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Broadway Is My Beat - "The Frank Dayton Murder Case" (1953) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A wealthy real estate owner, Frank Dayton, has been killed
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  Speaker 1: with a letter opener, and Detective Danny Clover begins a
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  Speaker 1: homicide inquiry in springtime Manhattan. From CBS, this is Broadway
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  Speaker 1: is My Beat. The Frank Dayton Murder Case. Episode 160.
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  Speaker 1: First heard April 11th, 1953. Larry Thor heads a cast
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  Speaker 1: that includes Charles Calvert, Jack Krushen, Betty Lou Gerson, and
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  Speaker 1: Lamont Johnson. Morton Fine and David Friedkin wrote the script,
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  Speaker 1: with Elliot Lewis directing and producing. Alexander Courage composed and
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  Speaker 1: conducted the score. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest,
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  Speaker 2: the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's
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  Speaker 2: My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. When
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  Speaker 2: April comes to Broadway, the street is wide enough for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Blondes in convertibles, Pekingese in taxis, and sailors and college
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  Speaker 2: fellows and convention fellows. It's the place to come to
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  Speaker 2: for one reason or another. To be a tourist, to
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  Speaker 2: make a pitch, buy a bargain, get cheated, insulted, or
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  Speaker 2: have your picture taken. And when nighttime comes, walk beneath
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  Speaker 2: a special moon that hangs high over Broadway.
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  Speaker 3: Run with it.
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  Speaker 2: Get lost in the cloud shadows that scud across its face.
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  Speaker 2: Good time to make a memory, depending upon how much
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  Speaker 2: you paid, what you wanted, what you got. And the
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  Speaker 2: quality of night on the street where I was was hushed,
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  Speaker 2: lapping against cool gray stones, sudden place, and inside, paneled
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  Speaker 2: room devoted to books in red leather sets, pipe racks,
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  Speaker 2: carved mahogany desk, and jade chessmen. Man-type room for seclusions,
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  Speaker 2: For man-type problems, now given over to this, man stabbed
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  Speaker 2: to death with ivory-handled letter opener. Also man who doesn't
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  Speaker 2: believe it. It'll take time, Mr. Clover.
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  Speaker 3: This has happened to me before, you know.
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: Several times. Dreams. And this setup here has a dreamlike
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  Speaker 3: quality to it. Don't you think so?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so, Mr. Reed.
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  Speaker 3: I see. So there'll be no awakening from it, will there?
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  Speaker 2: Uh-uh. Well... You ready to tell me about it?
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dayton. Him.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Dayton called me at 7 o'clock at my place, said,
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  Speaker 3: bring your book and.
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  Speaker 2: Be here at 10. Your book?
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  Speaker 3: I'm Mr. Dayton's secretary. I thought I told you that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, go on.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I knew my evening was loused up all right
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  Speaker 3: as soon as Mr. Dayton said that. Loused up? That's
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  Speaker 3: miles for what's happening now, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Reed.
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  Speaker 3: Well, at 10, I let myself in. I have a key,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I've been with Mr. Dayton some 10 years now.
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  Speaker 3: He gave me a key because... These sort of evenings
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  Speaker 3: are not infrequent.
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  Speaker 2: So you walked into the library and you found Mr. Dayton?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly like this, and I buzzed you. How strange.
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  Speaker 2: What is?
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  Speaker 3: The dream quality is gone. You know, I'm convinced that
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  Speaker 3: this really is happening.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad for you. Now, tell me, Mr. Reed, what
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  Speaker 2: kind of business was Mr. Dayton in?
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  Speaker 3: Real estate. He owned properties from Park Avenue to Harlem, inclusive,
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  Speaker 3: both ends. exceptionally capable man.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of man was he to work for?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, kind, generous. Always felt for his tenants, wondered how
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  Speaker 3: some of them could live like they did.
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  Speaker 2: How about his friends, the women? Well, exclusively.
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  Speaker 3: You may as well know that, the line of business
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  Speaker 3: you're in and what you have to do now.
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  Speaker 2: A particular woman, Mr. Reed?
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  Speaker 3: Well, these last couple of months I've sent flowers for
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  Speaker 3: him only to Miss Vance, Cecily Vance. I'll jot down
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  Speaker 3: her address for you if you wish it. Well, do you?
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you must admit the evening's really laughed up. Wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: you say so?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Miss Vance, Cecily Vance.
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: I'm from the police, Danny Clover.
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  Speaker 5: And I am alone here, and things must be spelled
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  Speaker 5: out for me.
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  Speaker 2: Sure they do.
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  Speaker 5: So the badge, please.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about it inside, huh, Miss Vance?
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  Speaker 5: But nowhere else than inside. Please come in. I know
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  Speaker 5: it's my place to think of something to say, something
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  Speaker 5: to offer. Just be content with the music coming from.
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  Speaker 3: The record player.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Frank Dayton.
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  Speaker 3: Frank?
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  Speaker 5: But what a nice gambit you've given me. I'm pleased,
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  Speaker 5: really pleased.
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  Speaker 2: About Frank Dayton.
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  Speaker 5: An infinite man. A good man. Kind, gentle, forbearing. And
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  Speaker 5: I'm a girl who can take a good deal of forbearance.
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  Speaker 5: Why do you make Frank our topic of conversation? Pleasant,
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  Speaker 5: though it is.
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  Speaker 2: A little while ago, we found him murdered. Miss Fancy.
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  Speaker 5: This place is mine. This incredible penthouse, this view of
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  Speaker 5: the city. And the miracle of it. Every night on
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  Speaker 5: the night.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear me, Miss Vance? I said Frank Dayton was.
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  Speaker 5: Frank made it all possible. We were engaged. He showed
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  Speaker 5: me this place and he said get it ready for
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  Speaker 5: when we're married. So deep a fall.
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  Speaker 6: To the pavement.
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  Speaker 5: No, don't touch me, Mr. Clover. I shan't do anything silly.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a very sensible girl.
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  Speaker 2: Good. And because you're like that, you know why I'm here.
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  Speaker 5: In the last few weeks. Flowers I've had from Frank,
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  Speaker 5: but no Frank. And being as I'm so sensible, I
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  Speaker 5: would not kill a man who keeps dead memories fresh
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  Speaker 5: with cut flowers.
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  Speaker 2: Another woman? Is that what you're trying to tell me?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know what I'm trying to
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  Speaker 5: tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Just simply, so we won't waste time.
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  Speaker 5: There was a March day, soft, lush. And a ride
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  Speaker 5: with Frank to view his properties. And one of them
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  Speaker 5: where we stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Go on.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, go on. And a girl in a window. A
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  Speaker 5: girl 16 or all of 17, all of that. And
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  Speaker 5: Frank sat very quietly and looked at her. And I said,
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  Speaker 5: say something, Frank.
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  Speaker 2: And he did. What?
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  Speaker 5: He said, look at her, Cecily. And tell me what
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  Speaker 5: I am to say of a girl.
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  Speaker 6: Of a girl that is a prayer....
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  Speaker 5: Like a touch of wind in a twilight place. Frank
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  Speaker 5: never said words like that about me, about anyone or anything.
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  Speaker 2: Where was this place?
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  Speaker 3: Where else?
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  Speaker 5: Tenement. Third from the corner of West 19th and 10th Avenue.
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  Speaker 5: Place on the first floor of the street. You'll know it.
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  Speaker 5: Because there is a window there stained with the beauty
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  Speaker 5: of a 17-year-old girl. We finished our chat?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, for now.
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  Speaker 5: I shall go to sleep and pray my soul to keep.
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  Speaker 5: And in the morning I shall sleep. And for days
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  Speaker 5: and days. So you'll know. Nighty-night, Mr. Clover.
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  Speaker 2: Labor. And for a while walk with it in drift
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  Speaker 2: of April night. And from a bright-lighted room where dancing was,
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  Speaker 2: the quick squall of recorded music and floating on at
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  Speaker 2: the April laughter... to mix with river sounds, with leaf
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  Speaker 2: whisper of a tree in a concrete well, with image
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  Speaker 2: of the night's earlier violence. And turn a corner, the
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  Speaker 2: street now with no laughter in it, only the man alone,
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  Speaker 2: propped against a darkened doorway and murmuring to no one
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  Speaker 2: in particular, to no night in particular. And farther on,
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  Speaker 2: the stairs, the room, the sleep. And the next morning
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  Speaker 2: is tenement on West 19th, third from the corner. And
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  Speaker 2: try a first-floor street apartment. Ask, does the young girl
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  Speaker 2: live here? Be told against the music of the time-toling
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  Speaker 2: disc jockey. No young girl here. Only a man who's
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  Speaker 2: always late for work because musical time clocks fascinate him.
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  Speaker 2: Be told, young girl across the hall, Susan Blaine. So
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  Speaker 2: try across the hall and be motioned into a room
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  Speaker 2: and be told.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, my daughter.
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  Speaker 7: Why do you ask for me?
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  Speaker 2: The woman is a woman who has already, this early
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, applied the mask of youth to her face. Powder, rouge,
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  Speaker 2: pale glow of lipstick, graying hair, carefully combed.
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  Speaker 7: Why do you ask for.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm from the police. I, uh.
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  Speaker 3: Surely.
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  Speaker 7: Surely now the child has not involved herself with police.
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  Speaker 7: Not Susan, not my Susan.
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  Speaker 2: It has to do with a man, a man.
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  Speaker 3: What man?
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  Speaker 2: A man who was murdered last night, stabbed to the
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  Speaker 2: letter opener, Frank Dayton.
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  Speaker 7: What has his life or death or anything about him
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  Speaker 7: to do with my child?
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  Speaker 2: I was told he came here one day, sat out
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  Speaker 2: front in his car, watched your daughter while she stood
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  Speaker 2: in the window.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Dayton owned this house.
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  Speaker 7: It gave him the right to sit out front and
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  Speaker 7: look at whatever he pleased. And it gave him.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs. Blaine.
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  Speaker 5: Please.
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  Speaker 7: It gave him the right to come into our home
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  Speaker 7: and ask how we were making out. to walk through
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  Speaker 7: my house and suggest new wallpaper and new fixtures and
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  Speaker 7: to come back and ask about my child.
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  Speaker 2: Child? I understand she's 17 years old.
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  Speaker 7: You listen to me. I've been married twice and I've
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  Speaker 7: been divorced twice and I know who's a child and
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  Speaker 7: who's a woman.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to talk to your daughter, Mrs. Blaine. Where
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  Speaker 2: is she?
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  Speaker 3: Where she should be.
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  Speaker 6: In school.
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  Speaker 2: What school?
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  Speaker 3: You mean you'll go to her?
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  Speaker 2: What school?
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  Speaker 7: The Holiday School for Girls.
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  Speaker 3: Uptown. My child's in class. You're not to worry. Are
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  Speaker 3: you here?
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  Speaker 5: You're not.
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  Speaker 6: No, you don't hear.
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  Speaker 7: None of you ever hear.
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  Speaker 2: Go to work.
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  Speaker 3: Do what you like. Now get out. Leave me alone.
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  Speaker 2: So ride the morning streets across town and up. Skirt
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  Speaker 2: the Hudson. The parkway of the daydreamers. The place you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for. Holiday school for girls. Up the driveway between
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  Speaker 2: flower beds at first budding time. Park and get out.
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  Speaker 2: Onto the porch. Clean and set with redwood furniture exactly spaced.
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  Speaker 2: And inside the waiting room, trophies for hockey and basketball
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  Speaker 2: and cooking, glass caged. And the marble statue of two
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  Speaker 2: girls at the feet of a teacher with arms outstretched
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  Speaker 2: and whose eyes are glazed in a stare at the
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  Speaker 2: overhanging motto, a good girl is a good mother. And
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  Speaker 2: in a moment, Miss Mildred enters and introduces herself and
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  Speaker 2: listens most kindly to your wants, then leads you outside
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  Speaker 2: to where you will find Susan Blaine. Susan is in
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  Speaker 2: the garden, Mr. Clover, in the hot houses, and won't
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  Speaker 2: you come with her? So walk with Miss Mildred past
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  Speaker 2: empty playing field and nod to her theory of why
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  Speaker 2: young ladies should be familiar with the propagation of bulbs, ivies,
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  Speaker 2: and blooming plants. Finally, the section devoted to hot houses.
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  Speaker 2: Go into one. And Miss Mildred points out Susan Blaine.
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  Speaker 2: Tells you she's an extraordinary girl. You'll see why. There
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  Speaker 2: she is by the roses. Leave you. Susan?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: My name is Danny Clover, Susan. I'm from the police. Yes?
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  Speaker 6: Well, what do you want to meet?
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  Speaker 2: You knew a man named Frank Dayton, didn't you?
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  Speaker 6: I know Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dayton.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 2: He's dead, Susan.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I see. How did he die?
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  Speaker 2: He was murdered.
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  Speaker 6: That's interesting, isn't it? Here's a rose. Throw it on Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dayton's grave for me, will you? Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 8: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton
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  Speaker 2: Fine and David Friedkin, and starring Larry Thor as Detective
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  Speaker 2: Danny Clover. Tomorrow night on most of these same stations,
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: CBS Radio repeats an important recent broadcast, Bomb Target USA.
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: Arthur Godfrey is the narrator. CBS Radio newsmen report from
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: invading air missions from the northwest and east. In Bomb
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: Target USA... CBS Radio poses and dramatically answers the question,
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  Speaker 2: what would happen if enemy planes struck at America's chief
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  Speaker 2: population centers? Tomorrow night on CBS Radio, don't fail to
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  Speaker 2: listen to Bomb Target USA, one of the year's most
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  Speaker 2: important radio programs. Spring comes to Broadway in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: It rides the rust-stained freighter still rhymed with tropic seas,
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  Speaker 2: is nudged into the harbor on the snouts of eager tugs,
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  Speaker 2: docks at the river piers and disembarks, then softly drifts
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  Speaker 2: the streets, gathering sounds of city and odors and dust
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  Speaker 2: of city, festooned city and drapes and whirlings of warm light,
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  Speaker 2: and rides to the fragile vessel of a girl's silken skirt,
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  Speaker 2: and windows are flung open and hands stretched out to
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  Speaker 2: catch the fall of sun, Time of the waking dream.
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  Speaker 2: Time of the smile. Spring on Broadway. Where I was,
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  Speaker 2: April Garden to be walked with a young girl. And distantly,
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  Speaker 2: the laughter of young girls batting spring across a high
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  Speaker 2: net and crouching to the return. And to a path
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  Speaker 2: and a bench overlooking the flow of river and sway
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  Speaker 2: of anchored river craft and the furlings of their bright
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  Speaker 2: new pennants.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, here, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Clover.
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  Speaker 6: I've made room. Sit here with me.
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  Speaker 2: I spoke with Miss Mildred. She said it was all
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  Speaker 2: right for you.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I know. She doesn't care how many classes I
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  Speaker 6: have to cut. You know why?
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  Speaker 2: I guess because.
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  Speaker 6: Because it thrills her, that's why. You, what you are,
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  Speaker 6: what's happened. She'll have thrills for months after. That Miss Mildred.
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  Speaker 3: Susan.
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  Speaker 2: And the girls, too.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure you've noticed the whispers and the giggles and
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  Speaker 6: the signals being passed. They'll look up to me from
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: now on. Not just because I'm the oldest one here.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly how old are you, Susan?
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  Speaker 3: Seventeen.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't matter, does it?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you'll talk to me as if I weren't seventeen,
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  Speaker 6: but older and.
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  Speaker 6: I understand things. Honestly, I do. Lots of things. Like, well, like.
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  Speaker 2: Like Frank Dayton?
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  Speaker 6: Like Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dayton. Tell me about him.
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  Speaker 6: The way he sat outside our house in his car
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  Speaker 6: that day and just looked at me. I'd stand in
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  Speaker 6: the window and brush my hair. And it was nice
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  Speaker 6: that he was watching me. And the other things.
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  Speaker 2: What other things?
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  Speaker 6: The times he came to the house and brought things
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  Speaker 6: for Mother and me. The rides after school along the river.
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  Speaker 5: Places to eat.
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  Speaker 6: And places to just sit and talk. Places I never
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  Speaker 6: would have known.
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  Speaker 2: Did he ever try to kiss you, Susan? Oh, no. Susan... Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You have other friends, other.
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  Speaker 6: Some of the girls. Amy, she's the one with the
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  Speaker 6: scar right here on her face. And there's Rue.
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  Speaker 2: No, I meant boys. You have a boyfriend, Susan?
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: Jimmy. Jimmy Lomax. Not anymore, though.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: He was hurt, and I went to him. And after that,
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  Speaker 6: I didn't see him anymore. My mother took me out
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  Speaker 6: of public school and sent me here, where they're just girls.
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  Speaker 6: And I didn't see Jimmy anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. Mother said not to worry about it, though.
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  Speaker 6: Mother said it didn't matter anyhow. Mother said he'd be
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: all right.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to him?
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  Speaker 6: He was hurt. Beaten, you know. And I went to him.
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  Speaker 6: Then I went away from him.
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  Speaker 2: Where was he when you did that, Susan?
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  Speaker 6: Right across the street from me. He had a room there.
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  Speaker 6: I think I'd better go back to class now, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Grover. And.
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  Speaker 7: And what?
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: If you ever meet Amy, my girlfriend, don't tell her
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  Speaker 6: I said she had a scar on her face. She
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: likes to pretend she hasn't. She....
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Culver.
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  Speaker 2: Danny? Come on in, Jim.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Danny. Handy up.
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: Drop a coin in the cigar box. Or a folded
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: bill can also be slipped into the slot.
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  Speaker 2: Here you are, Jim. So you're taking up a collection
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: for what? For Officer Pulaski. Again? Uh-huh. How come every
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: two or three weeks a cigar box goes around for Pulaski?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Last time it was for his daughter's confirmation. What's it
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: for this time?
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  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 9: Pulaski is going to.
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  Speaker 2: Again?
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Danny. Got something for me?
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  Speaker 9: Just a fond wish that one day I may be
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  Speaker 9: passing the cigar box around for you. Danny, have you
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  Speaker 9: considered finding.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Let's get to work, shall we, Gino?
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  Speaker 3: Very well.
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: To wit, no news on the boy Jimmy Lomac, in
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: spite of the all-points bulletin which is out for him.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I care what else.
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: That Jimmy Lomac did participate in some activity which became.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: The concern of the police. I'm waiting to know.
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: About six months ago, he was clobbered by a skillet.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: What?
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: By an iron skillet which hung in his room and which.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Came with the rent.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: He was slugged with it by whom?
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: This the boy would not reveal, perhaps due to the
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: embarrassment of having been knocked cold with such a ridiculous weapon.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Let's go, Danny.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Why? Uptown. Cop on the beat just bought a Jimmy Lomax.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Come on. So hit the streets again, up Broadway, when
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the crowd is going home. Thread of sunshine reserved for
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: eight-hour-a-day people. And they walk slow or fast, depending upon
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: how the day went, what they're going home to, if
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: they're going home. And Tenement Town again.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: 10-4, 109th Street, Danny. It's the next street to your left.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Five-story houses run off on an architect's ditto mechanism. And
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: safe from the ravages of sunlight. Find an address.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Officer said the third floor, room at the top of
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: the steps.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: And up the stairs, which will cripple nobody if you're careful...
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Which route has been made scenic by those devoted to
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: the pencil and plaster technique? Right here. The fellas from
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: the squad car just... parked, huh? That's right. Are you
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Lomax? You mind if I come in? You decent, Marva?
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Sure are. Come on in, fellas. My wife's decent. Ain't she? Yeah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Beer for the boys, then? No, none for me, thank you.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: None for you either.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: No, just for me, Mom.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Know a girl named Susan Blaine, son?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Sure. Tell us about her. Not with Marva here, I
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: She heard me saying things that.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: All right, thanks, Marva.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Marva, these boys are cops. They asked me about a
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: girl I used to know before we got married. It
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: wasn't like you, Marvin.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I'm glad. This guy was too perfect to be true.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Tell us what you mean by that, Jimmy. Marvin, me? Well, um... Well, what? Pretty.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Face like a saint. Good like one, too.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Me?
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: A guy like me, I couldn't bring myself to touch
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: it with my little finger. It was too good for me.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I was the first one to admit it. Oh, she
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: was my mother. Now, how well did you know her, son?
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I used to live near her, that's all, and talk
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: with her sometimes. I always had a feeling her mother
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: was watching us. Even we could just meet by accident
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: two or three blocks away, I had that feeling.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Go on.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, I guess I was all wrong about her, though.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: How good she was, I mean.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw her step into a convertible one day
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: with a guy old enough to be her father.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: You never know.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Marla, you go get ready, huh? My wife and me
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: had a date.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Tell me, police records show you were in some kind
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: of trouble about six months ago. A bit with a skillet,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: you mean?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Tell us about it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's bruises under the dam, mister.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Anyway, Susan came over after it happened.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: She touched me and everything got better again.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Hey, look, fellas, Marley's a peculiar girl. See, she's... She's
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: all like... See you around.
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: Oh, I'll get it, Mother.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: I can open the door, can't I?
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Hello, Mr.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Clover.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Hello, Susan.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: You here again?
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: What do you want?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I want to talk to both of you.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't want to.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, I talked with him before, Mother.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: When did you do that?
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: At school. Please, come in, Mr.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Culver. What do you want?
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Mother, that's no way to... Please sit down, Mr.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Culver. Mrs. Blaine. Yes? You're pretty fond of Susan, aren't you?
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Well, she's too fond of me.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Now, keep quiet.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: She thinks I'm out of a storybook, I swear.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Will you keep quiet?
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: Well, you do, and I'm tired of it. Susan. Yes, Mother?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Come here. Susan.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Well, what do you want? Dear child. And you know
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: what's best for me.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Of course I do.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, stop it. Stop it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Don't do that.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: See, she's a.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: Problem, don't you, Mr.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Clover? No, I don't see that.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Now, what would you know?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I know this. I know Susan is a very lovely
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: young lady and not a child. Let me ask you
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: a couple of questions, Mrs. Blaine.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Ask them and go.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: You were married twice, weren't you?
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: I told you that myself.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: I know something.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: Susan, I told you nothing.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: I do so.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Two husbands and Mark.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: That's no business.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: I like Mark.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Susan, who was Mark?
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: My mother's boyfriend. They were going to get married, but
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: he ran away.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: That was the final thing, wasn't it, Mrs. Blaine? Mark's
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: running away.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: I don't know what you mean. Mark was a man
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: who used to come here.
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: Mother.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: Who used to come here. I hardly knew him. One
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: day he went away and he never came back.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Susan, your mother doesn't like for you to go out
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: with men, does she?
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: I don't go out with men.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: What about Mr. Dayton?
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: You know what he said to me once? Susan, someone
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: sweet like you in this mad world, in this tired, troubled,
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: mad world... I don't remember what else. He just smiled
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: and thanked me. He thanked me for being alive.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: All right, Mrs. Blaine, tell me about Jimmy Lomax.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: A stinking rotten.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: No, he wasn't. That's what you say about everybody I meet.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: You tried to kill Jimmy, didn't you, Mrs. Blaine?
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: You heard what I said he was. Look at him
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: and look at my daughter and you will know why
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: she's too good for him.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Everybody I meet, you say the same thing.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Because it's true.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Because of what's happened to you.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Child, I tell you, I know.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Only I'm too smart for you.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? Mother.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: What are you talking about? I know some boys. You're lying.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You see, Mr.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Clover?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: You killed Frank Dayton, didn't you, Mrs. Bland?
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Susan, you.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: What?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: It's not true what you said, is it?
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: It is true.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Do you know what you are? You're a liar. Oh, mother.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Frank Dayton, Mrs. Blaine. Mrs. Blaine?
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: I went to his house and told him to leave
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: my daughter alone. Stop coming around here. He walked over
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: to me and put his hand on my arm.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Touched you?
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: He touched you and you stabbed him?
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: That's right. She can't stand that. I remember there was
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: once a time in the subway.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: What do you think of your mother now, Susan?
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: I guess I'm sorry for you. And you know what else?
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to be like you. Now there.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Now there'll be no one to take care of you.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: Don't worry, Mother. Don't worry a bit. I wasn't lying.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: I know lots of people.
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: There's something about me.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: I don't know. People want to take care of me.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: I'll get along.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Twilight lies against Broadway like gray speckled gauze, ripples off
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: into another world. It's the street of the hurry-up step,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: the fast questions, the glances, the seekers after the special smile.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: And you walk it because once Broadway touched you, you
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: can't rub it off. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: My Beat.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Crucian as Mugovan.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: The program is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Sammy Hill was heard as Susan and Betty Lou Gerson
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: as Margaret. Featured in the cast were James McCallion, Charlotte Lawrence,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Lamont Johnson, and Jan Arvin. Bill Anders speaking. Tomorrow night,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan will be featured as the new man on
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: your CBS Radio Theater of Stars. It's the story of
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: a young doctor's struggle for trust, recognition, and a livelihood
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: in an isolated world community. Remember, it's your Theater of
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Stars production for tomorrow night over most of these same stations.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Also tomorrow evening on CBS Radio, don't miss Lionel Barrymore
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: and Mrs. Lou Gehrig on Hall of Fame's dramatic story,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Father of Baseball. And remember, the top dramatic show of all,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: the Lux Radio Theater, is heard Monday nights on the
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: CBS Radio Network.
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: That was Broadway Is My Beat with the Frank Dayton
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: murder case. Until the next case on the radio dial,
• 29:55
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• 29:59
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