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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Time and Tide Matter (EP1585) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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  is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it
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  to me Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio
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  Detectives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com slash
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  Radio Detectives. Before we do get started, I do want to let you
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  know this episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is dedicated to Rosy Zany on her
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  birthday from her husband Jason. And now it's time for today's episode of Yours
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  Truly Johnny Dowler the original air date February sixteenth of nineteen fifty eight, and
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  the Tonnel, the Tom and Todd matter. Well, Hollywood, it's time
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  now for Johnny Dollar, Bat McCracken, Universal Adjustment. Buia, Johnny.
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  All right, Brad, what's new at the moment? Edward J. Rollins
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  the third? Ah, what about him? One of our companies has a
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  hefty policy on his life and he sent word he wanted to change his beneficiary
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  that it disappeared, and you want me to go looking for him? That's
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  the general idea. A look bad, she canna be wasting go sending many
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  chances are he'll pump up again by himself. Oh yes, I know,
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  of course it involved a little trip to the Caribbean. But if you're not
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  interested in the Caribbean, I'll be right over Bob Bailey in the writing Adventures
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  of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's fibulous freelance insurance investigator.
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  That's truly Johnny Dollar, and now act one of yours. Truly Johnny
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  Dollar. Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar, the Universal Adjustment Bureau,
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  Hertford, Connecticut. Rolling is the acount of expenses encourage during my investigation
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  of the time and Tide matter expense account out and won a dollar twenty camp
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  fare from my apartment to the offices of Universal Adjustment Bureau and Pat McCracken.
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  The mention of the cab being the drink sit down. Thanks, Now,
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  what's the deal? About six months ago, Johnny ed Rollins decided to marry
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  a girl in Virginia, Blake, and he took out a large policy on
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  himself from one of our companies, naming her as beneficiary. Last week he
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  apparently changed his mind. Oh, called from Nassau, said he wanted to
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  remove Virginia Blake his beneficiary, and he was supposed to come to Miami to
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  sign the papers. We had an aged waiting there for him, but he
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  didn't show. What was he doing in Nassau. He had his cabin cruiser
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  down there with the three of his friends among them. Virginia Blake, did
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  you check Nassau to see if he's still there? We checked. His boat
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  is gone now. The trail just docks in Nassau. Johnny, where the
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  lead is anybody's guest expense of con had him two one hundred and forty dollars
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  even air transportation and incidentals to Nassau and the Bahamas. There I found him.
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  Man remember fueling up Rowlins's boat a few days before. He'd heard them
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  talking about working their way down through the Bahamas, skin diving and then cutting
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  over to Jamaica. They mentioned one place in particular, Crooked Island. I
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  had him three fifty dollars transportation via chartered seaplane to Crooked Island. I spotted
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  Rolins cruiser in one of the coals. The pilots sent me down here by
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  dating with an outboard motor. Came over from the boats. It was at
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  Rowlins. You say you're an insurance investigator dollar and that's right, mister Rollins.
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  What are you doing here? All? I came to see if you
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  were okay me, Why shouldn't I be? You were supposed to meet an
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  agent from the company in Miami last week. You didn't show up. Oh,
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  I changed my mind. You mean you came all the way down here
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  because I didn't show up in Miami. Woh, and a man with a
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  healty policy in his life disappears. The insurance company starts worrying as though it
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  seems hey, uh, mind flowing down a bit. I'd like to talk
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  to you before we get on board. Sure, now, what's on your
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  mind? As I understand that you took out a policy about six months ago
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  and named A Virginia Blake as beneficiary. Is that's right? We're going to
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  be married? Then a week ago you apparently changed your mind. Well,
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  I decided to think it over some more. That's why I brought the boat
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  down here. Trouble, Oh, it's well, it's just well, I
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  might as well tell you. I began to suspect Virginia's been two timing me.
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  Oh was home for that? I don't know? Have you asked her
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  about it? No? Not yet? Why not because I'm afraid you might
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  tell me the truth. Maybe I don't really want to hear it. Oh,
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  I see, look, mister dollar, we're going to do a little
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  more skin diving here in the cove this afternoon. Then shove off or Jamaica
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  around dark. Why do it? Come along? You can catch a plane
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  back to the States from there. Okay, who all's on board your bat?
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  Let's see Virginia you know about. Then there's Bill Winslow. Winslow,
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  Yes, kind of a beach combor, a hard I bring him along,
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  may need to handle the boat. He's real good at it. Anybody else?
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  Oh, Tony Atherton Worth a sort of guy, but rather amusing company
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  once in a while. The I introduced me to Virginia, so I owe
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  him something for that, I guess. Oh, look, you mind introducing
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  me as just an old friend of yours. Yes, that's just what I
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  had in mind. Oh, say that they are waiting for us on deck.
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  Bill Winslow was tall, lanky, blond, crew cut, deep tan,
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  the kind of looked at home on the boats. Tony Ancident, on
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  the other hand, was the kind it was at home nowhere or maybe anywhere
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  as long as he had a drink in his hand. And Virginia, well,
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  one look at her and you forgot where home was. Rollins and Bill
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  Winslow, strapped on uplongs went over the side to do some skin diving.
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  Tony Afiden, Virginia and I sat around on deck for a while. I
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  noticed that Virginia didn't seem to be at ease athidn noticed it too. Use
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  a drink, Virginia, No, thanks, that's mad at downing boor No,
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  you see, Dylan, Virginia didn't really want to come on this trip.
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  Did you do skip it? Tony? Will you seems like Edwin Bill
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  has been underwater along while? Yeah? Yeah, I was wondering about that.
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  How long did they by? Ed likes to live dangerously? Besides,
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  he's got Bill Winslow, all American boy, to take care of it.
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  Will you lay off at Tony? Hey there they are. Wait a minute,
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  it looks like Rolins want to face I got place by Get it off
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  you, okay? Rollins? Yes, yes, I guess what happened?
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  Oh, something went wrong with the air supplies sprang the leak. Thanks,
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  Bill hadn't been for you? Oh skip it. Just lucky I was close
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  to you. I got this, Robert Tilby, it's straight through. I
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  guess I must have scraped it against the coral for sure. Yeah, yeah,
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  that's probably it. Fact two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in
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  a moment, And now for another episode in the life of Sergeant Donald bell
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  Weather my husband, Hi, honey, to fix the winds. Your wife's
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  a sure dead riva. How that? Oh you fixed him? Good for
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  you, Donald, Thank you, my dear. Well that's that now.
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  If the rains were prepared for it, huh I feel better now, Oh
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  me too. A driver has to see the danger if he expects to avoid
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  it, that's right. And also keep the back and side wind is clear,
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  and rain and snowy weather, that's right. Oh how about the horn?
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  The horn? The horn doesn't work, sergeant. Aren't you going to
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  fix it? No? I don't think so, Frankly, Reba, I
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  hate horns. Whenever there's a traffic jam, the first thing some guys do
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  is bother horn, which does absolutely no good. Of course, not all
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  it does is jar everyone's nerves. No, I don't think I'll fix though,
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  Hall. But now wait a minute, done, Look supposing we're driving
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  along, then suddenly we see a youngster on his bicycle headed right out into
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  the street. Sounding that horn will warn him and possibly avoid a tragic accident.
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  Yes, that's true. Or supposing we're driving on the highway and just
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  as we're about to pass a car, that car decides to pull out into
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  our lane and pass the car ahead of him. He obviously doesn't see us,
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  and he won't hear a shout, but one little beep on that horn
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  and he'll automatically scoop back and avoid a collision. Raba, you've convinced me,
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  even though it can be a nuisance, the automobile horn is in necessity.
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  Then you're repaired immediately. Oh that's my donald, that's my doll.
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  No at too of yours? Truly, Johnny Dollar and the time and tide
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  matters. Ed Rolinds seemed to regard his close shave underwater as an accident,
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  so I decided to play it that way. But I wasn't convinced somebody could
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  have tampered with his air holes. We got on the way around dark and
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  headed for Jamaica. About ten, I went up on deck for a cigarette.
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  It was a dark knight, but from the stern, I could see
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  two figures up in the cockpit. One was Virginia, the other at the
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  wheel I figured was Ed Rollins. There was a long kiss and they lit
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  cigarettes. In the light from the match, I could see it wasn't Ed
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  Rolands at all. It was Bill winslow dollar that you had romans. I
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  guess he'd just come topside, but I didn't know if he'd seen what I'd
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  just seen. If he had, he gave no sign of Johnny. You
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  know that stuff I was telling you about maybe cutting Virginia out his beneficiary.
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  Yeah, what about it? I think you better forget it. I've decided
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  to go ahead and marry her. Well, I don't think I could get
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  along without her. Oh I see, I have h look Rollins. It's
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  it's probably none of my business, but I well as something I feel.
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  There's Virginia now up in the cockpit with Bill. Yeah, yeah, that's
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  right. I thought you was below. Well, she must be doing some
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  navigating. Yeah, Virginia, Virginia, honey, come on back. Oh,
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  okay, watch your footing. We're rolling a little. Yeah, it's
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  pretty heavy. Twelve. How's Bill getting along up there? Okay, Well,
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  it's about the time I relieved him at the wheel. I'll take over
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  if your line, Thanks Johnny, but I enjoy handling the boat at night.
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  Virginia, Honey, you look sort of tired. Maybe you will turn
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  in. I will as soon as I finished my cigarette. Well, i'll
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  take over now, drawing crew. Who's mister Donne? Sure? Sure?
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  How about you? Why not? According to Tony affident, you didn't wanna
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  make this to Tony's very good at remarks like that. Well, I thought
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  you and he were old friends. That's just say I've known him a long
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  time. Ah are you doing? Dollah? Fine? What's long? How's
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  the boat doing? On course? We should reach Jamaica tomorrow night. Uh,
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  Virginia, hy think I'll go below now, I'll see you in the
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  morning. Good night night, Virginia. Well you seem pretty much at home
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  about about once long. It's where I belong. You and Rawlins seem to
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  do all the boat handling. How about accident? Did he ever give you
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  a hand? No? No, he's just a passenger, tight rob about
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  Virginia? Does she handle a boat him? She can handle anything. Ah,
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  she's a nice girl, mister dollit. He deserves the best. Maybe
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  that's what Robins can give her. Maybe you don't sound convinced, good,
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  I doll Yeah. When we reached Jamaica the next night, I decided to
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  do some checking I want to assure and call Pat McCracken back in the States.
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  Asked him to find out what he caught about any of us. He
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  was to call me at a restaurant where we were having dinner. Winslow went
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  back to the boat right after the meet on Athad and drifted out to inspect
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  a few bars Rollin's. Virginia and I stayed at the table of a coffee
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  but Virginia was restless and edgy. Finally she told Rollin she wanted to talk
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  to him. They went out on the terrace, and just then my call
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  in the States came through, Johnny B. McCracken. Hi, did you
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  find out anything. Yeah, ran a check on Virginia Blake. I found
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  out she's apparently been paying off for something. What do you mean, She's
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  been issuing checks regularly, a couple of hundred bucks apiece, and always to
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  the same guy. You know his name, Yeah, Tony Atherton. I
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  hung up and went out to the Terris Robins in Virginia gone. I started
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  looking for Tony Affterdon. I tried half a dozen bars with no luck.
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  It was half to one in the morning. When I got back to the
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  boat. Anthonyon was in his bunk. I woke him up. What do
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  you want, Tyler? Don't you realize what time it is? Yeah?
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  I want to know why even black meaning Virginia. Wait a minute, it's
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  a pretty ugly words all right? Now look aathten Hello? Anybody aboard?
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  Yeah? Who is it? It's a hasty to make it believe this mister
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  Edwin Rollins boat. Yes, that's right, I heid, I have some
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  bad news for you. Mister Rollins is being slugged and robbed. What the
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  world she heard? Bad? I haven't heard? So touch and girl,
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  whether or not you'll live? Act three of yours truly Johnny Dollar in a
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  moment, and now for another episode in the life of Sergeant Donald's Bellweather.
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  My husband Reba Riba, What is it? Donald? Confounded? Rebby can't
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  find the fountain panel, looked all through this desk. Here it is.
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  You must have used it as a marker when you were reading this book.
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  See that's great literary classic. Six gun showdown at Powder River gulch. All
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  right, never mind about my reading habits. Just look at the coverage we're
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  going to get with this new auto accident policy. Let's see collision fifty dollars
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  deductible O ry seth public liability and property damage medical benefits. In other words,
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  we have complete coverage. That's right. Of course, it's gonna cost
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  us money. I'm sending the company a check right now. Gee, it's
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  too bad we don't live in Rhode Island. Rhode Island. What oh,
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  because then our rate should be lower. Rhode Island has less accidents per capita
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  than any other states. Oh, which state has the highest? I see?
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  Yeah here it is Nevada. No, by Gollan, Nevada's second highest.
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  Alaska has the most. I didn't know that. You know, it's
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  just I'm bad we can't eliminate traffic accidents completely. Not only would it save
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  life and land, but it'll be a lot less straight on the pocketbook.
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  Yeah, that's for sure. These automobile accident policies get more expensive every year,
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  just because there's so many costly accidents. Well, I'm glad we've got
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  some good insurance coverage, Donald, but just remember one thing. Well,
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  some auto accidents, ruin a thunder, and some ruin a family. That's
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  true, very true. But as far as I'm concerned, I want any
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  of your old insurance money. I want you here at home, safe and
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  sound. We'll always drive carefully, won't you us? I will be well,
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  that's my Donald, that's my doll. Now act three of yours,
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  truly Johnny Dollar, and the time and tide matter. We please inspect her
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  Hastings. Let me down the pier and around the corner of a warehouse about
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  one hundred yards from the boat. This is where one of my men discovered
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  Rawlins. Mister Darler had been slugged with a language pipe. We find me
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  up by no fingerprints on it. Else, Rollins is in the hospital in
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  the Koma Kay hasn't more than a fifty to fifty chun. You said something
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  about robbery. Inspector's wallet and valuables are gone. I'm afraid it had quite
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  a bit of that sort of thing around the water pund lately. Robbery maybe
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  maybe not. I poked around the pier for a while but didn't join up
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  a thing. It was about seven in the morning when I finally got back
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  to the boat. An Avidence State Room. I told the GINU what happened,
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  Dalla, she went to the hospital, made it okay. I can
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  talk to her later at it, and I still want to know why even
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  blackmail again? Oh, look at that proof, Della. Jenny has been
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  issuing checks to you pretty regularly. Look what's wrong with that? She and
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  I are old friends, had bad luck with someone investments. You can kind
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  of to help me out. I look, dallaf you're trying to time me
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  in with what happened to Rollins. You're just wasting time, am I of
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  course, yeah, you stop this nonsense. I can probably help you all.
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  Look, they can look out this portholes. Go on, let me
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  see. Let's stretch your peer a warehouse exactly what about it? Well,
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  just as I was turning in last night, I heard footsteps on the pier.
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  I looked out the porthole. Somebody was walking along it. As he
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  turned the corner, I could see who he was by the warehouse light.
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  It was Ed Rollins. Oh. A moment later, somebody stepped out of
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  the shadows and followed them around the corner. Della. That was Bill Winslow.
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  I tell you I'm not the one who slugg ed Rollins, but would
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  admit taking a walk last night late. But sure, so what why where'd
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  you go? Oh? Along the waterfront? I don't remember just where,
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  and I don't remember what time it was along that pier out there around that
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  warehouse. Maybe maybe Look, I wasn't paying much attention where I was going,
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  but I didn't see Rowlins at all. What reason would I have to
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  do a thing like that, toy? I can maybe think of one,
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  like what like you and Virginia Melliot? Now just a minute, that has
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  nothing to do with I think it has When's love? Get this straight?
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  Dollar. I didn't slug Rollins. I kept hammering away at him, but
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  I couldn't get anywhere. Finally I left him and went up on Tick.
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  Virginia had just come back from the hospital. He's still unconscious, Johnny.
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  They say they don't know what he will make it. Virginia, what happened
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  last night? When I got through with my phone call at the restaurant,
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  Ewan Rowins had left. Yes, we walked around town while I was talking,
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  and Ed said he had something to take care of, so he sent
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  me back to the boat in the cab. Nice came back here and went
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  to bed. I didn't know what had happened until Tony Appington told me this
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  morning, Uh mind telling me what you and Rowlands were talking about last night?
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  He he told me about the doubts he's been having about me, but
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  he realized he he still wanted to marry me. Oh, and I told
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  him there were a couple of things he should know about me. First,
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  why billin'slow, for instance. Not that it matters now, Johnny, but
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  that was a good bye kiss. Oh. A couple of months ago,
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  I became very attracted the Bill, but it was no good. He gives
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  Bill a boat or a beach, and well, his singing doesn't go much
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  beyond that. And I began to realize that what I really wanted to dead.
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  What was his reaction when you told him about was law. He's a
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  pretty wonderful guy, Johnny. That's why anything happens he doesn't go through.
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  I don't know what I'd do And what was the other thing he told him
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  last night? But Tony Atherton had been blackmailing me. I see, I
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  roomed with a girl once I thought was okay, that she wasn't and stolen
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  things were found in our apartment I thought they were hurts. I couldn't fool
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  if I wasn't involved. You did time for him? Yes, I wish
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  I'd totally had to start well at Licia did till her last night, Johnny,
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  who could have done this to him? You don't think it could have
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  been blown? Oh? What I think doesn't matter, Virginia. It's what
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  I controlled that counts, and right now that's nothing. I walked off the
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  boat along the waterfront. There was a swirl on the channel. The tide
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  was going out. It was almost lower. I glanced over at Rowland's boats.
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  I was resting lower against the pier. Now. Suddenly a couple of
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  ideas started pecking away at me. I went back aboard the boat and found
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  a tide table. According to my watch and the table, it was low
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  time. Then I looked up the time of the previous roar. Yeah.
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  I headed for Tony out dident state room. All right, all right,
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  So Virginia was bringing a little silence from me about her pass or what Jini
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  told Rolands. You'd been blackmailing her. He probably didn't like it much.
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  He told her he had some business to take care of. It could have
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  been with you, so he went out looking for you around the town.
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  He found Britain to have you prosecuted was at it. So you followed him
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  down to the waterfront, sneaked up behind him and slut off. You figured
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  you'd killed him, But even if you hadn't, you were safe because he
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  couldn't have seen who slugged it. Kelly talk nonsense. Told you I saw
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  Bill winslow following rollins. I saw it right through this porthole, and that's
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  where you hung yourself. Right, take a look at that porthole. What
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  do you see? Yeah, the pilings of the pier. It's low tied,
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  so what And it was low tied at the time of the attack.
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  You couldn't have seen over the top of the pier. Then you were lying,
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  oh no, look, I tell you I won't try it. You
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  know, it's funny accident. Shakespeare was low right than he knew. There
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  is a tide in the affairs of men which sometimes leads to fortune. And
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  you have case. Brother, you missed. Expense account total including transportation and
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  incidental's home four hundred and three dollars fifty cents, remarks Tony Evinen's in jail
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  where he belongs. Bill Winslow is somewhere in a book where he belongs ed
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  Rollins pulled through. I in Virginia will get married next month. Yours Truly,
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  Johnny Dollar. Now here is our star to tell you about next week's
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  story. Next week, the plot revolves around Oong's hat, and if you
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  want to know what that means, well join us, won't you? Yours
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  Truly Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey, originates in
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  Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Today's story was written by
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  Robert Wright. Heard in our cast were Virginia, Greg Larry Dobkin, Herbellus,
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  Tony Barrett, Right Nelson, and Ben Wright. Be sure to join
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  us next week, same time and station for another exciting story of Yours Truly
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  Johnny Dollars. This is Dan Cubberly speaking. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar has been
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  a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television service Welcome Back.
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  I love that sound effect. In the beginning, when Johnny found out this
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  assignment would require a trip to the Caribbean, that was just a not really
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  nice touch. Also, this was the first time I heard us get a
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  double dose of Donald Bellweather and their concerns with safety. Of course, one
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  of the commercials was one we'd heard previously, but always an interesting little loss
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  of how things were in the fifties. And we also have an interesting note
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  on this episode, just kind of a curious little coincidence. But I've heard
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  Virginia Gray play Brooksy, I've heard her play Helen, I've heard her play
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  She's played so many characters, but this is the first time I've had her
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  play a character named Virginia. I don't know whether that was intentional or not.
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  I did find one plot part of the plot curious, where they were
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  able to get access to her bank account records, you know where, basically
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  no real investigation at the point that you know, Johnny called it's was apparently
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  easier to get access to insurance records or they were being a bit unrealistic,
• 26:52
  I mean banking records. I lean a bit more towards the latter, right,
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  Well, now we turn to listener comments and feedback, particularly in regards
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  to the story we did with the Price of Fame Matter, and we start
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  with comment received on the website, and this one comes from Jay z M
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  who says, I've listened to many Johnny Dollar programs, but this is the
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  first with an actor portraying himself. Very enjoyable hearing Vincent Price and Johnny Dollar
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  together, the banter between them was great. Also a comment from Faby who
• 27:38
  says I had to rewind Johnny Dollar the Price of Fame Matter episode to make
• 27:44
  sure I heard correctly. It was Vincent Price as Vincent Price. Have any
• 27:48
  other actors played themselves on Johnny Dollar or the other detective shows? That's a
• 27:53
  great question, Faby, Well, I can't speak for every program. Even
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  have I've been done fifteen one hundred episodes of this show. We've maybe a
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  bit more than scratched the surface, but there's a lot I haven't heard.
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  That said, I'm aware of one specific incidence, and it was from an
• 28:14
  episode of Richard Diamond regarding Miss Missus X from June twenty first of nineteen fifty.
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  Now, if you want to listen to that, listener as certainly free
• 28:26
  to do that. But for those who just want to listen to it,
• 28:29
  when we get to it on the show in a year or so, I
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  won't spoil it. But it was really rare when you get into television,
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  and particularly when you get into the sixties and seventies with shows like Burke's Law
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  or Colombo, you tend to have more celebrity guest stars on murder mysteries.
• 28:51
  One big difference with the Golden Age of radio is that you had the star
• 28:55
  of the show who might be a big star or might not be. I
• 28:59
  look at our car current lineup. Probably Vincent rot Price and Jack Webb were
• 29:03
  probably the most famous of the detective actors, But then after that the rest
• 29:10
  of the cast, particularly when it came to guest actors murderers, victims,
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  suspects, you tended to be looking at these character actors the Howard mcneer's Virginia,
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  Greg, Ralph Edwards, Harry Bartel, etc. And some of the
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  stars of the program would tend to be not as considered to be big.
• 29:33
  Gerald Moore mostly character roles through his career on the radio, with a few
• 29:38
  starring roles thrown in. Long Clark a ton of guest appearances. Bob Bailey
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  pretty much unknown apart from radio stuff. Though on your normal detective mystery show,
• 29:52
  you generally had character actors being paid scale, and that's why so many
• 29:59
  of these shows were able to keep recording year round. In addition to that,
• 30:03
  I should say you did have some cases where you would have a more
• 30:07
  notable character as a murderer if you were talking about an episode of say Suspense,
• 30:15
  or one of those much more higher budget anthology program. Great question,
• 30:21
  And we have another question on Twitter, perhaps a bit more of a continuity
• 30:26
  question. This one comes from Carl Santos, who writes, hey, did
• 30:34
  Burt Parker die in the Jolly Roger Matter and get resurrected for this week's The
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  Price of Fame Matter? Good question, Carl, and good on you for
• 30:45
  catching that. Of course, the Jolly Roger Fraud Matter was a story that
• 30:51
  aired two years before. In answer to the question in the Johnny Dollar Story
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  Universe, I think it's safe to say that this is a coincidence of there
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  being two different Burt Parker's. The Bert Parker and the Jolly Roger Fraud Matter
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  worked in San Diego for Universal Adjustment. The Burt Parker in the Price of
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  Fame matter worked in Los Angeles for for State Mutual. And it's not like
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  Bert Parker is a very rare name in reality. This is a case where
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  both writers. In this case, Jack Johnstone wrote both scripts and so it's
• 31:30
  a case of unconscious name ory use. So Jack Webb's not the only one
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  to do that. Other comments from Bobby Lee. I love hearing them both
• 31:41
  on this episode together, Daniel says, or Danielle says, one of my
• 31:45
  favorite episodes. Michael says, two of best of those bygone days. Stephanie
• 31:53
  a great episode, and Daniel, I thought this was a weird episode when
• 31:57
  I first heard it, and I really enjoy it. Johnny Dollar is my
• 32:01
  favorite show of all time. And then we received a tweet from tech Bratt
• 32:07
  who says, I have to tell you I am hooked on your podcast.
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  You get better and better. I am a Johnny Dollar junkie. Thanks to
• 32:15
  you. Well, you're welcome and thanks so much for listening out there and
• 32:21
  appreciate you tweeting. You can follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives or you
• 32:27
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  We'll be back tomorrow with Dragnet and then next Friday, it's another adventure
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  with that man with the action packed expense account. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
• 32:43
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• 32:55
  This is your host, Adam Graham, signing off.