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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Latin Lovely Matter (EP1549) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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cost to you. Well, now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly
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Johnny Doller. The original air date December the twenty ninth, nineteen fifty seven,
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and the title is the Latin Lovely Matter. And for those of you
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who love old time radio commercials, and I get quite a few today,
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So let's take a listen from Hollywood. It's time now or Johnny Diller,
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I love you. Hello, I said, I love you. Yeah,
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that does not please? Oh pleases me. Fine, Now, why don't
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you and I get together and we'll be able to do nice. We'll just
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name the time and the place and hey, wait a minute, who are
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you, Carmelos Johnny? Oh, let's get now the worth Carmela, Yes,
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Johnny. Well, I well, usually when my phone rings this way
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on a Sunday night. Well, I know you expect some dull insurance agent
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to be calling you, Yeah, with a dull insurance matter for you to
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worry about. No, that's usually the case, but this one does not
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need to be dull. You mean you have an insurance problem on your mind,
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of course, so maybe you will help me. Well, just name
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the company, any company, and I'm on my way the Universal Adjustment Bureau.
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So who cares if they're interested? Come on, Carmelo, get to
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the point. Huh, come see me, Johnny, tell your friend Pat
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me cracking at the UNIVERSA. Yeah, sure, tell them what that I
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called you will? Are you kidding? Goodbye? Yeah? Well where can
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I hello? Hello? Huh? Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the
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Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes,
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truly, Johnny Dollar. Now that the holiday season is with us,
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there are three different reasons why you should have several packages of Chef boyar D
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Pizza Pie Mix handy in the house. The reasons are friends who drop in
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for lunch, friends who drop in for supper, and friends who come over
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just to say hello. Because pizza is perfect to serve friends and family anytime
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will find pizza is so easy to make when you use Chef boyar D Pizza
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Pie Mix. Get several packages and now act one of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Home Office
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Universal Adjustment Bureau Hertford, Connecticut. Following is an account of expenses incurred during
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my investigation of the Latin Lovely Matter. Expense account items one, two,
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three, four, and five fifty cents for phone calls early Monday morning,
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trying to reach Pat McCracken. I am six a dollar taxi fair to the
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offices of Universal Adjustment. Oh hi, Johnny, top of the morning to
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you. Yeah, we're the Sam Hill. Have you been all morning?
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Patty? All morning? You kidding? Look the clock on this desk.
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That's exactly nine oh two for me. That's the crack of dawn. Now,
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what's bothering you? Carmela? Carmela joke? Carris, Yeah, only
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it's hokares. Oh, well, might have known she'd called you direct.
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I should have warned you, Johnny. You know her, Pat, She's
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threatened to come down here and camp on my doorstep any minute. Oh can
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you think of a nicer ornament to have around? If she's anything like she
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sounds like she is, That's why I should have suggested that Special Investigator Martha
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Maybury Boulderdale help her other Dale. How could an old battle axe like her
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and know how to deal with a young, charming, beautiful dancer like Carmela?
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Dancer? Is that what she's? Yeah? Not very good, but
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she's just as beautiful and seductive? No, no, no, maybe I
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better stick hole addy ball day. All right, Pat, quit the kidding
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and tell me what it's all about. Who's kidding? Where do I find
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Carmela her address? Oh? You see, you're already emotionally involved with You
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haven't even met her. Relationship in our business should be entirely objective, Johnny,
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How can I possibly expect you to look at Carmelo's insurance problem with an
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unbiased Oh, pad, all he'd have to do is bat those lovely big
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brown eyes at you a couple of Look. Will you stop baiting me and
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tell me what this is all about? All right? I got involved with
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this little Latin lovely as a favorite of the company that issued her the policy?
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Surely mutual in trust? What kind of a policy retirement pays her fifty
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thousand when she's forty five? Meantime, if she dies, her beneficiary gets
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the fifty grand. So what's the matter with him. Eh, Well,
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like I told you, Johnny, she's a dancer nightclubs, always has a
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partner, some good young kid who can make up for her shortcomings, only
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a different partner every month or so. Well, what's that have to do
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with her insurance? Well, she has the company name her partner as benefit
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all I see. And if she keeps changing her policies right and by now
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it has so many riders attached to it, the company's running out of filing
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space. And what's more important, the cost of servicing this one lousy policy
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and the time that's been wasted on it. And the last time, well,
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she's been so insistent you'd think she was planning to die tomorrow. Maybe
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she is. Why doesn't the company just stall on making some of these changes?
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They've tried that, So what happened? She's on the phone every day,
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two or three times a day. Nobody has any piece. That's why
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they finally turned to me in desperation, and you said you'd have me talk
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to her. I did not. She asked for you. Why how does
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she even know about me? Newspapers, some of the radio programs about the
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cases you've handled, Johnny, you're her idol. You're her dream boy.
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Oh yeah, sure, but what to do about this? Will you get
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her to settle with one beneficiary? Get her married something like that, so
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her policy will stay set for a while. Yeah, married even if you
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have yeah you uh yeah, oh no you don't not no, no,
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no, it's a great idea, Johnny. Her address is six to fore
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East forty seventh Street in New York. Now you look, just remember one
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thing. Universal Adjustment Bureau will not pay for your defense and the breach of
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promise you, John, It's all the way or nothing. Yeah. Sure,
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call me up sometime when you have a case for me, sucker me.
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That is because of Item seven nineteen forty plain fair an incidentals to New
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York City taxi from the airport to six two four East forty seventh Street,
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A nice modern apartment building complete with the uniform dorma miss who caras that's right?
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I have your name, sir, Johnny Dollar. Oh yes, cook,
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So if you'll just give me your apartment, I may I see your
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credentials? Could then? Oh sure, why not? Yeah, take a
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good look. Seems all right, thank you, sir. Now look she's
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expecting me, I know. So then what's all this fuzz about it?
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Will you sit into the lobby please? Oh sure? Now what's the number
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of her apartment? One moment? Please? She is in, isn't she?
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Yes, she is. I don't understand I answering the house phone.
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Yes, certain that she's in, absolutely, sir. Why she doesn't answers
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her apartment? It's number seven up the stairs, Come on showing it away,
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Yes, sir, she only came in a few minutes ago, and
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nobody else has called on her house. Sir. We're all those precautions of
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yours on her orders. Yes, she seemed to be fearful of something lately,
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fearful. All right here sir, number seven. Mm hmm, that's
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funny. Socadres soccadre is Camela. Listen what that sound inside? There must
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be somebody here, yes, sir, Now, I'm giving to me quick.
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But unless you have some authority, mister, I have all I need.
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H Carmela. She's been killed. No, no, she's alive,
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all right. But that's about all Act two of yours, truly, Johnny
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Use it anywhere, anytime, vix In Hailer, and now act two
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of yours truly, Johnny Dollar and the Latin Lovely Matter Carmelo Hocare's beautiful Latin
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American dancer who kept changing the beneficiary of her insurance policy to the point where
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the company was going crazy, who demanded another change, this time almost desperately.
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We found her unconscious on the floor of her apartment. Bill the Dorman
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discovered how her assailment had got in through the service entrance into the kitchen.
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Sai dalla unless it have run away when heard us at the door, any
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brandy, anything like that around here building? He has a little bar there
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in the corner, okay, said, do you know a doctor you can
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call? I have a list of my desk and love it when I go
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on down and call him. Isn't this a matter for the police. I'll
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worry about that. You get a doctor up here. Comela Cometa, come
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out of here. See if you can drink this? Oh, Johnny,
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that's right, come on, I'll drink this. That's good. A little
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more now, come on, no, I'm all heart Now help me to
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the sofa. You know. Hey, how's that? Thank you? Johnny
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dog. I badly heard what happened. He struck me. He knocked one
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the back door. I thought he was really to deliver something, so I
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opened the door and he struck me before I could. Johnny, it was
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terrible. Who was he? You know, Darling, I'm still so afraid.
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Hold me, please in your arms. Carmela, do you know who
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it was? No? It was then he heard you and Billy at the
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front door, and you have no idea who it could have been. Well,
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he was short and dark, and Johnny, the man who has been
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calling me, first from Mexico and then from here in New York, threatening
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me. I do not know, Darling. It's threatening about what you have
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done it once too many, he would say, Now you will be sorry,
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and he would hang up. Done What ONTs too many? Or too
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often? Or whatever it meant? You do not know, Johnny? Well,
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I know, don Well. The insurance company would never carry things this
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far. The insurance, Johnny, you can't do it for me, can't
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you, Darling. I only ask them to make a little change, but
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all they do is delayed delay. No. Look, we have more things
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to think about now, more important than the insurance. You do not understand.
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Please, my sweet stars, how can I work on this Armando's.
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First we find out who attack you and why? Oh, Billy Darling,
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the doctor says, to be here in fifteen to twenty minutes. No,
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not the doctor. I love you, Billy, but you're a nice boy.
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But not the doctor. Why not? Because because I am all right
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now you're sure about that, Carmela, Yes, yes, I am all
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right. You know you recovered pretty fast now marks on you? What do
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you mean? I wonder just how much of a beating you really took,
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Johnny, my darling, my love. Surely you do not think. I'm
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not sure what I think. Okay, Billy, call off the doctor until
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I can find out what's what? Thank you? You do care about me?
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I love you? Oh yeah sure? And ay boy, you stay
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here until I get back. Yes, my oanito, where are you going?
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You know something? Carmela? I wish I knew. I know where
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I was going all right, to eighteenth Precinct police headquarters. My old friend
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Randy Singer. If anybody could get me a rundown on Carmela and any other
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contacts he could. If Carmela's attacker left any finger, Princess Boys would find
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him cutting through the alley beside the apartment building. Headquarters would only be a
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couple of blocks away. But all that alley was a mistake. I didn't
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see the man step out of the doorway behind me, but I did feel
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that old familiar polk in the smaller my back. No keep walking signor to
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the next doorway. Now, look, if you'll take that gun out of
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my bank walk? What is this a hold up? Now keep here.
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Well, I am Pherrico senior daughter, wellly for you, so what I
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could hear you from the back stairway of her apartment, So you would help
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her, Carmela. Maybe no, you will not, because I will kill
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you. First Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment,
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Smoke Kent, smoke Can Smoke Kent with the micrant Ie filter. Remember
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this, Kent filters best of all the leading filters. So get the mile
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Kent Sager Red Smoke Kent with the microant eye filter. M h m hm
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hm m hmmm. Remember this, Kent filters best of all the leading filters.
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So get the mile Can s Red Smoke Kent. Smoke Kent, Smoke
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Kent. What a wonderful feeling. Smoke Kent. No. Act three of
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yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the Latin lovely matter you hear me,
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I will kill you. Mind telling me why I will kill you before I
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let you help that woman ruin my son, your son. You are from
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the company for the insurance, are you not? That's right to make her
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the change in the policy, to change what you call the the benefit the
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beneficiary. Yes, that's what she's asked for. But I will not let
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you. Well, I haven't said I. Oh look, put away that
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gun, will you know? Okay? Chief what? But be careful this
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man is armed. Who do you call it? We see just affording yourt
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u? No that car no all right now or uneven terms? Just who
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are you? And what's this all about? Fedderico Gomez, the father of
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Armando. Who's Amanda Armando? My son? He would be the next fly
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in the web of the spider of what that woman Carmela who carries it is
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my boy, my fine son, that she would make her victim like all
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the others, like oh what other's look? Mister Gome is a dancer,
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my son, I fine answer, the toast of all Mexico. And she
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would do with him what she did with the rest charm and make love to
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them, bring them here to the city to dance with her, unless I
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stopped or I failed to see anything butt And like the others, my son
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would fall in love with her with all his heart, with all his soul,
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with all his mind, I'm sure. But she, oh, of
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course, she would prove her love for him with all the big insurance benefit
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you mean not naming those lands and her insurance policy. Oh no, wait
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a minute, You do not know what fifty thousand of your American dollars can
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mean to a young man fresh in his what you call corren Is it not
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true? Well, yeah, it's a lot of doe, the hold up
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in front of a young fellow. But there's a big difference between that much
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cash and just a promise of insurance money. The eyes of a young man
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are easily blinded by this beautiful woman, Amigo. She has blinded so many.
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They have done with her and given her their money because they loved her.
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But when she got their money, she was through with them. When
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they begged her to marry them, she spit on them. She turned them
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out. Pedro Fernandez, you know of him, No, I'm afraid I
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don't because of this woman. He killed himself. So it was with him
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and as the son of my friend. But she will not do this to
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my son. And you honestly think the mere fact of a big insurance policy.
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Was it not true? With him? And as with Pedro, with
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God health, with all the rest. These were young men, and me
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go like my son, unwise to the world, unwise to a woman like
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this suicide. I will do anything to keep up from using that insurance to
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ruin my son, Senor. The more I live in this world are more
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amazed. I am at some of the things that happen in it, things
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that are implausible, impossible, but that sometimes do happen. I can only
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beg of you. All right, Look, mister Gomez, I'm keeping this
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gun by right said, I have you locked up for poking into my back,
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for your attack on Carmela. But I where are you staying at the
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hotel the Glen Arms. I want you to go back there, stay there
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until you hear from me. You will help me, Senor, if you'll
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do as I say, Grassi gracious. The scene with Commela back in her
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apartment was not a pretty one. She not only admitted to having used the
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insurance, among other things, to further her shaky career at the expense of
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those young and better dances, but it was quite proud of the broken hearts
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and broken mind she may have left behind until I tore into her, and
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believe me, I did. Oh no, you look, if you didn't
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murder those two young kids, well you might as well have plunged in the
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knife yourself. I don't know what laws, what legal action may be dragged
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in to make you pay for what you've done. But there are moral laws
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too, laws of decency. I'll tell you this, Camila, that from
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now on, the police of this town and of anywhere else you may go,
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believe me, they'll be gunning for you. And if anything like this
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ever happens again, Johnny, please you must believe me. I did not
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think. I was thinking only about myself. I did not realize it was
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high time you did your insurance. Oh baby, that's going to be canceled
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unless you can think of someone far away from your career to leave your money
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to someone you can't hurt, Johnny, I promised, don't you see,
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Never before has anyone made me realize what I was doing. I have only
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had to think. By the time I left her, she was sobbing her
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heart out, promising that she'd spend the rest of her life making up for
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the things she'd done. And who knows, maybe well, who knows?
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Expense account total including incidentals and transportation back to Hartford? Uh, Johnny Dollar,
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Pat mccrack and Johnny, Oh hi, pad Well, I just got
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around to finishing up my report and expense account on that Carmelo Hocare's thing last,
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and just forget the expense account part of it. For the life of
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me, I don't know how you did it. What are you talking about?
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The company just sent me a copy of the writer Johnny, the last
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and final writer on her policy naming the new beneficiary and absolutely irrevocably can ever
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be changed again? Who did she name? Pat? Some old childhood?
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Are you kidding you? What you slide? Dog? Hello? Hello?
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Now Here is our star to tell you about next week's story. Next
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week, some priceless jewelry, a beautiful girl, and believe me, they
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add up to trouble. Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny
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Dollar, Yours truly Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey. Originates in Hollywood and
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is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's story. Heard
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in our cast were Lucille Meredith, Larry Dobkin, Jimmy Mcallian, and Harry
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Bartel. Be sure to join us next week, same time and station for
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another exciting story of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Coberly
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speaking, welcome back. While an interesting insurance scheme, I'm much Johnny in
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terms of not knowing what they can do legally, it does kind of sound
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like there might be some sort of civil matter, but it's the top of
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civil matter most people aren't going to want to talk about in court. Kind
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of a nice twist at the end showing that if Johnny Dollar's fist wants to
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fine, sometimes is moral outrage. Will though whether I totally buy even Johnny
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Dollar being able to get through to someone as portrayed in this story, it's
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still an interesting portrayal. Of course. What's also interesting is the commercial breaks.
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And we've kind of seen how commercials have there been spaces made for them
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in the Armed Forces. Radio and television services versions of these shows and those
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that don't have the public service announcement added tend to be kind of short.
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And now we get an example for the first time of what listeners were hearing
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as they listened to commercial radio in the United States, and that was a
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lot of commercials, and it's a lot more like the experience we have to
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today. Throughout most of the golden age of radio, if you advertised on
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radio, you sponsored the whole show. Whether it was regularly gum or camel
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cigarettes or Johnson's wax, you own the whole program, and most were dedicated
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to a single product. In fact, May in the nineteen thirties it took
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Fred Allen to do some convincing to get his sponsors to believe that they could
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promote two different products of their own on the same program. But by the
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time you get into the late nineteen fifties, revenue from radio is declining and
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they're not finding sponsors willing to purchase a whole program. CBS begin selling these
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four and five smaller advertising spots and they do get some companies who go ahead
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and purchase the spot. And of course, in many ways this does make
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sense because as an advertiser, you do have some diminishing returns. If they're
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hearing the same pitch from you all season long, an audience isn't going to
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respond to that. I mean, if you continue on multiple seasons, it
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just kind of becomes something people don't even hear. So this allowed them to
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get on radio reach those who are still listening to radio and not be responsible
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for advertising a whole program. And the commercials, of course are different.
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They're a little bit catch here. There's still some discussion of factoids, but
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there are many ads within the Golden Age entertainment where certain facts or if you
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like, claims about a product will be presented. And it's the same fact
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week after week. Whether it's that more doctors smoke camels than any other brand
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of cigarette, or that rallies are the cigarette with the coupon on the back,
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it's essentially the same thing week in and week out. And even though
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these are recorded commercials, there's a little bit more of a variety in them.
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So advertising taking a step forward and taking a step onto Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar some interesting ads, and certainly we'll hear more as we come across more
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of the network broadcast of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar from this era. Well,
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that will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with Dragging It.
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Next Friday, join us for another episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
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