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The Whistler - "Murder on Margin" (Old Time Radio, 1948) · The Whistler | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Frank Lovejoy is credited with the story for this broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: featuring Willard Waterman and Betty Lou Gerson. From the CBS
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  Speaker 1: Pacific Network, under Signal Oil sponsorship, comes The Whistler, Murder
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  Speaker 1: on Margin, a 30-minute broadcast originally heard May 19, 1948,
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  Speaker 1: episode 312. Edward Jameson, a stockbroker, is involved with Susan
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  Speaker 1: while making plans to leave his wife and marry another woman.
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  Speaker 1: His personal commitments and his work in the financial world
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  Speaker 1: become part of the situation as the consequences of those
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  Speaker 1: decisions begin to unfold. It is a 1948 visit to
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  Speaker 1: one of radio's continuing dramatic series. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: The Signal Oil Program, The Whistler. That whistle is your
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  Speaker 2: signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler.
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  Speaker 3: Whistle I am the Whistler, and I know many things,
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  Speaker 3: for I walk by night. I know many strange tales,
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  Speaker 3: hidden in the hearts of men and women who have
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  Speaker 3: stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors
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  Speaker 3: of which they dare not speak.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, friends, it's time for the signal oil program, the Whistler,
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  Speaker 2: rated tops in popularity for a longer period of time
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  Speaker 2: than any other West Coast program in radio history. And
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  Speaker 2: signal gasoline is tops, too, tops in quality. It takes
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  Speaker 2: extra quality, you know, to give you extra mileage. And
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  Speaker 2: signal is the famous go-farther gasoline. So look for the
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  Speaker 2: signal circle sign in yellow and black that identifies friendly
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  Speaker 2: dealer-owned signal stations from Canada to Mexico. And now the
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  Speaker 2: Whistler's strange story. Murder on Margin.
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  Speaker 3: It was three in the morning when Edward Jameson became
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  Speaker 3: himself again. He was sitting on a bench at the
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  Speaker 3: edge of a park. He couldn't remember coming there. It
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  Speaker 3: didn't matter. Because the whole nightmare was coming back to
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  Speaker 3: him rapidly. His mind hurling frightening pieces of memory at him.
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  Speaker 3: The memory of a blinding rage. The gun flash. Murder.
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  Speaker 3: He wondered if he'd been walking to escape. If the
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  Speaker 3: thought of hiding had brought him here to the park.
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  Speaker 3: And he told himself that it was foolish. There wasn't
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  Speaker 3: any escape. Her husband, Barney, knew the whole story. He
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  Speaker 3: was probably telling it to the police now. Edward stood up,
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  Speaker 3: shook his head, started to walk again. this time toward
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  Speaker 3: the police station.
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  Speaker 4: Seventh Precinct, Sergeant Burke. Oh, yeah, Dave. Happened over on
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  Speaker 4: East 54th Street. Yeah, I think we got it sewed
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  Speaker 4: up already. Uh, just a minute. Yes? Who do you want?
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  Speaker 4: My name is Edward Jameson. I want to talk to
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  Speaker 4: someone about that shooting on East 54th Street.
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  Speaker 5: What about it?
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  Speaker 4: I can tell you the whole story. I want to.
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  Speaker 4: Call you back, Dave. Something's up.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Jameson. What do you want to tell us?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it really began when.
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  Speaker 4: Aren't you taking this down?
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  Speaker 5: Should I?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I think so. I did it. I'm the murderer.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. That was how Edward Jameson confessed to murder. Simply.
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  Speaker 3: But the things that led you to the 7th Precinct
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  Speaker 3: Station weren't so simple, were they, Edward? They went back
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  Speaker 3: many weeks, to happier days, as the newspapers put it.
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  Speaker 3: The days when you were free to decide what to
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  Speaker 3: do with your own life.
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  Speaker 4: Also, Miss Turner, remind me on the 4th that Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Jameson's having some kind of a function at the house.
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  Speaker 4: I can get the 7 o'clock instead of the 5.06. Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Jameson.
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  Speaker 4: And that the 8th is Mrs. Jameson's anniversary.
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  Speaker 4: Our anniversary. Our fifth. Let's get her something.
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  Speaker 6: Get Mrs. Jameson something?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Could get her a campaign ribbon with wooden battle stars, but...
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  Speaker 4: I'll figure it out. That's all I have. You have
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  Speaker 4: anything for me?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, just a few.
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  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Burton would like you to call before the opening of
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  Speaker 6: the market tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, fine.
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  Speaker 5: Remind me.
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  Speaker 6: Your class luncheon tomorrow at noon at the Harvard Club.
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  Speaker 4: Good. I'll take it.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 4: Jameson speaking.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Pappy.
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  Speaker 3: Wall Street still in business?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Miss Leeds. How are you?
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  Speaker 7: We should know better than you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the market was good today. Quiet but firm.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, that sounds nice.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I think we've tested the lows here and
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  Speaker 4: can expect an uptrend from here on.
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  Speaker 6: I can feel that mink coat now.
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  Speaker 4: It may not go that high. But I think this
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  Speaker 4: is as good a place as any to get in.
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  Speaker 7: Fine.
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  Speaker 4: Fine.
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  Speaker 8: Fine.
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  Speaker 4: Now, what's your address so I can have my secretary
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  Speaker 4: mail you the form?
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  Speaker 2: You know the address, silly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, is that 522 East 54th Street?
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  Speaker 6: Always has been.
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  Speaker 4: Anything else I can do for you now?
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  Speaker 6: Uh-huh. I'm lonesome, Pappy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, certainly. As soon as the signed papers are in
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  Speaker 4: our hands, we can begin.
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  Speaker 9: We can go home on the 602 tonight, huh, Pappy?
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  Speaker 6: So we can have a few minutes together?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure that can be arranged.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, come on.
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  Speaker 6: I'll meet you in the Commodore Grill in 15 minutes, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Well, all right. Yes, I'll do that. Thank you for calling.
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  Speaker 4: Good night. Miss Turner, mail a margin agreement and discretionary
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  Speaker 4: trading form to Miss Susan Leeds, 522 East 54th Street tonight, please.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and call my home and tell Mrs. Jameson I'm delayed.
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  Speaker 4: I have a few matters to attend to. Ask her
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  Speaker 4: to meet me at the station. I'll be taking the 602.
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  Speaker 7: Here I am, Ed.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, dear.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Ed.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter? Something wrong?
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  Speaker 6: No, nothing wrong. Why, does there seem to be?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, kind of. I wouldn't say you were exactly effervescent.
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  Speaker 6: Frankly, I'm not.
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  Speaker 10: I've been sitting at that station for one hour and
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  Speaker 10: a half. Or is that a big surprise to you?
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  Speaker 4: Doris, I'm sorry. I asked Miss Turner to phone you.
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  Speaker 4: I was getting a later train.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 10: Would the economic balance of the country be upset if
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  Speaker 10: you took five minutes to call yourself?
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  Speaker 4: Now, that's not the point. Oh, darn it. Why should
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  Speaker 4: I have to go into a long explanation just because
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  Speaker 4: I get a later train? I don't reach for my
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  Speaker 4: hat the minute the market closes. There are other things
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  Speaker 4: to do. I have letters to write and calls to
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  Speaker 4: make and contacts to keep up.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 10: Some of those contacts you make at that local saloon
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  Speaker 10: must be a real help.
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  Speaker 2: Notice.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 10: Ridiculous or not, this is the last time I wait
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  Speaker 10: at any station like I did tonight. I have other
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  Speaker 10: things to do with my time.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Why are you going home this way?
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  Speaker 10: We're not going home. We're going to the Blacks for dinner.
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  Speaker 10: And do me a favor just for once. When it's
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  Speaker 10: time to leave, please don't insist on one for the road.
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  Speaker 10: That's when you fall apart.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody else seems to think so.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, I'm sure. But they're not married to you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that can be fixed.
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  Speaker 6: What was that?
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  Speaker 3: I said....
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  Speaker 4: Nothing, dear. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: With the prologue of Murder on Margin, the Signal Oil
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  Speaker 2: Company is bringing you another strange story.
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  Speaker 4: By The Whistler.
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: Friends, you hear a lot of talk these days about
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: how long a motor oil will last. But the more
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  Speaker 2: important thing is how long will it make your motor last?
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  Speaker 2: And on that score, I have some interesting facts for you.
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  Speaker 2: In an actual road test, identical motors were run over 70,000 miles,
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  Speaker 2: some using today's finest regular motor oil, the others using
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  Speaker 2: Signal Premium compounded motor oil. that improved-type signal lubricant which
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  Speaker 2: combines 100% pure paraffin base with scientific compound. When these
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  Speaker 2: motors were torn down for inspection, those using signal premium
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  Speaker 2: had only one-sixth as much carbon deposit and one-third less
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  Speaker 2: cylinder wear. What does that mean to you? Well, less
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  Speaker 2: carbon means that your motor runs quieter, smoother, and less
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  Speaker 2: cylinder wear means that your motor keeps its like-new power longer.
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  Speaker 2: Good reason, I'd say, for making your next oil change
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  Speaker 2: a change to the improved type signal oil that's your
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  Speaker 2: guarantee of a sweeter running motor. Signal Premium Compounded Motor Oil.
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  Speaker 2: And now, back to the whistler.
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  Speaker 3: In your own mind, at least, it's out in the open,
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  Speaker 3: isn't it, Edwards? that your married life with Doris isn't
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  Speaker 3: what you want. It's all too average, dull, lacking in
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  Speaker 3: the excitement you feel in just being around Susan Lee.
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  Speaker 3: You're determined to do something about it, aren't you, Edward?
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  Speaker 3: Something that will eliminate the explanations, the excuses. Turn those
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  Speaker 3: stolen moments with Susan into days, years that belong to you.
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  Speaker 6: Why, Mr. Jameson, what a pleasant surprise.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do, Miss Leeds? May I come in?
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  Speaker 6: Please do.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, sweetheart.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, big man.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get home all right last night?
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  Speaker 6: You mean from the Commodore? Sure, I'm a big girl now.
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  Speaker 4: Good for you. I wish I could give that chivalry report.
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  Speaker 6: What happened to you?
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  Speaker 4: Usual harangue with doors, followed by dinner and drinks at
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  Speaker 4: the Blacks. I've had a head all day.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, poor baby.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you sit down and rest up while I fix
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  Speaker 6: up my face. By the way, I got those papers.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, are they all signed?
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  Speaker 6: Yep, but I don't understand them.
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  Speaker 4: Well, when you boil them all down, what they say
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  Speaker 4: is that you agree to have a margin account with
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  Speaker 4: our firm, that I have full power of attorney to
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  Speaker 4: trade insecurities and to make withdrawals.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, that's wonderful. Can you open the account with a dollar?
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  Speaker 4: No, silly, of course not.
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  Speaker 7: There's going to be some account.
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  Speaker 9: That's all I can spare.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, don't worry. I'll put off all the capital necessary.
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand why you put the account in my.
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  Speaker 3: Name, though.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we call a dummy account.
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  Speaker 6: Dummy?
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  Speaker 7: I don't think I like that.
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  Speaker 4: Honey, I'm not permitted as a customer's man to trade
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  Speaker 4: in my own name. So I use yours instead.
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  Speaker 5: See?
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  Speaker 6: Nope.
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  Speaker 4: Well, don't you worry your pretty head about it. It'll
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  Speaker 4: be all right.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Pappy, whatever you say.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody ever tell you you're as pretty as a picture? Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Many times.
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  Speaker 4: Who?
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  Speaker 6: You, that's who.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, what do you say we do it up brown tonight, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Kind of calls for a celebration anyway.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's now 4.30.
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  Speaker 9: How brown can you get it between now and the 6.02
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  Speaker 9: you must take?
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  Speaker 4: Ah, tonight it's different. I have the car in town,
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  Speaker 4: and I can always break down in the parkway. Catch on?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, darling, sometimes you amaze me.
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  Speaker 6: You mean we have the whole evening together?
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  Speaker 4: And we won't be home until morning. Well, at least almost. Well,
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  Speaker 4: here we are.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 4: Did you have fun, Susan?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I did. It's been a wonderful evening.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Now, don't get out, Ed.
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  Speaker 7: I'll let myself in.
• 13:17
  Speaker 6: It's pretty late. You don't want to get into trouble.
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: I won't get into any trouble.
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: What am I, a mouse or something?
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  Speaker 3: No, darling.
• 13:24
  Speaker 9: You're the fun-loving rover boy, but it's still pretty late
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  Speaker 9: and you have a long drive ahead of you.
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  Speaker 7: So be a good boy and run along home.
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  Speaker 4: All right. I don't like it. Someday we won't have
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  Speaker 4: to say goodbye like this.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, darling.
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  Speaker 4: Good night, Susan.
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  Speaker 6: Good night. And drive carefully going home, Pappy. I don't
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  Speaker 6: want anything to happen to you.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I will. Don't worry. Bye.
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: Well, was that the Westport Flash that just took off?
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  Speaker 6: Barney!
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  Speaker 5: Did his keeper die or just let him off for
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: one night?
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  Speaker 6: Just for one night. But she gets him back, none
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  Speaker 6: the worse for wear.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's nice.
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  Speaker 6: Barney, we gotta have a board meeting, as they say
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  Speaker 6: in Wall Street. The Westport Flash has opened a trading
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  Speaker 6: account in my name.
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  Speaker 5: A trading account. Well, well.
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  Speaker 7: Thoughtful of him, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Very.
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  Speaker 5: We've been working for years for a setup as good
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  Speaker 5: as this, haven't we, baby?
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: But I never expected it to be this good. Here's
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  Speaker 6: money in my name. Neat, huh?
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  Speaker 5: You said it. Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, who in the world is this darling?
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  Speaker 6: Ed, what are you doing back here?
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  Speaker 4: I'm back, that's all.
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  Speaker 6: Are you all right?
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  Speaker 4: Tonight I own the world, Susan. Let me in.
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  Speaker 6: It's very late, Ed.
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  Speaker 7: Have you any idea what time it is?
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  Speaker 4: Time is no longer of the essence, as they say.
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  Speaker 6: Now, look, Ed, I have an early appointment. I've got
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  Speaker 6: to get some sleep.
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  Speaker 7: Be a good boy and go on home.
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  Speaker 4: I've been home. I'm not going back. Doris and I
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  Speaker 4: argued and we're through. We're finished.
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: When did this happen?
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  Speaker 4: A couple of hours ago. No man can stand that
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  Speaker 4: kind of thing for long.
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  Speaker 6: Ed, all married people have spat.
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  Speaker 4: This is no spat. This is it.
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  Speaker 7: Now, you don't mean that.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do. I told her where to head in. Yakety, yakety, yakety.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: She doesn't understand me. She never did.
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: Well, maybe you don't give her a chance to.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't I?
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, now, be fair, Ed Doris is a wonderful girl.
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  Speaker 4: How do you know?
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: She married you, didn't she?
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: That was a long time ago.
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: Now, all the more reason for you not to go
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  Speaker 9: off half-cocked. You can't just tear up years together like that.
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: Be sensible, Ed, please.
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  Speaker 4: You mean that, don't you?
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  Speaker 6: From the bottom of my heart.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Susan, when they made you, they threw away the mold.
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  Speaker 4: No wonder I love you so much. You always think
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: of the other fellow first.
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  Speaker 7: Darling, I just don't want you in trouble. And I
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: don't like to see you unhappy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my baby.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: My darling.
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  Speaker 4: You understand me, don't you?
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, of course.
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  Speaker 9: Now, you go on down to the club and get
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: some sleep with what's left of the night, and tomorrow
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: you call Doris and make.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: Up with her.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to.
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: No arguments now, Susan.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: No, I mean it. I'm through, and that's final, final, final.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: Ed, my darling, please think it over carefully.
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: We've been so patient. We've been so decent. Let's be sure.
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  Speaker 9: So very sure, for everybody's sake.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure. And I'm a free man. No one
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: can stop me from asking you what I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: ask you from the very first moment I laid my
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  Speaker 4: eyes on you.
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  Speaker 7: And that's... Tomorrow, honey. Phone me tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: Now, good night, dear.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, all right. That's the way you want it.
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  Speaker 7: That's the way I want it.
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  Speaker 3: Now, come on.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: Get some sleep like a good boy. Good night, Pappy.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: Good night, sugar.
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  Speaker 4: Good night.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: Barney.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: He's left, eh?
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Did you hear?
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Not all of it.
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  Speaker 6: You should have. He's going to blow his happy home. Oh?
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Why don't these guys ever get along with their wives?
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: I don't know, but this one's going to want to
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  Speaker 6: marry me.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: You say I blame him. You're quite a dish. That's
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  Speaker 5: why I married you myself.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: But what happens now with his wife out of the way?
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  Speaker 9: I can't hold him at arms length forever, and we
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: can't afford to let our pigeon out of the coop.
• 17:49
  Speaker 11: Not this pigeon. How much is in that trading account
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  Speaker 11: of yours, if you'll pardon the expression?
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  Speaker 4: A lot.
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  Speaker 7: Better than $ 30, 000.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: All in your name. Perfect. And tomorrow morning, you sell
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: everything in that account.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: It almost seems a shame to do it. Trust me
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: so much.
• 18:08
  Speaker 11: Look, baby, don't go moral on me at this late date.
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: It might spoil our beautiful relationship. I.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: Don't worry about me, darling.
• 18:18
  Speaker 11: Don't give me reason to. Now, tomorrow morning, we cash
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: out that account. And as soon as we get a
• 18:23
  Speaker 11: check for the proceeds, we'll vacate this apartment. And if
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: it'll make you feel any better, we'll mail Jameson the
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: key as a gesture of goodwill.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Well, how does.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: It feel to have a rich wife?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Fine, fine. We'll buy a house in Westport and live graciously.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Sure, I'll plan menus and play bridge with the girls,
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: and you can go into the office every day. Yeah?
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Over my dead body.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: It's too bad, Edward, that you couldn't have listened in.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Couldn't have known the truth about Susan. But then you
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: wouldn't have believed it, would you? Even though there are
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: signs around that kind of people, signs that can easily
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: be read, you wouldn't see them. Because an infatuation like
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: yours can be very blind. Can't it, Edward? Very blind.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: Hello?
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Susan, hold on to your hat.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: It's done.
• 19:21
  Speaker 12: Ed. Yeah, I'm out at LaGuardia Field. She just left
• 19:24
  Speaker 12: for Reno, my.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Wife and her mother.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: You sure, Ed?
• 19:26
  Speaker 12: Now, listen, I drove them to the airport and put
• 19:28
  Speaker 12: them on the plane. Oh, I'm so happy about it,
• 19:30
  Speaker 12: I think I could crawl out of that receiver you're
• 19:31
  Speaker 12: holding to your ear.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: So wait there, and I'll be right over.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: At 11.30 in the morning?
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Morning, noon, night, who cares?
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you what you do.
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: I have several things I simply can't change at this
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: short notice, so you meet me here at 6.30.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: I'll have cocktails waiting.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: 6.30?
• 19:46
  Speaker 12: That's a lifetime.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Sorry, dear, if I'd known.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Well, it's okay, Angel.
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: I'll run back to the house for a couple of things,
• 19:54
  Speaker 12: and then I'll probably kill some time at the club.
• 19:56
  Speaker 12: So if you can get out of earlier, call me there.
• 19:59
  Speaker 12: If I don't hear from you, 6.30 on the nose.
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: Right?
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Bye, love.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: Bye.
• 20:05
  Speaker 12: Bye.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: Well, here we go again.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: That's what it sounded like.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: He's just put his wife on a plane for Reno.
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: Well, that means I'd better get right down to his
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: office as fast as I can and pick up the check.
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: In the meantime, you phone him that a messenger is
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: on the way.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Sometimes I wonder if there isn't an easier way of
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: making a living.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Don't wonder. You haven't got any choice. You married me, remember?
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: Sure, Barney, I remember. I'm not complaining. Where you're concerned,
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: it's funny that way.
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: Good.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: How soon can you have us ready to skip this town?
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: Be back here by five.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: That'll give us time.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: I'll pack your bags so we'll be all ready to go.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Great. We're as good as on our way, baby.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: And I didn't expect you'd be in today.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: No, neither did I, but the best laid plans, you know.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Well, what's new?
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: I've typed out a list of everything. It's right here
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: on your desk.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, let me see.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: All the calls.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Brown's been taking care of your customers. And all the
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: transactions they made are on the list, too.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Very efficient, Miss Turner.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry to hear about you and Mrs. Jamison.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Not at all. Not at all.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: Those things happen, I suppose.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, they do. What's this note about Miss Leeds?
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Hmm? Oh, she sold everything in her account this morning.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: She what?
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Yes, and Miss Leeds said you had talked it over
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: with her.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: You know I do all the trading in that account.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Well, but the account is in her name, Mr. Jameson.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: I couldn't question her instructions.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, that's your fault, Miss Turner. Tell me, were
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: there any other instructions from Miss Leeds?
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Yes, she wanted the check right away.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Get out to the cashier's department and stop that check immediately.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: The check was picked up by a messenger just a
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: few minutes ago.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: It was what?
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: Yes, so she called again at noon and said the
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: messenger was on his way.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: You.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: You remember what time exactly?
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Well, it was about... Oh, let me see. About a
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: quarter to twelve. Yes, because I had.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Turner, get me a taxi fast.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: What's the matter, Mr. Jameson?
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: You look like.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Like I'd lost my best friend? Maybe I have. Just
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: get me that cab. The End.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: Well, Barney, did you get... Ed.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Hello, Susan.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: You're early.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: A little, maybe. I was almost too late.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Why did you do it, Susan?
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Do what?
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Close out the account. Why did you do it?
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: I felt like it, and the account was in my name.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: That money was mine. Ours. Why did you do it
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: behind my back?
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: That should be obvious.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Well, it isn't.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: No one can possibly be that stupid.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Susan, I put every cent I had in the world
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: in that account. It's all right if you want the money, but...
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I love you, and you... You hurt me and shocked me.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: You'll recover.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Susan, darling, you don't understand.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Well, you finally said it. I don't understand. Doris didn't understand.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Did your mother ever understand you?
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Susan, what's come over you?
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: I've never seen you like this before.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: You never looked.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Baby, I can't stand you like this. I... I love you, baby.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: We've got plans. In six weeks, we can get married.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, why don't you grow up?
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Susan.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: What makes you think you're God's gift to women? I'd
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: always put up with you for five years. I'll always
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: be a misty.
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: Now, if you don't mind, I want to be alone.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: I've got to finish packing.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: You're packing? You are. Susan, that gun in your suitcase.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Skip it, Ed. You better run along.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: My husband's due here any minute.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Husband, when did you get married?
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: About three years before I met you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: And this whole thing has been a shakedown. Susan, I
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: could kill you for this.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: Stop it. You're not the type.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: You won't kill me.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I'm a woman.
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: And nice little boys don't kill women. Nice little boys
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: need women to understand them. They just couldn't live without
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: a woman's shoulder to cry on. From the cradle to
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: the grave, nice little... Boys have to be mothered.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: No. Little boy, you got me, Mr. Cass. I'm not
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: your mother.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: No, no, Susan, you can't talk to me.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: You get away from me.
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: Get out of here.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Leave that gun alone, Ed. I'm not a little boy.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Ed, use your senses.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I'm not a little boy, I'll show you. I'm going
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: to kill you. No. No sense trying to get out
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: that door.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: The Whistler will return in just a moment with a
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: strange ending to tonight's story. There's no mystery, however, to
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: the story I'm about to tell you. The ever-increasing swing
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: to Signal. Starting with just a handful of stations in
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Southern California, the Signal organization has grown and grown year
• 25:07
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• 25:11
  Speaker 2: from Canada to Mexico. Obviously, folks who have tried Signal,
• 25:15
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• 25:20
  Speaker 2: like it, for good reasons. Not only for Signal's famous mileage,
• 25:24
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• 25:27
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• 25:30
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• 25:36
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• 25:40
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• 25:52
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• 25:57
  Speaker 2: back to the whistler.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: It's over at last, Ed. The whole story. Your break
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: with your wife, Doris. The terrible shock when you discovered
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: that Susan Leeds had made a fool out of you.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: That she and her husband, Barney, had planned the whole
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: thing to take away a little boy's money. That was
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: what really brought on the blind rage, wasn't it, Ed?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: When she admitted that to you. And now, standing in
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: the 7th Precinct Station, telling it quietly to the desk sergeant,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: you suddenly stop. Because it's all you remember, isn't it?
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: A blinding rage, a gunflash.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: A murder. And that's your story, is it, Jameson? Yes.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: There's a little more to it, I guess. It's not
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: exactly clear in my mind. She opened the door and
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: tried to get out. I only know that I killed
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Susan Leach.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: So you killed Susan Leach.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: Why does this have to happen to me?
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: But I told you, I.
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: Look, we walk in on a couple of characters we've
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: been trying to nab for months. They're wanted in half
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: a dozen states on everything from blackmail to larceny. We
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: find one of them dead, the other one standing there
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: half-dazed with a murder weapon on the floor.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: It's a perfect case, all wrapped up. Then you walk in.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: But I killed her. I'm trying to tell you, I... Wait.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: Frank, bring in the suspect. Oh, please, I just want
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: some rest. You wait like I told you. Ah, here
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: she is.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: She?
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Susan. So, you killed Susan Lee. It can't be. I
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: fired the gun.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: You didn't kill me. But I wish you had.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: But I did. You were running for the door and
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: you opened it and I pulled the trigger. Yes.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Just as my husband, Barney, came in to try to
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: help me.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Your husband? I killed your husband.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: That's right, Jameson.
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: I don't know what the DA will want to do
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: about it, but you're going to have a hard time
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: explaining this to a jury.
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: Funny, isn't it?
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: You getting rid of a wife who doesn't mean anything
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: to you. And I lost a husband who meant everything
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: to me.
• 28:50
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• 28:57
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• 29:00
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• 29:05
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• 29:08
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• 29:12
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• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Featured in tonight's story were Willard Waterman and Betty Lou Gerson.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: The Whistler was produced and directed by George W. Allen,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: with story by... Frank Lovejoy and music by Wilbur Hatch,
• 29:43
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• 29:52
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• 29:58
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• 30:16
  Speaker 1: That was The Whistler, Murder on Margin from 1948. Follow
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