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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lamar Matter, Parts One and Two (EP1059) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Truly Johnny Dollar The Lamar Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar,
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Pat mccrack and Johnny returning your Car. Oh Hi, Pat, Oh,
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Southern California High Vacation on expensive count I love it. Well, don't
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overdo it just because the Jolly Roger might interfit with that vacation you'd planned.
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No, right, a minuet. You promise full expenses. Okay, when
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are you coming back to hot as soon as that? Claire out the Lamar
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case one. Okay, expenses on it now. Yeah, Pat, this
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is a case that'll make your hair curl tonight and every weekday night. Bob
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Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact. Expense account
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America's fabulous freelance insurance Investigator Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted
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by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Universal Adjustment Bureau Hertford, Connecticut. The
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following is an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of the Lamar matter expense
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account. I forget it. I'm on vacation as far from Hertford, Connecticut
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center of the insurance business as I can get. Yeah, I'm in La
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Jolla, California, and I'm staying in a big ritzy motel called El Crescenta
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alone. Oh, there is a girl down here, A lot of them
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in facts, but one in particular, Fronnie Lamar. Her name is sounds
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like somebody in show business, doesn't it. But she isn't tall five feet
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eight brunette, pretty as the devil, And I gave her the line that
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my so called business back east consists of nothing more exciting than running a filling
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station. How can you afford to come all the way out here to California
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for a vacation, to say nothing of staying at the El CRESCENTA rich uncle,
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Fannie died and left me a couple of thousands to do with as I
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see fit. This is the way I see fit. Only a couple of
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thousand. Mmmm. Gee, that's too bad. A couple of hundred thousand.
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I might really fall for you, Oh Ronnie, how can you hmm?
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Here? I thought these last three days and evenings with you were due
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solely to my overwhelming personal charms. Your charm has nothing to do with kissed
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me again? Anyhow? With Vannie around, who needed a couple one hundred
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grand? The Yeah, I was just about all anyone could ask for.
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And I don't mean for just a quick vacation time romance. I'd spotted her
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the minute I landed here at this hotel more like a guest ranch by the
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seashore. Beautiful modern cottages set around the big green lawn with a swimming pool
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and the center big enough for the Olympics car ports Beside the cottages loaded with
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El Dorado's cotton netals and a handful of foreign sports jobs, and a beautiful
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big dining room and a building set up to look like an old clipper ship,
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and food and service worthy of Oscar of the Waldorf. And what was
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I doing here on expense account? Remember? He had spotted Vanni the night
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I arrived from San Diego after clearing up the Jolly Roger matter, and set
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my sights for immediately. Naturally, I wondered, what's so attractive a girl
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was doing alone here? She cleared that up for me at dinner the second
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night. I still don't understand why Daddy hasn't arrived yet. Oh, he's
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supposed to join you on this vacation. We always spend our vacations together,
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at least we have since mother died a few years ago. You're an only
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child, yes, really a foster child. Just as we were about to
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take our plane, some crisis or rather a rose at the plant. We
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made me come along and wait for him. Lamar metal products, Lama and
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Oh yeah, yeah, aircraft components, isn't it South Bend, Indiana?
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Yes, you know how crisis can arrive in a business like that. Sure,
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imagine seven dorders, you all that sort of thing. Yeah, well
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you'll probably hear from him before. Oh hey, waita, would you like
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to get us a telegram for the lady? Oh? Excuse me, Johnny?
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Sure? Here you glad you for you? Oh dear, it's from
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my father, and I don't like it. Listen, musty lay departure a
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few more days, doctor's orders. Nothing to worry about. Stay there in
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La Joy until I join you. Love daddy. Oh that's too bad,
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But doctor's orders. There's nothing wrong with daddy. He had a new insurance
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examination just a month ago. They gave him a clean bill of health.
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Uh what company Try Mutual something or other? But what difference does it make?
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There's something wrong about this, I'm sure of it. Well, why
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don't you phone him? Yes, yes I will. My cottage is right
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next door here. Come on. It was none of my business, but
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the name of Try Mutual rang an Olpha Media Bellyeah. I'd handle a lot
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of cases from them anyway. She wasted no time in putting through a call
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to her father's private number in South Bend. Yes, operator, thank you.
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I don't know why I didn't go to my own cottage to make this
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call my pleasure. I guess I'm a bit upset by this wire. I
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don't blame you. There's nothing wrong with Daddy. There can't be. Oh,
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maybe just made the mistake of mixing too many oysters with too many Martina.
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Hello, Daddy, what's this telegram you sent me? Oh? Oh,
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I see. Will you had me scared for a few minutes? Oh?
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Yes, fine, mm hmmm. Yes, if you must know the
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truth, I have Johnny Darling, very cheerful girl. Oh. He says
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he runs a filling station. But I don't believe him. I'll tell you
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all when you get here. In hurry, Darling, Please all right,
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Daddy, good night, dear, Thank goodness. You don't know how close
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your guest was. Johnny, it was just a slight case of indigestion,
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plus the fact he wanted another day at the plant. Well good, then
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let's go back to the dining room and see what kind of indigestion we can
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accumulate. Well that's started it. Three days and nights of as much fun
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and relaxation as I've had in years, a wonderful place to stay, a
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private beach that I'll wager a second, and not on the Pacific coast,
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swimming water, skiing, skin diving, sailing, everything. Oh this was
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it, or so I thought, Oh, why make any bones about it?
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I'm a sucker for romance, and believe me, it wasn't hard to
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be serious with Bonnie. Johnny. Yeah, this is nice, isn't it.
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I I don't believe in love at first sight? Do you? Uh?
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No, no, I, but it is nice, isn't it?
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Who gown? That'd be much too easy to fall in love with you,
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Bonnie? And I mean the forever kind? Would that be so terrible?
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You've You've got one big strike against you know, Johnny, what m O
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N E Y money you lose? I have nothing, step up. My
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father gives me, you know, allowance and for clothes and things, and
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you know, so you see, I'm just as poor as you are,
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Only you aren't you would be staying at a place like this. Another thing
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you know absolutely nothing about me. I know you don't make a living by
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running any old filling station. Johnny Dollar at the Sign of the Flying Red
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Horse oh, stop it. Well, for all you know, I'm a
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gangster, safecracker, juelsy. Well, we're still playboy sign of a wealthy
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family who never did a like a work in his life. In other words,
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are worthless, bomber. Don't say that, Johnny, even in fun.
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How'd you feel? A mom? Yes, and they're mothers, old
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dowagers trying to marry them off to another wealthy family. Add the name Lamar
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to their end of the social register listing. I'm sure the fortune with another
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fortune. I thought you said you were poor, you know what I mean?
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A bunch of worthless pops, that's all they are. I've seen better
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men among the servants and chauffeurs, a little Mexican boy who helps one of
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the gardeners, and the young businessmen there in South Bend, in in other
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cities, maybe earning just enough to make ends meet, but men ambitious,
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hard working, wanting to get somewhere on their own merit. And well,
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you know what I mean, why don't you marry one of them? Monny?
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Business easy? Is that? Johnny? You're not? And maybe I
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was waiting for someone like you to mm hmm. I still don't believe in
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love at first, such, let me snuggle again, like before we started
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this horrible discussion. Soun's going down our honey, this little mess in the
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rocks is going to get cold. Look, everybody else has left the beach.
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I like kiss me, and I thought I'd have to ask for it.
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Johnny, what do you do? M Well, I'll tell you.
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I live and hard for this. I told you. Listen, he's calling
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you. Yeah, you too, the spoil sport. Well, maybe it's
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word for your dad. Have you come? Oh? I hope, so
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come on, Johnny Pedro Pedro over here? Here we are here? What's
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up? Senor? Telegrams? Telegrams? But they went for the Sennor was
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Mike rush? So I rush? Oh boy? Pedro here? No,
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I'll tell you when we get back to the motel. Stop by my cottage.
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What's wrong, Bunny? It's from my family. Doctor. I'm afraid
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here you read it? Sure, men, regret having to inform you your
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father died a few hours ago. Suggest you returned to South Bend immediately.
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Oh. It was a few minutes before Bonnie could pull herself together enough to
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walk from the beach up to her cottage, where she could pack her things
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for the trip back to South Bend. I told her I'd make the nests
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Harry plane reservations for her. But what I didn't tell her was the contents
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of the wire i'd received the one mark rush. It was from Pat McCrackan
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at Universal Adjustment Bureau, a request to call him at his home in Hartford.
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Immediately I put through the call. Hello Pat McCracken, Well kill Joey.
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What's on your mind? Johnny? That's right, you got my wire?
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Why else do you think I'm calling? I tried to get you long
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distance all day. Your motel didn't seem to know where you were. Well,
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that was my doing. They might have spoiled a beautiful romance. Well,
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what's on your mind, Johnny? You've got to cut your vacation shot.
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Oh no, you don't, and you've got to come back to Hartford
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right away. What I listen, I'm dead, but planned to make a
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long stop over in South Bend, Indiana. South Bends, right, Oh,
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I get it. This is a gang or did you know? I'd
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figured maybe on stopping over there anyhow, I don't know what you're talking about,
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but now listen, By a rare stroke of luck, we just got
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word of the death this morning of one of Trimutual's bigger policy holders. How
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much million and a half, a man named Thomas Renee Lamar Lamar. Pat
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Listen, Johnny. The circumstances lead us to think it may be murdered,
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Johnny Dellar, I have your party in Hertford, Connecticut. Now, mister
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Dollar, Oh thanks, just please, Hello McCracken, Universal Adjustment Bureau,
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Hi, Pat, Johnny, are you still in Lahoy? Didn't you get
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my telegram? Sure did? And I'm getting ready to leave for South Bend
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right now, and the company of a beautiful, charming, lovely look son.
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Your vacation is over, charming lovely girl named Bonnie Lamar. Okay,
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okay, now, will you what that's right? Thomas Rene Lamar's daughter?
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Does she know her father has died? Telegram for her arrived at the same
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time I received yours. You didn't show her my wife? No, she
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doesn't know yet that you think it might be murder. Expense account submitted by
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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Connecticut. Attention,
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mister Patrick McCracken. Following is an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation
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of the Lamar matter, or was it murder expense account? Out of one?
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I'm calling it out of one, Pat, because it's really the first
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tab on the Lamar case. Previous expenses here in La Hooyer were charged against
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the Jolly Roger case. Expenses for the vacation you promised me, and am
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now so rudely interrupted. I hadnt won nine dollars sixty cents for that long
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distance call to Pat McCracken in Hartford one under the Senate? Is Monnie Lamar
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doing in La joya vacation same as I was trying to take? Now tell
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me something, Pat has a claim already been filed on Lamar's million and a
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half dollar policy filed. Well, how do you know about his death?
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So quickly? Block Pure and Simple Insurance Company is tri Mutual, big office
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in Chicago, headed up by Lawrence Comstock. Oh sure, not him for
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years, good man. Well he's written all of Lamar's policies himself. He
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got to know the old man pretty well. Uh huh. Personal friends,
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you know, weekend golf together, same clubs, and both nuts about two
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handed pekockle. So comes doctor Ben Lamar's house guest, the past few days
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and been with him practically every minute. The old man wasn't that his planned?
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Was he actually there when Lamar died? Yes? Yes, he was
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on to call the doctor, and the old man keeled over. Look,
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you keep referring to him as the old man. Just how old was he?
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Oh? Not too? Let me see, I've got it. He
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was fifty nine. The doctor's name on our telegram was Wilson. You know
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his first name? No, I don't know that stuff. He will have
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to get from Comstock to in South ben Okay at any rate, Johnny.
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He called me a minute. The doctor pronounced Lamar dead and specifically asked the
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ju'll be put on the case. Yeah, well that's flattering. Okay,
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it looks like I am. But tell me something. Yeah, what makes
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Larry think that man was murdered? I'd rather not discuss it now. He'll
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give it to you when you see him. Our playing leaves in about an
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hour. No doubt you can be of some comfort to the daughter m her
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knowing that you're handling the case. Pat, that's the one thing I don't
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want it at all. I hung up, leaving Pat to ponder over that
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last remark. Wirre Larry Comstock that I was coming and finished my packing for
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the trip back east. When I finished, I paid my bill at the
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fancy motel, and all I can say is thank goodness. It was on
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expense account. And I knocked on the door of the cottage next to my
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Yes, come in, Oh, Johnny, Hi Ronnie. Anyway I can
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help you more than you have. You've been wonderful arranging the flight back for
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me, for us, taking care of the things here, Johnny, that's
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right for us. I'm making the trip with you. But you I thought
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you said Hartford, Connecticut and your vacation. Oh, the vacation. It's
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all over. It wouldn't be any fun for me to stay around after this.
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Oh, and South Bend is along the way. I'd feel better if
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I kind of took your home rather than let you make the long trip alone.
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Under the circumstances, maybe I have some business. There's something to attend
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you there, Darling. I don't know what. Ezy, Okay, you
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made it so wonderful when Daddy couldn't get here these last few days, and
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now that this terrible thing has happened, stick by me this way. That's
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the only way I'd have it. You're so wonderful. Come on, now,
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come on, get your things together. I've called for a cab to
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the airport in San Diego. Come on. Oh, thank you, Johnny,
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I love you for this. Sure, I can't say I exactly relish
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thoughts of the Back East, much as I hoped I could be of some
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small comfort to the girl, much as I genuinely wanted to. Such things
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can be pretty rough, particularly in this instance. But I am an insurance
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investigator, and in a matter of this sort a million and a half dollars
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at stake, the possibility of murder. Well, it's up to me to
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suspect everyone, whether I like it or not. Yeah, I sometimes think
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it's a pretty rotten racket to be Johnny. Sleep, funny, sleep,
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You'll need all of it you can get before you have to face things at
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home. I wasn't sleepy. I was just thinking and being so thankful that
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you're here with me, honey. I wired ahead for a hotel reservation.
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What. Yeah, I'm going to stay in South Bend a few days.
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You wonderful? Wor No, I'm going to be honest with you. I
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also wired a friend of them mine, well, a fellow with whom I
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do business now and then so I well, anyhow, I'll be there for
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a few days and maybe more, and as long as I can be of
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any help to you. It's funny, you know you still haven't told me
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what you do. Well, don't worry about that now, but I'm curious.
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Tell me. It'll give us something to talk about. Did you wire
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anyone at your home about your arrival? Yes, Harrison, the butler,
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Johnny, Well, how about the doctor who telegraphed you? Is doctor Wilson
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too, Honey Wilson, Edward T. Wilson. Tell me, no,
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no, no, you you stop talking and try to get some rest at
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all. I'm going back to the lounge in the tail sections so that you'll
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have nothing to do but get some sleep. Then you won't tell me no
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tomorrow, I see, thank you, Johnny n can maybe rough, very
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rough. I felt like a trader to her. Well. We landed in
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Chicago at ten am and took a care from the airport to the Lamar home
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on the outskirts of South Bend. I never before realized that the big industrial
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city, with all its huge, dirty, sprawling factories, had such a
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wealthy residential section and the Lamar home on Parody Lane was one of the most
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impressive of all, set far back in what must have been an acre well
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kept one. In addition to Harris and the butler, we were met at
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the door by the housekeeper, cooked upstairs and downstairs, maids, and a
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couple of other servants, all of them obviously in deep sorrow over the passing
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of the master of the house. And may I most humbly for all of
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us express our deepest sympathy in this hour of this It's all thank you,
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Harrison, Thank you all. I'm going to my room and we'll call you
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when. Yes, miss, this is mister Dollar. Mister Dollar. He's
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to be admitted to the house anytime. He I'll be here, Funny,
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as soon as possible, and you know where to reach me. Yes,
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Johnny, thank you, and oh to get to work. Whether I liked
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it or not. I took the cab to the townhouse, dump my bags,
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then back to Chicago. In the office of Lawrence Comstock, trimutuals representative,
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he was waiting for me. Well, Johnny, you sure walk into
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something this time, thick one. Larry, you don't know, you don't
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know the half of it. A million and a half of it you gave
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Pat McCracken back in heart for the idea that Lamar's death might be murdered.
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I think it is. I really think it is, Johnny. Why Tom
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Lamar was one of the best friends I ever had. You should have been
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Your commission on the insurance he was caring was enough to set you up for
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life. Oh no, Johnny, don't talk like that. Tom was a
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good friend of mine, quite aside from business. I sold him his very
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first policy years ago, and he was just a book you prefer Atlas processing
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company, earning seventy dollars a week. And when he married Elise lace As
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his wife who died five years ago, that policy was only for twenty five
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hundred straight life. So where you know how little my commission was on that.
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But I liked him. I saw that they had a spark about him
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that with a proper kind of encouragement he could go places. And he did.
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Yeah, so I understand. I understand that Lamar Metal Products is a
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really big thing. General Metal Fabricators just bought them out, Yes, And
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Tom was getting all ready to retire spend the rest of his days having fun,
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golf, fishing, winters in California, summers in Minnesota, that sort
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of thing, and taking care of Vonnie his adopted daughter. Yeah, kind
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of worth taking care of two. Eh. I know our Larry met her
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in La Joya, California. Oh, then he brought her back here to
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face the sad fact of her father's death. Why didn't Oh yes, of
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course, the family doctor, ed Wilson. I should have realized. He
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sent a telegram to Vannie to the same place you were in La Joya.
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She's a wonderful girl, John, you're telling me, But Larry, is
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something you told Pat McCracken back in Hartford has led him to think that possibly
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Thomas Lamar was murdered John Johnny in the years I've known Tom Lamar, Yeah,
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I've not only known him, but I've known his family well, and
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much of his affairs, personal as well as business. Well, his wife
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Delise, I would have married her long ago if I'd been able to get
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to the point, Larry, Oh, yes, of course. And his
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daughter, Levonne Vonnie. I wish she'd been my daughter, my child.
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Come on, Larry, come on, get a She's a wonderful girl.
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You said that. Oh, yes, of course. Well, there were
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things in her past, Vonnie's past that even her mother and later her father
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didn't know about. But I did for Heaven's sake. Man, get to
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the point, you too, Yes, me too, Yeah, me the
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confirmed bachelor. Take him a leave, have fun for again, and make
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a big come on Murray. Listen, Johnny, I listen carefully, Doctor
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E. T. Wilson. Ed Wilson an old friend of mine as well
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as Tom. Yes, it was Ed who made the last insurance examination four
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months ago. Thomas Renee Lamar was in better health than you are. After
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all, he was only fifty nine, and he'd lived a careful life,
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taking good care of himself. On We were sure of his physical condition,
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sure of it. That's why I let him add to his already large policy.
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Larry, you've told Pat McCracken, and you've admitted to me that you
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think Thomas Lamar was murdered. Yes, John, because of one man who
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the one man who shared his confidences business in person, who was closer to
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him than even Ed Wilson or me. Well, one man who alone could
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be sure of benefiting by Tom Lamar's death. All Look, Larry, that
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bush you're beating around is getting bigger. And bigger, so simple, John
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so discouragingly simple. All right, all right, Larry, all right,
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taking anyway you like. I'm here for two reasons, because I'm a sign
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of this case and because of Vonnie. Yes, I know now who is
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it? You suspect the man Vonnie is really in love with. Oh,
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I'm sorry, Johnny. Now here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing
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episode of this week's story. Tomorrow some stuff I didn't want to hear,
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but I had to join us, won't you? Yours Truley Johnny Dollar.
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. It
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is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's story. Be
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sure to join us tomorrow night, same time in station for the next exciting
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episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back, Well,
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a pretty bad blow for a hero, particularly since he doesn't believe in love
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at first sight. Uh, you know, a way somewhat ironic because he'd
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been kind of sitting there and warning her about you. I could buy anything.
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Uh. The one thing I found myself somewhat curious about listening to this
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was well, why didn't he why was he high in the fact he was
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insurance investigator. My conclusion, and maybe other listeners have a suggestion, is
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that it's kind of like being police officer. If you mentioned, oh yeah,
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I'm an investigator or an auditor, that might be a bit of a
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kill joy in terms of mood an atmosphere. So that might be a reason
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as well. We'll have to see how this works out for Johnny. A
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tough break. I have to say a shame on Pat McCracken for calling him
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back after a week. You know, I got it with the with the
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Jolly Roger fraud matter. They provided some pretty good justification for why Johnny needed
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to be down there. They He really did not with this one, so
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so disappointed in that, but we wouldn't have a story otherwise. All right,
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Well, now it's time for some listener comments and feedback, and we
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had a couple of people post things over on our Facebook wall. One posted
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a one posted an article from WordPress called Requiem for Bob Bailey from two thousand
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and four talking about his career in his life. That's pretty important in two
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thousand and thirteen because that's the one hundredth anniversary of Bob Bailey's birth. The
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only thing I have with this article. There are a few minor issues in
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accuracies in there, or I guess thought issue would would be too harsh,
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But it begins with who grees for Bob Bailey? You know, I think,
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uh my, my general thought is that the career of Bob Bailey should
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definitely I guess the best thing I can come up with is celebrated, uh,
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particularly in this this one hundred year He left behind such a wonderful body
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of work for listeners and fans to uh enjoy and uh, you know,
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there's so much you know, good and right about it. There were some
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there were things that went horribly wrong in his life, uh you know,
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really slided by the television industry and not given a real chance to chance because
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of looks, and he just was not able to make it in the post
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radio world and his own personal world collapse. Others were able to make it,
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even William Conrad, who was denied the role of Matt Dillon, was
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able to make it. But sadly Bob Bailey wasn't. Went through a lot
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of down hard times, elienation from his family for many years, hit the
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ball really hard and then became a substance abuse counselor towards the ends of his
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life, before finally having to go into a nursing home. You know,
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so a tragic end, and it's not as remembered as he should be.
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But I think that this, you know, I think that was said and
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tragic. But what I'm so grateful for is that we have so much to
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enjoy that he's left behind. There is a sense of grieving in a sense,
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in a way, in the same sense that I guess in one way,
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I do grate for Bob Bailey in the sense that I also agree for
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people like Jimmy Duranty and Luke Costello and Virginia Gray. Write about this a
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little bit in my ebook What made the Golden Age Shine. But they were
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a different type of actor. They weren't the big celebrity, you know,
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incredibly removed from everyday life. You know, they knew what existed, you
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know, what a challenge of distance could be it. Sometimes they weren't the
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ultra rich and ultra glamourus covered constantly by paparazzi. In fact, many of
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the people in radio UH liked radio because it allowed them to be relatively anonymous.
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You know, you could do your voice on radio, particularly if your
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women, and just go home and take care of your family. And people
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thought it was wonderful and I think that I think that it really really was
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in an amazing time, and we have people who lack that humility and humanity.
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I think that made the Golden Age so unique. But anyway, was
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it well And people do do that, And I'm okay with people articles and
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cool links and links to stuff on the BBC. Only thing I ever really
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bother at on the Facebook page is people promoting, you know, themselves and
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their own websites. That's just not that's just not cool. But article stuff,
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absolutely, and thanks so much to everybody posting and sharing there. And
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I think I have one more comment. Chris writes in, Hey Adam,
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thanks for doing what you do by far the best old time radio podcast out
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there, and Diane's as I am new to your program and love it well.
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Thanks so much, Diane, and thanks so much for all your support
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and comments. That will actually do it for today. Oh one other one
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one listener was having problems on iTunes with downloading a particular episode. Nothing wrong
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with the particular episode just iTunes performance issues. If you ever have an episode,
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let's say, let's just say, for example, was this episode Obviously
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it's not, because you're listening to this is episode one fifty nine, So
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what's you There's a search box right across the top of Great Detectives dot net,
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So just put EP one zero five nine and the Apple will come up
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in the search fairly quickly, and you can download it directly off the side.
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If you're not able to do that, then you may have additional problem
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and email me and we'll see what there is. Okay, well, that
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will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with the amazing mister Malone
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and join us on Wednesday as the Lamar matter continues