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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're

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going to bring you a Christmas Eve special, but I

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do want to encourage you to follow the podcast if

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you're enjoying it using your favorite podcast software, and if

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you want to check out any of our Christmas related

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Old Time Radio Detective episodes, please check out Christmas feed

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dot Great Detectives dot net. We have all of this

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year's programs play those going all the way back to

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two thousand and nine. We also have Christmas episodes posted

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the Amazing World of Radio at Amazing Dot Great Detectives

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dot net and also over at the Old Time Radio

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snack Wagon at snackwagon dot net. Today, we're gonna bring

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you an episode of This Is Your FBI. And I

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actually enjoy this series, but in general, it's a series

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that I would tend to classify as much more of

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a crime series than a detective series, oftentimes spending seventy

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five percent of the listen time following the criminals around

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as a plot as opposed to being more focused on

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what the FBI is doing. Now, there are episodes that

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are exceptions to this, but it lands much more on

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that crime drama sort of side. As a general rule

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for the series, but I enjoyed the series. It was

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produced in Kuwah operation with the FBI, and it ran

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for eight years. During that time they established a Christmas

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tradition with their annual Christmas program which they would reperform

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each year. There are several versions of this story in circulation.

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I chose the one with the best sound quality. Now

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Here from December twenty second, nineteen fifty is the Return

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of Saint Nick.

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Speaker 2: The Equitable Life Insurance Society presents this is Your FBI.

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This is Your FBI, the official broadcast from the files

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of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presenter transcribed as a

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public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the

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United States, and the Equitable Society is representative in your community.

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The Equitable Life Assurance Society has nearly eight thousand trained

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representatives from coast to coast, serving over four million members. Tonight,

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one of our Equitable Society representatives has a brief but

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important message on social security.

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Speaker 3: The recent changes in the Social Security law mean ten

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million new people are now covered for the first time.

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Others have had their benefits greatly increased. Considering these changes,

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this Christmas season is a particularly good time to take

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a fresh look at your future, to examine just where

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you stand. To help you do this job easily, the

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Equitable Society has revised its famous fact finding chart for

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fathers and mothers. Let me advise you to listen carefully

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when in about fourteen minutes mister Keating will tell you

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more about this Equitable.

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Speaker 2: Chart tonight, FBI file number two nine eight. It's subject

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the Christmas season. Its title the Return of Saint Nick.

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Speaker 4: The United States is a young country in the family

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of nations, but already it has its share of national holidays,

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holidays that belong to these forty eight states. Those holidays

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are spaced from February to November, and of every one

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of those days, it can be said that they belong

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to the people of United States exclusively. But there is

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one legal holiday observed in this country that does not

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belong to us exclusively anymore than it belongs to any nation.

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It too celebrates a birthday, a birthday which has come

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to mean much in the hearts of millions of people.

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Speaker 5: A birthday we call Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Tonight's program, based on the holiday theme, has, by your requests,

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become almost a tradition in our series. It opens in

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an FBI field office located in a large eastern city.

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It is two days before Christmas and Special Agent Jim

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Taylor has just entered the office of Agent and Charge Sheridan.

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Speaker 5: Morning Jim, Good morning, sir. I got my report here

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on the Henderson case. Oh fine, just leave it on

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my desk, will you. Well you're officially on leave, aren't you, Jim, Yes,

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sir as of this morning, but I wanted to hand

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this in for a lift. You going out of town

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for the holiday, that's right, sir, flying home this afternoon. God,

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how long since you've been home on Christmas? Three years? Well,

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have a nice trip, Jim. Thank you, sir, and a

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very merry Christmas. Same to your.

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Speaker 6: Mister.

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Speaker 5: Yes, what is it? Where's the FBI right down there

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at the end of the horn.

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Speaker 7: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Wait a minute, what do you want with the FBI? Son?

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Speaker 7: We've got some trouble and I thought they.

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Speaker 8: Could help us.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I'm a special agent. Do you think I get help?

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Speaker 7: Are you a genie?

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Speaker 5: That's right? What kind of trouble do you have.

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Speaker 7: Santa Claus is missing.

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Speaker 5: That is trouble.

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Speaker 7: His name is mister Norton, and we've got to find them.

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We've looked all over.

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Speaker 5: Who looked over all the.

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Speaker 7: Soda fellas at the settlement house? We won every place.

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Speaker 5: All of you old fellas. Hold on your son.

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Speaker 7: I'll be ten next month.

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Speaker 5: I see, can you help us? Mister Well, I don't know,

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but I'll tell you what we'll do. First, Let's go

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downstairs and get an ice cream soda and you can

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tell me the whole story.

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Speaker 7: This is the settlement house, mister Taylor. Nice talking building here,

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and were going this store?

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Speaker 5: Go ahead.

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Speaker 7: Mister Williams's office is in there. He's a nice man.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure he is the store here, Yes, but first

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we must not Oh, I didn't know that.

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Speaker 7: Who are mister Williams?

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Speaker 5: Hello, Eddie, this is mister Taylor.

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Speaker 9: How do you do it?

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Speaker 5: Mister Taylor? I'm interesting.

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Speaker 7: Mister Taylor is a g man, he is, Yes, had

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got him to help us find mister Norton.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I see, I've got a run now.

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Speaker 7: Choir practice starts in ten minutes.

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Speaker 5: All right, Eddie, you go ahead. I'll explain everything to

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mister Taylor. I'll see you later, ready, mister Taylor. I'm

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sorry you were bothered by Eddie. Mister Taylor, Oh, it's

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not bothered at all. Mister Williams that he made me

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feel genuinely concerned. I'm sure he did. We're all very

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concerned about mister Norton. Well, if there's anything at all

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I can do, dono officially, of course, I'd be very

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happy to. That's very nice of you. What happened to

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this mister Norton?

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Speaker 10: Who is he?

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Speaker 11: Bob Norton has worked here at the Settlement House longer

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than anyone can read.

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Speaker 5: I've been here fifteen years, and he was here when

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I came. I see how old would you say?

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Speaker 11: Yes, I'd guess around sixty or sixty five. And his

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job nothing in particular. He did odd jobs around the

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house and returned for his room and board in a

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few dollars a month. The biggest job he had was

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being Santa Claus every year at the Christmas party. Every

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child in the house was crazy about him, and he

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loved every one of them, and.

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Speaker 5: Returned and he said he was missing. Is that true?

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Speaker 9: Yes?

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Speaker 5: I have no idea where he could have gone. What

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made him leave? That's the odd part of it. No

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one seems to know.

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Speaker 11: Yesterday sending one of the boys with a note to

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me saying he was leaving, immediately went to his room

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and he was gone. I'm afraid it's not going to

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be much of a Christmas for the children without pop

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or mister Williams.

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Speaker 5: Do you mind if I take a look around his room? Well,

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not at all. Maybe I can find something there that

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were ladies to Santa Claus is hiding good mister Williams.

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Mister Williams, may I see you for a moment. Oh

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certainly keeps singing? Boys? Could you find anything in mister

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Norton's rooms? Stealing all that thing? Rooms cleaned up? Tell

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me what do you know about mister Norton? What did

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he do in his day off? Who his friends?

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Speaker 11: And he never took a day off that I can remember.

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The only pleasure he got out of life, besides serving.

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Speaker 5: The kids was reading. He always had three or four

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books from the library down the street. I'll have a

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hunch mister Norton isn't going to be too difficult to find.

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And why do you say that, Well, from what you've

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told me, he's a man of about sixty with no

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outside interests. The only thing he likes or reading in children.

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That kind of a man doesn't usually run very far. Oh,

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pardon all.

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Speaker 9: Right, boys, you can rest a while.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, mister Taylor, please go on all I was about

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to say that I think he's probably still here in

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the neighbors, Taylor, mister Taylor, all already.

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Speaker 7: Excuse me?

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Speaker 5: What is it, Eddie, I've.

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Speaker 7: Been working on the case.

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Speaker 5: Good for you.

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Speaker 7: I spoke to a boy who saw Pop just before

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he left.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's fine, Eddie. What did he say?

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Speaker 7: He told me that he was playing with Pop yesterday

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when two ladies came into the gym.

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Speaker 5: Two ladies.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Pop saw me and he went and hit in

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a closet until they went away.

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Speaker 5: When was the city just before milk? Just before milk,

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Well that's at four o'clock. They all get milk and cookies. Well,

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thank you, Eddie, you've been a big help.

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Speaker 7: You're welcome.

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Speaker 5: I'll stay here a minute, Eddie, I've got another job

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Speaker 10: Gee.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Storias. Do you know these two women who came

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here yesterday? One of them was a missus Chester.

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Speaker 11: She's on the board of Governor's She brought a wealthy

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friend of hers to try to interest her in contributing.

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Speaker 5: To the house. I said, do you know this friend's name? No,

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I don't, but I can find it out for missus Chester.

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I appreciate you doing that, Eddie. You ready for your assignment?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, anything all right? I want you to go

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to the library down the street and see if mister

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Norton is there. Yes, and if he's not there, you

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wait around for him. I think he might come in

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for some new books. Mister Sheridan, May I see you

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a minute? Well, certainly, Jim, come on in. I thought

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you'd be on your way home by night, so did I.

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Oh what happened? Well, when I left your office this morning,

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a young boy stopped me in the hall and ask

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me for some help. Yeah, what kind of help? All

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he belongs to the Murray Street Settlement House, and it

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seems that they're Santa claus As dissipated. He wanted us

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to find him. I went back with him and I

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talked to the head of the house. Well, what's the story. Well,

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this mister Norton has worked at the settlement house for

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about thirty years, and then yesterday he suddenly quit. Why

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nobody seems to know, sir, except that he saw two

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women come in, and he hid in the closet until

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they left, and he packed his belongings and disappeared. I see,

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I know this isn't our case, servant. Well, I'd like

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to ask a favor. What is it We have no

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picture of this man, Sir, I'd like to have an

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artist go over to the settlement house, talk to the

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kids and make up a composite picture of mister Norton.

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Well what do you want that for. Well, I have

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a hunch that mister Norton's still in the neighborhood. I'd

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like to circulate the picture and see if we can't

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get him back to the settlement house and trying to

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be Santa Claus again this year. Well, now, what about

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your trip home? Jim? How I can wait today? I

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don't mind. All right, go ahead, we'll find an artist.

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More than that, you can use any facilities we've got.

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Thank you very much, Sheridan speaking.

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Speaker 9: Is mister Taylor there?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just the moment. It's few Jim. Oh, thank you, sir.

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Speaker 9: Hello, hello mister Taylor.

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Speaker 5: Oh, hello, mister Williams.

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Speaker 9: I've got that information for you.

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Speaker 5: Oh, that's fine.

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Speaker 9: The woman with Missus Chester yesterday was a missus Norman Montgomery.

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She lives at three to ten North Jackson Avenue.

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Speaker 5: Missus Norman Montgomery, three ten North Jackson. Thank you very much,

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mister Williams.

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Speaker 9: She must have been the one Pop was afraid of.

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Speaker 5: Oh why do you say that.

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Speaker 9: Missus Chester's been on friendly terms with Pop for fifteen years?

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Speaker 5: No, I see, Oh, mister Williams, I'm sending an artist over.

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I'd appreciate you letting him talk to all of the

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children so that he can make up a composite picture.

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Mister Norton for us.

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Speaker 9: We'll do anything we can to help mister Taylor.

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Speaker 5: Fine, he should be there in about half an hour.

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Speaker 9: Oh wait a minute, Eddie wants to talking.

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Speaker 5: About he is Taylor. Hello, Eddie, what did you find out?

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Speaker 9: Nothing?

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Speaker 7: I want to a library, like you said, but.

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Speaker 9: Pop never came.

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Speaker 5: Well, you go back there, Eddie and keep watching. Don't

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give up so easily.

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Speaker 7: All right, mister Taylor, I'll come back right now.

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Speaker 5: Not a boy. And Eddie, you tell all of your

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friends up there that if it's at all possible for

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the FBI to find Santa Claus, we'll have him there

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tomorrow night for that party. Just a moment, please, Missus Montgomery. Yes,

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my name is Taylor. I'm from the FBI. You have

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my credentials.

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Speaker 8: Man, What can I do for you, mister Data.

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Speaker 5: I'd like to come in and talk to you, If

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you don't.

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Speaker 10: Mind, I come here.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 8: What is it you want?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm checking up on something and I'd like to

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ask you a few questions.

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Speaker 8: What sort of questions?

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Speaker 5: Well, the first one would be were you at the

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Murray Street Settlement House yesterday?

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Speaker 8: Oh? Yes, I was with a Missus Chester. What has

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that to do with you?

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Speaker 5: Well, has nothing to do with me, Missus Montgomery. But

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it might have something to do with a man who disappeared.

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Speaker 8: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 5: Well, this man who disappeared seemed to be afraid of

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being seen by you, according to what I can gather. Well,

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that's merely a theory, Missus Mntgummy.

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Speaker 8: Why would he be afraid of me?

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Speaker 5: And that's what we don't know?

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Speaker 8: Who is this man?

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Speaker 5: This is a composit picture made by one of the

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artists in our office. Here you are. Do you recognize him?

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Speaker 8: Yes? I do. I haven't seen or talked with him.

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In the thirty years. But I know him?

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Speaker 5: Oh is he?

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Speaker 8: He's my brother, Kenneth.

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Speaker 5: Why would your own brother try to avoid you?

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Speaker 8: He had a good reason?

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Speaker 5: What's that missus mcgummy?

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Speaker 8: Kenneth is a common thief.

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Speaker 2: We will return in just a minute due tonight's exciting case.

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From the official files of your FBI.

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Speaker 3: Now a short announcement from the Equitable Life Assurance Society

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on its famous fact Finding Chart for Fathers and Mothers.

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Speaker 2: This year, there has been an unprecedented demand for this

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fact finding chart. Our revised nineteen fifty edition is practically exhausted,

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so better make a note to ask your Equitable Society

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representative for your copy right away. This is the last

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time you will be reminded to do so on this program.

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Remember this nineteen to fifty edition of the chart has

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been revised to take into account the recent changes in

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the Social Security Act.

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Speaker 3: These changes mean that the social Security benefits of thirty

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five million Americans have been increased fifty to one hundred percent,

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and the names of an additional ten million of our

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citizens have been added to the Social Security roles. In

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either case, the Equitable's Fact Finding Chart for Fathers and

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Mothers is just what the doctor ordered.

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Speaker 2: When you get this chart, you pretend for a few

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minutes that the breadwinner of your family has died before

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his time. The family's regular monthly income is cut off,

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but the children still need shoes, a roof over their heads,

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nourishing food, and how much is all that going to cost?

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Speaker 3: The fact finding chart for fathers and mothers will give

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you a reliable and accurate answer.

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Speaker 2: With their new Social Security benefits, how many additional dollars

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will they need every week until the youngest child finishes

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high school?

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Speaker 5: In five minutes?

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Speaker 3: The fact finding chart for fathers and mothers gives you

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an answer that you can trust, guide you every step

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of the way with simple, easy to understand pictures.

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Speaker 2: Once you have the facts before you, you can plan intelligently.

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Chances are that, with your present life insurance and your

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new Social Security benefits, only a small amount of additional

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life insurance will mean complete security. Your equitable representative will

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be glad to work out a sound an economical program

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for in any event. The first step is to ask

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him for a copy of the revised fact finding chart

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for fathers and mothers. No charge, of course, and no obligation,

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So get in touch with your equitable representative soon or

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write care of the station to the equitable life assur

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in society.

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Speaker 10: That's e q U I T A b l E.

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Speaker 2: The equitable life as your in society of the United States.

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And now back to the FBI file. The return of

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Saint Nick.

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Speaker 4: Hat is a vicious emotion which feeds upon itself and

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becomes greater as time goes on. It utterly destroys every

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person that possesses because it ruins their judgment by robbing

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them of their ability to see both sides of any question. Ultimately,

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it must dwarf the mind, and to such a degree

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that only a paramount shock can restore any degree of

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metal balance. As you can see from tonight's case, from

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the files of your FBI, hate can make two members

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of the same family stop talking for thirty years, for

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a period of time that is almost half the allotted

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time of man on earth. That kind of hatred can

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consume a person, an industry.

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Speaker 9: Or a nation.

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Speaker 4: Or when a nation hates that way, the lone possible

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outlet is war. No one person can prevent a war

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between nations, but every one of you can make this

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a much finer holiday season for yourself by resolving to

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live your life with full dignity as a human being

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and full respect for the rights of every other human

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being on the face of the earth. To Night's file

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continues in the apartment of Missus Montgomery.

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Speaker 8: Mister Taylor, I assume that your business with me is concluded.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I'm afraid it is, Missus Montgomery, and I'm sorry

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because you're the one person I hope could help us

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find your brother.

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Speaker 8: Where do you want to find him for?

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Speaker 5: Do you arrest him?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 5: Indeed, now, until his disappearance, he worked at the Murray

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Street Settlement House, and the children there love him. It's

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very important to them that he'd be found so that

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he can play Santa Claus at their Christmas point.

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Speaker 8: Well, I haven't seen him for thirty years. I have

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no idea where he might be, and frankly, I don't care.

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Speaker 5: Missus Montgomery, Why do you believe your brother is a thief?

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Would you mind telling me?

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Speaker 8: Well, if you'll promise to keep it confidential, I naturally

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want no publicity.

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Speaker 5: I assure you your story will not be publicized very well.

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Speaker 8: More than thirty years ago, shortly after my father's death,

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Kenneth forged my name to a check for ten thousand dollars.

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Speaker 5: How did you find out that he did it?

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Speaker 8: He's perfectly obvious. He was an irresponsible young man, and

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shortly after the forgeries cuddenly had a lot of money.

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Speaker 5: Anyone asked him where he got it, Yes.

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Speaker 8: He said he made it is a result of an investment.

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Of course, that was a lie.

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Speaker 5: Did you discover the fortugy yourself, Missus Montgomery, No.

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Speaker 8: I didn't, But of mister Bryant, who was the executor

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of my father's estate and an old friend of the family's,

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found out about it, and he came and.

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Speaker 5: Told me you never prosecuted the matter.

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Speaker 8: Oh, mister Bryant convinced me that I shouldn't risk ruining

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our family's name.

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Speaker 5: Missus Montgomery, did ever occur to you that your brother

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might have been telling you the truth?

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Speaker 8: He couldn't have.

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Speaker 5: Well, if you don't mind my saying so, I think

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that anyone who has his record with children deserves more

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of a break than that. Do you, bunny chance, still

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have that forge check?

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Speaker 10: Yes? I have it.

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Speaker 5: And would you have any samples of your brother's handwriting

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of that period?

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Speaker 8: Yes? And kept all of the papers in the case

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in a special file.

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Speaker 5: Do you have that file handing?

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Speaker 10: Yes?

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Speaker 5: I wonder if I might borrow it, But what purpose?

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I'd like to see if a hunch I have about

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your brother's innocence is correct.

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Speaker 8: Hello, mister Taylor, Oh.

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Speaker 5: Hello, ready have a chat? Well, thank you, Eddie. What

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are you doing wearing a mystage?

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Speaker 7: I bought a disguiskip, mister Taylor, so I could stay

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at the library and watch out for mister Norton without

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him recognizing you.

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Speaker 5: Idea. Oh tell me, do you see mister Norton?

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Speaker 7: Yes, I did, he did well. He didn't show up

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at all last night. I stayed until the library closed,

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but you told me to stay on it. So I

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went back this morning and he came to the library.

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Speaker 5: About ten o'clock, stuck me.

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Speaker 7: I tried to talk to him, but he said he

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didn't know me. He did, yeah, so I took off

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the red wig I was wearing, but he still said

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he didn't know me, and think you do that? And

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then he turned around and walked out of the library.

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I trailed him, just like I saw a detective.

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Speaker 10: Doing the movies.

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Speaker 5: Where'd you go?

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Speaker 7: I wrote down the address, mister Taylor. Here it is

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seventy one Vern Avenue.

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Speaker 5: That's not far from the settlement house, is it.

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Speaker 7: No, it's only about two blocks.

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Speaker 5: Good work, pardon.

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Speaker 8: From handwriting, mister Tailor.

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Speaker 5: Oh thanks very much.

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Speaker 8: What's that, mister Taylor?

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Speaker 5: I had some papers analyzed by our handwriting expertise.

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Speaker 7: Are you going to go to see partner.

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Speaker 5: In a little while? First, I've got another call to make.

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Look you go back over the settlement House. I'll see

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you there later on Good morning, Missus Montgomery. Good morningchem surely,

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thank you. I have some news about your brother.

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Speaker 8: What kind of news?

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Speaker 5: Well? I took your file of papers down to the

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handwriting analysis department at our office.

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Speaker 8: How did you do that?

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Speaker 5: Because I wanted them to study the signature on that

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forged check and then to compare it with samples of

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your brother's handwriting.

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Speaker 8: I don't understand why you had them do all that, well.

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Speaker 5: Missus Montgomery, when this crime was committed, modern scientific handwriting

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analysis was not used in cases of this kind. So

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today it's possible for experts to examine handwriting and to

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make a sound judgment based on their study. All those

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experts have just written a report stating that your brother

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did not forge that check.

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Speaker 8: I can't believe it.

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Speaker 5: Nevertheless, it's true. I know it isn't very polite to

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speak ill of the dead, but according to the report,

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the executor of the estate, mister Bryant, is the man

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who forged that check. That's right.

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Speaker 8: I don't know what to say.

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Speaker 5: I think that whatever you do have to say ought

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to be said to your brother.

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Speaker 8: But he's disappeared.

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Speaker 5: It was found this afternoon in a rooming house on

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Vernon Avenue.

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Speaker 8: Mister Taylor, I'm not a young woman anymore, and about

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all I have left is my pride. Will you Kenneth

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to come to see me tonight?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm sorry, missus Montgomery, but I think your brother

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is in pride himself. After all, he ran away when

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he was innocent. No, I suggested, if you want to

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see him, you'll meet us. Well, if everything goes well,

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we'll be at the settlement house at eight o'clock tonight.

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Who's there, misterton that's right, I'd like to talk to you, sir.

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Speaker 10: Come in.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, mister Norton. I'm from the FBI. There are

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my credentials.

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Speaker 10: What do you want here?

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Speaker 5: I came up to ask you to come back to

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the settlement house.

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Speaker 12: I'm sorry, but I don't think that that's any.

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Speaker 5: Of your business, quite right?

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Speaker 10: So it isn't.

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Speaker 5: May I ask you a question, what is it? Why

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did you leave? Oh?

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Speaker 12: Well, I just got tired of listening to all those

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kids yelling and screaming in my ears.

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Speaker 5: I find it pretty difficult to believe, sir, that anyone

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who spent thirty years with children as you have would

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suddenly get to dislike them that one.

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Speaker 10: Well, maybe that's not the reason.

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Speaker 12: Maybe I've got reasons of my own that I don't

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want to talk about.

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Speaker 5: Could it possibly be because of your sister who told

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you that? Well, I'm sorry if I seem to have

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pride into your affairs, mister Norton, but I've been to

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see your sister.

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Speaker 10: What for?

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Speaker 5: Well, I went there because I was trying to find you.

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She told me about that check for ten thousand dollars.

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She did, yes, And with the aid of the FBI laboratory,

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we showed your sister that you didn't forge her name.

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Mister Bryant was the guilty one. What did you say?

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I said, mister Bryant was the one who forged that check.

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How do you know that handwriting analysis proved it. You

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told this to my sister. Yes, sir, she believe you, Yes,

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so she did. She'd like to see you, she'd like

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to try to make amends. I asked her to come

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to the settlement as tonight. I don't want to see

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mister Nortonton. It's Christmas Eve. This is no time to

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feel that way.

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Speaker 13: She's coming to the Settlement house.

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Speaker 10: I I won't go.

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Speaker 5: Back, and I look, mister Norton, you're not going to

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let all of those kids down.

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Speaker 10: I just told you that.

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Speaker 5: On your coat and I hurry. We can get there

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for the beginning of the party.

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Speaker 13: Well, okay, started the snow just in time. Kids will

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be it happy. You know what makes you seem more

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like Christmas when it snows?

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Speaker 5: Sure does?

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Speaker 10: Eh? Here we are.

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Speaker 5: You go ahead and this one.

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Speaker 10: Thank you. M a little late.

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Speaker 12: I suppose the party has already started. I think, so

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I better hurry upstairs and get into my sandy close.

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Speaker 5: Send mister William's office. He told me to bring it right.

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Speaker 10: Oh fine, fine, you.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, and sir, I'll wait for you out here.

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Speaker 10: Well, thank you, hello, ken you.

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Speaker 8: Grace mister Taylor kind enough to invite me to the party.

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Speaker 13: Yes, sir, I know, I.

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Speaker 8: Know you haven't changed much. Kennon, m.

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Speaker 10: Kenn Grace. I'm sorry, sh They're they're not done.

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Speaker 8: Is I've falsely accused you were not.

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Speaker 10: Let's spaghett it, Grace, It's all in the past.

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Speaker 8: Can you ever forgive me?

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Speaker 5: I already have.

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Speaker 6: Oo.

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Speaker 13: No, no, no, no, this is no time for crying.

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Speaker 10: Race.

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Speaker 13: He's like, yeah, let me try your eyes right.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 10: Help me on with this costume, will you.

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Speaker 8: That's a Santa Class suit.

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Speaker 13: This is my annual job around here.

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Speaker 8: Wonderful.

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Speaker 10: I got to really hurry too.

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Speaker 13: Parties already started saying, will you hand me that Wigan beard?

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Speaker 8: Surely here you are again.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, the boys are starting to see I better.

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Speaker 13: Be getting out there. Well, will you join me at

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the party?

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Speaker 10: Grace?

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Speaker 8: Of course.

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Speaker 5: The boys are waiting for you, mister Norton.

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Speaker 6: I know, Harry.

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Speaker 5: Christmas, sir, very Christmas, mister Taylor.

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Speaker 4: Soon we will all begin a new year, a year

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that can bring us happiness, prosperity, and a rich, full life.

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But those goals cannot be attained without work, Without hard

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work and long concentration. There are few bits of advice

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that are applicable to everyone, but there can be no

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doubt that for each of us life will be richer

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and fuller if we follow one.

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Speaker 5: Set rule, if we live every day during the.

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Speaker 4: Coming year with the love and kindness in our hearts

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that we have on Christmas Eve, For in that way

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lies peace on a goodwill toward man.

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Speaker 2: Now a quick message from our Equitable Society representative.

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Speaker 3: On behalf of nearly eight thousand Equitable Society representatives, I

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wish you all a merry Christmas. Next week, phone or

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drop a note to your nearest Equitable man. He'll be

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glad to bring you the fact finding chart for Fathers

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and Mothers, revised to fit the new Social Security benefit.

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Speaker 2: Or send a postcard care of this radio station to

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the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. The

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incidents used into Night's transcribed Equitable Life Assurance Societies broadcast

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are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However,

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all names used are fictitious, and any similarity thereof to

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the names of places or persons living or dead is accidental.

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Tonight the music was composed and conducted by Frederic Steiner.

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Speaker 5: The author was Jerry D.

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Speaker 2: Lewis your narrator was William Woodson, and Special Agent Taylor

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was played by Stacy Harris. Others in the cast were

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Victor Rodman, Jeffrey Silver, Peggy Weber, Rowland Winters, and Carlton Young.

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This Is Your FBI is a Jerry Divine production. This

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is Larry Keating wishing you a merry Merry Christmas from

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the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and

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the Equitable Society is representative in your community and inviting

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you to tune in again next week at the same

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time to This is Your FBI. Stay tuned for the

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adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. There's fun for the whole

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family when Ozzy and Harriet come your way.

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Speaker 1: Next Welcome back. A very heartwarming episode. I also think

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that the stated moral message of the episode was stated

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very bluntly, but also effectively and briefly, and I think

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that there is a timeliness and a timelessness about the

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message about the impact of hate on families and nations.

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I also thought that Special Agent Taylor, played by Stacy Harris,

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does a really good job of bringing about the reconciliation

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by getting those two to swallow their pride on Christmas,

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Peggy Weber appeared, which is why mister Norton's sister sounded

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a lot like Joe Friday's mother. Roland Winters, who appeared

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in this was a recurring guest actor on This Is

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Your FBI, but he is probably best known as the

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last actor to start as Charlie Chan in the Charlie

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Chan film series. If there was one thing that was

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kind of weird to me, it was the ad campaign.

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I know that at the Equador Bowl was the long

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term sponsor of the series, but a what if the

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Breadwinner dies works? She doesn't seem like a great offer

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at Christmas time. Although it should be said that past generations,

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particularly those that have been through a depression in a

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world war, may have been a little less comfortable dealing

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with the eventuality of death.

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Speaker 10: Still, to me, for a.

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Speaker 1: Holiday program, it seems like this is one of those

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situations where you just do better to send best holiday

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wishes and save your sales pitch for next week. All right, well,

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listener comments and fadeback now, and we start with an

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email from Nicholas regarding our recent armcore of Horstone of

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the Desk Wall, and Nicholas writes.

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Speaker 10: High Adam.

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Speaker 1: In your rebroadcast of Horstones The Unheated Warning Murder Case,

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one character accuses another character of acting like they're in

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a ten twenty thirty melodrama. The phrase immediately aroused my curiosity,

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so I looked it up. Turns out it refers to

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the ticket price of this kind of theater where you

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could go see a low quality melodramatic movie or stage

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play in the early twentieth century, one with mustache twirling

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villains in the like. It costs ten twenty or thirty cents.

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Just thought your listeners might like to know. Well, thanks

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so much. I appreciate the comment, Nicholas, and I do

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know that there are some listeners who would like to

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know it, and other listeners who would apply the ten

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twenty thirty label to episodes of the Hummertz mystery programs.

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I don't generally read comments on older episodes, but I

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found this one somewhat encouraging. It's from Mechanics sixty six

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' eight two. Write it on YouTube, Adam. I caught

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the encore of this episode on Audible episode four four

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three six eight. Thanks for that. I've never heard of

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it before, and it got me to watch the first

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four movies, which I really enjoyed. Good comedy and good mystery.

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Polin Lloy had real chemistry. Well looking for this on

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YouTube so I could leave this comment. I see you

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played other thin Man episodes during earlier seasons and am

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looking forward to checking them out. Keep up the good work.

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Speaker 5: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So much, and I really do hope that when we

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share radio adaptations of movies it does get people interested

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to go and check out the movies as well, because

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there are some really interesting ones and it's fun to

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be able to compare the movie and the radio versions.

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Then we have a few comments from off the listener survey.

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A listener writing from Merritt Island, Florida, rites, I enjoy

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letting my mom participate in defining the story rather than

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having the TV do it. And then Dave writes, Adam,

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congratulations on the anniversary. The podcast has introduced me to

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some incredibly interesting programs I never knew about, such as

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Rocky Jordan, well also giving me a source to listen

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to Johnny Dollar and other favorites. I've appreciated your guest

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appearances on Atlantic City Radio with me. Wishing you a

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wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year. Well, thank

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you so much, Dave, and it was definitely fun to

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appear there and then have a comment from Esperanzia, who writes,

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I love Lieutenant Dana from the Man from Homicide. We

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need officers like that today maybe crime would discrease. I

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love all the mystery, detective and crime shows. Well, thank

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you so much, appreciate the comment, Esperanza. Now it's time

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to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I

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want to go ahead and think Carrie. Carrey has been

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one of our Patreon supporters since November twenty eighteen, currently

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supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven

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dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you

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so much for your support, Carrie, and that will actually

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do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please

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follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure

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to rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from.

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We will be back in three weeks with Matthew Slade

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Private Investigator, but join us back here tomorrow for Broadways

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my beatwear.

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Speaker 5: I'm suddenly proud of the hobby. Oh, mister Hockley, exactly,

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how deserning of you, but you'd better explain it to

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me anyway.

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Speaker 6: It gives me profound pleasure. This is an exquisite game

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I have created, mister Clover. You are now a part

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of it. I have made these certain people want desperately

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to kill me. I shall now make you want to

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stop them from killing me.

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Speaker 5: And what do you do during all this?

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Speaker 6: Nothing? Precisely nothing. I have set marvelous passions in motion.

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It's like a play, and I am dying to know

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what happens at the final curtain. Does it interest you, policemen?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 6: I shall make it more interesting. A proposal, my policeman.

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If I am not murdered and lying in the blood

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of my death at the end of this week, say

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I shall pay off with fifty thousand dollars to your

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favorite charity. Will you save my life, mister Clover?

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

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Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Attractives dot matt,

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from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Grahamson and

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all