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now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of

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Philip marlow the original air Eday, July the twenty eighth,

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nineteen fifty one, and the tititle is the Good Neighbor Policy.

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Speaker 3: Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.

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Those who travel it wind up in the gut of

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the prison of the grave. There's no other end that

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they never learned.

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Speaker 4: From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,

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comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.

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Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring

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you Tonight, the exciting story the Good Neighbor Policy.

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Speaker 3: The day was hot and sticky. He wore it like

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a wet shirt. To make things worse. There was a

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xylophone playing somewhere in the building, and that started me

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thinking about my neighbors. Mostly I was thinking two things

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about them. One I didn't know any of them, and two,

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I'd like to shake the hand of the fellow that

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banged that xylophone day and night and break it. Not

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a very neably thought. But then it had been one

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of those days, you know, the kind that prompts the

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neighbors to set the dogs on each other. But now

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the sun had called it day. The wind had switched

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from the desert to the ocean, and I was figuring

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I'd be a better friend to man and woman if

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I took a long, cool shower. But there's got to

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be some legal way to kill xylophone players. Oh no,

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big finish yet.

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Speaker 5: They yes, your name Marlow, Phil Marlow. Yeah, that's right.

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I live to a park from style my hall. You

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got to call on my phone.

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Speaker 3: I got to call on your phone. Look, because there,

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I'm a busy guy. You wanted to, don't you? Well? Sure,

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sure I want it? Okay, come on, all right, I am.

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I didn't catch your name. No you didn't. In here

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phones over there on the desk, snap it up with you? Yeah? Sure?

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Are you going to charm of this fellow? Hello?

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Speaker 6: Phil Dan? Oh hi, honey, something must be wrong with

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your phone.

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Speaker 7: I keep dialing your number and getting a very unpleasant man.

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Speaker 3: He's not so little. What's on your mind?

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Speaker 6: Oh it's out tonight film.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, Leanie sprained.

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Speaker 7: Her angle a little while ago, and I'll have to

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fill in for the hospital tonight.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't what nothing, We'll do it again. Huh so yeah, sure, sure, goodbye, honey.

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The lady says, she keeps dialing my number and getting you.

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I reported, yeah, why don't you That's what I said, Oh,

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packing for a trip in between phone calls for you. Yeah, look,

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it's only been one and I said, I'm sorry, what

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do you want blood? Leave? Thanks, neighbor, Like I said,

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it had been hot all day and I wasn't getting

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any cooler. Exchanging pleasantrays with laughing boy. Back in my

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own apartment, I mixed myself a tall cool drink and

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thought about Anne it was neither. I just about decided

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on that shower again. When I remembered about calling the

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phone company. I reached for the phone, and just as

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I did, Hello, this is Rena.

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Speaker 6: Listen, Ernie's crossed us. I can't talk now. I'll pick

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you up in ten minutes. We'll clear out a long

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Hey look ten minutes. Be ready?

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Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, I'll be ready. Baby. My name isn't and

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it isn't. Oh well, one good turn and all that.

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Oh no, m hm, hey, laughing boy, come on, hoping up? Well,

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I got a message for you. Come on answer the door.

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Anybody home?

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Speaker 8: No, we are being rather down here around me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, I'm sorry. I I guess he's not home.

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Speaker 8: He would almost appear that way.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I guess it would.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you're rather apartment six, aren't you, Jilip Marlowe, is it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I am missus.

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Speaker 9: Miss Garretty, Miss Andley Garrity rather a nice man, don't you,

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Didn't I.

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Speaker 3: Do, Miss Garretty?

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Speaker 8: I'm apartment too, are you really?

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Speaker 3: Well? Apartment too?

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Speaker 9: I past you rever so many times in the hall

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or coming in and out of the door. You know,

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I just never felt that I know.

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Speaker 3: You somehow, No, I suppose not.

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Speaker 9: But then I always say to missus Vans, she's apartment run.

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Isn't it shameful? I say that we don't know our

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own neighbors anymore. Here we are under the same group,

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as it were, And yet what do we share with

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each other?

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Speaker 8: Really?

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Speaker 3: Utility?

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Speaker 8: But that seems so little.

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Speaker 9: Why except for missus Evans, the Randall's, the McCombs, the

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Nelson girls and them O me see now, Oh yes,

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that young girl who plays with that softball team.

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Speaker 8: What's your name?

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Speaker 3: Well I really don't know.

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Speaker 9: Hey, that's it, Patty never can will, as I say,

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except for those two or three people I don't know

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A stolen in the building.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the way it goes, And then some days

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you don't know a soul. Tell me, miss Scarrety, among

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the people in the building you don't know? Do you

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also not know the fellow who lives here Apartment three? Yeah?

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This door I've been beating on. Who's that you don't know?

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Speaker 8: And you're making all that flood?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Well it does seem silly, doesn't I should say so?

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Speaker 9: But I'm afraid I won't be much healthier there. Mister Marlowe,

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he's do yous. Didn't you know moved in less than.

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Speaker 8: A month ago?

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Speaker 3: Oh well, I just.

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Speaker 9: Thought, No, No, I don't feel that I really know him.

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A tall head, rather a tall young man around here, quite.

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Speaker 8: Nice eyes at all.

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Speaker 3: Oh that sounds like mine.

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Speaker 9: I never see anyone within something in his own whose type?

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Speaker 3: Well, look, thanks, miss Scarty, But now.

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Speaker 8: Did I think of it? I have seen someone? Can

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I catch up you again, Chada? I really couldn't answer.

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Speaker 3: Mostly admit her, well, thank you and good night, Miss Garretty.

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It's oh great? Whoever it was? It hung up while

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Adelide Garretty was telling me all she didn't know about

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the man named mit Her on the call before, someone

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named Rina had called him. Art could be my unfriendly

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neighbor an apartment free, was oddmitt her, Yeah, well that's

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pretty simple. Left me nowhere, and there was Rena's message,

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Ernie's crossed us. I'll pick you up in ten minutes.

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We'll clear out alone. Not exactly social conversation. I had

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a hunch about the phone call mixed up, but before

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I began to build a case about it, I called

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the chief operator at the phone.

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Speaker 6: Company cheap operator.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we've got a friendly wager going here. Operator.

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Will you settle an argument for us?

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Speaker 6: I'll try, sir good.

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Speaker 3: Is it possible for two telephone wires to get crossed

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in some way so that I could dial one number

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correctly and actually get the other number?

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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, that is possible. It could happen only in

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the case of a slight equipment disorder, and only if

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the two numbers in question were on the party line.

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Speaker 3: Well. In other words, by dialing my number correctly, you

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get the person on my party line, and by dialing

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his number correctly you get me. Is that it?

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Speaker 6: That's right, sir? Would you like to report such a difficulty?

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Speaker 3: No? No, thanks. Like I said, I just wanted you

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to set a little argument for us, thanks very much,

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not at all, sir. Well know I knew that much

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neighbor met her and I were on a party line,

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and the strained switch and calls was legitimate. Now I

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got this far with the thing, I decided to leave

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the wires crossed for a while, just for lapse, and

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I looked at my watch with time to get a

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look at Rena. If she was coming from min her

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in ten minutes she was you. I left my apartment,

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started down the hall toward his, and sure enough Renae, hurry, hurry, lady.

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Speaker 6: Oh I'm I'm sure he must be. I just talked.

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Speaker 8: With him on the phone a few minutes ago.

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Speaker 3: Oh, well he maybe he's in the shower.

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Speaker 8: Yes, yes, maybe that's it.

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Speaker 6: Now, please would you mind.

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Speaker 3: That sounds like his phone?

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Speaker 6: Yes it does, I wonder, Okay, nothing.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if he answers it, he'll probably answer you're

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not too Yes, I suppose he will.

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Speaker 8: Now, will you please leave me alone? There?

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Speaker 3: The phone ringing in O's apartment was fun more frustrating

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to me than it was to a Rena. I knew,

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don well the call was really for me. I opened

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the front door, out of the welcome freshnist evening breeze

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and the scent of night blooming jasmine. By the time

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I'd inhale a little of both and walked out to

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the end of the sidewalk. Rena suddenly barged out of

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the building, looked desperately up and down the street, and

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then headed toward a car parked across the way. And

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her car had an Arizona license. In a minute, she

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drove away. Back in my own apartment, I call the

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chief operator again, only this time I leveled with her

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about the crossed wires on my party line. After that,

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I took a shower and decided to end a dull

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day by putting in some sack time. The last conscious

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thought I had was Rena's urgent voice on the phone,

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Ernie's crossfits. I can't talk now, I'll pick you up

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in ten o clear alone. I still didn't get it.

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I didn't get it. The next morning, are they But

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I got up, dressed and were starting for the morning paper,

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which my news boy was questionable accuracy always pegs in

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the general vicinity of my apartment door. I didn't quite

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get there though, before.

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Speaker 10: Hello, mister Philip Marlow, this is the telephone company calling

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mister Marlow. Oh the difficulty was your phone that you

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reported last night has been remedied.

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Speaker 6: Normal service may be resumed.

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Speaker 3: Oh fine, fine, thanks for calling.

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Speaker 6: We hope you haven't been on Newly inconvenience.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, it's all. It's been grand.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for your patience, sir.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well goodbye. Yeah, that's that. Okay, I'm coming.

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Oh hello again.

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Speaker 5: I got another call for you on my phone, the

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same name as last night, I think, But the phone

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company just you always argue there's a call for you.

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Speaker 3: On my phone, Come on and answer. Well, how can

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I resist an invitation like that? It's funny, though, I

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wonder how that happened. You said that before. I know,

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I did, I did? Didn't I did I say before that.

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I don't much care for xylophones or you. I don't remember.

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I don't care in here. Yeah, and the phone's over

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there on the desk, A bust of that phones hung up.

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There's no call for me. What is this? This? This

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is a gun model? Yeah, I see it is. You

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know too much? Model.

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Speaker 11: I don't like it when you know so much. Finish.

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Speaker 4: In just a moment, we will return to the second

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act of Philip Marlowe.

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Speaker 3: But first a blind auction.

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Speaker 4: Racket in which employees in a customs house have a

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confederate purchase of battered suitcase containing of fortune and jewels.

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That's what CBS Radio's Gangbusters have to contend within the

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case of the Nazi Diamonds. Tonight on most of these

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same CBS stations. Don't miss Gangbusters tonight for a suitcase

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full of jewels and thrills. Say, friends, the flood victims

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of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Illinois need your help. Many

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are injured and homeless, and you can help to give

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them food, clothing, shelter, medical care. You can do your

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part by giving through your local chapter of the American

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Red Cross.

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Speaker 8: No.

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Speaker 4: With our star Gerald Moore, the second actor for Lamarlowe.

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It's right story, the good neighbor policy.

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Speaker 3: That is quite nice side of that lake garrity and

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described them whereas cold and deadly as the automatically rammed

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into my stomach was the first time I'd gotten a

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really close look at him. This one was too close

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for comfort. I had to keep looking at him.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: I knew that if I glanced away, blinked, and I

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I made anything resembling a key movie blastmed the Kingdom

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come little ahead of my time. He dead wrong on

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one score. Though you got my call from Marina last night.

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You know too much? How can I know too much?

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I don't know anything now.

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Speaker 5: Look Mint, when I saw you last night, you didn't

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know my name. You've been asking questions around huh yeah,

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Well so come on, gum shure, We're gonna take a

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little walk.

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Speaker 3: Now. Look, kids, you're all wrong. We take that little walk.

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We're gonna take a little ride. You can tell me

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all about how wrong I am as long as you

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can talk. Let's get going.

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Speaker 12: Okay, okay, remember Marlow, You're just gonna walk down the

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hall and out of the building with me.

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Speaker 5: No funny stuff, just gun staying right in your bank

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and see what you mean?

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Speaker 8: And the dom comes up right? Why it's mister Barlow.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's scary.

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Speaker 9: And mister Minter, I believe we're rather eerly, aren't we?

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Speaker 3: As we are a little too early? If you ask.

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Speaker 8: Me, have you be hiccups? Mister Marlow? If you do,

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I know the best cure. Just put your hands up.

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I over a.

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Speaker 3: I don't have hiccups, Misscarrity.

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Speaker 8: Then perhaps it was mister Minton.

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Speaker 3: Ol, lady, I don't have hiccups either.

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Speaker 9: Someone hicke up and it wasn't me. Oh but no matter,

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I get been up to my paper. I won't keep you, gentlemen.

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I know you must be off somewhere. And it's such

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a lovely morning. I don't believe it is warm today.

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Speaker 6: Do you?

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Speaker 3: Heem's warmer to me.

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Speaker 8: No, No, I don't believe it is even mister Minton.

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Speaker 3: Look, lady, we're gonna hurry.

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Speaker 8: Well, I'm sure I'm not keeping you. I must say.

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Speaker 9: I was just trying to do the neighborly thing. That's

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all I was saying to missus Evans just the other day.

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What happened to the old fashioned good neighbor policy? And

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this little incident this morning is certainly answering enough for me.

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Speaker 8: It's gone. That's where it is gone.

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Speaker 3: Miss Scarty. You're the one who plays that delightful asylum.

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Speaker 9: Oh you can see it from the doorway here. Yeah, well,

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I'm so glad you enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: Mister Marlow, I do. I wanted to tell me, would you?

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I know it's a lot to ask.

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Speaker 9: Please something for you? Yeah, mister blow.

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Speaker 3: You make one move for her dog and kill her

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to minute.

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Speaker 8: She's right in the front, gentlemen, or aren't you? And music?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, sure, I am a chest your paper for you?

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Speaker 3: Get inside your papa, Miss Gardi, at this time, you

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won't mat her. Don't get near the door.

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Speaker 8: Why are you struck him in the face with my paper?

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Speaker 3: I did. Wait a minute, you see the street from

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the windows. Here's your paper? Sorry, Franklin, Thanks.

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Speaker 8: I'm pretty I still don't understand your behavior.

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Speaker 3: Mister mah, he beat it all right, and get lost

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in that traffic and no time.

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Speaker 9: What do mister mean you think you're striking in that way?

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Speaker 3: Oh well, I've got a mean straight Wait a minute,

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let me see that headline for sure.

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Speaker 9: I don't know what thing that you do end, but

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I haven't let me see them in the place.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Man murdered an investment hold up. Ernest Tolan,

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thirty eight, employee at Hinshaw Investment Company, was found shot

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to death when the company opened its doors in his mine.

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I was fifty thousand dollars in cash and security. I'm

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missing from missing basically telling the work late last night

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in things company, same face, will say police, we're attempting

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to locate Tolan's widow, missus Rena Tolan, whom neighbors saw

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leaving the house with the suitcase. Wow, Ernie and Rena

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En did he was, mister Marlowe. No, no, but matter's right,

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I do know too much.

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Speaker 9: I'm sorry, mister Marlowe, but I don't feel up the

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playing for you right now. This morning has gotten off

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just at your peculiar start.

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Speaker 8: I get knocking the mood this guy.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I know how you feel. Don't give another thought,

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Miss Garretty ever again, I called the landlady when I

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got back to my own apartment to see if she

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knew anything about Mitter, like where he worked. She was

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good enough to be out of town. I even went

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back to Miss Garrety's, but she'd already hit the trail let's.

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She had the morning's excitement with any of a dozen people,

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including probably that girl who played with the softball team.

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But old mister McWilliams, the janitor, was bringing up the

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morning mail. Morning, mister Matt, that's a male situation. Twelve

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B has two packages again again, how about me? Well

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you don't even rate an advertisement this morning? Ok? Yeah,

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well you can't win all the time. Tell me how

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about the the minter, mister Mitta, you know he's he's

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an apartment three. He asked me to pick up his

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mail if there is any sure if you can carry

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it all? His postcard, Oh, I can manage. Well, thank you.

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He's from his mother in Tucson. Really, they're all well,

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oh well that's good, that's good. Nice to see you again,

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mister mac here, eh is it hot enough for you?

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It was? And mister mac was right, and his family

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were all well, except for the return address and Tucson.

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There wasn't a lead on the whole postcard. Who puts

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leads on postcards? I took the card back to the

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apartment with me and called a questionable character I knew

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in Tucson and told him to find out all he

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could about Art Mita quick. And I remembered about Arina's

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car having an Arizona license and asked him to check her. Yeah,

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and Ernest told him too. Called back in an hour.

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Speaker 13: Wow, he's got an all record models. When the guy

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asked me in check, I'll only get this. What about

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a year ago he gets divorced by his wife here, Yeah, yeah,

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go ahead, all right away. She hops over to Mexico

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with his Tolan fellow you ask about and marries him?

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Rena did right away a minute, I got it written

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down here. So yeah, Rina, Rena, that's your name.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 13: Poland was with an investment out for here in Arizona. Yeah,

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but he transferred to La a month ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that checks. What about min her find out where

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if he works here? If he does that is oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 6: Well this still rocket.

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Speaker 13: He works at the Hollywood Library.

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Speaker 3: Hollywood Library host his old lady told me. It rocked me,

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all right, the whole thing did. Ernest Tolan, now dead,

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had been set up as a pigeon a year ago

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back in Arizona. Only at some point yesterday he got

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wise and decided to do the investment job alone. Trouble Wise,

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Rena didn't get the art with the news and time

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she got to me. Now, even the law couldn't locate Rna.

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And the last time I saw mit her, he didn't

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act like a fellow who was heading for the Hollywood Library.

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You never know. I started out into the hall, observed

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gratefully the miscarity. Xylophone was still who told me? For

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the moment when I got about even was Metta's door.

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Something happened very like a familiar song starting all over again.

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It was Mitta's phone ringing. I listened to his door.

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There was no move from inside. Answer the ring, and

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something told me he was another lock that ne didn't spring. Yeah,

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where have you been out for a while?

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Speaker 6: Are you all right? You don't found it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? They just wanted were you.

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Speaker 6: So funny there?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Right, you're talking, because all right I will.

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Speaker 6: I'm at the Bellflower and Ventur. If you call here,

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ask for missus Guffrey. That's me. You got everything, didn't you?

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When you well? I mean, you're still gonna split with me,

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aren't you. I was afraid after I ran out? But

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you understand, don't you.

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Speaker 5: You weren't home all right?

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Speaker 6: Are you get off working for don't you? Nothing's happened

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about that. We'll come up here as soon as you can.

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After that, I'm well, just hurry hard, please.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me. But can you know you lost my head?

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I'm trying. Can you tell me where I can find mister.

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Speaker 8: P in the stacks on the message there?

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much?

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Speaker 8: And quiet is your fan?

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Speaker 3: Please?

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Speaker 8: People are reading the world.

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Speaker 3: But I was supposed to come up here LEAs fils

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a lot. I was looking for something and investments. I said, now.

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Speaker 14: Take it easy, winter. I got a message from Rena. Yeah,

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jesuys you killed Ernie. Look, yeah, I got a message

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for a Rena so Ventura cops. Probably I know, Michael,

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Lieutenant Mackews get any good.

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Speaker 3: And it always does. I'll kill you model right a minute.

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Speaker 15: Come on, where's the dope you took from Ernie in

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the securities? How they in these permanent files too? Is

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that why you had to show for work today?

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Speaker 3: You com show?

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Speaker 6: But now we get them on me?

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Speaker 3: Throwing books is a good idea. Well, this boy's really hot. Yeah,

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not that, he said for heavy reading. I kept my

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foot on his neck till Miss Hush downstairs called Matthews.

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I needn't have He didn't come too, and I waved

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the squad car off the headquarters from the library curve. Yeah,

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well that's that. On the way back to my apartment,

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I got to thinking about a house with no neighbors,

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no xylophones, no crossed wires, no funn e then no.

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All kinds of things go on in apopment houses, all

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kinds of people leading all kinds of lives. What the

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line love thy neighbors thyself. Yeah, most people act like

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they hate themselves. Oh well, there's got to be some

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legal way to kill xylophone players.

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Speaker 4: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most

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famous character, star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by

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Norman MacDonald and written for radio by Kathleen Hit featured

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in the cast where High Averbach is Art Minter and

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Jane Morgan is Miss Garretty, with Vivi janis z Anne,

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Doris Singleton as Rena Parley, Bear's old mister McWilliams, and

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Gene Bates as the chief telephone operator. Gerald Moore may

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currently be seen in the Santana production Sirocco. The special

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music for Philip Marlowe is composed by Pierre Garagank and

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conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Be sure to listen again next

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week at the same time when Philip Marlowe says, this.

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Speaker 3: Time I did at Cook's tour of the San Fernando

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Valley in search of a missing woman. The case had

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a lot of positive developments, but the clincher, the clincher

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was a negative development and in a camera shop.

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Speaker 4: There's fine musical listening on CBS Radio tomorrow, don't miss

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visiting Janis page. The program comes from Norfolk Naval Base,

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where Guy Lombardo Time entertains the Navy. Also on tap

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tomorrow night over most of these same CBS stations is

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CBS Radio's Mario Lanza's Show with Mario and Musical Company,

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offering a special program of Jerome Kern Favorites. This is

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Roy Rowan speaking, just as systematic exercise builds a strong body,

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so does systematic saving build a strong future. Save systematic

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Defense bonds are guaranteed by your government. So for the

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defense of your future or the defense of your country's future,

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by your full share regularly systematically of United States Defense bonds.

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Speaker 3: This is the CBS Radio Network.

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Speaker 9: This is Andrew J.

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Speaker 14: Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a

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Man of His Wife. You're listening to the great detectives

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of Old Time Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Well, I'm interesting concept, essentially putting most of

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the episode inside of Marlowe's apartment building certainly turned out

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better than when they just put the whole episode in

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Marlowe's apartment. The main highlight here is Jane Morgan appearing

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in a comedic relief role. CBS listeners of the time

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would have recognized her as Missus Davis from ar Miss Brooks,

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and she also did play in the Harold Perry Show

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as well. And it's also interesting to hear how telephone

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technology of the day, which you know, is very different

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than the sort of things that we do have today,

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and it's interesting just to hear how they will shift

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things around with the telecommunications technology of the day. There was,

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for example, over years later, of course, an episode of

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Colombo which sadered the lack of selling reception in Malibu

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back at a time when cell phones were relatively new

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and everybody didn't have them. You hear those sort of episodes,

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it definitely grounds you in the time that they were

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recorded in. All right, well, that will do it for today.

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Join us back here tomorrow for Mystery Theater next Wednesday.

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Philip marlow In the meantime, sends your comments to Box

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