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Suspense - "Dead Ernest" (Old Time Radio, 1946) · The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A man is struck at a city intersection and taken
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  Speaker 1: for dead, but Ernest Bowers is subject to cataleptic spells,
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  Speaker 1: and the warning signs that could identify his condition have
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  Speaker 1: been separated from him. As police, hospital workers, morgue personnel,
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  Speaker 1: and bystanders follow the case through the city, time becomes
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  Speaker 1: the central concern. From CBS with Wally Maher, Junius Matthews,
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  Speaker 1: Robert Bailey, Kathy Lewis, and Verna Felton, this is Suspense,
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  Speaker 1: Dead Earnest, episode 205, originally broadcast August 8th, 1946. The
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  Speaker 1: script is by Merwin Gerard and Selig Lester. Bill Speer
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  Speaker 1: produced and directed. And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 4: Suspense! Tonight, Roma Wines bring you an all-star cast of
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  Speaker 4: Hollywood radio players headed by Wally Mayer in Dead Earnest.
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  Speaker 4: A suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines
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  Speaker 4: by William Spear.
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  Speaker 5: Suspense.
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  Speaker 2: Radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented for your enjoyment
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  Speaker 2: you a remarkable tale of.
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  Speaker 6: Suspense. Accident report submitted to Police Inspector Blandon from Lieutenant
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  Speaker 6: Steve Healy. Place 15th Street and 4th Avenue. Time, 2.45 p.m.
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  Speaker 7: March 11th.
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  Speaker 3: Remarks.
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  Speaker 6: Ernest Bowers, age 34, was crossing intersection as signal light
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  Speaker 6: changed from green to red. A car driven by Theodore
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  Speaker 6: Tobey made a legal right turn from 15th Street into
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  Speaker 6: 4th Avenue.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, hey, look out!
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  Speaker 9: Hey, hey, look out!
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  Speaker 5: All right, come on now, come on.
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  Speaker 4: Don't let me through here.
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  Speaker 5: All right, stand back.
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  Speaker 7: Let's have a look.
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  Speaker 5: Does he hurt bad, officer? I didn't see him. Honestly,
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  Speaker 5: I did not have the right of way. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 5: passed out.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, one of you people call an ambulance.
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  Speaker 5: I'll go.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, you.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, move back, move back.
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  Speaker 4: He's bleeding. Here, I'll prop up his head.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, use his jacket. Here, I'll hold him.
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  Speaker 7: Golly, he's limp. Feels like he.
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  Speaker 6: Yes. Ernest Bowers felt like he was dead. Ernest Bowers
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  Speaker 6: suffered from catalepsy, a strange disease. He carried at all
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  Speaker 6: times a note in his inside jacket pocket stating that
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  Speaker 6: he was a cataleptic and that in the event of
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  Speaker 6: seeming death, his wife should be immediately notified or his
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  Speaker 6: doctor in the event his wife is unavailable. The letter
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  Speaker 6: also requested that no autopsy or embalming should be performed
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  Speaker 6: on his body for 72 hours. Although in his particular case,
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  Speaker 6: the duration of the attacks were usually four hours or less.
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  Speaker 6: Ernest Bowers also wore a sterling silver bracelet with an
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  Speaker 6: inscription reading, Do not embalm me.
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  Speaker 7: I am not dead.
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  Speaker 6: Catalepsy is a disease of the nerves and mind. The
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  Speaker 6: physical condition of the cataleptic when he's under a spell
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  Speaker 6: closely resembled death in all aspects, including the primary stages
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  Speaker 6: of rigor mortis. Officer Abbott was on the scene of
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  Speaker 6: the accident... He administered first aid to the injured man
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  Speaker 6: before making out his report.
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  Speaker 5: There, that ought to stop the bleeding.
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  Speaker 4: Looks like just a cut on his forehead when he
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  Speaker 4: hit the ground.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing much.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he can't be hurt bad, officer.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't hit him hard.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: It looked like just a little bump, that's all.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Clear back, clear back. Let's have a little air in here.
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  Speaker 5: I'll have to take down some information.
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  Speaker 4: All right, what's your name?
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  Speaker 7: Theodore Tobey.
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  Speaker 6: Here's my license.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, hey, you kids!
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  Speaker 7: What did those kids do?
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  Speaker 5: They picked up something off the street. I saw them.
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  Speaker 7: There's the ambulance.
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  Speaker 3: Here it comes.
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  Speaker 4: Gee, I hope he's all right.
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  Speaker 7: He doesn't look like he's breathing.
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  Speaker 5: My gosh, he ain't. All right, I told you to
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  Speaker 5: get back.
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  Speaker 9: Come on now.
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  Speaker 5: He's back, all of you. I'm glad you got here, doctor.
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  Speaker 5: He's out cold.
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  Speaker 4: Let's have a look here. Yeah, I'll say he is.
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  Speaker 5: All right, let's get him away.
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  Speaker 7: He's dead.
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  Speaker 5: Well, anyway, it didn't happen in the ambulance.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, we'll take him away. Keep him back, will you, officer?
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  Speaker 5: All right, keep back. All right, clear out. The show's over.
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  Speaker 5: All right, that's the second one today. Yeah, well, let's go.
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  Speaker 8: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, whose coat was that he was laying on?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Did you pick it up?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, officer.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Where's the coat?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, by golly, it's gone.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, never mind.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go, Payne.
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  Speaker 6: Ernest Bowers had lost the identification of his condition. The
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  Speaker 6: letter was in the inside pocket of his jacket. The
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  Speaker 6: silver chain he wore on his left wrist had snapped
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  Speaker 6: and fallen to the pavement. Two youngsters picked up the chain.
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  Speaker 6: Robert Minnelli, age nine and a half, and Tommy Stoner, eight.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, that cop yelled at us.
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  Speaker 9: Did you hear him?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe we should give it back. Yeah, what for? So
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  Speaker 9: he can keep it? Screw on the back of your
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  Speaker 9: father's shop, Bob. It sure is a nice chain. Hey,
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  Speaker 9: there's writing on it.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe it's the guy's name.
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  Speaker 9: Was he hurt bad? Nah, just a little bump. What's
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  Speaker 9: it say? Just a second.
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  Speaker 8: We'll be out of the alley.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, Pop's gone home to eat.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me see it.
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  Speaker 9: Well, wait a second, will you? It says... Do not em... Bow...
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  Speaker 9: Do not something me. I am not dead. It's screwy.
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  Speaker 8: What'll we do with it?
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  Speaker 9: Sell it, dopey. That's stealing, Bob. It ain't stealing. We
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  Speaker 9: found it, didn't we?
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  Speaker 8: When we try to sell it, they'll ask us where
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  Speaker 8: we got it. What'll we tell them?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing.
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  Speaker 9: Use your head. You know what we'll do?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 9: We'll use Pop's welding torch. We'll melt it down. He
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  Speaker 9: told us not to use it. Pop ain't here, is he?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 9: Well, come on.
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  Speaker 8: There it is.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. Here, put it on that brick. Okay?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Be careful.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know too much about this.
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  Speaker 7: What are you kids doing there?
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  Speaker 8: Huh?
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Pop.
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  Speaker 8: Nothing, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Minnelli.
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  Speaker 8: We ain't doing nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing, huh?
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  Speaker 4: I thought I told you kids not to go near
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  Speaker 4: that torch.
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  Speaker 9: Well, we want to melt this down.
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  Speaker 5: Give me that. Nothing. What's this all about?
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  Speaker 9: We found this chain, Papa, and we want to melt
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  Speaker 9: it down and sell it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, who is it?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, we don't know. Do we, Tommy?
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  Speaker 8: No, no, we don't.
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  Speaker 4: Where do you get it?
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  Speaker 9: We found it.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, let me have it. Come on.
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  Speaker 9: There's nothing wrong, Papa. We just found it, see? It's ours.
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  Speaker 5: Let me see. It says something.
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  Speaker 7: Do not embalm me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not dead. Monkey, what's that?
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  Speaker 9: It's screwy.
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  Speaker 5: Where do you find it?
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  Speaker 9: In the street. Honest, Pop, I asked Tommy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Go on, get out of here, please.
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  Speaker 9: Well, how about melting it down, Pop? We can sell
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  Speaker 9: it and buy some baseball.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 5: I'll keep it back.
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  Speaker 9: Look at Tommy.
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  Speaker 5: See it?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, starting to melt.
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  Speaker 9: See how he does it?
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  Speaker 5: Keep away, I told you.
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  Speaker 9: It's all melted.
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  Speaker 6: They sold the melted chain to a dealer for $ 1. 30.
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  Speaker 7: $ 1. 30.
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  Speaker 6: But the coat, the coat was the principal thing. In
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  Speaker 6: the coat, in the inside pocket was the letter. The
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  Speaker 6: information about Bauer's condition was in the letter. The instructions
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  Speaker 6: that could save his life.
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  Speaker 7: The coat was.
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  Speaker 6: Picked up from the street by Honest Jerry Murdoch. Now,
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  Speaker 6: there's a big sign near the corner of 15th Street.
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  Speaker 6: It says, Honest Jerry Murdoch Swap Shop.
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  Speaker 7: He dropped the coat.
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  Speaker 6: Into a store, rummaged around on his shelves until he
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  Speaker 6: found some cleaner, then started to clean the bloodstains.
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  Speaker 7: I'm looking for a sport jacket. Just a minute. There now.
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  Speaker 7: What kind?
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  Speaker 5: Conservative. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Will you come over here, please? Sure. Yeah, something on
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  Speaker 7: that order. Well, pick out what you want there. How
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  Speaker 7: much do you want to spend? About five bucks. These
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  Speaker 7: cost more.
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  Speaker 5: On what?
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  Speaker 7: From eight to twelve. Over here, we got some cheaper.
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  Speaker 7: These don't look so hot for eight bucks. From eight
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  Speaker 7: to twelve. Over here... No, I'll take a look. No,
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  Speaker 7: these don't appeal to me. Well, what size do you wear?
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  Speaker 5: Forty.
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  Speaker 7: Well, here. We'll try this one on. Nice and conservative.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, kind of tight around the shoulders.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it looks cheesy.
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess you ain't got.
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  Speaker 7: Wait a minute, wait a minute. What's your hurry? I'm
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  Speaker 7: just putting a new one in stock over here with
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  Speaker 7: a counter.
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 7: There. That looks all right. What size is it? I
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  Speaker 7: don't know. Here, try it on.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, this feels all right. Kind of stiff in front here, though.
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  Speaker 7: It's almost new, ain't it? You'll break it in. Feels
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  Speaker 7: like cardboard or something. You want it? Five dollars.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: There might still be a couple of stains on it
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  Speaker 3: I ain't had time to take up. Use some cleaner
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  Speaker 3: on it or bring.
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  Speaker 7: It to the tailor's. It'll be better than new.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Here's a five.
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  Speaker 6: Ernest Bowers was brought to the receiving room of the
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  Speaker 6: Vedder General Hospital. The time, 4.10. If Bowers was going
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  Speaker 6: to awaken, it would probably be before 6.45.
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  Speaker 4: Intern on duty, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Weldon, made out his report. He wrote it down while
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  Speaker 6: standing near the telephone switchboard.
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  Speaker 4: Now, listen, honey. Get this guy's wife on the phone,
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  Speaker 4: if he's got a wife.
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  Speaker 5: Here.
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  Speaker 7: Here's his wallet.
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  Speaker 5: Another dead one?
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: Dead as a mackerel.
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  Speaker 7: Ain't gonna stay that way, too.
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  Speaker 9: His home phone is here.
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  Speaker 5: I'll give it a whirl. I think.
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  Speaker 9: Yes? This is Vedder General Hospital.
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  Speaker 8: Is there anybody by the name of Bowers at home?
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  Speaker 8: That's Bowers.
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  Speaker 2: B-O-W-S.
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  Speaker 8: Just a minute.
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  Speaker 5: She's going to see.
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  Speaker 8: How did it happen?
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  Speaker 7: Accident.
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  Speaker 4: Automobile hit him. Funny.
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  Speaker 7: What's funny?
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  Speaker 4: Superficial cut on forehead.
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  Speaker 7: Apparently heart failure.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to request an autopsy. I'd like to find
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  Speaker 4: out whether the heart disease was chronic or not.
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  Speaker 9: Hello?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, here she is again.
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  Speaker 9: Nope, nobody home.
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  Speaker 5: Is Mr. Bowers married?
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  Speaker 6: His wife says he is.
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  Speaker 5: Where can I reach her? There's been an accident.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: She's out. Will you tell her to call the Vetter
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  Speaker 8: General Hospital?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: What happened?
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Bowers is dead.
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  Speaker 7: Can't reach her, huh?
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  Speaker 8: Nope.
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  Speaker 4: Gee, I'd sure like to do that autopsy.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe later.
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  Speaker 4: After he's gone to the morgue.
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  Speaker 7: Get me the orderly room.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, use that one over there, here.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Hello, Payne?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: This is Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Weldon. There's a delivery for you to go to the morgue.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, now?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I ain't had nothing to eat since.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, since lunch. Go on now. It's down
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  Speaker 4: in receiving room B. The papers are down there, too.
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  Speaker 5: Why can't I wait a few minutes?
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  Speaker 4: It's got to go now. They'll want to start the
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  Speaker 4: embalming so they can go home.
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  Speaker 5: How about sending one of the other boys?
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  Speaker 4: I don't care, just as long as it gets there.
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  Speaker 6: It was then 4.22 in the afternoon. Dr. Theodore J.
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  Speaker 6: Weldon left Honey.
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  Speaker 5: At the switchboard.
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  Speaker 6: and walked upstairs to the intern quarters... and settled down
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  Speaker 6: to reading the sports page of the afternoon paper. At
• 12:17
  Speaker 6: that moment, if anyone had been in receiving room B
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  Speaker 6: of Vedder General Hospital... where the body of Ernest Powers
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  Speaker 6: lay on the patient carriage... they could have seen a
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  Speaker 6: fly crawl slowly across.
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  Speaker 7: The face of the dead man.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense!
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  Speaker 6: Henry Prince had purchased the coat in which the letter
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  Speaker 6: was that could save the life of Ernest Bowers. When
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: Henry Prince left the secondhand clothes store, he stopped to
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: have a chat with some friends, made some purchases at
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  Speaker 6: the grocery store, and started home.
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  Speaker 4: The time?
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  Speaker 6: A few minutes after five.
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  Speaker 5: He lived about two.
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  Speaker 4: Blocks from the scene of the accident.
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  Speaker 6: His wife was waiting for him.
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  Speaker 7: Well, how do you like it for five bucks?
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  Speaker 9: It looks all right.
• 15:27
  Speaker 8: What's that?
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  Speaker 5: Spots?
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  Speaker 8: Hmm?
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  Speaker 5: Where? Well, take it off for a second.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, sure. I wonder what it is.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, he said there were a couple of spots. The
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  Speaker 7: cleaner will take a look.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it looks like it might be... What's this in
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: the pocket?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, honestly. To whom it may concern, please open and read.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that's what makes it look stiff.
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  Speaker 8: This note is carried on my person wherever I go.
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: It is to advise responsible parties that I am a...
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: a cataleptic, that if it appears as though I am dead,
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: I am not, and that my body is not to
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: be molested for a period of 72 hours, neither by
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: autopsy nor by embalming, although the maximum periods of my
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: attacks usually do not exceed four hours. Please telephone my wife, Mrs.
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: Margaret Bowers, Fulton 11231. This is a boarding house. Address
• 16:26
  Speaker 8: 841 and 1 1⁄2 West 25th Street. If she is
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: not there, please try. Ask Mr.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: 43422.
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: This is the number of Dr. Benton. It is of
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: vital importance. It may mean my life. Thank you. Ernest Bowers.
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: That's a funny one.
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: Where'd you get the coat, Henry?
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: Get on it, Jerry Murdoch.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: I wonder what we can do.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: I think it's probably forgotten already.
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: Somebody sold the coat to him. Got to take the
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: letter out.
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: No, it doesn't sound like something a guy would forget.
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, the devil.
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: Well, it might be important. Look at that, Henry. The
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: spots look like blood.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: No, too dark.
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: That's the color blood turns. I'm going to telephone that number.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: Go ahead, but I think you're wasting your time.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: All right, all right.
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: I didn't.
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: Want to mess around.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, shit.
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: I'd like to talk to Mrs. Bowers.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: She ain't in.
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: Well, how do you know?
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: You didn't even go.
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: She went out.
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: You ain't the first after her.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Who else wanted to get in touch with her?
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Somebody.
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: I don't know who.
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: Oh, well, thank you.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Hey, see?
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: You're wasting your time.
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm going to try that Dr.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: Benton.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: I think that's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: Look, I'm hungry.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: Oh, busy.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: How about some dinner?
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: It's cookin'. It's cookin'. You know, I just can't get
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: it out of my head. That guy, whoever he is
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: lying there, people thinking him dead when he ain't. Maybe
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: doing things to him. What's him bombing?
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: Well, he do that at the morgues, preparing his body
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: for burial. I think they take all the blood out
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: of his veins.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: Well, that would kill him if he wasn't already dead.
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: Couldn't kill him no deader.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: Henry, I'm going to find out about that coat. Where's
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: this place you bought it?
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's just.
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: Now, wait a minute, Frances. Look, I put in a
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: good day's work.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: I'm tired. Listen.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: I don't want to run around the city looking for
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: something I don't even know about.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: Well, I'll go myself.
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: How about me at home here while you go out?
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: I want to eat. I'm hungry.
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: Well, dinner won't be ready for another 15 minutes anyway.
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: Where is the place?
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Oh, all right.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: I'll go with.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: You.
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Oh, why don't they answer?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: What's... Well, he ain't back yet.
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: What's the sign say, ten minutes?
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but those guys put up signs like that if
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: they're going to wait for an hour.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: Well, we can wait just a few more minutes, Henry.
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: Oh, come on, Frances.
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: Hello. Is Mrs. Bowers in?
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: No. Uh, Mr.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Bowers? No, he's dead.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: He is?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: That's what they tell me. Look.
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: You're bothering me, lady.
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: I got a meal set on the table. I can't
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: be answering a million questions. Yeah, listen, all I want
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: to know is when Mr.
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: Bowers died. How do I know? Ask Mrs.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Bowers.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: She'll be home soon.
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, thanks.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Well? Mr.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Bowers is dead. I found that out.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: Well, see, I told you.
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: Well, what about the letter, then? What if he ain't dead?
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: What if they only think he's dead?
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Well, what do you want to do, wait here all night?
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: No, I'm going to go down to that place where
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: you bought the coat.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: You're going traipsing around the whole city?
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: If I have to.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Well, without me, then.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: Well, all right, all right.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Do as you please.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: I'll be home. I'm hungry.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: If you think more of a crazy letter than you
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: do of feeding your own.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Husband, then that's all.
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: Do you mean that's all?
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: That's what I said.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: That's all.
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: Oh, Henry, the trouble with you is you just don't
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: have no imagination.
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: No, I just don't have no imagination.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: I'm just a home-loving guy.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: That's all. I don't go sticking my nose.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Where it don't belong.
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: Well, go on home then. I'll find out about it. Busy, busy, busy.
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: How can a doctor's line be always busy? Say, uh,
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: pardon me.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Sure, sure.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: What do you have? I, uh, I just want to
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: find out about the man next door. Do you know
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: when he'll come back?
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Poor honest Jerry?
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: No.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Ain't he there?
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: No, there's a sign on his door that says he'll
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: be back in ten minutes. I've been waiting for him
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: for more than a half hour.
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: Maybe he went home.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: Do you know where he lives?
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: That's me, lady.
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: Well, he will come back.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, he's usually there when we close up here. That's
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: about seven o'clock.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, thank you.
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: Oh, officer.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am?
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: Officer, do you know where the fellow who owns that
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: swap shop lives?
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: No, ma'am, I don't.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: Well, I wanted to get in touch with him. There's
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: a sign in his door.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: Why don't you ask him, ma'am? There he is now,
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: just going in.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: Oh, gee, thank you.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: Murdoch?
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: Murdoch?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: Oh, gee, Mr. Murdoch, I'm glad you came back.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: I was just having a bite of tea.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: Come on in.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: Thanks.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: What can I do for you?
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: You sold my husband a jacket, a sports jacket this afternoon.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: Did I?
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: What kind?
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: It was a light blue one. It had a few
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: stains on it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry. I can't take anything back once it's sold.
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: No, no, I don't want to give it back. Where'd
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: you get it, Mr.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Murdoch?
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: I don't even know which one you're talking about. I
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: sell a lot of stuff.
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: It must have been just a few hours ago. Blue,
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: blue with thin red boxes.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: Oh, what about it?
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: Where'd you get it?
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: What do you want to know, fool?
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: Well, because there was a letter in it, an important letter.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: I don't know. How can I remember where I got it?
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: Long ago. Was it long ago?
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: I don't see where it's any of your business where
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: I got it.
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: It may be important. I've been trying to reach the numbers.
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: The doctor's number's always busy and his wife isn't home yet.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: I don't know what you're talking about. Please, I'm busy.
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: I've got lots to do.
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but you've got to tell me.
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: Just listen.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: Look, tell me one thing. Did you have the jacket
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: in here a long time?
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Well.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: Oh, please.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: It's very important.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Well, no. No, I just got it this afternoon.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: Oh, but where did you get it?
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: You said one question. You asked it, I answered it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: That's all.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: There was blood on it.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: That I can't help. Now, if you'll excuse me.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, listen, Mr.
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: Murdoch, you've got to tell me.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: Please.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: I don't have to tell anybody anything.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: Murdoch, I may be all wrong. I'm probably just crazy
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: doing this. But listen, if that man's alive and they
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: do anything to him, I'll just never get over it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: I'll just never be able to live with myself.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Well, listen.
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: Listen, there was a letter in the inside pocket of
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: that jacket, you see. It said that Ernest Bowers was
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: a cataleptic.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: What's that? You mean he goes into.
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: No, no, no, no. A cataleptic is somebody who looks
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: like he's dead at times, and he isn't. He goes
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: into a spell, and it looks as though he's dead,
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: you see. And sometimes they take dead bodies to the morgue.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: They embalm them, and that means they take all the
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: blood out of their veins. Now, this fellow Bowers is
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: a cataleptic. I don't know whether he's dead or alive,
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: or even if he's even worrying about this letter, but
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: I've got to find out.
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: Well, there was.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: What, what?
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: An accident before the.
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: Where? Who was in it?
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Believe me, lady, I didn't know anything
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: about all this. You think this guy who was taken
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: away in an ambulance was a catalepsy?
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: That coat, was it his?
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, lady, but it was left there in the street.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: They drove away and left it.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Who? The ambulance.
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: What ambulance?
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: Oh, I don't know. It was on the corner. The
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: cop was there. He told somebody to call an ambulance.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: It came and took.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: The man away.
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: Is that the cop? Is that the cop out there now?
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah. But look, you've got to protect me. I ain't
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: done anything wrong. I've done everything possible. Officer! Officer!
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Officer!
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: Officer!
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Ernest Bowers lay on a slab in the mall. If
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: he were alive, probabilities were that he would regain consciousness
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: before 6.45. The two embalmers on duty at the time
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: had decided to get a bite to eat when the
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: phone rang.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Know, but we're going out to eat. Yeah, I know
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: another one just came in.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: We got it here.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Well, what's the rush? No, no.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: We just want to grab a cup of coffee, and
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: then we'll get right on it. Well, is it our
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: fault if it comes in just when we want to
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: have a.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: A what?
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: A we can go home after?
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, that puts a different complexion.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: Hey, what time is it, Tony?
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: It's 6.30.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Doc says if we embalm this one now, we can
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: go home.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Well, let's start in then. I'm hungry. Okay. Let's start
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: the motor. Hey, young guy, ain't he?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I was speaking to the wife about that yesterday.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: Oh, get the injector out, Tony.
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: And she was saying more and more people die older
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: and older. Hey, here.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Looks like we can open through the neck.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Hey, give me a piece of that gauze. I
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: said the way she should be around this place a while.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: We get them all ages.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Hey, want me to do it?
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: All right, that's all right. You get the injector ready.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Hey, look at him. You never think that such a
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: little thing like his heart stops beating could make him
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: dead and not alive.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hold it steady now, will you?
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, you ready?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Just a second.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: What's the matter?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: My glasses.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: They're clouding up.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Well, take them off.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, it's all right. I'll just clean them.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: What'd the wife say to that?
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: What?
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, about all ages? Yeah, yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, she didn't have anything to say.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Only that most of the guys we deal with probably
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: come to.
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: A violent end.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Well, there's something in that.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. I got my glasses cleaned. All right.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: What's... Hmm.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: What's the matter? They're steamed up again.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Funny every time i bend over near i wonder.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: What oh it must be my imagination what i could
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: have sworn this guy was breathing on my glasses oh
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: is he no.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: How could he well come on and let's go it's
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: quarter to seven already yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Ah hold it hold it i'll get the phone oh
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: let's get this started first.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Okay now we'll just tell what.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Wait what's the matter with you I thought I saw
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: the guy's hand twitch.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, don't be silly. Oh, boy. Oh, it gave me
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: a scare. Hey, let's wait a second. I'll get the phone.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: It'll probably be another job. We'll never get out of here.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Let it ring.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: That might be my wife.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, if people are going to hang up before
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: you can pick up the phone.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: All right, come on now.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Let's get this thing over with. All right.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Now, give me the knife again.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Now, I'll make a nice, neat little incision. Tony.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Look.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: I'm bent over like this.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I ain't gonna move. My glasses are full of steam again.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, Lord!
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: Is....
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Is he alive?
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: Hey.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Look at me.
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: I'm shaking all over.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Look at him, Al. Look at his lips. Listen. I.
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: I....
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: Shut that thing off.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: Apparently, the life of Ernest Bowers was worth $ 1. 30 for
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: a silver bracelet and $ 5 for a blood-stained jacket to
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: honest Jerry Murdoch. Their petty thefts brought a man to
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: the brink of death. As for the busy telephone in Dr.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: Benton's office, it wasn't busy at all. The good doctor
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: had unwittingly.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Replaced the receiver on the stand incorrectly.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: There's just one more episode which perhaps doesn't belong in
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: an accident report, but which I would like to include.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: After regaining full consciousness, Ernest Bowers put in a telephone
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: call from the morgue.
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: Hello?
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Hello, Mrs.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Brawley.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Is Mrs. Bowers in?
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: I didn't see her come in.
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: Josie, see if Mrs. Bowers is home.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Who is it?
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: This is Mr. Bowers.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: Who?
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: Bowers?
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: They told me he was dead. The hospital called and.
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: I know Mrs.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Brawley, but they made a mistake.
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, here she is.
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: Hello? Hello, Ernest?
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: Where are you?
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Well, darling, it's quite a long story. You see.
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: Never mind. You just get right home, you hear?
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: Dinner's getting ice cold. Oh!
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Suspense!
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Throughout the world.
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  Speaker 2: This is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. Perhaps you've noticed
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  Speaker 2: how summer's open doors and backyard living promote neighborliness. How
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  Speaker 2: often these warm days, casual over-the-fence invitations mark the start
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  Speaker 2: of pleasant, friendly evenings. More and more, the keynote of
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  Speaker 2: such friendly hospitality is Roma Wine Lemonade, a tall, cold
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  Speaker 2: refresher that's an invitation to settle back and enjoy life.
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  Speaker 2: Guests enjoy the tangy, thirst-quenching refreshment of Roma Wine Lemonade.
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  Speaker 2: Hosts acclaim Roma Wine Lemonade because it costs so little,
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  Speaker 2: It's so easy to prepare. You simply squeeze half lemons
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  Speaker 2: into tall glasses, add ice, and pour three-quarters full with
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  Speaker 2: Roma California Burgundy or any other Roma wine type you prefer.
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  Speaker 2: Then fill with water, sweeten to taste, and you have
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  Speaker 2: refreshers that make thirst a pleasure. And remember, Roma wines
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  Speaker 2: are selected from the world's greatest wine reserves. That's why
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  Speaker 2: refreshers made with Roma are better tasting every time. So
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  Speaker 2: insist on Roma.
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  Speaker 4: R-O-M-A.
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  Speaker 2: Roma Wines. Enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine.
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  Speaker 4: Next Thursday, same time, Roma Wines will bring you Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Henry Daniel as star of Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills.
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  Speaker 2: Produced by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California.
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  Speaker 2: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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  Speaker 1: Suspense leaves us with dead earnest. Follow the 50 greatest
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  Speaker 1: old time radio shows for more classic broadcasts.