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It Happens Every Spring · Lux Radio Theatre

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  Speaker 1: Lux presents Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring
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  Speaker 2: you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Ray Moland and Colleen
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  Speaker 2: Townsend in It Happens Every Spring. Tonight, the Lux Radio
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  Speaker 2: Theater comes to you from Hollywood, as usual, but your
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  Speaker 2: producer speaks to you from.
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  Speaker 1: New York City. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley.
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  Speaker 3: Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. For weeks, excitement in baseball's big
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  Speaker 3: league pennant races has been at fever pitch. Yesterday, however,
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  Speaker 3: the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers were crowned
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  Speaker 3: champions after two of the toughest fights in years. And Wednesday,
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  Speaker 3: the great national sporting classic, the World Series, gets underway.
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  Speaker 3: So tonight, the Lux Radio Theater, quite appropriately, presents a
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  Speaker 3: delightful story about baseball. It's the 20th century Fox picture.
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  Speaker 3: It happens every spring. Heading our cast is Ray Moland
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  Speaker 3: in his original role. And with him is the charming
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  Speaker 3: Colleen Townsend, who lends romance to the big leagues. Baseball
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  Speaker 3: is a great American institution, as is our own Lux
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  Speaker 3: Toilet Soap. And in Hollywood, the big league for beautiful women,
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  Speaker 3: Lux Soap has a championship batting average. Nine out of
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  Speaker 3: ten screen stars use it. Now, for your enjoyment, here
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  Speaker 3: is Act One of It Happens Every Spring, starring Ray
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  Speaker 3: Moland as Vernon Simpson and Colleen Townsend as Debbie.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fine.
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  Speaker 2: Spring afternoon, and on the campus of a Midwestern college,
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  Speaker 2: the daughter of the college president is walking with her
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  Speaker 2: favorite professor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, by far her paper professor.
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  Speaker 4: But what is it, Vernon? Don't you feel well, darling? Well,
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  Speaker 4: you're acting so strangely.
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  Speaker 1: I am?
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  Speaker 4: And what was the idea of bringing your portable radio
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  Speaker 4: to class, tuning in the baseball game in the middle
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  Speaker 4: of your lecture?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Debbie, I wanted to find out how St. Louis
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  Speaker 1: was doing. Now, why? Oh, I don't know. Just an impulse,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose. I'm not that interested in baseball.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know you were even remotely interested in baseball. Oh, Vernon,
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  Speaker 4: you've become so terribly vague lately.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, not about you, Debbie. Why, you're almost everything I
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  Speaker 1: ever think about. Almost? What else can I say?
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  Speaker 4: Something definite, Vernon. Something positive. About us.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, but that's been out of the question. As a
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  Speaker 1: professor of chemistry, I make barely enough to live on.
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  Speaker 1: And your father, well, he's made it quite clear that
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  Speaker 1: for anyone in my financial situation to even discuss marriage.
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  Speaker 1: And he's right. Any man who thinks of getting married
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  Speaker 1: on an income like mine is a menace to society.
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  Speaker 1: But just wait until your father finds out.
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  Speaker 4: Finds out what, dear?
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  Speaker 1: My experiment in the laboratory. Oh, Vernon.
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  Speaker 4: Vernon, you mean you've done it? It's finished?
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  Speaker 1: Just about. And I haven't told you the best part, Debbie.
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  Speaker 1: My nitrocyclohexane compound will have great commercial value. You'll finish
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  Speaker 1: your postgraduate work in two months. We get married, Debbie.
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  Speaker 1: We buy a house, maybe even a car.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Vernon. But who's going to pay you all this money?
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  Speaker 1: The Norworth Laboratories. For years, they've been trying to develop
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  Speaker 1: a chemical that will keep insects away from wood. A biophobic,
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  Speaker 1: they call it. Well, they seem to think that my
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  Speaker 1: compound is the very thing they've been searching for.
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  Speaker 4: Vernon Simpson. The man who discovered the biophobic. Oh, darling,
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  Speaker 4: I'm so proud of you.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we can't expect any positive results right away,
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  Speaker 1: but we... Hey, wait a minute. Look, over there in
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  Speaker 1: back of the lab building. They're playing baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the boys play baseball there every day.
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  Speaker 1: They do? Oh, well, I guess I've been too busy
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  Speaker 1: to notice.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're not going to stop to notice them now.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Vernon, we're going to that lab.
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  Speaker 1: Debbie.
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  Speaker 5: Debbie, look.
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  Speaker 1: It's even better than I thought.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it is?
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  Speaker 1: Look, the white precipitate. Hallelujah, it's there. Oh, Debbie, you
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  Speaker 1: just don't realize what this means. Right here, right here
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  Speaker 1: in this flask is the result of five years of work.
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  Speaker 1: That flask holds my fortune, Debbie. It holds you and
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  Speaker 1: money and everything I ever hoped to... No, it couldn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: It couldn't.
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  Speaker 4: A baseball. They knocked it through the window.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Vernon, look.
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  Speaker 4: It smashed half your equipment. Give me a rag, darling.
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  Speaker 1: I'll... Oh, let it alone.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Vernon.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you understand? It smashed, destroyed everything.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't understand. You still have your formula. Now,
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  Speaker 4: how long would it take to make another solution?
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  Speaker 1: How long? Why, just one of those compounds alone took
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  Speaker 1: five weeks to crystallize, and they're all in sequence. I
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  Speaker 1: can't make the second until I finish the first. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, darling, I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Why, I ran some of those reactions 30 and 40
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  Speaker 1: times before I could get enough stuff to make the
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  Speaker 1: next step. Now I've got to start from scratch again,
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  Speaker 1: do it all over, step by step. It'll take months.
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  Speaker 4: And that wonderful precipitate. Isn't there any way you could
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  Speaker 4: filter it out and save it?
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  Speaker 1: That liquid? Why, it's just a hodgepodge of compounds. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even figure out what's in it, let alone filter it. Well...
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  Speaker 1: I suppose I'd better clean up this mess.
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  Speaker 4: Can't I help?
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather you run along, Debbie.
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  Speaker 4: Vernon.
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  Speaker 1: It's just another bad break. There's nothing you can say,
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  Speaker 1: nothing I can say.
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  Speaker 4: Now, darling, you mustn't feel that way.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Debbie, please, not now. I'm just not up to it.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Vernon. I'll see you.
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  Speaker 8: Later.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't fair. It just isn't right. Just because some
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  Speaker 1: kids knock a baseball through a window. Why my window?
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  Speaker 1: Why couldn't it have been... That's funny. What sort of
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  Speaker 1: a baseball is this? Oh, now, wait a minute. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to see things. But it's doing it again.
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  Speaker 1: This baseball is allergic to wood. What's happened here? What's happened?
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  Speaker 1: What's happened?
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  Speaker 2: Notes regarding amazing reaction of baseball. Baseball had become saturated
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  Speaker 2: in mixture of chemicals. As I started to clean laboratory,
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  Speaker 2: placed baseball on metal table. Baseball started to roll down
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  Speaker 2: the table.
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  Speaker 1: On table was wooden filing box. As baseball rolled toward box,
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  Speaker 1: it suddenly veered off, away from wooden box. Have repeated
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  Speaker 1: process with all sorts of wooden objects. It appears that
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  Speaker 1: chemical has made base for repellent to anything made of wood.
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  Speaker 1: Have salvaged enough liquid to fill two pint bottles and
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  Speaker 1: am arranging a very interesting experiment for tomorrow morning. and
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  Speaker 1: doing rather sadly in organic chemistry. You're aware of that. Oh, yes, Professor,
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  Speaker 1: but there's... Well, I understand you both play baseball. Varsity
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  Speaker 1: pitcher and catcher, right?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess maybe baseball's been taking up too much
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  Speaker 5: of our time.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt. Well, I'd hate to flunk you. You see,
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  Speaker 1: I used to play a little baseball myself. Oh, you did, huh? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: just a little. We had sort of a sandlot team
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  Speaker 1: back home, and then, of course, in the Army. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I'd better give you boys a little tutoring,
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  Speaker 1: see if we can't improve your grades. I say, that's
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  Speaker 1: sure swell of you, Professor. And in return, I was
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  Speaker 1: wondering if you'd do something for me and keep it
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  Speaker 1: strictly confidential. Oh, we'd be glad to, Professor. All right,
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  Speaker 1: then meet me on the baseball field tomorrow morning at
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  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock. 5 o'clock? In the morning? You heard me. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and bring a lot of baseballs. Now, sit down. I'll
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  Speaker 1: try to teach you a little chemistry. Well, good morning, boys.
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  Speaker 1: I see you're right on time, exactly 5 o'clock. Yeah, a.m. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to see us. Now, here's what
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to do. Isabel, take your baton stand at
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  Speaker 1: home plate. Okay, Professor. Schmidt, put on your catcher's mask.
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  Speaker 1: I'll try tossing in a few, okay? Oh, sure, sure, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So this is why he got us up at 5 o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: so he could play pitcher. But he can't really be nuts,
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  Speaker 1: or they wouldn't let him teach. Well, it's one way
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  Speaker 1: of passing chemistry. Hey, shut up now. We gotta humor him.
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  Speaker 7: Now, if you're ready, Isbell, and don't hesitate to hit
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  Speaker 7: the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, don't worry. I'll hit it. All righty, Professor. Right
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  Speaker 1: down the groove. Well, here I go.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, that's some hit, Isbell. Nice work.
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  Speaker 9: Ah, never mind, Professor. We'll get him on this next one.
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  Speaker 9: Feed him another curve.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Look at that ball go. Too bad I didn't have
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  Speaker 7: an outfielder in my class. Why, it's over the fence.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Are you nuts? I told you to humor him. Start
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  Speaker 1: striking out. Strike out nothing. Where does he get off
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  Speaker 1: thinking he can pitch?
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  Speaker 7: Come on, Professor.
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  Speaker 9: Let's have another one. I, um, I'll try a fast one. Oh,
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  Speaker 9: don't let her bother you, Professor. You're just warming up.
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  Speaker 7: And you don't mind if I try a few more?
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  Speaker 1: You throw them, I'll hit them. Use your bean this time.
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  Speaker 1: Bunt one. Okay, okay. Give him the old whizzer, Professor.
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  Speaker 1: Right over the old plate.
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  Speaker 7: Ready, Isbell?
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 9: Wow, did you see the hop on that ball? Hey,
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  Speaker 9: that's a regular dipsy doodle you got there, Professor. How'd
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  Speaker 9: you do it?
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  Speaker 7: Result of a great deal of scientific research.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, give him another. Let's see the old pepper in
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  Speaker 9: there now. Right down the old groove now, Professor.
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  Speaker 1: Well, missed it again. Wow, that's making it hop in there,
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  Speaker 1: prop old boy, old boy.
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  Speaker 7: He certainly swung at it, didn't he?
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  Speaker 1: Hit this one, will you? Now he thinks you're faking.
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  Speaker 1: Who's faking?
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  Speaker 7: I'll try a nice slow serve, Isabel.
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  Speaker 1: And hit it, will you? Hit it.
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  Speaker 7: Well, how do you like that?
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  Speaker 1: Calls his pitch and strikes them out. Now, let's see, Isabel.
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  Speaker 1: You hit three consecutive pitches and you missed three. Statistically, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: I've obtained all the information possible. Unless, of course, I
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  Speaker 1: pitch several hundred more balls. Thank you, gentlemen, and good day.
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  Speaker 1: Statistics yet? Hey, how do you like that, Garth? that
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  Speaker 1: the test was eminently successful. Of course, what Isbell and
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  Speaker 1: Schmidt did not know was that before making the last
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  Speaker 1: three pitches, I had placed in my pitcher's glove a
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  Speaker 1: little pad of cotton soaked with a chemical solution, and
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  Speaker 1: that in my glove was a small hole allowing contact
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  Speaker 1: of the chemical with the baseball. Well, I'd better call
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  Speaker 1: on Dr. Greenleaf right away.
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  Speaker 7: Emergency burn.
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  Speaker 1: What emergency? I don't understand. Well, a wonderful opportunity has
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  Speaker 1: just presented itself, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Greenleaf.
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  Speaker 1: It may not work out, but I'd like a leave
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  Speaker 1: of absence starting immediately. Leave of absence? But for how long?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, sir. Indefinitely? I can't explain it, Dr. Greenleaf.
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  Speaker 1: That is, I can, but scientifically I can't explain it
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  Speaker 1: at all. You mean it has something to do with
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  Speaker 1: your experiment? Yes, sir, but unless I get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to demonstrate it... Demonstrations, eh? Lectures of some kind? Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: not exactly. Well, what are you going to do? Take
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  Speaker 1: it to some commercial laboratory like the one you mentioned?
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  Speaker 1: What was it now? Norworth Laboratory, sir. Well, then, why
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  Speaker 1: is the time indefinite? Well, Dr. Greenleaf, if I don't
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  Speaker 1: leave immediately, I'm going to miss my train. All right, Vernon.
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  Speaker 1: Go on. Go ahead and catch your train. I'll have Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Fuller take over your class. Oh, thank you, sir. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I guess Debbie isn't awake yet, is she? I hardly
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  Speaker 1: think so. Well, will you tell her I said goodbye
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  Speaker 1: and that she'll hear from me soon? And thanks again, Dr. Greenleaf. Oh, taxi, taxi.
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  Speaker 8: Where to, mister?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, the baseball park, and hurry, please. What's your rush, mister?
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  Speaker 1: The game don't start till this afternoon. Well, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: come all the way to St. Louis to watch a
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  Speaker 1: baseball game. Take me to the manager's office. Jimmy Dillon, huh? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you a friend of his, chum? Well, I hope to be,
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  Speaker 1: and be careful of that suitcase. There's some bottles in it. But, Mr. Dolan,
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  Speaker 1: as manager of the St. Louis baseball team, this can
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  Speaker 1: mean a great deal to you. Now, look. Look, I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to be nice, see?
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  Speaker 5: Number one, I don't see anybody on days when we're
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  Speaker 5: playing games. Number two, I got to get out there
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  Speaker 5: and watch bat and practice.
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  Speaker 1: And number three... I'm not asking for favors, Mr. Dolan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to do you a favor. Then do it.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of my office. But you need a pitcher
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  Speaker 1: very badly. Why, I can win the pennant for you,
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  Speaker 1: and that's no idle boast. It's a simple scientific fact.
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  Speaker 1: I can win 30 games for you. Just 30 games?
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  Speaker 1: Is that all? Well, no, no. 30 is just the minimum,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose. Oh, no, no. You're not very screwy, are you?
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  Speaker 5: Don't you know there ain't more than a dozen pitchers
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  Speaker 5: ever won 30 games in a season?
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  Speaker 1: Of course I do, and I can tell you their
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  Speaker 1: names if you like. Never mind. Well, all I want
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  Speaker 1: to do is show you what can you lose. My
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  Speaker 1: breakfast is all.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Mac, take this guy away. Yes, sir, Mr. Dolan.
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  Speaker 1: Don't hurt his arm, though.
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  Speaker 7: He thinks he's Walter Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: You're being very stupid, Mr. Dolan. With a chance to
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  Speaker 1: win the pennant right in your... Get him out of here!
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  Speaker 1: Come on now, pal. Be a nice guy. You're annoying Mr. Dolan. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if Mr. Dolan would do less shouting and more thinking,
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  Speaker 1: he'd probably... Say, what's all the rumpus, Jimmy? Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: got another crank in here. Thinks he's a pitcher. Thinks
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  Speaker 1: he can win 30 games. You don't say. Where's he from?
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  Speaker 1: He won't tell me! You, I take it, and Mr. Stone?
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  Speaker 1: That's right. I appeal to your intelligence, Mr. Stone, as
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  Speaker 1: the owner of a baseball club. Well? I'm perfectly rational
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  Speaker 1: and willing to prove any claims I make. All I
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  Speaker 1: want is a chance to demonstrate my pitching. How do
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  Speaker 1: these characters get in here? I walked in, Mr. Stone,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm about to walk out again. When I do,
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  Speaker 1: the pennant walks right out the door with me. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: Sonny Jim, take your pennant and trot along. Take a
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  Speaker 1: good look at me, Mr. Stone. All the other owners
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  Speaker 1: can't be pigheads. You'll see me later in the season.
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  Speaker 5: Just a minute.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm pig-headed, am I?
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  Speaker 5: You walk in here off the street and think you
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  Speaker 5: can win 30 games and just because I.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so, Mr. Stone. I know it. Know it?
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  Speaker 1: I have never met such conceit in my life. I
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  Speaker 1: told you he's a crackpot. You talk to him, boss.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going out to batting practice.
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  Speaker 5: Batting practice, huh? I think we ought to teach this
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  Speaker 5: fellow a good lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Teach him anything you like, but let me get out
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  Speaker 1: of here. We're going with you, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 5: Let him pitch to the boys.
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  Speaker 1: Let him what?
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  Speaker 5: Young man, you're going to have your wish. And you're
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  Speaker 5: going to get the humiliation of your arrogant young life.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, before we go, there's the questions of terms, of course. Terms? Yes, terms. Mister,
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  Speaker 1: I got a handle to you. Thank you. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: shall want $ 1, 000 for every game I win. Otherwise, not
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  Speaker 1: a penny. And when I win a game, I am
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  Speaker 1: to be paid promptly. I need the money. Now I've
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  Speaker 1: heard everything. Take him out there, Jimmy. Put the top
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  Speaker 1: of the batting order up. Oh, I'm really going to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy this. Turns. Thousand dollars. Holy Moses. It ain't my idea, Monk.
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  Speaker 1: It's his, Mr. Stone.
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  Speaker 5: Give him a uniform, he said. That guy's a pitcher?
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  Speaker 5: But he ain't got a prayer, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 1: Look at him warming up. I'll get him over here.
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  Speaker 5: Let him start pitching. And make sure he leaves that
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  Speaker 5: uniform when I throw him out on his ear.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you. Dolan says you can start pitching now. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. That's fine.
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  Speaker 5: Look, let me tell you, kiddo, this baseball racket ain't
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  Speaker 5: so hotsy like maybe you read about. It's got its
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  Speaker 5: crummy side, too. Dirty trains all the time, cheap hotels, umpires.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a change, though. I'm rather looking forward to it. Well, don't.
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  Speaker 1: You want to talk to him, Jimmy? No! I'll catch him, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 1: Catch what? They're going to hit every pitch. All right,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, come on. Time for the batting order. Come on, kid.
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  Speaker 1: Let's show them what you got.
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  Speaker 7: Knock it out of the park, Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what happened? Must have been an optical illusion. Let
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  Speaker 1: me see you throw that one again. Hey, Monk, what's
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  Speaker 1: this guy got anyway? I don't know. He didn't have
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  Speaker 1: nothing when he was warming up. Now he's got to
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  Speaker 1: hop like Barnum's flea. Hey, you, come on. Just throw
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  Speaker 1: it and duck. Come on, throw something. This is getting monotonous.
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  Speaker 1: Me and him is playing catch. Nice going, kid. Keep
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  Speaker 1: it up.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: Why, this is incredible, Jimmy. He's pitched to eight batters
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: and struck out six.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Mr. Stone. You sure taught him a lesson,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: all right. But what's he got? I can't figure it out.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: The ball rides up as big as a lemon pie.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: And just when you get ready to murder it, it
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: jumps away. Hey, Monk, bring that guy over here. He
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: doesn't look like a pitcher. He doesn't even throw like
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: a pitcher. All he does is strike them out.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Hey, you, come here, come here. Say, what's your name, anyway? Oh. Oh,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I hadn't thought of it. Hadn't thought of your name? Well,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: try hard, kid. Try hard. Well, it's, um, it's Kelly. Oh, Kelly, huh?
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: Hmm?
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Well, that's the first encouraging thing you've said. Okay, hang around. Oh,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: you mean we are ready to talk about the terms?
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: I ain't ready to talk at all, see? It depends
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: upon what happens this afternoon. What's this afternoon? Chicago, that's what.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: We play Chicago this afternoon. Now, get him out of here.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: And this morning, Mr. Dolan allowed me to participate in
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the batting practice. I again concealed the little pad of
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: cotton inside my glove, saturated with the formula, and had
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: no difficulty in striking out most of the batters. I
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: find it a source of great amazement as I watch
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the ball evade the bat. The players seem to have
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: a similar reaction. But my real test will come this afternoon,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: if Mr. Dolan allows me to pitch against Chicago... No one,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: of course, has the slightest suspicion that my skill as
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: a pitcher is due almost entirely to the chemical formula.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I must exercise every precaution... No! Just listen to that crowd,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. After trailing St.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Louis 4-7, the Chicago team has staged a ninth inning
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: rally and tied up the ball game.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Manager Jimmy Dolan's going to put in a new pitcher.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you who he is. His name isn't
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: even on the scorecard. But he better be good.
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: The bases are loaded and there's nobody else.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: You heard me, Kelly. Get in there and pitch. Me? Yes, you.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Come on, kids, start steaming them in. I got a
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: feeling we ain't gonna have much time.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, about my contract, Mr. Dolan. If I win this game,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: it counts for me. I expect to get paid. I
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: don't pay you. Go talk to Stone.
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: Now?
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: No, no, there's a ball game going on.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. Thank you. Hey, you, umpire. Who's he putting in, Monk?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Who's a clown? We don't need no more clowns with
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: you around, sweetheart. Guy's name is Kelly. Attention, please. Kelly,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: now pitching for St.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: Louis.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: And believe me, if there ever was a scared-looking rookie,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Kelly is it. I wonder what's in Dolan's mind, putting
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Kelly in a spot like this. And if you want
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: to hear what the St. Louis fans think.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Well, Kelly's taking his warm-up pitches. And now Monk Lanigan,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: the catcher, goes out to the mound to talk to him. Look, kid,
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: just take it easy. Just try and get that ball.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Over the plate, huh? It's my big opportunity. I've got
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to get it over the plate.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Just remember, I'm all alone back there, and they don't
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: let me use no stepladder.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Baker, second base, now batting for Chicago.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Hey, Monk, where Dolan find that hooligan?
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Joplin High School? Very skeddy head off him, Baker. They
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: make with the jokes. Okay, Kelly, let's go, kid.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Great!
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Nice going, kid. He likes me, dude!
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Howdy, baby, Kelly.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: He likes me!
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Ha-ha!
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: One of the most spectacular exhibitions of relief pitching we've
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: ever seen. With the bases loaded and nobody out, this
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: unknown rookie pitcher struck out the side, and St.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Louis went on to win the ball game 8-7.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: For St.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Louis, 8-1... Mother!
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Mother, where are you?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: We're in here. What is it, Debbie?
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: I've heard from him, from Vernon. And look what he
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: sent me, an engagement ring.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Vernon? Something wrong somewhere. Why, a diamond like that must
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: have cost.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Now, Father, please.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: When Vernon left here four days ago, I assumed he
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: was going to the Norworth Laboratories. And you know as
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: well as I do, he never got there.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: That's why the police are searching for him, dear.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Well, well, what does he say in that letter?
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: He's so sweet. He's upset because he didn't get to
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: say goodbye to me.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: But where is he?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Well, he says... I know you will have faith in
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: me and do what I ask without asking why I
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: ask it. Oh, that's Vernon, all right. He even writes
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: double talk. Oh, and then he says he hasn't disappeared
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: as the newspaper claims. Oh, but he has. Please call
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: the police and tell them to stop their search at once.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: I cannot overemphasize the urgency of this.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Why, that in itself is suspicious. He's tangled himself up
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: in some.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Now, let me finish the letter, Father. My associates are
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: rather rough and ready.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Well, he practically admits it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: But their peculiar skill is a constant source of astonishment.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Skill at what, dear? I don't know. The work is
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: strenuous and exciting. But the financial rewards are quite fantastic.
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: Yes, they must be.
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: That ring.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Vernon's mixed up with some kind of a racket.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, now, Father, don't jump at conclusions.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Well, he certainly got his leave of absence under false pretenses.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: I can't forgive him for that.
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm sure we'll know all about it very soon.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: No, no, I don't think so, Mother. He says I
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: won't hear from him again for months.
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: But why not?
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Well, he says it would be too risky.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Risky?
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: Oh, dear, this is all very strange and frightening.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: The box the ring came in. It's labeled Marx and Company.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm, in St. Louis.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm going to St. Louis tomorrow. I'll take it
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: to the store and find out exactly what he.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: No, no, Mother, you won't.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Well, because I don't care if it's glass or not.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I'm going to wear Vernon's ring.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Not again, Kelly. Hello, Mr. Dolan.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: What's the matter with you guys? Don't you know the
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: train leaves in five minutes? What do you want us
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: to do, Jimmy? Get everybody and polish the engine? Some
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: meat in the back again?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Uh, no, not now. Thank you.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Well, me and the boys were just talking about the
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: guy they're putting up against us in Chicago tomorrow.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm scared. You ain't scared of him, are you? Well,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he's still got plenty of stuff. Last week, the bums
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: knocked him all over the lot. Just wait till tomorrow.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: We'll kill him. I'd sure like to knock him off. Well,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: come on, guys. Come on. Get on the train.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Now, just a minute, mother. Now, calm down. Now, where
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: did you say you're phoning from? Right here.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: And I tell you, I saw Vernon not five minutes ago.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Well, what did he say?
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: Well, how could I talk to him? He was with
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: a lot of men. Oh, very tough-looking, dear.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: All of them.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: A lot of men?
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: Debbie, I'm afraid they're gangsters.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, now, Mother.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: Well, you should have heard what they said. They're going
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: to Chicago to knock a man off, and they're going
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: to kill him.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, you must be wrong, Mother. Oh, it may have
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: looked like him, but I know it couldn't be Vernon.
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: Well, my train's leaving, dear. I'll see you at dinner.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Well, yes, Mother. Goodbye.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, Vernon.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: A gangster. Oh, it couldn't have been you, Vernon. It
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: just couldn't.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: In a few moments, we'll bring you Act Two of
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: It Happens Every Spring. And now, here's Libby Collins, our
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Hollywood reporter. What is it tonight, Libby?
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Romance? Comedy? Both, Mr. Kennedy.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: There's a new picture. 20th Century Fox's Everybody Does It.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: A delightful comedy with a dash of romance. And if
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: it doesn't put everyone who sees it in a wonderful
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: frame of mind, I'll be surprised.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: There's certainly a happy combination of talent in the picture.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Celeste Holm as a career-minded wife who wants to be
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: a concert singer.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: And Paul Douglas as the husband who tries to discourage
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: her but doesn't know how.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Until Linda Darnell shows him. Linda plays an operatic siren
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and does it in sparkling style.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: You know, it seems to me in Everybody Does It
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: that Linda Darnell looks even more gorgeous than usual.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: What really luscious beauty she has.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: And one of her greatest charms, Libby, is that dazzling
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: luxe complexion.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, John. Linda has one of the loveliest complexions in Hollywood. Naturally,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: she gives her skin the best possible care. Like nine
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: out of ten other screen stars, she finds luxe soap
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: facials really work.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Tests by skin specialists proved. that daily luck soap care
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: does wonders for the skin. In three out of four cases,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: complexions improve in a short time.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Luck soap facials are quick and easy, too. You just
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: smooth the creamy, fragrant lather well in, rinse, and pat
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: with a soft towel to dry.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: That's all.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: But see what fresh, new loveliness it gives the skin.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: There's a beauty hint from Hollywood for women everywhere. be
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: sure to try this fine product of Lever Brothers Company
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: for your precious complexion. You'll be delighted with Lux Toilet
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Soap's gentle, protecting care. Act II of It Happens Every Spring,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: starring Ray Moland as Vernon Simpson and Colleen Townsend as Debbie.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: ¶ ¶.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Thanks to his chemical formula, Professor Vernon Simpson has become
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: the ace pitcher of the St.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Louis baseball team.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: In Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Boston, under the name of Kelly,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Vernon has proved himself the strikeout king of the league. Now,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: in New York, he finds that manager Jimmy Dolan has
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: assigned him a roommate, Monk Lanigan, the catcher.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: So, that's how come I'm sharing the room with you, Kelly.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: They kind of want me to keep an eye on you.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Dolan thinks you're somewhat of a screwball or something.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Are you, Kelly? Why, no, Monk, quite the opposite. Everything
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I do is perfectly logical.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Hey, is that your girl's picture up there in the
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: dressing room?
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it is. Hot stuff. A sweet-looking kid, too.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: What's her name, kid? Oh, you wouldn't know her. KG, huh?
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Hey, what's this stuff? This bottle? Oh, Monk, Monk, no, no.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Put that bottle down. Oh, what's eating you, Kelly? All
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I did was... It's just hair tonic. Hair tonic? Yes,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a special prescription. It's very hard to get. The druggist
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: was a friend of mine. Hair tonic, huh? Yeah, seems
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to have done you a lot of good.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's done me a world of good. Where are
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: you really from, Kelly? Why all the mystery?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Well, it's my girl's father, Monk. If he ever finds out,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I'll lose my girl and my job and everything.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Finds out what? What I'm doing. I didn't even think
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I could do it, but I am. And what I'm
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: doing isn't one of the things I'm doing at all.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Come again? Well, you see, I'm getting the one thing
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: he wants me to have that I haven't got, money,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: by doing the one thing he's most against. You see?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Leave it go, kid. Quit trying.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Well, you better get some sleep. You're pitching tomorrow, you know. No,
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: I'm confident I'll win, Monk. Don't be too sure. I'll
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: try to figure out what you should feed those New Yorks.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, but you know I've only got one real pitch,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the one with the hop. Yeah, I keep forgetting. Go
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: on to sleep. Rookie pitches no hit, no run game.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Kelly hits Hall of Fame for St. Louis. New York
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: floored by pitch that hopped. Well, kid, I was just
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: talking to Dolan. He still thinks you're nuts. Well, I
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: suppose my conduct does seem strange at times.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: You're pitching no-hit game this afternoon, and when them reporters
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: and photographers come, you run away and hide.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: That ain't normal, Kelly. But I told you, Monk, I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: don't want any publicity.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: But you gotta talk to those guys. Them newspaper fellas
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: can ruin you.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Exactly. One recognizable picture of me in the newspapers, and
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I am ruined. Well, I'll just see to it that
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I don't pitch any more no-hit games at all. You'll
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: just see to it... Kelly, you mustn't talk like that.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Then forget about the reporters. Well, cheer up, kid. This
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: time tomorrow, we'll be back in St. Louis. Well, that's
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: your home, ain't it? It's too close to home. Excuse me, Monk.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I think I'll turn in.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: Hey, Kelly, come on, come on, open up.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: And good morning to you, Mr. Dolan. Where's Kelly? Uh,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: he went downtown. But don't worry.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: He just said he had something very personal to do downtown. Well,
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: don't let him forget he's pitching this afternoon. Three days
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: in our home park and we haven't won a game.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: We will today. Hey, what do you think you're doing?
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I'm getting dressed. I'm brushing me hair. Since when do
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: you use hair tonic? This morning. This bottle? This ain't mine.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: It's Kelly's. Just thought I'd bother you a little. Holy Moses!
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Take it easy. Kelly won't care. Look at your hair there.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Look in the mirror.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: My hair.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: It's standing straight up. It's vibrating.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: But he uses it, Kelly. Says he uses it all
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: the time. Let me smell that bottle. Well, it ain't booze.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: That's all I was worried about.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Me hair. It's still standing up, just sort of waving.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: Well, see that Kelly's in shape to pitch. Give his
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: arm a good massage and make sure he takes a nap.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's you, Mr. Kelly. I didn't recognize you, sir.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Dark glasses and all. Well, I came in to pay
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the balance on that diamond ring I bought. Here you are.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Did the lady like the ring? I
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: don't know. I hope so.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Well, would you care to look at some wedding rings? No,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: thank you. Not until the end of the season. I mean,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: not until October. I hope you won't forget us, Mr. Kelly.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Good day, sir.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Vernon. Oh, Vernon, it's you.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: Debbie.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Meeting you on the street after all these weeks. And
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: what were you doing in there, in that jewelry store?
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Well, if you must know, I.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: No, no, don't tell me. I know already, Vernon. Oh,
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I read about what happened in Chicago.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: You did?
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: But you're not going to try the same thing here.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: They've got guards and policemen.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Debbie!
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: And don't pretend you're so innocent. Besides, Mother heard you
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: planned the whole thing in the station. You and your
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: confederates held up that jewelry store in Chicago, and now
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: you're here looking this one over.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Debbie, but that's absurd.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Did you or did you not go to Chicago?
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Now, you ask me to trust you, to believe in you.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: And you do. You're wearing the ring, oh, Debbie.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Well, now, trust works both ways. If you won't trust
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: me enough to tell me what this is all about, well,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: perhaps you'd better take the ring back right now.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: All right. All right, Debbie, I'll tell you. If you
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: must know what I've been doing, well, I'm a baseball player.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: That's not very funny, Vernon. If you don't want to
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: tell me the truth, just say so.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Look... Buy a morning newspaper, look at the sports page.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Big headline, Kelly to pitch against Boston. Well, I'm Kelly.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, you are. And I'm Mata Hari. When you're ready
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: to tell me the truth, Vernon, you know just where
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: to find me.
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: Debbie, Debbie, wait, please.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I hope you like the seats, Dr. Greenlee. Best
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: in the ballpark, you know.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: That's what happens when you're with a man who owns
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: the ball club.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Well, this is fine, Mr. Stone, just fine. Do you
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: know this is the first baseball game I've seen in years?
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Sit back and relax, Doctor. Enjoy yourself.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: I'll relax after you've agreed to give that donation to
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: the College Research Fund. I'm afraid this is going to
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: be an expensive afternoon for me. I certainly hope so, Mr. Stone.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Who's pitching today?
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Why, the best pitcher we have, Kelly. That's Kelly warming
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: up over there.
• 31:25
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: He's, uh, he's good, is he? Good? He's incredible. A
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: strange thing, Dr. Greenlee.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: He doesn't act like a ball player at all.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I'd like to have you meet him. Oh, uh, Lanigan. Yeah, Mr. Stump?
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Tell Kelly to stop by, will you? There's someone here
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I'd like him to meet. Say that again, will you, Kelly?
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think I heard you right. I said that
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I can't pitch today, Mr. Dolan. Why, you prima donna,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: that's mutiny! I'll slap the biggest, fattest fine on you
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: in history! Well, I'd rather you wouldn't, but it won't
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: make any difference if you do.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Brooker!
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: Brooker, get out there and warm up! He won't get
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: away with this. I'll find him, I'll suspend him, I'll...
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: You got him wrong, Jimmy. Oh, Kelly's kind of wacky,
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: all right, but he ain't no prima donna. Then what's
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: he walking out of the game for?
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Mr. Stone tells me some guy wants
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: to meet him.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Kelly starts walking toward the grandstand, and all of a sudden,
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: he ducks like he'd seen a ghost. Just wait till
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: this game's over. Just wait till I get back. Now, look,
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: if you get tough with him, there's no telling what
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: he'll do. We got along without him before, didn't we?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Look, let me talk to him. Let me see what
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: it's all about. It wasn't just a whim, Monk. I
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: had to get off the field. I saw someone in
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the stands. You mean a copper or something? No, no,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: just someone who knew me before I joined the ball club.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: But you've got to take that chance, kid. It's liable
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: to happen any time. I know, and when it does,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I'll have to do exactly what I'm doing now. I'll
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: see you at the hotel. Monk, come in. You can
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: turn on the lights. Why aren't you asleep getting your rest?
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I can't sleep.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: Well, I just come from Stone and Dolan. They had
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: me on a carpet so long I got fallen arches.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: You take a walk and I get blown out.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I guess I'm fired, huh? No, they're letting you off.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: You can thank your old Uncle Monk. Well, then what happened, Kelly?
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Where's the thing Diana stands? Oh, it doesn't matter. It's
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: my girl I'm worried about. She's going to find out
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: about me. Why? How come? Because I told her. Only
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: she didn't believe me. But she's bound to know, and
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: so is her father. Her father? If he ever learns
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the truth, I'm really finished. He'll never take me back,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: and I can't say I blame him after what I said.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: What did you say? Oh, I was desperate. I certainly
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: gave him a false impression. He thought I was doing
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: something entirely different. That's the only reason he gave me
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: my leave of absence. Leave of absence? Where'd they have you,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: in a pen or something? Doesn't matter. You're going to
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: find out, so there's no point in going on.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: Look, I'm not sure, girl. Maybe she won't find out.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: You've got to wait and see. Wait and see what?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Well, if she gets the idea, you ain't rubbing her.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: What'll she do? She'll come out to your next game
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: and see for herself. Well... It adds up, don't it?
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Of course it does. And that's just why I'm not
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: going to pitch anymore. Oh, why didn't I say that?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I'm making a wish and wish. Now, look, Kelly.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: You've got to think of us, too. The rest of
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: the team. We've got a chance to win the pennant.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Maybe even a World Series. That means something.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: To a lot of guys. Yes. Yes, I suppose it does. Well?
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Give me a little time, Monk. I'm too upset even
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to think. I'll try to do whatever's right. Forgive me
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: for being nosy, Debbie, but would you mind telling me
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: what you're doing?
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, just reading the newspaper, Father.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: The sports page, you?
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Well, I was interested in a wild statement someone made. Father,
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: do you need the car today? I think I'll drive
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: into St.
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: Louis.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Another shopping spree?
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: No.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: No, all I want to do is some looking around.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: Well, Jimmy, whatever happened to Kelly the other day, he's
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: certainly over it now. That's the tenth man he struck out. Yeah,
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: he's doing okay, Mr.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Stone.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: Come on, Kelly.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Get this guy.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: What I told you is pitching, lady.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: His name's Kelly. Oh, but isn't that brilliant?
• 35:19
  Speaker 10: It is.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I see him.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Come on, Vernon.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Strike him out. No, lady. Kelly.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I told you his name's Kelly.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: So did he, but I didn't believe him.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, Vernon.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: Vernon, that's wonderful.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Just a second, miss. Where do you think you're going?
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: I want to see Mr. Kelly. I'm a friend of his.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: That's the dressing room. You better wait for him here.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, of course.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Hey, it's you. You're Kelly's girl. Well, ain't you?
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Well, who are you?
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: Jumping Jupiter, some luck I seen you first. Come on, sister,
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: we're grabbing a cab.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Hey, wait a minute. I want to see him.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you all about it in a cab, lady.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Just get out of here.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: So you're Mr.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Lanigan.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad to know you.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: You know, honey, I see you the first thing every
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: morning and the last thing every night.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: You do?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Kelly's got your picture right on top of the dresser.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: You and his bottle of hair tonic.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Hair tonic?
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Anyway, if Kelly knew you or anybody else was watching him,
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: he'd walk right out of the ballpark.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Why, he done it just the other day.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, that must have been the day my father was there.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: And if he blows, well, the team's dead and so
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: is he.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: You don't want to hate a guy just when he's
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: right on top. Or do you?
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, of course not.
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: Look, you want to come to the games, okay. I'll
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: send you passes. Only don't let Kelly see.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: I'll sit way up in the farthest corner, Mr.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: Lanigan.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: And you're not sore at the game?
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not sore. But it is quite a shock
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: to fall in love with a college professor and then
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: have him turn out to be a big league pitcher.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: Ah!
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: So that's what he is. A professor.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Well, now, is that so surprising?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Certainly. On account of that's exactly what I thought he was.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: But Vernon.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Maybe I shouldn't have told you that.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: You know something?
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: This Kelly of Vernon is quite a character.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: But he sure can pick things. St. Louis takes pennants.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Kelly wins 38th game of the season. St. Louis to
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: face New York in World Series. Some World Series.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: You ever see anybody as lucky as them New Yorks?
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: It should have been all over with yesterday. Instead, they
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: tied up three games each.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Why, right now, Whitney.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Hey, Kelly, ain't you listening? This bottle, Monk, it's empty.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Have you been using my hair tonic? Hair tonic? Oh, yeah,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I'm growing a whole new crap. Ain't you even noticed
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the difference? I had another bottle, but that's gone, too. Monk,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: this is serious. Without that bottle, I'm sunk. It's just
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: hair tonic, ain't it? Never mind.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: What did you do with it? Well, I give it
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: to Jimmy Dolan. He's getting a little thin on top.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Jimmy, I've got to get it. Now, right away. Well,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: come in, come in. What's the idea of a noise?
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to bother you, Mr. Dolan, but I... Oh,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: it's you, Kelly.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: In here, in here.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I'm just washing up. Well, kid, how do you feel?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I hope you ain't nervous like I am. I'm counting
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: on you. Well, at the moment, I am rather nervous.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: You see, my life... A few hours from now, we'll
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: be world champs. Or New York will. Yes, that's right, Mr. Dolan.
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Dolan, I know this is going to sound a little...
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Look at my hair, will you?
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: Even my hair's nervous. Keeps jumping up. Must be a
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: lot of electricity.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: In the air. Well, what's on your mind, Kelly? Well,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: it's my hair tonic.
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Did Monk give you a bottle of my hair tonic? Yeah, yeah,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: that's right. I just now tried a little. I was
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: losing a few. Mike said it'd grow hair on a
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: billiard ball. Kind of an insult. Well, you see, it's
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: a very rare solution, Mr. Dolan, and I cannot duplicate it. Well, okay, okay,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I'll pay you for it. Oh, no, no, it isn't that.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: It's my last bottle, and I... I need it. You
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: need it? With that mop? Who do you think you're
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: playing for, the House of David? Well, it's just a
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: little idiosyncrasy of mine, and sort of a superstition, and
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: especially today.
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: Well, I've heard of everything from a rabbit's foot to
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: an elk's tooth. But here, Tonic, that's a new one.
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: Please, Mr.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Dolan, have you got it? Sure I got it. Right
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: here in the medicine ca... Oh!
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, no!
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: No!
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: No!
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Columbia Broadcasting System. In a moment, we'll bring you Act
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Three of It Happens Every Spring. Our guest tonight is blonde, blue-eyed,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: and 22. At that tender age, Miss Jean Ruth is
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: a veteran of more than one stage hit and has
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: appeared in several pictures.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I take it you like Hollywood, Jean.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Very much, Mr.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Kennedy.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: And it was such fun to be on the Paramount
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: lot when they were shooting the Hal Wallace production of
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: My Friend Irma. All of us were weak from laughing
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: when they'd finished.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: I can understand why. Our neighbor on the radio is
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: equally entertaining on the screen. The picture My Friend Irma
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: is based on that popular Lever Brothers Company radio program,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: which follows immediately after the Lux Radio Theater.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Marie Wilson, of course, plays Irma.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: Well, who else? Having created her on the air, Marie
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: just had to do the movie. And John Lund, with
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: his flair for comedy, is perfect as Al. And fans
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: will love that brand-new laugh team, Martin and Lewis.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: And Diana Lynn is Jane, Irma's long-suffering girlfriend.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: She's Jane to a T, Mr.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Kennedy.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: I used to love to visit Diana on the set,
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: and she's a darling. We talked about everything under the sun,
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: including the best way to keep your skin nice for
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: camera close-ups. Oh, of course you know Diana's a luxe girl, Mr.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Kennedy. One of the loveliest. The real American beauty type.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: So fresh and natural-looking.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, and her complexion is really beautiful. Diana told me
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: she wouldn't dream of neglecting her luxe soap facials. She
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: says that creamy lather gives her skin just the care
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: it needs.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, luxe soap care is so gentle. No wonder screen
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: stars depend on it for million-dollar complexions.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: It's wonderful, the softest, smoother look it gives your skin. Oh,
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: I know, because... I use Luxe toilet soap every day.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Miss Jean Ruth, for reminding us that this
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: beauty soap with the delicate perfume is the choice of
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: lovely women everywhere. So, if you haven't tried it, get
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: a supply of fragrant white Luxe toilet soap tomorrow. The
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: curtain rises on the third act of It Happens Every Spring,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: starring Ray Moland as Vernon Simpson and Colleen Townsend as Debbie.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Well, the World Series is tied.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Three games to three, and the issue will be decided
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: this afternoon when Vernon Simpson, the year's most sensational pitcher,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: faces New York. Unfortunately, all Vernon's skill was contained in
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: a little bottle marked hair tonic. But the bottle just
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: smashed in Jimmy Dolan's wash basin, and Vernon's career as
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: a pitcher has gurgled down the drains. Miles away from St. Louis,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: in the Greenleaf home, Debbie's in something.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Of a spot.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: You've been going around here like the cat who just
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: swallowed the canary.
• 42:45
  Speaker 10: You're a grown girl, Debbie, and you're quite entitled to
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: live your own life. It's just that Father and I were...
• 42:51
  Speaker 10: These trips you've been making. Well, Debbie, where have you
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: been going?
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: To St.
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: Louis.
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: To see Vernon, Father.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Vernon? Well... What has he got to say for himself?
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know. I haven't talked to him. That
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: is not for some time.
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, Debbie, you're being very difficult.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Well, all right, I'll tell you. Now, Father, you're going
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: to get terribly angry, but, well, I guess you'll both
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: have to find out sooner or later. Here, look at this.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Read it, Mother, the headline.
• 43:24
  Speaker 10: Dolan gambles on Kelly to cop World Series.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Mixed up in gambling, huh? Who's Dolan? Who's Kelly?
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Well, you should know who Kelly is, Father.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes. The pitcher Mr. Stone wanted me to
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: meet that time.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Well, Kelly's more than a pitcher, Father. He's Vernon.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: What? Vernon? Vernon Simpson?
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: Now, don't get excited, Father. Oh, no, it's impossible.
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: Well, Alfred, don't you have anything to say?
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: I think it's outrageous that he never pitched here for
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: the varsity.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, Father. Father, then you don't mind.
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: Well, of course I mind. He lied to me, didn't he?
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: Left his classes here, left his laboratory to play baseball.
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: What are you going to do, Alfred?
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Do? I'm going into St. Louis and see that ball game.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, they're all sold out, dear. But it just happens
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: that a friend of mine, a Mr. Monk Lanigan, has
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: given me some tickets.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: So here we are, ladies and gentlemen, top of the
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: eighth inning in this deciding game of a neck-and-neck World Series.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: The score remains 6-6, but something has happened to Kelly.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: He's definitely not himself today. He's been in trouble constantly,
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: but those St. Louis hitters have come back strong to
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: save him. Well, he's towing the rubber now. Hopkins at
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: the plate, Marconi on second.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Here comes the pitch.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: It's a hit. It's a clean single right through shortstop.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: Marconi scores, and Hopkins is safe on first. And listen
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: to that crowd.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Hey!
• 44:47
  Speaker 10: Vernon's doing fine, isn't he, dear?
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: Why, he threw the ball and made it hit the bat. Oh, no, Mother, no. No,
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: he's not doing fine at all.
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: Oh, I can't understand it.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: What's happening?
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: New York leads now 7-6.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: There are two outs, but Kelly's in real trouble again.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: And there goes Monk Lannigan out of the mound. A
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: big score.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: High on it.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: How about it, kid? Where's your heart? I haven't got
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: it anymore, Monk. It's gone. You see this little pad
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: in my glove? Huh? What about the little pad? Dry
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: as a bone, not a drop left. I'm just a
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: sandlot pitcher again. What are you talking about? Are you
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: feeling all right? I feel awful.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: Look, steady down, kid. So they hit a few. There's
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: seven men behind you. They can handle it. They're a
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: great ball club.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: They better be. Come on, come on, play ball. Come on.
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: And the strike as Wilson lets a fastball get by him.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know what Monk Lanigan told Kelly, but Kelly's
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: pitched two successive strikes now.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: And here comes the next one.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: And he struck him out.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: Wilson goes down swinging and the side's retired. But it's
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: another run for New York and they're out in front 7-6.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Here you are, Kelly. Here's your jacket. Now sit down
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: and quit worrying. Why don't you just get some hits?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: This ball game ain't over yet. I wish it were.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: So you hop in, Lincoln. You and I know it,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: but them New York batters don't.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: They go up there thinking they're going to strike out
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: like they've been doing all season.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: You got to use psychology. It's going to take more
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: than psychology, Monk. Keep bluffing them, see? Just give them
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: the ball. Attaboy, Lincoln! It's a hit, a hit! If
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: I were intelligent, I'd ask Jimmy Dolan to take me out.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: But I'm not going to do it. I hope he
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: lets me stay. Now you don't. What happened out there?
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: What happened? Tony just knocked a double. Richard's on third.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: If Tony gets home, we got that game in the bag.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Come on, baby! Monka, I may not win. Don't be
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: too sure. But I'll go down trying, even if we
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: do lose. Will you quit talking about losing? We got
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: two men on. Hit it, Titus! Knock it out of
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the park! You can do it, kid! Hit it!
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: Hit it!
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: And there it goes. It's up against the fence. Richard scores,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: and Bevan is coming in, too.
• 46:52
  Speaker 10: St.
• 46:53
  Speaker 11: Louis is ahead again, 8-7. with a long fly to
• 47:01
  Speaker 11: center field that retires aside.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: But St.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: Louis had a big inning. Those two runs can settle
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: this World Series. Jimmy Dolan's boys have just three more
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: men to retire, and they've won themselves the highest honors
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: in baseball.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: And looking down to the St.
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: Louis dugout, it appears that manager Dolan is going to
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: let Kelly stay in the game.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on. Let's get out there.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: It's your game, Kelly. Win or lose. Thanks, Mr. Dolan.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: All you gotta do is hold them, kid. Good luck. Monk. Monk,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Take off your cap. What's eating you, kid?
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Your head. I just want to rub it. You want
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to rub my head? Well, maybe there's still a little
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: left on it. Oh, Kelly, don't go whacking now. Not now, please.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: It's all right, Monk. It's just for luck. You mean
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: to say Louis is ahead again? Yes, mother, yes. Eight
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: to seven.
• 47:51
  Speaker 10: Oh!
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Now if Vernon can only contain them.
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: Retire the side, Vernon.
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: Retire the side.
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: Small roller down the shortstop.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: If Hobson's got it and he whips the.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: First, he's out.
• 48:06
  Speaker 8: Davis is out.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Kelly's missed the small man. The ball game is over.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: But that's an awful big if right now as Aaron.
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: Walks up to the plate. He's had two hits already.
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: Kelly's rubbing up the ball now. Kneading into his glove
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: as he usually does. Gets his signal from Lannigan. Goes
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: into the stretch.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: And here it comes.
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: And there it goes.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: It's a hit. A line drive right down the foul
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: line that Richards leaped for but couldn't get. Aaron's not
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: stopping at first. He's trying for two. There's a drive.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: And he's safe.
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: He's in there with a double.
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: Fred Duffy's at bat now with Aaron on second.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Aaron's a potential dying run.
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: Out of the mound, Kelly's writing him for it. The
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: toes are up now. Looks at the runner on second.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Makes the pitch. And there it goes, and it's a
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: long one. Hanford is running for it.
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: So is Dixon.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: It's far out in right field, and it may be.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: It may. No, no. Hanford's got it.
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, Hanford practically climbed that right field wall.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: He jumped into the air right against the wall, and he.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: Caught the ball.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, what a game, ladies and gentlemen.
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: Kelly is again saved by the storybook support he's been getting,
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: and he's grimly hanging on to that one-run lead.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Two out now.
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: A man on second base, and blockbuster Marks comes to bat.
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: Marks has hit three hits off Kelly this afternoon, and
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: this is your ball game right here, folks. Top of
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: the ninth, two men out, a man on second base,
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: and the potential winning run at the plate, and here's
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: Kelly's pitch.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: It's a strike. Strike one as Mark takes.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: A terrific swing at a slow curve ball. Kelly looks
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: at second base. Aaron is taking a lead there, trying
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: to worry him. Kelly rubs the ball. He's looking at Lannigan.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: He stretches, and the pitch. A terrific liner over Kelly's. No, no,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: it's not a hit.
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: Kelly blocked the ball.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: A miraculous catch, and the ball game is over.
• 49:42
  Speaker 11: Kelly's won his own game, and St.
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: Louis wins the World Series.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Hey, Kelly. Kelly, how come you ain't with the boys?
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: Go on to the dressing room.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: I just broke out.
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: With the beer.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: In a minute, Mr.
• 49:59
  Speaker 7: Dolan.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: So you're the guy I called a crackpot. Oh, I
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: want to shake hands with you, Kelly. Thanks, Jimmy. Thanks. Oh, hey,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: what is this? Let me look at that hand. How's
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: it feel? Well, it's rather painful. When you caught that ball, huh?
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Come on, we better get that x-ray. Hey, Monk, find
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: the doc, will you? We'll be in the examiner's room.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: How's it feel, kid? Doc fix you up okay? All right, son. Oh,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: it's not too bad. Where'd Doc go? I, um, I
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: don't know. Well, what did he say when you and
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Dolan talked to him? Monk, you're stalling. Now, what is it? Oh, stalling.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: Listen, I want to tell you something. I've been playing
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: baseball since Hector was a pup. But what's it got me?
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, it don't matter how long you're up there.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: It's what you do. Oh, you've done all right. I'm
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: talking about you. You had a season, Kelly. A season
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: like nobody ever had before. Well, I guess I was lucky.
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: Why, you could pitch for 20 years. You'd never do
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: no better. You've done it all, kid.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: You know... You've got nothing to look forward to. Now,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: what's this all about? What did the doctor say? He
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: says you're all washed up. Your hands, you can't pitch
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: no more. Oh. Well, I never dreamt my career would
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: end this way. You and me both. I ain't never
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: gonna forget it.
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna spend the rest of my life going around
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: bragging how Kelly was my roommate.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess I'll go on to the station, Monk.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I can get a train in 30 minutes. Give me
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: your bag. I'm going with you. Now, look, you'll leave
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: me here for you, see? You'll write me a letter. Oh, sure.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I'll write. What do you figure you're gonna do, kid?
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: I'd like to get my old job back at the college,
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: but I don't think there's much chance of that.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: No, I know. No, not after the way I left
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: and what I've been doing since. Oh, jump in, Jubiter.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: You ain't murdered nobody or nothing. All you done was
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: play ball.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: And I only did it to get enough money to
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: marry my girl, but even so, I haven't much hope.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: But you ought to know that. I don't get it.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: It don't make no sense to me. Well, a lot
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: of things don't make sense, Monk. I was a chemistry teacher.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: I can tell you that now. And the sum of
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: money I received for teaching science to the youth of
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: this state for an entire year was a little less
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: than I got this afternoon, tossing a five-ounce sphere past
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: a young man holding a wooden stick. But that ain't right.
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: If it weren't for professors teaching kids, everybody'd turn out
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: to be dumb clucks like me.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: You're doing all right. I hope you keep on. Thanks, Kelly. Well,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: I guess I'd better be moving. How's the hand feel now? Oh,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: it's fine, fine. Monk, you know, I never had many friends,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: but you've been a real one. You've done a lot
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: for me, and I just want to say that I
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: just don't know how to say what I want to say.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Me neither, so don't leave us trying. Well, I'll get
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: in touch with you, Monk, as soon as things are
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: straightened out. So long, kid. So long. Did she give
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: me her phone number? I know she did. Yeah, yeah,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: it's right here.
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: Debbie Greenleaf, West Lake 8813. I hope she's back home
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: by now. She's got to be home.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Debbie, Debbie, I just don't understand. You being here and
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: all these people.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, Vernon, you are so wonderful, darling.
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: I'm proud of you.
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: We're all proud of you.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: You mean you know and they know? Everybody knows?
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: Well, of course. All afternoon we've been rooting for you
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: like mad. Oh, Vernon, that catch you made in the
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: ninth inning. Oh, your hand. Your hand, it's all Banny.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: It's all right, Debbie. Oh, but it's terrible.
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: It's terrible. Monk said you'd never pitch again. Monk? Well, yes,
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: he phoned the house. Oh, we're pals, Vernon. He even
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: got us tickets for the game. Mother and father and.
• 53:58
  Speaker 7: Father?
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, son. Oh, jumping Jupiter, then you know, too. Yes, Vernon,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: I know all about it. And what happened to your
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: hop today? I wanted to talk to you, Dr. Greenleaf,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: to try to explain. I mean about my old job.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Do you think there's any chance at all? You know
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: better than to ask me that. As a matter of fact, Dr.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Fuller's already taken your place. Oh, he has? Yes, that's
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: what I thought. Well, I don't blame you.
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: You see, the owner of that ball club, Mr. Stone, well,
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: he's given us the money for the research laboratory. And
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: you're the only man he let us put in as director.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, Vernon. Darling, aren't you going to say something?
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: I wonder if that stuff really would grow hair.
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: Oh!
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: The stands are still cheering the performances of tonight's stars,
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: and here are Ray Moland and Colleen.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Townsend for a curtain call. Ray, I suppose you'll be
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: leaving tonight for the World Series. Well, not exactly, Bill.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I know it's hard to believe, but both the Yankees
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: and the Dodgers seem to think they can win without me.
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: I suppose Casey Stengel figures he can muddle through with
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: fellas like Joe DiMaggio.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Well, just in case he's listening, I want to say
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: in all modesty, Casey, I am available.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: Well, while Ray is throwing a curve to Casey Stengel,
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: I want to ask Colleen Tone-Townsend about her recent tour
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: of Veterans Hospital.
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: Well, it was really a thrilling experience, Mr.
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: Keeley.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: The boys in the hospitals gave us a wonderful reception.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: I'm sure they're always glad to see a Lutz girl
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: as lovely as you are, Colleen.
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: Well, thank you. Naturally, I take Lux soap with me
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: on a trip. It's always been my complexion care.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: I wonder if I should wire Casey.
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, Ray, let's face it.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: You've struck out.
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, well.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: What's the play next week, Bill?
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: Next week, we guarantee a home run, Ray, because our
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: play is RKO's smash hit, Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dream House.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: And the stars will be Cary Grant and Irene Dunn.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: The motion picture comedy delighted audiences everywhere. And next Monday night,
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Irene Dunn and Cary Grant build their dream house right here.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: A wonderful show, Bill. Good night.
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: Good night.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: Good night and thank you.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: The Evil Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap,
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: join me in inviting you to be with us again
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: next Monday evening. when the Lux Radio Theater presents Irene
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: Dunn and Cary Grant in Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dream Home.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: This is William Keeley saying goodnight to you from New
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: York City.
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: Rain or Land appeared through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures,
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: producers of Song of Surrender starring Wanda Hendricks and MacDonald Carey.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: Colleen Townsend appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox,
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: producers of Prince of Foxes starring Tyrone Power. Heard in
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: tonight's cast were Ted DiCorsia as Monk, Wally Mayer as Dolan,
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Ed Begley as Stone, and Bill Johnstone as Greenlee. Our
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: play was adapted by S.H. Barnett, and our music was
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: directed by Louis Silvers. This is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy,
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: reminding you to join us again next Monday night to
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: hear Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House, starring Cary Grant
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: and Irene Dunn.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Spry is a new Spry, a better than ever Spry.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: You'll be a better cook when you use Spry.
• 57:38
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• 57:42
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• 57:48
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• 57:51
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• 57:53
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• 57:57
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