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original air date on Today's program August the twenty fifth

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of nineteen fifty one, and the title is Air for

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g String.

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Speaker 3: Most Saturdays at this time we spend an exciting half

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hour at Adventure in Action with America's public here number one,

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hop Along, Cassidy, Well, even two fisted cowboys take summer

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vacations when they can, and Hoppy is no exception. But

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hop Along and Topper, we'll be back with us riding

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the CBS air trails again four weeks from tonight, September

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Speaker 4: Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suca's road.

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Those who travel and wind up in the gut of

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

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Speaker 3: From the pen of Raymonds, handler outstanding author of crime fiction,

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comes his most famous character, and the Adventures of Philip

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marlow Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We

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bring you tonight's transcribe story. Air for g String.

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Speaker 4: There's nothing really wrong with a hot summer. If some

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sadists really wanted to bring out the worst in anybody,

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particularly me, after a steaming day, all he has to

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do is expose me to wear conditioning. Take, for instance,

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the Broadview Hotel, which was on Olive Street in downtown La.

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It ground out alternating currents of cold air from what

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could laughingly be called the lobby. I'd revolved through the

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usual doors and stood squinting into the icy darkness. When

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my eyes leveled off again, I made my way to

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the elevators, sinking into the deep piled carpeting up to

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my hot and cold ankles. By the time I reached

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room nine seven to two, I was in the first

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stages of a chill. Yeah. Conditioning is a marvelous invention.

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It guarantees the summer cold for life. Oh you're mister

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marlow that's right. That makes you mister Olmand. Huh come in,

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come in sure? Ah, Yeah, nothing like i'd pictured you,

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mister Olmand.

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Speaker 5: Sit down, please, mister marlow pictured me, I don't understand.

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Speaker 4: Well, all my life I had heard about Philadelphia lawyers.

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Somewhere along the line, I drew up a mental eight

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by ten of a Yeah, well it doesn't matter. You

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just don't look the prototype.

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Speaker 5: Perhaps that's because I'm only a junior partner in the firm,

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mister Marlowe. H Maybe that's it. You know, it's an

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odd thing about prototype, mister Malo. They'll trick you.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 5: For example, I've always had the idea that men and

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your well, i'll call it a profession.

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Speaker 4: That's nice.

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Speaker 5: Have you that men in your profession always wore trench coats?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's cause Bogot looks so good in them.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Well, about our business together. I'll be here in

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Los Angeles a few days, representing the firm in a

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number of ways. But while I'm here, I hope to

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locate a man by the name of Buff Ryan to

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say that first name was Buff. Yes, odd name, isn't it. Yeah,

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But that's beside the point. This Buff Ryan, it seems,

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has inherited a small amount of money from a maiden

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nat who passed away some time ago in Philadelphia. According

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to our information, my firm is executor of her estate.

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Mister Ryan came west about a year ago, and until

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approximately six months ago he could be reached at a

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Waring Street address in care of A. C. A.

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Speaker 4: Douglas.

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Speaker 5: But our corresponds to him there has been returned marked

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unknown at this address.

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Speaker 4: That's the last record you have on him.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that's the last We've written to this U. C. A. Douglas,

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but received no answer from him. I've called him since

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I arrived in town. There's been no answer.

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Speaker 4: Well, maybe they both left Tom moved away.

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Speaker 5: That's possible, of course, but perhaps you'll find that out

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when you get to checking on mister Ryan.

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and tell him about this inheritance. Huh. By the way,

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how much is it?

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Speaker 5: Five thousand dollars? Just about misleader's entire estate?

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Speaker 4: Mis Leader sounds like a comment.

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Speaker 5: Her full name, you may want? That was Julie Leading.

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I'm sorry I can't show you a picture of mister Ryan.

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I'm expecting one to be sent out to me while

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I'm here. Expected it this morning as a matter of fact.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well maybe a description of him will do. Have

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you ever seen him? No?

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Speaker 5: No, but we were able to find out that he's

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slightly less than six feet tall, like brown hair, straight

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blue eyes, weighed about one hundred and eighty pounds when

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he left Philadelphia year ago. No distinguishing marks about him,

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according to our description. Oh yes, and he's about thirty

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five years old. Oh that's pretty complete. Oh you better

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let me have the last address you have on Ryan.

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Of course, I've written it down for you with the

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phone number i've been calling. I'll be handling most of

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my busy affairs right here at the hotel, mister Milow.

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I'll appreciate it if you'll check in occasionally let me

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know your progress. Oh sure, be glad to stay around

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three o'clock this afternoon.

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Speaker 4: Okay, tell you everything I know. But then yeah, but

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then it might not be a thing.

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Speaker 5: I know your reputation, mister milol. You'll find him, I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: I don't get me wrong. It needs to be found.

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I'll probably find him, but I have missed you know.

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That's why I should want to rock the confidence of

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a Philadelphia lawyer. I don't know. Maybe it was because

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Martin Alman, for all his conservative Brooks Brothers attire, looked

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too much or not enough like what he was supposed

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to be. Maybe it was because the East Los Angeles

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address he had handed me for buff Ryan was a

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cent to be thirty degrees hotter. It was too Whering

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gray lawns that it was straggling gray trees. The color

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scheme was the the direct result of long years of

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constant neglect. I knocked a long time on the door

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of the C. A. Douglas residence. The porch was livered

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with old papers and assortment of throwaways and leaves. The

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only response I got was mu scrawny cat, also gray,

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who leaped up on the porch rail to spit and

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yewl at me. I yowled back and walked off the

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porch in the general direction of my car. That's when

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on the same lot, and I thought I saw a

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curtain at the front window move slightly. A cat dogged

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my steps back to sea. Yeah, oh, pardon me, but

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I'm trying to locate CA Douglas. Does he still live

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in the house in front of you?

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Speaker 6: I don't know. I haven't seen mister Douglas quite a while.

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Speaker 4: Oh you you think he moved away?

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Speaker 7: Maybe?

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Speaker 6: I don't know. How would I know?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: Well, look, I'm in kind of a hurry. I'm getting dressed,

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go to work.

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Speaker 4: How long have you lived here?

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Speaker 6: What difference does it make?

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Speaker 4: Did you ever know a guy named buff Ryan?

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Speaker 6: Of course not?

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Speaker 4: Why? Of course not? Why not? Just know?

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Speaker 6: Listen, I don't know hardly anybody, And I don't know

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you what now it's the phone?

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Speaker 5: Go away?

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Speaker 6: Will you please, mister?

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Speaker 4: No? No, I don't think I will. Honey. She was tall,

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very blonde, very good to look at, a fresh blue

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housecoat wrapped around just the way it should and even

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after I entered the spotless little living room, the faint

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aura of her cologne ling it on. I couldn't tell

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anything about the phone conversation she was having in the

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next room, but I could tell a lot about her

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by the several scantily clad pictures of her that greeted

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me from various points of the room. Yeah, I could

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tell a lot about her.

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Speaker 6: Huh, Hey, what's the idea? You just can't walk in here?

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Speaker 4: Especially? I just admiring your pictures? So yeah, you have

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exceptional handwriting.

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Speaker 6: You pretty nosy, aren't you.

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Speaker 4: I particularly like this sample, where it says, for Buff

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darling my love Blossom.

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Speaker 6: Listen, mister, I got things to do, so run along.

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Speaker 4: How long have your known Buff? Honey?

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Speaker 8: You think I'm kidding about calling the cops? Well, I

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do it all right, only only what only I'm due

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downtown at work. I Oh, honest, mister, I'm not going

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to talk to you anymore. You got no right to

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ask me questions about anything, and nothing says I got answer.

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Speaker 4: That's right, that's right, honey. You sure don't. Now where's Buff?

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Drive you downtown and you can tell me all about it.

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Speaker 6: Huh, you're driving me nowhere but out of my mind.

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Speaker 4: I look like a good news for you. Boy. Want

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to see me?

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Speaker 6: Get out?

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Speaker 4: Okay, Blossom, okay, what time's your first show too?

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Speaker 6: How did you know?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I read the papers, and occasionally I've been known

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to contribute to the cultural progress of Los Angeles, you know,

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save the burlesque houses. The pictures she'd autographed the Buff

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have been propped up between my sugar bowl and the

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soul Shaker the Sunday morning before in the theatrical section

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of the Sunday paper. Yeah, I didn't recognize it with

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a housecoat on. And all the way back downtown I

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reflected on the advantages of being well read well. I

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parked in a lot on a side street to the

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north end of skid Row and stopped for lunch at

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a newspaper man's hangout nearby. It was almost time for

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Blossom's first show when I felt fortified enough to walk

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along the street past the blank stairs of the Winos

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and the dank air of the Muscatel Missions. Blossom's flag

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flew above the Marquee Blossom hour of bro Less.

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Speaker 7: How many please?

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Speaker 4: One? Huh? There you are? Say thanks? Say anything I

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can get in to see Blossom.

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Speaker 9: I don't see how you can miss with buying the

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ticket and all.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, I mean I'd like to see her

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personally in a dressing room. I'd like to talk to her.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'm sure you have my permission.

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Speaker 9: Whether or not you get Blossoms is strictly between her

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and her moral fiber.

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Speaker 4: You know something, and that much help.

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Speaker 6: You know something.

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Speaker 4: I don't try to be I'll miss you.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 3: It is your very nat.

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Speaker 10: I don't love to pass among you with these boxes.

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I'm bess, just a candy. Don't forget what I beg you, Yes,

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thank you very much, with the practice of every box.

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So that's the lushes chalking the candy with the nuts

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inside our very special break and you go every practice.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't going to make a killing exactly. There weren't

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more than six guys in the place. I wanted down

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the side aisle to the door to one side of

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the stage and push the door. I found myself in

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a dark, narrow catwalk of the hallway. Show is going

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to be out front.

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Speaker 11: Back you guys can't go back here.

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Speaker 4: This guy did. Where can I find blessom out front?

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Speaker 11: About ten minutes.

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Speaker 4: I'll wait for it back here. Thanks.

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Speaker 11: Look, I can make myself clear.

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Speaker 4: If I had guys push you would Your lighting system

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is very bad back here.

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Speaker 11: It lights out front where it count smack.

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Speaker 4: Come on, get it, get easy, fellow, this is business.

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I don't like being pushed.

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Speaker 7: That can happen.

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Speaker 4: You won't like you if you don't get out of here.

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Speaker 12: You're causing too much commotion. I'll get out.

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Speaker 4: Front with you.

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Speaker 12: Belong yeah, yea.

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Speaker 4: Look, I don't know who you are, and I can.

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Speaker 12: Clear that up for you quick. Friend, I'm the manager

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of this theater, and I'll run along like he did.

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Speaker 4: Where can we talk in your office?

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Speaker 12: Why should I talk to you.

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Speaker 4: Because I'm a booking agent. I want to talk to

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you about Blossom.

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Speaker 12: She's booked.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we'll talk about something else. Here's your office.

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Speaker 12: Now, Look, the show is starting. We can't stay back

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here follow me.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Jerry, you sure I have a bunch of odd

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lovers in the audience.

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Speaker 12: Sure, sure, it's a class show. Come on through the

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story all right? Now, then you're no booking agent. So

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what's on your mind?

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Speaker 4: Blossom? And what's your name?

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Speaker 12: Blue? George Blue?

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Speaker 4: Why would it mean anything to you? If I told

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you that buff Ryan's aunt Julie died in Philadelphia and

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left him five thousand.

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Speaker 12: Bucks, wouldn't mean a thing.

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Speaker 4: No, that's funny, because you're the first one to fit

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the picture. What picture? Slightly under six feet tall, light

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brown hair, straight blue eyes, about thirty five years old,

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way about one?

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Speaker 12: And what are you try and approve that you can

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see me?

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Speaker 4: Maybe? So my Philadelphia message doesn't interest you.

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Speaker 12: Nothing about you interest me except how you got in

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here in the first place.

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Speaker 4: Bought a ticket.

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Speaker 12: Then go on out and see the show.

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Speaker 4: I think I will. I also think I'll stick around

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and see Blossom after her performance.

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Speaker 12: I wouldn't do that. I were you, I'd see the

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show and get out. I don't want any trouble around here.

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Speaker 4: I don't either. And if you see buff before the

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show's over, tell him I'm out front, will you.

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Speaker 12: I said, I don't want any trouble.

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Speaker 4: You're in a rut. I walked down the aisle, would

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look backstairs. Of course I had already charted. Blossom's costume

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was less than newer than her blue hosse coat. It

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was a school of thoughts surrounding me that this was

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more effective. Near the door, I stopped a moment in

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silent appreciation.

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Speaker 7: Don't look at her like that.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know. I want you.

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Speaker 11: Don't get any more ideas, but come back to your

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dressing room.

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Speaker 4: I ain't gonna like that look. Go back to your seat.

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Live it. A blue said it was okay.

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Speaker 11: You wouldn't say that he knows better?

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Speaker 4: All right, go tell him he knows better. Yeah, you

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stay here is the same voice I met backstage the

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first time, the same pungent odor of Muscatel, and before

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he'd lunched back up the eye, I had a good

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look at a twisted face and a pair of watery

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blue eyes. Backstage, I waited for Blossoms act to conclude.

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Speaker 3: It did ooh, in just a moment, We'll return to

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the second act of Philip Marlowe, but first love that

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with Hattie McDaniel again starring as an overgenerous, over anxious

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to be wed, overweight damsel holding forth over CBS Radio.

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Family in a new season of delightful day to day Doings.

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Joins the fall parade of stars back to CBS Radio

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on most of these stations beginning Monday Night Now with

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our star Gerald Moore, the second act of Philip Marlowe

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and Tonight's story There for g straight.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't have been out long about eight bars of

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imagination unless I'd missed a full chorus. At some point,

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I was fuzzily aware of being carried sax style somewhere,

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then being dropped not too gently onto what set of

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the noisiest springs i'd ever heard this. Music lowed me

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for a while, and then I heard a door slam

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and my head rolled off on the floor and broke.

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Speaker 6: Come on, Marlow, you're not dead?

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Speaker 4: Is that official?

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Speaker 6: How'd you get in here anyway?

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Speaker 4: You wouldn't believe me if I told you. I hardly

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believe it myself.

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Speaker 6: You're not supposed to be here.

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Speaker 4: I know, I know, I know. I had that pointed

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out to me several times. Now. Yeah, and I didn't

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think I told you my.

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Speaker 6: Name You're while it was on the floor, I can read.

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Speaker 4: Oh, well, good for you? Who hit me? And with

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what size sandbag?

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Speaker 6: I don't know?

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Speaker 4: You never know anything? Do you listen?

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Speaker 6: Mister Marla? You've been barging in all day where you're

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not wanted.

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Speaker 4: Why didn't you tell me Buff was a wine out? Hey?

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Look look that's what's left of my head. Huh.

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Speaker 6: I hope it hurt. I hope it hurt awful?

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Speaker 4: You get your hope it did?

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Speaker 12: I listen? You want? Pretty fed up with you?

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Speaker 4: I'll just how you feel below. You know what you

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told me. You don't want to any trouble. Okay, okay,

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I'm going a blessing. What about Buff?

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 9: Never mind, now, don't tell me you want I'm a

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mother ticket.

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Speaker 4: I'd make kid, I've taken the cure.

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Speaker 12: How is there moral fiber like.

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Speaker 4: You brought her? You know a guy named buff Ryan

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for free?

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Speaker 6: I don't know my own mother?

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Speaker 4: You do? See your point? Yeah? Here's mine memory getting

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any better?

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Speaker 6: It's clearing up.

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Speaker 7: A little.

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Speaker 12: Well.

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Speaker 9: When he ain't here, which he ain't right now, he's

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usually mother Morris's.

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Speaker 4: That's for one, Mother Morris's h flappas.

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Speaker 9: Three doors down, or for two, try Tilly's four doors

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down a saloon.

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Speaker 4: Thank you. Mother Morris couldn't help me, lovable old lush

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that she was, And a penetrating search of the twenty

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five cent bed she sow revealed a lot of things,

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but no Buff Ryan. Tilly's downstairs next door didn't look

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very promising at first, but that was before I saw

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the twisted face with the watery blue eyes at the

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far end of the bar. Beside him, the unofficial Dean

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and Philosopher of skid Row, Jay Fenton Predis. I started

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talling them, but a cordon of winos surrounded me before

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I can reach him. That that's yeah, Prentice, I'm the

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one you call the brothers here off, Make him breathe

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in another direction and let me talk to Buff.

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Speaker 13: We're a close association here, mister Mano. Outsiders are not

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tell Oh come on, pradis you know me well enough? Perhaps,

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mister Mallow, But we know each other better my associates

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and I. My young friend Buff here quite obviously does

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not twish to talk with you. We are merely respecting

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his wishes in our own way.

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Speaker 4: Come on, look, this is cock eye. Maybe this isn't

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the place to say it, but you have inherited money, Buff.

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That's all I came to tell.

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Speaker 7: You who died?

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Speaker 4: All right, Julie, I say anymore, Prentise, don't let him

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get to me.

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Speaker 7: I gotta get out of here.

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Speaker 13: If you gentlemen will restrain mister Manloyeah, crazy fool.

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Speaker 4: Lessen to me. That's a lawyer here pulling helve to

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see it. He's at the broad view.

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Speaker 1: Will him?

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Speaker 4: I haven't sake it in touch with a lesson to me.

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Speaker 7: WI.

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Speaker 4: The lawyer's name is Martin Norman.

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Speaker 12: Idiot co say him?

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Speaker 4: They stupid dults, Thanks, Pranise. Nothing. Buff was nowhere to

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be seen when I hit the street. Didn't matter it

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was three o'clock. I delivered my message from Martin Norman.

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Buff could take it from there. No, I may be wrong,

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but most guys liked when Herod Doe said, you can

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never tell with a whineo, and Buff was, as they say,

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bona fide. Martin Alman was glad to see me. That

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was a nice change of pace. I told him all

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I knew. Didn't take long.

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Speaker 5: I'm afraid you've had quite a bad experience, mister Marlowe.

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I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Oh, by the way, this picture

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arrives special delivery from Philadelphia about an hour ago. Oh

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is this the reluctant chap you tracked down?

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Speaker 4: Let me see that? Oh yeah, yeah, that's Buff before Muscatel.

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Speaker 5: Well you've done a fine job, mister morlow I made

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your checkout for you.

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Speaker 4: Thanks.

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Speaker 5: So he's going to try to get in touch with

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Buff yourself, perhaps not personally, of course. You're certain that

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wearing street addressed the little house in back should reach him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, or I suppose you could get in touch

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with him through Blossom at the Burles Theater.

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Speaker 5: Well, we've done all we can for now. Unfortunately, I've

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been called back to Philadelphia. I'm taking your plane out

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in an hour.

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Speaker 4: What about Buff and the inheritance?

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Speaker 5: Well, now that I know he can be rich, we'll

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mail it to him. After all, we can't force it,

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how can we, mister marlow.

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Speaker 4: Oh doesn't look like we can. Yeah, well he's are yours,

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mister Olman?

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Speaker 12: What?

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Speaker 4: Norman seems satisfied that we've done our job. So I

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left wishing someone would come up to me and tell

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me what's the name? Had left me five thousand climes.

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When I got back to my car, I had it

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all figured how I'd go home and forget what Martin

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had called quite a bad experience. One look inside my

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car told me it wasn't gonna work out that way

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at all.

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Speaker 7: You weren't as long as I thought you'd be, mister Marlowe, and.

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Speaker 4: You get him from skid Row Prentice fly I always taxi.

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How nice for you?

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Speaker 7: After you left Tilley's.

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Speaker 13: I fell to thinking, mister Marlowe, quite afore it occurred

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to me.

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Speaker 7: That perhaps you were telling Buff the truth all the time.

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Speaker 4: I was It's not important now, isn't.

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Speaker 7: Oh? Yes, I should say it's quite important.

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Speaker 13: Really, you mustn't be too hard on Buff, mister Marlowe,

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He's like most men on the row. He probably has

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his reasons for running, running from life, perhaps running from

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himself or others.

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Speaker 4: Are you trying to tell me something now.

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Speaker 13: That would be presumptuous of me, mister Marlowe, temper justice

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with mercy, that much I say to you, I tell

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you Buff Ryan is running and with reason. If his

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reason interests you, then I suggest you set about finding out.

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Speaker 7: What it is.

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Speaker 4: Was there any reason why I should know?

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Speaker 7: No, there isn't. But as much I do know, he

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has left the role and he is running.

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Speaker 4: I saved Jay Frent and Pratiss's taxifair back to what

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he affectionately referred to was the role. He wouldn't have

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followed me if he hadn't wanted me to know something

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peculiar about Buff And yet his odd code kept him

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from telling me himself. And I knew that code well

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enough to know it had something to do with the police. Yeah. Well,

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like I say, I'm a curious fellow.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, Phil, Is this a big time or small

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time crooked?

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Speaker 4: This Ryan? He's pretty small Sergeant money if he is one,

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el No, not that I know of.

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Speaker 5: Well, we'll try Ryan just for size. Buff's a crazy name.

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Speaker 4: He's a crazy guy.

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Speaker 7: You'll have to look for it, and Monica file here,

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hold it, here.

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Speaker 5: Is your guy.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Let's see that

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when take it out of there. I've seen that much

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of a reckon suspect robbery charges dropped suspect extortion charges.

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Trying wonder why they bothered to take his picture. I

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don't know, buff Raglan Bob Rutler, A Doug A Douglas. Hello,

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takes care of one question? Mine?

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Speaker 3: Does it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Take my word for a kid, it does. Let's

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see last question in connection with this Julie Leader Philadelphia.

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Wait a minute, Aunt Julie, Holy smoke. I knew I

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didn't like this Martin Almond. I didn't bother to check

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his record. I got the picture, No wonder. Buff ran

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for me like the plague. Martin had sucked me into

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setting Buff up for the kill Marlow the finger man.

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That's great. Now. I got back to the theater and

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practically nothing flat yank Blossom practically off stage, shoved her

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into my car and roll like mad at the Little

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Gray House. Behind the Little Gray House, Fredis said, Buffett

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left skid roll if he was not on Wearing street.

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He might be anywhere, including dead. Martin was paying off

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a cab driver in front of the house. Blossom cued

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me to the alley entrance and back.

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Speaker 6: Please don't let anything happen to him.

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Speaker 4: Oh cry now, honey, we'll make it in time to

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just let us say.

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Speaker 6: He's got to mister Marlow. He's my husband.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, take it easy, baby, stand away. I'm a

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blastemer kid. You listen, Buff Martin's coming in the front.

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You can't waste time with that.

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Speaker 11: I don't believe you allow you're part of the dealer.

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Speaker 7: Hey, what is this?

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Speaker 4: You should have listened to me. I'm sorry, Blossom, my

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head to He's all right, he's just out a listen,

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you've got to answer that front door. Answer it. I'll

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be right behind the door. He won't do anything to you.

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Just let come in.

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Speaker 13: But I'm afraid.

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Speaker 5: Oh come on, Oh how do you do I I

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was looking for a gentleman by the name of Buff Ryan.

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I'm an old friend of his. I understood he lived here.

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Speaker 6: Yes, yes he does.

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Speaker 5: Is he at home?

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Speaker 6: Now?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 6: Won't you come in?

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Speaker 5: Thank you?

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Speaker 4: Thank me? I got his gun?

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Speaker 6: Are you all right?

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Speaker 4: Never felt better go throw some water on your boy

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and get him in here. Maybe he'll talk now, maybe

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I will.

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Speaker 6: No, Buff, Darling, you're not hurt anymore.

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Speaker 4: Honey, I don't figure you.

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Speaker 11: I guess, Marlow.

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Speaker 4: I thought you were on Martin's team. I was at

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first when I thought the business about you inheriting the

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five thousand bucks was legitimate. What's he got against you?

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Speaker 11: I saw too much once about a year ago. So

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Martin killed Julie Leader. I was the only one who

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saw it. I knew he'd give me the same thing

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if you ever got the chance. He can't do that now, Kenny.

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Speaker 4: Not if you'll talk when we get the law here.

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Speaker 6: Buff, why didn't you tell me?

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Speaker 4: Silly question?

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Speaker 5: Honey, Sure, Marlow, call the law.

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Speaker 11: It'll be almost a pleasure to talk.

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Speaker 4: So much for that. Buff and Blossom are doing fine.

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Every once in a while we sit in the third

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and yelled down in front. Yeah. He's got a good

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job now, and soon they'll have enough for the traditional

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vine covered respectability. Oh, by the way, he's taken a

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wearing Brooks Brothers type suits. You know what, he looks

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just like a Philadelphia lawyer. How do you like that?

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Speaker 3: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Bringing You Raymond Chandler's most

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famous character, starring Gerald Moore, are produced and transcribed by

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Norman McDonald and written for radio by Kathleen hit Featured

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in the cast where Jack Moyles is Buff Ryan, Michael

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Ann Barrett has Blossom, and John Stephenson as Martin Allman,

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with Sidney Miller as Mister Bloo, Normanfield as Jay Fenton

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Prentiss Grace Leonard as Gloria B. Sergeant Mooney is played

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by Jack Krushan. Gerald Moore may currently be seen in

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the Santana production Sirocco. The special music for Philip Marlowe

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is composed by Pierre Garagank and conducted by Wilbur Hatch.

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Be sure to listen next week at the same time

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when Philip marlow says, this.

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Speaker 4: Time she was lovely and I was engaged, engaged to

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help a beautiful shepherd who had a flock of trouble.

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We found a lost sheep and something else she didn't

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know she lost.

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Speaker 3: This coming Monday night, keeth the evening free because the

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Great faur Parade of Stars and shows back to CBS

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Radio will begin in earnest and enjoy suspense moving in

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the Monday Evening Raising the curtain with William Holden in

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the leading role of a brand new spine Tingler. Enjoy

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with three thousand dollars to start the season's quiz Bang fun. Yes,

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They're all coming back to CBS Radio this Monday Night,

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Speaker 3: With the country rising to meet the challenge of aggression,

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can today, Clarence Gassell speaking.

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You're listening to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

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with Adam graham Now let's get back into the show.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I have to say that the whole Philadelphia

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lawyer set up screamed phony from the start, and Marlow

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was kind of suspicious, But then not about it, because

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I think he's had similar things happen and he should

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require more documentation than just us says so. But at

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any rate, I will say that I also did like

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the Philosopher of skid Row. Well, that pretty interesting, fuch.

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I wish they would had used more of them. All Right, Well,

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I should let you know that we are actually running

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out of Philip Marlow, and then we'll have one more

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Philip Marlow special before we begin moving towards defense Attorney.

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So a lot to look forward to in the weeks ahead.

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In the meantime, if you do have a comment, send

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it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,

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But from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam graham

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Son and off