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Richard Diamond, Private Detective - "Ice Pick Murder" (1950) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A wounded stranger collapses at Richard Diamond's office door, an
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  Speaker 1: ice pick in his back, and only two words to offer.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: Juice bar.
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  Speaker 1: On July 12, 1950, Dick Powell returned as Richard Diamond
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  Speaker 1: in NBC's Richard Diamond Private Detective, Episode 56, Ice Pick Murder.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Harvey Easton and directed by Jaime Del Valle,
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  Speaker 1: the case sends Diamond after the meaning of the dying
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  Speaker 1: man's clue and the reason he came to Diamond's door.
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  Speaker 2: Arthur Q.
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  Speaker 1: Bryan, Jay Novello, and Dan O'Herlihy are heard in the
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  Speaker 1: supporting cast. And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, while the makers of Rexall drug products and 10,000
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  Speaker 3: independent Rexall family druggists bring you Dick Powell as Richard Diamond,
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  Speaker 3: private detective.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening. This is your Rexall family druggist speaking to
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  Speaker 3: you for the 10,000 independent druggists who have made the
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  Speaker 3: word Rexall part of our own store names and who
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  Speaker 3: recommend and sell the 2,000 or more drug products made
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  Speaker 3: by the Rexall Drug Company. like Rexall MI-31, for example.
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  Speaker 3: Rexall's popular and versatile mouthwash, gargle, and breath deodorant. Full-strength
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  Speaker 3: MI-31 kills contacted germs almost instantly, yet will not harm
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  Speaker 3: the delicate membranes of the mouth and throat. Ask for
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  Speaker 3: Rexall MI-31 at Rexall drugstores everywhere. And remember, you can
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  Speaker 3: depend on any drug product that bears the name Rexall.
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  Speaker 2: Good health to all from Rexall.
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  Speaker 3: © BF-WATCH TV 2021.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, gee, Diamond, I'm sorry. Did I hurt you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, Seymour.
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  Speaker 6: I feel great.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Who needs teeth?
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  Speaker 3: Come to think of it, though, I might be more
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  Speaker 3: comfy down here if you'd lift this desk off my chest.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 6: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow, thanks.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, I didn't mean to knock you over.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, forget it. Forget it, huh? I enjoy having my
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  Speaker 2: chest crushed as much as the next guy.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. Now, the throw I'm going to show you now
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  Speaker 5: is called a Japanese shoulder toss.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Seymour, you've convinced me. Judo is a wonderful sport.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize what I've.
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  Speaker 2: Been missing all these years.
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  Speaker 6: I love this sport, judo.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what will it be, canasta or old maid? What?
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  Speaker 3: How about hopscotch?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, come on, come on. Let me show you just
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  Speaker 5: one more throw.
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  Speaker 2: Not even if it was with a beanbag.
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  Speaker 6: And maybe some wrestling holes in it.
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  Speaker 5: I know a lot of wrestling stuff. Must be some
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  Speaker 5: trick you'd like me to try.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, Seymour. I really don't believe I... Well,
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  Speaker 2: come to think of it, yes, I... There is a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful little trick.
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  Speaker 3: You get yourself a nice long rope, throw it high
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  Speaker 3: up into the air, and then real quick you climb way,
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  Speaker 3: way up to the top and.
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  Speaker 2: Just disappear.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's nuts.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I defeat it, huh? Well, no. Diamond Detective Agency.
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  Speaker 3: Brains, experience, enthusiasm, delirium tremens.
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  Speaker 2: Rick, don't be so silly. I might have been a
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  Speaker 2: prospective client. Oh, hi, sweetie.
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  Speaker 4: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you're right.
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  Speaker 3: But you'll have to admit, I have got brains and
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  Speaker 3: enthusiasm and good looks and a dynamic personality.
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  Speaker 2: And my father can beat up your father.
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  Speaker 8: Rick, you're incorrigible.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm right here in New York.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, that's just dandy. Now, will you please tell me
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  Speaker 8: what we're doing tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that, honey, is a long story.
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  Speaker 6: Uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 3: Well, remember the day we walked into Gimel's basement and
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  Speaker 3: I bumped into an old schoolmate of mine who was
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  Speaker 3: demonstrating barbells?
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  Speaker 9: I remember how funny you looked when he goaded you
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  Speaker 9: into taking up.
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  Speaker 3: That big weight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And how hysterical it was when he had to carry
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  Speaker 3: me upstairs to the chiropractor.
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  Speaker 5: I carried you just like a baby, too, didn't I?
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  Speaker 2: Who's that? Now, that's him.
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  Speaker 5: Muscles.
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  Speaker 3: He bicycled all the way over from Jersey just to
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  Speaker 3: tell me his ideas on self-defense. He bicycled?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he was dressed for it. Top hat, tail, sneakers.
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  Speaker 6: Now, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: One of his cleverest ideas was that I'd treat him
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  Speaker 2: to dinner tonight if he could knock me to the
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  Speaker 2: floor in less than 30 seconds.
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 2: Gave him the battle of his life. Seven seconds. The
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  Speaker 2: point is, where can we eat where they'll poison his food? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I heard that.
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  Speaker 3: It's all right, Seymour.
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  Speaker 2: You can order small helping.
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  Speaker 6: Rick.
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  Speaker 2: Let's make it Leon's, baby, okay?
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  Speaker 9: Must we?
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  Speaker 2: Will you be an angel and meet us at Leon's?
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  Speaker 2: I'll meet you at Leon's. Eight o'clock sharp.
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  Speaker 8: Rick, if you keep me waiting.
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  Speaker 2: If I keep you waiting, you'll have a lock of
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  Speaker 2: my hair. Eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: Sharp. Well, I'll see you at Leon's at eight o'clock, huh? Now,
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  Speaker 5: bring lots of money, because I'm a guy who can
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  Speaker 5: really eat.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll bet you are.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you arrive there before I do, Seymour, start
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  Speaker 3: in on the ferns by the front door. Seymour was
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  Speaker 3: too stupid to go away mad, but at least he
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  Speaker 3: went away. I settled back in my chair and made
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  Speaker 3: a half-hearted attempt to figure a face out of the
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  Speaker 3: water spot on the ceiling. When I woke up, it
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  Speaker 3: was five o'clock, and I hated myself for the indulgence.
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  Speaker 3: As I sat there, thinking how much my mouth tasted like.
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  Speaker 2: An old motorman's glove, I heard a noise in the
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  Speaker 2: hall on the other side of my door. Well, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Something I can do for....
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  Speaker 3: Juice bar.
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  Speaker 6: Juice bar.
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  Speaker 7: Hey.
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  Speaker 3: He fell face forward into the pool of blood at
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  Speaker 3: his feet, like a wino who'd stumbled into a fountain
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  Speaker 3: of muscatel. Funny, isn't it, how an ice pick loses
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  Speaker 3: all its homey appeal when it's sticking out of a
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  Speaker 3: guy's back? The ice pick this guy was wearing was
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  Speaker 3: no exception. I didn't know how long he'd been leaning
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  Speaker 3: against my door, but one thing was certain, it was
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  Speaker 3: long enough to die. I put in a call to
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  Speaker 3: 5th Precinct Police.
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  Speaker 2: Headquarters and Lieutenant Lemonson. And ten minutes later, my office
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  Speaker 2: was full of badges.
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  Speaker 7: And you have no idea who he is, huh, Rick?
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  Speaker 2: Not the biggest, Walt.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the checkup shows you're the only office in the
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  Speaker 6: building that's been open after two.
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  Speaker 2: So he must have been on his way to see
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  Speaker 2: you when he got it from behind.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, maybe he was delivering ice and just happened to
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  Speaker 5: fall on his ice pick.
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  Speaker 2: Otis.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Otis, now that you've solved it, why don't you
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  Speaker 3: go down to the glue factory and let them put
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  Speaker 3: you up a nice little glass bottle?
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Well, anyway, here's a billfold in his pocket.
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  Speaker 2: That ought to tell us something. How about a look, Fatty? Huh? Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm. Quite a card collector, wasn't he? Quite.
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  Speaker 6: Gold furriers.
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  Speaker 2: The copper room. O'Toole's diner. Lousy food.
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  Speaker 3: Got told me once from that cheesecake.
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  Speaker 2: I remember. I got told me just watching you eat it.
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  Speaker 5: I resent that.
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  Speaker 2: And I accept your apology. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: Where's that green card from?
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  Speaker 2: This one?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The Apollo Health Club. Hey, that's right down the street.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing with the old boy's name on it, though.
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  Speaker 3: Afraid not. However, something tells me you'll get that from
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  Speaker 3: the old boy's fingerprints.
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  Speaker 6: Let's hope so. Ah, a saluted afternoon to you, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Welcome to the Apollo Health Club. May I be of assistance?
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to get a massage.
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  Speaker 6: Splendid. Performs wonders after a fatiguing day. A veritable balm
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  Speaker 6: to the chafed tissues of the body.
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  Speaker 2: But will it cure snow blindness?
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  Speaker 6: I beg your pardon?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, just ignore me. I'm a little chewed up today.
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  Speaker 6: I assume you're referring to a state of mind.
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  Speaker 2: Well, not altogether. Got a kink at my back that
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  Speaker 2: isn't entirely mental.
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  Speaker 6: Well, at least you've come to the proper place.
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  Speaker 9: A measure of skillfully applied anatomical science will regenerate the
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  Speaker 9: damaged musculature in no time.
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  Speaker 2: O'Byrne?
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: O'Byrne, son, please.
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  Speaker 6: One of my best messieurs.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're the owner, huh?
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  Speaker 3: I am, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Let me introduce myself. Emerson Van Arper, doctor of anatomical science.
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  Speaker 2: Richard Dunn.
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  Speaker 5: A pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: A nice layout you have here.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed.
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  Speaker 9: Five years of assiduous study in Switzerland under the illustrious Dr.
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  Speaker 9: von Teppelville have given me a boundless knowledge of the
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  Speaker 9: human mechanisms As a consequence.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 6: Are you foaming, Doctor?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, barrel, I did.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Diamond here wishes a massage.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, fine.
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  Speaker 6: I'll speak to you later, Mr. Diamond.
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  Speaker 9: Right this way, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Remember, the blood tore the heart.
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  Speaker 2: Always tore the heart.
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  Speaker 3: A real private detective, huh? Too private, judging from last
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  Speaker 3: month's receipts. Hey, you know you really rubbed that kink
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  Speaker 3: out of my back?
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know if you noticed it, but I was doing
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  Speaker 3: all my rubbing with my right arm.
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  Speaker 2: Saw a muscle in my left shoulder this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Really put it out of commission.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's too bad.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of things being out of commission reminds me, there's
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  Speaker 3: a body down at the morgue I'd like you to
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  Speaker 3: take a look at.
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  Speaker 2: Guy might have been a client of yours.
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  Speaker 3: What makes you think that? Had a card from the
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  Speaker 3: Apollo Club in his billfold.
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  Speaker 2: Oh? When could you come down?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, how about tonight?
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  Speaker 2: We close here at 10. Fine. Make it, uh, what,
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  Speaker 2: about 10.30? Know where the morgue is? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How'd this guy die, anyway?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody hid their ice pick in his spinal column.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The corpse is a little dark-complexured man. Kinky hair, glasses, bald.
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  Speaker 6: Spot on the top of his head.
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  Speaker 3: Head. Hey, that description fits a guy who comes in
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  Speaker 3: here every night around closing time.
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  Speaker 5: Fanatic on diet, he buys wheat germ from us by
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  Speaker 5: the case.
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  Speaker 2: Know his name or where he lives?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I know the.
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  Speaker 6: Pardon me, it moves in just a minute, but I'm
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  Speaker 6: afraid I'll have to ask Mr. O'Byrne to hire you
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  Speaker 6: down to the gymnasium.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, sure, right away, sir.
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: Here's a fresh towel, Mr. Bannon.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 9: Sorry to interrupt like this, but we're a trifle understaffed
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  Speaker 9: and expediting the evening rush to.
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  Speaker 6: Something of a popular.
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  Speaker 2: Quite all right.
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  Speaker 7: Talk to you later tonight, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Diamond.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, hey, in case you can't make it, give me
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  Speaker 3: a buzz at Leon's restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be there till a quarter of nine.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Monsieur Diamond. Bonsoir, bonsoir. Hello, Leon.
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  Speaker 6: Parisi, Parisi.
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  Speaker 2: Which translated in English means... Right this way. Both my
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: guests arrived?
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  Speaker 1: Oui. First the young lady, then a few minutes later
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  Speaker 1: the gymnast.
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  Speaker 6: But, Monsieur Diamond, a telephone call is waiting for you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thanks, my friend. Hello, Diamond speaking.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Diamond, this is Red O'Byron down at the Apollo Club. Oh, yeah, O'Byron.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, listen, you've got to come down here right away.
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  Speaker 3: I've really stumbled into something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that?
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  Speaker 9: Can't tell you over the phone.
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  Speaker 8: Just get down here.
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  Speaker 6: Drop everything and get down here.
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  Speaker 3: Hurry.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Red, I'm right in the middle of the... Hello? Hello? Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, kids, I got to run. Be back in a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Just where do you think you're going?
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  Speaker 2: A place called the Apollo Club. Yeah? Well, how about
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  Speaker 2: my dinner? Go right ahead and order. I'll be back.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, Seymour, that potato salad on the
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  Speaker 3: child's plate is a real deal for a quarter.
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  Speaker 2: And Helen.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Rick? Shoot the kill if he even suggests wrestling.
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  Speaker 3: I walked out of Leon's, flagged down a cab, and
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  Speaker 3: spent the trip back to the Apollo Club, wondering what
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  Speaker 3: Red O'Baron was.
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  Speaker 2: So worked up about and why he'd hung up on me.
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  Speaker 3: As my cab started to swing in toward the curb,
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  Speaker 3: I got that lousy feeling again, and I decided definitely
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: it was not one of Leon's martinis, but rather the
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  Speaker 3: large white ambulance parked in front of the Apollo Health Club.
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  Speaker 3: I was halfway up the steps of the club when Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Van Arthur appeared in the doorway.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good evening, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Diamond. This is terrible.
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  Speaker 5: Terrible.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: What is? Peace.
• 12:28
  Speaker 6: We've had an accident.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: Raddo Byron?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Like losing his son.
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  Speaker 5: Worthing?
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  Speaker 2: He's dead?
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  Speaker 6: Yes. He was performing a handstand on the rings in
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: the gymnasium. And he slipped and fell.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: Walk his neck.
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: Before we continue with the adventures of Richard Diamond, private detective,
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: here's your Rexall family drug.
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: Last week, a customer told me that.
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: Something I.
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  Speaker 8: Really like about Rexall Milk of Magnesia is that one
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  Speaker 8: bottle won't be so thick I can't even pour it,
• 13:11
  Speaker 8: and the next one's thin and watery. Somehow, Rexall milk
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  Speaker 8: of magnesia always seems to be just right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, ma'am, that's because every bottle of Rexall milk of
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  Speaker 3: magnesia has to meet an exacting standard of viscosity, or
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  Speaker 3: it won't wear the Rexall label.
• 13:26
  Speaker 8: What do you mean by viscosity?
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: Well, an easy definition would be the degree of thickness
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  Speaker 3: in a liquid. Now, Rexall scientists conduct scientifically precise tests
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  Speaker 3: on every batch of Rexall milk of magnesia to make
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  Speaker 3: sure it meets this constant standard of viscosity, because that's
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: one big reason why you'll always get a uniform dosage
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  Speaker 3: from every bottle.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and I thought it was all just an accident.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: There are no accidents behind the fact you can always
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  Speaker 3: depend on any drug product that bears the name Rexall.
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  Speaker 3: And now back to tonight's adventure with Richard Diamond, Private Detective,
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  Speaker 3: starring Dick Powell.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hello, Otis. Is the lieutenant around?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's around.
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  Speaker 5: So what?
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  Speaker 2: Otis, did you ever think how silly you'd look hanging
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  Speaker 2: from your thumb?
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: I'd go soak your head.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: You mean that's how you shrunk yours?
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: Well, now, isn't that a coincidence?
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 6: I was just thinking how peaceful it is around the
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  Speaker 6: precincts when you're not.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: You shut up.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: You tell him, Fanny. How would you like to... I'd
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: like a little information, if you don't mind.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like you to see what facts you can scare
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: up on the guy who runs the Apollo Health Club.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Name is Van Otter.
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  Speaker 8: If I remember right, the stiff we hauled away in.
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  Speaker 3: Front of your office today had a card from the.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: Apollo Club in his billfold. You remember right.
• 14:53
  Speaker 9: And we found out his name was Rudy Lubin. Narcotics
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  Speaker 9: has a file.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: On him that goes forever. How about the ice pick?
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Any fingerprints? None. Well, that's always a help.
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  Speaker 9: I should say.
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  Speaker 2: Personally, I think Otis did it.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: Think I did what?
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  Speaker 9: You see, Walter, typical pathological reaction.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: What do you mean? Oh, don't worry, Otis. We won't
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: let them hang you, right, Walt? Right. Not as long
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: as we have a rope and a tree.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Hey, what's up? Who you calling?
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Leon's restaurant. Ellen's over there breathing with a diaphragm. I'm Seymour. Oh,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: you don't know him, but he's tearing phone books apart.
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: Good evening, Leon.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Leon. This is Richard Diamond. My friends still there? Oui.
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: They are waiting for you, no?
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: They're waiting for me, yes. Let me speak to the
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: noisy one with the bicep, will you?
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: Oui, bien entendu.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: What's all this about? It's about a guy who got
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: stabbed in front of my door, a masseur named O'Byron
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: who got his neck broken doing tricks on the rings,
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: and something that O'Byron mentioned earlier.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Hello, hello.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Seymour? I am.
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: Where are you, anyway? We've been waiting an hour.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: That's not the point. The point is, I want you
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: to listen to me.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Could a guy do a handstand on the rings if
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: he had a torn muscle in his shoulder?
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding? I'm very serious.
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: Heck no, he couldn't.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: It's impossible.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Shoulder muscles are the ones that do all the work.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Deltoids, trapezius, upper pecs.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Look, Seymour. You've got to do
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: me a favor.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Meet me in front of the Apollo Health Club as
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: soon as you can get there.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: How about your girlfriend?
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Tell her to wait there till I come for her. Oh, okay, then.
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: Only, what are we going to do?
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Trap a murderer.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: I hung up, assured Lieutenant Levinson that I was just
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: going to do a little reconnaissance work, and then left
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: for the Apollo Club. Seymour was waiting when my cab
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: drew up in front. I explained to him the part
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I wanted him to play.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Just leave it to me.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: If this doctor's a phony, I'll find out for you.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Well, hello again, Mr.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Diamonds.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: I just talked to your barren boy's family.
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: It was heart-rending, absolutely heart-rending.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I almost broke down. No, you will before it's over.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you to meet a friend of mine, Seymour Caper. Pleasure, sir.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: What do you say, doc?
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Seymour's been having a little trouble with his chest lately.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I told him you're a doctor of... Anatomical science.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that you could undoubtedly do him some good.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: Kind of.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: It's something to do with my muscles. You know anything
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: about them?
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Muscles?
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: What an anatomical scientist knows most about.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Ah, sois, sois. The doctor studied all about muscles in Switzerland.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: Just what seems to be the trouble.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Well, here's the deal, Doc. It all started the other
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: day when I was working out with my barbells. I
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: was doing an exercise for my trapezius when all of
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: a sudden I got a spasm in my tensor fascia.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: So I went over to set the barbell down on
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: the floor and that's.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: When the pain hit me.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: First in my pectoralis minor, then in my intercostals, and
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: finally in my diaphragm. A kind of spasmodic contraction like
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: when you get the hiccups.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: Only, no hiccups.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, yes, yes, yes.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: A specimen of the contraction.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Of the diaphragm.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Only no hiccups.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: And then my abdominals began tightening until I could hardly
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: expand my ribcage.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: That's when I called Diamond here.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, quite naturally. If you'll pardon me a moment,
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: I'll see if I can.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but wait a minute.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: I haven't told you about my rhomboids.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: His rhomboids seem to be completely out of whack. Thank you, sir.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: But it must be either my rhomboids or my dorsal spinalis.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Awful pain right between my shoulder blades.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: What do you figure it is, Doc?
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Well, actually, histi diagnosis isn't feasible.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: I really couldn't... Oh, yeah, but you just put your
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: hand on my left rhomboid and feel how knotty it is, huh?
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Hey, left rhomboid.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead, feel it. It's right under the middle trapezius, Doc.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You know where that is.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: Please, please, Seymour.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Don't insult the doctor. Any old crack knows where that is.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, certainly.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: Middle trapezius. Oh, great Scott. I'd almost forgotten. I left
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: a client under the sunlamp. Pardon me, gentlemen. I'll be
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: back in a moment.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Have a hunch he's heading straight for an anatomy chart.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're not kidding. That guy's as funny as the
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: title he uses. Doctor of anatomical science, Mike Glutius.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Mine, too.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Come on. I took Seymour by his rhomboid and led
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: him out onto the street, down to the middle of
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: the block, and up three flights to my office. While
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I did my thinking, Seymour did his push-ups.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: 302.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: 303.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Well, Seymour, we know three things.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: O'Brien couldn't have been exercising on the rings with an
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: injured shoulder.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Five right.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: The doctor's a phony. Six right. Then the doctor is
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: a front for something that's important enough to kill people over.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: As a consequence, you and I are burglars. Starting as
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: soon as the Apollo Club closes.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: You mean we're going to bust into the joint?
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: We're going to bust into the joint or flatten your
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: head in the attempt. Seymour, you opened that window beautifully.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Thanks.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Remind me to autograph your biceps later.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: Hey, uh, this detective business is dangerous, ain't it? Oh, yes, yes.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: But think of the advantages. Long hours, no time for meals.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: And on a good day, a guy can pick up
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: as high as two or three hundred bullets in his back.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I don't like it.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Go on, crawl in. Okay, okay.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Don't push! I followed Seymour in and we waited a
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: minute for our eyes to get accustomed to the darkness.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Then we moved cautiously down the.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Stairway to the first floor. I had no idea what
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: I was looking for, but Dr. Van Arthur's office was
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: the first place where I tried to find it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: And the door's locked. You want it opened?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Of course I do, Seymour.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: Use your head.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Hey!
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Seymour would be pulling plywood out of his scalp for
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: the next week, but it got us in.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I took the place apart but came up with a
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: big fat nothing. So we left the office and headed
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: down the hall towards the back of the building.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Hey, look. What's the matter? It's a fruit juice bar. Oh, boy,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: am I thirsty. Well, go mix yourself up a juice bar.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Juice bar, that's it. Yeah, good stiff.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Bell of celery juice.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: No, no, no.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: This is what the little man who was stabbed outside
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: my office was gasping about when he died.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: A juice bar. Come on. Nothing but juice. Oh, I
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: wonder what's in this cupboard under the counter.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Is it locked?
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: No. Think you can pull it open?
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: Just watch me.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Ah, you see?
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Say more. Yeah. Will you marry me?
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: I'll give you a bout in my solar plexus.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Later, huh? Right now, let's see what's in this cupboard.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: You got a match?
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I don't smoke.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: That's all right. I found one. Well, what do you
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: know about that? Nothing but cans of wheat germ.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: You know what that stuff is, don't you?
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I know that the masseur who got killed here told
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: me that the guy who died in front of my
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: office bought it up by the case.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Hand me a can, will you?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Sure. Here.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: This stuff is full of vitamins, you know.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: You want a handful?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: No, thanks.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, it must be some extra special brand. Never
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: tasted anything like this before.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Chew a little out of it, Seymour. We can dance
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: to it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Hey.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: That really hits the spot, man.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Hey, you want a wrestle?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Go quiet, Seymour.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: You know what, boy? I can fly.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Seymour.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: I can fly, that is, see? Oh, man, do I
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: ever love to fly.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: While Seymour stood there flapping his arms, I stuck my
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: nose into the can he was holding.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Once you've smelled opium, you can always recognize the aroma.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Even when it's mixed with wheat germ.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I was trying to decide what to do with Seymour
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: when he slid slowly to the floor under the counter
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: and rocked out. I loosened his collar, then started for
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: a telephone.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Leaving, Mr. Detective. Wow. Doctor, working late?
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: I'm glad I arrived in time to offer you a
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: drink of fruit juice.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Lord, but I'm driving.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: You're going, Mr. Detective. The weather is too hot for driving.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Now, isn't that a nasty thing for a guy who
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: sticks ice picks in people to say?
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: That was a most unpleasant experience, I assure you. It's
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: just that Mr. Lupin began demanding... A little.
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: Too high a percentage for the stability of my health foods.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: He even went so far as to threaten me with exposure.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: So you grabbed up an ice pick from your juice
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: bar and followed him out of the club?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: I doubt if he ever knew what hit him.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, I bet he had a hunch. Well.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: I.
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: I perceive that you've sampled my reach, sir.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: No, I opened a can or two. Personally, I never
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: touch the.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Stuff without bananas and cream.
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: You've made the same unfortunate discovery that Red O'Brien made, Mr.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Detective. Oh, that's why he called me at Leon.
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: Yes, and that's also why I had to resort today,
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: unsportsmanlike expedient of luring him to the balcony of the
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: gymnasium and then pushing him over headfirst.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I was about to call the doctor a particularly dirty
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: name when Seymour's hulking shoulders loomed up behind the juice bar,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: not over three feet from where the doctor was standing.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Doctor, you're wrong.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Seymour is not a sissy. What?
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I don't think you could beat up Seymour with one hand.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: That's why. Mr.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: Diamond, I'm afraid you're asking to be shot.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, just you try it. Who said.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Yes. I'll teach him to call somebody who knows how
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: to fly a sissy.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: She's still here, though, huh? We, we, but very angry.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Look, Leon, you've got to do something for me. Angry?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Tell the violinist to get his big fat strata various
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: over to where she's sitting.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: And quick, quick, immediately. Hello, Miss Asher. Oh, come on, sweetie.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I've had a rough night subduing murderers, opium eaters. At
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: least you could do it. Say hello.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Hello. I, uh, like that song, don't you?
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Look, I know all about you and your little violin bit.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: I saw Leon pointing us out.
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: To the violinist.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: He did? Mm-hmm.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: And where, may I ask, is little Seymour?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Little Seymour ate too many goodies. He's having a stomach pump.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, now that's sweet.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: I think so.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I think the song is nice, too.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I think you should sing it, too.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I think I should, too.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: Hold me close and hold me fast. The magic spell
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: you cast. This is La Vie en Rose. When you
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: kiss me heaven's side. And though I close my eyes.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: I see La Vie en Rose. When you press your heart.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: Start the song again. Hold me close and hold me
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: fast The magic spell you cast This is La Vie
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: en Rose When you kiss me heaven's side And.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Though I close my eyes I see La Vie en Rose.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I'm in a world apart A.
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: World where roses bloom And when you speak Angels sing
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: from above Everyday words seem to turn into love songs
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: Give your heart.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: And soul to me, and life will always be la
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: vie en rose.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Nothing? Mm-hmm.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: I won't say.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Want to feel my biceps?
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Well? Nothing.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Again, here's your Rexall family druggist. Whenever you have a headache,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: remember this about Rexall aspirin.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: When taken with water.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: The five full grains of pure aspirin in every Rexall
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: tablet are ready to go to work for you even
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: before they reach your stomach. So whenever you have a headache,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: remember that about Rexall aspirin. Ask for it at Rexall
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: drugstores everywhere. And remember always, you can depend on any
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: drug product that bears the name Rexall. Good health to
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: all from Rexall. Richard Diamond, private detective, stars Dick Powell
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: in the title role and is written by Harvey Easton
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: with music composed and conducted by Frank Wurst. Featured in
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: tonight's cast were Virginia.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Gregg, Arthur Q.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Bryan, Wilm Turbert, Bill Conrad, Jane Avello, and Dan O'Herlihy.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Richard Diamond, private detective, is transcribed in Hollywood by Jaime
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Del Valle. This is Bill Foreman inviting you to be
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: with us next Wednesday at this time when we will
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: again bring you Dick Powell as.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Richard Diamond, private detective.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Hiya, beautiful. Get lost, bristlepuss.
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: You need a shave.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: But I have shaved. What else do you want me
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: to do?
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Silly boy, she wants you to go stag.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Go stag?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: But why?
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Because stag is Rexall's exclusive line of men's good grooming aids.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Like stag brushless shave cream. No fuss, no massage, just
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: smooth it on and presto, you get a clean.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: Close shave.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Your face stays smooth and whiskerless all day long. I'll
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: do it, I'll do it, I'll go stag. That's it,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: join the stag line now at Rexall Drugstores everywhere.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, to make girls care.
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: Go stag.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Go stag.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Richard Diamond, private detective, has completed ice pick murder. Until
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: our next visit to radio's detective files, good night.