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War dot Great Detectives dot net. All right, well, now it's time
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for today's episode of Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar and again we are skipping the
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Christmas episode no lost episode, and we will definitely get to that episode around
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Christmas time, but for May, we're going to skip to December thirtieth of
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nineteen fifty six. In the day the toddle of today's episode The Squared Circle
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Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellar, Paul Kendrick, Johnny
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over at Eastern Allied Casualty remember, Oh sure, Paul, how are you
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seen any good fights? Lavely Prize Fie? That is Yeah, the championship
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bottled the stadium over in Maulville last week. Were you there? No,
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I had a miss it, but it didn't miss me. Huh. The
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minute Georgia hit the canvas in that fourth round, it cost me fifty bucks.
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Johnny, do you remember al Colornado? Are you kidding? I've watched
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that boy come up from the Golden Gloves. Well, he fought in one
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of the preliminary bouts. I know I lost on him to twenty bucks.
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Come on over, will you, and I'll tell you why the company may
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lose fifty thousand. Done. Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man
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with the Action pactickst America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense
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account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Eastern Allied Casualty Insurance Company four to
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two Spital Building, Hartford, Connecticut. Following is an account of expenses incurred
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during my investigation of the squared Circle matter. Expense account had a one a
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dollar ten cents camp from my apartment to the offices of Eastern Allied. When
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I got upstairs into his personal cubicle, I found Paul Kendrick pacing the floor.
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Sit down, Johnny, have a drink if you want one. No,
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no thanks, Hey, looks like you're the one who could use a
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drink. What are you worried about? Don't tell me you've ben hitting the
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company till for big money to bet on the fights. Johnny, I'm worried
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about. Listen, I'm all yours. How long since you've seen al Coronado
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fight? Ooh six months? Year maybe? But before that, when he
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was working all the local arenas, you and I were present every time he
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put on the gloves, so we knew him when he had reflexes quick enough
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to well, do you remember how he'd show off by picking a fly or
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mosquito out of the air, grabbing it between his fingers without even hurting it.
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Yeah. Sure, he was no metal giant, not by a long
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shot. But he had the fastest eyes and hands I ever saw in the
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man. Right. But something has happened to him, something very wrong,
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and I think I know what it is. Listen, a few years ago,
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his manager, Ricky Malone, took out a fifty thousand dollars policy on
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him annuity. So what a lot of managers take out policies on their boys
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and then get him killed. Look Al is fighting again tomorrow night in a
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small town outside of Joplin, choppin Missouri, little place just across the state
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line. Johnny, I want you to be there. You mean has a
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sort of bodyguard. I want you to see the fight. That's all.
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See Al Coronado fight. Yeah, but this murder crack. I'm having a
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copy of the policy he made and you can pick it up at the Joplin
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Post Office General Delivery. Now, Paul, I know, I know I
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may be all wrong. This may only be a hunch without a single legitimate
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reason for suspicion. That's why I took a whole week to think it over
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before calling you. That's why I want somebody who knows AL as well as
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you and I do to look. Will you go down there and see him?
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Why? We'll pay the freight pand your expense account anything you like.
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Oh, now that's an attack, but do it, Johnny? Will you?
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I had them two another dollar ten back to my apartment a pack.
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I had them three one hundred and twenty four dollars even playing fair, and
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incidentals to Joplin by your lead, Paul. The incidentals included a new sports
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shirt loud enough to startle the whole state of Arizona, an extra pack of
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razor blades, and a new toothbrush. Also, I had them four three
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bucks flowers for the stewardess, who managed to find me an extra bottle of
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champaigne. I arrived at Joplin shortly before noon, and after checking into a
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hotel founded by some miracle, a copy of AL policy was waiting for me
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at the post office. A quick glance at that brings up item five four
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dollars and a quarter phone call. What do you mean holding out on you?
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I thought you, said, Ricky Malone took out the policy. He
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did and pays all the premiums. But the beneficiary named is Frankie Fourtina.
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Now ho see I don't know yet. Well, his address is in New
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York City. You've better look him up, will you. I've been trying
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to. But the last time FOURTEENA was at the address on the policy,
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it was a racetrack bookie joint. Oh so that's why you're worried. That's
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one reason. Well, if you learn anything about I don't let me know.
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Well, you I'm staying in the Beverly Arm Okay, Johnny, Johnny,
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Yeah, call me again, will you? After the fight tonight?
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Sure, I was tired, so I had a big lunch that had him
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six, went out to my room and slept. I overslept. It was
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nearly nine o'clock when I woke up, so I grabbed a cab that sided
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him seven. I went out to the arena in the nearby town of on
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Elbow. The five Bucks had a mate. I managed to get a seat
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a ring side and time to catch the end of the last prelimin where in
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one minute the program told me how was schedule for the main event against some
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local boy named Rafe Cummings. I've never heard of him, and I doubt
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if anybody outside of Tucson ever had. I understood why when he stepped into
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the ring, this kid looked like the rankest kind of amateur, strong,
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sure and in good condition, but comes in he almost took over his own
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size fifteen feet and it was no actor full and opponent either. How when
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he came in looked as good as ever. He gave me a quick glance
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of recognition. I'm sure he knew nothing about me except possibly my name at
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the oldening belly came out fast. All the old speed and timing were there
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and faint weave and flick out that light but punishing left, sing old pattern
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and saying, well wait a minute. Those quick left jams were only landing
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about one in four as though he touched comings only when the comes the ox
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having to walk into him, but because of his speed out took nothing but
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a few light ones on the body. He kept his face well out of
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reach. Oh yeah, his timing was perfect, but his aim was terrible.
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Every time he shot out his fist he was three four inches wide.
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It's what a funny thing happened at the end of the round when Al went
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back to his corner, and remember Raven only tapped him a few times on
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the body. When he went back to his corner and started to sit down,
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he almost missed the stool, would have if one of the seconds had
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named it under him funny. The second round got under weigh the same as
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the first owl. Was all speed, dodging, weaving, keeping his face
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out of the way. But again he wasn't hitting his march. And then
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it happened he missed Cummings. Why then practically ran into his glove, catching
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it hot on the cheek, and down he went. Why there wasn't enough
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steam behind Cummings glove to hurt it, But out took the counts he'd been
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hurt by that tap on the face. Then another thing. The second he
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was counted out, his handlers practically hauled him out of the ring and back
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to his dressing round. And believed me owl looked terrible, and his eyes
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had a strange, almost far away look, as though that little smack had
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not his Rainslow said, my seat was on the far side of the ring,
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but I elbowed my way through the crowd and back to the rower dressing
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rooms. In a hallway building at one end of the building. Al al
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Carnado, I told you on the way up the aisle, Doc, we
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don't need you the boys, all right, go on, Doc, beat
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it you hear me? Dot listen. This is Johnny Dollar, old fan
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of Al's from Hartford. I want to see him some other No, no,
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right away, come on, open up, I said some of the
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time. Don't you understand. We're pulling out of this burg and we ain't
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got time to stand around and talk. Now, look, buddy Malone's and
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name my mouths manager. Seeing when I say get out, I mean van
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moose. Now are you okay? Boy? This is Johnny Doller. Oh
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no, you duck brother? That sweet your walk? Hey yeah? Now
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good lord? Now what's the matter with you? Oh? Held, jolly
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yeah? Look at me? No, no, I mean straight at me
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here. Al all right, Jaddy, you're in bad shape. You should
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never have fought tonight. Oh that's all right. Where are your seconds?
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Your trainer, Ricky though, don't let nobody in to fight? Look out,
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can you get up off that table? Stand up and walk? Oh?
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Shore shoo, Jaddy, and come on, I'm taking you out of
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here day. Look. Look, we hide you, Ricky, He's up,
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He's got you. Bet I am Tello, Act two of Yours,
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Truly, Johnny Dollar. In just a moment. Each Monday through Friday evening,
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Johnny Dollar and the Squared Circle Matter. When I came to the dressing
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room was dark and quiet. After carefully falling off the table where they'd left
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me, I groped my way to the light switch, stumbling instantly all the
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remains of the chair Ricky Malone had used off me. It was well after
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midnight, so I left by the dressing room window. The second I reached
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my hotel room and I put through a long distance call, hoping Paul Kendrick
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would be in home in bed. He was, Johnny Dollar and Paul,
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You're right, it'll be murder unless I can stop it. Hey, you
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awake? You mean El Coronado? What's happened? Johnny Plenty and listen.
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That boy is more than punch drunk. He's had a brain injury or some
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kind. I'll bet on it. That's when I was afraid. The tap
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on the face that had knocked him out to night wasn't enough to hurt a
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kitten, but a good solid blow would probably kill him. That's why protecting
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his face. But Ricky Maloney's making him keep on. Oh else, I
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just met that gentleman by the way. What he say? Did you question
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him? Before I could? He cracked me over the head with a chair.
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Where's he not? Oh? I don't know. What are you gonna
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do? See if the police can track them down. Malone said something about
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leaving town right away and keep after him. Did you read that policy carefully?
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You're kidding. I haven't had time. It's an annuity that much I
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saw beginning in three or four years. It'll pay all a nice little income
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of the rest of his life if he survives. But the beneficiary named,
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yes, Frankie Fourteina, who gets the full face value of the policy of
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al dies? Johnny, Yeah, I got a rundown on FOURTEENA. He
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said he was a boogieer one time. That was the least of his crimes.
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He has a record as long as your arm as I see it,
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he owns Al Coronado. Then you're probably thinking what I am. But Al
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hasn't been doing so well lately. He's taking a big drop in class.
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Isn't making the purses he used to? You know that? Yes, the
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ANBA keeps a complete record. So with this injury to his brain, the
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only way FOURTEENA can clean up on him is by seeing him dead. That's
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right. What about medical examinations before these fights? Ricky Malone could bribe his
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own mother, especially in some of the towns where Al has been fighting lately.
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That's possible, of course. Also, what you and I believe is
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wrong with Ali, he's one of the hardest things in the world to detect.
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Yeah, yeah, I must admit he looked great when he entered the
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ring. Okay, Paul One, things in our favor, either Al nor
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Ricky Malone knows who I am outside of being a fight fan, just so
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FOURTEENA doesn't learn different. Well, it is FOURTEENA by the way, I
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don't know, So Johnny, whatever you do, be careful. Expencer con
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Item nine three seventy for a couple of phone calls some breakfast in a taxi
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the police headquarters. I'll say this for the Champlan police when they go into
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action, they really get things done. Within less than two hours. Sergeant
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Danny Ruskin dug up all the information I want. Well, that dies into
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what Conrad I found out at the airport. Now that doesn't hurn. Thanks
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very much something, and I think it gives us the whole story. Johnny
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Alan his manager Ricky Malone, checked out of their hotel, the Raybury one
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o'clock this morning. Just the two of them ride. There was no third
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party by the name of fourteen or anything else, just the two of them.
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They caught the one forty plane for Oklahoma City and there they bought tickets
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Rodingham to Monterey, Mexico, Mexico. How soon can I get a plane
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going down there? I told you I got to save that guy's life,
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all right, Look in Monterey. Look up Sergeant Romilia Garcia, Main Homicide
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Division. You mentioned my name. He'll give you anything you want. Go
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ahead, Now, what about that plane? The Dilon plane connections turned out
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to be bad. The best time I could make was by way of out
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passing rightside Santa one hundred and twenty seven dollars including incidentals. I finally pulled
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in the Monterey shortly after eight pm. I parked my bag at the airport
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taxiing into town Adam eleven. I went straight to main headquarters of the Policia
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are Sagian Romdio Garcia was off Jordan and you had gone to the fights.
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I had them twelve four dollars American for a fast taxi ride at the Plaza
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del fist Cups or whatever they call it. Yeah, for rightem thirteen five
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bucks. I had the sergeant pages over the PA system. After two or
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three minutes, a short, stocky, important looking figure and police uniforms stood
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up to the door and you're Johnny Dollar And that's right, sergeant, how
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are you Americanos? Now? What is so important? I'm goost leave the
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assl and fights to talk with you. Huh the possible murder of an American
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fighter right here in your own ring. So what is that to be excited
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about something that happens all the time. Is because the Mexican fighter is more
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better than the Americano fighter. So if that is all it is. Pultimately,
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Sergeant Danny Ruskin at the job Donny. Why do you not say so
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at the beginning? Well, you didn't give me much of a chance.
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I is in my good friend, Sergeant Danny. This is too long ifc
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here? Yeah, well what still in man, Sergeant Danny? When I
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have trouble with one of our Mexican nationals who escape across the border and go
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all the way to Missouri Joplin, is Sergeant Danny? Who? But you
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have a problem man? Yeah? A fighter name of alcohol, not a
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Coronado. Oh but of course tomorrow night he is fighting here and he will
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lose. Why do you say that? Come look here and the what you
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call a billboard a picture of the man he is to fight. So el
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toro negro. It sounds more like the name of a ball in him.
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Oh see big man? Is he not? There's this picture realm two hundred
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and forty pounds in you. But now Corona the only weighs in a one
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eighty one. See el too, big man is singing a dollar. He
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is a killer, our best three men. He's knocked out of the ring,
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but nobody heard, seems so. No wonder you worried, Sagan,
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unless you when I can stop at that won't be a fight tomorrow night.
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It'll be a premeditated, cold blooded killing. Oh so I showed Garcia my
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potentials, then told him what I knew and what I suspected I have proof
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of. They say, or to start what you call an international situation.
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You are not now in your own country, you know. Still he agreed
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to cooperate. First thing, of course, was to locate out and this
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manager in this city of nearly two hundred thousand. That could be pretty rough,
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but he said he tried. He drove me by the airport to pick
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up my bag into a hotel and there is the bell hop unlocked the door
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of my room. I got a wheel break the next door down the hall
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open there? Hey kid, how'd you like the Greg meph for glass and
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warm milk? Now al Coronado? Oh hi, hey boy, just putting
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my bags inside and leaves the door open. He yeah, are you alone?
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Sure? Hey? You? Johnny? At you? Yeah, that's
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right, Johnny, And I want to talk to you. I used to
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see you excide all the time up and hard for that. You saw me
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and Jaffain too, Only you don't remember where's Ricky Malone? Your manager?
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Oh? He says, how to go meet somebody. He's always going out.
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Look al, I'm an insurance investigator. Oh oh, I got some
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as shirts. Yeah, one more fight than somebody's gonna collect it. Uh
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No, Johnny, that's my retiring money. The only one who'll retire on
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it is Frankie Fourteina. Hey, Frankie, he's my owner. You know,
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Hey, who takes all the aspin around here? Me? I get
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a lot of headaches all the time. But maybe that's why I am been
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hitting so good lately. Yeah, here, can's this bottle? Hey?
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Uh now, look what you did? No, no, well you look
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what you did. You missed that bottle by three inches for the same reason
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you haven't been hitting. Well, why you have these headaches. I'll give
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it to you straight. You've had a brain injury. Out One good wallop
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on that headle, kid, and that's just what Ricky and fourteen want.
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No, Ricky always says to keep my head protected. So you must be
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wrong, am I? Whoa? Ricky's good to me? Why you Numbskully's
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trying to get you killed? Johnny, you are wrong. You know the
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man you're up against tomorrow night, Well I know his name. Well,
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he's the one schedule to finish you off good. I don't believe that.
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And listen, you're gonna believe it now? Was it to here? Who
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are you gonna call? Hello? This is an emergency. Get me,
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Sergeant Romano. You gotta see at Central Police Headquarters, the cops, that's
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right, al and a doctor. Uh No, Ricky says, to stay
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away from doctors. All they do. All they do is stop you from
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ever fighting again. And I would make you worth just fifty thousand dollars less
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to Frankie. Sergeant Johnny Dollar. I found out hotel room right next to
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mine, room nine to fifteen. Bring a doctor, a brain specialist if
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you can, even if you have to drag him out of bed. Oh.
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Look, we'll fight the international situation when we come to it. You
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get a doctor up here, you hang up or I'll blow your head off.
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Well, mister FOURTEENA I first, kim Ricky Sure, boys East quan
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Ah. I hate to shoot an an armed man, Dollar, but if
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you make one phony move so you know who I am. Ricky here may
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be stupid in some ways, but he had sense enough to call me from
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Joplin after you broke in on him there finding out what you're up to.
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Wasn't difficult. Finding out what you're up to was very toughy the FOURTEENA.
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But it's all over, not for me, Dollar, That's where you're wrong.
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That phone call I made was to the police, know, to central
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headquarters. That's over three miles from here. By the time your sergeant finds
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a doctor and gets here, you will be dead and I will be gone.
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Have you forgotten that you have a bordered across fourteen times? Stupid Frankie
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Fourteina has never been here, has never been even in Mexico because my tourist
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god reads Charles Edward Smith. Since the next plane leaves for the States in
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about twenty minutes, Ricky, Yeah, boys, I think mister Dollar had
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better have an accident fall out of the window perhaps, And I wait a
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minute, I mean listen to me alone. I had two reasons for coming
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down here, to see if you were right about Dollar, and to make
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sure of that fight tomorrow. You've been stalling with al. You've taken too
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long. The heat is on up north. I need the dough. I
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told you boys that El Toro will do it. Tomuch. I'll shut up
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and look if you take care of Dollar what about me. Maybe you can
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get back to the States, but me with Dollar laying dead here, and
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if al Al won't talk, you won't either. Thank you. Dollar has
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given us a perfect setup. He came here to Al's room, you found
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him here, You had a fight. Dollar ends up in the street below.
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But what happens to me? And I always taken care of you in
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the past when you were working for me, you know what will happen if
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you ever try to cross it. No, all right, all right,
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I have contacts down here. I have lawyers, good ones. It's going
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to be self defense, pure and simple, like what if el I told
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you before. Ricky, you've taken too long with him. While I hold
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this gun, You're going to take care of Al two the way you should
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have a long long time ago in his fights. No, listen to me,
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frank you listen. You do this whole thing just as deep as I
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have, and deeper because you're the one who's kept out fighting. You've paid
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off all those phony medicals. You set him up for this El Toro.
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Tomorrow night, you'll do it, Ricky. No, then I'll use the
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gun and all three of your Frankie, am I. It will still look
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like a fight between you and Ricky. I'll just happen to get hit accidentally
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by the gun that will be found beside your body. Boss, Boss,
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I'll do it. You bet. You will do anything you say if you
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just help me get out of it. Okay, Okay, go ahead.
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Dollar is first, brother. If you think it's gonna be easy, either
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the window or this gun. Dollar, So far as you're concerned, I
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don't care which go on, Ricky. Just remember your own life depends on
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it, you bet, Jerdy? Will you the window off? Ricky?
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The window? I said, remember your life, Ricky? All right?
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Fourteen So you have got a gun? Oh yeah, Jerry, I I
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hit him season your dollar with one very fine clean left hook. Well,
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fourteen was watching you and the unfortunate Ricky. Yeah, you got here a
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little late, Garcie, you see, But tell mesn you are what makes
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you think this al Coronado has lost his punch expense account Item thirteen, one
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hundred dollars legal expense, mainly a deposition for a lawyer to take the court
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just down. Garcia got me on a having to stay a Monterey for a
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hearing. I will never know what he did, Es Brown. Coronado.
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I suggest the company makes some adjustment in his policy that will permit paying his
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annuities immediately. And why not? The company should have investigated more thoroughly before
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issuing this policy anyway, And if it doesn't show a little heart, but
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I'm sure it will. Adam fourteen two hundred and twenty four to fifty hotel
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and incidentals and transportation back to Hartred expense account total four ninety one twenty Yours
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truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here is our star to tell you about next
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week's story. Next week, a fast trip to the West Coast to an
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impossible case involving an impossible man. Join us, won't you? Yours truly,
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Yours truly Johnny Dollar, is starring Bob Bailey. Originates in Hollywood.
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It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's story.
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Heard in our cast were Harry Bartel, Herbellus, Victor Perrin, Jack Krusian,
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Les Tremaine, and Lawrence Dobkin. Musical supervision is by Amerigo Marino.
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News, to be followed over most of these same stations by the FBI.
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In Peace and War, Dan Cumberly speaking, welcome back, Well, happy
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mean to find the guy that you're looking for in the same hotel you're staying
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in. That ends to be one of those things that you have to when
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you only have twenty five minutes to tell your story. But I will say
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Johnstone's definitely showing some improvement. While Johnstone at times has indulged in having supersonic
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police officers, he makes things far more believable here with Martinez. While Martina's
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got there very quickly, it wasn't impossible, after all. It's the way
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Johnny had to hang up quickly. Probably include martinaz in that something was going
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on and he wasn't going to bother getting a doctor. He was going to
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make sure that Johnny Dollar didn't need a corner. Well, now we turn
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to our listener comments and feedback, and William emails in and he writes,
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well, I'm sad to see the end of the serialized format of Johnny Dollar
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and appreciate many of the stories presented Therein I will say the format suffered from
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one flaw that got annoyed the device of Johnny retelling the events of the previous
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episodes other characters like police lieutenants. It seems a lot of time was spent
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every day rehashing the plot in order to catch the audience up. By comparison,
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the serialized OTR, Superman shows seem to do a better job of quickly
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recapping previous episodes without getting too bogged down in details, and they were able
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to recap through narration instead of the device of characters reciting what they already knew.
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To be fair, maybe Superman's plots weren't as complicated as Johnny dollars well.
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I will say that I have actually heard quite a few episodes of Superman
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where Clark Kent will sit down and will actually tell characters what they said,
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Chief you yourself said, really just to remind the audience of what the chief
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said. You told you know, you said this, and we decided this,
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you know. So there would be those sort of contrivances. That is
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one of the trade offs with serialized stories. I will say that sometimes Johnny
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A. Dollar managed to do it cleverly by not recapping the plot to someone
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who already knew, you know. For example, a new police lieutenant.
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Well, it all started in New Orleans, and I tended to think they
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were overall a little bit more clever in how they did it. Beginning any
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story with two or three minutes of backstory can also be a challenge too,
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particularly told by a narrator. There were a few times where I did find
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myself shaking my head, but still I prefer the theorialized format and I'll definitely
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missed those because they provided so much more complex stories. But thanks so much
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for the email, Liiam Philip, comments on Facebook and joining the shows,
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especially yours tweely Johnny Dollar. Finally, we have a new review of the
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app over on Amazon. Susan writes the best old timer radio podcast available bar
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none. Why is this one the best? There are a number of reasons,
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but it all starts with the host, Adam Graham. He's taking the
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time not only in selecting the series to run, but he's also researched the
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backgrounds of the shows and the stars and presents them like an old friend talking
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to you about a subject that he truly loves. Many others might play the
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show, but do they play them in the order they first aired? Adam
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does do the others clean up the old recordings and make them sound good for
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seventy year old records. Adam does try this podcast. If you love old
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time radio detectives or film more as much as I do, this will become
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the podcast that you will look forward to every day. Well, thanks so
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much for the comments, Susan. I have to say that on the cleaning
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up, any improvement of the quality of the recordings from what I have found
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online, we can thank Andrew Ryns at the Old Time Radio Western Show at
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Otrwesterns dot com. All right, well, thanks much for all your comments
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and feedback. We will be back with you tomorrow for Police Headquarters and then
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