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now December eighth, nineteen fifty one, here is the Mary

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Smith Murder case.

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Speaker 3: My beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,

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the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

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Speaker 4: Broadway is my beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

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Speaker 3: When the winter moon dips low over Broadway and hides

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again behind the scudding mists, Broadway is numbed. The year's

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ending is too swift. There's too much nighttime in December,

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as if the dimness of the subway had moved one

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flight up, as if the lights were not quite lights

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but yellow things that drain off into shadows. It's a

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time of the muffler, the hurry up, the time of

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the wind. The dreams are dying, and it's a long

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while before April comes again. The place where I was

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also one flight up above the street of the tired

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apartment houses and hotels. The avenue leads to anybody on

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the premise that home is any place for the rent

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is chief hotel Savannah. The man who walked beside me

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and explained it all to me. After all, lieutenant, after all,

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what to do? Not disturb science?

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Speaker 5: And hanging down in the front of a door all day,

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and here it is almost midnight, So so a place

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like this, ran the room for three point fifty, pulled

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out the old pills, leave the world to its own sorrow.

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The Savannah's getting quite a reputation for Oh, this is

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the room, and that's how I found her, right there

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on the bed.

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Speaker 3: I could tell it right away. She wasn't a suicide.

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Speaker 5: That bullet hole, no gun, no wish. She took the

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room yesterday, registered as Mary Smith. I keep a straight

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face as long as the payment is made in a dance.

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Even she didn't have luggage, so what Quite a few

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of my friends have not a presentable suitcase to their names.

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What about her visitors? This is her home away from home.

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That's our philosophy.

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Speaker 3: Here the Savannah. Why shouldn't she have visitors? After? Did

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she have it? I don't know. People come and go,

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a regular little world in itself, this Savannah.

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Speaker 5: I remarked this to myself often as I stand at

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the desk, like I was looking at into a regular

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little world.

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Speaker 3: That's why I always don't say, mister Burgess. I'll take

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it from here and consider the place where a girl

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lies dead, A room of transients, a cubicle allotted sold

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to the passer through the mark of their passing the

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scars where cigarettes were grounded at the desk top the

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hotel stationery. The postcards are the scenes of gaety tinted

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in ink, stained fingers smudged blank, the sign please turn

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off lights when the party leave. Key at desk. The

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bend for passing sleep is sold at the current rate,

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and in it Mary Smith dead by violence. Phone it

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in check other hotel personnel be told to the day

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she'd been there. The girl was quiet, discreet, no trouble

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at all. Visitors maybe maybe not policy not to notice

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things like that and take it home with you. Try

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to sleep against the image, desolate, lonely, not quite make it,

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and welcome the coming of day, somewhere to go, someone

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to talk to.

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Speaker 6: You have a bad night, Danny, You have the look

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of someone who has slept with rocks in his bed

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head to foot.

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Speaker 3: That show morning's greeting to me, sergeant to Taglia.

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Speaker 6: You see other mornings you refer to me as Gino.

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But this morning, Danny, why is this morning different from all.

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Speaker 7: Of the morning?

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Speaker 6: You got something from me? Gino goes without saying, sure,

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I got something. We coded that girl's fingerprints dot Mary

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Smith put them on the wire to the chums of

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the FBI during the night.

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Speaker 3: Bad an answer.

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Speaker 6: Those chums of the FBI are veritable Johnny's on the spot, Danny,

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you had an answer on the spot, according to the

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info lately come to hand and now contained in my

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breast pocket, Danny, this Mary Smith was not a Mary Smith?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, not at all all, right, Gino? Who was She.

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Speaker 6: Formerly of the Women's Army Corps, which makes her a

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former wife, which makes it easy for our Washington co

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workers to check such things as fingerprints flying through the night,

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such things as as what as the occupation of the deceased?

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Prior to say, miss peg Ramsey here at the fall,

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known as Mary Smith, was a member of the publishing

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firm Tagget and Ramsey on Lower Madison. It brightens the

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morning for you, Danny, thissinfo.

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Speaker 3: You tried, Geno, you really did. Thanks. I can't believe it.

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I just can't believe it. Get around to believing in,

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mister Taggart. Miss Ramsey was murdered in a cheap hotel

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named the Savannah. We want you to help us. What

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was she doing there? Was she registered? Look, mister Taggert,

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can't believe it. I just can't believe it. Let's try

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it this way. What did miss Ramsey do here at

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your publishing house? At our publishing house, mister Clover, Peg

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is as much responsible for the success of Taggart and

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Ramsey as I am. Of course, I'm directly responsible for

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a book club's choosing four of our novels. Peg only

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had three. But then just tell me what she did.

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Had final say on what we would publish and what

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we wouldn't, along with me, of course, also the discovery

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of talent, and so forth and so forth. Friends, every

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unpublished author in the world, you must understand Taggart and

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Ramsey enjoys an enviable reputation. We publish stuff that others

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wouldn't even touch. Of course, sometimes we take a loss

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publishing literature, but we make up for it put out

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a crossword puzzle books. But what about special friends, mister

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tigert oh, working on the premise that special friends can

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be special enemies. That happens in our latest mystery, Killed

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the Murderer Dead. It'll be released for publication may mister

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Tiger Peg had a very special friend who William Walter?

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Who is William Walder a writer? Or do I find him?

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I don't know. I have no idea Peg handled him.

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What made him so special? According to Peg, he was

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special because he was talent, the once in a lifetime talent. Personally,

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I've heard that phrase too many times. Last year, after

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such a talent, we had to publish Jumbo Crossword puzzle

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books five, six, and seven in a hurry. And that

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was the relationship between miss Ramsey and this William Walter

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publisher and writer. I think more. I think Peg had

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her times to be a publisher and times to be

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a woman. It's my belief from observing Peg, that she

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mixed the two up for this boy. What else about

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this William Walter? He was brought here from North Carolina.

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Brought here You mean your firm subsidized him a writer's dream.

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But no, he was brought here by a missus Janice Kirk,

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a self styled discoverer of talent. You Peg slightly brought

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him to her with a couple chapters of a novel.

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PEG believed in this boy, gave him an advance. And

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where do I find this missus Kirk? Oh? I can

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tell you that easily at the Ruxton Hotel. I've had

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cocktails with her there An attractive woman, the way those

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women from North Carolina can be. Now, will you pardon me,

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mister Clover And at the hotel, ask for Janice Kirk

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be told she's been seen entering the cocktail lounge. Go there.

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The headwaiter raises his eyebrows with an effort tilts a

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patrician head slightly to the left, and that way indicates

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the woman sitting alone, sipping the colorless drink, sipping the

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colorless music, weaving its frightened way through potted palms, and

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on her face, the smile of acceptance for the music,

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for the furtive cocktail time, laughter for the glances of

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men attached unattached. Hello there, missus Kirk.

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Speaker 8: I saw Alec heard his roman going here, ned Blauncher

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to me. Whatever the reason, I'm glad it's been lonely.

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Speaker 3: I'm from the police. Missus Kirk.

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Speaker 9: You didn't have to tell me there.

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Speaker 8: You could have let me believe you walked in here

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and seen a well an interesting face sitting alone with

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the lost thoughts, and you took pity in it.

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Speaker 3: You couldn't let me leave. I've just come from Alfred

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Tigert to Tigert and Ramsey.

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Speaker 9: Fred, you tell him.

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Speaker 8: I'm very disappointed in him. He hasn't asked me to cocktails,

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and well it must be hours now.

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Speaker 9: You tell him.

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Speaker 3: Man, he said you knew peg Rams thing.

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Speaker 8: Miss Rams, I've taken notice of her, talk to her.

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I remember, I wouldn't call that knowing a girl.

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Speaker 9: And why did he go and tell you.

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Speaker 10: I knew her?

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Speaker 3: She's dead and murdered. She gave her name as Mary

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Smith and was killed in a hotel room.

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Speaker 8: Why didn't you have a home of her own? I

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didn't mean to say that, Julie. I didn't mean to

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be flippant over there. Not a death like that, but

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an empty.

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Speaker 9: Way to die.

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Speaker 3: Tigard told me something else.

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Speaker 9: I'm sure he did. It was about the boy.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't he told me about a boy? Young writer? William Walter?

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Speaker 9: William? Sweet William, Sweet sweet William.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you can tell me more about him than Tiger did,

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missus Kirk.

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Speaker 8: I know I can't. I know more about him than

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I know about myself. Wasn't it I that discovered the

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burning tree of talent in him? Wasn't it I that

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beat him, tortured him, soothed him till he put it

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all on paper, figuratively, Natty, is I need that to him?

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Speaker 9: Figuratively?

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Speaker 8: Why isn't it I that brought him here so his

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poetry could cry out across your metropolitan sky.

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Speaker 3: I don't know you said that, I said, I don't know.

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Speaker 8: First William stayed here, right here, in this hotel close

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to me, and he took the living in all kinds

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of places, dismal places, deady little finished rooms and tenement

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sordid hotels.

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Speaker 9: Let me just high and drive for months so as

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he could taste your city.

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Speaker 3: Then you haven't seen that phone call for you, mister Clover.

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You can take it to here. Thank you, Danny Clover speaking.

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Speaker 6: You want it, Danny right away? Savannah Hotel?

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Speaker 3: Why gino?

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Speaker 6: A boy shot to death in one of the rooms

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Savannah Hotel, Danny.

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Speaker 9: The same one. I hate your telephones. They interrupt. Just

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something bad's happened, hasn't it? I know it from your face,

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something real bad.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you another thing, mister Clover.

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Speaker 5: I should have kept my big mouth shut about the

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reputation of the Savannah.

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Speaker 3: Right down here, same floora same hallway as the last

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time I was here, not only that same room. There

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he is, mister Clover.

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Speaker 5: You know who, Yeah registered about noon, gave his name

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as William Walter said he was a writer.

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Speaker 3: First time we ever had a writer. And in the

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room of transience yet another one sprawled there across the

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bed at a boy like a tired puppet, discarded, and

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the bullet hole in his temple gave him another quality,

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an attitude, suddenly and forever caught in an instant of time,

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and the gun held in his dangling fist, the end

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of him, the death of William Walter.

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Speaker 4: You are listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton

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Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective

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Danny Clover. A titled Englishman wine and dine at a

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Swank Park Avenue address is then mysteriously murdered. It takes

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no less than mister Cameleon, master of disguises, to make

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a dent in the hand of fate.

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Speaker 3: Murder case.

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Speaker 4: Follow mister Cameleon on this engrossing police operation. Tomorrow, Yes

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that's tomorrow on CBS Radio. Mister comeleion is now heard

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at a new time Sundays on most of these same

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CBS radio stations. On the eve of the Merry holidays

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Broadway treats its out to a ten cent sprig of mistletoe,

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stands under it, watches the women walk by.

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Speaker 3: They hug the warm fur close. Let the December wind

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riffle it against their mouths, their cheeks, Let the wind

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breathe them away from you. And for background, the music

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flowing out of the tinseled metallic throats of loudspeakers. And

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the kids standing carefully away from the assorted street corner

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Santa Clauss eyeing them, studying them, lifting great puzzled eyes

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to the grown up who holds their hand. Good huggin

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makes your glow. So find the coin, drop it in

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the pot, pay off for the year that never was,

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And in a room again the place of the dead.

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Be alone with it for a little while, Be alone

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with the boy with a bullet wound in his temple.

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The boy would come to the great city with poetry

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to offer, and in return had been given this, the

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end of searching, the end of pain. Be alone with

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it until Detective Mugvin comes back.

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Speaker 7: I had a little talk Burgess the manager Danny, like

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you told me, Yeah, says the boy made a big

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to do when he registered.

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Speaker 3: Just tell you why uh huh.

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Speaker 7: Seems as kid William Walder insisted on having exactly the

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same room where the girl was killed. Manager tried to

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talk him. I have it offered the mother rooms. Kid

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wouldn't have it any other way.

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Speaker 3: I think I know why.

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Speaker 7: Sure boy was a writer. That gives him a right

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the emotions the rest of us aren't privileged with. That's

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why he has to die in a room. Yeah, I

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guess I've been in it too long, Danny.

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Speaker 3: Here's why he wanted this room. Found it in his pocket.

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Marriage license.

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Speaker 7: I look at it there, thanks hm, issue to William

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Walder and Margaret Ramsey. That'd be Peg Ramsey, the murdered girl. Huh, Danny, Yeah,

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place like this, probably going to keep the marriage a secret.

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Come over here, magaphone found something else here on the desk.

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It's written so fine. Wait, I had to put on

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my glasses. Sure, go ahead, peg, beloved pig. All of

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it is done finished for you, now for me, for

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someone you breathe life into, then dying took it from him.

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Speaker 3: Done finished, he wrote this day. We'll check it out headquarters.

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I think we'll find he wrote it with.

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Speaker 7: A gun in his hand like that. This note how

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he insisted in the same room suicide.

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Speaker 3: Huh call it, Danny, Come on in, mugglemn been done

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a technical for an.

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Speaker 7: Hour more or less. Took me that long to get

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out of Gordon. What he knew as soon as I

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walked in. Now, guys like Gordon give mothers a bad name.

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Speaker 3: I can give you a rough time.

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Speaker 7: Have me looking through microscopes. Gave me a short lecture

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on the thing of spectro chemical analysis. Then when I

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didn't applaud, he got angry. Anyhow, the gun that William

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Walter allegedly killed himself with also fired the bullet that

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killed peg Ramsey.

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Speaker 3: Murder and suicide. I'm like, I guess, so what do

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you think? Take a look at this suicide note? I

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saw it, Danny. No, I know you saw it, but

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look at it again. It's a suicide note, is it?

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Speaker 10: M M?

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Speaker 3: Show me where he says he's going to kill himself.

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Show me where it says that.

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 6: Lady outside to see you Danny? What lady names Jonas Kirk?

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Sure in this way to see Danny Clover.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, that'll be all, sergeant, or please sit down, miss.

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This is Detective Mugavank.

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Speaker 8: I'm going to leave town tomorrow, and mister Clover, I see, Yes,

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this is a lonely city now.

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Speaker 9: I'm afraid of it. I'm afraid of it because so

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many things, mostly.

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Speaker 3: William Wall Yes. Oh, I want to say, Missus kirk House,

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sorry we are thank you, Missus Kirk.

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Speaker 8: One thing I'd like to ask you, just in the

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way you said, Missus, the little glance that just happened

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between you, you and this other gentleman.

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Speaker 9: The missus means I was once married.

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Speaker 3: My husband is dead, I see.

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Speaker 9: And just what interest I had in William? He was

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a great writer, I said. I was lonely. Now that

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William's dead, the world a little bit more lonely.

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Speaker 3: Too, though I know it. Just why did you come here?

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Speaker 9: I want to ask something of you, Maya.

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Speaker 3: Of course I brought William here.

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Speaker 9: I want to take him home. I want to bury him.

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Speaker 3: We've already sent a notification to North Carolina, to his

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next to Ken.

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Speaker 8: But in this case, don't you see it should be

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me who should take well, call it responsibility, call it whatever.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Missus Kirk. Until we hear from the next

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of Ken, we have Northorn.

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Speaker 9: I loved him?

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Speaker 8: Is that what you wanted to hear me say, go ahead,

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exchange glances again, snick a little bit behind your hand.

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Speaker 3: This is Kirk. What the lieutenant said.

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Speaker 9: Simply really makes no difference at all.

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Speaker 3: For a moment, consider her fury at being deprived of

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the dead boy, and understand it. Understand it because of

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the sudden statement of love for him, blurted out, bitter explosive,

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no longer to be contained. But let it also open

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a door on a new questions, the finding out of

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why a boy's life must be taken a boy of talent,

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a boy who was about to be married, a boy

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who had apparently scrawled a note against the insistent calling

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of death, murder, suicide, Make sure which Let it take

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you to a place you've been before, to a man

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you talked to before. I can't tell you how glad

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I am you came back to me, mister Clover. I

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just can't tell you how glad. Why, mister Taggert, Well,

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this is perhaps an uncalled for a thought after those

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dismal doings at the Savannah Hotel, even tragic, you might say,

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peg and that boy. Tell me, mister Taggert, Well, I

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was wondering just a fleeting thought. Mind you. Did you

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happen to find the manuscript at the boy's novel? Did

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he perchance die with it there in the hotel room?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 3: Oh, we didn't find it. Why well, you must forgive

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me for this rather scavenger like idea I've had, But

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not that. We won't take care of the boy's estate,

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mind you, but it seems a provocative publishing stunt. You

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want to publish the work posthumously. A boy kills himself

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leaves a novel that would make a splash in the

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literary world. Yes, I would have tried to put it

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more tastefully, but that's it exactly. Sorry, I can't help you. Then,

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I can't, for the life of me imagine what else

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we have to talk about. The reason why I came.

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I'm not sure the boy killed himself. He was going

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to marry peg Ramsey. Did you know that, Mary? No,

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I didn't imagine. You said you met the boy when

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he first came here, that you quickly a quick introduction

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from peg As I said his work impressed her, so

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I okayed in advance for him. That's why if you

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find the manuscript, I feel it rightfully belongs to me.

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That's all you knew of him, the advance peg Ramsey's

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interest in him sponsoring a vent, and the money I've

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already expended on him for advance publicity. On PEG's newfound genius,

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I even hired Tanto Jones, who Tanto jones Ace blurbst

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the Gui de mopissant of book jackets, told him to

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stick with water and get to his marrow. Find out

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everything about him, and write it in a hundred words

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to fit the back of a book jacket. I'd like

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to talk to a man who knew all about William Waller.

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You have his address, Greenwich Village. Somewhere the girl will

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give it to you on your way out. Mister Clover,

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you were going, weren't you? So downtown? Now to Greenwich Village.

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Turn off eleventh Street on the bank past the bargain

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basement bars for the floor shows, chuckle at the customers

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and the local color is prefabricated, and find an address

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another basement where the door is a painted mural of

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pink and satyrs with a motto in French over the

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brass knocker. When the door opens, the man puts a

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finger to his lips.

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Speaker 11: Sh it's the last side huh, Shamberg bought the records today.

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Come on, come on, everybody's inside, all right, grab yourself

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a hunk.

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Speaker 3: Of floor and sit. You don't mind, I'll stand. What

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did you bring?

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Speaker 6: What?

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Speaker 11: I told Bobett to tell everybody to bring a record?

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Speaker 3: Didn't she brought a bench? Hey? Who are you? Aren't

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you one of Barbetts police. I'm looking for Donald Jones.

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Why where is he me? What do you want me

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for your questions? Donald? By the way, where'd you get

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that name?

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Speaker 11: I spent a summer in Mexico trying to write. The

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natives gave me the name affectionately.

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Speaker 3: It's stuck. Now tell me what you can about William Walder.

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I was going to do his dust jacket for him.

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Give me that stuff on the cover of a book

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that tells how good it is. What do you mean stuck?

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Just tell me about William Walker.

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Speaker 11: I could have done it too, have somebody to support me.

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Speaker 3: I could have written a novel. Did William wall finishes

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about a week ago?

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Speaker 11: Pretty good too? Well, not that I would have approached

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his subject matter that way. Then you read parts of it.

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Other parts he read to us, to us people who

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drop in from time to time. We had varied opinions

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as to the novel significance. Of course, if you're the

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tag was satisfied with sheer entertainment value. Where is the

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novel manuscript?

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Speaker 3: Huh?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 11: He left it here for me to look over. A

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couple of days ago, Jannis picked it up. Jonas Kirk,

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she said, will he said her for it.

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Speaker 3: I gave it to her. We're disturbing your guest. Tonical

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back to him. I'm just leaving.

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Speaker 9: Oh oh, hello, mister Clover, I come in, missus Kirk.

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Well you don't want to talk to me now, I've

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been crying.

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Speaker 3: I look as only be a few minutes.

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Speaker 9: Do you promise?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 9: Come here? You wait right here. I'll go in the

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next room and do my face.

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Speaker 10: We can talk.

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Speaker 3: Well, go on, I've just come from Greenwich Village, Missus Kirk.

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I spoke to mister Jones. That's right, tontle Jones.

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Speaker 9: Do you know what tondle means?

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Speaker 12: No?

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 9: Crazy, satuous?

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 9: How do I look better? Of course I look better?

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Can you tell I've been crying? No, Now we'll talk.

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Speaker 3: Did you like the novel?

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Speaker 9: There'll be more explicit mister Clover, I'm always reading What novel?

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Speaker 3: Did you mean William Walter's novel?

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Speaker 9: Do you know something? I told you? I loved the

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boy Ndeed even after he was so cruel to me?

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Speaker 3: What about the no missus Kirk.

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Speaker 9: But that's what I mean. He didn't even let me

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read it, after all I did for him.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you didn't understand me, missus Kirk. I said, I

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saw mister Jones down in Greenwich Village.

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Speaker 9: He's alive about what about anything? He told you?

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Speaker 3: He said you picked up Walter's novel a couple of

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days ago. I don't think he lied. Nobody else has

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that manuscript.

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Speaker 9: And I suppose nobody we'll ever read it.

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Speaker 3: I suppose not, missus Kirk. Yea, you told me how

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hard you worked to foster the boys talent, how you

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brought me here to New York, how everything was wrapped

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up in that boy in his novel. Doesn't it bother

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you that the manuscript is missing?

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Speaker 9: Well?

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Speaker 6: Do you have it?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 9: No, I do.

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Speaker 3: Did you destroy it? Did you?

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Speaker 9: What difference does it mean?

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Speaker 3: I'm just curious to know what the novel is about.

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Speaker 8: That song I bend it before, I read it. As

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soon as I got it here, I tore it up

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and bend it.

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Speaker 3: That was the first part of it, wasn't it what

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to destroy everything about.

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Speaker 9: The boy, destroy somebody you loved.

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Speaker 3: How can you say that you loved him? All right?

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Only he was going to marry Pegramsey. Did he show

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you the marriage life?

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Speaker 9: He was never going to marry that Gily just wanted

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his novel published, that's all.

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Speaker 3: No marriage license usually means marriage. They were going to

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keep it secret, but they told you because you deserved

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to know, deserved you know.

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Speaker 9: Do you know why? They told me to be cruel

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to me, to laugh at me, to sat me in

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the face with it.

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Speaker 3: So you killed her?

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Speaker 8: Do you know what she said to me? Do you

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know what that girl said to me? I'll pay you

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for the train there you was spent to bring him

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to New York? If I had killed her, could you

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blame me?

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Speaker 3: But the boy? You said your love to him?

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Speaker 9: Him sitting there.

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Speaker 8: When I came into the room, I was ready to

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forgive him everything. I walked over to him, put my

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hands around his back. He shrugged him off, kept writing

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writing a note to a.

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Speaker 9: Girl who was Did you ever hear anything? It's crazy

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that not to a dead girl.

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Speaker 3: We thought it was a suicide note.

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Speaker 8: And he went over to the bed and he sprawled

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out and put his hands behind his head, and then

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he stared at me.

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Speaker 3: He stared hate at me, because you had killed Pegramsy.

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Speaker 9: He knew it, and he didn't go to the police.

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That made me think he still loved me.

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Speaker 3: Why didn't he go to the police, because he.

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Speaker 9: I crawled back to him.

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Speaker 8: He wanted me there so we could tell me how

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much hate he had for me, how much he despised me.

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Speaker 3: You didn't give him a chance. You destroyed him everything

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that he touched. You destroyed the final thing to ride

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on a train, and.

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Speaker 8: He'd be back there with a baggage, the litter and

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the animals.

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Speaker 3: Let's go, missus Kirk.

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Speaker 9: No one's going to do that to me what he

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did not to me. Who did he think he was?

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Speaker 3: Let's go. Night bursts opened like a sudden flame on Broadway.

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The crowd swarm dances between the silhouettes of a thousand buildings, dances.

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It's fury away against the time of morning, until the

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knight soaks up the sound and pain and colored and

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turns it into dawn. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most Violent,

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the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway My Beat.

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Speaker 4: Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,

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with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Krushian as Muggovin.

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The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with

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musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story,

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Betty lou Gerson was heard as Janice Kirk. Featured in

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the cast were Stan Waxman, Deeve Roberts, and David Wolf.

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You've probably heard the poets sing the praises of running Brooks,

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babbling Brooks, and he who brooks no evil, But you'll

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sing the praises yourself of our miss Brooks, starring Eve

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Arden Sunday nights on most of these same CBS radio

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stations as Connie Brooks. Eve Arden is sometimes running after

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a man, often babbling about men, and she brooks no

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evil that interferes with her pursuit of a man. So

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maybe the poets should sing her praises too, our miss Brooks,

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this is fun to here. Sunday nights on the CBS

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Radio Bill Anders speaking and remember Edgar Bergan and Johnny

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McCarthy opened a fire on Your Funny Bone Sunday nights

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on the CBS Radio network.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Well, not actually all that unusual for a writer to

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write a letter to a dead woman, because writers right,

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and that's how they process. So I have to disagree

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with our villain there. Well, listener comments and feedback now,

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and we have a comment from Jeff who writes regarding

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the Alex Raymond murder case, You're so right about Gordon.

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He is obnoxious and needs to be put in his place. Well,

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we've got quite a few episodes of Broadways My Beat left,

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so hopefully in one of those episodes it'll look her.

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Speaker 2: Thank you to.

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Speaker 1: Steven Patreon supporter since July of twenty twenty four, currently

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supporting the podcast at the Shawmus level of four dollars

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or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Stephen,

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And that will do it for today. If you're enjoying

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the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software

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and be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever

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you download it from.

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Speaker 2: We will be back.

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Speaker 1: Next Wednesday with another episode of Broadways My Beat, but

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join us back here tomorrow for Drag Netwere.

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Speaker 12: You and your sister lived alone here in the house,

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did you, ma'am?

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Speaker 9: Yes, Dorothy and I and the maids.

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Speaker 10: I don't want to stay here after what's happened, though,

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I'm going to my cousins in Vermont everyone to see

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this place again.

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Speaker 12: This, ma'am, understand how soon after you met Reynolds did

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he marry your sister?

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Speaker 9: A little over two weeks.

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Speaker 10: He'd been seeing her almost every night, taking her out,

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dance to the theaters, big dinners, bringing her home late

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and sit here in the living room. I could hear

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them from my bedroom upstairs, laughing, him telling her how

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beautiful she was.

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Speaker 9: Forty two year old woman.

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Speaker 3: Imagine that you're about the same age, or sister was.

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Speaker 10: Just about a little older. People always took us for twins,

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though there's a snapshot of me taking in my twenties.

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Speaker 9: The boy with me there.

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Speaker 10: He wanted to marry me my money, of course, that's

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all he wanted, too bad. Dorothy never seemed to realize

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that about men. Girls from wealthy families have to be careful.

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Speaker 12: And we understand Rayl's took your sister out of town

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to be married as any.

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Speaker 10: Yes, Las Vegas Reynolds had told her his bank funds

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were tied up temporarily in a Canadian bank. He wrote

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Dorothy a check for ten thousand dollars and she gave

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him her check for the same amount. He said he

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wanted to book reservations for around the world trip for

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both of them. I see the same day Dorothy gave

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him the check, he cashed it. The bank called her

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about it, and she said it was perfectly all right.

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Nour After he cashed at, Reynolds disappeared, no trace having

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Of course, it's check's worthless.

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Speaker 12: We found that out, and you figured that's the only

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reason your sister took her own life.

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Speaker 3: There's no other reason.

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Speaker 10: Wasn't the money so much?

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Speaker 3: Dorothy has her share of the estate.

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Speaker 10: It's a shame, I suppose, awful shame, disappointment. She should

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have known better a woman her age.

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Speaker 1: I hope he'll be with us then in the meantime,

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send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot Net.

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your host, Adam Graham signing off