Speaker 1: Silder Man in the moment, Stay tuned, twelve Boys and girls.
Speaker 2: How did it go today?
Speaker 1: If you had your big dinner yet? Or will it
come tonight? I guess most Thanksgiving feats are held in
the afternoon. I think everybody seems to eat so much
that it takes them ours to recover.
Speaker 3: But that's one of the wonderful.
Speaker 1: Things about Thanksgiving, just as one of the wonderful things
about our country is the ability to furnish all the
good things to eat and wear and play with and
live with.
Speaker 2: Say, I just.
Speaker 1: Thought of something. If the pilgrim fathers gave the first
thanks for the little that they had, we have so
much more reason to give thanks today for all that
day and those who followed them have created in this
wonderful country of ours.
Speaker 2: Fast a feeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotives, able
to leave pole buildings on a single bound.
Speaker 3: Up on the car. It's a word, it's a plain.
Its tears up.
Speaker 4: Superman.
Speaker 5: When the planet crips on the home of a race
of Superman exploded into dust. The soul survivor was an
infant boy who had been shot to worth in a sealed rocket.
Today that boy grown the manhood is known as Superman,
foreign enemy of the forces of evil weighed him in
his never ending fight with Booth and justice. He masquerades
as Clark Kent, crime reporter for a great Metropolitan newspaper.
His secret is carefully guarded. No one is aware that
Kent is Superman. No one but you, no one with
us on ABC as Superman fights against the insidious forces
of rumor and suspicion. In the transcribed story of Marina Baum,
our scene is Clark Kent' frivate office at the Metropolis
City Planet, where we find the mild Manner's Report, whom
we know as Superman, working on a story. Suddenly he frowned,
stopped pecking on his typewriter, then almost angrily, rips out
the sheet of paper and runs his hand despairingly through
his hair.
Speaker 2: Oh hang it all, what's the matter with me?
Speaker 3: I can't write a word today. A girl's life is.
Speaker 2: A perfect Oh nuhing, Hello.
Speaker 6: Hello, Yes, this is missus Olson, Missus Olson.
Speaker 7: Jimmy.
Speaker 2: Oh of course, mister Kent.
Speaker 6: Could you come over to our house right way?
Speaker 3: Well, it's about Jimmy.
Speaker 7: He's in trouble.
Speaker 2: What do you mean in trouble?
Speaker 6: He got into a fight this afternoon. He beat up
another boy. I can't explain over the problem, mister Kent,
but please please come over and talk to him. There's
no telling what he'll do next.
Speaker 5: Jim Olsen in serious trouble in this latest Superman adventure.
Speaker 3: He listening.
Speaker 5: And now to continue the adventures of Superman and the
story of Marina Baum. In response to a sudden, urgent
summon from cover reporter Jim Wilson's mother, Cla Can't is
about to leave his office at the Daily Planet when
he is interrupted by a knock at the door.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I would act very much to speak with you.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I was just leaving miss.
Speaker 6: Miss Marina Baum.
Speaker 2: Will you see miss but Bomb? Why why you're the
girl he has told your Jimmy, why no?
Speaker 7: Do you know, Jim, That's why I've come to you.
Speaker 6: You must help him. He's in grave trouble.
Speaker 2: I know. I was just my way over to his house.
As a matter of fact, suppose you tell me what
it's all about.
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 6: Yes, you see, Jimmy and I have become very good friends.
We leave you to each other. I was adopted by
a family that lived a couple of blocks away from him. Oh,
mister Kenty's afternoon, we were taking a walk, as we
have done quite often, and we met a boy who
who said some very cruel.
Speaker 2: Things to me, such as he said.
Speaker 6: Why don't I go back where I came from? And
people like me had not wanted here in America. This
is not true, is it, mister Ken.
Speaker 2: Of course not. I suppose Jim took over them.
Speaker 6: Yes, he was wonderful, but it was very horrible. Jimmy
beats him an so bade you that the boy had
to go to the hospital. His father and mother said
they were going to call the police. Mister Kent, what
will we do?
Speaker 2: First, We're going to see Jim, and then we'll start
educating a few people.
Speaker 6: Mis I don't think I should have come with you.
Speaker 2: Why not, Marina, I'm sure Jim would like to see you. Yes,
but he's oh, yes, good evening, Missus Olsen.
Speaker 7: Oh, mister Kent.
Speaker 6: I'm so glad you're here.
Speaker 7: Come in.
Speaker 2: Thank you, go ahead, Marina, Yes.
Speaker 7: Kit, good evening, Marina, good evening. Miss I didn't expect
to see you here.
Speaker 2: Marilla came to my office and told me what happened.
Missus Olton, Oh, she did, so I brought her with me.
I knew Jim would want to see her again.
Speaker 7: Well, I really couldn't say.
Speaker 4: Where is he, missus Olten up stairs in his room?
Speaker 5: Be all right if we go up, yes, of course.
Speaker 6: But I think he'd rather speak to.
Speaker 3: You alone, mister kit alone.
Speaker 2: But please go to mister Kent. I understand, all right, Marina,
you wait here. We'll be down on a few minutes
and then we'll get everything straightened out.
Speaker 3: Gosh, am I glad to see you, mister Kentwell.
Speaker 2: Sir Lochinvar. Outside of a black eye, you don't look
too much the words for wear.
Speaker 9: Oh, I was lucky, I guess, and mad, too mad
to get hurt. You should have heard the awful things
he said, mister Camp into a nice girl like Marina.
Speaker 2: Marina's already told me Jim what she did. Yes, she
came to my office and now she's downstairs waiting to
see you.
Speaker 3: Downstairs? Is my mother down there with her?
Speaker 2: Uh uh oh jeepers, Well we better go down right away,
mister camp Why, I thought you'd want to tell me
your side of the fight, and I'd like the name
of the other boy. I want to have a little
talk with him.
Speaker 3: Oh he doesn't matter anymore, mister Kemp.
Speaker 2: But what do you mean, Jim?
Speaker 3: Of course he's mister Ken. He doesn't honestly doesn't.
Speaker 2: Jim, I'm afraid I don't understand.
Speaker 3: That's all over.
Speaker 9: Gosh, I I don't even know how to say it.
Speaker 3: It's it's mom. Yes, I haven't spoken to her in
almost two days.
Speaker 9: What yeah, he said, And it wouldn't be advisable for
me to see Marina again.
Speaker 3: But she wasn't the sort of girl I should be
going around with.
Speaker 2: Would your mother say? Why?
Speaker 3: Yeah? She said Marina was different, she wasn't our kind.
I guess, I answered her back. And well that's where
I got into that fight this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Of course, Jim, you had to let off steam.
Speaker 3: How's it going to end, mister Kemp, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Come on downstairs, but come on, I'm going to have
a talk with your mother.
Speaker 6: There you are, Jimmy, You feel better now, yeah, I guess?
Speaker 3: So, Well, where's Marina?
Speaker 2: Missus? Also?
Speaker 5: Yes, well she left.
Speaker 6: A few minutes ago.
Speaker 7: Why she really didn't feel comfortable here, Jim.
Speaker 6: She must realize she was out of place.
Speaker 3: What do you mean out of place?
Speaker 7: Jim. It's one of those things you'll understand when you're older.
Speaker 2: Jim, why don't you go out for a walk? Huh theerral?
Do you good?
Speaker 6: I don't think it would be advisable after what happened
this afternoon.
Speaker 7: Perhaps you'd better stay in, Jim.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mam, I gotta girl. I'll see you later, right, Jim?
Speaker 6: Really, mister Kent, I must say, I don't think you
acted very.
Speaker 2: Well in suggesting that Jim take a walk. Yes, why
shouldn't he? Are you afraid he'll meet his girl Marina?
Speaker 7: I don't think.
Speaker 6: Advisable for you to refer to her that way.
Speaker 2: You don't think a lot of things are advisable to you,
missus Olson.
Speaker 7: Mister kn't. Surely you understand the circumstances.
Speaker 6: Marina isn't the right kind of girl for Jim.
Speaker 2: Because she speaks with an accent.
Speaker 7: Oh you might say that, yes.
Speaker 2: And because she worships differently.
Speaker 7: After all, it isn't my business what her religion is.
Speaker 6: Don't mistake me. I'm a great believer in tolerance, mister Kent.
Speaker 2: Missus Olson, you might just as well admit that you
don't like Marina's religion and be honest.
Speaker 6: About it, really, mister Kent, I'm very tolerant. You just
won't understand.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid you're the one who won't understand, Missus Olson.
But perhaps you will if I tell you a rather
strange story.
Speaker 6: This is hardly the time for the story.
Speaker 2: On the contrary, there couldn't be a better time. I
tried to write this story earlier this afternoon, but I
just couldn't get it to gel. Now I think I can,
and I'd appreciate it if you'd listened.
Speaker 5: Keep listening as Clark Kent tells Jim Olson's mother the
story of Marina Baum. And now back to the Adventures
of Superman and the story of Marina Baum.
Speaker 2: It began in a small town called Norozek in Poland,
a few miles from the German border. The time was
September nineteen thirty nine. Does that mean anything to you,
missus Olsen.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's when the Nazis invaded Poland.
Speaker 2: Well about a week before the Panzer divisions rolled into
that helpless country. The blacksmith of Norrozek called his daughter
Marina to him Marina, yes, Missus Olsen. The blacksmith's name
was Bomb and when he spoke to his daughter.
Speaker 4: She was frightened.
Speaker 2: She had never seen him so serious before.
Speaker 4: Marina, my child, Please try to understand what I tell you.
Terrible things are happening in his works. People have gone mad.
Speaker 2: It with Cindy.
Speaker 4: They wish to give one another.
Speaker 6: That's what are you saying. I do not understand.
Speaker 2: No, no, of course you don't. You're too young.
Speaker 4: But I'm afraid you will grow up very quickly and
we'll face much sir. Listen to me, Marin. Soon, perhaps
in weeks, perhaps even days, the enemy will come. Norazek
is very close to the border. We shall be the
first to feel that terrible power. Yes, my child, And
should the Nazis come before you and Peter can escape,
I want you to remember one thing. Leave, Marina, Live.
Speaker 2: Protect your little brother.
Speaker 4: Do anything everything, only live. Fight as hard as you
can remember a child, no matter what the Nazis do.
Speaker 2: Be strong, you are the future.
Speaker 4: Keep these words always in your heart, Marina, Trust in God.
Speaker 3: And live.
Speaker 2: Marina remembered father's words well for the next week. Before
she and her brother could leave the Projack, the storm
troops marched in. The blacksmith and his wife fell before them,
and Marina and Peter were left orphans, along with fifty
other children. One day, they were all lined up in
the town square, then in charge of a Nazi patrol,
were marched out into the country. Fifty children missus Olsen
in double file, bewildered, lost, frightened on a march to nowhere.
And in the center of the line walked Marina, carrying
her brother Peter and a small knapsack containing bread and milk,
only enough food for the baby. The children marched for hours.
They traveled endless miles, until their feet blistered and bled
in their shoes, and their little legs became stilts of
pure agony. But on they struggled, on and on, driven
by the menacing shadow of the Nazi guards. Finally, toward evening,
the Nazis called a halt, and the children sank gratefully
in the soft grass bordering the road. Marina's eyes flickered
over the landscape watchfully. A few minutes later she heard
a low, throbbing roar, and around the bend in the road,
the first heavy trucks of a long German motor convoy
roared into view. Marina's eyes brightened, and, holding Peter closely,
watched in the grass. As the truss rawn passed, she
thicked her eyes on the guards, and as they turned
away with their passing comrades, she called out to the
other children.
Speaker 6: And if he one, then they're not watching us. Runn
into the woods and hide, hide.
Speaker 2: Nothing to her people. Verena began to run, the other
children tumbling along behind her. Suddenly the air rank was shot,
but they kept on like young wild animals, charging deep
into the underbrush. Shortly some of the children began to
fall her, then dropped, but Marina kept on, clutching Peter
to her prail body, driven by the distant howling of
an unleashed pack of dogs. Now Marina was alone in
the woods, alone with the knight and the terrible sound
of the dogs coming closer and closer. When at last
it seemed that there could be no hope, she saw
a silvery gleam of water. Ad It was a small
forest lake, and without hesitation, she plunged in. Holding the
baby high on her shoulder, she waded out as far
as she could, making certain Peter's face state above the water,
and as the dogs approached, she pushed the last bottle
of milk in the baby's mouth to keep him quiet
and pray.
Speaker 5: Ah let us know there Hah end not with her.
Speaker 2: For the moment Marina was safe. But now Peter was soaked.
We need a dry clothes, warmth, and rest. So the
girl continued under the forest until she saw a light
gleaming through the trees. A few minutes later, she and
her brother were inside the small, comfortable hut of an
elderly woodcutter.
Speaker 10: Well, my child, I wish I could keep you here,
but I cannot. The Nazis will come soon enough. They
do not like us seed, and then you must know
what will happen.
Speaker 6: Keep it a knight. We will go on. We will
find a place.
Speaker 10: There is a place not very far from here where
you will find shelter where you and your brother will
will always be taken care of.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is a convent, oh, content, Yes, where.
Speaker 10: The kind sisters live. For there are many children like
you in the convent.
Speaker 3: I cannot go there.
Speaker 2: Why not there?
Speaker 7: They are different?
Speaker 4: Oh, I do not think you will find them.
Speaker 3: So they do not live the way we do.
Speaker 6: They do not believe the same way, my.
Speaker 4: Child, What difference which way they live or believe?
Speaker 10: They are good people? Rest? Now, I will take you
there in the morning.
Speaker 2: The following morning, the elderly woodcutter left the two homeless
youngsters and the care of the mother superior of the convent.
Speaker 7: Marina, Why do you stand there and stare at me?
I I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: Are you afraid, Marina? Yes, we are not going to
hurt you, my child. We want to take care of you.
Speaker 7: Do you believe me?
Speaker 8: Yes, you may stay with us if long as it
is safe, and then if it becomes too dangerous, you
will see that you are taken elsewhere to another place
of refuge.
Speaker 3: That is real kind of you?
Speaker 8: You are afraid? Yeah, Marina?
Speaker 7: Would you like to pray? Yes?
Speaker 6: Here I cannot.
Speaker 8: I do not know how you pray in your own manner?
Speaker 6: My child, go.
Speaker 8: Come, Marina. She will thank God for your coming here.
Speaker 4: Together.
Speaker 2: And that really is the end of the story, missus Olsen.
Marina and her little brother Peter were taken care of
by the Mother Superior and the sisters of the convent,
and through the war years were shifted from place to place,
always in the care of the sisters, until a few
months ago when she was adopted by the Polish family
on the street.
Speaker 6: The poor child, what she's been through yes, but.
Speaker 2: She's learned one thing. Missus alson that no one is different.
Oh don't you think you could learn the same, mister Ken.
Speaker 5: Mister k.
Speaker 3: She's gone. What she never went home? I've been looking
all over for but she's gone.
Speaker 5: What has happened to Marina? We'll be back in a
moment with the answer. So keep listening and I'll back
to the Adventures of Superman and the climax of the
story of Marina Baum a boy. When Timosi suddenly came
home with a startling news that Marina Baum had disappeared,
Clark can't hurriedly excuse himself and resuming his true guise
of Superman, rocking it up into the night sky over
Metropolis to begin an intensive church for the young girl. Meanwhile,
in the Olsen living room, Jim and his mother wait
in anxious silence. Missus Olsen tries to catch her son's eye,
but without success. Finally, she says, Jimmy, here, look at me.
Speaker 2: Jim.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Isn't it kind of late for that? Oh, Mama, I
didn't mean to say that.
Speaker 7: Of course you didn't, Jim.
Speaker 6: Mister Kent has shown me how wrong I've been in
if he finds Marina.
Speaker 7: I promise you she'll always be welcome here.
Speaker 3: Oh golly, mama, I knew you'd see things right, I
knew you'd understand.
Speaker 7: I only hope it isn't too late.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, it sounds, but it is. It's Superman. Hello, Jim,
super Superman, mister can't call you. Did he tell you
about Marina?
Speaker 2: Yes, Jim, I know all about it.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna help find her?
Speaker 2: I have founded him?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Thanks good?
Speaker 2: Where is she coming up the portsteps right now? What
she is with a friend of hers? Well, Jim, don't
just stand there, let them in.
Speaker 7: Golly sure, sure, oh Superman. Is she all right?
Speaker 2: Quite all right? She just went to see a good
friend of hers for some advice.
Speaker 3: Marina. Hello, Jim, Oh gosh, your day.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Sure it's all right.
Speaker 2: Does that invitation include me too?
Speaker 6: Jean, my fare good evening, miss, good evening, father.
Speaker 2: Superman to see you again?
Speaker 3: Same here, sir, Marina. I want you to meet Superman.
Speaker 6: How do you do? Hello Marina, Marina, my dear, I'm
very glad you've come back. Oh oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: Well, Well, now I have some good news for you, Jim, Yes,
sir yes, I have. I spoke to the parents of
the boy you beat some sense into.
Speaker 3: Shall we say, yes, sir, there they quite.
Speaker 4: Understand the reason for the thrashing you gave him. As
a matter of fact, his father wishes he'd done the
job himself. In any case, outside of a pair of
black eyes and a couple of bruised ribs, the boy's
perfectly well.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm glad of that.
Speaker 4: And his parents assure me they'll continue the lesson you
began er not quite as physically, perhaps, but as effectively. Well, now, Marina,
I think we'd better be getting on home. It's rather late.
Speaker 6: I have a better idea. What today is Thanksgiving? And
we've got such a big turkey? Why doesn't everyone stay.
Speaker 7: And I've dinner here with us?
Speaker 2: Sure, fine, how about it, Father Damien? Yes, with pleasure, Marina.
Speaker 7: And this is yes, Marina.
Speaker 6: Now I know why Thanksgiving truly an American holiday.
Speaker 5: The Adventures of Superman come to you now each Tuesday
and Thursday at the same time over many of these
a DC stations. Listen again on Tuesday when Superman gets
involved in murder and international intrigue in the mystery of
the Swiss clock Killers and be sure to watch for
the new and exciting Superman Adventures Cereal The Ever Man
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