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  Speaker 7: Columbia's program, Suspense. If you've been with us on these
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  Speaker 7: mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series, our
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  Speaker 9: You a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution in
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  Speaker 9: the last possible moment.
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  Speaker 10: We again hope to keep you in.
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  Speaker 4: Suspense.
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  Speaker 10: Hi. Do you want to hear the workshop? It's a
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  Speaker 10: pretty good show. Oh, I do like music.
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  Speaker 7: Don't you?
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  Speaker 10: It's your best problem, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: All right, leave it on.
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  Speaker 10: A little louder, though, will you?
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  Speaker 6: Jim and Irene Westcott were the kind of people who
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  Speaker 6: seemed to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and
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  Speaker 6: respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college
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  Speaker 6: alumni bulletins. They differed from their friends, their classmates, and
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  Speaker 6: their neighbors only in an interest they shared in serious music.
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  Speaker 10: They went to a great many concerts.
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  Speaker 6: Although they seldom mentioned this to anyone... And I spent
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  Speaker 6: a good deal of time listening to music.
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  Speaker 10: On the radio. Now, their radio was an old instrument.
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  Speaker 6: Sensitive, unpredictable, and beyond repair. And when it faltered, Jim
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  Speaker 6: would strike at the side of the cabinet with his hand.
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  Speaker 10: Well, this sometimes helps. But one Sunday afternoon... Darling, the radio.
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  Speaker 7: No. Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 10: No, this time it's finished. Burn it again. Oh, it's finished.
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  Speaker 10: Burned out. It might not be. How do you know?
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  Speaker 9: Try reversing the plug or something.
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  Speaker 10: But it won't do any good. It's a miracle it
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  Speaker 10: lasted this long. Let me try. It's not going to
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  Speaker 10: do any good not.
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  Speaker 10: The woman's cut. If you sit down, it'll... See, there
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  Speaker 10: it goes.
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  Speaker 7: It's so aggravating.
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  Speaker 10: And, of course, it had to happen while they were
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  Speaker 10: playing the super. Take it easy. It makes me mad.
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  Speaker 10: He knew this was.
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  Speaker 4: Going to happen.
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  Speaker 10: He should have done something. I told you what the
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  Speaker 10: repairman said. I mean, it would cost almost as much
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  Speaker 10: to fix it as to buy a new one. Darling,
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  Speaker 10: couldn't we get a new one? I don't know. We
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  Speaker 10: agreed to get along with this until we could get
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  Speaker 10: a good high five with some FM. Please. It's not
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  Speaker 10: going to be much fun without music. All right.
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  Speaker 6: All right, dear.
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  Speaker 10: I'll look around tomorrow and see what I can find.
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  Speaker 6: The next day, on Monday, when he came home from work.
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  Speaker 10: He told her that he'd got one.
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  Speaker 6: He refused to describe it and said that it would
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  Speaker 6: be a surprise for her when it came.
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  Speaker 10: The radio was delivered the following afternoon. And with the
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  Speaker 10: assistance of her maid and her handyman, Irene Uncrate.
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  Speaker 7: You hold this, Emma.
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  Speaker 10: I brought it in the living room. It's up in
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  Speaker 10: the kitchen later. Oh, it sure is.
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  Speaker 7: Not a very pretty cabinet. Oh, man, look at all
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  Speaker 7: the dials on it.
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  Speaker 10: I never could get the hang of that. It shouldn't
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  Speaker 10: be too difficult, I suppose. Volume, treble boost, bass boost, turn, shortwave, band, one, two, three, four. Oh,
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  Speaker 10: this must be the switch to turn it on. Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Plug it in now, will you? Yes, ma'am. All right.
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  Speaker 10: Probably takes a minute to warm up.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 10: It's loud, isn't it, ma'am? Much louder than the old one.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Take a little getting used to, sending it in.
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  Speaker 6: My, you certainly do know how to find good music,
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  Speaker 6: I'll say.
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  Speaker 7: It is nice.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you'd better see about getting supper now.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: She sat down to listen, feeling once again complete. The
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  Speaker 6: music came through clearly. The new instrument had a much purer.
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  Speaker 10: Tone, she thought, than the old one.
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  Speaker 6: So she decided that tone was most important, and she
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  Speaker 6: could conceal the ugly gumwood cabinet behind the sofa. But
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  Speaker 6: as soon as she'd made her peace with the radio,
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  Speaker 6: the interference began. Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 10: And they called this high five.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing she did with her switches and dials bent the interference.
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  Speaker 6: As she sat down again, disappointed and bewildered, and tried
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  Speaker 6: to trace the flight of the melody. The elevator shaft
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  Speaker 6: in her building ran beside the living room wall.
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  Speaker 10: And it was the noise of.
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  Speaker 6: The elevator that gave her a clue to the character.
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  Speaker 10: Of the static.
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  Speaker 6: The rattling of the elevator cables were reproduced in her loudspeaker.
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  Speaker 6: And realizing that the radio was sensitive to electrical currents
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  Speaker 6: of all sorts, she began to discern through the Mozart
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  Speaker 6: the various other sounds.
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  Speaker 10: By listening more carefully.
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  Speaker 6: She was able to distinguish doorbells, Elevator bells, electric razors,
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  Speaker 6: and wearing.
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  Speaker 10: Mixes picked up from the apartments that surrounded her.
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  Speaker 6: The powerful and ugly instrument with its mistaken sensitivity to
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  Speaker 6: discord was more than she could hope to master, so
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  Speaker 6: she turned the thing off.
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
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  Speaker 10: Hello, Irene. Did it get there?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, the radio.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, dear.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, how do you like it?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's fine, but.
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  Speaker 10: But what? Well, there's all kinds of sounds, noises coming through.
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  Speaker 10: What do you mean? Static? Well, yes, but more like
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  Speaker 10: real noises. I think it's picking up all.
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  Speaker 9: The electric things in the building. Vacuums, telephones.
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  Speaker 10: You better not fool with it until I get home.
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  Speaker 10: It probably needs a ground or something. All right. I
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  Speaker 10: think it's wonderful, dear. Much nicer than the old one.
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  Speaker 10: When it's clear, the music sounds beautiful. Oh, good. Well,
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  Speaker 10: I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 7: Bye. Bye.
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  Speaker 6: When Jim Westcott came home that night, he went to
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  Speaker 6: the radio constantly.
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  Speaker 10: Went to control. Hello, Bob. What's the matter? Who's this?
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  Speaker 11: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Hello? Hello?
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  Speaker 6: Area, which developed over the southwest yesterday, is moving rapidly
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  Speaker 6: toward the north and east.
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  Speaker 10: Lower temperatures follow. Oh, what the devil?
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  Speaker 7: That's what I was telling you. That is correct.
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  Speaker 10: He said a little bit of none. Couldn't get rid
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  Speaker 10: of the noise. And he turned the radio off. What
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  Speaker 10: an accurate, huh? I'll call the fellow who sold it
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  Speaker 10: to me in the morning. He's going to hear something
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  Speaker 10: from me.
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  Speaker 6: The following day, Irene had a luncheon date and did
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  Speaker 6: some shopping during the afternoon.
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  Speaker 10: It was late when she returned home and she.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't have a chance to turn on the radio, although
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  Speaker 6: the maid had informed her that a man had come
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  Speaker 6: and fixed it. She busied herself with the children, seeing
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  Speaker 6: to their baths and bedtime. When Jim came home that night,
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  Speaker 6: he was tired and took a shower and changed his clothes,
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  Speaker 6: and then he joined Irene in the living room. He
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  Speaker 6: had just turned on the radio when the maid announced dinner,
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  Speaker 6: so he left it on and he and Irene went
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  Speaker 6: to the table. I saw the sweetest dress this afternoon.
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  Speaker 10: Of course I didn't buy it, but I.
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  Speaker 7: Hard day, dear? Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, and a rotten day. It does sound nice, doesn't it? Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 10: Very nice.
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  Speaker 9: For heaven's sake, Cassidy, I'll have to play the piano
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  Speaker 9: when I get home.
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  Speaker 10: Well, it's the only chance I have.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at the office all day.
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  Speaker 10: So am I. I wish you'd... Did you hear that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: I did. It's probably a play. I don't think it
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  Speaker 10: is a play. Come on in. Where are you going?
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  Speaker 10: I want to see what that was.
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  Speaker 6: I'll try another station.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, have you seen my garters?
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  Speaker 7: Button me up.
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  Speaker 10: I said, have you seen my garters?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, button me up.
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  Speaker 10: And I'll find your garters. All right, all right. Is
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  Speaker 10: that a radio show? I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, let me see.
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  Speaker 9: I wish you wouldn't leave apple cores in the gas tray.
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  Speaker 10: I hate the smell. It's delicious.
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  Speaker 6: On the coast of Coromandel, where the early pumpkins blow,
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  Speaker 6: in the.
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  Speaker 7: Middle of the woods lives a young bongy bird.
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  Speaker 1: Two old chairs and half a candle, one old jug
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  Speaker 1: without a handle.
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  Speaker 10: That's the Sweeney's nurse. They're not going off. Maybe they
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  Speaker 10: can hear us. That would be a sign.
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  Speaker 6: The Sweeney's nurse must be reading to the little girl.
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  Speaker 11: They live in 17B.
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  Speaker 7: I told you.
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  Speaker 1: Possible.
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  Speaker 10: That was really nice. I know a voice. I know
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  Speaker 10: it very well. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 7: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 6: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Hello?
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  Speaker 10: I'm just a cat here. Try something else. Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Eat some more sandwiches.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, sure, I'd love some.
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  Speaker 6: This must be the Hattinson's in 15B. I knew they
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  Speaker 6: were giving.
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  Speaker 10: A party this afternoon. I saw her in the liquor store.
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  Speaker 10: Isn't this divine? Try something else.
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  Speaker 7: All right, wait a minute, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 8: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: The West got overheard that evening, a monologue on salmon
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  Speaker 6: fishing in Canada, a bridge game, running comments on home movies,
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  Speaker 6: and a bitter family quarrel about an overdraft at the bank.
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  Speaker 6: They turned off the radio at midnight, went to bed,
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  Speaker 6: weak with laughter. Sometime in the night, their son began
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  Speaker 6: to call for a glass of water, and Irene got
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  Speaker 6: one and took it into his room.
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  Speaker 10: It was very early.
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  Speaker 6: From his window, all the lights in the neighborhood were extinguished.
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  Speaker 10: She went into the living room and turned on the radio.
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  Speaker 10: Are you all right, darling? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I'm all right, I guess. But you know, Charlie, I
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  Speaker 6: don't feel like myself anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes only, oh, about 15 or 20 minutes in the
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  Speaker 1: week when I feel like myself.
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  Speaker 10: I don't like to go to another doctor. The doctor
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  Speaker 10: bills are so awful already.
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  Speaker 6: But I just don't feel like myself, Charlie. I just
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  Speaker 6: never feel like myself.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 10: How sad.
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  Speaker 8: How terribly sad.
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  Speaker 6: The following morning, after her children and husband had been
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  Speaker 6: carried away in the elevator, she went into the living
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  Speaker 6: room and tried the radio again.
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  Speaker 10: You are going to school.
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  Speaker 8: This morning, my girl, and that's all there is to it.
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  Speaker 10: Look, we paid $ 800 to get you into that.
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  Speaker 9: School, and you'll go if it kills you.
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  Speaker 7: Did you think he's so hot?
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  Speaker 10: Why don't you.
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  Speaker 3: Just tell him?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, sure. Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 9: I can just see you.
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  Speaker 10: You'd like that, wouldn't you? That's what you're waiting for.
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  Speaker 8: You'd like me to do something like that.
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  Speaker 10: The kind of thing you've been doing. Huh? You think
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  Speaker 10: I don't know?
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: You think I don't smell that perfume.
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  Speaker 10: On you when you get home from work?
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  Speaker 6: Work?
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  Speaker 9: You think I haven't seen the lipstick on your handkerchief?
• 15:50
  Speaker 10: If you look in my pockets again, I'll break your arm.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks for a lousy breakfast and indigestion.
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  Speaker 7: I may see you tonight, I may not. Go on.
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  Speaker 10: Get out.
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  Speaker 5: Go on.
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  Speaker 10: Stay out all night. Maybe I will.
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  Speaker 11: Irene shifted the control and invaded the privacy of several
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  Speaker 11: breakfast tables.
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  Speaker 6: She overheard demonstrations of indigestion, love, abysmal.
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  Speaker 10: Vanity, faith, and despair.
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  Speaker 6: Her life was nearly as simple and sheltered as it
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  Speaker 6: appeared to be, and the forthright and sometimes brutal language
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  Speaker 6: that came from this loudspeaker the morning there astonished and
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  Speaker 6: troubled her. She continued to listen until the maid came in,
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  Speaker 6: and then she turned the radio off quickly. Since this insight,
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  Speaker 6: she realized it was a fretted one. She had a
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  Speaker 6: luncheon date with a friend that day and didn't get
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  Speaker 6: home until after 2.30. For some reason, she felt strangely disturbed.
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, hello, dear.
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  Speaker 10: I expected Miss Cummings. No, she's out getting me some coffee. My,
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  Speaker 10: what an efficient secretary. Something wrong?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 10: You won't forget we're going out for dinner tonight. No,
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  Speaker 10: I won't forget. Oh, dear, I'm rather busy. Oh, I'm sorry, dear.
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  Speaker 10: That's all right. Oh, the funniest thing.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 10: When I went out for lunch, there were some people
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  Speaker 10: in the apartment elevator. It was the funniest thing. Honey,
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  Speaker 10: will you tell me about it later? I haven't got
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  Speaker 10: time now.
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  Speaker 6: I'll see you about seven.
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  Speaker 1: Now, don't give the best scotch to anyone who hasn't
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  Speaker 1: white hair. And see if you can get rid of
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  Speaker 1: that liver paste before you pass.
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  Speaker 5: Those hot things.
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  Speaker 6: And the afternoon waned. The conversations increased in intensity. On
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  Speaker 6: the radio, she could hear the arrival of cocktail guests
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  Speaker 6: and the return of children and businessmen from their schools
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  Speaker 6: and offices. The voices swirled around her. I found a.
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: Good-sized diamond on the bathroom floor this morning. It must
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  Speaker 9: have fallen out of that bracelet Mrs.
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: Dunstan was wearing last night. Let me see that. Here
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  Speaker 10: it is. We'll sell it. Take it down to the
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  Speaker 10: jeweler on Madison Avenue and sell it. Well, Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Dunstan won't know the difference, and we could use a
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  Speaker 6: couple of hundred bucks up in the car.
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  Speaker 10: I'm horrible. Oh, it is damn lemon, say the bells
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  Speaker 10: of St.
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  Speaker 9: Clement.
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  Speaker 6: Eight and ten farthing, say the bells of St.
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  Speaker 10: Martin.
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  Speaker 7: When will you pay me, say the bells that tell Bailey.
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  Speaker 10: It's not a rhyme. It's not a hat. It's a
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  Speaker 10: love affair. Oh, that's what he said. He said it's
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  Speaker 10: not a hat. It's a love affair. Talk to somebody, honey.
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  Speaker 10: Talk to somebody.
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  Speaker 8: If she catches you standing here not talking to anyone,
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  Speaker 8: she'll take us off her invitation list.
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  Speaker 10: And I love these parties. I love them.
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  Speaker 6: The Westards were going out for dinner, and when Jim
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  Speaker 6: came home, Irene was dressing. She seemed sad and vague,
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  Speaker 6: and he brought her a drink.
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  Speaker 10: They were dining with friends in the neighborhood, and they
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  Speaker 10: walked to where they were going. It was one of
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  Speaker 10: those splendid spring.
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  Speaker 6: Evenings that excites memory and desire. And the air that
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  Speaker 6: touched their hands and faces felt very soft. A Salvation
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  Speaker 6: Army band was on the corner of the place.
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  Speaker 10: They're really such nice people, aren't they?
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  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 10: They have such nice faces. Actually, they're so much nicer
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  Speaker 10: than a lot of people we know. She took a
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: bill out of her purse and walked over and dropped
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: it into the tambourine.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: There was in her face when she returned to her
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: husband a look of radiant melancholy.
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: That he was not familiar with.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: And her conduct at the dinner party seemed strange to him, too.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: She interrupted her hostess.
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: I don't agree with you.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: I think you're absolutely wrong.
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: Completely wrong.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Stared at people across the table from her with an
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: intensity for which she would have punished her children. She
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: waited that night until Jim had fallen asleep, and then
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: went into the living room and turned on the radio.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so tired.
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: I'm absolutely dead.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: Maybe we can get home one night in the week
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: before one o'clock.
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: You wouldn't be so done.
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: I know, but we had to go to the party.
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: The next day, she had a slight headache and didn't
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: keep an appointment she had. At 2 o'clock, Jim called
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: her from the office.
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: Everything all right?
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Yes, I think so.
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: Aren't you feeling well? Yeah, I've got a bit of
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: a headache.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: What'd you find out about the car? No, I didn't. Well,
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: I asked you to be sure to, honey. We won't
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: get it until tomorrow now. Now, will you please call
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: them right away and tell them I've got to have
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: it by tomorrow?
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Irene, did you hear me?
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: I said yes.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: I've got a headache. All right.
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: Jim came home at about six that night.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Him and the maid let him in, and he had
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: taken off his hat and was taking off his.
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: Coat when Irene ran into the hall. Don't take off
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: your coat. Don't be 16. Your husband's beating his wife.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: They've been quarreling.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: Since 4 o'clock, and now he's hitting her.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: Go up there.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: Stop it.
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: You don't have to listen to this sort of thing,
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: you know. Condition. It's like looking through windows. You know
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: you don't have to listen to this sort of thing.
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: You can just turn it off.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: I've been listening all day.
• 23:02
  Speaker 10: Why do you listen to it?
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: I bought the filthy thing to give you some pleasure.
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: I paid a lot for it. I thought it might
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: make you happy. I wanted to make you happy. No, no, no.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: Don't quarrel with me, please.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: Please.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, this has been quarreling all day. Everybody's quarreling.
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: They're all worried about money. Mrs.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: Hutchinson's mother is dying in Florida, and they don't have
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: enough money to send her to.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: The Mayo Clinic.
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: And Mrs.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Norman has heart trouble, and some woman is playing rock
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: for the superintendent.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: It's disgusting.
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: And Mr. Hendricks is going to lose his job, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: that girl is playing for Missouri Waltz all the time.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: And Mr.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: Hutchinson is dealing with this.
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: Irene, Irene, listen to me. It makes you so miserable.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: Don't.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: No, life is too terrible. Too sad and too awful.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: But we've never been like that, have we, darling?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Have we?
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: I mean, we've always.
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: Been good and decent and loving, haven't we? And we
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: have two children. Beautiful children.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: Our lives aren't good either, darling, are they?
• 24:21
  Speaker 10: We're happy, aren't we?
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: We are happy.
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: Of course we're happy, John.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: Of course.
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: Now, look, I'll have the full radio fixed or taken
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: away tomorrow. Come on.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: It's all right.
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: It's all right. You love me, don't you? And we're
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: not hypercritical or worried about money or dishonest, are we?
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: No.
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: No.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: No.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: A man came in the morning and fixed the radio.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: And Irene was happy to hear a recording of the
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: Beethoven 9th, including Sugar's Ode to Joy.
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: She kept the radio on all.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: Day, and nothing untoward came from the speaker. This is
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: La Mer was being played when Jim came home and
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: they went into dinner.
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: His face was pale, she thought. I paid the bill
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: for the radio today for $ 400. I just hope you
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: get some enjoyment out of it. I'm sure I will, Daddy.
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: $ 400 is a good deal more than I can afford.
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: But I wanted to get something you'd enjoy. It's the
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: last extravagance we'll be able to indulge ourselves in this year. Oh,
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: of course. I understand. By the way, I noticed you
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: hadn't paid your clothing bills yet. I saw them on
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: your dressing table. Oh, I suppose I must have forgotten. Well,
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: why did you tell me you'd paid them? Why did
• 26:16
  Speaker 10: you lie to me? Well, I just didn't want to
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: worry you, Jim. I'll be able to pay my bills
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: out of this month's allowance. We'll get covered last month
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: in that party we had. Well, you've just got to
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: learn to handle the money I give you a little
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: more intelligently, eh?
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: Yes, I will.
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: I really will. I've just got to understand that we
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: won't have as much money this year as we had.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: Last, eh?
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: I had a very sobering talk with Mitchell today. I
• 26:39
  Speaker 10: wasn't buying anything. We're spending all our time promoting new issues,
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: and you know how long that takes. I'm not getting
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: any younger, you know. I'm 37, and I haven't done
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: as well as I hoped I'd do. I don't suppose
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: things are getting any better. We've just got to start
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: cutting down. Start thinking of the children. But, to be
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: frank with you, I worry about money a great deal.
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: I'm not at all sure of the future. No one is.
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: I work very hard to give you and the children
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: a comfortable life, and I don't like to see all
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: that energy wasted in fur coats, radios.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: And slipcovers.
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: Jim, Jim, they'll hear us. Who will hear us? Emma
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: can't hear us.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: The radio.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: No.
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: I'm sick of it.
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: I'm sick to death of you.
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: That radio can't hear us. Nobody can hear us.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: And what if they can't hear us?
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: Who cares?
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: Why are you so holier than thou all of a sudden?
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Irene stood for a minute before the hideous radio, disgraced
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: and sickened. But she held her hand on the switch before.
• 27:57
  Speaker 10: She sang the music, hoping that the instrument might.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: Speak to her kindly, that she might hear the squeaky noise.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: And as she turned the dial, the voice on the radio.
• 28:14
  Speaker 10: Was suave and noncommittal. Buffalo.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: A fire in a hospital near Buffalo for the care
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: of blind children was put out this morning.
• 28:22
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• 28:26
  Speaker 6: The temperature downtown is 64.
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: Humidity, 90. And now an interlude of music.
• 28:33
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