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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Poor Little Rich Girl Matter (EP1453) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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it's time for this week's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. The original air
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at eight September one, nineteen fifty seven, and the title is the poor
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little rich girl matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar Bird Major
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Master's Insurance and True. Oh hi Bird, what's up? Poor little rich
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girl in California wants to take out a two hundred thousand dollars straight life policy
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on her husband with herself as beneficiary. I wanna do too, on usual
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if you can afford it, effective in two weeks and hush, hush,
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a surprise. But who wants why? Exactly? Nice piece of change for
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the company and commissions or for her in payoff if she's playing that kind of
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a game. You talk like you don't know her name only. Deal was
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arranged pending through her lawyer in Los Angeles. M you can be out there
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in the morning, Johnny all right, Bert who gives me the filling all
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R agent out there, Roger Hackey. He'll meet you at International Airport,
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Bob Bailey. In the Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Fact Expense
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Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly, Johnny Dollar, Now
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act one of yours, truly Johnny Dollar Expense Account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny
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Dollar. The Home Office, Master's Insurance and Trust Company, Hertford, Connecticut.
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Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the poor Little
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Rich Girl matter. Expense account Item one two hundred and eighty dollars round trip
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plane ticket and incidentals including sunglasses Hertford to Los Angeles. I arrived, rested,
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ready, and right on schedule. Also on schedule was Roger Hackey,
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master's Los Angeles agent, well turned out to be a repress comedian become insurance
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sales YEP. I said to myself, that's Johnny Dollar. I said,
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you are Johnny Dollar, aren't you? In person? You're Roger Hackey,
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gean person. You got the oldfield hem chip simpanical, we call it out
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here. Have an ice trip? Yeah good, good. Airplane scare me.
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Don't like being up there in the wild blue yonder terra Burmer's my dish
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tea slow, but sure they call me. Yeah. Well, now you
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just follow me. We'll jump in my jealoppi and I'll have you at the
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Beverly Hilton. Before you can say happy hooligan, you said, huh oh,
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yeah, here we go. Cloud of dust and all that. The
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Ryan from the air terminal till the hotel was hot, silent on my part,
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and unproductive so far as the case was concerned. Roger Hacke kept up
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a running commentary on everything from bad actors to the zodiac. It wasn't until
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I was settling in my room with drinking hand and shoeless feet propped up that
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I could get him to switch to the two hundred thousand dollars a prime.
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Her name is Cynthia Derbit. How much do you know about it? Nothing?
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Ert Major said, you'd give me the background. Now she's a strange
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one. You know what a chameleon is? Sure, elizard that changes color?
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So what So that's the kind of a girl Cynthia Durban is, at
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least she is. Now you're losing me, Roger, begin at the beginning.
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Now you're the doctor, as the Siamese Twins said, after the operation,
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what's missing? Yeah? How did you meet Anthea Debin? Well,
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she came into the office yesterday, no call, no appointment. There she
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was ill. What'd she like? Trim, real, trim and expensive?
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Just casually announced she wanted to buy two hundred thousand dollars worth of insurance.
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Huh, well, not exactly. She started asking about various policies, you
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know, endowment, straight life, et cetera, and how and when they
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paid off? And she kept giving me the big eye and cross leg routine.
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M she tells you anything about herself? Oh, didn't have to.
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I already knew. She's practically a fixture in the society section of the Sunday
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Papers, garden parties, opening nights and all that, but only lately.
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Her husband, Peter Durban, he's been a public figure ever since they got
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married about three years ago. But she has no now just the last couple
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of months or so. How old is she? All round? Twenty five,
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blonde, blooming and gorgeous infiguratively speaking, I think that she has the
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money. Huh yeah right. He was a well torsoed movie bit player with
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a champagne appetite. I see, now, what about this surprise angle?
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Ell? She came right to the said her husband had just had a complete
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physical, asked if his doctor's report would be acceptable. If so, okay,
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But you didn't sign her up? Why wish you didn't give me the
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chance? What do you mean? All of a sudden she reached in her
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purse and pulled out a piece of paper with a name and address on it
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announced this was her attorney. See him, she said, smiled big and
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walked out. Didn't you go and see the attorney right away? A guy
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by the name of Crane Collins has big, plush officers downtown old senior partner
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type. What did he have to say? Oh, nothing except routine questions
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about filling out the forms, expediting the procedure, importance of secrecy. For
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the surprise, Why didn't you ask a few questions? Couldn't What do you
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mean, couldn't? She was there doing what sitting back in the corner,
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all huddled up like a mouse waiting to be pounced on. Didn't say a
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word while Collins and I filled out the papers. Yeah, she signed them
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as if they were a death Warwick went back to the corner and stared at
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the wall. Now I see what you meant by that, comedian remarked,
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Yeah, she's too much for me. Yeah, a leopard can change its
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spots too. Expense a count item two three dollars and twenty five cents taxi
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fair to the offices of Crane Collins. So far, all I knew was
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that the wealthy young woman wanted a pot full of insurance on her husband.
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If it hadn't been for the surprise request, it would have been routine.
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Now it wasn't, and the people involved, one of them at least,
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were not routine. I was ushered into an oak panel office high above the
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streets of Los Angeles. Good afternoon, mister Dollar. Mister Collins, your
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card identifies you as an insurance investigator. Mister Dollar, I don't believe I
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understand. Cynthia Durban is your client. Yes, you represented this client yesterday
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and the signing of an application for a two hundred thousand dollars straight life insurance
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policy on her husband. Yes, I represent the company. Everything is in
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order, is it not. Insurance is a lot of things, mister Collins.
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A surprise to the insured is one of the things that isn't. My
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client is adamant in disrespect. Call it a work if you will. You
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expect a company to wish what two hundred thousand dollars policy on a quirk?
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Well? How long have you known missus Durban since she was born? Then
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you know her father knew him. I am his executor. Ah mother also
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deceased. Both parents died when Cynthia was seventeen. I was her guardian and
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have been her legal advisor since she came of age. Was she well provided
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for? Very? What kind of a man is her husband? Young?
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About thirty, tall, good, lucky? No, no, mister Collins,
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not statistics, your impressions. He plays an excellent game of golf,
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gets along well with people when he wants to. But you don't like him,
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do you? In this profession, mister Dalla, I neither like nor
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dislike people. I represent them, and that representation is based on fact.
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Well, in my profession, we go by feel as well as fact.
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Well, tell me candidly, mister Collins, do you think there's anything strange
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about this request for insurance on her husband? As I said, ideal in
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fact, not feelings. As a client, she sought professional assistant. Ago,
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I supplied it. Where do the Durbins live? I'd rather? Oh,
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now, look, I can get it from any society editor in town.
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My secretary will give you the information, all right, Thank you.
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By the way, don't tell missus Durbin or anyone else that we've had this
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discussion. If you do, there will be no insurance issue interference with investigative
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procedure. Fact, mister Collins, I understand expense account item three two dollars
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and sixty cents phone call when taxi to Roger Hackey's office. I need one
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story building an americal mile on Wilship Bulevard. Purpose to borrow Roger's company car.
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The Dobins lived in one of those colonial mansions out in Beverly Hills,
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surrounded by curving driveways, spacious lawns, swimming pool and cabanas, all of
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it enclosed by thick high walls and electronically controlled gates. The mention of insurance
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on the intercom got me in. Cynthia Durban was everything Roger said she was
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the first time he met her. That is, Please excuse my appearance,
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mister Doll. I've been swimming. Oh I don't mind at all, Missus
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Durban. Really you shouldn't have come here to deliver the party that if my
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husband has been home, no surprise, No, that would have spoiled everything.
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Well, may I have it? Please? The paperwork has not been
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completed yet. What are you doing here? What do you want? Get
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to the point? Wow, just a few questions, Missus Durban. My
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colleague, mister Hackey should have handled these details yesterday, but he was somewhat
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rushed. Oh, and there's nothing wrong with would you care for a drink?
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Thanks? Barred up by the pool show it. She was wearing a
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bikini and high heel beach sandlers, and she led the way. I was
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hoping it was two miles to the pool instead of the seventy five yards.
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It turned out to be. I makes the drinks, and we settled down
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on a couple of sun lodges. Ah, those jails just formalities. Actually,
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you ought to be the beneficiary. Yes, that was discussed yesterday.
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Ah, yes, so was What does your husband do, Missus Durban?
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He doesn't work, if that's what you mean, he doesn't have to.
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I have enough for both of us, Johnny. Yeah, question my drink?
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Oh sure, so tell me did you ever contemplate divorce? Divorce?
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What did I makes you ask a question like that? Well, of course,
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not different mine what a couple has. Yeah, I suppose you got
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a point there, Ye are, Thank you, Johnny. Why did you
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pick two weeks from today to be the effective date of the policy? Isn't
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that? My business? Is birthday, Missus Durban? Your husband the surprise?
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Yes, yes it is ristas I to throw a big party for him.
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No, I don't know, Johnny. Your husband would be worth a
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lot more to you dead than alive, wouldn't he, missus Durban, Sure,
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sure, yeah, but you haven't answered my question. I'm sure you'll
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have to excuse me. I have a headache, terrible heavache. Something was
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definitely wrong here. A girl of her age should have flared at my questions,
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should have snapped back at me instead of blindly running away. Yeah,
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something is wrong, all right, But I've seen what I'd come to see
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both facets of Cynthia Durbin's personality, and was one of them actually thinking in
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terms of murder? My job find out back two of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar. In a moment, an interesting parallel hit me the other day.
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When a baby takes its first three steps, everybody is happy and gives
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a cheer for its progress. The same thing happens when a country takes important
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steps toward lasting world peace and freedom. That great American patriot, Benjamin Franklin
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outlined three important steps in the drive toward a lasting world peace and freedom of
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mankind. The last and most important of these steps was and is, to
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get the people of the world to talk to each other and to help each
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other. This is the essence of the people to people program that Americans have
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put into operation all over the world in such a great success that it is
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beginning to work both ways. Not too long ago, in Korea, Tom
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Lawrence, a yeoman in the United States Navy, lost his wallet on a
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street in Seoul. The wallet was found by a fifteen year old Korean boy,
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who gave it to his father. The father promptly returned it to Lawrence
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with nothing missing. Tom Lawrence decided that this kind of honesty should pay off.
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He visited the seven members of the Korean family and gave them eighty pounds
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of rice. He then promised to bring the family fifty pounds of rice each
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month he remained in Korea. The Korean father said, I think this is
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much more than I deserve. Maybe it was, and maybe it wasn't.
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But who can put a price on better understanding among the peoples of the world.
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For through better understanding of each other comes an understanding of freedom, the
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right of all men everywhere. And now act two of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar and the poor little rich girl met her. I sat beside one
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of the pluscious swimming pools in Beverly Hills alone. I finished my drink slowly.
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Cynthia Durban was a strange one, all right, but her actions seemed
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compulsory rather than natural. If she really was thinking about murder for two hundred
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thousand dollars in one chunk, she was pretty crude about it. If she
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was trying to oppress her husband for some on her own reason, she'd selected
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a mighty off feat way to do it. If she was going off her
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rocker, well, the extension phone hung on a post beside the bar.
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I don't ordinarily listen in on other people's conversations, but this one thing wrong.
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Dolly er, Oh, I've got to talk to you. Something has
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happened. I think you not on the phone. Meet me here in half
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an hour, Yeah, half an hour here, goodbye soon via Hello Eric.
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As I strolled to my car, nobody asked me to come back again
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sometime, not that I expected it. I parked a block down the street,
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adjusted to the rear view mirror, and got comfortable. A cigarette later,
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she came zooming out and a Cad convertible and headed my way. I've
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tailed a few cars of my time, but this kid was either scared silly,
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or she'd learned her evasive tactics from bull Hausey. I lost her in
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the first ten blocks, So I drove round to a Hackey's car back to
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his office and prepared for the horse laugh I had coming. It came.
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Yeah, she lost you. Oh that's a dad, real dad. Hey
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tell me, do you always laugh when you're about to lose the commission on
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a two hundred thousand dollars policy? Yeah? Oh, well, what are
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you gonna do now, Johnny? Who is Eric? Well he's not a
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brother, that's for sure. Ow I don't know, you know. For
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two cents, I turned in a negative report and go on back to high
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fret. Oh wait, now, you can't do that. This is a
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big deal for you. For me, it's a pain in the neck.
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But you can't turn in a negative report just because she's got an extra curricular
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boyfriend. You don't even know who he is? And what about her husband?
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What about him? Here? Here? I got the dope right here
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today's paper. And it's a good picture of him. Read what it says.
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Peter Durban, one of Los Angeles better amateur golfers, plays out of
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Silver O Country Club, where the state opener is being held this week.
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He's expected to finish in the top. Roger, what time is it?
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Four point thirty? Thanks? Hey, where you going? I'm gonna turn
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my head of being a reporter. What what are you talking about? Ronchier?
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I'm going to interview mister Peter Durbin for the Interstate Publicity Press Association.
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Oh expense account had him for two dollars and forty cents camp for heir to
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the Silver Old Country Club, which nestled in a big ravine north of Sunset
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Boulevard, some fifteen minutes Fromroger's office. The last players were coming in from
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the afternoon round when I got there, and Peter durban was among them.
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I waited until after the radio and TV boys had got through, and then
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caught him in a corner of the loner room. Yes, who you,
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Johnny Dollar, Interstate Publicity Press. I'd like to ask you a few questions.
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Well I've already given my interviews. Well, sure, I know,
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but this is a feature stuff. Best part of the day. There's the
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gallery, body and stuff like that. Oh, all right, but make
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it quick. Yes, sir, is your wife here? No, she
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never watches me playing. Oh, where's she now pull at home where else?
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But now see here, you're playing a great game, mister Durban.
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You figure you're gonna win this tournament? Huh yes, I think so.
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McMahon has turned into sixty nine, of course, but I'm still three strokes
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up on him. I play a much steadier game than he did. Oh
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yeah, sure this is your home club, isn't it. Yes, it's
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one of the best in the country. Yeah, I might. Defined course,
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you must be pretty well healed. That's none of your reading concerned.
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I'm sorry. Say, you have a birthday coming up soon, haven't you?
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How did you know? Oh what? You're a prominent personality, mister
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Durban. We keep a file on this sort of thing, on important people
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like you. Oh oh, I see. Oh sure, I suppose you're
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gonna have a big affair. And know. As a matter of fact,
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the annual Western Road Races fall on my birthday each year. As a reporter,
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you should recall that I won both last year and the year before.
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Oh yeah, sure, Well, happy birthday, mister Durbin, and good
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luck. Well is that all you want? That's all I need to know.
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Thanks, fact three of yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment, no
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folklore could be all boastful and dynamic. Some of it is about the man
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at the bottom of the pile, like the one they tell of the traveler
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who just had to get across a river. He argued with the boatman.
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But that boatman wasn't about to move, Nope, not with the spring thaw
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making it a mighty ugly river. The traveler was insistent. Finally, the
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boatman agreed, but it was going to cost a whole quarter to get across.
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But I ain't got but fifteen cents. You gotta take me for that.
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Your regular fairs only ten cents, The boatman stood firm. I ain't
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going that soul anybody that ain't got but fifteen cents. It just don't make
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no difference which side of the river he's on. Anyhow, Folklore belongs to
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every nation's legendary past, and I guess we Americans have our share of some
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good ones, like the one about ah. But we'll have to save that
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one for the next time we traveled your way. See you then, and
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now Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the poor little rich
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girl matter expense count Adam five six dollars even TAXI fed of the office of
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Attorney Trane Collins, with whom I could now agree on one point. I
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didn't like Peter Devineta. It was six fifteen after hours when I entered the
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office Colins, Douglas, Walsh, Hanley, and James, the senior partner
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was still there. His door was slightly ajar and I heard voices which stopped
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abruptly when I had it. Oh, mister Dollar, rather late in the
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day, isn't it. I don't keep office hours, mister Colin. I'm
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very busy. Then I'll wait everywhere as you wait, I wished. So
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I waited, but not for long, because about three minutes later Collins came
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out, carefully, closed the door of his office behind him, and strode
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easily toward me, oozing his most charming professional smile. No, mister Dollar,
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what can I do for you? Why didn't you tell me the first
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time I was here that Peter Durban in addition to being a first class golfer,
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was also a racing enthusiast. It just didn't occur to me. Do
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you know any insurance company in the world that would issue a two hundred thousand
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dollars policy on a man who risks his life in a racing car, then
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your company will not issue the policy. What are you thanks? Now tell
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me something. Who is Eric? Eric? That's right, well, the
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name is not familiar to me. Now, look, mister Collins, I
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have a feeling that even you will admit that withholding information in connection with a
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possible murder is punishable by law. Fact, I am fully aware of that.
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But I fail to see what that. What are you doing? It
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didn't invite me into your office. I just wondered, why Usaul, have
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you know ethics? Man Cynthia Durbin was in there a few minutes ago,
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wasn't she, mister doll wasn't she? If it is the intention of your
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company not to issue the insurance to my client, I will so inform her
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and that will end the matter so far as you are concerned. Now,
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please be good enough to leave. You really don't know or care what's going
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on, do you. You're so wrapped up in the letter of the law
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that preventing a possible murder doesn't even occur to you. Another one of your
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feelings. But I don't have the remotest time, Oh dear, what you're
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talking about? Good Night? Mister Dollar, good night, mister Collins expense
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ac count adem six nine dollars and fifty cents cocktails and dinner. I should
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have written my reports negative and high tailored back to Hartford. But when you
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see in your mind's eye the possibility of a racing car careening off the road
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at one hundred and twenty five miles an hour exactly two weeks from now,
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you don't just stick to business and call it quits. Eric, wherever he
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tended bar was the key, but how to find it? I was on
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dessert in the evening paper, giving my subconscious wine a chance to work it
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out, when all of a sudden I was looking at it on the Society
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pay expense, a count adam seven nineteen dollars, including taxi fair to the
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Los Angeles Police headquarters, where I had a pleasant chat with the captain on
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duty. Then a tuxedo rental in the same taxi to the step at the
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hotel. A special pass let me in his guest at a crowded and bejeweled
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society benefit and enjoying the party, mister Collins Dollar, what are you doing
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here? And joining the party too, mister missus Durban arrived you are the
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most annoyingly persistent individual. I please, no compliments. See you later.
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After a few minutes, I spotted it, dressed to the teeth. She
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turned suddenly and saw me. I expected surprise, chagrin, fear, most
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anything, but what I got the dollar, Johnny. I am glad to
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see you. I was such a boy this afternoon. Forgive me what your
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exit was rather sudden? My headaches all gone? Isn't that wonderful? Why
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will you dance with me? Pleasure Dollar? That's such an exciting name.
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Is your husband with you tonight? No, poor dear, he's playing in
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a golf tournament and has to get his rest him along. Yes, don't
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you find it warm? And hear all these people? Let's go out on
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the terrace? Sure? Why not? Once more? I was following her,
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and it was just as interesting as the first time. But my mind
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and eyes were elsewhere. Somewhere in this crowd was the eric I was looking
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for. He had to be. Then I spotted him, thirty five,
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big and broad hawk nose, circling towards the terrace from the left. She
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threaded her way to a potted palm and a far corner of the terrace turned
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and looked at me. Her eyes were feverishly bright in the moonlight. She
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was beautiful. You're a very charming man, Johnny. I wish you wish.
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What do you find me interesting? You haven't answered my question? Oh,
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I find you interesting, Cynthia? Who is Eric the man you went
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to see this afternoon after you let me sad? You know who I'm talking
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about because you and Eric, I don't know how we're planning to kill your
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husband two weeks from now and collect two hundred thousand dollars insurance two weeks from
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now in the road race. Make it look like an accident, no doubt.
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I ducked and whirled around as a fist graze passed my ear and brought
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up one from the floor with all I had. Cynthia stood there a moment,
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then quietly folded up and lay on the floor and a heaped sob it.
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Oh they are allah? What have you done to this poor girl and
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that man? Very simple comments I've been combining. Feel that fact the house
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stick and I got them out of there. Awknosed to police headquarters, Cynthia
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to a hospital. Eric turned out to be a quack psychiatrist who preyed on
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unstable rich women and who was wanted in both New York and Florida. He
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had a perfect setup in Cynthia Durban until he went for murder in the big
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money Missus Durban. While the doctors tell me she ought to be normal mentally
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in a couple of years with proper psychiatric treatments. Expense account total three hundred
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and seventeen dollars and seventy five cents. Yours, truly, Johnny dull,
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Our star will return in just a moment. Our flag now numbers fifty stars,
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and behind each star there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty
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states. North Carolina state flag bears the initial of her name on either side
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of a white star. Above, on a yellow scroll is the date May
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twentieth, seventeen seventy five. Below, on a similar scroll is the date
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April twelfth, seventeen seventy six. The seventeen seventy five date stands for an
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early declaration of independence known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. April twelfth,
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seventeen seventy six was the date of the first constitutional convention held in Halifax.
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The Halifax Resolve was a document that placed the Old North State in the front
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rank, both in point of time and spirit, among those colonies which demanded
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unconditional freedom and absolute independence from any foreign power. North Carolina State flag,
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the flag of the twelfth State and of the Union, was adopted on March
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ninth, eighteen eighty five. Now here's our star to tell you about next
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week's story. Next week, a beautiful yacht, a beautiful charming girl,
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and a man who wished he'd never heard of either of them. Join us,
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won't you? Yours Tully Johnny duff Yours Truly Johnny Dollars, starring Bob
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Bailey, originates in Hollywood. Written by Alan Botzer, it is produced and
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directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Virginia Gray, Herbellis,
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Frank Nelson, Marvin Miller, and Peter Leeds. Be sure to join us
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next week, same time in station for another exciting story of Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollar. This is Bud Sewell speaking. This is the United States Armed
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Forces Radio and Television Service PATO. Welcome back, Well. This was actually
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a solid mystery episode with a nice twist on the usual scheming wife plot where
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you really do have just an emotionally sick woman being taken advantage of, which
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makes perfect sense of the story. The script was by Alan Botzer, who
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worked in the radio industry, but this was his first and only yours truly
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Johnny Dollar script, though he did write the pilot script for gun Smoke that
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we played quite a while back, which was more detective in origin. Well,
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now we turn to some listener comments and feedback, and we start off
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with Tim, who writes, during episode fourteen forty one, there was a
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commercial for Sister Cities that references events from nineteen fifty nine and sixty even though
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the share show aired in nineteen fifty seven. How is this possible? Did
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they splice in more recent PSAs later on? Well, thanks for the question,
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Tim, they did, and you'll notice that with so many of the
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Yours truly Johnny Dollar episodes, we're dealing with armed forces, radio services,
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radio and television services versions of the program. And part of the reason for
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that is that those were continued to be reused overseas places where getting American television
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was impractical and for people who couldn't enjoy that. We've had a few programs
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even that have had a little hints of the seventies like from the FBN networks.
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Armed Forces Radio and Television is probably one of the great preservers of old
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time radio, just because they continue to need those programs longer. In fact,
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AFRTS actually went so far as to purchase programs from other countries. There
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exists both South African and British programs that were played as well, and we
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have, of course had listeners who had their first exposure to old time radio
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over well as children on a military basis. Now, speaking of the recordings
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themselves, I should mention one thing, and you'll notice there were more intermension
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intermissions in the program with three acts in Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. And
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once we get into some of the network broadcast of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,
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we'll start to hear a lot more ads in the program, but with
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a new scheme in mind where they don't sell one sponsor the entire show,
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but different sponsors, so you might have like doctor Pepper is a sponsor of
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one, soap company is a sponsor of another. And eventually it gets to
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the point where in the course of the half hour program there are five separate
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commercial breaks, which is really not all that good for the narrative, but
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it was one of those things they did try to keep radio drama afloat,
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it no longer being a large enough concern to generate one sponsor to pay for
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the whole program. Another comment on episode fourteen forty one, which was the
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Smoky Sleeper matter from Bobby Lee, who says, I will always remember this
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episode anytime I go to buy furniture, and I will try my best to
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forget this episode when I'm listening and picturing are Johnny and my imagination during the
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story. I just don't think of him dressing that way. Apparently bo Tie
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not a with Bobby Lee. Then I do have also an email from Debbie
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about Johnny Dollar in general, who says, I love the show and especially
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yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. I remember hearing you mentioned it sometime that
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you plan to make separate feeds for the earlier Johnny Dollar episodes. Did you
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ever do this? If so, how can I find them in iTunes?
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If not? Yes, please, I didn't discover your show until I have
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been going for years, and I'd like to hear the earlier Johnny Dollar episode.
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Thanks for the work you do well, Debbie. I have not gotten
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around to it. That's one of those things. I'm going to put that
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on my definite to do list. When I get a week of vacation coming
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up in January, we'll spend some time working on creating that particular feature.
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And thanks for the reminder. Things get so busy with everything else that we're
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doing, both on the show, on books, etc. At a few
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things. Occasionally only slipt the old noggin, So I truly appreciate your comment.
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Well, that'll do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with
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Dragnet and join us next Friday for another episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot
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