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The Amazing Mr. Malone: A Strong Offense (EP1066) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Great Detectives dot net. Well, some changes for Mister Malone this week and
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pretty significant. First of all, these episodes of Mister Malone, we're going
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to hear we're on NBC rather than ABC, and we have a new actor
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starring in the lead role, George Petre. We heard him previously as the
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second actor to play Bill Grant on Call the Police around two hundred and fifty
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episodes back, and he actually had quite a run on radio going back to
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forty two. But he was one of these actors who really started to get
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some juicier roles as the golden age of radio decline, because he was a
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little bit more affordable than some of the leading men who were being lured away
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by television. And in addition to his work on the Murder Amazing Mister Malone
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story, we'll also hear him as the last actor to play the falcon between
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the two titles. Though John J. Malone's stories ran for a total of
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one hundred and sixty seven weeks on ABC, starring Frank Lovejoy and Gene Raymond,
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among those, we have just the four full episodes we've played the last
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four weeks. This particular iteration of the Malones of the Malone series will only
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ran for eight weeks, but we have all eight episodes. The Amazing Mister
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Malone took over the timeslot of Dangerous Assignment, which NBC didn't actually canceled,
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but just took off the air four months and brought back at another time zone,
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and we'll be replaced by another show which would only last for eleven weeks,
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which is perhaps an indication of the state of NBC programming as we're getting
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to the point where in this point in radio history where television is making more
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of than radio. But we've gone long enough with this introduction, so let's
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go ahead and take a listen to today's episode. This one from May the
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twenty fifth, nineteen fifty one, is called A strong offense is the best
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defense. The Amazing Mister Malone Operator definitely the Office of John J. Malone.
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The National Broadcasting Company presents The Amazing Mister Malone, an exciting half power
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of mysterray starring George Petrie as the lawyer who's practiced before every type of bar
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has become a legend. All hotel is the city of Chicago, the time,
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the present, and the hero of these weekly adventures, the Amazing Mister
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Malone. Malone's the name, John J. Malone, Attorney in constlor of
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law and now. It's often said that no visit to Chicago was complete without
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taking in the Field Museum, the stockyards, and yours. Truly, and
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as you probably guess, I'm the one who often says it, my hobby
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is collecting cliches. Tonight, I'd like to trot out for your inspection.
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The little number that goes A strong offense is the best defense. There's a
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case in point I give you Steve Kemper. Mister Kemper is the stockier of
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the two gentlemen getting out of the elevator on the fourth floor of the Belvedere.
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He owns the Bangor Club, the Lusco's gambling joint this side of Vegas.
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And if you're wondering why Steve keeps patting his right hand code pocket as
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he marches along, that's because he's carrying his life insurance there. But obviously
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his associated Curly Michaels, doesn't approve of that policy. Don't like it,
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Steve, I don't like it one bit. Then maybe you better wait downstairs,
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Curly. Oh look, Steve, I didn't mean it that well,
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I did. I suppose friend Willard gets tough. I only hope he does.
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Okay, you'll be done in the lung. No, you better make
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it in the car. I may want to leave real fast. I get
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you. Oh is it rum status? That's the second Hello? Will it?
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Wait a minute? I'm even willing to wait too, But suppose I
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do it inside? Kemper's the name Steve Kemper. Oh I take it you've
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heard of me? Who hasn't. I was in your joint A couple of
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weeks ago. A nice layout you got there. My daughter isn't bad either,
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Vicky. They don't follow your campoo. No, you didn't waste any
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time following her. Maybe the shoes on the other foot. Maybe she's the
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one who did the chasing, who checked that Bagasy fella, you're going to
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stay away from Vicky? Do you understand? Who think you of being a
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little melodramatic? That type of farmer went out with East Slim. I'm warning
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you will it? You're warning me? Did it ever a cur to you?
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Why I might be in love with Vicky? Oh, don't make me
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laugh? What about your wife? Vicky knows all about Marcia? Does she
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know all about your other women? Francis Carson, Paula Lewis, nor a
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Stone? Shall I go on? You've been doing some research? Uh huh
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weuve kemper. I know I'm no barggain, but neither is your daughter.
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What did you say if you ever do any checking there with a page?
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We are two of a kind, right out of the same dick. Maybe
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that's why she's got it familiar you journey a Jordan car drop, Stop kidding,
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Come on, come on a drop only allow one chance for cutting on.
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You wanna play rough? Ho will to complain like that? I gotta
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hunch him a lot better at this game than you. I'm telling you,
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Steeve, you should have stopped up first to see a doctor before I brought
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you home. I said, no, Curly, keys are in my side
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pocket. I got him. It's so small and so we would think I
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was never here before. Ye me and Curly helped me in the better than
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fast. I didn't want it too late? Well, aren't you a lovely
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sight? I had an accident, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was
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all my fault, Vicky. You see this car was coming on, not
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a lion, Curly. I just finished talking to Willard, and you know,
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yes, indeed, I know. I'm only sorry I didn't kill you,
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Vicky. I mean no, honey, that's no way to talk your
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own man's maybe. Whatever I tried to do, whatever you try to do,
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why can't you mind your own business? Well, if you knew what
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he said about you, and every word was true, Vicky, every single
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word. And you know why, because you've always fied on, because you
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never let me do anything I want. That's because it's gon go on say
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it. It's because you were afraid I might take after my mother. Well,
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I don't blame her for running off. That's you. I can imagine
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what it must have been like being married to you, always watching, always
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fighting. It's not true. I don't know how she stood it as long
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as she did. Well, I've had my feel too. I'm going to
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live my own Picky, where are you're going? Thinky? Come back?
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Maybe I haven't handled it right, but whatever I do. Hey, nobody
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own? Oh, I swear, Okay, I'm coming Hello alone? Do
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I know you? I think so. The voice is familiar, but I
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can't place the face. What happened to You're old one? That's not funny,
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Malone? Well, my writer goes to bed at three? Can I
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come in? Look? Steve? You know my office is in the press.
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Could bullying her? You're never there? Why didn't I think of that?
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Yeah? Nice, I want to drink. You look like you could
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stand one. No, I'll pass, but I'll let that stop you.
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It never does. I'll come right to the point, Malone, for my
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money, you're the best lawyer in Chicas. I'll never mind the con Steve,
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what's on your mind? Vicky is running around with a wrong old party
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named Willard? Grant. I tried to break it up tonight, putting your
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face in his fist. Yeah, obviously it didn't work. No, what
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do I do now? Illegally, you can't do a thing, can't force
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a man out of time because you don't like the way parts his hair.
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There's nothing to prevent you from arriving at an agreement that will affect the same
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thing. What do you mean buy him off? Of course you went to
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this Willard and lay it on the line. Now if I were handling it,
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why don't you you get him to agree to leave Vicky alone. I'll
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pay whatever fee you think it's fair. Look, Steve, I hate like
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the devil. I'll tell you this, but you're a little Vicky. I
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suppose we leave her out of this. You take care of Willard. I'll
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take care of you. How much can I offer him? Ten grand?
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You don't care how you spend my money? What it's just a bad joke.
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I figure I left most of that door at your place, trying to
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make a seven the hard way with two three and a half. Okay,
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Steve may got your check. I'll do what I can. Yes, I
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beg your pardon. What's for you haven't done anything. Yeah, but I'm
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afraid I made a mistake. The desk clerk told me this was Willard Grant's
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room. I must have known what he was talking about. Oh, if
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you're the hotel chamber maid, I'm moving here myself. He's wasting your time.
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I'm staying at the Stockton. Mister alone, John J. Malone.
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Not be amazing? Ain't it awful? Well? This is a pleasure,
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mister Malone. I can't tell you I'm here. You've got company, will
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It? Thought you were gone. I was on my way, darling,
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when I ran into this gentleman. It's been real charming. Malone. Let's
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do it again. Sometimes you said with Stockton, I said, and the
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name Marcia Grast. Oh then you're his wife. Yes, but don't let
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that stop, lovely girl. I'm glad you approved that. Someone would think
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you too don't get along? Would then if they judge by appearances, I
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think you've gut. My name is Malone. I'm a lawyer, will It.
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I represent Steve Kemper. Get out. At first, I'd like to
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show you something. Well why you impressed? One way? Take it to
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La on the super cheap and a check for ten thousand dollars. You know
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what you can do with it? Don't be your sap friend. That's as
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high aste will go. You won't get any more through Vicky. How would
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you like a punch in the nose? How's that? What's the matter?
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Don't you think I can let me fill your muscle up? Mylone? Yeah?
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I guess you could. Okay, Well, don't fret yourself. I'm
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practically on my way. Bang clet jeeve. Yeah alone, I just saw
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it, boy will it? Grant? And he threw me out? How
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much does he want? Brace yourself for a shock, daddy? I think
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he's in love with our Vicky. Oh, don't talk like an idiot.
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It does seem impossible, doesn't it. He wasn't interested in ten thousand?
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Okay, Malone? Thanks anyway, what are you gonna do? I don't
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know yet. I'll let you know when I make up my mind. Yeah,
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I wonder if I have the right party? Are you Willard Grant?
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Yes? Well, this is indeed a pleasure, mister Grant. You don't
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know how i'd look forward to this, Leslie Brett, so you've never heard
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of me? I don't know if it spoil your day, little man,
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Chicago's follow people I never heard of. I suppose that's true enough. All
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right, what's on your mind, Leslie? Well, I've been asked to
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deliver something to your Where did I put it? Oh? Here it is?
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What's the idea that Canon Handsome? Isn't he? I call him Marvin?
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I wish you wouldn't take this personally. Believe me, I have nothing
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against you. Thanks, I mean that sincerely. Who sent you here?
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Anyway? And you couldn't expect me to devose the name of my clients Steve
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Camper, wasn't it. Please don't press me, mister Grant, as much
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as I'd like to oblige. Look, if you don't put that thing away,
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I'm gonna take it and ram it down your throat. I think you'll
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mean that. I'm out certainly well in that case, so that to forgive
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me Willard that I can't stand in touched. You're listening to the amazing mister
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Malone. In years gone by, immigrant ships used to dock in New York,
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filled with the people who had heard legends in the Old Country about opportunity
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to be found in America. Well, they soon found out that in America
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is everywhere else money and the things money can buy don't go on trees.
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It's our American economic system which sets our standard of living. It's important for
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all of us to know just how this economic system of ours works as opposed
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to any other. So here's the thought for today. Why not do a
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little reading up on the workings of our economy. Go to your library and
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find a good, easy text and study it. You'll find it helps you
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to understand the important issues of the day. Now back to the amazing mister
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Malone. So, like they say in Time magazine, death with a little
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forty five came for Willard Grant at the ripe old age of thirty four.
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But the first I knew of it was some twelve hours later. I was
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relaxing in the steamroom that Gusu's getting a massage out of the fog. I
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heard a familiar voice and it robbed me the wrong way. That's a lovely
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back you got there, Malone. And wouldn't I love to plant a life
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in it? That wouldn't be Lieutenant Brooks? Would I want to bet?
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Come on, Malone, it's time to be amazing. What are you babbling
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about? We've got a fellow downtown who's crying for your services? Oh Steve
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Kemper. And what's Steve alleged to have done? Oh? That's what I
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love about you, Malone, You're so legal. What's he alleged to have
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done? There's nothing alleged about it. He killed a boy named Willard Grant.
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I mean will it's dead. What most people generally are when they've been
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murdered. And you think Steve did it? Ain't I a fool? You
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certainly are. Come on, I want to talk to him. You look,
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brooks On, Steve's lawyer. You can't stop me from singing an I
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can. If you insist on going like that, put your pants on,
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Malone, or don't you care how people talk? I tell him alone,
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I didn't kill Willard. You've got to believe that, Oh I do,
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Steve. Lieutenant Brooks is the boy you got to convince. Go on,
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Steve, you want to try. I did. Don't be a sad Brooks.
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Whereis his motive? Or you're joking? Of course? Don't you think
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we know? He sent you around to get rid of Willard, and Steve
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made an attempt on Willard's life. Yes, so one time? Was Willard
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killed? Three this morning three am here and that lets me out why you
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got all of my Sure I was at the club. One hundred people must
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have seen me. So what so what? How can one man be in
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two places at the same time? And who said he was malone? I
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didn't say Steve actually shot Willard? You didn't know? No, I said
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he was responsible. He hired someone else to do the job. How do
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you know that? Well, a desk clerk told us that five minutes before
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the shooting, an odd looking character asked for Willard Grant's rule. The desk
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clerk also tell you that this odd looking character was hired by Steve. Well,
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doesn't it figure out? Not the way I add it unless you take
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Steve for an awful jerny. No, No, I think he's a smart
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operator. Or you think a smart operator would pull so many boners? How
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do you suppose it would look to a jury? How you tell me you're
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the lawyer? All right? They'd never believe that Steve had a fight with
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Willard, try to gun him, buy him off, and arrange for his
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murder, all in the space of twenty four hours. It's two pass Then
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you believe it's a frame, don't you. I'll let you know after I
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think it over. Do that. Listen, Steve, what do you think
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might have framed you? Nobody? How about your club manager, Curly Michael
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Yati of mind? Well, what happens to your club? If anything happens
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to you goes to Vicky? Imagine I almost forgot about her. What are
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you getting at? How was Vicky's reaction when she heard you had trouble with
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Willard? I didn't tell her about it now, but Willard might have.
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And suppose he got so disgusted he packed her in nuts. I will soon
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find out. You're not to bother Vicky. Understand you under estimate my charm,
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Steve, who says I'm gonna bother? Sorry? Our times up?
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Right, lieutenant? Right? And let me ask it's time. I was
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amazing to one of those things, just one of those crazy things, one
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of those bells. But now and then, I mean, yes, hello,
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big what do you want? No? Love her? That's no way
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to talk to someone. To think you weren't glad to see me? Be
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right? If you're looking for my father isn't here. I know I just
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saw him. He's in a bad spot. I hope he burns. Careful
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lover, you don't know what you're saying. I hate him and I want
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to be there when they strap him into the chair. I don't think they
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will. They wouldn't have quit him with him alone. It's I am representing
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it. Let's Malone. If you get him off, I'll kill you.
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I mean that, I'll kill you, fool. Your father always did everything
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he could for you, as it was always in the theory, always fine.
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We thought Willard was no good. Point. Willard was a married man.
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He was the only man I ever loved. He was no good And
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what makes you think I'm any better? We were two of a kind,
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he used to say, right out of the same deck. And he was
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right. You'd have left you in a month never, no matter what he
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said. He never did he say money of bins. Maybe I can guess
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the boys you were living on borrowed times. Suppose Willard told you we thought
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you were more trouble than you were worse, you'll get out. Well,
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we got to think of things like that. Are you going to get out
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of here? Sure, lover, but you're such a fascinating creature. Don't
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blame me if I come back. Well, it's about time, mister Malone,
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huh, have you any idea? How long I've been waiting? How
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did you get in? I use these? You're a full one. Not
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shut the door, won't you? It'll be kind of stuffy. Worse comes
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to worse. I can always let a little air in through you with this,
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you know what I mean? Hey, that's real good. I thought
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so. Now I suppose you sit down over there over here. That's fine.
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You're probably wondering who I am. I got an idea. You're the
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odd looking character the desk clerk saw shortly before Willard was gone? What did
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you call me? Now? That was a quote. You'll think you're smart,
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don't you. You're one of those forceful men who knows all the answers.
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Well, I careful you, and you're you're working yourself into a snith.
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I've got a good mind to No. No, you're not going to
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make me angry. You thought you would, didn't you believe me? That
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was the furthest thing from my mind. Don't tell me you're scared of a
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little gun, scared of death. They remind me of weddings. Very funny,
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I guess not. Well, what can I do for you? Nothing?
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But you could do something for yourself, such as such as getting up
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Steve Kemper as a client. Why should I do that because a friend of
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mine wants you to? You wouldn't consider telling me this friend's name? What
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do you think? Yeah? I think you wouldn't. And if I continue
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to represent Steve, I'd like to see you again, only next time Marvin
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will do the talking bout me. Marvin my gun? You say that's real?
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Cure you and Marvin the bobbs between you always go out together. You'll
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find out? Or what do you say? Mister Malone? What can I
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say? I'd be a fool who represents Steve after this. Thanks for dropping
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around, friend. I hope you won't go to the trouble again. It
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second, oh, Marcia? Oh and I thought I made a definite impression.
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Don't you remember we met in Willard's hotel room? Oh? Yes,
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yes, you were on your way in and you were on your way out.
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Yes. How could I forget? The name's Malone, isn't it?
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Uh huh? You did invite me to drop around, yes, and I'm
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mad it coming. Thanks. Hey, hey, this is quite a layoff.
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I'd certainly hate to pick up the tab for this. Let me take
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you to lover you got it? Is it down? No mind? If
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I do? Don't things a little crowded to the two of us on this
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chair? You're planning the sofa a lot more comfortable. Okay, let's try
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it. No, No, I mean by yourself. But I can sit
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by myself at home. Well after a alone You've got to consider my position.
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My poor husband is lying dead in the morning. Yeah, you're really
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broken up about that, aren't you? What's your death? And I suppose
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you were upset when he said he was going to get a divorce and marry
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Vicky? Who told you that? But then he did plan to marry her?
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Never would have gone through with it. He was in love with her,
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He never would have lasted. Now you sort of that? And what
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made you send Junior around to frighten me off? Who the character who keeps
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company with Marvin? Are you on your mind? Well? What you must
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be if you thought that would do the trick? Okay, what's wrong with
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me? Anyway? No one seems to want me around. First Willard,
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then VICKI, Now you are you going to get out of here? Yeah?
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But it's lucky I know a police lieutenant. It is crazy to have
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me around. It reminds me I better check on him too. Hello Tennant.
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Oh no, look, Malone, If you don't quit hanging around,
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police said quarters. People who took so they might look. Look Malone,
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will you brief me on one thing? You're a lawyer? No, I'm
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a lawyer. Yet, why can't you act like the rest of them?
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Get your suit, priss, go to court. My way is better.
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This way, I don't have to drag around a briefcase. I'm telling you,
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brook you're better. Let Steve go. He didn't kill Willard. I
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didn't say he did. I said he was responsible. He odd looking character
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to the actual shooting. I suppose I told you I saw him, Gwen.
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He was waiting for me in my apartment. He let him get away.
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Oh he let me get away. Why didn't you stop him? Are
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you serious? He could have killed me? That's no excuse, I tell
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you, Brooks, this is our boy who was carrying a forty five that
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he kept referring to his Marvin. But why didn't he shoot you? You
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seem disappointed? I am, I am all right. What was he after?
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He wanted me to drop Steve Kemper as a client, and he couldn't
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have been working for U. Rika. You finally saw it. You're gonna
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let Steve go. Well, here's your head, Brooks, I crucify in
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court. I told you before a case against Steve was too pat Now,
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who would want me out of this man? Me? For what? Come
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on? I'm not comming. Okay, okay, a lot of Steve's release.
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Now you're talking? How about you, Tuck? Who sent that boy
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up to see you? It's easy? The same party who was behind Willid's
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murder. That tells me a lot. Who was there? His wife?
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Oh, Willard's wife, Marcia. Oh so you think she's a foul miscreant.
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I know she is. She's got the best motive of all. Willard
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was gonna divorce her to marry Vicky. So this is a little girl whould
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never let go of a meal ticket? Did you see her? Sweet at
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a stock him m I bet it runs at least seventy five bucks a day,
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one hundred. I checked. Well, where do you think the money
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came from? She was probably breeding Willard to death, and when she saw
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the ride was over, she I don't kill right at malone. There's just
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one teeny thing wrong with that theory. I feel like a cad for even
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mentioning it right. Well, Marcia happens to be the daughter of Sylvester Braden,
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the guy who owns half a stock. Yah. Yeah, yeah,
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that girl's got more doll than Fort Knox, so she had will It killed
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for his insurance. Eh. I guess I was wrong. You guess you
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are wrong. Well, I'll say one thing for you, Malone. You
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may not be amusing, but you sit in the are amazing. You're listening
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to the amazing mister Malone. If you bought us defense bonds ten years ago,
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they'll mature this year. However, you don't have to redeem them and
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buy new bonds to continue getting your interest. Congress has just passed the law
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to extend the life of these same bonds you now hold for ten years more.
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You can, of course cash your bonds now, but think twice before
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you do. There's no surer, safer investment. I think that for yourself
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and for America, you want to keep your bonds and keep on buying them
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too, because defenses everybody's job now, and there's no investment that helps your
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country more. Today and now back to the amazing, mister Malone. You
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can talk about your luck of the Irish, but to me, it's strictly
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heresaying here. I had it so neatly figured out that Marsha Grant was responsible
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for her husband's murder, and Lieutenant Brooks had to go and drop his bomb
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after the explosion died down. I sat there for five minutes without saying a
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word, which must have established some sort of a record. Malone, your
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mouth, so it'll close it. Listen, Lieutenant, I made a mistake.
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Okay, so I was wrong, but I see it all. Now.
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There's one character we've been overlooking in this little drama, all right?
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Who Curry? Michael? Curly Michael. But he works for Steve. That
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doesn't preclude extracurricular activities. It could have double crossed. But you heard Steve
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say if anything happened to him, the club went to his daughter. Well,
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you know, Vicky, how much effort do you think it would take
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the swindler? Not much? There you are, if I will get your
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ten. Curly was the boy who sent that gunman around to scare me off.
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You know, I hate to say this, Malone, but you might
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have a point there. Well, they ain't gonna do us any good here
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let's go stick it in, Curly. Well, you're guys, miss too
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your any house? Lemon here, I get a light on yourself. Shoot
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five gram yout faded and coming out the papa little foreign and free. I'll
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do it. It's the point. Hats the point? I got two birds
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that says he's right? Oh, how are you counseling? Hi? Curly?
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We want a word with you? We you know, Lieutenant Brooks Surrey
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take over the game? Will you take I'm going to be busy for a
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while. Let's go to Steve's office. Well, what's on your mind?
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Concern? What's always on my mind? That ain't going to get Steve out?
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Why haven't you heard, Curly, Steve has been released. What?
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Yeah, I'm surprised he's not here yet. He left ten minutes before weeks.
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Maybe he stopped off at the apartment to see Vicky. What do you
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think of her, Curly? Don't ask? I am. Well, if
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she was my kid, I'd break her back. You never appreciate anything Steve's
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done for anything happened is Steve? This club would go to her? I
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know. I guess it wouldn't be any trouble for someone that Connor out of
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the would serve it right? The note good? Look go on, Curly,
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what were you saying? But pee Steve and might tickle to see you.
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The fellas were just telling me. I came in. It looked like
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you were telling them, don't stop on my accounts. Okay. If you
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weren't blind, you'd see she's her mother all over again at thirty rotten.
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Let you got anything else to say? Uh, that's set my piece,
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and I suppose it's my turn. Steve. Suppose I told you that Curly
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tried to frame you for Willard's murder. Yeah? Crazy? You know how
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it feels about Vicky if you went to the cherry take this place away from
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her in twenty minutes? Yeah? Wrong? Show me where Curly's been with
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me for fifteen years? So last Christmas I offered him a twenty five percent
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piece of the joint. I suppose he turned it down. He certainly did.
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Who needs it? What do you know? I know you better do
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some fast talking. Looks like guy was wrong again, Lieutenant. Looks like
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you got any more bright ideas? Yeah, and this one's at DLLY.
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I looked alone. I got a mine at Lieutenant, asked yourself this?
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Who was the first to know if Steve's fight with Willard the first to know.
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I flop when I try to buy him off. VICKI no, Steve,
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what are you talking about? I'm sorry it had end like this,
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Steve, But every once in a while one of my own clients turns out
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to be Believe me, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Just one
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of those crazy things, same thing, one of those band fat now in
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name ring very just one of those things. Mary, ol Oh, it's
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something bothering you att Yeah, yeah, Why I don't take off my shoe
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and put you to death with him? I said all along that Steve was
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the party behind Willard's murdered Why did you let him go? Why did I
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let who said the case was too fast? Well? It was sending that
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odd looking character around scare me off was a beautiful touch. It didn't seem
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possible that Steve was behind That was he, of course, and that convinced
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us he was being framed. I still want to know why you bet on
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Steve will It all came down a motivation, and Steve had the best motive
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of all. He was the one who really hated Willard. He called he
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was bad for Vicky, so he got rid of him. Oh why didn't
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he kill Willard himself? He tried it once in all far he got Oh,
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that hired guns was a much better bet. Incidentally, you pick him
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up yet, yeah? Yeah? Yeah? And Cicero. His name is
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Leslie Brett. What about Marvin Marvin? Oh, Marvin Marvin? You mean
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his gun? We found that on him too. Not surely they were going
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steady Yet I'm alone. I can't get over it. Why talk about switches?
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There were two here? One the cop was right all along. It'll
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probably never happen again. Maybe he made But secondly, secondly, this is
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the first case I remember where the guy who was making like a private detective
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wasn't fopped on. Ahead, Jay, that's right. Yeah, Well,
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let's hope that never happens again. Good Night alone, ever hear the story
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of the incurable Gamber. This boy would take a chance on anything he found
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out. Murder was a bad breast. I'll tell you all about him next
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week. So why not pick me up in my office at the same time.
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I'll be waiting for you. Good Night. George Peepree was starred as
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John J. Malone with Larry Haynes as Lieutenant Brooks. Our program is written
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by Gene Wang and directed by Richard Lewis. The Amazing Mister Malone is based
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on the character by Craig Rice and produced by Bernard L. Schubert. The
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events and characters in this story were entirely fictitional, and any resemblance to persons
32:07
living or dead is entirely coincidental. Arthur Gary speaking, the Amazing Mister Malone
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famous story, Elma the Great, starring Paul Douglas. Elma the Great is
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an absurd and heartwarming story with a blundering hero who's been described as solid bone
32:46
above the ears, but the best pitcher in the three I League. It's
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another outstanding production by Theater Guild on the air this Sunday with Paul Douglas in
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the title role, and don't forget from Mystery. This Sunday, you'll hear
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a new private I mister Mothole, who arrives with a swash of the buckle,
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and I for a pretty girl and a handy talent for solving murders.
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This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. Welcome back well. In addition
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to George Petray, this episode we featured Larry Haynes as Lieutenant Brooks, and
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Haynes is another one of those actors who really benefited during the mid early to
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mid fifties with a lot of roles. We will hear him later on this
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season in Manhunt, which is actually from earlier, and then an Easy Money
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which is later, and then eventually we'll hear him as my camera in that
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hammer guy striking. Here is how consistent the show is. In this one,
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we have a different network, different producer, a lot of things very
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different, but and we still have the same opening plot set up in the
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same theme and same closing, which isn't something you see consistently across all networks.
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I did kind of find the daughter's statement of what he said, as
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about them being identical, two pis in the pot just because he said that,
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I didn't make it. So there are people who when they're around others
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will kind of flacked their values and virtues and such. So there's an indication
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from the story that per you know that perhaps she had a bit of a
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history, but nevertheless an interesting way altered a way to look at it all
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right, Listener comments and feedback now. Derek rits in, Thanks Adam and
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great work. I've been tuning in for a couple of years now I'm planned
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to keep doing so. Thanks so much, Derek and Joel emails in.
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This is a very entertaining show. How many programs are left to hit here,
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Like Pete Kelly's Blues. It had a short run. You do a
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great service bringing these shows to us. Thanks so much. Well, you
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know it had it had actually I would say a decent run. We just
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have very few episodes of it. But in terms of how many weeks we
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have left, we have seven more weeks of this show and then we're going
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to delve into the Australian transcriptions. There's four of those, and so we
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have eleven more weeks of mister Malone to enjoy. All Right, Well,
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I think that'll do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Johnny Fletcher.
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Mystery Yours truly Johnny Dollar will be heard on Friday, and then join
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us back here next week for the amazing mister Malone. In the meantime,
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