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Speaker 1: A big city newspaper editor battles to keep his paper
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Speaker 1: alive as reporters pursue a lead into organized crime. On
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Speaker 1: April 20th, 1953, Lux Radio Theater presented episode 825, Deadline USA,
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Speaker 1: later rebroadcast for the Armed Forces Radio Service as Hollywood
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Speaker 1: Radio Theater No. 70. Dan Daly and Deborah Padgett head
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Speaker 1: the cast in this adaptation of the 1952 20th Century
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Speaker 1: Fox film, written and directed by former reporter Richard Brooks.
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Speaker 1: The story moves between a closing newsroom, its deadline work,
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Speaker 1: and the editor's personal life with the future of the
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Speaker 1: paper at stake. And now, the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: The Hollywood Radio Theater. Starring Dan Daly and Deborah Padgett
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Speaker 2: in Deadline USA. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings.
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Speaker 3: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. In tonight's play, Deadline USA,
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Speaker 3: we will tell you the dynamic story of a managing
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Speaker 3: editor whose newspaper was his whole life even to the
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Speaker 3: neglect of his lovely young wife. And as our stars
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Speaker 3: of this exciting drama, from the studios of 20th Century Fox,
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Speaker 3: we have Dan Daly in the type of role which
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Speaker 3: first brought him motion picture fame. And one of the
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Speaker 3: most talented young actresses in Hollywood, Deborah Padgett. Now, Deadline USA,
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Speaker 3: starring Dan Daly as Ed Hutchison and Deborah Padgett as Nora.
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Speaker 3: It's early afternoon, a typical afternoon in the busy editorial
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Speaker 3: offices of a daily newspaper. This newspaper is called The Day.
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Speaker 3: Ed Hutchison, managing editor.
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Speaker 2: Here it is, Ed. The new tax program is coming
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Speaker 2: in now on all the wire services. Where did this
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Speaker 2: come from? Moffat in Washington. The story will be on
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Speaker 2: page one of every newspaper in the country. That's right,
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Speaker 2: including the day after it's rewritten. Rewritten? Moffat knows better
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Speaker 2: than this. All this talk about OPS, NAM, ECA. What's
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Speaker 2: all that mean to our readers? What does billions mean
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Speaker 2: to the average man or woman? That's an impossible figure.
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Speaker 2: Break it down so they'll know what we're talking about.
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Speaker 4: Okay, sure.
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Speaker 2: What's it going to mean to the housewife for groceries?
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Speaker 2: How much more for a car? Television set, 50 bucks, 100.
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Speaker 2: Get a new lead for the second edition.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 2: Tell Holcomb I want pictures and casualties from the U.P.
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Speaker 2: flood story. Lead, pay, second section. Now, what's the city
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Speaker 2: desk on that girl he fished out of the river?
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Speaker 6: Well, have you got a minute, Ed?
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Speaker 2: What about her? Is it murder?
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Speaker 6: It looks like it.
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Speaker 7: Looks like it?
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Speaker 8: Who is she?
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Speaker 4: We don't know yet.
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Speaker 8: Got some pictures of her, though, from the morgue, and
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Speaker 8: that fur coat she was wearing was me.
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Speaker 7: Stay with her.
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Speaker 2: Play it down. No pictures. I said no pictures.
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Speaker 9: No pictures.
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Speaker 2: Let the standard run the pictures. I'm sorry, Mr.
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Speaker 10: Hutchinson, but they've called again from upstairs. They want you
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Speaker 10: at that meeting.
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Speaker 2: I'll be up in a minute.
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Speaker 7: Meeting? Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Garrison, the two charming daughters, and the lawyer. Why isn't
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Speaker 2: the paper making more money? What else could they want
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Speaker 2: me for? Now, where's Burroughs? Coming, Ed. The Rianzi story's fine.
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Speaker 4: Tie it off.
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Speaker 2: You can leave tonight to handle that strike upstate.
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Speaker 11: Well, I'd just as soon stay with the Rianzi story.
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Speaker 2: You're wasting your time, baby.
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Speaker 7: Or not if we can prove he's guilty.
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Speaker 2: It's not our job to prove he's guilty. We're not detectives.
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Speaker 7: Oh, give me a week.
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Speaker 2: Forget it. Don't you read what you're right? The State
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Speaker 2: Crime Commission couldn't prove a thing.
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Speaker 7: All right, I know they couldn't. Rianzi made a monkey
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Speaker 7: out of him.
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Speaker 2: We've had a nice circus, that's all. Television's had a
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Speaker 2: field day. All the papers raised their circulation. Rianzi's lawyers
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Speaker 2: got richer.
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Speaker 7: All I want is a week, Ed. Three days, huh? Please,
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Speaker 7: I think I gotta leave.
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Speaker 2: All right, Burroughs. But stay out of trouble. Rienzi's plenty tough,
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Speaker 2: and don't you forget it.
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Speaker 7: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Bradley!
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Speaker 10: Yes, sir?
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Speaker 2: Hold the calls. I'll be upstairs at the meeting.
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Speaker 12: We know you're busy, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Archison.
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Speaker 6: We won't detain you for long.
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Speaker 8: As you can see, this is a most informal little meeting,
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Speaker 8: just you and the ladies.
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Speaker 2: You mean you're leaving, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Crane?
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Speaker 13: Well, no, not exactly.
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Speaker 10: As the family lawyer... Let's tell him and get it
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Speaker 10: over with.
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Speaker 2: Tell me?
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Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 6: Well, as we all know, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Garrison drew up a will just prior to his death
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Speaker 8: 11 years ago. In it, he designated as his heirs
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Speaker 8: his two daughters and his wife. Inasmuch as Catherine attained
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Speaker 8: her majority last week and became entitled to.
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Speaker 2: A full vote.
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Speaker 6: It has been decided to sell the newspaper.
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Speaker 7: Sell?
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Speaker 2: Sell the day?
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Speaker 13: The decision was unanimous.
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Speaker 10: Any objections?
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Speaker 2: Would it make any difference?
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Speaker 10: None.
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Speaker 2: Then I have no objections.
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Speaker 13: The reason it was decided to.
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Speaker 10: We go into details. I have a headache.
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Speaker 2: My staff is going to feel the same way.
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Speaker 10: Oh, Ed, take that hurt look off your face as
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Speaker 10: if you couldn't see it coming. Now, what do we
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Speaker 10: want with the newspaper? What do Kitty and I know
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Speaker 10: about publishing?
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Speaker 2: You like money?
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Speaker 14: The day gives you all a pretty fair income.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't it?
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Speaker 10: We never even come down here except twice a year
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Speaker 10: for meetings.
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Speaker 2: You're invited every day.
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Speaker 6: Mrs.
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Speaker 8: Courtney's husband feels the money could be invested more wisely elsewhere, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Hutchinson.
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Speaker 2: John Garrison founded this newspaper. Not Mrs. Courtney's husband.
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Speaker 10: We're taking care of you.
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Speaker 8: You're to get 1% of the sale price, slightly more
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Speaker 8: than $ 50, 000. Thank you. You'll notify all personnel. They'll receive
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Speaker 8: three weeks' pay.
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Speaker 13: Now, meantime.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Who's buying today? Well, who's buying it?
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Speaker 2: Are you ashamed to tell me?
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Speaker 12: Lawrence White, the buyer.
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Speaker 8: White?
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Speaker 12: White?
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Speaker 2: We're being sold to the standard?
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Speaker 7: Mr.
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Speaker 8: White's paper is very successful. He'll undoubtedly make this one
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Speaker 8: more profitable, too.
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Speaker 2: It won't be this paper anymore. It'll be lost in
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Speaker 2: the standard.
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Speaker 10: As far as we're concerned, he's made a very satisfactory offer.
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Speaker 2: He's eliminating his competition, that's all.
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Speaker 15: Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Garrison, you've got to stop them. Your husband has created
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Speaker 2: a new kind of journalism. You helped him. Why, you even.
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Speaker 12: Ed, please.
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Speaker 5: It's there on the wall.
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Speaker 2: Page one of the first paper you ever printed. Quote,
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Speaker 2: this paper will fight for progress and reform... We'll never
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Speaker 2: be satisfied merely with printing the news. We'll never be
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Speaker 2: afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory wealth or predatory poverty.
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Speaker 10: Thanks, Ed, but we know all about that.
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Speaker 2: You're not selling the day, you're killing it.
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Speaker 10: I still don't know why we have to go to court.
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Speaker 12: To sell it. Perhaps because your father never intended it
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Speaker 12: to be sold. Oh, mother, please.
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Speaker 10: We've been over this a hundred times.
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Speaker 8: The hearing to approve the sale will take place in
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Speaker 8: surrogate's court the day after tomorrow.
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Speaker 13: You'll be there, of course.
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Speaker 2: I never go to funerals. Excuse me, we've still got
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Speaker 2: a paper to get out of here.
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Speaker 12: I like that man. I always have.
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Speaker 13: I'm afraid he's too excitable, Mrs.
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Speaker 6: Garrison.
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Speaker 8: Might be advisable to replace him until the sale is consummated.
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Speaker 12: Mr. Crane.
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Speaker 8: Yes?
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Speaker 13: Shut up, please.
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Speaker 2: And I know it's hard to believe, but it's the truth.
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Speaker 2: They're selling out. The paper's closing. You've got three weeks'
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Speaker 2: pay coming to you. You can quit now, today, and
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Speaker 2: start looking for other jobs, or you can wait for
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Speaker 2: the decision of the court on Thursday. It's up to you. Well,
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Speaker 2: I guess that's all.
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Speaker 8: We'll get the paper on the street. Some of them
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Speaker 8: will quit, but we'll.
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Speaker 2: Get it out. They've got a right to quit. They
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Speaker 2: all ought to quit.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe. So they're selling out to the standard, huh?
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Speaker 2: Don't knock it. The standard's got twice our circulation and
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Speaker 2: three times our advertising. It's wild and it's yellow. It's
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Speaker 2: not exactly a newspaper, but it keeps people working. You
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Speaker 2: were with the old New York world, weren't you?
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Speaker 4: Under Pulitzer, Cobb, and Barrett.
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Speaker 2: What did you do when it folded?
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Speaker 4: Let's see now. I think I got myself a drink. Yep,
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Speaker 4: I'm sure of it.
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Speaker 2: Then what did you do?
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Speaker 8: Came over here, went to work for old man Garrison.
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Speaker 8: He was a great newspaper man.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but no good as a father. Two daughters who
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Speaker 2: hate the paper the same as they hated the old man.
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Speaker 2: They couldn't get at him while he was alive, so
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Speaker 2: now they're kicking him when he's dead.
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Speaker 8: Everybody in this racket gets kicked sooner or later, dead
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Speaker 8: or alive.
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Speaker 2: People just don't want a newspaper anymore. It's not enough
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Speaker 2: just to give them the news. They want comics and puzzles.
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Speaker 2: They want horoscopes and tips on the horse races. How
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Speaker 2: to interpret their dreams. If they accidentally stumble on the
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Speaker 2: first page, maybe they'll read what's going on. Maybe they'll
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Speaker 2: even care. But I doubt it.
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Speaker 4: 20 minutes to press time, Ed.
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Speaker 2: Like you said, we'll get the paper out.
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Speaker 8: There'll be a nice, lively wake tonight in O'Brien's bar.
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Speaker 4: Ever been to one?
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Speaker 2: Not for a dead newspaper.
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Speaker 8: Why don't you stop by? Before you know it, lad,
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Speaker 8: you won't be feeling a thing.
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Speaker 4: Not a thing.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, Porter. Yeah. I'd better stop by. Oh, the paper's dead, Nora.
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Speaker 2: We buried it tonight in O'Brien's saloon. The day is done.
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Speaker 2: A fine alcoholic funeral. And then I decided to come
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Speaker 2: here and see you.
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Speaker 10: Ed, why don't you go home, please?
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Speaker 2: I had to see you. You're my wife.
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Speaker 10: Oh, no, I'm not. Not for some time.
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Speaker 2: I have decided to rededicate my life to you.
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Speaker 10: Yes, dear.
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Speaker 2: Yes, dear. And that's why I'm going to give you
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Speaker 2: the best years of my life.
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Speaker 10: Here, drink this.
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Speaker 2: White beer.
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Speaker 10: Homogenized from cows.
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Speaker 2: I love you. Let's get married again.
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Speaker 8: Tonight.
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Speaker 2: It's the milk that could bring out my second childhood.
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Speaker 10: It already has, coming here this hour.
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Speaker 2: Why, Ed, it's... Nora, I'm free. Fired. Can't. No more paper.
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Speaker 2: Nothing to keep us apart anymore. The paper has been sold.
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Speaker 10: So you've said several times.
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Speaker 5: Did I?
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Speaker 2: Divorce is a very evil thing, Nora. Down from my
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Speaker 2: Olympian Heights, I come humbly... Yes, dear. We're going a
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Speaker 2: second honeymoon.
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Speaker 10: We never had a first.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm leveling, baby. Europe, South America, everywhere. Don't worry
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Speaker 2: about expenses. I'm loaded.
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Speaker 10: So I noticed.
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Speaker 8: I mean money.
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Speaker 2: More than we ever had in our lives. I was
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Speaker 2: paid off by the Garrison family for being a good boy.
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Speaker 10: Ed, listen, you shouldn't have come here... It both worked out. Oh,
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Speaker 10: just some office work I brought home.
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Speaker 2: How's the advertising business, Nora? You know, you were right
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Speaker 2: to quit the paper. Now you got something you can
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Speaker 2: depend on, something legitimate. I went to a wake tonight.
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Speaker 2: I saw the light, sister. Hallelujah.
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Speaker 7: Ed, please, Ed.
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Speaker 2: Why should I fight?
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Speaker 8: For what?
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Speaker 2: Publishers don't care about the paper. The paper doesn't care
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Speaker 2: about me, and I don't care about anybody except you. Hey,
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Speaker 2: haven't I met him somewhere before?
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Speaker 10: The photograph? Well, there's another picture of him in the hall.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, fight, huh? What with? I'm an employee, not
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Speaker 2: a stockholder.
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Speaker 6: What are you doing?
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Speaker 2: Hey, where'd you go?
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Speaker 10: I'm fixing the sofa in the living room. I'm getting
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Speaker 10: a blanket, a sheet, and a pillow. Now come in
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Speaker 10: and lie down.
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Speaker 2: Lie down.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Lie down and quit. I don't have to think about
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Speaker 2: anybody but us.
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Speaker 10: Yes, dear. Now take your shoes off.
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Speaker 2: Laura, when you went to Reno, what was that you
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Speaker 2: charged me with?
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Speaker 10: Incompatibility. Here, put your head on the pillow.
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Speaker 2: Incompatibility. That was a lie.
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Speaker 10: Ed, will they know where to reach you?
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Speaker 2: Doesn't matter. Hey, that guy's picture on the table.
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Speaker 8: Who is he?
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Speaker 2: I don't like him.
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Speaker 10: Sorry, I do. I like him very much.
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Speaker 2: I don't like him. I'll think of a reason later.
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Speaker 10: Now go to sleep. You'll feel better when you wake up.
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Speaker 2: Good night, Nora, dear.
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Speaker 10: Good night, Ed.
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Speaker 2: Oh, oh.
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Speaker 5: Oh, oh, okay.
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Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead.
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Speaker 8: Burroughs.
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Speaker 2: When did this happen? What time is it now? Six what? 6.20.
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Speaker 2: What hospital? Oh, okay, no. I'll go myself.
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Speaker 8: Ed?
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Speaker 2: Oh, good morning, darling.
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Speaker 10: I thought no one knew you were here.
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Speaker 2: Well, where else would I go when I'm in trouble?
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Speaker 2: Slept in my clothes, huh?
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Speaker 10: Ed, now look, it's time we had a talk.
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Speaker 2: Now, now, baby, I'm in a hurry. That call was urgent.
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Speaker 10: Dinner tonight?
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Speaker 2: Well, why not every night?
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Speaker 10: Alberto's place, okay? Eight o'clock?
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Speaker 2: Eight o'clock, fine. Kiss me goodbye.
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Speaker 10: I was hoping you'd ask me to. I thought you
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Speaker 10: were in a hurry.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Did I have a pleasant time last night?
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Speaker 10: Yes, dear.
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Speaker 4: I did?
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Speaker 2: Well, what do you know?
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Speaker 7: Hi.
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Speaker 5: Hi, Ed.
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Speaker 7: Well, you warned me, didn't you?
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Speaker 2: Rienzi do this, Burroughs? Who else? The doctor says I
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Speaker 2: can only stay a minute. Now, what can you tell me?
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Speaker 11: They started banging me around when they.
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Speaker 7: Got me in the car.
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Speaker 2: How many were there?
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Speaker 7: Three, maybe four.
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Speaker 2: Well, what was it, three or four?
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: What did they use, kid?
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Speaker 7: Fists.
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Speaker 11: One of them hit me in the face with something hard,
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Speaker 11: a club, I guess.
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Speaker 2: What did they say?
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Speaker 7: Nothing. Not after they got me in the car.
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Speaker 2: Before?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 11: Outside the Hall of Records, I went there to check
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Speaker 11: on Riencia. The man I talked to must have tipped
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Speaker 11: him off.
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Speaker 2: What makes you think so?
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Speaker 7: Left his office for a few minutes. He probably phoned Rienzi.
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Speaker 2: But you're not sure? No. Then I wouldn't stand up
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Speaker 2: in court.
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Speaker 7: Well, how else were they waiting for me when I
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Speaker 7: came out?
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Speaker 2: Who was waiting?
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Speaker 7: Rienzi's men.
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Speaker 2: Could you identify him?
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Speaker 7: One, maybe. Used to be a boxer.
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Speaker 2: You know his name?
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Speaker 7: Whitey, uh... I'm not sure Whitey's son.
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Speaker 2: If I brought him in, could you identify him?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah. He asked me if I was bars, if I...
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Speaker 7: Worked for the day.
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Speaker 2: What make of car was it?
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Sedan? Blue?
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Speaker 7: Black? What? What are you trying to do? Protect Rienzi?
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Speaker 2: I want facts that won't bounce. Facts that'll stand up
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Speaker 2: against Rienzi's lawyers and libel suits. Facts that'll tear Rienzi's
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Speaker 2: syndicate wide open. There just can't be any mistakes.
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Speaker 7: What are you worried about, Ed? People will be out
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Speaker 7: of business, won't they?
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Speaker 2: Anytime we print the facts. Remind the doctor, Burroughs. You're
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Speaker 2: a good reporter.
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Speaker 5: Who knows?
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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm going to need you. You heard me, Porter.
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Speaker 2: Put every man you can spare on the Rienzi story.
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Speaker 2: Picture layout, the works, where does he get his money,
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Speaker 2: his tie-ups, dates, facts, facts, more facts.
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Speaker 4: That's our thing. It's a proven man.
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Speaker 2: Prove them later. Save anything that saves this newspaper. This
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Speaker 2: is it. Miss Barndollar.
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: You heard? You ever hear of Rienzi?
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Speaker 13: Oh, yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: Well, go through the research department of yours and give
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Speaker 2: me a.
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Speaker 12: I've got it right here, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Hutchison.
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Speaker 16: Rienzi Thomas, 51, born Palermo, Sicily, emigrated here in 1914,
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Speaker 16: attended public school, 47, has two children by.
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Speaker 10: Legal wife, Gertrude.
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Speaker 2: We're not proposing him for the Chamber of Commerce. We
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Speaker 2: want to convict him of every known crime on the books,
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Speaker 2: all of which he's committed. I want everything.
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Speaker 12: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: Where's Mac? Mac! Get your camera. I want pictures of Rienzi,
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Speaker 2: his wife, home, cars, everything.
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Speaker 13: What if he smashes my camera? He's done it before,
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Speaker 13: you know.
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Speaker 2: Then get pictures of him doing it. You send for me, Ed? Yes,
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Speaker 2: I want a cartoon on Rienzi. I want it hard, tough,
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Speaker 2: below the belt. A vulture sucking the life out of
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Speaker 2: a city. You got it?
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Speaker 17: I can draw anything you want, but a vulture only
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Speaker 17: preys on the dead or dying.
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Speaker 6: Preys, huh?
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Speaker 2: Okay, here's your captain. Let us pray. P-R-E-Y.
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Speaker 13: Ed, look about those pictures you want. Now, why should
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Speaker 13: I stick my neck out?
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Speaker 2: I want them for the first edition.
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Speaker 13: I get in a jam with Rienzi. Tomorrow the paper falls.
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Speaker 13: Where's that leave me?
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Speaker 2: You're fired. Now, wait a minute. Pay him off, Porter.
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Speaker 2: Get him out of here.
15:20
Speaker 13: Look, why all the excitement? Everybody knows we're washed up.
15:23
Speaker 2: That's your mistake.
15:24
Speaker 13: But I've worked here for three years.
15:25
Speaker 2: That's my mistake. Get your voucher. All right, Bentley, get
15:27
Speaker 2: your stentotype and come into my office.
15:28
Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
15:29
Speaker 8: Oh, Dr.
15:30
Speaker 10: Emanuel's on the phone.
15:31
Speaker 2: I'll be right there. Draw $ 500 out of my bank
15:33
Speaker 2: and send it over to Burrow's wife.
15:34
Speaker 8: Dr.
15:34
Speaker 10: Emanuel's on two.
15:37
Speaker 2: Hello? No, no, no. I'm fine, Doc. I need a favor.
15:40
Speaker 2: A personal friend of mine needs some help. He's at
15:41
Speaker 2: City Hospital. Name is Burroughs. George Burroughs.
15:45
Speaker 4: What?
15:46
Speaker 2: Which is more important, Doctor, delivering a lecture in Chicago
15:48
Speaker 2: or saving a man's eyesight? That's right. He may lose
15:51
Speaker 2: his eye. So cancel the lecture. Delay it. We weren't
15:55
Speaker 2: too busy to raise funds for your clinic. Well, certainly
15:58
Speaker 2: I'm putting it on a personal basis. What's a friend
16:00
Speaker 2: for if not for a favor? Thank you. A real humanitarian.
16:05
Speaker 10: I'm ready with the stenotype.
16:07
Speaker 2: Oh, page one editorial. Ten-point type, double column. Byline set
16:11
Speaker 2: off and boldface will be John Garrison.
16:14
Speaker 10: John Garrison?
16:15
Speaker 2: You heard me. Quote, I am dead. I've been dead
16:20
Speaker 2: 11 years. By tomorrow, this newspaper may also be dead.
16:25
Speaker 2: But as long as it lives, the day will continue
16:28
Speaker 2: to report the facts and the meaning of those facts
16:31
Speaker 2: without fear and without distortion. Wait a minute. cut out
16:35
Speaker 2: and without distortion. Somebody might not know what you mean. Yes, sir. Okay. Now,
16:41
Speaker 2: what are the facts? Thomas Rienzi, who likes to be
16:45
Speaker 2: thought of as a hard-working and industrious building contractor. In
16:58
Speaker 2: just a moment, we will continue with Act II of
17:00
Speaker 2: the Hollywood Radio Theater. Make a friend and you make
17:04
Speaker 2: an ally. There's a thought for you to keep in mind,
17:07
Speaker 2: as many another American has.
17:10
Speaker 4: G.J.
17:10
Speaker 2: Watermule, a naturalized United States citizen, has done much to
17:14
Speaker 2: bring the fruits of democracy to his native country, India.
17:17
Speaker 2: As one of Hawaii's most successful merchants, Watermule, with his
17:21
Speaker 2: American wife, established the Watermule Foundation over 15 years ago
17:25
Speaker 2: to bring Indian students to America. The first year, they
17:29
Speaker 2: offered 14 fellowships, paid for the students' passage to the
17:32
Speaker 2: United States and their tuition at the University of the
17:35
Speaker 2: Candidate's Choice, and gave them $ 150 a month for two
17:38
Speaker 2: years' living expenses. Since the foundation was begun, industries all
17:43
Speaker 2: over America have offered their services to the Watermoors in
17:46
Speaker 2: helping Indians learn modern techniques in pediatrics, the control of epidemics,
17:51
Speaker 2: food canning, and the building of machinery. Through the years,
17:55
Speaker 2: the Watermules have expanded their program to sponsor and exchange
17:58
Speaker 2: goodwill ambassadors between the United States and India. We should
18:03
Speaker 2: be especially proud of G.J. Watermule, who, as an American citizen,
18:07
Speaker 2: has proven to peoples of two nations that by helping others,
18:11
Speaker 2: you help your country. Now our producer, Mr. Cummings.
18:15
Speaker 3: Act II of Deadline USA, starring Dan Daly as Ed
18:18
Speaker 3: Hutchinson and Deborah Padgett as Nora. It's a few hours later.
18:31
Speaker 3: In Alberto's restaurant, Ed Hutchison and the pretty girl who
18:35
Speaker 3: was once his wife have just sat down for dinner.
18:40
Speaker 10: I read the paper while I was waiting for you, Ed.
18:42
Speaker 10: That's the best-looking front page in town.
18:44
Speaker 5: As usual.
18:45
Speaker 10: That editorial under the name of Garrison, yours?
18:47
Speaker 2: Yeah.
18:48
Speaker 10: It's wonderful.
18:49
Speaker 5: As usual.
18:50
Speaker 2: And how are we?
18:51
Speaker 5: Are we as usual?
18:52
Speaker 12: Stop it.
18:54
Speaker 10: Any repercussions from Rienzi?
18:56
Speaker 2: Not yet, but there will be.
18:57
Speaker 10: How's your reporter, Burns?
18:58
Speaker 2: Well, he'll get better. He may not have an eye,
19:00
Speaker 2: but he'll get better.
19:01
Speaker 10: Well, maybe now the garrisonaires won't sell the paper after all.
19:03
Speaker 10: I mean, to sell it now in the middle of
19:06
Speaker 10: a fight like this, well, it would be like endorsing Rienzi.
19:08
Speaker 2: That's a wonderful dress you're wearing.
19:10
Speaker 10: How do I look? Better than you did last night.
19:13
Speaker 10: How do you feel?
19:14
Speaker 2: Amorous.
19:14
Speaker 13: Excuse me, Miss Doctor, some telephones.
19:16
Speaker 2: Tell them I'm feeding.
19:17
Speaker 13: But they said it was important.
19:18
Speaker 12: Urgent, dear, as usual.
19:19
Speaker 10: You'd better answer it.
19:20
Speaker 2: I'll be right back. Alberto.
19:23
Speaker 7: Yes, sir?
19:24
Speaker 2: Bring her some champagne. Oh, and keep calling her Mrs. Hutcherson.
19:29
Speaker 8: Yes.
19:31
Speaker 2: Hello, Ed? Yeah?
19:32
Speaker 12: This is Willebrand. I'm at the city morgue.
19:35
Speaker 18: About the girl with the fur coat, the one they
19:37
Speaker 18: pulled out of the river?
19:37
Speaker 8: Well?
19:38
Speaker 18: Well, her mother showed up here to identify her.
19:40
Speaker 7: A Mrs.
19:40
Speaker 5: Schmidt.
19:41
Speaker 18: That's the girl's name, Bessie Schmidt. But she also used
19:44
Speaker 18: the name of Sally Gardner.
19:45
Speaker 2: Why bother me? Write your story.
19:47
Speaker 19: I have.
19:47
Speaker 18: Porter said I should check with you. It's a cinch Mrs.
19:50
Speaker 18: Schmidt knows a lot more than she's telling. We thought
19:53
Speaker 18: that maybe if you.
19:53
Speaker 2: Tell Porter I'm busy.
19:54
Speaker 12: Okay, fine.
19:59
Speaker 10: It wasn't urgent after all. I can see it in
20:03
Speaker 10: your face.
20:04
Speaker 2: What else can you see in my face?
20:06
Speaker 10: Plenty, so I'd better tell it to you fast and straight.
20:09
Speaker 10: I'm getting married.
20:10
Speaker 2: Don't make jokes, Nora.
20:11
Speaker 10: You don't even know him, Ed. He's my boss at
20:13
Speaker 10: the advertising agency.
20:14
Speaker 2: Of course, me and now another boss. Getting to be
20:16
Speaker 2: a habit with you, isn't it?
20:17
Speaker 10: I'd like you to meet him, Ed.
20:18
Speaker 2: Compare notes, you mean? Thanks. I know enough people already.
20:21
Speaker 10: His name's Louis Schaefer.
20:22
Speaker 2: I don't want to know anything about him.
20:23
Speaker 10: I told him all about you.
20:25
Speaker 2: Everything? Look, I'm not one of your modern husbands. Stiff
20:28
Speaker 2: upper lip and all that stuff. But I'm ready to
20:30
Speaker 2: discuss anything this sensibly.
20:31
Speaker 10: There isn't anything to discuss. I don't need your consent, Ed.
20:34
Speaker 10: We're divorced for two years.
20:35
Speaker 2: I don't recognize a divorce.
20:36
Speaker 10: You agreed to it.
20:37
Speaker 2: Well, I was wrong. You're my wife. Not only because
20:41
Speaker 2: somebody said a few words over us, but because of
20:43
Speaker 2: what we meant to each other. You can't change that
20:45
Speaker 2: with a piece of paper, legal or otherwise. Another call,
20:47
Speaker 2: Miss Dutchess. Go away. You want me to quit the paper? Sure,
20:51
Speaker 2: the day's as good as finished, but I'll quit the
20:53
Speaker 2: whole business. I'll get a job doing something else.
20:55
Speaker 10: I don't want you to quit, Ed. It's your whole life,
20:57
Speaker 10: and for you it's right, but... Well, I've got a
20:59
Speaker 10: right to a life, too, and... You can't give it
21:01
Speaker 10: to me.
21:02
Speaker 2: Can he?
21:03
Speaker 7: Mr.
21:03
Speaker 2: Lewis Schaefer?
21:04
Speaker 10: Yes, I think he can.
21:05
Speaker 2: Can you be the same with him as you were
21:06
Speaker 2: with me? Is it that easy? Do you love him?
21:10
Speaker 12: Ed, please.
21:11
Speaker 2: No. No, you don't love him. Not the same way.
21:14
Speaker 10: Maybe love isn't enough to make a marriage work. All
21:16
Speaker 10: I know is that.
21:17
Speaker 6: We're... I'm sorry, Mr.
21:18
Speaker 7: Kessler. It's Mr.
21:19
Speaker 4: Porter.
21:20
Speaker 13: He says if you won't come to the phone, then
21:22
Speaker 13: to come back to the office, sir.
21:23
Speaker 10: You'd better talk to him.
21:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure.
21:29
Speaker 4: About Willebrand's story at Sally Gardner.
21:31
Speaker 2: But I told her.
21:31
Speaker 8: The story's been pulled by our advertising department. Seems that
21:34
Speaker 8: Sally was once a very good friend of Mr. Andrew Wharton.
21:38
Speaker 2: Wharton's department store?
21:39
Speaker 8: Right.
21:39
Speaker 2: Switch me to advertising. Give me Fenway.
21:41
Speaker 4: I'm in Fenway's office now.
21:42
Speaker 5: Here, talk to him. This is Fenway, Mr.
21:44
Speaker 2: Hutchinson.
21:44
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but it just seemed to me that this
21:46
Speaker 5: was libelous material. I was trying to protect us.
21:49
Speaker 2: Us or you? Or Mr.
21:50
Speaker 7: Wharton?
21:51
Speaker 2: And for how much?
21:52
Speaker 7: Mr.
21:52
Speaker 5: Wharton denies.
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Speaker 2: I don't care what he denies. The girl was murdered.
21:55
Speaker 2: But as a matter of policy, Mr.
21:57
Speaker 7: Hutchinson.
21:57
Speaker 2: Policy? Since when has the advertising department dictated our news policy?
22:01
Speaker 5: I didn't do this just on my own.
22:03
Speaker 6: I believe that.
22:04
Speaker 2: You went to Wharton.
22:04
Speaker 5: I talked to Kitty Garrison. It was on her authority.
22:07
Speaker 2: Kitty Garrison hasn't got the authority. Not until I'm off
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Speaker 2: the paper. Or have you arranged for that, too? No, sir.
22:13
Speaker 2: You're slipping, Fenway. Mr.
22:14
Speaker 5: Wharton is here in the office. If you can't talk
22:16
Speaker 5: to him.
22:16
Speaker 2: I'll talk to Porter. Put him back on. Yes, sir.
22:19
Speaker 4: Yeah.
22:19
Speaker 2: Run the story.
22:20
Speaker 4: Wharton wants you to hear his side of it, Ed.
22:22
Speaker 2: But I told... All right. All right, I'll be there
22:27
Speaker 2: in 15 minutes.
22:32
Speaker 4: About Mrs.
22:32
Speaker 7: Utterson, sir.
22:33
Speaker 4: Well?
22:34
Speaker 13: She's gone, sir. She said to tell you that she
22:37
Speaker 13: won't be back.
22:38
Speaker 8: Thanks.
22:50
Speaker 2: Okay, Mr. Wharton, now what's your side of all this?
22:52
Speaker 2: I'm asking you please not to publish that story. Why,
22:54
Speaker 2: isn't it true? It can't do you much good. It'll
22:57
Speaker 2: ruin me. I've been doing business with this newspaper for years.
23:00
Speaker 2: And we need your business, Mr.
23:01
Speaker 13: Wharton.
23:02
Speaker 2: But not on these terms. All right, I made a
23:04
Speaker 2: mistake with Sally and I've paid for it in blackmail
23:06
Speaker 2: ever since. That's a matter for the police. You're interested
23:08
Speaker 2: in facts, aren't you? Well, one day Sally phoned me.
23:10
Speaker 2: She was letting me off the hook. Said there was
23:11
Speaker 2: another man. There always is. In this case, the other
23:13
Speaker 2: man was Thomas Rienzi. Rienzi? Sally said she loved him.
23:16
Speaker 2: She'd never bother me again. She said she was set
23:18
Speaker 2: for life. What did she mean? I don't know. She
23:21
Speaker 2: didn't say. Surely you don't think I killed Sally. I
23:23
Speaker 2: haven't even seen her in two years.
23:26
Speaker 10: Mr.
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Speaker 2: Hutchinson, I... I'm about to be married. It's my fiancée here. Okay,
23:31
Speaker 2: we'll hold the story. Thank you. But if your yarn
23:33
Speaker 2: about Rienzi doesn't gel... It will. It better, for both
23:36
Speaker 2: our sakes. Good night, Mr.
23:37
Speaker 7: Hutchison.
23:37
Speaker 2: Thank you again.
23:39
Speaker 7: Well?
23:39
Speaker 2: What have we got on Sally Gardner? We'll need proof
23:41
Speaker 2: that Rienzi.
23:41
Speaker 4: Since when are we going in for gossip?
23:43
Speaker 2: Since now.
23:44
Speaker 4: Okay.
23:45
Speaker 2: Tell Barndollar to go through the files. I want anything
23:47
Speaker 2: she can find. Anything at all. Send Thompson in from
23:49
Speaker 2: the sports desk. I want to see him.
23:57
Speaker 6: This is real interesting, Ed. Sally and Randy, huh?
24:00
Speaker 2: That's right, Thompson.
24:01
Speaker 6: Hey, from this a fella could catch a hole in
24:03
Speaker 6: the head.
24:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, he could. That bother you?
24:06
Speaker 6: Oh, no, no, not at all.
24:08
Speaker 2: Little Brand told me that Sally's got a brother. A
24:10
Speaker 2: fella named Herman Schmidt. Small-time stuff. He had some kind
24:13
Speaker 2: of a job as a political boxing judge or something.
24:15
Speaker 6: That's right. Her brother, huh?
24:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, get hold of Schmidt, Thompson. Sweat him. We're short
24:19
Speaker 2: on facts, and we're awful short on time. Now, find Schmidt.
24:21
Speaker 6: Well, Barndollar's waiting to see you. I'll send her in.
24:24
Speaker 8: Thanks.
24:24
Speaker 6: You're next, sweetheart.
24:25
Speaker 2: Read what you got, Miss Barndollar. Make it fast.
24:27
Speaker 10: Sally Gardner and her brother were born here. Mother came
24:29
Speaker 10: from Germany. Father dead.
24:31
Speaker 12: No known criminal record for Sally. No recorded marriages.
24:34
Speaker 8: Yes?
24:35
Speaker 10: A Mr.
24:35
Speaker 5: Louis Schaefer to see you.
24:37
Speaker 2: Send him in when Barndollar leaves. You come in, too, Bentley.
24:39
Speaker 2: That's all for now, Miss Barndollar.
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir. Mr.
24:42
Speaker 2: Schaefer, come on in.
24:42
Speaker 6: Well, thank you.
24:44
Speaker 2: Happy to meet you, Mr. Hutchinson. Coffee, Mr.
24:46
Speaker 7: Schaefer?
24:46
Speaker 3: Sandwich?
24:47
Speaker 6: No, thanks.
24:48
Speaker 2: I know you're busy. How's my wife? That's what I
24:51
Speaker 2: came to see you about. Nora asked you to come here?
24:53
Speaker 15: No.
24:54
Speaker 2: No, of course not. I thought that we could.
24:57
Speaker 6: Well, look, you're making her very unhappy. Why don't you
24:59
Speaker 6: let her alone, Mr.
25:00
Speaker 2: Hutchinson?
25:00
Speaker 6: Her responsibility to you is over.
25:02
Speaker 2: Then what are you doing here?
25:03
Speaker 6: I'm only trying to do what's best for Nora.
25:06
Speaker 2: That's not only ridiculous, but insulting. You're not that much
25:09
Speaker 2: of a prize. Ed, here's a.
25:11
Speaker 4: Oh, excuse me.
25:11
Speaker 2: Well, what is it?
25:12
Speaker 8: Sally bought some government bonds five months ago.
25:14
Speaker 2: Sally or Rienzi?
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Speaker 4: They're in her name.
25:16
Speaker 8: $ 40, 000 worth. It took some doing, but we've got a
25:18
Speaker 8: checkup working in every bank.
25:20
Speaker 4: Cleary dug up some pictures of it, too. Bring them in, Cleary.
25:22
Speaker 2: Well, maybe we're getting somewhere here.
25:24
Speaker 6: Take a look, Ed.
25:24
Speaker 2: Sally is a high school girl. Sally is a model.
25:27
Speaker 2: Sally is a showgirl. Sally when she worked at Wharton.
25:29
Speaker 2: Sally in the city morgue. Thanks, Cleary.
25:30
Speaker 8: Now, if we can plug up this hole between Wharton's
25:32
Speaker 8: department store and the river.
25:33
Speaker 2: And fill it full of rienzi. Goodbye, Mr.
25:35
Speaker 6: Schaefer.
25:36
Speaker 2: I can't wish you luck, but you know how it is.
25:37
Speaker 6: There's something that you ought to know.
25:39
Speaker 10: Webster's calling you on 32, Mr.
25:40
Speaker 12: Hutchinson.
25:41
Speaker 2: Put him on.
25:42
Speaker 6: Nora and I are getting married tomorrow night.
25:44
Speaker 8: Yeah, Bill?
25:45
Speaker 2: I thought it best not to delay any longer.
25:46
Speaker 6: You know how it is. Good night, Mr.
25:47
Speaker 7: Hutchinson.
25:48
Speaker 2: Can you hear me? I'm backstage at the burlesque house.
25:50
Speaker 8: Go ahead.
25:51
Speaker 2: Rienzi's your boy, all right.
25:52
Speaker 5: Sally was a showgirl.
25:53
Speaker 6: Here three years ago in a musical produced by Al Murray.
25:56
Speaker 2: The show was backed by Rienzi. Who says so?
25:58
Speaker 8: Murray.
25:59
Speaker 5: I'm with him now.
25:59
Speaker 2: I'll switch for a rewrite. Bentley, put Webster on rewrite.
26:02
Speaker 13: Yes, sir.
26:03
Speaker 2: All right, Porter, we'll use the Willebrand story, but kill
26:05
Speaker 2: all reference about Wharton. Throw in a picture of Sally.
26:06
Speaker 2: Just a face. No art study.
26:08
Speaker 19: Right.
26:08
Speaker 2: Tell Bond Dollar I want a complete check on Louis Schaefer.
26:10
Speaker 2: He runs the United Advertising Agency. Anything from Thompson yet?
26:13
Speaker 7: Nothing.
26:13
Speaker 2: Switch him over as soon as he calls in. Bentley!
26:15
Speaker 13: Yes, sir?
26:16
Speaker 2: Send something to Burroughs at the hospital. Get him some books, flowers,
26:18
Speaker 2: a bottle of whiskey. I don't know. Find out what
26:19
Speaker 2: he likes.
26:19
Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
26:20
Speaker 14: And bring me some hot coffee.
26:30
Speaker 10: Mr.
26:31
Speaker 7: Smith?
26:32
Speaker 6: I know you're in there, Mr.
26:33
Speaker 2: Smith.
26:33
Speaker 6: I just saw the light go out from under the door,
26:35
Speaker 6: so you might as well open it.
26:36
Speaker 2: Don't move, mister. Sit down at the table. Put your
26:40
Speaker 2: hands on the table.
26:41
Speaker 20: What's with the gun, Herman? I'm only here to help you.
26:43
Speaker 20: My name's Thompson, sports reporter for the day.
26:46
Speaker 5: Sports, huh?
26:47
Speaker 2: What'd you write today?
26:48
Speaker 6: Well, a constant reader. That's fine.
26:51
Speaker 2: I got the paper right here. So what'd you write?
26:53
Speaker 20: The question of televising next season's baseball games was discussed
26:57
Speaker 20: at a heated session of the Hot Stove League yesterday afternoon.
26:59
Speaker 7: Okay.
26:59
Speaker 2: What do you want?
27:01
Speaker 6: Do you mind putting that thing away?
27:04
Speaker 2: How'd you find me?
27:05
Speaker 6: I know a lot of people in the fight game.
27:07
Speaker 6: They owe me favors.
27:07
Speaker 7: I collected a few.
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Speaker 2: All right, all right. Get to it.
27:10
Speaker 6: Why did Rienzi kill your sister?
27:12
Speaker 2: Did he?
27:14
Speaker 20: Then who are you afraid of, Herman? Why this hideout?
27:16
Speaker 20: One room in a crummy tenement.
27:18
Speaker 2: Get out.
27:19
Speaker 20: First, I'd better mention that I phoned your address to
27:21
Speaker 20: the paper. They know where I am. By next edition,
27:24
Speaker 20: Rienzi will know where you are, too.
27:25
Speaker 6: Maybe so, maybe not.
27:27
Speaker 20: We're your only chance, Herman. Let me take you back
27:29
Speaker 20: to the office. You'll be safe there. If you don't,
27:31
Speaker 20: Rienzi's going to find you. You'll wind up in the
27:34
Speaker 20: morgue next to Sally. You think you know something, huh?
27:37
Speaker 6: I know that as long as Rienzi is free, you're
27:39
Speaker 6: a dead pigeon. But take your time.
27:42
Speaker 20: He won't get his copy of the day with your
27:45
Speaker 20: address until morning. I'll wait while you think it over.
27:56
Speaker 4: Ed, it's past midnight. No word yet from Thompson?
27:59
Speaker 2: Nothing.
28:00
Speaker 4: You know what day this is?
28:01
Speaker 7: It's Thursday.
28:02
Speaker 2: Nine o'clock in the surrogate's court.
28:03
Speaker 4: You're going to be there?
28:05
Speaker 2: All this for what? The obituary of a newspaper. Yeah,
28:09
Speaker 2: I'll be there. This court has been petitioned to approve
28:20
Speaker 2: the sale of the publication enterprises known as The Day.
28:23
Speaker 2: I have carefully read the last will and testament of
28:27
Speaker 2: the deceased, John Garrison, and I find nothing therein to
28:31
Speaker 2: prevent such a sale.
28:33
Speaker 7: Your Honor.
28:33
Speaker 2: Yes, Mrs.
28:34
Speaker 6: Garrison? Your Honor?
28:36
Speaker 12: I object to the sale of this newspaper to Mr.
28:39
Speaker 4: White.
28:39
Speaker 10: How can you object to that?
28:42
Speaker 17: This request for sale was signed by you, Mrs.
28:46
Speaker 2: Garrison.
28:47
Speaker 12: I've changed my mind. Your Honor, we are.
28:50
Speaker 8: Completely unprepared for this most embarrassing change of heart. I
28:53
Speaker 8: assure you I had no idea.
28:54
Speaker 6: What about Mrs.
28:55
Speaker 2: Garrison's two daughters?
28:56
Speaker 8: They want to sell, Your Honor, and they constitute a majority.
28:59
Speaker 12: My husband would not have wished this paper to be
29:01
Speaker 12: sold to Mr.
29:02
Speaker 19: White.
29:02
Speaker 13: But you knew all along that Mr.
29:04
Speaker 7: White was the purchaser.
29:05
Speaker 19: I did not know that the day was going to
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Speaker 19: be rubbed out of existence, which it will be if
29:09
Speaker 19: this contract is approved.
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Speaker 12: I have priority of purchase, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Crane.
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Speaker 12: I'll buy the day myself.
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Speaker 10: I'll raise Mr. White's offer.
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Speaker 13: But you don't seem to realize.
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Speaker 19: I don't see why you should object to my daughters
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Speaker 19: receiving more money, Mr.
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Speaker 12: Crane. That's what they're selling for, isn't it?
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Speaker 10: You can't do this, Mother.
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Speaker 12: I can, I want to, and I'm going to. What
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Speaker 12: good will it do?
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Speaker 10: You're making us sound like fools.
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Speaker 19: You'll be happy to know that stupidity is not hereditary.
29:37
Speaker 12: You acquired it all by yourself. what changed your mind
29:41
Speaker 12: about selling have you seen.
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Speaker 19: Today's paper and yesterday's loyalty loyalty has changed.
29:48
Speaker 10: My mind you haven't got the money to buy the paper.
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Speaker 19: I'll get it you're crazy no just ashamed ashamed of
29:57
Speaker 19: you ashamed of myself.
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Speaker 12: Now, if you'll keep quiet, I think the judge wants
30:03
Speaker 12: to say something.
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Speaker 6: I shall require time to consider Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Garrison's request.
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Speaker 6: You'll all be notified when this court will reconvene. It
30:13
Speaker 6: now stands adjourned.
30:25
Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 7: Hutchison?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 6: My name's Hanson. I'm an attorney. Didn't I see you
30:30
Speaker 6: just now at the garrison hearing?
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Speaker 2: It was a real nice hearing. You're representing Mr.
30:34
Speaker 8: White?
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Speaker 6: No, I work for Mr.
30:36
Speaker 5: Rienzi.
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Speaker 6: He's waiting to see you in his car.
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Speaker 8: Why?
30:39
Speaker 6: It's personal business.
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Speaker 4: The car's right here, Mr.
30:42
Speaker 2: Hutchison.
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Speaker 7: Mr.
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Speaker 2: Hutchison, can I give you a lift someplace?
30:46
Speaker 8: Why?
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Speaker 2: I'm the sociable type. They're expecting me at the office.
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Speaker 2: We'd be glad to take you. Okay, Frank. I wondered
30:55
Speaker 2: when and how you'd get around to this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I expected something a little more poetic. There's no
31:01
Speaker 2: poetry in an armored car. I think I like you.
31:05
Speaker 2: I'm just a man with imagination. They tell me you're
31:09
Speaker 2: a good newspaper man. You're not bad at your trade, either.
31:12
Speaker 2: But they say you're a hothead. Who's they? Friends. I
31:17
Speaker 2: got friends everywhere. I'd like for you to be my friend.
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Speaker 8: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: You're not my type. You ever meet me before? Do
31:25
Speaker 2: business with me? Maybe you got the wrong impression, huh? Now,
31:30
Speaker 2: here's the newspaper. The day. My family reads the paper.
31:34
Speaker 2: It's not nice what you print. I got a nice family, Mr.
31:37
Speaker 8: Hutchinson.
31:38
Speaker 2: Sometimes I like for you to meet them. There's no
31:39
Speaker 2: point in that unless they're the ones that almost killed Burroughs.
31:42
Speaker 5: Burroughs?
31:43
Speaker 2: Never beat up a reporter, they say. It's like killing
31:46
Speaker 2: a cop, they say. Never drop girls in the river,
31:49
Speaker 2: they say. Not even with fur coats, they say. What
31:53
Speaker 2: have I got to do with reporters? Or girls? I'm
31:57
Speaker 2: in the contracting business. Capone was in the insurance business.
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Speaker 2: You've got a sense of humor, friend. Then why don't
32:03
Speaker 2: you laugh? Very funny. Tomorrow's paper will be even funnier.
32:08
Speaker 7: There.
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Speaker 2: That's a rienzi I like to see. This way you
32:14
Speaker 2: start shooting, friend? What are you supposed to be, a
32:17
Speaker 2: little tin god?
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Speaker 12: You're going to save the world?
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Speaker 2: A hero or something? Know about what you print in
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Speaker 2: the paper. My lawyer says I could sue you for this.
32:28
Speaker 8: Well?
32:30
Speaker 2: What you're doing's been tried before. Nobody could ever make
32:32
Speaker 2: it stick. Then you got nothing to worry about. Oh, uh,
32:35
Speaker 2: that's the office. Just down the block. They're on the right, Frank.
32:39
Speaker 2: The gentleman's office. Cops, tax collectors, politicians. They all got
32:44
Speaker 2: an angle. What's yours? Come on, name it.
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Speaker 7: What do you want?
32:46
Speaker 2: I want to see you in prison. Thanks for the lift. Well,
32:54
Speaker 2: I just met the man. Sometimes these things take time. Holly,
32:58
Speaker 2: maybe I.
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Speaker 7: Here, wait a minute.
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: They're going to the newspaper building, those two guys.
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Speaker 4: Schmidt.
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Speaker 2: That Schmidt. We've been looking all over for him. Who's
33:08
Speaker 2: with him? I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I never saw him before.
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Speaker 2: Sally's brother walking into a newspaper office, huh? Drive around
33:15
Speaker 2: the block. I gotta make a phone call fast. You know,
33:29
Speaker 2: every once in a while, the sounds of war yield
33:31
Speaker 2: to a nicer note. Such a one came from Korea,
33:34
Speaker 2: from the 27th Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division. It's
33:38
Speaker 2: an outfit of superb combat soldiers who built a legendary
33:41
Speaker 2: reputation in the Korean fighting. But they built something else
33:45
Speaker 2: along with it. When they were stationed in Osaka, Japan
33:48
Speaker 2: in 1949, they learned that a small orphanage was in
33:51
Speaker 2: bad shape. Poor buildings, little clothing, and no assurance from
33:55
Speaker 2: day to day that there would even be enough food
33:57
Speaker 2: for the more than 150 kids who called it home. Well,
34:01
Speaker 2: the regiment adopted that orphanage. They began to take up collections.
34:04
Speaker 2: They contributed food and medicine and clothing. And when the
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Speaker 2: regiment moved to the Korean battlefront, the work went on.
34:11
Speaker 2: Their first payday in combat, those guys deducted a half
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Speaker 2: million yen and sent it back to Japan for their orphanage.
34:19
Speaker 2: You can bet those kids have never forgotten the men
34:22
Speaker 2: of the 27th. Such acts by you and your friends
34:26
Speaker 2: today are shaping our world of tomorrow. We pause now
34:39
Speaker 2: for station identification.
34:56
Speaker 3: The curtain rises on Act Three of Deadline USA, starring
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Speaker 3: Dan Daly as Ed Hutchison and Deborah Padgett as Nora.
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Speaker 19: The Curtain Rises.
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Speaker 3: The door of Ed Hutchison's office is closed. With Potter,
35:14
Speaker 3: the city editor, he's entertaining a guest, Herman Schmidt, brother
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Speaker 3: of the murdered girl.
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Speaker 2: All right, Schmidt, from the beginning. How much? I told
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Speaker 2: you before, 1,000 bucks after you testify against Rienzi. Yes
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Speaker 2: or no? Where do you want me to start? Sally
35:31
Speaker 2: and Rienzi. Well, they liked each other.
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Speaker 8: A few weeks ago, Sally bought $ 40, 000 worth of government bonds.
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Speaker 4: Rienzi pay for them?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess so.
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Speaker 8: You're a liar.
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Speaker 2: Alley used part of the $ 200, 000 that Rienzi gave her
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Speaker 2: to hold for him.
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Speaker 9: What $ 200, 000? Why would a guy part with that kind
35:46
Speaker 9: of scratch?
35:47
Speaker 8: The city bank says your sister rented a safety deposit box.
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Speaker 4: She gave it up a month ago.
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Speaker 8: On the same day that she moved out of her apartment.
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Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's true.
35:57
Speaker 9: He gave her the money to hold for him. When
35:59
Speaker 9: he wanted it back, she got scared he'd make a break.
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Speaker 9: She said as long as she kept the cash, he'd stick.
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Speaker 9: It didn't work out that way.
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Speaker 7: Hey, Ed, Mrs.
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Speaker 13: Garrison wants to see if he's waiting upstairs.
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Speaker 12: Call her.
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Speaker 2: When did you find out Sally was dead? Oh, I
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Speaker 2: read about it in the paper. She was dead three
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Speaker 2: days before the paper got it.
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Speaker 8: Your mother says you left the house last Saturday and
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Speaker 8: didn't come back.
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Speaker 2: My mother?
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Speaker 4: We've got some good reporters, Smith. They get around.
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Speaker 2: Sally was killed that same Saturday night.
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Speaker 9: Well, so what? I leave the house lots of times. Well,
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Speaker 9: for weeks sometimes.
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Speaker 13: To hide out?
36:30
Speaker 2: You were afraid of Rienzi. Why?
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Speaker 4: Maybe you knew he was going there, huh? To Sally's place?
36:35
Speaker 2: I didn't even know where she lived. The Leroy Hotel.
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Speaker 2: She registered under the name of Bessie Schmidt and never
36:39
Speaker 2: left the room. She had only two visitors, Herman. Your
36:42
Speaker 2: mother and you. You were there Saturday night.
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Speaker 9: Well, I don't remember. But, oh, maybe I was. Yeah,
36:50
Speaker 9: she phoned me.
36:51
Speaker 2: The desk clerk says you phoned her from the lobby
36:54
Speaker 2: at 1.20 a.m. Now, either tell the truth or we
36:56
Speaker 2: turn you loose. No money, no protection. Rienzi will kill you.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
37:01
Speaker 6: Okay, Rienzi wanted his money.
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Speaker 2: They couldn't find out where Sally was living.
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Speaker 4: So you showed them?
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Speaker 6: Why?
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Speaker 2: What did Rienzi promise you? Well, he got me my job.
37:10
Speaker 2: I owed him money.
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Speaker 6: I couldn't pay.
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Speaker 2: He said the favor would square us.
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Speaker 8: All you had to do was put the finger on
37:16
Speaker 8: your own sister.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know what they were going to do. I
37:18
Speaker 2: swear I didn't know.
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Speaker 13: Who was they?
37:20
Speaker 2: Rienzi and who else?
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Speaker 6: No, no, not Rienzi.
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Speaker 2: He sent men, free men.
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Speaker 12: I got scared.
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Speaker 2: I ran out. That's all I know, honest.
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Speaker 6: The next day, I hear Rienzi's.
37:29
Speaker 2: Looking for me. He was afraid I was going to talk.
37:32
Speaker 2: I found a room, and I've been there ever since.
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Speaker 2: Type up a statement, Paul. I have him sign it.
37:36
Speaker 2: Get the names of those three men. I'll go upstairs
37:38
Speaker 2: and see Mrs. Garrison.
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Speaker 16: About Louis Schaefer, that information you requested.
37:43
Speaker 2: Walk with me to the elevator. Yes, sir.
37:45
Speaker 16: Louis Schaefer, age 42, only child of John and Harriet
37:48
Speaker 16: Schaefer of the Chemical Fortune.
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Speaker 2: Ever married? No, sir. Any arrests?
37:52
Speaker 12: None on the record, sir.
37:53
Speaker 2: Alcoholic swindler? Maybe he's a fiend. You know, he looked
37:56
Speaker 2: like one. He'd check his army record. Maybe he's a spy.
37:58
Speaker 16: He got the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
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Speaker 10: Oh.
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Speaker 2: That's a rotten report, Miss Bondala. Thanks anyway.
38:08
Speaker 12: You've been keeping me waiting.
38:17
Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 12: Two things, Ed.
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Speaker 19: First, Rienzi started his libel suit. We were served with
38:22
Speaker 19: papers half.
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Speaker 12: An hour ago.
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Speaker 2: Second.
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Speaker 19: Judge McKay is going to hand down his decision tonight
38:27
Speaker 19: at nine.
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Speaker 2: Tonight?
38:29
Speaker 19: How come so soon? Because of the libel suit. Oh,
38:33
Speaker 19: one thing more. That one percent you were promised. Alice
38:37
Speaker 19: and Kitty changed their minds.
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Speaker 2: What took them so long?
38:41
Speaker 12: I've been to the bank, Ed.
38:42
Speaker 19: They're willing to loan me the money if we cut
38:44
Speaker 19: expenses four percent.
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Speaker 12: Think you can do it?
38:47
Speaker 2: I'll do better than that. Yes, go ahead, Porter. He what?
38:53
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Yes, yes, I'll be right down.
38:56
Speaker 12: Now what?
38:58
Speaker 2: A man was just shot to death in my press room.
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Speaker 2: A man named Herman Schmidt.
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Speaker 4: We were working on his written statement when they walked in.
39:15
Speaker 4: Three men in police uniform. They said they had a
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Speaker 4: warrant for Smith.
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Speaker 2: And you let them take him?
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Speaker 4: They looked and acted like policemen. I tried to stop them.
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Speaker 5: Go ahead.
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Speaker 2: What happened?
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Speaker 8: Smith made a break. He ran down to the press room.
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Speaker 8: He almost got away, but then they started shooting. The
39:26
Speaker 8: plates are there now.
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Speaker 2: You better get down there.
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Speaker 4: What about Smith's confession? Do we run it anyway?
39:30
Speaker 2: Without a signed statement, we're dead, Porter. We're as cold
39:33
Speaker 2: as Herman Smith. I'll get Mrs. Garrison and take her home. Hello?
39:45
Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: For you, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Rienzi.
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Speaker 2: It's Whitey. Now give it here.
39:50
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But I tell you, I didn't want anything like it.
39:55
Speaker 2: This is stupid.
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Speaker 10: Stupid!
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Speaker 6: Well, get out of here now, all three of you.
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Speaker 2: And find Sally's old lady. Bring in Mrs.
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Speaker 10: Schmidt.
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Speaker 2: I want to talk to her.
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Speaker 4: Sit down, Ed.
40:12
Speaker 6: I'll get you a drink.
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Speaker 2: You know, Mrs. Garrison, no paper ever did a better, faster,
40:17
Speaker 2: more thorough job. All we needed was that one bit
40:21
Speaker 2: of evidence and we had it. We had it as
40:23
Speaker 2: long as Schmidt was alive. I figured if we could
40:26
Speaker 2: get an indictment against Rienzi, they'd let the day stay
40:28
Speaker 2: in business.
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Speaker 12: We're licked, Ed. But we showed them how a real
40:33
Speaker 12: newspaper can function.
40:35
Speaker 2: You're quite a girl. They must have made them different
40:38
Speaker 2: in your day.
40:39
Speaker 8: Yeah.
40:40
Speaker 2: More durable.
40:41
Speaker 12: More pliable. Girls these days have stuff, but they're brittle.
40:45
Speaker 12: They break more easily.
40:47
Speaker 2: Plenty of stuff, but no heart.
40:48
Speaker 12: Meaning Nora?
40:50
Speaker 2: Meaning Nora.
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Speaker 19: There will now be a respectable silence while we feel
40:54
Speaker 19: sorry for ourselves.
40:55
Speaker 2: Well, she had no right to walk out on me.
40:57
Speaker 2: She's my wife.
40:58
Speaker 10: You wouldn't have.
40:59
Speaker 12: A wife if a newspaper had beautiful legs.
41:01
Speaker 7: Sure.
41:03
Speaker 2: But you never walked out on John Garrison.
41:05
Speaker 12: Who said so?
41:05
Speaker 2: He must have had a pretty good reason.
41:07
Speaker 12: The best.
41:09
Speaker 19: A bride always likes to think she's indispensable. But I
41:11
Speaker 19: woke up one morning and he was gone.
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Speaker 2: Back to the.
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Speaker 12: Paper to do the Lusitania story. I walked out.
41:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you came back.
41:19
Speaker 12: Two days later. He didn't even know I'd been gone.
41:26
Speaker 7: He loved you.
41:26
Speaker 12: Exceedingly.
41:28
Speaker 19: Between additions. Oh, but don't blame Nora. Unless she wants
41:32
Speaker 19: to come back, it won't work. If she stays away.
41:35
Speaker 2: I can look for a newspaper with nice legs.
41:38
Speaker 12: Well, court convenes in exactly one half hour. You going
41:42
Speaker 12: to be there?
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Speaker 10: Maybe.
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Speaker 2: Maybe. Will you marry me, Mrs. Garrison?
41:48
Speaker 10: Go away, Ed.
41:49
Speaker 12: You're much too old.
41:50
Speaker 2: Sorry, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Yancey. Nothing yet on Mrs.
42:01
Speaker 2: Schmidt.
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Speaker 4: They're still looking for her.
42:03
Speaker 2: They'll find her. I know a lady like her. Where
42:05
Speaker 2: can she go? She's got to be silenced, you understand?
42:06
Speaker 2: Buy her off.
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Speaker 13: Send her back to Europe.
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Speaker 2: You're getting panicky, Hanson. She's my business. I'll handle Mrs. Schmidt.
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Speaker 6: There'll be another investigation.
42:12
Speaker 4: I hope you realize that.
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Speaker 2: Maybe a trial even.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 2: Better not worry, see? We've been through this sort of
42:17
Speaker 2: thing before. We're still in business. The story's printed in
42:20
Speaker 2: the newspaper. So what? Tomorrow it's all news. They take
42:23
Speaker 2: the paper and wrap garbage in it. In a week,
42:25
Speaker 2: the people forget. But if they keep on printing stories.
42:27
Speaker 7: They won't.
42:28
Speaker 13: If they keep us in the news until the trial,
42:30
Speaker 13: if they heat up the public.
42:30
Speaker 2: You take care of your end. I'll handle the papers.
42:32
Speaker 6: Hutchinson won't handle easily.
42:33
Speaker 2: He's got nothing. What's he got with Schmidt out of
42:35
Speaker 2: the way?
42:36
Speaker 4: That won't stop him.
42:37
Speaker 2: And he won't stop us. Tomorrow he won't even have
42:39
Speaker 2: a paper. The court will take it away from him.
42:42
Speaker 2: And if they don't, we'll take him away from the paper...
42:45
Speaker 2: Maybe they all need an example. You're crazy.
42:47
Speaker 12: Am I?
42:47
Speaker 17: Now, we'll wait and see. And so, the court has
42:58
Speaker 17: arrived at a decision. I can see no reason why
43:02
Speaker 17: the day should not be sold to Mr.
43:03
Speaker 2: White.
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Speaker 6: I will, however, listen to any further evidence or argument.
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Speaker 5: Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Garrison?
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Speaker 12: There's nothing to say, Judge McCabe.
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Speaker 2: May I say something, Your Honor?
43:13
Speaker 12: If Your Honor, please.
43:14
Speaker 6: Well, Mr.
43:15
Speaker 8: Crane.
43:16
Speaker 6: Since Mr.
43:16
Speaker 8: Hutchison is not one of the heirs, and since I'm
43:18
Speaker 8: sure he's not here in the interest of Mr. White,
43:21
Speaker 8: whom does he presume then to represent?
43:23
Speaker 2: I represent the paper.
43:24
Speaker 4: Which is not yours in the first place.
43:26
Speaker 2: That's true. But the day is a lot more than
43:29
Speaker 2: a building and furniture and presses. It's people. 1,500 men
43:33
Speaker 2: and women whose skill and experience make a great newspaper possible.
43:38
Speaker 2: We don't own one share of stock. But we, along
43:41
Speaker 2: with the 300,000 people who read this paper, have a
43:43
Speaker 2: vital interest in whether it lives or dies.
43:45
Speaker 4: I suggest this is most irregular, Your Honor.
43:47
Speaker 2: So is the murder of a newspaper. So is some
43:48
Speaker 2: unfinished business call, Rienzi. If you read the day, you'd
43:51
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
43:52
Speaker 13: I don't care to discuss Rienzi.
43:54
Speaker 2: This newspaper does.
43:55
Speaker 8: I don't question your good intentions, Mr. Hutchison, but they
43:58
Speaker 8: hardly concern us here tonight.
43:59
Speaker 2: They concern the public tonight and tomorrow and the day
44:01
Speaker 2: after tomorrow.
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Speaker 13: The day isn't the only good newspaper in town, Mr.
44:04
Speaker 7: Hutchison.
44:05
Speaker 2: Right now, it's the only newspaper willing to expose Rienzi.
44:07
Speaker 15: Mr.
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Speaker 17: Hutchison, there are certain rules of procedure. We are concerned
44:12
Speaker 17: now only with the legal.
44:13
Speaker 8: Aspects of the sale.
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Speaker 6: What happens after Mr.
44:16
Speaker 17: White takes possession is outside the jurisdiction of this court.
44:19
Speaker 2: But whose jurisdiction is it, sir?
44:21
Speaker 13: Just a moment.
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Speaker 8: Since when is it immoral for someone to legally purchase
44:26
Speaker 8: a newspaper?
44:27
Speaker 2: I don't care if Mr. White buys out another paper
44:30
Speaker 2: or 20 papers. But I do care when he buys
44:33
Speaker 2: a newspaper to put it out of business. Because without competition,
44:36
Speaker 2: freedom of the press can't exist. I'm talking about the
44:39
Speaker 2: right of the public to a marketplace of ideas, of
44:42
Speaker 2: news and opinions. Not those of one man, or of
44:46
Speaker 2: one leader, or even one government. Well, I guess that's
44:50
Speaker 2: all I have to say.
44:51
Speaker 6: The existing contract is valid, made in good faith.
44:55
Speaker 17: As of tomorrow, the Lawrence White publications will assume control
45:00
Speaker 17: of the day.
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Speaker 2: Quotes adjourned.
45:07
Speaker 12: Ed, thanks for trying.
45:10
Speaker 2: If you'll excuse me, Mrs. Garrison, I'd better phone the office.
45:15
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Ed.
45:16
Speaker 15: This is Porter.
45:16
Speaker 7: What's the story?
45:17
Speaker 2: Lead off for the morning edition. The day after 47
45:21
Speaker 2: years of daily publication was sold last night.
45:24
Speaker 4: But we've still got a paper until tomorrow. Get back here, Ed.
45:27
Speaker 8: Why?
45:28
Speaker 4: Willebrand's got Mrs.
45:29
Speaker 5: Schmidt here.
45:29
Speaker 2: She wants the boss.
45:30
Speaker 4: She won't talk to anyone else. I think we've got something, Ed.
45:33
Speaker 4: Something big.
45:42
Speaker 5: Yes, this is Mrs.
45:43
Speaker 10: Smith. She wandered in on her own, looking for you.
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Speaker 12: Here he is, Mrs.
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Speaker 7: Smith.
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Speaker 10: You are boss?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 12: I am mother of Bessie.
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Speaker 2: About your son, too, I'm very sorry.
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Speaker 15: I do not come about that. I have here box,
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Speaker 15: shoe box. In it are papers, papers of money.
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Speaker 13: Here, you look.
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Speaker 4: I'll say there's money.
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Speaker 15: Now, my Bessie, she comes to me and she says, Here, Mama,
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Speaker 15: you keep this. Something happens to me, you do not
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Speaker 15: have to worry.
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Speaker 2: This little book, Bessie's diary?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, she writes down what happens to her in
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Speaker 15: this mystery, and she writes it down there.
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Speaker 2: Forty, you better call the police. And we're getting out
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Speaker 2: the final edition as usual.
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Speaker 7: Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Schmidt, why didn't you go to the police?
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Speaker 13: Police?
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Speaker 7: I do not know police.
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Speaker 10: I know newspaper, this newspaper.
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Speaker 15: For 31 years I know this newspaper.
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Speaker 10: I come to America.
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Speaker 13: I wish to be good citizen.
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Speaker 12: How to do this?
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Speaker 4: From newspaper.
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Speaker 15: It show me how to read, how to write. When
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Speaker 15: Betsy dies, you do not say bad things of her
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Speaker 15: like other newspapers. Now you want to find who help
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Speaker 15: my Betsy.
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Speaker 10: That's good. I help. I think what to do.
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Speaker 13: I go on subway.
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Speaker 10: I ride all day.
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Speaker 12: Then I'm here.
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Speaker 2: By doing this, you may be in danger, like your son.
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Speaker 10: You are not afraid? I am not afraid.
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Speaker 2: Thanks.
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Speaker 10: Hello, Porter.
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Speaker 4: Why, Mrs. Hutchison. Or is it Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Schaefer?
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Speaker 10: No, no, of course not. Where is he?
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Speaker 4: In the press room.
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Speaker 10: Has he lost the paper?
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 10: What's he going to do?
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Speaker 8: Get out the last edition. And it ought to be
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Speaker 8: quite a paper. We've got proof on Rienzi. Sally's mother,
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Speaker 8: she came to Ed with everything.
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Speaker 10: And then what?
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Speaker 4: He looked for another job, I guess, like the rest
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Speaker 4: of us.
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Speaker 10: Is it all right if I go down to the
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Speaker 10: press room?
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Speaker 4: I guess you still know where it is. Sure, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: For you, Ed, telephone.
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Speaker 8: Yes?
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Speaker 12: Thomas Rienzi, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Hutchison.
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Speaker 12: He wants to talk to you.
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Speaker 10: I told him you were in the press.
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Speaker 2: Put him on. Hello. Hutchison. Hello, baby. How do you feel?
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Speaker 5: How do I feel?
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Speaker 2: I hear Mrs. Schmidt came in to see you.
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 2: There's some loose cash in my office that belongs to you.
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Speaker 7: $ 160, 000.
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Speaker 2: Oh, and there's something else, too. A diary.
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Speaker 8: A diary.
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Speaker 2: Sally's diary. So what? Who's going to believe what a
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Speaker 2: dame like that writes to herself?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Ask your lawyer. If there's something else that might interest you,
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Speaker 2: we're accusing you of Sally's murder. Look, before you hang up, friend,
48:39
Speaker 2: here's some advice to you. Don't you press your luck.
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Speaker 2: You lay off on me.
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Speaker 4: Don't print that story.
48:43
Speaker 2: What's that, an order? If not tonight, then tomorrow. Maybe
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Speaker 2: next week, maybe next year, but sooner or later you'll
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Speaker 2: catch it. My lawyer's right here with me. He's yelling
48:49
Speaker 2: at me not to talk like this, but I say
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Speaker 2: it anyway. You print that story and you're a dead man.
48:53
Speaker 2: You forget something, Rienzi. It's not just me anymore. You'd
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Speaker 2: have to stop every paper in the country now and
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Speaker 2: you're not big enough for that job. People like you,
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Speaker 2: you've tried it before with bullets, prison, censorship. But as
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Speaker 2: long as even one paper prints the truth, you're finished.
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Speaker 2: I don't want double talk, just an answer, yes or no.
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Speaker 2: What time is it?
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Speaker 7: 10.30.
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Speaker 2: That's when we go to press, 10.30. You want your answer?
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Speaker 4: Listen.
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Speaker 2: Yes or no? It's too late now, Rienzi. You hear me?
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Speaker 3: That?
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Speaker 2: That's the press. And there's nothing you can do about it.
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Speaker 7: Nothing. Ed.
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Speaker 2: You walked out on me at Alberto's.
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Speaker 10: I'd like to go back for dessert. You got time?
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Speaker 2: All the time in the world. Let's go. In a moment,
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Speaker 2: our stars will return. The occupation of the Japanese city
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Speaker 2: of Yokosuka is a good example of democracy at work.
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Speaker 2: The first thing our troops had to do was clean
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Speaker 2: up their own area. But then they looked at the devastation,
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Speaker 2: the sickness, and the low morale of the people around them,
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Speaker 2: and they set to work. To create better living conditions,
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Speaker 2: they demolished rotten, rat-infested buildings. They converted unused buildings into schoolrooms, gymnasiums,
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Speaker 2: and chapels. And with their own funds, they furnished much
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Speaker 2: of the equipment. For health, they covered the city giving
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Speaker 2: anti-tuberculosis shots, typhoid inoculations, X-ray pictures, and smallpox vaccinations. To
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Speaker 2: raise the spirits of the people, they started boys' clubs,
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Speaker 2: women's clubs, Red Cross groups. The occupation is over now,
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Speaker 2: but the Japanese have had a taste of democracy. They
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Speaker 2: like it. They've seen it work. Such acts by you
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Speaker 2: and your friends today are shaping our world of tomorrow. Now,
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Speaker 2: here's Mr. Cummings with our stars.
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Speaker 6: And here they are for a well-deserved curtain call.
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Speaker 3: Dan Daly and Deborah Patrick. Well, Dan, how does it
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Speaker 3: feel to have your dancing shoes off for a change?
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Speaker 2: Very comfortable, Irving. You know, I loaned them to Deborah
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Speaker 2: to go to Norfolk, Virginia.
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Speaker 3: The opening of 20th Century Fox's new picture, Titanic, starring
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Speaker 3: Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck.
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Speaker 10: Yes, Irving. A group of us flew there to entertain
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Speaker 10: at the premiere, which was dedicated to the Navy Relief Fund.
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Speaker 10: I wish you could have been there, Dan.
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Speaker 2: Well, I've already done my share for Navy Relief.
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Speaker 7: When was that?
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Speaker 2: When I joined the Army. Boy, was the Navy relieved.
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Speaker 10: Oh, I'm dead. Now, I'm sure both the Army and
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Speaker 10: Navy would fight to get me.
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Speaker 2: No, no. You're the type they fight to get, Deborah.
51:38
Speaker 2: You remind them of the girl next door.
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Speaker 10: I would?
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Speaker 2: Well, if you wouldn't, I would. Because it's my latest
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Speaker 2: picture for 20th Century Fox, co-starring with June Haver. It's
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Speaker 2: called The Girl Next Door.
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Speaker 3: I think you'll both agree that next week's show is
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Speaker 3: just wonderful because we're going to tell the heartwarming story
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Speaker 3: of one of the most glamorous couples in show business.
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Speaker 3: It's Paramount Pictures' screen hit, Somebody Loves Me. And recreating
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Speaker 3: her original role as the entrancing Blossom Seeley, we'll have
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Speaker 3: Betty Hutton. co-starring with Gene Barry as Benny Field.
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Speaker 2: What a great story that is, Irving. Good night.
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Speaker 7: Good night, and we'll be seeing you.
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Speaker 2: The Hollywood Radio Theater is produced by Mr. Irving Cummings.
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Speaker 2: Our orchestra is under the direction of Rudy Schrager. This
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Speaker 2: is Ken Carpenter inviting you to join us next week
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Speaker 2: at this same time for another presentation of the Hollywood
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Speaker 2: Radio Theater. Hollywood Radio Theater is a presentation of the
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Speaker 2: United States Armed Forces Radio Service.
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Speaker 13: THE END
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Speaker 1: This concludes our visit with Lux Radio Theater's Deadline USA.