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- 0:28Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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- 1:00Truly, Johnny Doller. This one's called the Van Frank Manner as Johnny Jim
- 1:07based Johnny oh Hia Jim, Johnny. When a chief of police get shot
- 1:12and killed, what would you say is the most likely reason for Well,
- 1:15most likely because he's a chief of police, all right, Only I've got
- 1:19to hunt you on this one, like what Jim. He ensured. The
- 1:22chief was middle aged, shot the death with his own gun in his own
- 1:26house. The beneficiary his wife had twenty seven they'd been married eight months,
- 1:32the policy has been in four seven months. The face value was fifty thousand
- 1:36dollars, and the wife file to claim I'm not only twenty four hours after
- 1:41he was killed. Oh fast, girls, he didn't waste any time.
- 1:44What do you think, Johnny, same thing you do. Maybe I'd better
- 1:48look into it. How about taking a minute or so to talk about seals
- 2:00and fish that have some connection with the governments of the United States. Now
- 2:04that isn't as strange as itself. You take the matter of seals for example,
- 2:09there are two types of seals that are the responsibility of the Secretary of
- 2:14State. First, there's the Great Seal of the United States, which is
- 2:17stamped on all official documents. The Secretary of State make sure it's always on
- 2:23hand when it's needed. The other kind of seals he takes care of are
- 2:29the ones that swim in the ocean. Since it's up to the Secretary to
- 2:32work out agreements with representatives of other countries and let them know how many seals
- 2:38can be caught in what is called international waters, and when the Secretary of
- 2:46State works out similar deals for the catching of fish and blobsters. Because these
- 2:51agreements are actually treaties, before they can be put into effects, they have
- 2:55to be approved by two thirds of the Senate. As a matter matter of
- 3:00fact, anytime our government wants to work out a deal with a foreign country
- 3:05on trade, mutual assistance, fish, seals or lobsters. It's done by
- 3:10treaty, and all treaties are signed by the President, so some of them
- 3:15aren't drawn up until after the Secretary of State has worked over the rough spot
- 3:20in order to pave the way for prompt ratification. So Jeff, remember the
- 3:24Secretary of State is a mighty important wheel in the machinery of your United States
- 3:30government. Expensive counts ammitted by Fresh and investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office Commonwealth
- 3:50Mutual Assurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures
- 3:53during my investigation of the Van Frank matter. Expense to cut at them one
- 4:02seventy six dollars and forty cents transportation to the great lake town of Middleborough and
- 4:06taxi to the home of Dan Frank, former chief of police. Now to
- 4:11see it was a rambling two story house, well trimmed hedges, moved along
- 4:21quiet neighborhood, good place to live, and the last place you'd think of
- 4:26as a setting for murder. I was halfway up to walk when a man
- 4:30came out the front door, down the steps, and then stopped and waited
- 4:34for me, rocking on his heels, coppers I can tell him a block
- 4:40away. You're a copper right wrong private eye? Maybe, Oh you're getting
- 4:46warmer insurance, investigator insurance. That's what I just asked her about, and
- 4:51she threw me out, said I was drunk. She was right. I
- 4:56am usually Anne a little bit. Pete Parker Daily Herald, Johnny Doller w
- 5:02I a million insurance? He had some of you wouldn't be here? And
- 5:08who gets it? Laura? Of course? It's ever loving little wife.
- 5:12Only question left? How much? No comment? I like you, Johnny,
- 5:17you don't talk too much. I do. Let me give you a
- 5:23little advice. Watch yourself meaning what it's toime. It looks sleepy dead,
- 5:30un Let it fool you. It's wide open rackets everything A guy could get
- 5:35hurt. What about Dann Frank? Was he in on these rackets? Johnny
- 5:40the police chief? Hig gets six thousand a year. And take a look
- 5:45at that house, Go in and take a look at Laura even more expensive.
- 5:50Dan was in. He's out now though we're seeing Pete right, do
- 5:56that. I'm always around Pete Parker. That drop that works for the ask
- 6:00anybody well business Frank's yes, Johnny Dollar is my name. I'm representing the
- 6:17insurance company. Oh, come in, mister dollars, hardly expected him to
- 6:21pay, so prankit. I'm not here to pay you, missus Frank.
- 6:26I'm an investigator. The company wants a little more information about your husband's death.
- 6:30Why I told him everything in the claim I sent. I know,
- 6:33but there are always a few trying to get out of it anyhow those companies
- 6:36operate. Oh, you've had experience with him before. What information? What
- 6:44is it you want to know, mister dollar, Well, how it happened?
- 6:46For one thing? Right here, this is where he fell. He's
- 6:50gotten was laying beside him. Someone had taken it from the table over the
- 6:54door and waited for him to come downstairs. Middle of the night, wasn't
- 6:58it. Why did he come downstairs? I'd heard a noise. I woke
- 7:00him up and came down to see about it. For the light time,
- 7:04not down here. I turned on the hall light upstairs and done the shots
- 7:10for five of them. Someone ran out the front door and got away without
- 7:14being seen. Yes, who do you think that someone was, missus Frank,
- 7:17I don't know. Dan had a lot of enemies of court because of
- 7:20his job. What about his friends? You suppose they could have done it.
- 7:26I don't know what you mean. Well, who were his friends?
- 7:30Who heads up the rackets here in Middleborough? What rackets? Okay? Without
- 7:36your cooperation, I it's going to take a lot longer to get this settled.
- 7:40Tell me something. Does the insurance company to join the one who killed
- 7:43him? Well, I think twenty four hours. It's pretty fast for a
- 7:46grief stricken widow to shoot a claim into the office. I'm not grief stricken.
- 7:50Dollar So I've noticed you Go see Max Beeley. Talk to him Max
- 7:56Beeley, city attorney. Check his story before you jumped in slusion. She
- 8:00thinks I'm guilty. All right, I will. Then we'll talk afterwards.
- 8:05Maybe I'll even cooper him. Maybe you will be a little nicer to me.
- 8:18Sure, I'll tell you why she sent you to me, so I
- 8:22could tell you she didn't kill him, that she couldn't possibly have killed him.
- 8:26Why not, mister Billy late at night, the two of him alone
- 8:30in the house, the chief shot with his own gun. That mysterious Powler
- 8:35story has been used before. Yeah, I know, but you're wrong about
- 8:39one thing. They weren't alone in the house. I was there. Oh,
- 8:45she dan and I were leaving early in the morning on a fishing trip,
- 8:46so I was staying all night. I woke up and hurt somebody in
- 8:50the hall outside my room. About the time I opened the door, wore
- 8:54a snapped on the hall lights. Just then the shots blasted downstairs. She
- 8:58was standing in the door of a room. Not ten way. She couldn't
- 9:01have done it, No, apparently not. She sure couldn't have had a
- 9:03better alibi, the city attorney himself. Were you and Dan Frank good friends,
- 9:09mister Beeley, No, he didn't have much use for each other.
- 9:13Then why would you know? I know I was spending the night in his
- 9:16house. We were going fishing together. You're thinking maybe I needed that alibi
- 9:22as much as Laura does. Well, it does work both ways, mister
- 9:24Bailey, No motive. Laura could be a motive. He's a beautiful girl,
- 9:31a lot younger than her husband. I understand about your age. In
- 9:35fact, again, I know it too well. Sure she's a knockout wild
- 9:41honeysuckle and a handful of stars. But inside this little cash register bell and
- 9:46when you put money in it rings real pretty. When you don't, nothing
- 9:50Dan found out. Is that why he got mixed up with the racket.
- 9:52He sure he needed Joe. You do get around, don't you? Who
- 9:58told you there were any Max? I wonder if you'd go over there.
- 10:01I'm sorry I hadn't know. Oh, come on in, Commissioner, this
- 10:05is Johnny Dollar, insurance investigator. He's checking into Dan's killing. A terrible
- 10:09loss. Missioner, Corvett, mister Dollar, how do you do? How
- 10:11are you if there's any way at all? Week and help mister Dollar just
- 10:15speak out. The entire facilities of city Hall are completely at your disposal,
- 10:18sirs. Well, thanks, Commissioner. Just what is the theory on the
- 10:22shooting? Buying Eddie Sales and you've got the killer? Eddie Sales and Chief
- 10:28Frank sent him up a couple of years ago. Eddie sway get him if
- 10:31it was the last thing he did. Eddie was pro last week seen here
- 10:35in town the morning before the killing. Hasn't been seen since he'd combed the
- 10:37town for a week. No luck, Well, it seems to add up.
- 10:43Would mister s Frank tell anything about the rackets? Her husband was tied
- 10:46up with rackets? No, Commissioner, He's been talking to people. Found
- 10:50out Our fair city is not as lily white as it looks. Oh,
- 10:56there's no point in trying to cover it up. It's true, mister Dollar.
- 11:00Don't as it is to admit it. Any idea who's back of them?
- 11:01Not enough to talk about. If I did, I'd be talking about
- 11:05it in court. Find Eddie Sales, mister Dollar. That's the key to
- 11:07both the killing and the rackets. Find Eddie and you can wind this up
- 11:11in ten minutes expensive count Adam two A dollar and fifty cents taxi from City
- 11:22Hall back to my hotel. I kept trying to make sense out of what
- 11:26I've learned, but got nowhere. Everybody blamed Eddie Sales, the ex con
- 11:31with a grudge on the Eddie wasn't around, thanks, and I still wasn't
- 11:50any closer to an answer. When I got out at the hotel, I
- 11:52watched the taxi pull away and then started across the walk towards the entrance.
- 11:58It was a frank parked at the curve a few yards away. I've been
- 12:05waiting for you, Johnnie, Oh have you I wanted to talk to you.
- 12:09Why don't you get in? Okay? Did you talk to Max?
- 12:13Yeah? He gives you a pretty strong alibi. I could have told you
- 12:18myself. Did it have checked with him anyway? Yeah? I imagine I
- 12:22would have. They're not being any nice, said Johnny. Is that what
- 12:26you wanted to talk about? Lady? I'm ready to be nice. Oh
- 12:31and how about cooperative that too, Johnny? And tell me why you didn't
- 12:35mention Eddie Sales when I talked to you earlier. Why should I don't know
- 12:39that it was Eddie? I suppose it was everybody sure of it, but
- 12:43I don't know it was him. I see I get him, Johnny.
- 12:46The police can't find him when they know the town inside out. It's the
- 12:50sin shoot. Hey you all right? Yes, I guess I am Why
- 13:03Johnny? Why would they want to kill you? How do you know it
- 13:05was me they were shooting at? No? No, some people think about
- 13:09it, isn't it. Do you feel any more cooperative? I've got to
- 13:13get out of here, Johnny, I hope tell you later. I've got
- 13:15to get out here. Waiter another scotch and soda? How about you?
- 13:33Johnny? Well? Thanks Pete right now? Oh? I forgot to add,
- 13:37how did you find call the paper? They gave me the names of
- 13:41three bar I was lucky on the first try. A reputation is a wonderful,
- 13:48wonderful thing. Well, Johnny, what else you want to know more
- 13:52about Laura Frank? Why he's got an alibi? I know? And somebody
- 13:58tried to raf a couple of dollars ago not necessarily, he could have been
- 14:03setting me up for that one possible, hey, Asa, Oh thanks,
- 14:13Laura Frank hates champagne but always ordered it. It costs more a pink and
- 14:20gold dollar and spangled tights, a four star tramp ex dance with the Cosmo
- 14:26Club ex girlfriend of Eddie's sales until Dan, girlfriend of Eddie their Oh sure,
- 14:35sure, hadn't you heard about him? That's why Eddie swaried gets Dan
- 14:39claimed he was being framed. Maybe he was. Maybe Laura suggested it to
- 14:45Dan. Eddie had done all the good for him. But then why do
- 14:48you hate her? Pete? Uh uh, sir, It's quite the contrary,
- 14:58Johnny. I'm in love with her, always will be. She was
- 15:05my girl before she met any sales. Oh oh, waited. It's a
- 15:13screwy case anyway you look at it, Johnny. That gun, for instance,
- 15:18I guess you heard now what about it? Well? They found it
- 15:24lying beside band's body his own gun, so of course they assumed he shut
- 15:31it out with the killer. It was two days before the lab woke up
- 15:35and realized he'd been shot with his own gun, hadn't used it at all.
- 15:39Mister Parker, there's a call for yap. Plug the porne in here,
- 15:43thanks, Hey, Pete Parker, Why well, yeah yeah, shut
- 15:52our cover? Well, yeah, yeah, right away. It's a three
- 15:56alarm fire, Johnny Laura Frank's place flames fifty feet high. They can't get
- 16:02inside. You know, many great men have attained the highest office in our
- 16:18land, the presidency of the United States. Can you guess the name of
- 16:22this man? The son of a president, he served his country as diplomat,
- 16:27lawmaker, and Secretary of State before becoming president himself. His excellence as
- 16:33a speaker won for him the nicknames of old Man Eloquent and the walking Vocabulary.
- 16:41In his first message to Congress as president in eighteen twenty four, he
- 16:45recommended a program of national improvement, including the building of Highway Canal, a
- 16:52national university, and federal weather observatory. He was also responsible for the Smithsonian
- 16:59Institute. If you don't have his name by now here are two more clues.
- 17:03During his presidency, the Erie Canal was completed and the first passenger railroad
- 17:08was built. Who was he, John Quincy Adams, sixth Presidents of the
- 17:15United States. His life is part of your American heritage. And now with
- 17:25our star don one, we bring you the second act of yours Kuli Johnny
- 17:30dollars expensive Count Adam three six dollars and twenty cents refreshments for Pete Parker for
- 17:49daily heralds and taxi. The Laura Frank's house in the suburb marked now by
- 17:55a pillar of flames visible for black. The whole outside shell of the house
- 18:03was blazing, and the fireman couldn't do much of anything but try to keep
- 18:06it from spreading and hould back the crowd that had collected on the streets and
- 18:08launch. It's terrible, mister dollar, shimp be terrible. A toot hole.
- 18:11Yeah, it looks that way. So what about Laura, Commissioner,
- 18:14where's Laa? She's alright, got out before it really caught. She's over
- 18:17there in the car with Max Beeley. Where Oh oh yeah, well we'll
- 18:19see you later, Commissioner, you're coming. Peace, are right with you?
- 18:22That terrible thing Jos find me. Please come, I let us stroke,
- 18:26Please find pleaser. Johnny, you were right, it wasn't either.
- 18:33We're after another tried to get Yeah, it could be. Oh hi,
- 18:37mister bleym an one for you, mister Dollar. The house is in short
- 18:41too oh awful. I came home and laid on the sofa. I guess
- 18:44I dropped off the sleep. I woke up with plans all around me.
- 18:47I was just lucky to get out. You've always been lucky, Law.
- 18:51I can get along without any remarks from you. Sure you can, Baby,
- 18:53You're getting along real fine. Too bad. The car wasn't in the
- 18:56garage, and all your assets have been converted the cash nice green bloody cat.
- 19:02You fucking food dolay here and leave me out. Why you can afford
- 19:07me? Now? Take it easy, both of this and I'm shading blush
- 19:11my head. How do you figure mister dollar me in the fire Eddie's sails?
- 19:15And I kind of looked that way. He got damned Frank a week
- 19:18ago and came back and tried for Law to night. What are the devil's
- 19:22he's been hiding out though I've gone with this town foot by foot. Try
- 19:26to tell that came from the house ammunition. Maybe the chief problem has somebody
- 19:33coming out by the cellar doors carrying a gun, books falling on the ground.
- 19:37Come on, how can anybody come out of that love that I'm turned
- 19:47over? Easy enough? Good lord, you know I'm it's the boy,
- 19:53or even looking for mister Dollar Eddie's sails. I don't know. I can't
- 20:07promise anything, gentleman. That shot may bring him too for a few minutes,
- 20:14or it may not badly burn. Thirty chances of coming through it alive
- 20:18after rhythm not one in a thousand, Commissioner. He may hang on for
- 20:22a day or two and might become conscious for a short while and be able
- 20:26to talk, But as far as pulling his food, not a chance.
- 20:30Really. M Well, there's no point in me staying here any longer.
- 20:33If he does talk, you can get his stepd Max did night. Gentlemen,
- 20:37I'm not glad the whole answer mister Dollar right there on that bed,
- 20:44and we may never find out what the war. I can't figure those shots
- 20:48he fired him before he came out of the blaze. He wasn't trying to
- 20:52shoot anyone. Apparently he couldn't even see anyone burned the way he was I'm
- 20:56going up to the dispensary and get some more plasma back in a h minute.
- 21:03But how do you figure it, Johnny, that Eddie started to find
- 21:07No, there's no other way to figure it. If he did, it's
- 21:10funny he got caught in his own trap. Yeah, he started it,
- 21:12all right, and he shot Dan. Now he's playing for it. It
- 21:18looks like we're not going to find out who's behind the rackets. Oh hey,
- 21:22wait a second, he's trying to say something glow, who who double
- 21:30cross to Eddie? Hey, Eddie, can you hear me? No,
- 21:40he still can't make it, and maybe as close as he'll ever come.
- 21:45Don't get it? Well? Oh yeah, that's the second do you miss
- 21:52dollar? Oh thanks Johnny? Dollars Johnny. Oh, that's talk right away,
- 22:03all right, talk not on the phone, Johnny. I'm across the
- 22:07street in the hospital all night long. School's over here, I guess so
- 22:11right away? Yeah, right away, so long, Pete. That was
- 22:18Laura. She wants me to meet her across the street, stay here and
- 22:22keep an eye on things, would it be sure? Go ahead here,
- 22:38Johnny, over here in the booth. What's in your mind? Missus?
- 22:45Frank? Sit down, Johnny, Come on, thanks, you had to
- 22:51talk to me right away. Well, look at me, Johnny, I'm
- 22:56not so bad on me. And looks you mean? Oh oh, you're
- 23:02a pink and gold doll handful of stars. That's what a couple of guys
- 23:07said today, And I guess it's it. I don't care what a couple
- 23:10of guys said. What do you say, Johnny? You look great,
- 23:15missus Frank. Terrific. Now if you look scuda, Johnny, I'm in
- 23:21the spear on this. You know that the night my husband was killed,
- 23:25I've got an hour by nobody could shake right. Well, I'm convinced that
- 23:27you didn't pull the trigger. If that's what you mean, you could convince
- 23:30the insurance company tooth you would you could have this over and settled. Yeah,
- 23:36they'd go pretty much on my report. Why don't it be nice and
- 23:40turn in a real good report. Why don't we get some answers first,
- 23:42Missus Frank, straighten out some of the coincidences, like the fact that you
- 23:48heard the noise and woke up, but you sent she Frank downstairs and you
- 23:52turned on the upstairs lights behind them and made a perfect target out of him.
- 23:59Let's fear. Whatever you say has to say before I file a report.
- 24:02Suppose Eddie dies without tossing, well, I love that case, you
- 24:06probably will be in the clear. And now, if you'll excuse Johnny,
- 24:11I'll give you ten thousand dollars, let's make that response. Now you are
- 24:18anxious, aren't you. I just want to get it settled and out of
- 24:19the way, Johnny. One of the firement, I know. It just
- 24:22came by the hospital. They thought out why Eddie Sales fired those shots.
- 24:26The cellar dog was padlocked on the outside. He shot the lock off to
- 24:30get out, and Eddie didn't set the fire. He was locked in the
- 24:33basement, so he was the one who was supposed to die in it,
- 24:37right, missus Frank, I don't know what you're talking lot. What did
- 24:41you want to see me about? Jenny see you about? Oh yeah,
- 24:45you just phoned the hospital and said to come right over here, that you
- 24:47wanted to see me. Come on, Pete, let's get back over there.
- 24:56That's why she wanted to talk to me, to get me away from
- 25:00that room from the yellow Eddie. Eddie's a big threat. If he comes
- 25:08to and knows he's finished, you'll probably talk his head off here it is?
- 25:15We get that before well leaving, mister Billy. Yeah, somebody phoned
- 25:19the commissioner wants me to meet him across the street. Is there anybody up
- 25:22there with Eddie? Well? Uh no, not right now. The doctor
- 25:25will be back in a few minutes. Oh come on, look, look
- 25:27I've got to meet Oh what's going on here? Look? I haven't got
- 25:33time to go back upstairs. I think you'd better take time, mister Billy.
- 25:37All right, Eddie wasn't showing any times of coming too. How Betty
- 25:41wasn't all right? Let's go now, Look you mind letting me in on
- 25:48this, mister Dalla. Lets got out of that room and take a look
- 25:49at Eddie first. What happens is that police with me? I don't do
- 25:52this. I was here in the hall and I left. I might have
- 25:55walked down to Did you leave that door open, mister Bailey? No?
- 26:00Come on, what's the devil? Are we interrupting anything? Commissioner? What
- 26:06are you doing with that pillow? Nothing at all? You were holding it
- 26:08down already's face. You were trying dead. You smothered him. He was
- 26:15dead when I came in. I was just moving the pillow. Did you
- 26:17have to get us all out of the hospital and send the police guard away
- 26:19just to move a pillow. Mister Dollar, surely you're not suggesting my mind
- 26:22suggesting it. Call it. I've known for a year that you were back
- 26:26of the racketeer, but I didn't have any way of proving it until now.
- 26:30Is that what you mean? Max? Hold it right where you are.
- 26:33That gun isn't your answer, Commissioner. There are three of us and
- 26:36you can't get us all. Why did you have Dan frankild He was one
- 26:41of your boys. I can tell you, mister Dollar. Dan was going
- 26:42to pull out still a whole business. Give me names and facts. That
- 26:45was the reason for the fishing trip. Laura must have tipped off Corvin.
- 26:49Eddie Sales was in town and already had a grudge against the chief, but
- 26:52was real convenient, Max, Real convenient and Eddie hit out in the basement
- 26:56of Laura's house until she decided she feel safer if he were dead, until
- 27:00she locked the basement door and burned the house down tonight. Laura was a
- 27:04week late. That's why we tried to knock her off the sept You better
- 27:07commit a gun. Call better do as he says, don't come any closer
- 27:11to stay where you are or what should he's making for the window he got
- 27:27out of being prosecuted. You don't have any defendants left, Max Laura.
- 27:32He s is dead. Miss Nick called it and damn too, no witnesses
- 27:37and nobody to processes. He still has you, missus Frank accomplished the murder.
- 27:42John, She's right, mister Dollar. I couldn't build a case against
- 27:47her with this. You can with one. Well. She intended it to
- 27:52be an insurance claim, but it's actually a confession, all signed and witness
- 27:56What are you talking about? Dahl filled out the complete story of what happened.
- 28:02It says, we found my husband's body at the foot of the stairs.
- 28:07He'd been shot and killed with his own guns. I don't quite see
- 28:11what this claim was in the main office of the insurance company less than twenty
- 28:14four hours after Dan Frank was killed, but the police didn't find out he'd
- 28:18been shot with his own gun until two days later. How did you know
- 28:23it? Missus Frank? Expense account ATOM four one hundred and ten dollars and
- 28:40eighty cents, hotel incidentals and transportation back to Hutford expense account total one hundred
- 28:45and ninety four dollars and ninety cents. Yours truly, Johnny Dollars, welcome
- 29:08back ways to make an insurance investigator suspicious. At the very top of that,
- 29:15I would suggest that offering a ten thousand dollars payoff to expedite processing of
- 29:22acclaim would have to be pretty close to the top. This is another one
- 29:26that I do believe was made into a five part serial. I do have
- 29:32to remark that at least the radio dramas of the day tend to indicate that
- 29:38it was much easier to get by in life and work as a known drunk,
- 29:47as illustrated by the reporter of the story. I don't know if that
- 29:49was as true in real life as it was in fiction. All right,
- 29:52Well, we turned out to listen or comments and feedback, and we have
- 29:59a review on iTunes from postal Hawk, who says, I love yours truly,
- 30:04Johnny Dowler. Don't get why people don't like John Lunn. He is
- 30:08my favorite Johnny Dowler. I also like that the old ads are left in
- 30:12keep up the great work. Well, thanks so much. Generally, there
- 30:18have been two criticisms I've heard of John Lunt. The first was that his
- 30:22voice was too soft, and the second was that his characterization was boring.
- 30:30But on the other hand, you have people like Jim Wittner who say that
- 30:34on additional listening, Lone brings a lot of warmth to the role. And
- 30:41I do think the writing has been better during the John Lunn era than some
- 30:48of the later Edmund O'Brien's scripts. I've yet to run into a Johnny Dollar
- 30:52characterization that I've really not liked. I still think Bailey is the best I've
- 30:57heard, so are myself. I'd probably the ones I've heard a lot of
- 31:04so far. I would probably put one right right under Edmund O'Brien in second
- 31:11place, a hair ahead of Charles Russell. And I haven't heard enough Bob
- 31:17Burdick or Mandel Kramer to rank them. All Right, Well, that'll do
- 31:22it for today. We'll be back on Saturday with an episode of the Lineup
- 31:27in the meantime. S Andrew comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,
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