbus, et cetera, cent et cetera. I
call the list farm from our owners hotel guide.
Speaker 2: Remember what he said in them?
Speaker 12: I only counted the words, sir. I didn't stoop to
explore of that meaning. I could tell you this, however,
if he requested an answer with quarry and each a
care of this hotel collect none of commanders yet, However,
when they do, I'm afraid collect.
Speaker 9: I'm afraid.
Speaker 2: Don't be afraid anymore, mister Rocket. When they come, just
follow them, into us. We've got a fund for collect telegrams.
Speaker 12: Good for you. You're finished with me. I presume, of course
you are.
Speaker 2: Yes, mister Rockett, Yeah, I have that. Huh Indianapolis, Columbus.
Yeah yeah, let's breakfield two.
Speaker 11: Thanks for calling again, mister Rockett.
Speaker 4: You heard Danny.
Speaker 2: Nothing from any of those places either, huh.
Speaker 4: Same answers is from Wheeling and Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. No
one registered by the name of Ruth Logan in any
of the big cities on the road. It's not positive
to anybody, my geno.
Speaker 6: You summoned me to your presence, Danny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did, Gino. Last night, Tommy Capp drove you
home aany.
Speaker 10: Oh oh, he did not, Danny, he remembered after we
drove for a little while in most pressing engagement to
phrase him.
Speaker 6: So he dropped me at a subway station and waved
me a cheery farewell.
Speaker 2: While you're a driving, Gino, did you talk about anything
A most refreshing conversation, Danny about his work, about my work.
Speaker 6: Man to man, straight from the shoulder.
Speaker 2: You didn't mention anything about the Logans.
Speaker 6: You'll know I know better than that, Markamn. I've been
in this business twenty years. You should behave outside of
the shop as good as me.
Speaker 2: Do you know did he try to talk to you
about the logans?
Speaker 10: Indeed he made mention of saying, but I definitely sidestepped
the issue.
Speaker 6: That's when he dropped me. What else is on your
gentleman's mind?
Speaker 2: Nothing, Gino, nothing at all?
Speaker 9: Hello, Hey, Hello.
Speaker 2: I'm Donny Clover and missus Logan.
Speaker 9: I met you in a haze once, didn't.
Speaker 2: I right here, missus Logan? This morning?
Speaker 9: There's nobody here but Albert. Hey, Albert, we know him,
don't we.
Speaker 2: You're back again, Buster, I'm interrupting something.
Speaker 9: I'm teaching the eighth of Walt. Watch us go on,
say yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2: Albert, yes, ma'am. But I ain't Bolls.
Speaker 9: We didn't before anyhow.
Speaker 13: Did we.
Speaker 9: Turn off the record, Alban?
Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. We ran it down this morning?
Speaker 9: Mister, Did I have fun?
Speaker 2: Mister Hi, mister this morning we talked about Joe Blair.
You remember that, every word of it. I'm glad to do,
missus Logan, because now it's got another murder in it. Look,
mister paid, I know you're employed. You get hired and fired.
Speaker 9: Then hired again you off. Come on, don't stand there, mister.
Speaker 2: W label them alone. Stop making a joke out of yourself.
Speaker 9: Say please.
Speaker 2: A man walks in here and talks about two murders,
and I'm going to say, please, you're a jerk, ruth,
j jer the eighth spell.
Speaker 9: Give him a penny, mister.
Speaker 2: If people want to perform, go right ahead. I'm still
going to talk about the murder.
Speaker 15: All right, we listen a question, missus Logan. All right,
you left Joe Blair off in Indianapolis and you kept
right on going that right, right, right, right right from Indianapolis.
Speaker 2: Where did you go Columbus?
Speaker 9: I stayed there overnight?
Speaker 2: Or just stay? What hotel?
Speaker 9: The Regent where I always stay it was?
Speaker 2: Maybe it wasn't it wasn't It wasn't any other first
rate hotel in Columbus.
Speaker 9: I always stay at first rate hotels. I was at
the region.
Speaker 2: We've checked every good hotel between Saint Louis and New York,
and most of the motels. You didn't stay at any
of them.
Speaker 9: Isn'ty clever Albert? You should be like him?
Speaker 2: I was just getting interested. You drove right through, didn't you.
Speaker 11: Missus Lorgan.
Speaker 9: I'm afrail little girl. That's a long long ride for
a frail little girl.
Speaker 2: Not if Joe Blair helped you drive, he must have
been pretty good company, purely.
Speaker 9: Headed company, all the way from Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: He must have been interesting, truly headed, and you must
have interested him. He got to New York and he
didn't want to let you go.
Speaker 9: He gets cleverer all the time, doesn't he album On.
Speaker 2: The trip cross country, he found out you were wealthy,
you were married. He figured he had a good thing
called you made you meet him at his hotel. When
this is over, Albert Waltz, you met him missus luck
and decided you were a fool to have ever picked
him up in the first place. A knife got mixed
up in it, and when you walked out of his room,
Joe was dead.
Speaker 9: What you say is true, then I'm a murderous Did
you hear that, Albert?
Speaker 2: Someone else figured all this before the police did. Tommy
Capp He found out about a hitchhiker mixed up with
a wealthy married woman, so he checked all the hotels
between here and Saint Louis for blackmail purposes.
Speaker 9: Right, we're going to worlds alvert Oh forget.
Speaker 2: So Ruth sent you, Albert to have a little talk
with him. Nalie, where you're going? You killed it an accident.
He backed into a nail. Maybe I'll find one for you.
Speaker 9: There's a lot about this dancing. I haven't taught you, Albert,
our song.
Speaker 12: Chill you mhm.
Speaker 2: Second, okay, if you want it this way, Albert, you ready,
missus logan.
Speaker 9: Or you make me go, or I'll make you go.
I wouldn't give you the pleasure anytime you say, mister.
Speaker 2: M The wheel spins on Broadway, and you bet against
the dealers of the night, on the blood red of Neon,
on the black of the searching wind. Pick a color,
make a prayer, the wheel stops, the red pays off
with the heartbreak, the black, with dust in your mouth.
It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile
in the world. Broadway My Beat.
Speaker 3: Broadway Is My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Krushian as Muggovin.
The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with
musical score composed and conducted by Alexander courage. In tonight's story,
Kathy Lewis was heard as Ruth Logan, ed Max as
al Mundo, I Have her Back as Norm Persak, Paula
Victor as Vicky, and Billy Happatt as Tommy Capp. Lovers
of fine music are already familiar with the strong, melodious
voices of the Corolaiirs on CBS Radio. This is to
remind our many Sunday Night Corolaiirs listeners that this excellent
coil group will be heard at a new earlier time
on most of these stations starting tomorrow. By Andrews speaking,
this is the CBS Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, I've bit of a rough episode for Mugovin.
He kept having Danny, and this happened multiple times where
Danny would interrupt while he was trying to relay his
information before he could explain the import of it. In
a way, it felt like the sort of negative feelings
that Danny had expressed earlier in the series towards those
who processed crime scenes is kind of falling on Muggovin
for some reason this week. And then there's that little,
really brief bit where he he offends Tartaglia with what
was really a sort of legitimate and necessary question about
whether he had discussed the case when he got that ride,
and it touched a nerve with Tartaglia and offended his
sense of professionalism. His response is, look, Muggovin, I've been
on this job for twenty years. I know not to
discuss ongoing investigations with young guys who give me a
ride somewhere, and I know how to handle myself both
on the job and off the job. And it was
a lot, and like I said, it was a necessary question.
But Mugavin slightly got his head been off there. And
I do wonder if that was the intent of fine
or freaking, or if that was a decision made because
even the words don't necessarily have to be delivered that
horsh But perhaps Charles Calvert or the director went that direction.
And this makes this a bit different than Dragnet. On Dragnet,
for the most part, the police officers remained, at least
during the fifties cities pretty unfailingly professional. There was no
real office drama going on. The only thing you have
is the captain's occasionally taking things out on our heroes,
and that was an not considered abusive at the time.
You kind of imagine that on the Dragnet Police Captain's Manual,
there's procedures when there's a case, it is unsolved, and
you have no constructive suggestions on how the investigation can
move forward. Tell the officers that they need to get them,
and how frustrated you are. And even that didn't have
happen all the time. The way that broadways my bait
shows I guess with Muggavin is that sometimes you're not
doing anything particularly wrong, but people are going to give
you grief for no good reason, just because it's your
day to have that happen. And sometimes that happens in
the office. Listener comments and feedback. Now and we start
over on Spotify where mechanics sixty six rights. Regarding the
Kurt Bauer murder case, I wish I could feel more
fatherly towards her. How could you see so tall? None
of the non police characters in the story were sympathetic
in the lease. However, I did admire how clever the
husband father was good one. Well, yeah, I guess clever
he is clever fair enough on that. I also didn't
find any of the non police characters in this episode
all that compelling. I mean, you had Blackmailer would be
Blackmailer mean drunk. I think Broadways My Beat is a
series that doesn't really rely on these characters being likable
at all, but in some way interesting and so yeah,
with a character like the father in that episode, I
think they made it. And then we have a comment
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I've watched a YouTube video and if I picked this
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I'll work out something. Take it easy.
Speaker 11: Nothing.
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You sit there and listen to that radio. Why don't
you get out and hustle up those two mooches of
yours and get my dough back?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: All right?
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the white stuff. I gotta have it at the end
of the week.
Speaker 2: What do you want to do?
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to play it nice? Now, come off it, mister.
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square this up or everybody in the business is going
to know about this.
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out of the business. You can go back to selling
razor blades and knock that radio off. I'm sick of
hearing that.
Speaker 8: You got quiet down.
Speaker 16: You think you're ready to handle it, do you?
Speaker 8: I told you I try and work out something for you,
and I'm playing tough. It's gonna get you nothing. You
want to know that. We'll say, what's it sound like?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Who is it?
Speaker 11: Police officers?
Speaker 2: Open up?
Speaker 6: What is this?
Speaker 2: What do you get mean?
Speaker 11: Will you take it easy?
Speaker 2: Can't tell us?
Speaker 11: Randy?
Speaker 6: All right, open up, But I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 8: I'm going to any shaken out of your mind, holding I.
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