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Thanks so much for your support. Here is the Macklin

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and John Howard murder case.

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Speaker 2: Broadways My Beach from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the Gaudius,

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the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Man

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Broadway is My Beach. With Larry Thor as Detective Danny Klover.

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When November settles down over Broadway, everybody's got a lot

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to cheer about it. It's the time of the hot dog.

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It's the season of the rackety racks and the split

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tee formation, and the coaches left hand on the pigskin

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who swear their boys aren't being brutal out there in

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the field, just eager. It's the month of the old grat,

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the co ed, the bottle, the blanket, and what is

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known as the nippy tang. It's a time to be alive.

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And there's a place just off of Broadway. The rooms

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sealed off from every other place in the world, structurally

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designed to keep out everything but pain. The police morgue

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what I was for, Detective Mugovan was, and the slabs

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that held two men newly.

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Speaker 3: Dead alcohol poisoning.

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Speaker 4: Danny.

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Speaker 2: They're shift here from the emergency hospital for identifications. You

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know who they are?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this one, Joey Macklin, Bowery, pickpocket, bum panhandler, Rummy.

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Speaker 2: This one I know him. No, he's the reason why

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I called you down here. Though. Notice anything, Danny Loo's

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pretty well fenned fingernails looked like they've been manicured enough,

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too long ago. Huh.

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Speaker 3: A couple other things. This found this crumpled mask in

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his pocket. Take a look at his clothes, really raggy, huh.

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Underneath he's wearing silk underwear. You're taking prints last night,

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soon as they came in code numbers sent to Washington

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right away.

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Speaker 2: Did you say the emergency hospital sent them over. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: They staggered in there, practically blind from the bumbooze, screaming.

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Speaker 2: We couldn't help him, Danny, They were too far gone.

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They have the liquor on them. No, there's a liab.

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Would be a lot more of it someplace, my mental

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alcohol and peace, juice and beating oil.

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Speaker 3: How can you've seen him brought in after the strange

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paint through a piece of bread.

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Speaker 2: I've seen it. Gere right about this one, muggamun. He

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looks too patently up bunt. That's why he looks out

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of place.

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Speaker 3: I figure that too, so strange, eh.

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Speaker 2: And then it closes in on you. This place of

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the derelict dead. The windows are high and the moist

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walls high, so that dead fingers can't reach open. Let

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the sobbing of death be heard in the autumn air.

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The sunlight feels along the windows web with threads of steel,

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and the warmth is taken and held before it can

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touch the people of a room that is forever cold.

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All of it has been yours countless times, and still

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the shutter comes. You're try not to let them see it.

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Then you take Detective Muggerlman's comment that it's strange, Take

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it with you into a long car or up a

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flight of stairs, drop it on a sergeant's desk for

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an immediate checking. Fill the time of waiting in the

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official ways provided for such intervals, and the door opens.

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It's being brought back to you cheerily by Sergeant Tartaglia.

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Speaker 5: Denny, I want you should do something for me. The

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please is implying what you know. I want you should

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stick your nose out the window. Why to partake with

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me of the nippy tang that is there for everyone's

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no I've had mind, you know, and then you will

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agree with me that it is both nippy and tang

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that makes the vitality surgeon who is a surgeon?

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Speaker 2: Enough for you to hand me whatever you're holding in

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back of him? Which hand nny Gino, your fellow wants

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to play a little game, takes a second, brings a

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little happiness. What have you got.

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Speaker 5: In this envelope is contained a telegraph report from the

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FBI and meant the request to take a mug of

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a mate of them concerning the fingerprints of the deceased

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vagrant who is now in armed Give.

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Speaker 2: It to me. I identified it. They've identified them. You know.

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Speaker 5: Fbis quism a question? And look at the split they give.

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Speaker 2: You an answer to John Howard, Lieutenant Turnel, retired from.

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Speaker 5: The Army of the US President, Address thirty two to

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twelve Park Avenue, Occupation bomb salesman, I Pete Dan. I

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also took a liberty. Oh yeah, I took the liberty

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of falling to the domicile of said deceased.

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Speaker 2: Spoke to a missus. John Howard asked her politely to

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come hitherto Why don't you be here any minute?

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Speaker 6: Danny? In a nonse She.

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Speaker 5: Had but to find a suitable outfit for an outing

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the police head.

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Speaker 2: This liberty I took. Jes you did good, you know,

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real good.

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Speaker 4: Ah.

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Speaker 2: And wait then pick a window and stand there and

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watch the street below, the eddy of crowd, the cars,

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impatient of those stupid enough to be pedestrians. Watched the

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first shadows drift in, pick a place, and shadow layer

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to find another place. Finally, you see a car draw

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up to the curb, a long car and black and expensive,

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and a woman get out of it. Stand on the

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pavement and look at the doorway mark police headquarters, hesitate,

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and then walk toward it. Then leave the window and

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hurry downstairs. Pick up the woman at the information desk,

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ask her a question.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm missus Holly.

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Speaker 2: My name's Clover. Will you come with me? Please?

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Speaker 7: Would you mind telling me why I'm here?

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Speaker 2: Through this story? Not at all? In cases like this,

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we're not really sure so sure about what A man

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died last night. There's a possibility you might be able

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to identify him. A man died, yes, from mental alcohol poisoning.

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Speaker 7: John, my husband, it was John. Didn't here, miss Howard,

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you have answered me, is it John?

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Speaker 2: I'm afraid that's what you'll have to tell us, Missus Howard.

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Speaker 7: Want to steal this man?

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, missus hard if you and again, the attendance

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on the grief, the beautial offering of the tried and

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true solaces that have never worked, not against the sobbing,

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anguished deeply, then finally the whispered cry of some remembered

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thing they had shared, and the resigning to it. The

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remembrance will never come again, and the woman is quiet.

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Now you detail a man to drive her home. Restrain

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the questions that must be asked for another time, when

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the sudden anguish has become old familiar thing to be

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liver surp a picture of John Howard, the file to

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take with you to a man who is an expert

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on the whys of derelicts, a man you look for

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find in the third Avenue. Bar embarrassed.

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Speaker 7: You embarrass me before my friends, Danny. Truly it is

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well known what you are and what I am.

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Speaker 5: I am now Trent demonstrated these companions.

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Speaker 2: What are you now, Benny?

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Speaker 5: A member of one of the honest and oldest professions?

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Speaker 2: Which profession now Benny proved.

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Speaker 5: Knowledge, Danny, look on the new Benny fine Pillow culture

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seller of psyclopedias.

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Speaker 2: You benny me, Benny dayson a brochure.

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Speaker 3: I'd better hear somewhere.

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Speaker 5: Here is the encyclopedia with my facts on the king

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a sport of racing. You fellows with a Brian Lapennix

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to bookies to fill in the long hours while looking

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for a tax free dodge me a found mine no

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longer at the Michael Police.

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Speaker 2: Am I, yes you are, Benny, I am uh huh.

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You take a look at this picture, Danny.

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Speaker 7: How can you a picture that dad?

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Speaker 5: You've got to show me? Not are not fill a

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papish pinning him an orbit that I know him when

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I see him around where boweriees get wronged.

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Speaker 2: You know that's where you were selling encyclopedias, Danny.

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Speaker 5: I was calling on an old friend, Mickey Thomas, while

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coming up a few reminiscences. As I get in a

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glance across the hall, there was this guy. This picture

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showed me boozing up with another guy named Joey Macklin.

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I waved the toast on them.

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Speaker 7: I went back there.

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Speaker 2: Uh to Mickey Thomas, the man you visited across the hall,

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Take me, Benny.

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Speaker 5: Danny, I was, I was what the closest sale.

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Speaker 2: We could go by? Way up headquarters? Benny?

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Speaker 7: I was shot. Come on, Benny.

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Speaker 2: The walk then south into the Bowery in East, past

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Lexington and past the rowhouses where there's always room for

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one more tenants in the street where garbage can they

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used for first and played base the man with your

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points out an interesting Frank.

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Speaker 5: I was going at Danny right that house.

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Speaker 2: I'm hip Third Avenue.

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Speaker 5: You wouldn't believe how l kids used to it.

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Speaker 7: You.

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Speaker 5: Ah, don't mind, Danny, It wasn't important. The place I

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was telling you about.

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Speaker 7: His shoe right there. Let me let me open it

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up for you. Danny.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you better watch this. This blowgard right here say this.

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Oh I know these places, I really know. He Ny,

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I was raising the room, Help me help me.

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Speaker 2: What's the matter? What happened to you? Drank liquor? I

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can see a blind I'm blind?

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Speaker 4: Oh you are listening to?

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Speaker 2: Broadway is My Beat, Written by Morton Fine and David

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Freakin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Broadway

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approaches the new November day softly, politely. You've gotta do that, kid.

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Treat the morning nice, maybe the y You'll still be

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on your feet when day is done. So set the

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loudspeakers to music guaranteed to absorb shock. Climb the spectaculars,

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Remove and replace the masdas that died in the night.

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Polish the k neon washed the night dust off the

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mannekin's face, tighten the bolt, tilt her body more forward,

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her head nearer to the shop window, so that her

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lips are closer to the promise of a good morning kiss.

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Having made way for another day, find the quiet place

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to read the papers and read of the death of

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retired colonels and pickpockets from lethal alcohol, and of the

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blindness of a skid roll vagrant name of Mickey Thomas

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from the same and skim through to the comics their

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kid lies happiness. But where I was the new day

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fell on the sightless eyes of Mickey Thomas, on the

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fleeting figure that worked against his pain. Finally whispered, You'd

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better come back, Lieutenant later and leave to another place.

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To ask questions about the dead. The woman tries to

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answer them for you.

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Speaker 8: Last time I saw him, John, Last time I saw

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him was Halloween knight. We've been invited to a party.

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We wore funny clothes, a tramp suit. You found John

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in It was the funniest thing he could think of. Missus, Howard,

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you will make it brief, won't you See? I'm packing,

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I'm going away.

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Speaker 2: In the book, You're leaving the country Europe.

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Speaker 7: There's a plan.

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Speaker 8: John and I had Europe all the gay places he'd

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been while he was in the war. A couple of

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weeks ago, out of't know where, he said, I'd love him.

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Speaker 7: Let's go, Lallah.

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Speaker 8: I've just given up my twenty thousand a year positions

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so I can show you to Europe.

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Speaker 7: Llah. Maybe you'll like it so much, Lila, we'll never.

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Speaker 2: Leave, missus Howard, Perhaps it might.

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Speaker 8: You're not going to stop me from going, you know,

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John said it would be fun.

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Speaker 7: I'll just have to have fun, Alte. No, you're not

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going to stop me. No, we have no reason to

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now good.

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Speaker 8: I'll sleep on the boat tonight. If I slept here,

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the boat sails in the morning.

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Speaker 7: You said, Now, would there ever be a time you

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could stop me?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, yeah, missus Howard. All I know now

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is that your husband, a rich man, died of poison

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liquer that he came in offer schedule that to explain

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it is.

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Speaker 7: Of course, John got feeling good at that Halloween party. Hi,

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you know, hi and gay. Whenever he got like that,

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he'd make bets.

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Speaker 2: He made one that night, crazy one the.

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Speaker 8: Kind he liked that he could go to skid road,

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dressed as he was, and live there for a week

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and never call on any of us for anything. When

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he thought of it, he grabbed frank and said, right,

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Frank Clifton, Frankie was John's adjutant during the war. He

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grabbed Frankie and made the bet. And you never saw

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your husband after that until until you showed him to

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me in the morgue. Frankie and I went looking for

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him one night because I was worried we didn't find him.

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Speaker 7: I came home, Frankie kept looking. He didn't find him.

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Speaker 2: You have mister Clifton's address.

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Speaker 7: It's in the phone book Setton Place.

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Speaker 8: For a minute there, mister Clover, you actually considered not

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letting me go on this trip. Tell me why, And

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Missus Horrard, I anything about John's death.

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Speaker 7: There is the word troubles. John's death troubles you.

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Speaker 2: On the way, I told you, Missus Horrard, that a

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wealthy man, an intelligent man, would find his dying and

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poison booze.

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Speaker 7: John was a man of whims. Let's only say him

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that he indulged his last one, shall we.

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Speaker 2: I'll check, Missus horrd I'll check him.

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Speaker 8: What you've told me do that, mister Clover, let me

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know before nightfall. In any event, call me to wish

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me bon voyage. I'm gonna have fun, like John said,

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I should.

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Speaker 2: How your hearts. What do you want? Are you? Frank Clefton?

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Come on, mister, the rest of me behind the doors

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and a towel. What do you want. I'm from the police,

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Danny Clover. I'm in a towel. I want to talk

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to you. Sure, sure come in. Ten minutes ago you

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wouldn't have cut me doing my laps around the lake

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on the bicycle. I'm gonna miss that old Columbia bike

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when I'm in Europe. You're going to Europe too, mister Clifton. Yeah, tonight.

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What do you mean too? Missus Howard is going news

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to me. I figured it'd be decent if she grieved

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till the next boat. Hey, just why are you here?

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I'm trying to find out why John Howard is dead?

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Come on, come on, you know as well as I

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do what John's dead. Poison booz out. I want you

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to tell me what happened about Halloween party? All right,

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don't rub it in?

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Speaker 6: So it was my fault.

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Speaker 2: You made that bet with mister Howard, didn't you about

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going down at the Bowery and living for a week.

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That's your job, isn't it? Rubbed salt an old wound?

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How come you made a bet like that, mister cliftand

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I didn't want to? If you knew John like I did?

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How do you argue with a man like that? Clover?

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What kind of man was it? Everything was a bet.

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You could be walking along. He'd pick any stranger in

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the crowd, make you wonder about him or her, and

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then bet you were wrong. He'd find a way to

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prove it too. I was his adjutant all through the war.

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That's how I spent the war making book for I

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want to know exactly what that bet was you made

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of mister Howard. Well, first you got to understand I

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didn't want to make it, all right, I understand he

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bet me on account of he was dressed like a tramp.

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He could go down to the Bowery and live like

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one for a week. He could do it longer, he said,

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except you had to catch that boat, eat anything a

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tramp does, drink anything you know. The works for a

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hundred bucks. Missus Howard said, she got worried a few

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days ago she hadn't heard from him that she went

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down to the bowery looking for him with me. We looked,

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couldn't find hide. Her hair got laid. I sent her

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home and kept looking. No, couldn't find it. Then, mister

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Howard is a pretty good friend to you, isn't my CEO?

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From Amsterdam to Essen, to Cologne, to Mannheim to Berlin,

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And that's why you're going to Europe too. Take another

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look to those places and let us not forget Parie.

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My old man got over there in the first War.

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I didn't. He still holds it over me. Look by

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his sol the old body. Now, thanks, thanks a lot,

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I'll drop your guy. Walk away from the man eager

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for the sight seeing of old sights, walk away with

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a puzzle still yours. Why a man like John Howard

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should die of poisoned alcohol? Why a man like Howard

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would so quickly descend to a state where alcohol from

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whatever source was so needed that he challenged death for

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it and way against it. The possibility of death cause

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premeditated murder? And let the thought take you back to

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a hospital room where the man lay with his eyes

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bandaged against light, and another sented his bedside, talking quietly.

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Speaker 5: Hartman is doing what he can for you.

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Speaker 3: Getting investment. Hi, Danny, how is better? I guess Danny

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he's been asking me tell him Mickey?

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Speaker 2: Who is he? Lieutenant Clover. He's a man who's found you.

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Make He got you here in a hurry. Oh it

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makes me have to thank him. Huh, thanks to Tenant Clover, Becky.

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Can you answer questions you feel up to? I've been

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complaining in a loud voice to this other social worker here. Yeah,

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I guess I could answer question it too. Where'd you

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get the bows? I got it? Tell a square, Mickey

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will bring them in for you. Nothing I could wish

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more to get that guided funny? Huh?

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Speaker 7: What is?

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Speaker 2: I don't know where the boos come from? Look, Mickey, still,

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I don't know where it comes from. All I know

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is I waited till Joey Macklin and that other character

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ran out of their room, and I crossed the hall

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and snitched me what was left from their bottle? He

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died from it? Huh. Lucky boys, Lucky lucky boys. It

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was stole the alcohol, that's how it. Mickey stole something else.

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Dan found this in his clothes. Huh. Oh pomb. What's

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it for? Mickey? Personal belonging? That means it belonged to me?

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What's it for?

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Speaker 7: Mickey?

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Speaker 2: H me in my back? You'll find out anyway, won't you. Yeah,

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mikey way, Well, so go find out and do something

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else for me, lieutenant. But on your way back, pick

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up a tin cup and a box of pencils. It'll

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be a favorite. Hello, Hello, sir, What can mister Pring

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do for you? Police? Mister Pring is delighted to serve?

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In what capacity? Does mister Pring do that? As the

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redeemer of pwns? I guess this one?

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Speaker 5: Mister Pring remembers it? Why shouldn't he? He wrote it

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only yesterday morning.

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Speaker 2: It's paying redeemed, mister Pring. Sure a cigarette case? This

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looks like a pretty expensive item. Mister Pring, how come

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you only land two dollars on us because he who

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pawned it was one of our boat Why do you

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say our boy? Mister Fring called your attention to.

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Speaker 7: The fact that all who serve are our boys.

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Speaker 5: I call your attention again, May I please do to

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the engraving on this case a screaming eagle with a

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dagger an obscuring signure. However, I'm positive an insignire of

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one of our doubty combat outfits. I know because during

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Unpleasantness number two, I sold our boys shoulder patches as

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a sideline.

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Speaker 2: I've just reordered, mister fring Ooh you're taking it. There's

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two dollars plus interest, do on it? Yeah? Yeah, And

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mister prang Whistle, I got it, Danny good. What did

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you find out?

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Speaker 6: For one?

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Speaker 7: Thing?

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Speaker 2: About that? Insignia was assigned to an army intelligence team,

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where the team operated mostly in Germany around Lull and

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Essen in Berlin. Yeah yeah, Manaheim too.

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Speaker 7: Go on.

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Speaker 3: Well, the rest of it's John Howard's record, civilian and

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army civilian, not a whole lot of good businessman.

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Speaker 5: Resigned his position a few weeks ago. The reason he

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gave his employer was pretty vague.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know about that. What about the army?

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Speaker 5: Howard was the head of an army intelligence team to

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recover loot near Essen in Germany, you know, confiscated treasure

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and stuff. They found some too, belong to one of

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those rich German families. Worth a mint, only the original

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owner's scream that some stuff was missing for him and

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what else. Well, Howard, he was a lieutenant colonel and

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had a couple more men on his team, a sergeant

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who died in Europe a pneumonia before he got home.

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Speaker 2: And the major name of Frank Clifton. Clifton, you know

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you much more, do you? Danny? Nothing? Thanks for a motive?

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Speaker 4: Are we gone?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: You anna say goodbye to me?

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Speaker 5: Clover?

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Speaker 7: You people from the party next door?

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Speaker 2: Bank, it's the police, Missus Howard, Danny, Clover, what do

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you want? Clover? Let's go inside? Uh why not?

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Speaker 6: Money in?

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Speaker 2: It's uh not the next door people don't know.

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Speaker 7: Who is Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. Don't look daggers at me.

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And I'm just.

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Speaker 2: Visiting Frank and ask the question, Clover, what do you want?

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I came down here to break some news to both

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of you. Clover. We are due next door for a

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pre sailing party. I know why you're going to Europe.

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Sure you know. I told you I owe myself a

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sentimental journey.

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Speaker 7: Frank said, you'll show me all the places. John, you

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show me.

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Speaker 2: There's a place near ess And I don't know whether

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you'll get to Missus Holland I'm on, Clover, get off.

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If your husband ever talked to you about a time

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in Germany called Essa missus Howard.

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Speaker 8: Of course, on account of that, Tom John got a citation,

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Frank two, didn't you Frank?

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Speaker 2: Sure? We found some loot the Nazis buried, turned it

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back to the right flowers.

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Speaker 7: Right, John told me all about it? Are you asking? Teasing?

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Why didn't hold out a little down and love you

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for me?

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Speaker 2: I figure he did at that, Missus Howard. How do

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you figure that John Howard had a twenty thousand dollars

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a year job. He quit it. He quit it to

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go to Europe. There must have been something in Europe

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worth a lot more than twenty thousand dollars, and it

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had to be something he couldn't bring back into this country.

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So John Howard wasn't coming back. You mean he doesn't

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know what he means? I mean, just one thing. Not

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all that loops are covered. It makes a lot of

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sense that the reason John Howard gave up such a

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good job is because he'd hidden the missing part of

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that loot. Imagine that he knew where it was. So

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did a GI sergeant who died in Europe of pneumonia.

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So to you, Clifton, the three of your members of

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the team that found the loot in the first place.

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Speaker 7: Now John did Frank?

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Speaker 2: Frank, it's a funny story, Leila, Why aren't you laughing?

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Speaker 7: You kept looking for John and the bowery after I

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went home? Did you find him?

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Speaker 2: Told you I didn't find him. That means I didn't

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find you found him? You're calling me a liar, Clover.

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That's no way to get to a party. Do you

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want a cigarette, Clifton? Here a take one?

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Speaker 7: Put that case away?

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Speaker 2: Why what's the matter with it?

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Speaker 7: What kind of a man?

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Speaker 5: Are you?

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Speaker 7: A bar in?

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Speaker 2: Can't you understand the situation? Clover? The champagne, the shipboard party.

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Don't you see it?

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Speaker 7: For her?

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Speaker 2: Lyla? Try to make her smile? What's the matter with

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the cigarette case? Clifton? Don't you understand? It's his case?

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It's John's. How do you think it makes Lila feel?

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Is he something that belongs to him?

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Speaker 7: Bank?

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Speaker 2: And how do you think it makes me feel? Remembering

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the times, remembering his offering me a smoke from him?

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Speaker 7: Not his case? John? Never?

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Speaker 2: He never did, never?

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Speaker 4: Never?

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Speaker 7: Why what's going on here?

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what's going on. Frank murdered your husband?

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Did he comes up with a lousy cigarette case? And

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says murder boys and alcohol. He found your husband, found

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out where he was staying, found a bum named Joey Macklin,

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who he was living with. Gave Joey a jug of

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poison alcohol. He knew your husband would drink it. That

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was part of the bed. You're coming to the party

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with me.

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Speaker 8: Lot up.

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Speaker 2: But Joey Macklin was also a pickpocket. He stole this

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cigarette case from Clifton. Then he and your husband drank

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a booze died from it. Come on, Lada, there they're

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waiting for us. A man from across the hall, a

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man named Mickey Thomas, stole the booze that was left.

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He also stole the cigarette case Joey had lifted. Mickey ponded,

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that's how I know you found John Howard Clifton. You're

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under arrest. On Broadway, there's always a vision that stands

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in a doorway at the end of night. You run

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after it, but the hand that your sleeve tugs your back,

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a grinning face whispers, there's something better inside that you

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keep running fill. The same voice whispers the odds she'll

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never make it, and you'll never do. It's Broadway, the

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gaudiest the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

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Broadway My Beat, Broadway Is My Beat stars Larry Thor

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as Detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and

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Jack Krushan as Muggavin. The program was produced and directed

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by Elliott Lewis, with music score are composed and conducted

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by Alexander Courage. In Tonight's story, Irene Tedraw was heard

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as Lyla Howard, Lou Merrill as Frank Clifton, Leo Cleary

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as Benny Faine, and Steve Roberts as Mickey Thomas. Tonight

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on FPN presents You've been listening to some of the

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best in radio drama with Verra McGhee and Molly and

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Broadway as My Beats.

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Speaker 5: Join us again Monday evening at the same.

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Speaker 2: Time nine Old Bonn WHENPN presents Dragnets and.

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Speaker 6: Escape Welcome Back.

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Speaker 1: Mister Fring in the pawnshop was really trying Danny's patience,

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and when you get to that point in the episode,

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Nanny doesn't really have that much left to begin with,

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and he just finished explaining to Danny that he priced

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the risk of it being stolen into the price he

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paid of just two dollars, So it's weird when people

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do that sort of stuff and expect Danny to be sympathetic. Well,

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listener comments and feedback now, and we start with the

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comment d wrote on Patreon. I'll be seventy two in April,

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and these shows remind me of my childhood. I was

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busy playing outside most of the time, but my mother

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had me convinced that Perry Como was down at the

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station singing to us. I thought she meant local. What

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a miracle it seemed. Then, thanks for bringing it all back. Well,

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I appreciate your remarks, and I also appreciate the perspective.

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I think it's wonderful when you're a kid and you

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can approach things as being full of wonder And that

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was one of the real blessings with my son. He

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was so taken and fascinated by stuff that I think,

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what's great. But I've gotten to the point where I

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got used to it and took it for granted. Then,

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moving on a comment from YouTube regarding the Kirk Bauer

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murder case, Betsy says, what a collection of horrible people.

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Good episode, thank you, and that is a tough combination.

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Good episode, but horrible people all around, and it.

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Speaker 6: Can be you know it.

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Speaker 1: You know, you do have the sort of the hummer

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production of just going like all over the top in

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the performances.

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Speaker 6: But otherwise it can be tough.

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Speaker 1: Uh, humor can help to One of my favorite Sam

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Spades was The Dry Martini Keeper.

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Speaker 7: Where the characters were horrible.

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Speaker 1: But there was enough going on to keep the listeners interested.

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But for Sam Spade is the guy who was there,

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it got to be too much. And Sam is not

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one of the more you know, like overly optimistic or

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super virtuous detectives, but he's he gets a point where Okay,

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I just need a break from these people. They're all horrible,

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but doing in a dramatic way as Broadways My Beat

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did with making the characters interesting enough even though they

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are horrible, it's still made for compelling episode. Well, now

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it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day.

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Thank you to Sean Patreon supporter since soon of twenty

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twenty one, currently supporting the podcast at the Shawmus level

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of four dollars or more per month. Thanks so much

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for your support. That will do it for today. If

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you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite

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podcast software. Broadways My Beat will return in two weeks.

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Join us back here next week for a special encore,

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but we will be back tomorrow with an episode of

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Drag thatwere.

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Speaker 2: What's behind it? Gardner? I mean the game or that

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they're supposed to be playing.

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Speaker 9: A lot of factors enter into it. I guess it's

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my own idea. The Apatche gangs most of the promoting.

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What's the object anyway, the usual big shot idea. Some

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high school kids get the Apaches figure they're going to

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run the whole east Side. They've already scared the Happy

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Valey Gang and the Blue Devils into joining up with them.

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Speaker 2: Or how they manage that. I'd like to find out myself.

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Speaker 6: Well, how about the.

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Speaker 9: Other two crowds there, Rose Hill and the Purple Hard Bunch.

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Speaker 2: The story I get is they won't come in with

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the Apaches. It's supposed to be the reason for the war.

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Speaker 9: Either they join up with the Apaches or they fight them.

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Speaker 2: It's a warning they got. We'll be playing in big

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time all the way.

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Speaker 9: Sixteen seventeen year olds, they got gang lieutenants. They got

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their own cards, their own hideouts.

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Speaker 2: Some of them even have their.

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Speaker 9: Girlfriends running with them, same age, none of them over seventeen.

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Speaker 2: What'd you get your information? Bill?

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Speaker 9: Half a dozen kids, most of them from the Blue

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Devils and the Happy Valley Gang. They were mixed up

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in a couple of after school fights in Hollandbeck Park.

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The stories they gave us are enough to curl your hair. Yeah,

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what I mean about the big war they're going to have.

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One of the girls we picked up gave us most

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of a fifteen year old, says their boyfriends. One of

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the big shots for the Blue Devils. What she had

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to say, talked about it like it was some kind

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of a game they were playing.

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Speaker 2: I have to say.

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Speaker 9: The Rose Hill and the Purple Heart gangs were teaming

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up so they could stand up against the other three.

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They've been getting ready for the war for six weeks.

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Really organized.

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Speaker 2: I don't get it.

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Speaker 9: Who's doing the organizing, who's promoting them? I got an

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idea about that, and get to it in a minute.

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Take a look at these over here, Yeah, samples of

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the different weapons the gangs are getting together for the

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big fight. Crazy kids, brass knuckles, homemade SAPs, all kinds.

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Speaker 2: What's this here, gardener?

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Speaker 9: Look home made stiletto, good six inch plade kids just

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post to have dozens of them. Another one here, Look

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at this ice pick. Anything you can think of, you

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name it, we got it. It's going to be wholesale

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murder if we can't find a way to stop it.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,

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send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot yet,

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