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Suspense - "Beware the Quiet Man" (Old Time Radio, 1948) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Suspense, Episode 2, aired on August 1st, 1948. Tonight's program
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  Speaker 1: is Beware the Quiet Man, with Ann Southern as Margie
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  Speaker 1: and William Conrad as private detective Lem Cluson. Toby Hall
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  Speaker 1: wrote it, and Anton M. Leder directed and produced. Margie
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  Speaker 1: is waiting for her date in a neighborhood bar when
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  Speaker 1: Cluson begins discussing a new assignment. What he says about
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  Speaker 1: the case, and about the quiet bank teller husband at
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  Speaker 1: its center, comes uncomfortably close to Margie's own domestic life.
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  Speaker 1: Over drinks, telephone calls, and an increasingly uneasy conversation, she
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  Speaker 1: presses to learn more. From CBS's suspense, here is Beware
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  Speaker 1: the Quiet Man. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: In just a moment, suspense with Ann Southern.
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  Speaker 4: Billy, turn that radio down. How can we play bridge?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Ma.
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  Speaker 4: I like the auto light show, but not too loud.
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  Speaker 4: Whose deal is it, May? Mine, Mary.
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  Speaker 2: My husband Ed always listens, too. When he's home on Thursdays,
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  Speaker 2: our house sounds just.
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  Speaker 5: Like his service station.
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  Speaker 6: I know what you mean.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight's probably spark plug night.
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  Speaker 2: You'd think the announcer with his commercials would be enough,
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  Speaker 2: but no. It's switch to auto light resistor.
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  Speaker 4: Spark plug. I know, batteries and ignition systems.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Dora, what are you dreaming about?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Autolite? You mean the show with Ann Southern? Oh, Mary,
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  Speaker 4: tell Billy to turn up the radio again. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: miss Suspense. Billy, will you turn the radio up, your
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  Speaker 4: Aunt Dora?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: Suspense.
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  Speaker 7: Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring
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  Speaker 7: you radio's outstanding theater of thrills. Starring tonight, Miss Anne
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  Speaker 7: Southern in Anton Leder's production of Beware the Quiet Man,
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  Speaker 7: a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 1: Beware the Quiet Man.
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  Speaker 8: What do you have?
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  Speaker 4: Bourbon and soda with a twist of lemon.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, coming right up. Say, your name Margie?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. How'd you know?
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  Speaker 9: You generally come in here with a heavyset guy, black
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  Speaker 9: wavy hair, wears a big diamond?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he was in a while ago. Said that he'd
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  Speaker 5: be late, but for you to be sure and wait
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  Speaker 5: for him.
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  Speaker 4: But I can't wait. I gotta get home to my...
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  Speaker 4: I gotta get home. How late do you say it be?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, pardon now.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, for crying out loud. Okay, give me some nickels.
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  Speaker 8: Here you are. Thanks.
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  Speaker 9: Hello?
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Banning, please. Yeah, Mr. Arthur Banning. Arthur? Margie. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to be late for supper. Yeah, I ran into a
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  Speaker 4: girl I used to know at Lincoln High. She wants
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  Speaker 4: me to have a drink with her.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And say, will you pick up some hamburger on the
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  Speaker 4: way home and start the potatoes? I'll be there as
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  Speaker 4: quick as I can.
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  Speaker 7: Bye.
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  Speaker 8: Here's your drink.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here's mud in your eyes.
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  Speaker 5: Um, there's a young fellow down at the end of
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  Speaker 5: the bar who wants to buy you one.
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  Speaker 4: No, thanks.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he looks like a nice guy.
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  Speaker 4: That tall blonde fellow over by the mirror?
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  Speaker 5: None other. And you got a whole lot to kill.
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  Speaker 4: Is he... He isn't drunk, is he?
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  Speaker 5: No, he's had a few, but he always carries it good.
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  Speaker 5: It might help pass the time.
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  Speaker 4: Say, what's it to you anyway?
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  Speaker 5: Five bucks. You see, I'd sure appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: He offers you five bucks to get me to have
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  Speaker 4: a drink with him? Yeah. He is kind of good looking. Well, okay. Sure,
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  Speaker 4: what the heck, I'll have a drink with him.
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  Speaker 11: Okay, so you're married. Nothing wrong with having a drink together.
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  Speaker 8: So what?
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  Speaker 11: I figure what your old man don't know won't hurt him.
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  Speaker 4: I said I'd have a drink with you. If you've
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  Speaker 4: got any other ideas, I'll buy my own.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, now, don't get me wrong, honey. I spotted you
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  Speaker 10: as a good kid the minute you ankled in here.
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  Speaker 10: You just like excitement, that's all. And I'm the guy
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  Speaker 10: that can dish it out.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: You see, I'm a private eye. Yeah, no kidding, like
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  Speaker 11: you hear about on the radio.
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  Speaker 4: Gee, what a break for me.
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  Speaker 11: You just stick around me, honey, and you'll get plenty
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  Speaker 11: of excitement.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll bet.
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  Speaker 10: You know, you take this new client of mine now.
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  Speaker 10: Bet you anything he makes the headlines tomorrow.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah. Ten to one, he'll murder his wife.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 10: He hired me to find out if his wife's been
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  Speaker 10: stepping out. I felt kind of sorry for the guy.
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  Speaker 10: Probably doesn't have the money to take her out himself.
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  Speaker 10: He's a bank teller over at Second National.
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  Speaker 4: Bank teller? Bank teller? My... What's his name?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, honey, no, no, that stuff's confidential. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 11: I'm not supposed to talk about cases at all.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, go on.
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  Speaker 4: I won't tell anybody.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you don't look like the kind of babe that
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  Speaker 10: blabs everything she knows.
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  Speaker 11: How about that drink, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, Charlie, two over here, huh?
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  Speaker 7: In the works.
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  Speaker 11: You know, it sort of gave me the creeps.
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  Speaker 10: This guy, he sat there eating his lunch, calm as
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  Speaker 10: you please, and all the time figuring how to kill
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  Speaker 10: his wife.
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  Speaker 4: How'd you know what he was figuring?
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  Speaker 10: Well, for one thing, he didn't want evidence for a divorce.
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  Speaker 10: He sort of looked at me funny and said, I
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  Speaker 10: just want to know, that's all. If Margie is stepping out,
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  Speaker 10: I'll take care of it.
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  Speaker 12: My own way.
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  Speaker 10: Margie?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, that's his wife's name, Margie. And what's the matter?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing. Nothing at all.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, you don't look so good.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe you drank the last one too fast.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, I'm fine. I'm just naturally pale, that's all.
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  Speaker 4: You were saying about this client? You figure he's going
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  Speaker 4: to murder his wife?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, sure, sure. It's in the back. Either that or suicide.
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  Speaker 4: Suicide?
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  Speaker 11: But he's more the type for murder.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, one of those big, brutal guys. Sort of mean-looking, huh?
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  Speaker 11: No, no. Quiet, Marcy. Kind doesn't have much to say.
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  Speaker 11: Those are the guys you gotta watch.
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  Speaker 4: But why?
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  Speaker 10: Because they never let you know what they're really thinking.
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  Speaker 10: Not until it's too late.
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  Speaker 4: They don't?
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  Speaker 10: You know, most guys, when they find their wives stepping,
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  Speaker 10: will raise cane. Maybe they'll even get a divorce. But
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  Speaker 10: they don't get sore enough to murder.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: But these quiet fellas, you know, they put the little
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  Speaker 10: woman on a pedestal. You wouldn't catch them out with
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  Speaker 10: other women, not in a million years. And when they
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  Speaker 10: discover their one and only has been kicking up her.
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  Speaker 11: Heels, oh, brother, watch out.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 10: And the worst of it is they go on acting
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  Speaker 10: like nothing's wrong, you see. And then all of a sudden, wanko,
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  Speaker 10: they explode.
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  Speaker 4: They explode?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: You know, like I always say, beware the quiet, man.
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  Speaker 10: Like this new client of.
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  Speaker 11: Mine, for example, Calm. You never met anybody calmer, but
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  Speaker 11: I'll bet.
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  Speaker 4: What does he look like?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, just about average, I guess. Brown hair, getting sort
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  Speaker 10: of thin on the top. A little bit stoop-shouldered.
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  Speaker 4: Medium height? Wear glasses?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know him?
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't know any of the boys. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, where are you going?
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  Speaker 4: I gotta make a phone call. Just remembered something. Don't
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  Speaker 4: go away. I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 10: Ralph?
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  Speaker 4: Margie?
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  Speaker 11: Margie?
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  Speaker 4: I can't see you this afternoon. No, I'm not sore
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  Speaker 4: about you being late. But whatever you do, don't come
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  Speaker 4: into Charlie's place. Yeah, that's where I am now. You
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  Speaker 4: bet there's something wrong. There's plenty wrong. Either this guy
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  Speaker 4: I'm talking to is crazy, or else Arthur's planning to
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  Speaker 4: murder me.
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  Speaker 12: The End.
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  Speaker 7: For suspense, Autolight is bringing you Miss Anne Southern in
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  Speaker 7: radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Dora, we're down 200 on that hand.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, are we?
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  Speaker 6: It's easy to see there's no playing bridge with you
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  Speaker 6: girls with suspense on. So let's stop playing and switch
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  Speaker 6: to auto-light spark plugs or whatever for the rest of
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  Speaker 6: the half hour, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Mary, I could kiss you. You're such an understanding sister-in-law,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't want to miss a single word. What
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  Speaker 4: about you, May?
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  Speaker 2: Dora, did you know that my husband knows Frank Martin,
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  Speaker 2: the auto light salesman?
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  Speaker 4: He does? Well, then let's listen to Mr. Martin.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that I'll hear every word of that
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  Speaker 2: again from Ed when I get home.
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  Speaker 7: And now Autolite brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Miss
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  Speaker 7: Anne Southern as Margie in Beware the Quiet Man.
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  Speaker 11: A tale well calculated to keep you in.
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  Speaker 3: Suspense.
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  Speaker 11: Suspense.
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  Speaker 4: I stood there in the phone booth a minute after
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  Speaker 4: I hung up. I wasn't scared exactly, but I had
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  Speaker 4: to let those words sink in. Either this guy I'm
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  Speaker 4: talking to is crazy, or else Arthur's planning to murder me.
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  Speaker 4: I went back to the bar. I had to find out.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, beautiful.
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  Speaker 11: I thought you got a lot. Sit down, sit down.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks. No, about this fellow, the one who's going to
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  Speaker 4: murder his wife.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, let's can the shop talk. I want to hear
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  Speaker 11: about you. I don't even know your name.
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  Speaker 4: Did he say what made him think she was stepping out?
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  Speaker 10: Ah, she's supposed to belong to some bridge club. The
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  Speaker 10: bank teller's wife's got up. But friends of his saw
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  Speaker 10: her downtown a couple of times on a bridge date.
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  Speaker 4: Is that all?
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  Speaker 11: You know, honey, you're pretty smart. You make like you're
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  Speaker 11: really interested in that guy's work.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, but I am.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I had a little doll once. I thought plenty.
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  Speaker 11: I would have married her, maybe, but.
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  Speaker 10: Only every time I started talking about Acacia, you shut
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  Speaker 10: me up.
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  Speaker 4: Never mind about your little dolls. What about this guy?
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  Speaker 11: Hey, you're jealous. Well, what do you know?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not jealous. I only want to know.
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  Speaker 11: It's okay, honey. It's okay.
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  Speaker 10: Sure, a cute little doll like you doesn't want to
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  Speaker 10: hear a guy spotting off about another dame.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, maybe I had a few too many.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to hear about this bank teller. Have
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  Speaker 4: you met his wife, maybe?
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  Speaker 11: No, but he showed me a picture of her. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Then you know what she looks like.
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  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, what's so funny?
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  Speaker 4: Never mind. The joke's on.
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  Speaker 8: Me.
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  Speaker 11: Maybe you better not have many more to drink. You're
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  Speaker 11: acting kind of screwy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I feel wonderful. Well, here's to you. A long life.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: A long, long life.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Down the hatch.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Poor little Margie. You know, you showed me a snapshot
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  Speaker 10: of her in her bathing suit.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, boy, was she stacked.
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  Speaker 10: As a matter of fact, about your height and build,
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  Speaker 10: you're blonde like.
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  Speaker 4: You, too. Was she as pretty as I am?
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  Speaker 11: I couldn't see her face.
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of blurred.
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  Speaker 11: He's bringing me a better picture of her tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I think I'd like another drink.
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  Speaker 10: You know, honey, you better start taking vitamins or something.
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  Speaker 10: You're pale as a sheep.
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  Speaker 4: I said I wanted another drink.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, sure. Hey, Charlie, two more of the same, huh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 11: poor little Margie. You know, that's one thing I can
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  Speaker 11: never figure out.
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  Speaker 10: The cute little dolls with flirtatious eyes always pick some
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  Speaker 10: homely quiet gink when it comes to settling down. And
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  Speaker 10: the handsome he-man who has to beat off the dames
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  Speaker 10: with a club, what does he do?
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  Speaker 11: He marries a drab little pigeon. Yeah, that's why we
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  Speaker 11: get so many axe murders, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Axe murders?
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  Speaker 11: Only in this case, he'll use a gun.
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  Speaker 4: But he doesn't have a... I mean, most bank clerks
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  Speaker 4: don't own guns.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, this one does.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Give me a light, will you?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 3: There you are.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, maybe if you lay off for booze, honey, and
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  Speaker 10: take a tonic or something, you'll feel better.
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  Speaker 11: Look at your hands. They're trembling.
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  Speaker 4: How do you know he has a gun?
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  Speaker 11: Oh. Oh, I get it. Why don't you tell me?
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  Speaker 4: Tell you what?
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  Speaker 11: You got a squeamish stomach. All this talk about guns
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  Speaker 11: and shooting. No, honey, I'm sorry. I won't say one
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  Speaker 11: more word about it, I promise.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not squeamish and I don't need vitamins. I want
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  Speaker 4: to know how you know this bank teller guy has
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  Speaker 4: a gun.
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  Speaker 10: All right, so I'm going to a pawn shop and
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  Speaker 10: buy one. You know, honey, I could really go for you.
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  Speaker 11: It's a funny thing.
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  Speaker 10: We never even introduced ourselves. That's something we gotta do.
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  Speaker 10: My name's Cluson.
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  Speaker 11: Lem Cluson. What's yours?
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  Speaker 4: You mean that man bought a gun and now he's
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  Speaker 4: home waiting to murder his wife in cold blood?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, no, no. He won't do anything until he gets
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  Speaker 11: my report.
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  Speaker 10: You see, tomorrow I check with her friends to see
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  Speaker 10: if she's been going to bridge club like she's supposed to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: And I meet my client for lunch and get a
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  Speaker 11: picture of Margie.
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  Speaker 10: And I take her around to the downtown bars to
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  Speaker 10: find out if she's.
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  Speaker 11: Been seen with anybody. And then I give my client
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  Speaker 11: the report when he gets off work.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then?
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  Speaker 10: And if his suspicions are right, and they usually are,
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  Speaker 10: it's all over but the shooting.
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  Speaker 4: The shooting?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah. Bang, bang, honey. That's all. Bang, bang. Say, what'd
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  Speaker 11: you say your name was?
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  Speaker 4: I've got to get home.
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  Speaker 12: Hello, dear.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Arthur.
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  Speaker 8: I was beginning to worry about you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I really couldn't help being late for dinner. I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to leave, but May Bell, that's her name, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the girl I used to go to school with, she
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  Speaker 4: kept talking yatter to yatter, and I just couldn't walk
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  Speaker 4: out on her in the middle of a sentence.
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  Speaker 11: That's all right.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't mind.
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  Speaker 9: Say, the potatoes are all ready, like you told me.
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  Speaker 8: Shall I.
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  Speaker 4: No, no. I'll hurry dinner. You just sit down and
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  Speaker 4: read the paper.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thank you, dear. You all right? You look a
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  Speaker 8: little flushed.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm fine. I was just rushing, that's all. It'll
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: be ready in a minute. Did you have a hard day, darling?
• 15:45
  Speaker 11: All usual.
• 15:46
  Speaker 9: People are taking out more money these days than they're
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: putting in.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, prices are awful, aren't they?
• 15:51
  Speaker 10: Hmm.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: Nothing unusual? I mean, nothing happened today?
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: Oh, a funny thing.
• 15:59
  Speaker 9: A man came rushing in this morning, first thing the
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: doors were opened. Wanted to withdraw all the money from
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: their joint account before his wife beat him to it.
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: Seems she was leaving him for another man.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, how awful.
• 16:11
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: While he was there, she appeared. You should have heard
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: her carry on. She was a real shrew.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: What happened?
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, nothing.
• 16:20
  Speaker 8: He didn't say a word. He was a gentleman.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: But I'll bet if he'd had a gun, he'd have
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: killed her.
• 16:27
  Speaker 11: Oh, well.
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: Seems things like that happen all the time. Newspaper's full
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: of it.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Are you mad at me, Arthur?
• 16:36
  Speaker 10: Hmm?
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Are you mad at me?
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Am I mad at you?
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: Why, no. Should I be?
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Arthur, darling, I've got something to confess.
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: Well, fire away.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: I didn't go to bridge club last week.
• 16:49
  Speaker 12: No?
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I thought you'd die before you gave up bridge. Really, honey,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: you look awfully seedy.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: No, I'm fine. I feel fine. I had sort of
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: a quarrel with Lorraine. I didn't want to tell you
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: because you're always talking about how women can't get along
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: with each other. Instead of going to bridge club, I
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: went shopping. Instead... Fine.
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: Only I hope you didn't go over the budget.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: That's good. I always said Bridge was a waste of time.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Then you're not angry about anything?
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Why, no.
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: Why should I be?
• 17:23
  Speaker 11: Oh, Arthur.
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: What's the matter now?
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: I don't deserve a swell husband like you.
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm not so hot.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, you always do the dinner dishes and bring me
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: my breakfast in bed on Sunday mornings. The only morning
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: you have to sleep. Arthur... I'd feel terrible if anything
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: ever happened to us. Well, what's going to happen? Suppose
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: someday you got real mad and exploded. Exploded? Yeah. What
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: if you got a gun and shot me dead?
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: Oh, for heaven's sakes, Margie. Where do you get those
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: crazy ideas?
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: You mean, no matter how mad you got, no matter
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: what I did to make you mad, you wouldn't shoot
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: me dead?
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: Margie, you know I'd rather die than hurt one hair
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: on your head.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, Arthur, not suicide.
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: Say, how many drinks did you and Maybel have?
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: Arthur.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I want you to know I'm going to change. I'm
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: going to be a better wife from now on. I'll
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: stay home all the time. And darn your socks.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: You? Darn socks.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: You just wait and see. I'll get up every morning
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: and make your breakfast.
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: Margie, you know you won't do any of those things.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: I will, too.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: Nonsense. Women like you never change.
• 18:23
  Speaker 11: I will, too.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I'll change right away. Tomorrow.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: Besides, I don't want you to. Oh, come here, baby.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: I want you to stay just exactly the way you.
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: Are right now.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Just exactly, Arthur.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: I love you very much.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Just the way you are.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, Arthur.
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: Hey, that reminds me. I made an appointment for you
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: tomorrow at 10.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: You're having your picture taken.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: My picture?
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: I showed a fellow that old snapshot of you today.
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: The one we took at the beach?
• 18:50
  Speaker 11: Oh.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: It was so dog-eared he couldn't see what you looked like,
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: and I realized we didn't have a single decent picture.
• 18:54
  Speaker 11: Of you at all, so I.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: But why have it taken tomorrow?
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: Well, the studio next to the bank is having a special,
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: advertising the new 60-minute service.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: 60-minute service?
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: That way I can pick up the finished picture before
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: I go to lunch.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I don't want my picture taken.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Well, now you're being silly.
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: I won't.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: I won't do it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: Oh, honey, what's the matter?
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Don't touch me. I won't have my picture taken.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: I won't. Good night.
• 19:13
  Speaker 11: Oh.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: Sort of gave me the creeps, this guy. Sat there
• 19:21
  Speaker 11: eating his lunch, calm as you please, all the time
• 19:25
  Speaker 11: figuring how to kill his wife.
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: Quiet, Marcy.
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: That's the kind you gotta watch. Never let you know
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: what they're really thinking. All of a sudden, wango, they explode. Bang, bang, honey.
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: That's all.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: Bang, bang.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, no. There must be some mistake. Arthur wouldn't hurt me.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: He wouldn't. I won't think about it. I'll take a
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: sleeping pad. and go to bed. The gun. He did
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: buy a gun. It's all true. Every word of it's true.
• 20:00
  Speaker 12: The End.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Hello? Ralph! I told you never to call me here. No, no,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: it isn't all right. Arthur bought a gun home last night. Yes,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: a gun! Claimed he was keeping it for a friend,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: that's all he'd say. Yeah, I think so. Just a minute,
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I'll look. Ralph, the gun's gone. He must have taken
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: it to work. Oh, but don't you see? As soon
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: as he finds out for sure, he'll kill... No, no, no, no, no.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: I never want to hear from you again. I've got
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: to think. I've got to think. Oh, not the doorbell. Oh, Lorraine. Well,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: who'd you expect, darling Frankenstein? Aren't you going to invite
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: me in? Well, I was just going out. Don't be silly.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: You're not dressed. I'm in a hurry, Lorraine. So am I.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: I'm late at the beauty shop now.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: But I was driving past anyway, so I thought I'd
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: drop in and give you the latest on the girls
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: at the bridge club.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Well, some other day I've... Honestly, Margie, this is choice.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: You know what I heard about Mrs. Dentler? You know,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: she's the wife of Ben Dentler, the new teller at
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: the bank. The one from Chicago. Lorraine, if you don't mind... Oh,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: that's right. You haven't met her. Of course, you haven't
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: been around lately. Well, she's kind of a pretty little
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: thing in a plucked eyebrow sort of way. But it's...
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: You should hear what her husband told my husband. Lorraine, I...
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Of course, I promised Ed I wouldn't breathe a word.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: You're crying out loud, Lorraine. What? What brought that on?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: I haven't time to stand and gossip. What's wrong with
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: you today, anyway? You're as nervous as a cat. I'm
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: all right. Perfectly all right. But here it is.
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: 10.30. 10.30?
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Good heavens, I'm a half hour late. Well, goodbye. I've
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: got to run. Oh, darling. Be sure and read the
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Gazette tomorrow. They're running a story about our bridge benefits. Okay, goodbye.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Pictures and everything.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: They didn't have time to take a new picture, but
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: I gave them when we took the Valentine party.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: The one I was in? They're publishing it? Why, sure.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I don't want my picture in the paper. But yours
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: was the only flattering one in the group. The reporter
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: picked you up right away. You seemed quite smitten. He? Oh, yes, yes.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: He asked all about you. Of course, I told him
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: that you didn't come to meetings very often. The Gazette
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: doesn't use men reporters for society. Well, they do now, dear.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: He didn't sound much like a reporter, though. He kept
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: calling me honey. Tall, blonde, fast talker? Why, yes. And
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: you gave him my picture?
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: Well, of course.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: What was his name? Oh, well, that's the funny name.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I think it was Cluson. Lem Cluson. But, Charlie, it's
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: a matter of life and death. I've got to get
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: a hold of Lem before noon.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: Well, like I said, he ain't been in.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: You sure he never told you where he works?
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: No, he's come short for some private detective outfit.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, give me some nickels, lots of nickels. I've got
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: some telephoning to do. At me, Detective Agency. Do you
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: have a man named Cluson working for you? Lem Cluson?
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: No?
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Thanks. Random Agency, I want Mr. Cluson, Lem Cluson. Oh, yeah,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: I guess I have the wrong number. Hawkshark detectives, I'm
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: looking for a man named Lem Cluson. No, I don't
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: want to hire you to find him. But you're the
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: last one in the book. He's got... Okay, sorry.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: No luck?
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: No.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: I just remembered. Lem said the guy he worked for
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: just opened up in town. Probably ain't in the phone
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: book yet. Go on, kid, get out of here.
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: Ah, that fresh kid, just because I won't let him
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: in here peddling his papers, he yells in the door.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Did he say bank suicide?
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: He yells in here every darn day.
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: Hey, wait, wait.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Hey, you didn't finish your drink.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Hey, Newsy. Newsy. Hey, boy. Hey, newspaper.
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: Boy.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Come here, boy. Hey, you, boy. Paper lady? Did you
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: say suicide?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Right in the Second National Bank. You want a paper?
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Here.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Guy's wife steps out with another joke. So the poor
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: dope says, goodbye, Margie, and pulls the trigger.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Here you are, lady. Blank suicide.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Read all about it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: Well, well, if it isn't Margie.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Get away from me, Lem Cluson.
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: Heard you were looking for me. Well, here I am. Boy,
• 24:32
  Speaker 11: have I got a lot to tell you.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Let me alone. I want to read.
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: Oh, that write-up's no good. Here, give it here. Yeah,
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: that's better. Now come on into Charlie's and I'll give
• 24:40
  Speaker 11: you the inside.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Give me back my paper, you murderer.
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: Murderer?
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: Hey, wait a minute. Oh, I get it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: You figure he bumped himself off on account of my report.
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: That's a screwy part. He didn't even wait for the report.
• 24:51
  Speaker 11: I got it right here in my pocket.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Take your hand off my arm.
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: Oh, look, honey. Now, come on. You're coming into Charlie's
• 24:55
  Speaker 11: if I have to drag you.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Why don't you leave me alone?
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: I figured you'd be sore.
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: Might spotten off the way I did in Charlie's yesterday.
• 25:02
  Speaker 11: But how did I know who you were? Here we are. Hey, Charlie,
• 25:05
  Speaker 11: two bourbon highs, double.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: I don't want a drink.
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: Should have seen my face this morning when that screwy
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: friend of yours gave.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Me the picture of your bridge club.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, never mind.
• 25:13
  Speaker 11: And there you were, as real as life and just
• 25:15
  Speaker 11: as cute.
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: I says to myself, why, you dumb ox, you got
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: that little doll worried sick. And then when I read
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: in the paper about my client giving your husband the
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: gun to keep for fear he'll use it on himself, I.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Think, holy cow.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: What did you say?
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: And then I think, I bet she figures I planned
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: the whole thing just to scare her.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: Oh, now, don't try to kid me, Margie.
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: You know you figured that client of mine was your husband,
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: that he was going to bump you off.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: You mean he wasn't?
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: No, no, your name's Banning, isn't it? Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: Well, my client's name was Dentler, Benjamin Dentler. Funny thing,
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: his wife being named Margie, too. Yeah, I never thought
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: he'd do it anyway.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, I think I'd like that drink after all.
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: Well, here's to us, honey.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: So that's the gossip Lorraine was trying to tell me. Dentler,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: the teller from Chicago.
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: You know, I've been thinking a lot about you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: And Arthur really was keeping the gun for a friend
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: of his.
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: I'll tell you what, honey. I know a quiet little
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: spot across town where we can eat.
• 26:07
  Speaker 11: Dance, anything we want.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: You might have told me about Dentler.
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: It's a cute little place, baby. They've got a knocked-out
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: band and a water floor show.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I wonder why Arthur wouldn't talk to me about it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 11: Well, what do you say?
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Say? To what?
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: Well, you and me, honey. Our date. Oh.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: You're asking me to step out with you?
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: Well, why not?
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: How about my husband?
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: Oh, that mousy little guy. We got nothing to worry
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: about from him.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: But I thought you always said, beware the quiet man.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: You never know what they're really thinking.
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: But this is.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: No buts. If you'll pardon me, Mr. Lem Klusen, I'm
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: going home and start his supper.
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Ann Southern, for a splendid performance. Miss Southern
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: will be back in just a moment.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Dora, I apologize.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: That show was better than a six no-trump hand.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Why, Mary, first thing you know, you'll be in Ed's class,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: quacking about autolight resistor spark plugs like Donald Duck.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Deal me a great big hand, Mary, and watch me
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: get back that 200 we went down. You know, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: must get me a set of those spark plugs. Why not?
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: Ask Ed tomorrow to put a set of those autolight
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: resistor spark plugs in your car.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, then, May, will you tell Ed I'll be
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: over tomorrow?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I certainly will.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: My old car is going to get autolight resistor spark plugs, too.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, switching to autolight is safe, sane, sound, sober judgment,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: and a sure way to spark plug satisfaction. That's why
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: everybody is switching to autolight. Autolight means resistor spark plugs.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Ignition-engineered spark plugs. Autolight means batteries. Stay-full batteries. Autolight means
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: ignition system. The lifeline of your car.
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: And now, here again is Miss Anne Southern.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: I've enjoyed this appearance on Suspense very much. And as
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: a regular Suspense listener, I'm looking forward to next week
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: when Martha Scott stars in Crisis, a powerful study in... Suspense.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Ann Southern appears by courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, producers of
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Julia Misbehaves, starring Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson. Tonight's suspense
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: play was written by Toby Hall, with music composed by
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. The entire production
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: was under the direction of Anton M.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: Leder.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Martha Scott in Crisis.
• 29:10
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• 29:13
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• 29:15
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• 29:20
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• 30:07
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• 30:10
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• 30:27
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• 30:30
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