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Thank you so much for your support, Daniel. Now it is time for
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this week's episode of Dangerous Assignment.
The original airedate November the fifth, teen
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fifty two, and the Tottle is
the Smuggling Racket. Dangerous Assignment Transcribe,
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starring Brian don Levez Steve Mitchell.
Yeah, danger is my assignment. I
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get sent to a lot of places
I can't even pronounce. They all spell
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the same thing though, of trouble. But when I walk into the Commissioner's
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office, I don't realize that this
assignment's going to show that sometimes the only
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way you can win is to let
the whole deal go up and smoke worry
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You sent for me, Steve?
Do you know anything about higher eye handball
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game Latin style? Isn't it fast
and furious and pretty rugged? Especially if
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you get conked with the ball,
it'll kill you. Well, here's hoping
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you don't get conked, because you're
going to attend the highlight games at one
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of the arenas in Avana tonight,
and you're going to bet on the team
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of Danniell and Scobol. Are they
good? And the Frainers are there.
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We're only interested in the man who
is going to take her bet. What's
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this all about, Commissioner. Well, sometime now we've been trying to crack
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down on a smuggling ring operating out
of Avanner running a regular shuttle between Florida
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and Cuba. What are they running? You name it, everything in the
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book, including illegal entry. Now
and then, we finally got a lead
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on the organization, Steve, from
someone working on the inside at the boy.
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I'm the contact, the one who's
going to take my bet. Right,
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he'll be at the front on palace
window three. You place your bet
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and when you open your wallet,
let him have a glance at your credentials.
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He'll take it from there. Get
whatever information you can from him,
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track down that organization and smash it. Well that said, Steve, you've
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got your assignment. Good luck.
The National Broadcasting Company is presenting Dangerous Assignments,
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starring Brian don Levy in the role
of Steve Mitchell, colorful two fisted
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government agent. At all those places
of the world where danger and intrigue walk
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hand in hand, there you will
find Steve Mitchell on another dangerous assignment.
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A sufficient supply of blood and blood
plasma to save the lives of our wounded
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soldiers in Korea continues to be of
the utmost importance. Now the reserve is
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still at a critically low EBB and
to give our wounded gis the blood they
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must have to save their lives and
speed recovery. A minimum of three hundred
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thousand pints a month is absolutely essential. Whole blood and blood plasma are the
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one treatment for which medical skill cannot
provide a substitute. There is no sense
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at all to the donor except the
good feeling of knowing some wounded soldier will
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be thankful all his life for what
the blood donor is giving. So remember,
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make an appointment at once with your
nearest Red Cross Blood center. Here,
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I've got my assignment, Goddana Evan. I bet a couple of bucks
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on a team of highlight players and
hope it pays off with the information we
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need to nail a ring of smugglers
operating between Cuba and the United States.
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It's late afternoon when my plane sets
down in Havana. I check in at
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my hotel, and that night I
wander over to the fronton Palace, a
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large indoor arena used for highlight games. Thir teams on the floor are going
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out. It hot and heavy and
the cloud is building steam. I watch
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him for a while and then I
ease over to the window number three to
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place my bed. I'll put a
five spot on Donnie, Ellie and Scobee.
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That's quite a crowd here tonight to
night and every night in your He's
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a very popular sport in navana Ui. Thanks, here's your five. Actually
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see your There is an alley in
the back of the building. I will
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be working in my car half an
hour, so you meet you. I'll
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be there. I get back to
my seat and watch the players until about
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half hours up. Then I he
is around to the alley in the back
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about the ticket seller sitting in a
parked car close by. He doesn't answer
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when I come up. I reached
in and he puffles over on the steering
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wheel. He has worked at the
front tone for the past two years in
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Francisco, Rolas. No police record. That's all we have on the dead
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man. Huh. Hold on?
Unfortunately, is you say he was involved
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with the smuggling ring, Senor Mitchell. So we were led to believe he
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was going to fill us in and
that only somebody with a knife got to
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him first, someone obviously from the
organization. They must have known he was
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going to talk. Yeah, where
was Rhodes's staying? According to his identification
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card thirty six Passel de BARACOA.
Let's go over and shake it down.
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The police send and and I house
all over to the dead man's department.
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Spend a good part of the knights
giving it or going over nothing. See
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next morning he isn't alone when I
walk into his office. This is what
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said, dieah ago it dockworker,
Senor all right, there was a story
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in the morning's paper or the murder
back of the front tone last night,
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Senor Mitchell Jose read about it and
came straight to police headquarters. Ohse,
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tell Senor Mitchell what you have just
told me last night, Seno. I
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was at the front tone to the
games, you know AFT at ten o'clock.
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I live the arena. I had
promised my wife I would be home
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early. Go on. As I
walked past the alley entrance in the back
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of the building, a man come
running out. We collided. He continued
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to run, but as he passed
under the street light, I see his
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face. You recognize him? She
He was Senor Carmody Armedy, an American.
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He has lived in Havana a good
many years. She myself. I've
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never met him, but I have
seen him many times. He's well known
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here, shall we say a sportsman
Senior Mateleie has a fondness for high speed
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automobiles and motor boats. Also he
owns an airplane and a yacht. Well
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that sounds very interesting, Lieutenant,
Yeah, very interesting. I also just
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we pay a call on Senor Karmody, my second emotion. Well, by
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the way, you mentioned you had
placed a bed at the fronton and Danielle
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and Scobo. That's right, don't
tell me they lost. Armedy's place is
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a low rambling ranch house at the
edge of town. He greets us at
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the door wearing a black silk dressing
gown and a white muffler. He's carrying
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a tall glass at the Nato juice
and an obvious hangover. We follow him
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inside. You meet an old friend, Ralph Pauson morning, gentlemen, mister
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Mitchell, Lieutenant Marino Utan well his
department. Oh, don't ask me what
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this is all about, Ralph,
I wouldn't know. Sit down, James,
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thack it and let's get on with
it. My mood is not getting
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any better. I'd just like to
ask you a few questions. Comedy,
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Sure, where were you last night? Last night? Brother? A lot
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of places, Mitchell. So they
tell me go anywhere near the front and
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palace, Say around ten o'clock the
frontone. No, no, I don't
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think so. Look what's it all
about? Murder? Murder? A man
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named Francisco Rhodis was murdered in the
alley behind the building a few minutes after
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ten o'clock. Hey, there was
something about that in the morning paper.
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Say, what's this got to do
with me? Someone saw you running out
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of that alley shortly after the crime
was committed. What now see here,
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Mitchell? Are you accusing? Hands? Want to know what karmad he was
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doing there? He was with me. We had dinner at the yacht club.
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Yeah, that's right. Still in
the time. Now, we met
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at the club around seven. You
can check with the waiters. They'll tell
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you what time did you leave?
All around tenth thirty? Can I check
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that with the waiters too, Oh
of course. Look wait a minute,
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Ralph, No, I need to
stick your nick out on my account.
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What he says is true, Mitchell. We had dinner together at the club,
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but I left thirty hourly, a
little before nine thirty. Ralph had
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a phone call to make I remember
that much, not too much more.
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I'm afraid have a rough night.
Yeah. While I was waiting for Ralph,
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I spotted some friends at the bar. I went over, had another
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couple of drinks, and the next
thing I knew I was outside. Go
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on, Well, there's not much
more to tell. I remember walking down
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the street. Do you haven't need
a ruiz? It's a sort of big
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After that, I finally got home
around here about midnight. It's dead man.
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What was his name? Uh?
Rhodis, Francisco Rhodis, Never heard
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of him? What did you do? He was implied at the front thon
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signor still doesn't register? Lieutenant,
Perhaps it will send you on after you
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have taken a ride with us to
police headquarters. Come along. We take
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Comedy down to the brig. The
witness, hose A Diego, positively identifies
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Comedy as the man he saw running
away from the scene of the crime,
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and the local law books Comedy on
suspicion of murder. A few minutes later,
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friend Pawson shows up with a lawyer, until the lawyer goes in to
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see Comedy and Pawson tags after me. As I walk out of police headquarters.
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I spend the next couple of hours
with him as he fills me in
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on Comedy, and the rest of
the afternoon checking on names and addresses he's
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given me. It all adds up
to a big nothing. Late in the
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day, I wind up on the
Avenida Rulers near the yacht club. I've
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got a copy of the morning newspaper
with me Comedy's picture on the front page.
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I showed around peddler's, shopkeepers,
bartenders. No one remembers seeing Comedy
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last night until I run into a
cab driver several blocks down the street.
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These one send you say, see
I remember him? Oh boy, ten
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dollars American? He give me you
sure this is the man? Jeez?
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Could I forget ten dollars? Where
did you pick him up? All right
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here on this corner? What time? Oh? Early? I think,
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Holy Joe story nine thirty or so, Jay say, it's possible, nine
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thirty. Where did you take him
to the front? On palace fronton?
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No, sen No, I drive
him to Sebastian's Casino. He's on the
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other side of town. Oh,
Lieutenant Morano speaking Steve Mitchell, Lieutenant,
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I'm calling from Sebastian's Casino. See
looks like maybe Comedy isn't our boy.
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After all, what half a dozen
employers of the casino remember seeing him here
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last night, including a couple of
house cops who bounced him out of the
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joint for creating a disturbance. What
time was it that you arrived a few
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minutes before at ten? Was given
the bums Russia a half hour later,
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which means it could not have been
in the alley back of the front tone
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at the time of the morning.
Right, looks like we'll have to start
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all over, Lieutenant. You can
start, you in your fingernails. I'll
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be over to join you. I
hurry out of the casino, start down
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the narrow street, but I don't
get very far. At car suddenly pose
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away from the curve across the way. My dust, but not fast enough.
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If you want your child to have
the best elementary schooling you can give
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him once you got a pencil and
paper to take down the address I'm going
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to give you at the end of
this message. Unless we start preparing now,
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in a few years, our public
schools will be as behind the times
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as the Little Red Schoolhouse. Because
of the huge increase in our birth rate
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during and after the last war.
It's estimated that by nineteen fifty six,
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there will be some seven million more
children in elementary schools than there are now.
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We must start preparing at once.
More equipment will be needed, textbooks,
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playgrounds, and above all, more
elementary school teachers. Now to help
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assure your child of proper education,
join and work with local groups and school
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boards, and for free information about
how people in other communities are improving their
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schools. Right to this address,
National Citizens Commission for Public Schools to West
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forty fifth Street. That's National Citizens
Commission for the Public Schools to West forty
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fifth Street, New York, nineteen, New York. Now back to dangerous
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assignment and plan. Don Laville,
Steve Mitchell, So you are all right,
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Lieutenant Moreno, I'm just dandy.
Brother my head. There's calf one,
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the doctor, as you say,
has bondages, and they get here.
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The cob driver brought you in.
What happened? I got shot at
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as I was leaving the casino after
you telephoned me. The comody wasn't declared.
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Yeah, he must be. All
of those witnesses there couldn't have lied.
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They all swore Comedy was there at
the time of the murder. I
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think we all have another talk with
our obliging little witness. I swear to
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you why I'm telling you truth.
Look, how could you have seen comedy
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in the alley behind the front on
palace and half a dozen people swear he
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was in the casino at the time. How do I know how such a
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thing would be? All I know
is it was Lieutenant Morano's speaking. What
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very well, fingering that will be
off for the president. Diego, you
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will wed in the next room.
See what now? An American woman is
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saying, you're a Henderson insists on
seeing me. She says it has to
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do the matter we are investigating.
Oh, come in, Lieutenant Marina.
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Yes, and may I present Senor
Mitchell. How do you do missus Henderson?
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What can I do for you?
Senora? I'll be brief. My
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name is Barbara Henderson. I'm from
Miami. I arrived here in Havana two
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weeks ago looking for my husband.
Oh you see, he left me during
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the war. His name was Jim
Henderson. We were married in Baltimore in
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January of nineteen forty four. I
see, and you have reason to believe
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your husband is not here in Hallana. Yesterday I found out without a doubt
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that he's here. Look, missus
Henderson, this is all very interesting,
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but I don't quite see what it
has to do with the case we're investigating
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right now. Justice see this picture
in the newspaper. The man you're here
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is the suspect. Sure his name
is Carmody. No, you're wrong,
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mister Mitchell. That's my husband.
Jim Henderson was kind of and I look
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at each other. All of a
sudden, the whole case is busted wide
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open again. We have Carmody brought
in from this cell. Missus Henderson promptly
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drapes herself on him. Jem,
Hey, what is this, oh gym?
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Please? Why did you leave me? Look? What gives here?
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Who is she? Mitchell? Missus
Henderson, And she says, you're mister
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Henderson. What Jim, don't do
this to me. Look, I've never
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seen this dame before in my life. Why he's lyng Lieutenant. He is
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Jim Henderson. We were married in
Baltimore in January nineteen forty four, and
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he deserted me. Yes again,
I was in the army in New York
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in January nineteen forty four. I
could have married this baby in Baltimore.
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You were in the army, I
sure was. You can check that,
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Mitchell. I don't worry, Carmody, I will missus. Henderson gives us
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the name of her hotel and leaves. We send Comedy back to his cell
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and I get off a cable to
Washington about him. Then we send for
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Porson, who promptly swears he was
with Comedy in Europe during nineteen forty four.
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The three of us waiting Lieutenant Marino's
office for a reply from Washington.
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Every time Porson finishes a cigarette,
he methodically rips open the paper, scatters
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the tobacco flakes in the ash tray, and crumples the paper into a tiny
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ball. Finally, Marino can't stand
it anymore. Why do you do that?
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Nerves? That's army, isn't it? Porson? Yeah? Yeah,
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you ever had a police at campyard, you'd know why, Marino. The
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tobacco flakes mingle with a dust,
and the crumpled up paper is a lot
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less noticeable than a cigarette butt on
the ground. Very sensible. Yeah,
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Comedy taught me that when we were
in together. Hey, look one,
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are you guys going to lay off
him? I told you we were in
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Europe together? How could he have
married that woman. How could he have
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anything to do with any of this? Come in, ah, the answer
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to your cable, Mitchell, Yeah, well Harmody was in Europe in January
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nineteen forty four. And now you're
satisfied. Yeah, look, it's pretty
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obvious to me that this guy Henderson
is the one you really want. Look
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sad way, come on, lieutenant, Let's check with missus Henderson again,
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see if she can give us any
further information on her husband. We check
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at missus Henderson's hotel, but she's
not in the church expects her back momentarily,
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so we decide to wait in the
room. Very mystifying case. Mitchell,
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Yeah, either there is a guy
named Henderson and he's our man or
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what I don't know. Something bothering
me about this whole setup. What is
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it? Can't put my finger on
it. I know what you mean?
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Is Missus Henderson to show up?
It has only been a few minutes.
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You sick? I thanks? You
know this whole deal has been one big
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Murray go around. Of course,
that's a lot of time right now.
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You're right, But what else can
we do? That's a good question.
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Hey, wait a minute, what
is it? Ashtray? See what about
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it. Take a look. Just
a couple of cigarette butts with lipstick ands
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Mitchell, yeah, lakes of tobacco
and tiny bowls of cigarette paper. Paws
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I said this deal had cost us
a lot of time. It's just the
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way it was planned. Come on, we head for Pawson's apartment. He's
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not there. We do a fast
check up on him and uncover a couple
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of very interesting facts, one of
which sends us high tailing down to the
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waterfront. This is the place,
Mitchell, Yeah. Pawson's lawyer said he
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owned that little cluster of fishing boats
out there at the pier. If I
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will get your ten that he's on
one of them right now, getting ready
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to shove off. You take one
side, I will take the other.
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We split up. I work my
way along the row of boat, which
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they're all dark except for small deck
lights. Then suddenly I spot somebody climbing
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aboard one of them. It's Missus
Henderson. I slip aboard and grabb her.
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But just then something hard connects with
the back of my head. I
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go on my knees. Sorry,
Mitchell, I've been standing out here on
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taking the dark for several minutes,
waiting for Barbara. You know, Pauson,
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you're giving this head of mine a
pretty year off goal. First decrease
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it with a slug, and you
massage it with a gun. But like
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I say, I'm sorry, all
right, lean against the rad You'll be
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okay, thanks, I guess I
will. You've been leading Marino and me
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and Mary chasing the deal. First
you hire Jose Diego to swear that he
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saw Karmedy near the scene of Rhoda's
murder. We find out that he couldn't
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have been. Then you hire your
pal Barbara here to pose this missus Henderson
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with a phony story about her husband. Sounds to me like you've been working
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for a time, right, forty
eight hours of it, to be exact,
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It's taken me that long to convert
my Havana holdings to cash. Sure,
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I could have taken a potter right
after I killed Rhodas, but I
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had to leave broke. This way, I'm caring about one hundred grand with
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me heading the smuggling ring. Must
have been profitable. Oh yes, you
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see, Mitchell. If I hadn't
given you a bump steer right off the
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bat, you'd have probably concentrated more
on the victim's background. You'd have discovered
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it used to work for me in
the fishing fleet here. That probably would
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have gotten you interested in me right
off the bat. I had to stall
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that off until I got my money. Ah. You did a pretty neat
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job of it too, if it
hadn't been for those crumpled cigarette papers and
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barbers whom I might never have tumbled. Oh so that was it, Eh,
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very careless of me. What are
you waiting for a party? Killing?
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Not here? It's too noisy.
You're coming out with us on the
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boat, Mitchell, Oh, bully
for me. Okay, let's get started
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hardly. I got if you came
down here alone. Mitchell, your friend
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Marina must be around. If we
start the boat now, he'll flash a
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warning to the harbor patrol. So
we'll just stand here in the dark,
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nice and quiet until he comes along, and we'll take care of him first.
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Really, Senor, watch out,
Marina, I've got him. Oh
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sorry, Barbara, Oh girl,
you're not leaving. Go relaxed, okay,
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Lieutenis. Yes, your shot was
quite wild, and before I could
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return it, you had taken care
of him quite effectively. Well, I
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sort of felt I owed him,
then, Marina know you were on this
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boat, Mitchell. Your signal told
me signal sure. Porson gave the idea
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when he told me to lean on
the rail. See that little black deck
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light beside it. I was patching
my hand back and forth in front of
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it while I was talking to Porchon. My body screamed it from you.
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I figured the flashing light that bring
Marina, which you did in the nick
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of time. Yeah. I guess
you might say you finally saw the light.
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Huh. Our star Brian don Levy
will return in just a moment.
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What did you do for your country
today? Stand guarded some lonely outpost,
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stand watch on the cold, windswept
bridge of a patrolling US maybe destroyer,
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No, but you can still do
your park to guard peace. The piece
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that is for the strong. Make
today your d day. Buy an extra
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bond for defense, and then keep
buying them regularly. There's no safe for
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sure investment than with United States defense
bonds, and you build security not only
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for yourself, but your country too. When you buy defense bonds, they
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serve to combine America's economic strength with
its military strength. And it's this combined
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strength that protects your town, your
home, your right to work and prosper
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in peace. And remember if you
don't save regularly, you generally don't save
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at all. So join the payroll
savings plan where you work, or sign
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up for the Bond a month plan
where you bank. Make today your d
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day. Buy defense bonds. Always
remember defense is your job too. Next
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week, Turkey, I nominate myself
for a slab in the Morgue and that
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will be Steve Mitchell's Dangerous assignment next
week in Florordon. Tonight's cast were Harry
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Bartell, Tony Barrett, Nest Piver, Herbellus and Kay Stewart. This is
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John Storm speaking Dangerous Assignments, starring
Brian don Levy in the role of Steve
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Mitchell, with Herb Butterfield as the
Commissioner. Is written by Bob Bryf and
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Adrian John Doe and is produced and
directed by Bill carn be with us again
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next week at the same time when
Brian don Levy, starring in the role
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of Steve Mitchell, Will Bark got
another transcribed dangerous assignment tomorrow. Here both
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The Judy Canova Show and Truth Are
Consequences on NBC Welcome Back. This was
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a really neat story. It made
good use of the twenty five minute time
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and it was really quick and fast
paced. And I like the twist of
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all of the red herrings being because
the murderer was playing for a time before
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he could convert his assets into something
he could take out of the country.
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Overall, just thank a really well
written, in fun story. Well,
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we turn now to listener comments and
feedback and Francis along with her checks and
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along a question bold venture in the
future perhaps, Well, thanks so much,
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Francis. I appreciate the donation and
the question slash reminder about bold Venture.
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Currently, the plan with bold Venture
is that we will present it when
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we launch the Adventure series in twenty
twenty five, and that will remain the
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plan as long as there aren't any
complications, which I don't anticipate there will
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be. Thank you so much for
the question of Francis. Then we go
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to YouTube your comment about a henchman
speaking up and telling his boss he's sick
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of him calling him stupid or unintelligent. In the recent Philip Marlow movies,
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Liam Neeson, the henchman actually does
that. Oh good to know it.
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I guess that's another point for seeing
it. Angel rites in regarding dangerous assignment
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when he walks into the boss's office. Brian don Levy never knows up he'll
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end up redacted, right up to
the time he walked into the sponsor's office
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and found he'd end up period.
Though I'm a constant listener and try at
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least everything old time radio, Dangerous
assignment is just too wooden for me.
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It's on a path with the man
called X, but the latter is,
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if not lifted at least eleven by
Leon Malasco as pegon Zelschmidt. Dangerous Assignment
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rolls tediously and painfully on shot bearings. Did I mention I'm an auto mechanic?
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Dangerous assignment is a you go puffing
behind the man called X, a
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dour trebaut the police procedurals, both
of these fitting a broadcast of the style
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run the gammut as do all the
styles with many entrants? What's wrong with
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a dangerous assignment and the man called
X? Listen to Nightbeat and Dragnet whatever
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Steve Mitchell and Ken Thurston Lack,
Randy Stone and Joe Friday have got.
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I'm also an imp. I'd like
to have heard Richard Diamond or Sam Spade's
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rendition of any Man called X or
Dangerous Assignment storyline. Thanks as always for
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presenting all well, thank you so
much, angel I appreciate the comment.
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It's kind of interesting. In the
last few weeks we've gotten this comment,
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and then we also had one or
two saying I don't get mister cameleon.
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And of course, back when we
started the podcast, I knew that in
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order to get the most people listening, not have to have a pretty broad
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range of shows, because a lot
of people who would love Pat Novack for
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hire would have no interest in the
Sherlock Holmes and I guess this is the
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same sort of thing now. I
think you can enjoy a series and still
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see it shortcomings, and I think
with Dangerous Assignment there can be a situation
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where it kind of just becomes Steve
goes out in search of the mcguffin of
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the week. And I can also
get how the opening might seem a bit
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repetitive, and it's interesting in a
way. It made the Dangerous Assignment TV
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program, and after a few episodes, the series started to vary its opening.
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Not all of the episodes began with
Steve in the Commissioner's office, Now,
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some of this might have been an
actor availability issue with per Butterfield,
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they had other episodes where he did
meet with someone. In that case,
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it tended to be like a deputy
played by Lyle Talbot. But they had
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episodes where Steve had already got in
his assignment and they were starting in mid
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action, and there seemed to be
a recognition with a TV show that it
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made sense have some variety in how
the show opened, but in the radio
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program it didn't change, even though
by this point in the radio program history
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all the episodes of Dangerous Assignment on
TV had been released. So it's interesting
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how that creative direction didn't seem to
transmit back from television to radio. But
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that said, I think there are
some things that really do make Dangerous Assignment
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appealing to me. I love the
sort of globe trotting nature of the series,
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even though I don't like that we
have so many episodes that happen in
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non specific cities and non specific countries. I think the mysteries, just like
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in uh this week's episode, are
generally pretty solid, and I also love
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these sort of adventure and action elements
that work into the whole story and then
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also into the big finales. I
also think that Steve has an approach to
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solving problems that's kind of interesting and
different from other detectives. So I enjoy
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the series, and you know,
I appreciate though that other people's opinions can
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vary. Now there is no case
I'm aware of of script rereuse from Dangerous
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Assignment or the Man Called X to
another detective series. The closes I have
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is that there is a script for
The Silent Men that became an Beat story,
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and there's also a Sam Spade script
that became a Mister Moto story,
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which was actually the first sort of
espionage spy detective series we played. So
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hopefully I'll eventually do those as some
of the twice told stories that we do
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at a listener support campaign time.
But again, thank you so much appreciating
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the comment, Angel. And then
I have a comment on Spotify from de
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Glossia regarding the Stars on the Air
episode of House on ninety second Street we
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played as a four two hundred episode
special the Person Rights, This was a
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good episode. More from this series
plays Adam, Well, thank you so
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much. We've got a few episodes
of Stars on the Air that are circulating
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but most don't fit in the detective
genre. I think the only one that
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did was The House on ninety second
Street. However, stars in the Air
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and Hollywood Soundstage. Really, we're
just screen Gold Theater by another name,
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and I think you'll definitely hear some
more Screen Guild Theater episodes as we go
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along. Thank you so much for
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tomorrow for mister Chameleon, well missus
Slowbell, who survives him besides yourself,
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his niece and a nephew. That
is Harper. Well, there are two
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other nieces, one in New Zealand
and one in California. And of course
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cousin Lucy Billingsley, she's an orphan. She lives here in New York.
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And who are Silas Harper's as we
are? Mister Camellion. That is to
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say, my wife, Harriet,
is you are his soul? Lair?
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Missus Flowbell. Yes, Uncle Silas
himself gave me his will last night.
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It's right here. He gave it
to you last night, just before he
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was murdered. Very convenient. What
do you mean by that? I mean
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I want to know exactly where you
and your husband were last night at the
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time your uncle was murdered. I
was in bed that when I was here
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too? Is that correct? Miss
Slowbear? Your husband was here with your
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I don't know where he was.
I was asleep. What are you trying
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to do to me? Harriott?
Tell this man Chameleon the tooth how you'll
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Thank you so much for your support, Daniel. Now it is time for
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this week's episode of Dangerous Assignment.
The original airedate November the fifth, teen
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fifty two, and the Tottle is
the Smuggling Racket. Dangerous Assignment Transcribe,
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starring Brian don Levez Steve Mitchell.
Yeah, danger is my assignment. I
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get sent to a lot of places
I can't even pronounce. They all spell
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the same thing though, of trouble. But when I walk into the Commissioner's
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office, I don't realize that this
assignment's going to show that sometimes the only
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way you can win is to let
the whole deal go up and smoke worry
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You sent for me, Steve?
Do you know anything about higher eye handball
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game Latin style? Isn't it fast
and furious and pretty rugged? Especially if
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you get conked with the ball,
it'll kill you. Well, here's hoping
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you don't get conked, because you're
going to attend the highlight games at one
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of the arenas in Avana tonight,
and you're going to bet on the team
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of Danniell and Scobol. Are they
good? And the Frainers are there.
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We're only interested in the man who
is going to take her bet. What's
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this all about, Commissioner. Well, sometime now we've been trying to crack
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down on a smuggling ring operating out
of Avanner running a regular shuttle between Florida
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and Cuba. What are they running? You name it, everything in the
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book, including illegal entry. Now
and then, we finally got a lead
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on the organization, Steve, from
someone working on the inside at the boy.
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I'm the contact, the one who's
going to take my bet. Right,
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he'll be at the front on palace
window three. You place your bet
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and when you open your wallet,
let him have a glance at your credentials.
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He'll take it from there. Get
whatever information you can from him,
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track down that organization and smash it. Well that said, Steve, you've
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got your assignment. Good luck.
The National Broadcasting Company is presenting Dangerous Assignments,
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starring Brian don Levy in the role
of Steve Mitchell, colorful two fisted
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government agent. At all those places
of the world where danger and intrigue walk
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hand in hand, there you will
find Steve Mitchell on another dangerous assignment.
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A sufficient supply of blood and blood
plasma to save the lives of our wounded
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soldiers in Korea continues to be of
the utmost importance. Now the reserve is
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still at a critically low EBB and
to give our wounded gis the blood they
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must have to save their lives and
speed recovery. A minimum of three hundred
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thousand pints a month is absolutely essential. Whole blood and blood plasma are the
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one treatment for which medical skill cannot
provide a substitute. There is no sense
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at all to the donor except the
good feeling of knowing some wounded soldier will
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be thankful all his life for what
the blood donor is giving. So remember,
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make an appointment at once with your
nearest Red Cross Blood center. Here,
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I've got my assignment, Goddana Evan. I bet a couple of bucks
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on a team of highlight players and
hope it pays off with the information we
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need to nail a ring of smugglers
operating between Cuba and the United States.
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It's late afternoon when my plane sets
down in Havana. I check in at
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my hotel, and that night I
wander over to the fronton Palace, a
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large indoor arena used for highlight games. Thir teams on the floor are going
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out. It hot and heavy and
the cloud is building steam. I watch
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him for a while and then I
ease over to the window number three to
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place my bed. I'll put a
five spot on Donnie, Ellie and Scobee.
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That's quite a crowd here tonight to
night and every night in your He's
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a very popular sport in navana Ui. Thanks, here's your five. Actually
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see your There is an alley in
the back of the building. I will
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be working in my car half an
hour, so you meet you. I'll
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be there. I get back to
my seat and watch the players until about
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half hours up. Then I he
is around to the alley in the back
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about the ticket seller sitting in a
parked car close by. He doesn't answer
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when I come up. I reached
in and he puffles over on the steering
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wheel. He has worked at the
front tone for the past two years in
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Francisco, Rolas. No police record. That's all we have on the dead
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man. Huh. Hold on?
Unfortunately, is you say he was involved
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with the smuggling ring, Senor Mitchell. So we were led to believe he
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was going to fill us in and
that only somebody with a knife got to
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him first, someone obviously from the
organization. They must have known he was
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going to talk. Yeah, where
was Rhodes's staying? According to his identification
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card thirty six Passel de BARACOA.
Let's go over and shake it down.
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The police send and and I house
all over to the dead man's department.
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Spend a good part of the knights
giving it or going over nothing. See
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next morning he isn't alone when I
walk into his office. This is what
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said, dieah ago it dockworker,
Senor all right, there was a story
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in the morning's paper or the murder
back of the front tone last night,
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Senor Mitchell Jose read about it and
came straight to police headquarters. Ohse,
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tell Senor Mitchell what you have just
told me last night, Seno. I
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was at the front tone to the
games, you know AFT at ten o'clock.
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I live the arena. I had
promised my wife I would be home
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early. Go on. As I
walked past the alley entrance in the back
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of the building, a man come
running out. We collided. He continued
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to run, but as he passed
under the street light, I see his
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face. You recognize him? She
He was Senor Carmody Armedy, an American.
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He has lived in Havana a good
many years. She myself. I've
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never met him, but I have
seen him many times. He's well known
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here, shall we say a sportsman
Senior Mateleie has a fondness for high speed
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automobiles and motor boats. Also he
owns an airplane and a yacht. Well
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that sounds very interesting, Lieutenant,
Yeah, very interesting. I also just
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we pay a call on Senor Karmody, my second emotion. Well, by
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the way, you mentioned you had
placed a bed at the fronton and Danielle
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and Scobo. That's right, don't
tell me they lost. Armedy's place is
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a low rambling ranch house at the
edge of town. He greets us at
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the door wearing a black silk dressing
gown and a white muffler. He's carrying
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a tall glass at the Nato juice
and an obvious hangover. We follow him
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inside. You meet an old friend, Ralph Pauson morning, gentlemen, mister
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Mitchell, Lieutenant Marino Utan well his
department. Oh, don't ask me what
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this is all about, Ralph,
I wouldn't know. Sit down, James,
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thack it and let's get on with
it. My mood is not getting
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any better. I'd just like to
ask you a few questions. Comedy,
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Sure, where were you last night? Last night? Brother? A lot
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of places, Mitchell. So they
tell me go anywhere near the front and
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palace, Say around ten o'clock the
frontone. No, no, I don't
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think so. Look what's it all
about? Murder? Murder? A man
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named Francisco Rhodis was murdered in the
alley behind the building a few minutes after
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ten o'clock. Hey, there was
something about that in the morning paper.
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Say, what's this got to do
with me? Someone saw you running out
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of that alley shortly after the crime
was committed. What now see here,
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Mitchell? Are you accusing? Hands? Want to know what karmad he was
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doing there? He was with me. We had dinner at the yacht club.
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Yeah, that's right. Still in
the time. Now, we met
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at the club around seven. You
can check with the waiters. They'll tell
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you what time did you leave?
All around tenth thirty? Can I check
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that with the waiters too, Oh
of course. Look wait a minute,
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Ralph, No, I need to
stick your nick out on my account.
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What he says is true, Mitchell. We had dinner together at the club,
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but I left thirty hourly, a
little before nine thirty. Ralph had
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a phone call to make I remember
that much, not too much more.
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I'm afraid have a rough night.
Yeah. While I was waiting for Ralph,
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I spotted some friends at the bar. I went over, had another
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couple of drinks, and the next
thing I knew I was outside. Go
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on, Well, there's not much
more to tell. I remember walking down
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the street. Do you haven't need
a ruiz? It's a sort of big
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After that, I finally got home
around here about midnight. It's dead man.
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What was his name? Uh?
Rhodis, Francisco Rhodis, Never heard
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of him? What did you do? He was implied at the front thon
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signor still doesn't register? Lieutenant,
Perhaps it will send you on after you
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have taken a ride with us to
police headquarters. Come along. We take
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Comedy down to the brig. The
witness, hose A Diego, positively identifies
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Comedy as the man he saw running
away from the scene of the crime,
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and the local law books Comedy on
suspicion of murder. A few minutes later,
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friend Pawson shows up with a lawyer, until the lawyer goes in to
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see Comedy and Pawson tags after me. As I walk out of police headquarters.
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I spend the next couple of hours
with him as he fills me in
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on Comedy, and the rest of
the afternoon checking on names and addresses he's
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given me. It all adds up
to a big nothing. Late in the
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day, I wind up on the
Avenida Rulers near the yacht club. I've
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got a copy of the morning newspaper
with me Comedy's picture on the front page.
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I showed around peddler's, shopkeepers,
bartenders. No one remembers seeing Comedy
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last night until I run into a
cab driver several blocks down the street.
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These one send you say, see
I remember him? Oh boy, ten
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dollars American? He give me you
sure this is the man? Jeez?
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Could I forget ten dollars? Where
did you pick him up? All right
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here on this corner? What time? Oh? Early? I think,
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Holy Joe story nine thirty or so, Jay say, it's possible, nine
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thirty. Where did you take him
to the front? On palace fronton?
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No, sen No, I drive
him to Sebastian's Casino. He's on the
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other side of town. Oh,
Lieutenant Morano speaking Steve Mitchell, Lieutenant,
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I'm calling from Sebastian's Casino. See
looks like maybe Comedy isn't our boy.
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After all, what half a dozen
employers of the casino remember seeing him here
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last night, including a couple of
house cops who bounced him out of the
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joint for creating a disturbance. What
time was it that you arrived a few
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minutes before at ten? Was given
the bums Russia a half hour later,
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which means it could not have been
in the alley back of the front tone
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at the time of the morning.
Right, looks like we'll have to start
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all over, Lieutenant. You can
start, you in your fingernails. I'll
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be over to join you. I
hurry out of the casino, start down
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the narrow street, but I don't
get very far. At car suddenly pose
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away from the curve across the way. My dust, but not fast enough.
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If you want your child to have
the best elementary schooling you can give
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him once you got a pencil and
paper to take down the address I'm going
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to give you at the end of
this message. Unless we start preparing now,
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in a few years, our public
schools will be as behind the times
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as the Little Red Schoolhouse. Because
of the huge increase in our birth rate
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during and after the last war.
It's estimated that by nineteen fifty six,
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there will be some seven million more
children in elementary schools than there are now.
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We must start preparing at once.
More equipment will be needed, textbooks,
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playgrounds, and above all, more
elementary school teachers. Now to help
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assure your child of proper education,
join and work with local groups and school
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boards, and for free information about
how people in other communities are improving their
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schools. Right to this address,
National Citizens Commission for Public Schools to West
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forty fifth Street. That's National Citizens
Commission for the Public Schools to West forty
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fifth Street, New York, nineteen, New York. Now back to dangerous
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assignment and plan. Don Laville,
Steve Mitchell, So you are all right,
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Lieutenant Moreno, I'm just dandy.
Brother my head. There's calf one,
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the doctor, as you say,
has bondages, and they get here.
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The cob driver brought you in.
What happened? I got shot at
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as I was leaving the casino after
you telephoned me. The comody wasn't declared.
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Yeah, he must be. All
of those witnesses there couldn't have lied.
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They all swore Comedy was there at
the time of the murder. I
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think we all have another talk with
our obliging little witness. I swear to
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you why I'm telling you truth.
Look, how could you have seen comedy
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in the alley behind the front on
palace and half a dozen people swear he
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was in the casino at the time. How do I know how such a
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thing would be? All I know
is it was Lieutenant Morano's speaking. What
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very well, fingering that will be
off for the president. Diego, you
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will wed in the next room.
See what now? An American woman is
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saying, you're a Henderson insists on
seeing me. She says it has to
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do the matter we are investigating.
Oh, come in, Lieutenant Marina.
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Yes, and may I present Senor
Mitchell. How do you do missus Henderson?
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What can I do for you?
Senora? I'll be brief. My
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name is Barbara Henderson. I'm from
Miami. I arrived here in Havana two
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weeks ago looking for my husband.
Oh you see, he left me during
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the war. His name was Jim
Henderson. We were married in Baltimore in
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January of nineteen forty four. I
see, and you have reason to believe
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your husband is not here in Hallana. Yesterday I found out without a doubt
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that he's here. Look, missus
Henderson, this is all very interesting,
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but I don't quite see what it
has to do with the case we're investigating
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right now. Justice see this picture
in the newspaper. The man you're here
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is the suspect. Sure his name
is Carmody. No, you're wrong,
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mister Mitchell. That's my husband.
Jim Henderson was kind of and I look
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at each other. All of a
sudden, the whole case is busted wide
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open again. We have Carmody brought
in from this cell. Missus Henderson promptly
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drapes herself on him. Jem,
Hey, what is this, oh gym?
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Please? Why did you leave me? Look? What gives here?
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Who is she? Mitchell? Missus
Henderson, And she says, you're mister
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Henderson. What Jim, don't do
this to me. Look, I've never
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seen this dame before in my life. Why he's lyng Lieutenant. He is
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Jim Henderson. We were married in
Baltimore in January nineteen forty four, and
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he deserted me. Yes again,
I was in the army in New York
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in January nineteen forty four. I
could have married this baby in Baltimore.
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You were in the army, I
sure was. You can check that,
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Mitchell. I don't worry, Carmody, I will missus. Henderson gives us
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the name of her hotel and leaves. We send Comedy back to his cell
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and I get off a cable to
Washington about him. Then we send for
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Porson, who promptly swears he was
with Comedy in Europe during nineteen forty four.
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The three of us waiting Lieutenant Marino's
office for a reply from Washington.
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Every time Porson finishes a cigarette,
he methodically rips open the paper, scatters
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the tobacco flakes in the ash tray, and crumples the paper into a tiny
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ball. Finally, Marino can't stand
it anymore. Why do you do that?
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Nerves? That's army, isn't it? Porson? Yeah? Yeah,
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you ever had a police at campyard, you'd know why, Marino. The
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tobacco flakes mingle with a dust,
and the crumpled up paper is a lot
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less noticeable than a cigarette butt on
the ground. Very sensible. Yeah,
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Comedy taught me that when we were
in together. Hey, look one,
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are you guys going to lay off
him? I told you we were in
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Europe together? How could he have
married that woman. How could he have
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anything to do with any of this? Come in, ah, the answer
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to your cable, Mitchell, Yeah, well Harmody was in Europe in January
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nineteen forty four. And now you're
satisfied. Yeah, look, it's pretty
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obvious to me that this guy Henderson
is the one you really want. Look
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sad way, come on, lieutenant, Let's check with missus Henderson again,
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see if she can give us any
further information on her husband. We check
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at missus Henderson's hotel, but she's
not in the church expects her back momentarily,
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so we decide to wait in the
room. Very mystifying case. Mitchell,
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Yeah, either there is a guy
named Henderson and he's our man or
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what I don't know. Something bothering
me about this whole setup. What is
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it? Can't put my finger on
it. I know what you mean?
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Is Missus Henderson to show up?
It has only been a few minutes.
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You sick? I thanks? You
know this whole deal has been one big
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Murray go around. Of course,
that's a lot of time right now.
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You're right, But what else can
we do? That's a good question.
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Hey, wait a minute, what
is it? Ashtray? See what about
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it. Take a look. Just
a couple of cigarette butts with lipstick ands
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Mitchell, yeah, lakes of tobacco
and tiny bowls of cigarette paper. Paws
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I said this deal had cost us
a lot of time. It's just the
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way it was planned. Come on, we head for Pawson's apartment. He's
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not there. We do a fast
check up on him and uncover a couple
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of very interesting facts, one of
which sends us high tailing down to the
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waterfront. This is the place,
Mitchell, Yeah. Pawson's lawyer said he
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owned that little cluster of fishing boats
out there at the pier. If I
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will get your ten that he's on
one of them right now, getting ready
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to shove off. You take one
side, I will take the other.
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We split up. I work my
way along the row of boat, which
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they're all dark except for small deck
lights. Then suddenly I spot somebody climbing
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aboard one of them. It's Missus
Henderson. I slip aboard and grabb her.
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But just then something hard connects with
the back of my head. I
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go on my knees. Sorry,
Mitchell, I've been standing out here on
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taking the dark for several minutes,
waiting for Barbara. You know, Pauson,
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you're giving this head of mine a
pretty year off goal. First decrease
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it with a slug, and you
massage it with a gun. But like
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I say, I'm sorry, all
right, lean against the rad You'll be
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okay, thanks, I guess I
will. You've been leading Marino and me
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and Mary chasing the deal. First
you hire Jose Diego to swear that he
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saw Karmedy near the scene of Rhoda's
murder. We find out that he couldn't
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have been. Then you hire your
pal Barbara here to pose this missus Henderson
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with a phony story about her husband. Sounds to me like you've been working
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for a time, right, forty
eight hours of it, to be exact,
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It's taken me that long to convert
my Havana holdings to cash. Sure,
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I could have taken a potter right
after I killed Rhodas, but I
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had to leave broke. This way, I'm caring about one hundred grand with
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me heading the smuggling ring. Must
have been profitable. Oh yes, you
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see, Mitchell. If I hadn't
given you a bump steer right off the
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bat, you'd have probably concentrated more
on the victim's background. You'd have discovered
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it used to work for me in
the fishing fleet here. That probably would
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have gotten you interested in me right
off the bat. I had to stall
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that off until I got my money. Ah. You did a pretty neat
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job of it too, if it
hadn't been for those crumpled cigarette papers and
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barbers whom I might never have tumbled. Oh so that was it, Eh,
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very careless of me. What are
you waiting for a party? Killing?
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Not here? It's too noisy.
You're coming out with us on the
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boat, Mitchell, Oh, bully
for me. Okay, let's get started
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hardly. I got if you came
down here alone. Mitchell, your friend
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Marina must be around. If we
start the boat now, he'll flash a
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warning to the harbor patrol. So
we'll just stand here in the dark,
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nice and quiet until he comes along, and we'll take care of him first.
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Really, Senor, watch out,
Marina, I've got him. Oh
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sorry, Barbara, Oh girl,
you're not leaving. Go relaxed, okay,
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Lieutenis. Yes, your shot was
quite wild, and before I could
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return it, you had taken care
of him quite effectively. Well, I
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sort of felt I owed him,
then, Marina know you were on this
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boat, Mitchell. Your signal told
me signal sure. Porson gave the idea
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when he told me to lean on
the rail. See that little black deck
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light beside it. I was patching
my hand back and forth in front of
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it while I was talking to Porchon. My body screamed it from you.
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I figured the flashing light that bring
Marina, which you did in the nick
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of time. Yeah. I guess
you might say you finally saw the light.
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Huh. Our star Brian don Levy
will return in just a moment.
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What did you do for your country
today? Stand guarded some lonely outpost,
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stand watch on the cold, windswept
bridge of a patrolling US maybe destroyer,
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No, but you can still do
your park to guard peace. The piece
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that is for the strong. Make
today your d day. Buy an extra
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bond for defense, and then keep
buying them regularly. There's no safe for
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sure investment than with United States defense
bonds, and you build security not only
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for yourself, but your country too. When you buy defense bonds, they
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serve to combine America's economic strength with
its military strength. And it's this combined
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strength that protects your town, your
home, your right to work and prosper
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in peace. And remember if you
don't save regularly, you generally don't save
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at all. So join the payroll
savings plan where you work, or sign
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up for the Bond a month plan
where you bank. Make today your d
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day. Buy defense bonds. Always
remember defense is your job too. Next
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week, Turkey, I nominate myself
for a slab in the Morgue and that
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will be Steve Mitchell's Dangerous assignment next
week in Florordon. Tonight's cast were Harry
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Bartell, Tony Barrett, Nest Piver, Herbellus and Kay Stewart. This is
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John Storm speaking Dangerous Assignments, starring
Brian don Levy in the role of Steve
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Mitchell, with Herb Butterfield as the
Commissioner. Is written by Bob Bryf and
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Adrian John Doe and is produced and
directed by Bill carn be with us again
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next week at the same time when
Brian don Levy, starring in the role
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of Steve Mitchell, Will Bark got
another transcribed dangerous assignment tomorrow. Here both
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The Judy Canova Show and Truth Are
Consequences on NBC Welcome Back. This was
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a really neat story. It made
good use of the twenty five minute time
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and it was really quick and fast
paced. And I like the twist of
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all of the red herrings being because
the murderer was playing for a time before
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he could convert his assets into something
he could take out of the country.
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Overall, just thank a really well
written, in fun story. Well,
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we turn now to listener comments and
feedback and Francis along with her checks and
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along a question bold venture in the
future perhaps, Well, thanks so much,
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Francis. I appreciate the donation and
the question slash reminder about bold Venture.
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Currently, the plan with bold Venture
is that we will present it when
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we launch the Adventure series in twenty
twenty five, and that will remain the
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plan as long as there aren't any
complications, which I don't anticipate there will
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be. Thank you so much for
the question of Francis. Then we go
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to YouTube your comment about a henchman
speaking up and telling his boss he's sick
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of him calling him stupid or unintelligent. In the recent Philip Marlow movies,
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Liam Neeson, the henchman actually does
that. Oh good to know it.
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I guess that's another point for seeing
it. Angel rites in regarding dangerous assignment
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when he walks into the boss's office. Brian don Levy never knows up he'll
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end up redacted, right up to
the time he walked into the sponsor's office
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and found he'd end up period.
Though I'm a constant listener and try at
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least everything old time radio, Dangerous
assignment is just too wooden for me.
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It's on a path with the man
called X, but the latter is,
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if not lifted at least eleven by
Leon Malasco as pegon Zelschmidt. Dangerous Assignment
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rolls tediously and painfully on shot bearings. Did I mention I'm an auto mechanic?
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Dangerous assignment is a you go puffing
behind the man called X, a
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dour trebaut the police procedurals, both
of these fitting a broadcast of the style
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run the gammut as do all the
styles with many entrants? What's wrong with
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a dangerous assignment and the man called
X? Listen to Nightbeat and Dragnet whatever
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Steve Mitchell and Ken Thurston Lack,
Randy Stone and Joe Friday have got.
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I'm also an imp. I'd like
to have heard Richard Diamond or Sam Spade's
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rendition of any Man called X or
Dangerous Assignment storyline. Thanks as always for
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presenting all well, thank you so
much, angel I appreciate the comment.
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It's kind of interesting. In the
last few weeks we've gotten this comment,
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and then we also had one or
two saying I don't get mister cameleon.
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And of course, back when we
started the podcast, I knew that in
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order to get the most people listening, not have to have a pretty broad
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range of shows, because a lot
of people who would love Pat Novack for
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hire would have no interest in the
Sherlock Holmes and I guess this is the
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same sort of thing now. I
think you can enjoy a series and still
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see it shortcomings, and I think
with Dangerous Assignment there can be a situation
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where it kind of just becomes Steve
goes out in search of the mcguffin of
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the week. And I can also
get how the opening might seem a bit
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repetitive, and it's interesting in a
way. It made the Dangerous Assignment TV
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program, and after a few episodes, the series started to vary its opening.
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Not all of the episodes began with
Steve in the Commissioner's office, Now,
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some of this might have been an
actor availability issue with per Butterfield,
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they had other episodes where he did
meet with someone. In that case,
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it tended to be like a deputy
played by Lyle Talbot. But they had
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episodes where Steve had already got in
his assignment and they were starting in mid
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action, and there seemed to be
a recognition with a TV show that it
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made sense have some variety in how
the show opened, but in the radio
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program it didn't change, even though
by this point in the radio program history
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all the episodes of Dangerous Assignment on
TV had been released. So it's interesting
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how that creative direction didn't seem to
transmit back from television to radio. But
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that said, I think there are
some things that really do make Dangerous Assignment
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appealing to me. I love the
sort of globe trotting nature of the series,
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even though I don't like that we
have so many episodes that happen in
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non specific cities and non specific countries. I think the mysteries, just like
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in uh this week's episode, are
generally pretty solid, and I also love
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these sort of adventure and action elements
that work into the whole story and then
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also into the big finales. I
also think that Steve has an approach to
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solving problems that's kind of interesting and
different from other detectives. So I enjoy
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the series, and you know,
I appreciate though that other people's opinions can
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vary. Now there is no case
I'm aware of of script rereuse from Dangerous
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Assignment or the Man Called X to
another detective series. The closes I have
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is that there is a script for
The Silent Men that became an Beat story,
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and there's also a Sam Spade script
that became a Mister Moto story,
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which was actually the first sort of
espionage spy detective series we played. So
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hopefully I'll eventually do those as some
of the twice told stories that we do
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at a listener support campaign time.
But again, thank you so much appreciating
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the comment, Angel. And then
I have a comment on Spotify from de
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Glossia regarding the Stars on the Air
episode of House on ninety second Street we
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played as a four two hundred episode
special the Person Rights, This was a
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good episode. More from this series
plays Adam, Well, thank you so
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much. We've got a few episodes
of Stars on the Air that are circulating
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but most don't fit in the detective
genre. I think the only one that
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did was The House on ninety second
Street. However, stars in the Air
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and Hollywood Soundstage. Really, we're
just screen Gold Theater by another name,
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and I think you'll definitely hear some
more Screen Guild Theater episodes as we go
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along. Thank you so much for
the comment. Well, now it's time
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to thank our Patreon supporter of the
day, and I want to go ahead
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and thank Marla. Marla has been
one of our Patreon supporters since January twenty
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eighteen, currently supporting the podcast at
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back next Wednesday with another episode of
Dangerous Assignment. But join us back here
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tomorrow for mister Chameleon, well missus
Slowbell, who survives him besides yourself,
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his niece and a nephew. That
is Harper. Well, there are two
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other nieces, one in New Zealand
and one in California. And of course
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cousin Lucy Billingsley, she's an orphan. She lives here in New York.
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And who are Silas Harper's as we
are? Mister Camellion. That is to
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say, my wife, Harriet,
is you are his soul? Lair?
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Missus Flowbell. Yes, Uncle Silas
himself gave me his will last night.
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It's right here. He gave it
to you last night, just before he
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was murdered. Very convenient. What
do you mean by that? I mean
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I want to know exactly where you
and your husband were last night at the
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time your uncle was murdered. I
was in bed that when I was here
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too? Is that correct? Miss
Slowbear? Your husband was here with your
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I don't know where he was.
I was asleep. What are you trying
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to do to me? Harriott?
Tell this man Chameleon the tooth how you'll
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be with us then in the mean
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Boiseido. This is your host,
Adam Graham signing off.
