Let George Do It: Cause for Thanksgiving (EP4238s)

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Thanksgiving Special. I do want to let
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you know that if you want more
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can find all of those over on
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Now it's YouTube dot Great Detectives dot
net. Now let's go ahead and
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get into our Thanksgiving special. This
is another one where we have played this
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program on the podcast, but it
was many years ago. I think it
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was season two or three. And
we have a much better sound quality version
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of that episode. And while we
will probably be doing replays future seasons,
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I did want a better version of
this episode before we bet off that rotation.
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So now let's go ahead and take
a listen to an episode of Let
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George Do It. The original air
date November the twentieth, nineteen fifty and
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the title is Cause for Thanksgiving.
Personal notice stanges my stock in trade.
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The job's too tough for you to
handle. You've got a job for me,
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George Valentine right full details. Standard
Oil Company of California, on behalf
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of independent Chevron Gas Stations and Standard
Stations throughout the West, invites you to
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let George do It Cause for Thanksgiving. Another adventure of George Valentine. Hello,
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yere, mister Valentine, what hello? Quiet? I'm ten years old,
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Haley? Is that you? Well, it's not Tom Turkey. Listen,
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my friend, I'm sure it's not. What's that ten year old stuff?
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You've been jumping the gun on the
cranberry sauce? All right, all
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right, all right, I'll say
it straight. I'm phoning on behalf of
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a little boy ten years old.
No, it's not, it's worse,
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said, little boy could no more
write you or letter than he could hope
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the joke. I doubt if he
can write? What's he can't talk either?
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Huh? You hurt me? I
said he can't talk? Oh,
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I don't mean there's anything wrong with
him, Or maybe there is. I
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don't know. But look, Valentine, get over here, will you right
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away? To my house? Well? Sure, but I want your friend.
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This little boy never heard of Thanksgiving. If you're gonna help him,
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you'd better bring your breast knuckles.
Oh, missus Riley's got him in there
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trying to coax them deweek. But
the only time he will take a bite
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is when she's turned it back.
Oh is he? Where'd you get him?
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One of the boys in my department
picked him up early this morning at
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three am on the waterfront of the
warehouse, laying. Oh see a little
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on the tough side. Oh,
they all are down there, like a
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bunch of dirty seagulls and scavengers running
loose. We can't even find out who
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he belongs to. Maybe nobody.
Only ten years old. Listen this sergeant
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of mine and a squad car and
then he runs him down. See the
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kid was racing across the empty street, not even looking well. Mike gets
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out to help. Naturally, the
kid wasn't hurt, but he swung on
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him. He trying to get away, scared to death and got and scratched.
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And then Mike realized the kid wasn't
talking, not a sound. That's
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the part I don't care clear it
of were you wrong? Well, Mike
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couldn't even find out where he lives, so he brought him in. My
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friends, that boy hasn't spoken one
single solitary word since, hardly a noise
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out of him. Oh, except
maybe to cry a little, only he
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stops that when you look at him. But utility's probably a mute. Uh.
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Two doctors were out from juvenile hall
to look at him. One of
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them said, the kid's faking,
but they both agreed there's nothing wrong with
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his vocal cords. And what's the
other doctor saying? Psychic shock? Oh
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you mean he can't talk because of
something that happened to him. They're not
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sure, they say, it'll take
time to be sure. I've arranged for
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the hall and take him over to
try to find his family if there is
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one, to feed him. But
that takes time, like you say,
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days. Wow, now you get
a pal. And the doc says it'll
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help him a lot better if we
could work fast, because the most likely
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thing is that last night he saw
something. What's mixed up and something that
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scared the blue blazers out of him, and he was running away a little
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before three am last night. I
saw something. Yeah, but what Nothing
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happened down there, Nothing was reported. My department can't just go bursting into
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him. Eh, well, hello
there, selly, Hello, you finally
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ate something, did you? He
dies, He listens, but he doesn't
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listen. Yeah, come on in
here, son, Come on, he's
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a friends of mine. See ah, Now wait him and don't jump like
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that. I'm not going to bite
you. Come on in. Hear of
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it? Really? What time is
it? Eh? One forty five Church?
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Hey, look kid, how about
coming with me. I've got an
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extra ticket to the big football game. Well, get you to meet Big
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Mike marre Levski, the All American. Maybe you can even sit on the
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bench with a team. He's just
more fright and he's crying. You see,
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you can't get him interested in anything
but a boy in a football game.
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I think the doctor's oh it's Thanksgiving, I mean a kid belongs in
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somebody's home on Thanksgiving? Well,
are you going to just sit there?
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Valentine? I know, softy,
I know we've got work to do in
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fast. Come on, Brooks,
you take the kid's hand. We're gonna
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go straight at this. At the
waterfront warehouse lane, great place, honey,
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afraiders tied up, but no people
ship chandlers. He must have spent
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some time around there, haven't you
a kid? How about the candy store?
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Wasting your time? George just seems
to get more and more tense.
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This is where he was picked up
right here, I'll relaxed, Honey,
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don't just sit there and look right
to left. So he must have come
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from this way. Okay, let's
move on. A little cobblestones by the
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empty warehouse. Huh, George,
look at it, it's this direction,
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right, George, look out for
that boy in the street, a street,
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your lovely neighborhood. I wonder if
that boy would know anything about our
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friend here. Hey you shorty,
Oh you want you bought it yet?
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You know me? Hey, hey
shorty, shutty? Wait George, George,
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come here, I'm having an awful
time hole. Oh look, kid,
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kid, stop it? Will you
run? To George. Yeah,
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no, easy, that's better.
Yeah, he'll get away from us if
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I try to catch up with that's
shorty. Look Brooks, he look,
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there's a I don't on house over
there at Murphy's. You know him.
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Take the kid over there and wait
for me, will you sure, George?
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Maybe they don't know something about it. I got at three am last
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night, the father out there in
the periods where it happened, whatever it
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was, So me, I'm gonna
take it on foot by myself. Look
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out, all right, sure,
I got you this, gotcha, polot
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out, get you cut it out. I just want to ask you something.
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You know that other kid I had
back in the car there, you
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know his name? I've never seen
him before. I've done nothing. What's
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your name? I don't know?
Like God, you kids running loose out
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here by the ships last night?
How was up by the moon eating cheese?
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Honey? Go brother? Great tribe, bunches stick together. Never tell
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anybody anything going out a little kid. I'm not a copper or anything.
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I just want to find the I
got one there, don't I know?
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You don't, Shorty? I got
you here, we are hold him.
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Let me go through his pockets Hey, hey, wait a minute this skip,
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What are you talking of? Cigars? Left him out on deck,
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stolen, stolen, shining store,
He hasn't got anything. Still big anyway,
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you're not going on? And what
go on? Shorty? Get out
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of here? You know help,
I tell you, j water rats,
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same the world all over all the
same. Good cigars to worst mate,
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Give him to me, so I
let him stay up town. Wait a
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minute, skip the wait a minute. Were you looking for another kid?
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No? Uh? Yes, something
stolen last night? You made during the
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night? Cigars, no rules half
known a few minutes ago. Come up
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right, like rat soap on the
horses. I tell you it's awful,
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Marseille. It was my last part. Same thing. Save the world over.
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Nobody stops from over the can stop
them. Hey, wait a minute
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a minute, skipper, this is
your ship tied up here, leaky old
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tub full of potatoes frenchman like potatoes, looks about ready to sail. Were
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you here last night? H what
do you peddley dope punchboards cheaply? God
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all listen, will you you have
trouble with kids getting aboard? Huh?
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Characters like you and ever report too, Doc loafers always kind of deal.
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Sure, I have trouble. That's
the customs peer watchmen. Nobody can stop
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them. You see those big rat
gods right over them like monkeys. Did
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some kids get aboard your ship last
night? No? No, I stopped
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pestering. Are you sure? Around
three am? Fight was on the pier,
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not the ship. What fight?
Oh that's the peer watchman. He's
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the one spreading the story. A
couple of bombers. I guess I don't
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know. My old deck watch was
sound asleep. Of course you didn't see
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it. No, yeah, I
don't know. Whoop me up? I
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hel up out of my port hole, went back to sleep. The escape
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away. I'm so glad to catch
you. Oh now a sailor comes ashore.
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I'm just going to take a minute. It's about a woman you see.
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Oh that I see and so nicey. But right now I want to
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put my main doc. Loafers all
trying to sell something. Now it's telephone.
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It's gone ball to get out of
here. Wait a minute, I've
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seen this guy before. Yeah,
well it's not mutual skip if you're just
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listening, named Salvory out Yeah,
I've seen him in the lineups. Are
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you around here last night? I
beg you pardon. Oh it's a great
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neighborhood. Salvory the big operator.
Last trip he was here selling raffle tickets
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for a three wheel automobile. Well
thanks and good night, you pressed to
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him. I'm going backwards. Yeah, hey, look at that. What
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do you now? What you want
to see us about Salfory? That crowd
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down at the pier? No,
no, no, I got come on,
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let's take a look after friends.
What's going on? Huh? Don't
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suppose you have fifty cents? You
so see? Yeah? No, Pela
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mine, See he's gonna buy me
Thanksgiving Toddy? You see you mind that?
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What are those men doing down with
the water fishing? Son? Fifty
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cents is about all would take though, you see now this old Pela mine,
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he would have spent five bucks,
you know, men's pie and the
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watch you know said the last knife? Hey, hey down there, awesome
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buster did you say last night?
Yeah? What are you know? Yeah?
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Sure? Now yeah, now it
seems to me that hell about that?
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Wow, he left in a hurry, didn't he? Body? Skipper
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got a body? What just fishing
him off? Guyot with a knife in
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him? Guy, yeah, with
a knife. Oh you see That's what
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I tell you. You see a
pelamine. He was gonna buy me a
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Thanksgiving dinner, see only instead it
looks like he got in a fight about
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three am last night. I figured
he got might a seen. So tell
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me, how's about the pitch stents. We'll return to tonight's adventure of George
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Valentine in just a moment. When
you RPM, motor oil was developed in
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the laboratory. It was subjected to
the most rigidly controlled tests that modern research
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could devise, and it proved tops
the oil that doubles engine life between major
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overhauls due to lubrication. The next
question was would it live up to these
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tests? In your car? Tonight
you'll hear the answer from the crews of
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two actual test cars in the heart
of downtown San Francisco. Following is a
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special transcription made during the road test
period. We sweat you to Test unit
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number one and research supervisor Carl Watson
in San Francisco. We can rather slow
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progress heading west along Market Street.
Test Unit number two is behind us.
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In the traffic we're driving under the
same kind of stop and go conditions that
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you do. The toughest kind on
engine ware. It's our job to see
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if New RPM will back up our
laboratory findings. I'll switch you now to
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research engineer Bob Burchell in Unit number
two. He'll tell you about these special
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cars and the data we are recording
from the instruments. Go ahead, Bob,
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this is Bob Burchill. The engines
in this test car and test unit
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number one ahead of us are both
equipped with irradiated piston rings, just like
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those in our laboratory test engine.
They also have Geiger counters attached so that
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we can hear and record where as
it actually takes place. We are making
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a comparison. Test Test Unit one
is using new RP, but in this
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car we have a well known conventional
oil in the crankcase. It is one
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of the best premium type oils.
Naturally, I can't review its brand name.
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Now, I'll hold the microphone closer
to the gyre counter, which detects
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minute particles of metal as they wear
off the irradiated pistoning. Hear that rapid
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clicking. That means a comparatively high
rate of engine were Now I'll switch you
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back to Carl Watson for a comparison
with New RPM motor oil. Come here,
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Number one, Miss Watson again,
Do you hear that slow click of
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the Geiger counter? That is an
outstanding low wear rate count. It's new
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RPM on the same condition type oil
you heard about a moment ago, Day
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in and day out, mile after
mile, the counters have clicked off the
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same story. Results. We've got
an a laboratory kiss on new RPM motor
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oil are checking out on the road, proved in the laboratory, supported in
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severe road service. That's new RPM
motor oil, the oil that cuts in
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care of your car. Now back
to tonight's adventure of George Valentine, a
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boy ten years old who's been scared
to death, who either can't or won't
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talk well. If your name is
George Valentine, you begin to understand the
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reason when you see the neighborhood in
which he was picked up by the police.
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You understand a good deal more when
you see that the body of a
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man has been fished out of the
water off the pier. Yes, now,
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it's certainly a case for Lieutenant Riley. Oh but what a case.
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They don't get solved around here,
my friend, they just happened. Okay,
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really did your boys pick up that
bomb? The guy who sniffed?
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Oh, he won't know anything.
Nobody does. The name of the corpse
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is Lefty Sims. Well, you
seem to know something. Well, everybody
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knew him. He's a common thief, that's all. Few big jobs,
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but nothing to steal down. He
usually worked the city. This wasn't his
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territory, it, Doc says the
Times about r I'd been dead since last
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night, around three or four may
be killed and then tossed in the water.
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What about the peer watch one?
He must heat covers five warehouses.
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How could he see anything? And
everybody off duty for the holly? Okay,
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Riley, what's this stuff where the
fight happened. It's a spot of
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blood, I figured on closer,
powdering little pieces of broken glass. What
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hey, here's some more of it? Yeah, doctor, yeah, yeah,
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doctor over here, we do you
thinking? What I am? Riley?
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Yeah? Hey, here, take
a look white powder and Donna pier.
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We're both no it's not talking about
dope, aren't you. Yeah,
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I don't think so faults alone,
doctor, I might explain why there was
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a fight. What was going on
out here? Something of value? Yes,
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yes, of course smuggling you think, uh, peddling, Yes,
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I'll do the thinking doctor, still
mess and perhaps something like that. Now
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I can run a tesk a valuable. Didn't I say that drug? Drug
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is some kind cure people instead of
making them sick, worth a lot more
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than dope. Too easier to market? Yeah, yeah, the same thing.
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Only did that watchman say there were
any kids on the pier last night,
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Valentine, I'm trying to get the
dock here the talking. Didn't watchman
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see any kids? No? Okay, so long. I wish I could
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head you, miss Brooks. That's
all right, mister Murphy. Come on,
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son said, even host here is
pretty badly under married Cleveland woman would
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be back tomorrow. She might know
something about the buy here again. Come
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on, get out of the street, you and the kid. Never mind
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any place here, duck in the
alley in this neighborhood, angel, I
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don't want to. I don't know
packing crate. You can't see he's gone.
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Now, what's happened? What's going
on? Simple brooks? A nice
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simple case. My guess is the
kid here was an eyewitness to murder.
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It'll be a simple case if he
isn't murdered. Oh kid, please talk,
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Please tell me what you what did
you see last night? Look,
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nobody's gonna hurt you. I won't
let him. You must have seen things
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like this plenty of times before.
Kid. I don't mean murder, but
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you grew up in a tough place, and you're not gonna do anybody any
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good if you just yes, he
just cries, George, I'm taking him
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home. You can solve your own
fancy waterfront murders. Okay, I'll leave
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him alone. But which one are
you covering for? Kid? Only a
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few men around that pier last night? Which one is that important to you?
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All right? Maybe you've given me
the answer at that without talking,
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says you. You admitted you saw
your left? He didn't you? Before
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he was murdered? I ten one
rally along the deck. Look, I
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promised me a nice Thanksgiving dinner.
See left, he can pass walking up
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to the pier and never come back. But didn't he say who he was
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coming out to meet? Didn't he
here we are rally. What's going here?
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Hey, Skipper, this is your
cabin, right? Oh? No,
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no minds for the ways, it's
all right, the owner's cabin.
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Nobody was you just want a place
to toss all raise. I'm going to
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say, come on you too,
Skipper. The name is Stove, isn't
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it. Yeah? Well wait a
minute, here's the other one. Bring
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him in here, sergeant, Let
go, Let go, mister salvallry,
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Now I have to stand rats on
my ship right, picked him up in
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the neighborhood, Skipper. That's all
for now, Sergeant. What about the
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kid Valentine? Oh he's all right, Riley. I uh, I left
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him in my car out on the
street. So because my name is Salvo,
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you think you were around here last
night too, Wasn't it always around
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stock loafers? Yeah? But don't
try to cover up so much, Skipper.
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What I listen to all of you. We can't find anybody else with
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a chance of being out here last
night, but you three. I was
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on my ship talking this peddler.
I said, don't cover so much.
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Salvory is a friend of yours.
Sure, sure, everybody's a Salvori's frank,
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except the law oh look, this
is a smuggle case. Oh what
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not on my ship. I've never
brought it. Lefty, the man who
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was killed, knew his way around
the city. Salvori, you're the big
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waterfront middle man. And Captain you've
got a boat. See where I meet
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cops. They got enough to spot
an ideal set up for smuggling. Captain
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Stove. You bring it in,
Salvory picks it up, gets it through
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customs, and left he fitted in
some place in the city. I think
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you crazy. Somebody was waiting a
little while ago to wale Miss Brooks and
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a kid who was an eyewitness Brooks
Brooks, Skipper, you're too fat to
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run down an alley like he did. Sure I heard his steps. Sniffy
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just shuffles. So tags Alfori,
you're rich because now I know why you
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ran the first time when we saw
the body. It's what proves you guys
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work together. Now I know you
because on the pier earlier you came up
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yelling to the skipper something about a
woman. Well, a woman must have
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been Miss Brooks. You'd seen her
with a boy, the witness. The
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two of you have been trying to
find sure Skipper. You were looking for
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boys. When I first met you
too, weren't you my cigars? That's
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all my cigar. Never mind,
Salvorie. The kid out there is going
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to give us the whole story,
and a lot straighter than you ever would,
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because I finally figured out his whole
story. I never been mixed up
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in it all smuggled, sure,
and never in the fight or use a
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knife. Why did you do it? Befty? Tried a double cross on
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you too. You're under arrest for
murder, SABORI come on, I'll take
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him out for you. Riley Le
take the other two. But I'm not
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mixed up in his terial witness and
accessory for you. Captain, please please
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not come on, come on out
the door. Meet you on the pier,
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Rilly, Hey, you nobody's sorry. Grab him you come on there?
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He goes down the plank. Yeah, head it farther up on the
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pier, up to the warehouse,
Samory. Do you think a sergeant saw
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him? Yeah? Sure, sure, you'll get him all life. Well
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that was a nice act, good
idea. Now come on, far's back
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the other way. Yeah. Hey, hey, did you notice that empty
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cabin on the ship, Yeah,
stings on the pillow empty. I'll bet
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I've always even been traveling with the
skipper. Sure it's a smuggling ring,
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all right, Still confused, don't
you, Riley? Oh it was originally
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a smuggle sure. Never mind.
He'll never prove anything on this bunch unless
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you catch him in the act.
And Riley, we're going to do just
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that. Well, it's the only
car in the street. We're close enough.
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But it's been five minutes already,
about tying that this hundred yours is
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going to pay off at better time
to run the other way, hasn't it.
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I don't see how you can do. Oh no, I didn't expect
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a gun. Come on, come
on around the side of the building.
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That's my car, Riley. I
hope somebody is going to pay for it.
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There he is. You're wasting your
time, Skipper. The car is
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empty, you hear me? The
kids uptown It was a trap, Skipper.
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The only one who'd stick his neck
into what trap is the one who
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did the stabbing, right, the
one who has to get rid of the
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kid, the witness. So we
don't even need to ask the kid,
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now, do I got them at
the hospital, Georgie, He says he
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I'll get his confessions from stow the
kids in there. I'm trying out a
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system. We write each other notes. What about the smuggle stuff? Those
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drugs they searched the ship. Ye, yes, they've already found some drugs
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hidden. I don't understand what did
you say writing notes? Don't you understand
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how the smuggle worked with a thief, a middleman and a skipper involved the
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drugs that couldn't be sold in this
country except through the proper channels. It
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would sell for a fortune Europe or
on the black market. Oh you mean
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it was to be smuggled out of
the country. That's right, Brooks and
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Lefty. The guy who was killed
stole the drugs and delivered them last night,
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but he got a knife instead of
a payoff, and the kids saw
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it. George, you mean the
boy he talked? He's all right.
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I guess he will be. See. I was afraid he was, well,
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maybe the skipper's son or something.
Yeah, I know, psychic shock
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his refusal to talk. But he's
not. He's only none of for a
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few weeks. Kid didn't even know
where he fitted into the plan until a
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few days ago. Oh, George, for heaven's sake, he doesn't have
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any parents. Books and just a
waterfront kid, but not nearly as tough
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as the eggs. What's missing in
the smuggle set up? There's customs on
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the other side. You know,
who gets the goods into the other country
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off the ship? The boy you
mean, he was a partner. Nobody
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can stop him all over the world, up and down like monkeys. Perfect,
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isn't it. Yeah, if he'd
been with me, you should have
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noticed empty cabin on the ship with
grease stains on a pillow. But Salvori
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is bulled. We better buy some
shampoo for that kid. By the way,
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he was a Yeah, he saw
the captain go ashore to meet Salvory
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and Lefty. He saw the murder, and he broke out and got away.
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Let me talk to him. It's
ridiculous business of writing notes. Oh
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sure, he'll talk now. Just
been scared to death, that's all.
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Only wanted was to be happy.
He was expecting to be happier than he'd
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ever been before. George, if
you don't stop playing Clervlin and the captain's
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the only one who could have brought
the kid, therefore, made him afraid,
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made him run ashore. Therefore,
Brooks, he the skipper, was
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it well? Don't you remember how
the kid reacted when I asked him to
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go to a football game. Just
puzzled, Georgie is writing sure, sure
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is gives me more time to look
the words up in the dictionary. Ah,
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sure right, That's why I wouldn't
talk before. He wants to stay
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in this country. Great, we'd
find him out. He's from Marseille,
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he's friends. Wait, Marchie ma
Shimla. That week he monsieur you dic
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hey friend? Uh here, give
me the pencil and the dictionary. You
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think you could stand it? Tw
dinner, George Turkey, we one language.
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I guess it is Thanksgiving, isn't
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Standard Stations throughout the West. Robert
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greg as Brooksy. Let George Do
It as written by David Victor and Jackson
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Gillis and directed by Don Clark,
Whilely Mayer is Lieutenant Riley Alan Reid was
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heard as Stove, Dick Ryan as
Sniffy, Anthony barrett A Salvory, Jeffrey
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Silver as Shorty, and Stephen Chase
as the Doctor. The music is composed
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and presented by Eddie Dunstedder your announcer
John Houston. Listen again next week,
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same time, same station two.
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Chest to help all year. This
is the mutual Don Lee broadcasting system Welcome
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back. One thing I'll about the
Let George Do It episodes from before nineteen
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fifty one was Wally Mayer as Lieutenant
Riley. Such a great actor, and
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he manages to make his character so
interesting with some cynicism, but also with
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a real true fondness and friendship for
George and a kind heart. He also
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has the power to hear and respond
to the narrator, as happened at the
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return from Commercial break. Now in
the twenty first century, the idea that
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the only way to make money on
the sale of prescription pills was smuggling them
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out of the country might sound counterintuitive
or even naive. However, World War
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II had created many shortages in Europe
that were years being resolved, and that
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does include medication. The persistence of
the black market would make prescription drug smuggling
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an appealing crime and even more profitable
than any sort of domestic prescription abuse.
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I also really enjoy the commercial.
It was a really neat treat that might
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have worked better on television, but
was still interesting in radio. As they
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described this experiment, I've been thinking
about doing a interesting commercials edition of the
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Old Time Radio snack Wagon, and
this one might actually fit the bill.
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Overall, I thought this was an
enjoyable Thanksgiving special. Unlike some others,
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it doesn't have heavy handed uses of
turkeys or pilgrims, or even make the
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Thanksgiving me all the centerpiece of the
story, but it does use Thanksgiving as
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a backdrop and also to provide a
nice emotional payoff as well. I hope
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you enjoyed this episode and again a
reminder to check out or other Thanksgiving specials
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this week over at the Old Time
Radio Snackwagon tomorrow at Snackwagon dot net and
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our annual World of Radio Thanksgiving special
on the Amazing World of Radio podcast at
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Amazing dot Great Detectives dot net.
Well, now it's time to thank our
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Patreon supporter of the day, and
I want to go ahead and thank Max.
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Max has been one of our Patreon
supporters since November twenty fifteen, currently
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supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant
level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or
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more per month. Again, thank
you so much for your support and that
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will do it for today. If
you are enjoying the podcast, be sure
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to follow us using your favorite podcast
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podcast at videotheater dot Great Detectives dot
Net, we have our final new public
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domain video theater episode of twenty twenty
three, an episode of US Marshall.
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We'll be back next Sunday with our
Sunday Encore, but join us back here
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tomorrow for our last episode with Sam
Spade for now, as we bring you
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another adaptation of the Maltese falcon wear. Spade, come in, I have
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come in. Oh yes, so
you have, mister Spade. Tell me
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I am I have blamed Plasta.
You want us if Thursday was dangerous?
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Of course you lied to us about
your sister and all that, but that
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doesn't count. We didn't believe you. Oh help me, mister Spade.
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I need help so badly. I've
no right to ask you, but I
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do ask you. Help me.
You won't need much of anybody's help.
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You're good. You're awful good.
Its chief for your eyes. I think
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in that throb you get into your
voice when you say things like help me,
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mister Spade. I hope you'll be
with us then. In the meantime,
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do send your comments to Box thirteen
at Great Detectives dot net. Follow
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us on Twitter at Radio Detectives and
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dot com, slash Great Detectives from
Boise, Idaho. This is your host,
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Adam Graham signing off.