WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:23.520 Suspense! 00:23.520 --> 00:30.200 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Transcribed Mr. Dick Powell in Slow Burn, 00:30.200 --> 00:38.600 a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 00:38.600 --> 00:39.600 Filler up sir? 00:39.600 --> 00:41.800 Please do my personable peddler of petroleum. 00:41.800 --> 00:43.360 How about your battery? 00:43.360 --> 00:47.720 Why lad, I've got an Auto Light stay full battery, the battery that needs water only 00:47.720 --> 00:50.080 three times a year in normal car use. 00:50.080 --> 00:51.920 An Auto Light stay full battery? 00:51.920 --> 00:52.920 Say! 00:52.920 --> 00:57.080 Say no more my good fellow, for when you've said Auto Light stay full battery, you've 00:57.080 --> 00:58.080 said the ultimate. 00:58.080 --> 01:03.600 This demon deliverer of starting stamina has over three times as much liquid reserve above 01:03.600 --> 01:06.360 the plates as batteries without stay full features. 01:06.360 --> 01:07.840 You sound like Harlow Wilcox. 01:07.840 --> 01:13.140 I sound like every motorist in modern memory who has been moved to murderous fury by one 01:13.140 --> 01:17.800 of the major causes of battery failure, namely a thirsty battery, but who has discovered 01:17.800 --> 01:20.280 the delight of the Auto Light stay full battery. 01:20.280 --> 01:24.200 A battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 01:24.200 --> 01:27.160 Sure, but you still sound like Harlow Wilcox to me. 01:27.160 --> 01:31.200 Well, by a curious coincidence, that couldn't happen again in a thousand years. 01:31.200 --> 01:32.680 I am Harlow Wilcox. 01:32.680 --> 01:34.680 Well, why didn't you say so? 01:34.680 --> 01:39.400 Because right now I'm too busy saying you're always right with Auto Light. 01:39.400 --> 01:45.280 And now with Slow Burn and with the performance of Dick Powell, Auto Light hopes once again 01:45.280 --> 02:01.160 to keep you in suspense. 02:01.160 --> 02:04.680 I'm standing here staring at a clock on a dresser in a crummy hotel room. 02:04.680 --> 02:08.280 I've been watching the man at hand drag itself up the face of the clock and I'm not going 02:08.280 --> 02:12.080 to pull my eyes away from that man at hand until it touches 12. 02:12.080 --> 02:17.160 Because at 12, the Slow Burn that started in my insides way back three months ago, the 02:17.160 --> 02:21.640 Slow Burn that built till my whole body was on fire is going to be soothed. 02:21.640 --> 02:26.200 Yeah, in another few seconds it's going to be 12 midnight and I'll be able to breathe 02:26.200 --> 02:27.200 again. 02:27.200 --> 02:29.000 Then they can come get me. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 I won't care. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 There it is. 02:33.000 --> 02:36.000 I can make that call now. 02:36.000 --> 02:46.480 Morning, Harold. 02:46.480 --> 02:49.480 Let me speak to Todd Sloan. 02:49.480 --> 02:53.920 Warts Department, Todd Sloan speaking. 02:53.920 --> 02:55.440 This is Johnny Wilson. 02:55.440 --> 02:56.440 Johnny, where are you? 02:56.440 --> 02:57.440 Don't interrupt. 02:57.440 --> 02:59.720 This call is a sense to be traced. 02:59.720 --> 03:00.720 I got a lot to say. 03:00.720 --> 03:04.440 The cops have a tight circle around this town and I know I got no exit. 03:04.440 --> 03:06.680 But before they get me, I want to clear a few things up. 03:06.680 --> 03:07.920 Now listen to me. 03:07.920 --> 03:09.080 I did it. 03:09.080 --> 03:10.800 I'm not denying it. 03:10.800 --> 03:14.240 I'm telling you why I did it and you're going to print it because you're a right guy. 03:14.240 --> 03:15.240 Johnny, I- 03:15.240 --> 03:16.240 Shut up. 03:16.240 --> 03:17.240 I don't have much time. 03:17.240 --> 03:21.040 It all started the day I fought in Duval, Pennsylvania. 03:21.040 --> 03:26.280 Daniel, my wife, didn't want me to fight, but to me it was the fastest way to make a buck. 03:26.280 --> 03:30.720 I was just beginning then right after the war and the cold town was the best I could 03:30.720 --> 03:32.280 do. 03:32.280 --> 03:35.640 I was fighting Tony Tadro, a good boxer and a puncher. 03:35.640 --> 03:40.280 In the second round, we just squared off and the crowd pulled to his feet roaring the guy's 03:40.280 --> 03:41.280 name. 03:41.280 --> 03:42.280 Not mine, not Tony. 03:42.280 --> 03:46.400 Me, it didn't throw, but Tony it did. 03:46.400 --> 03:52.400 He dropped his guard just long enough. 03:52.400 --> 03:55.640 Tony was flat on his back out cold. 03:55.640 --> 04:01.400 I let the referee raise my mitt, then I walked to lefty Wilkins, my manager. 04:01.400 --> 04:02.400 Nice work, Johnny. 04:02.400 --> 04:03.400 Thanks, thanks lefty. 04:03.400 --> 04:04.640 What was he shouting about? 04:04.640 --> 04:05.640 Ain't you heard? 04:05.640 --> 04:09.440 The hometown kid who won that medal of honor blew into town today. 04:09.440 --> 04:12.640 Not only that, he blew into the arena just before you tagged Tony. 04:12.640 --> 04:14.840 Well, how did glad hand the kid myself then? 04:14.840 --> 04:15.840 He made it easy for me. 04:15.840 --> 04:16.840 You don't have time. 04:16.840 --> 04:20.080 We're to meet Courtney Barr at the club tree in 30 minutes. 04:20.080 --> 04:21.080 Okay, okay. 04:21.080 --> 04:24.400 And just this once, let your tongue lay flat inside your face. 04:24.400 --> 04:25.400 I'll do the talking. 04:25.400 --> 04:26.400 Okay, I said, okay. 04:26.400 --> 04:40.080 I got him the second round, Johnny Wilson victorious over Tony. 04:40.080 --> 04:42.720 You saw Johnny fight tonight, Mr. Barr, he's good. 04:42.720 --> 04:44.360 It takes more than good these days. 04:44.360 --> 04:47.520 We know that Mr. Barr, that's why I asked you when. 04:47.520 --> 04:50.080 All we need for him is the right buildup and the connection. 04:50.080 --> 04:53.240 Now look, when I engine a show at a nightclub with a fighter, I want a reasonable chance 04:53.240 --> 04:54.240 to get my money back. 04:54.240 --> 04:56.680 Lefty, you never brought a fighter to the top yet. 04:56.680 --> 04:58.280 But this time it's different. 04:58.280 --> 04:59.760 Johnny Wilson is the next champ. 04:59.760 --> 05:01.240 Oh, don't beg him, Lefty. 05:01.240 --> 05:04.520 If he's too blind to recognize a good thing when it's shoved in front of him, let him 05:04.520 --> 05:05.520 get a seeing eye dog. 05:05.520 --> 05:08.960 Oh, I'd take a chance on Johnny if he had an exploitation angle. 05:08.960 --> 05:11.080 The way it is now, there's too many good boys bouncing around. 05:11.080 --> 05:12.080 Don't need the buildup. 05:12.080 --> 05:13.080 We'll have to go into him. 05:13.080 --> 05:14.080 No. 05:14.080 --> 05:16.080 I'm returning to New York tonight. 05:16.080 --> 05:17.080 Goodbye, gentlemen. 05:17.080 --> 05:18.080 Ah, he's got nothing. 05:18.080 --> 05:19.080 Nothing but money. 05:19.080 --> 05:26.400 Someday I'm going to walk into a bank and look at the stuff. 05:26.400 --> 05:29.040 You know, they keep the trap behind little cages. 05:29.040 --> 05:39.440 Oh, there's that kid again. 05:39.440 --> 05:40.440 The metal boy. 05:40.440 --> 05:41.440 His name's Chuck Masters. 05:41.440 --> 05:42.440 They say he got 30 jabs. 05:42.440 --> 05:43.440 30 jabs? 05:43.440 --> 05:44.440 Ah, they like to meet the hero. 05:44.440 --> 05:45.440 Well, that looks like maybe your willy's coming. 05:45.440 --> 05:49.400 Pardon me, but aren't you Johnny Wilson? 05:49.400 --> 05:50.400 Yeah, that's right. 05:50.400 --> 05:55.400 I got to the stadium just in time for the knockout. 05:55.400 --> 05:57.400 Sure like to congratulate you. 05:57.400 --> 05:58.400 Oh, thanks. 05:58.400 --> 05:59.400 Thanks. 05:59.400 --> 06:00.400 30 jabs, huh? 06:00.400 --> 06:01.400 You've been pretty busy. 06:01.400 --> 06:02.840 Me, I was in the medical corps, Walter Reed Hospital. 06:02.840 --> 06:03.840 Have a drink, Chuck? 06:03.840 --> 06:04.840 Oh, no. 06:04.840 --> 06:05.840 Thanks. 06:05.840 --> 06:06.840 I can't stop. 06:06.840 --> 06:07.840 My family's waiting. 06:07.840 --> 06:10.120 I really have a favor to ask, Mr. Wilson. 06:10.120 --> 06:12.640 I'm chairman of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee. 06:12.640 --> 06:14.840 Oh, let me offer my congratulations. 06:14.840 --> 06:15.840 Thanks. 06:15.840 --> 06:20.320 Now, if you'll offer just one more thing, your services in an exhibition. 06:20.320 --> 06:21.800 You mean a benefit? 06:21.800 --> 06:22.800 Yeah. 06:22.800 --> 06:26.680 Look, Sonny, you're a nice, clean-cut American boy, and I like your style, but the only benefits 06:26.680 --> 06:28.360 I find are for the Johnny Wilson fight. 06:28.360 --> 06:30.120 Now, wait a minute, Johnny. 06:30.120 --> 06:31.120 Wait a minute. 06:31.120 --> 06:34.120 After all, we don't want to see no kids go wrong, do we? 06:34.120 --> 06:37.080 Who are you figuring on Johnny fighting? 06:37.080 --> 06:38.080 Well, nobody yet. 06:38.080 --> 06:39.840 I just got the idea. 06:39.840 --> 06:41.840 Do you box, Chuck? 06:41.840 --> 06:42.840 Me? 06:42.840 --> 06:46.000 I did a little boxing in the 39th Infantry, strictly amateur. 06:46.000 --> 06:47.480 Then it's a natural. 06:47.480 --> 06:48.480 You box, Johnny. 06:48.480 --> 06:49.480 Oh, now, wait a minute. 06:49.480 --> 06:50.480 I couldn't go. 06:50.480 --> 06:51.480 Sure, sure you could. 06:51.480 --> 06:53.240 And you look like a welter, too. 06:53.240 --> 06:55.240 If you get into the ring with Johnny, it's a deal. 06:55.240 --> 06:56.240 Good idea. 06:56.240 --> 06:57.240 Good publicity. 06:57.240 --> 06:58.240 You don't understand. 06:58.240 --> 07:01.320 You can't ask a guy to fight unless you're willing yourself. 07:01.320 --> 07:02.760 Especially for nothing. 07:02.760 --> 07:04.120 You do, we do. 07:04.120 --> 07:05.560 You don't, we don't. 07:05.560 --> 07:06.560 Wow. 07:06.560 --> 07:08.000 Okay, it's a deal. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 Thursday night at the stadium. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.480 Yeah, yeah. 07:11.480 --> 07:13.800 All right, Leslie, what's the setup? 07:13.800 --> 07:16.920 In the ring Thursday, I want you to make him look good. 07:16.920 --> 07:19.480 I want the kid to think he's a wonder boy. 07:19.480 --> 07:20.480 I want to sign him. 07:20.480 --> 07:21.480 And then? 07:21.480 --> 07:24.360 Then I take him to bar as my new fighter. 07:24.360 --> 07:25.960 Medal of honor and all. 07:25.960 --> 07:27.880 Oh, bar like that. 07:27.880 --> 07:29.360 Endorsed by Congress. 07:29.360 --> 07:30.600 Keep talking. 07:30.600 --> 07:33.880 We've got some of the exploitation angle he's talking about. 07:33.880 --> 07:50.680 And with the dough we make on Chucky Boy, we'll finance you to the title. 07:50.680 --> 07:51.680 Give a load of the crowd. 07:51.680 --> 07:54.200 Any more people come in, they'll ration the oxygen. 07:54.200 --> 07:56.200 That's what bar means by exploitation. 07:56.200 --> 07:59.200 That medal of honor drags them in. 07:59.200 --> 08:00.200 There it is. 08:00.200 --> 08:01.200 Remember, Johnny, don't win. 08:01.200 --> 08:02.200 You don't have to lose, but don't win. 08:02.200 --> 08:14.080 I thought it was a fair enough fight. 08:14.080 --> 08:16.520 Like Lefty wanted, I didn't lose it, I didn't win it. 08:16.520 --> 08:20.680 The kid was a cinch to sign, a Lefty-wired buyer to find out if he was interested. 08:20.680 --> 08:21.680 He was. 08:21.680 --> 08:24.240 And now we're in New York in the Copa Club signing the contracts. 08:24.240 --> 08:25.880 There's one thing, Lefty. 08:25.880 --> 08:28.280 Now that Chuck has signed, where does Johnny here fit in? 08:28.280 --> 08:30.400 Oh, Johnny's going to stop boxing for a while. 08:30.400 --> 08:31.400 He's going to groom Chuck. 08:31.400 --> 08:34.160 Me, I wasn't having any conversations just then. 08:34.160 --> 08:38.200 I was watching Chuck watch a long-haired, slinky dame come towards our table. 08:38.200 --> 08:41.640 She had on a gown that had no straps and didn't need any. 08:41.640 --> 08:45.800 There was sweet rhythm in her walk and she wore a hands-off look that beat blood into 08:45.800 --> 08:46.800 a guy's head. 08:46.800 --> 08:50.360 She stopped at our table and Chuck's mouth flopped open. 08:50.360 --> 08:53.640 I said, well, gentlemen, this is my wife. 08:53.640 --> 08:54.640 Hello. 08:54.640 --> 08:56.200 Daniel, this is Chuck Vastas. 08:56.200 --> 08:57.200 Sit down, baby. 08:57.200 --> 09:00.200 So you're the new fighter? 09:00.200 --> 09:01.200 Yeah. 09:01.200 --> 09:02.200 I hate fighters. 09:02.200 --> 09:03.880 Oh, you frightened the boy. 09:03.880 --> 09:05.960 And I hate the parasites that live off me. 09:05.960 --> 09:06.960 Oh, have a drink, baby. 09:06.960 --> 09:07.960 Why do you take that, Johnny? 09:07.960 --> 09:08.960 Shut up. 09:08.960 --> 09:13.760 Hey, new fighter, why don't you duck out before they knock that gentle look out of your 09:13.760 --> 09:14.760 eyes? 09:14.760 --> 09:17.560 I don't want to fight, Mrs. Wilson, but I need money. 09:17.560 --> 09:19.320 Johnny looked like you when he first started. 09:19.320 --> 09:22.240 And after only 4,000 push-ups a day, look at me now. 09:22.240 --> 09:26.560 Childhood sweethearts, sweetness and light. 09:26.560 --> 09:29.320 Now he's not happy unless I wear gowns like this. 09:29.320 --> 09:30.320 There's nothing wrong with that dress. 09:30.320 --> 09:31.320 Hey, baby, have you heard? 09:31.320 --> 09:34.640 I'm going to stay out of the ring for a bit. 09:34.640 --> 09:37.120 I want to teach Chuck here a thing or two. 09:37.120 --> 09:38.400 Who can tell? 09:38.400 --> 09:40.920 With me behind him, he may get to be our next champ. 09:40.920 --> 09:41.920 You've given it up, Johnny. 09:41.920 --> 09:42.920 What happened? 09:42.920 --> 09:44.920 He's just taking a rest, Daniel. 09:44.920 --> 09:45.920 That make you sore? 09:45.920 --> 09:46.920 Not me. 09:46.920 --> 09:50.160 It just sounds like Johnny's using his head. 09:50.160 --> 09:52.640 And that sounds so strange, it makes me suspicious. 09:52.640 --> 09:55.400 Oh, great little kidder, ain't you, Chuck? 09:55.400 --> 09:56.400 Hey, Mr. Barr. 09:56.400 --> 09:57.400 Come on, baby, let's dance. 09:57.400 --> 10:06.760 Now the publicity buildup started. 10:06.760 --> 10:08.320 Chuck was a hero. 10:08.320 --> 10:11.920 The story of the signing hit the papers coast to coast, border to border. 10:11.920 --> 10:15.360 The fighting Marine, they traced his medals to every beachhead. 10:15.360 --> 10:20.280 I even came in for some publicity as Chuck's best friend, the guy who was sidetracking 10:20.280 --> 10:22.240 his own career to train him. 10:22.240 --> 10:26.560 And on the day Chuck signed for his first fight with Whitey Collins in the Bronx Coliseum, 10:26.560 --> 10:27.560 it was. 10:27.560 --> 10:32.280 Who should come in to give him his medical, but my old CO from the Med Corps, Doc Peterson. 10:32.280 --> 10:34.840 Hey, corporal Johnny Wilson. 10:34.840 --> 10:37.640 Don't make me say what are you doing here. 10:37.640 --> 10:38.640 Tell me. 10:38.640 --> 10:39.640 I'm a fighter, Captain. 10:39.640 --> 10:40.640 Well, well. 10:40.640 --> 10:44.680 That's a far cry from Walter Reed Hospital, huh, Johnny? 10:44.680 --> 10:45.680 How you doing? 10:45.680 --> 10:48.160 So far the Army paid off better. 10:48.160 --> 10:50.480 Oh, Doc, this is Chuck Masters. 10:50.480 --> 10:52.520 Oh, hiya, Chuck. 10:52.520 --> 10:57.520 Say, according to all the publicity I hear, you're going to be the next welder champ. 10:57.520 --> 10:58.520 Yeah. 10:58.520 --> 11:08.720 With bars of money, we opened a training camp in the Berkshires. 11:08.720 --> 11:10.680 I taught Chuck to box and he learned fast. 11:10.680 --> 11:14.360 His left wasn't too good, but his right was OK and he was shifty. 11:14.360 --> 11:22.000 Three days before his fight with Collins, Chuck and me were in the ring sparring. 11:22.000 --> 11:23.000 Hold it, Johnny. 11:23.000 --> 11:24.000 There's Daniel. 11:24.000 --> 11:25.000 Hello, Daniel. 11:25.000 --> 11:26.000 Hiya, Chum. 11:26.000 --> 11:27.000 Well, baby, I didn't expect to see you. 11:27.000 --> 11:28.000 All right, all right. 11:28.000 --> 11:29.000 What are we waiting for? 11:29.000 --> 11:30.000 Oh, it's you, huh? 11:30.000 --> 11:31.000 Hello, Lefty. 11:31.000 --> 11:34.000 Training camp's is no place for dames, you know that. 11:34.000 --> 11:35.000 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 11:35.000 --> 11:36.000 You never watched me train before. 11:36.000 --> 11:37.000 What's the magnet? 11:37.000 --> 11:42.680 I got the day off and I wanted to watch the process whereby they turn a guy like him into 11:42.680 --> 11:43.960 a guy like you. 11:43.960 --> 11:47.200 I looked at her lips while she was talking and the thought that she might be hoping for 11:47.200 --> 11:51.360 somebody else's lips on hers, Chuck's maybe tore at my inside. 11:51.360 --> 11:53.320 The gong sounded and I went for it. 11:53.320 --> 11:54.320 Take it easy. 11:54.320 --> 11:55.320 Take it easy. 11:55.320 --> 11:56.320 Turn it out, Johnny. 11:56.320 --> 11:57.320 Turn it out. 11:57.320 --> 11:58.320 What's the matter with you? 11:58.320 --> 11:59.320 You're nuts. 11:59.320 --> 12:00.320 Why are you thugging like that? 12:00.320 --> 12:01.320 Well, I figured Chuck is about ready for anything. 12:01.320 --> 12:02.320 Come on, Chuckie boy, put him up. 12:02.320 --> 12:03.320 Let's see if you can take it. 12:03.320 --> 12:04.320 Johnny, take it easy. 12:04.320 --> 12:05.320 I really cut loose then. 12:05.320 --> 12:06.320 I've been storing it for a long time. 12:06.320 --> 12:07.320 I belted him good. 12:07.320 --> 12:08.320 He went down and stayed there. 12:08.320 --> 12:09.320 Oh, now you've got it. 12:09.320 --> 12:10.320 When they carried him out, he opened his eyes, but it didn't look like he was going to be 12:10.320 --> 12:11.320 able to get out. 12:11.320 --> 12:12.320 I'm sorry, Johnny. 12:12.320 --> 12:13.320 I'm sorry. 12:13.320 --> 12:14.320 I'm sorry. 12:14.320 --> 12:15.320 I'm sorry. 12:15.320 --> 12:16.320 I'm sorry. 12:16.320 --> 12:21.320 I'm sorry, Johnny. 12:21.320 --> 12:26.320 You're nuts. 12:26.320 --> 12:44.180 I should have killed them both then. 12:44.180 --> 12:47.880 The light is bringing you Dick Powell in Slow Burn. 12:47.880 --> 12:53.920 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:53.920 --> 13:03.160 Well, your gas tank is full now, Mr. Wilcox. 13:03.160 --> 13:04.160 Let's see. 13:04.160 --> 13:05.160 Six tenths of a gallon. 13:05.160 --> 13:06.160 That'll be 14 cents. 13:06.160 --> 13:09.720 Ah, now there's a car for economy like that auto light stay full battery. 13:09.720 --> 13:11.840 It really gives you a long run for your money. 13:11.840 --> 13:16.720 Why did you know that in tests conducted according to SAE life cycle standards, auto light stay 13:16.720 --> 13:21.800 full batteries gave 70% longer average life than batteries without stay full features? 13:21.800 --> 13:22.800 Sure did. 13:22.800 --> 13:23.800 Oh. 13:23.800 --> 13:27.040 Well, did you know that auto light stay full batteries have fiberglass retaining mats at 13:27.040 --> 13:30.520 every positive plate to hold the power producing material in place? 13:30.520 --> 13:33.040 Oh, I sure did, Mr. Wilcox. 13:33.040 --> 13:38.040 Well, did you know that this powerful pusher offer of pulsating pistons has more than three 13:38.040 --> 13:42.160 times as much liquid reserve above the plate as batteries without stay full features? 13:42.160 --> 13:43.160 Sure. 13:43.160 --> 13:46.760 That's why it needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 13:46.760 --> 13:47.760 That does it. 13:47.760 --> 13:48.760 Give me that gas pump. 13:48.760 --> 13:51.680 From now on, you can sell auto light stay full batteries and I'll sell gas. 13:51.680 --> 13:53.920 Oh, but Mr. Wilcox, don't you see? 13:53.920 --> 13:55.640 I couldn't give you a wrong answer. 13:55.640 --> 13:56.640 Why not? 13:56.640 --> 14:00.680 Because you're always right with auto light. 14:00.680 --> 14:06.520 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage our star, Dick Powell in Slow 14:06.520 --> 14:17.480 Burn, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:17.480 --> 14:18.480 Still on the phone, Todd? 14:18.480 --> 14:19.480 Yeah. 14:19.480 --> 14:20.480 Now hold it a second. 14:20.480 --> 14:27.520 I want to gander out the window. 14:27.520 --> 14:31.440 The cops in large numbers, Todd, but they won't find me for a while and I only need 14:31.440 --> 14:33.240 a little more time to finish. 14:33.240 --> 14:38.360 Well, Chuck won his first fight naturally, he was getting the slow, careful build up. 14:38.360 --> 14:39.960 He won a second fight over in Jersey. 14:39.960 --> 14:41.560 So then left, he began to book him. 14:41.560 --> 14:45.600 He said, Courtney Barr, I want to Chuck to go out and make a tour, get a list of knockouts 14:45.600 --> 14:46.600 so it'd have a record. 14:46.600 --> 14:48.880 So I sat on my mitts. 14:48.880 --> 14:55.160 The day Chuck got back from his tour, he called and Daniel invited him to dinner. 14:55.160 --> 14:56.720 How was the tour, Chuck? 14:56.720 --> 14:57.900 Oh, fine. 14:57.900 --> 15:00.260 I had a couple of fights that were terrific. 15:00.260 --> 15:02.200 In Denver, I fought Willie Myers. 15:02.200 --> 15:04.920 What a boxer, but I found his weakness. 15:04.920 --> 15:09.120 See, when he was getting set to throw his right, he always flipped his elbow just a 15:09.120 --> 15:10.120 bit. 15:10.120 --> 15:12.200 From then on, he was my meat. 15:12.200 --> 15:14.160 You're beginning to enjoy fighting, Chuck. 15:14.160 --> 15:15.600 Why shouldn't he enjoy it? 15:15.600 --> 15:16.600 There's money in it. 15:16.600 --> 15:17.600 Sure. 15:17.600 --> 15:19.760 50% of the person a bonus. 15:19.760 --> 15:20.760 Don't forget the bonus. 15:20.760 --> 15:25.320 Scrambled brains, cauliflower ears, and the nose smattered all over your face. 15:25.320 --> 15:27.840 A good fighter keeps his nose straight. 15:27.840 --> 15:32.080 Johnny was just like Chuck when he first started. 15:32.080 --> 15:34.280 Nothing kills a man better than... 15:34.280 --> 15:36.680 I'll get the dessert. 15:36.680 --> 15:39.680 I'll help you. 15:39.680 --> 15:44.640 So I got no instincts. 15:44.640 --> 15:45.640 I'm just a bum, huh? 15:45.640 --> 15:46.640 Have some pie, Johnny. 15:46.640 --> 15:47.640 Oh, give me the knife. 15:47.640 --> 15:49.520 I'm not worth anything, huh? 15:49.520 --> 15:52.440 I stay with you because I'm trying to salvage what I think is still there. 15:52.440 --> 15:54.920 And that crack that I used to be like Chuck is now. 15:54.920 --> 15:56.440 Johnny, we can still save it. 15:56.440 --> 15:58.080 I want it to be the way it was. 15:58.080 --> 16:00.080 You stay away from him. 16:00.080 --> 16:04.000 What for? 16:04.000 --> 16:05.280 Come in and finish your dinner. 16:05.280 --> 16:06.280 You heard me. 16:06.280 --> 16:14.920 Stay away from Chuck or I'll finish him. 16:14.920 --> 16:18.360 Every sports writer was wondering who was going to fight Mike Gruen. 16:18.360 --> 16:21.280 Nobody got a crack at the chapel as he fought Gruen first. 16:21.280 --> 16:24.160 I knew who it was going to be, me. 16:24.160 --> 16:26.040 And with the money left, he got out of Chuck's fights. 16:26.040 --> 16:28.400 That was the deal we'd made. 16:28.400 --> 16:31.360 Well, I was getting itchy about it. 16:31.360 --> 16:34.200 All this time, I wasn't getting any particular buildup. 16:34.200 --> 16:38.360 We were on the lake cruising around relaxing after two weeks of hard training. 16:38.360 --> 16:43.120 Barr and Chuck were watching a kid horsing around doing handstands in a canoe. 16:43.120 --> 16:45.360 I took Lefty to the other end of the launch. 16:45.360 --> 16:46.360 Yeah? 16:46.360 --> 16:47.360 Yeah, look, Lefty. 16:47.360 --> 16:48.360 I know, Johnny, I know. 16:48.360 --> 16:50.320 Now, don't worry about the Gruen fight. 16:50.320 --> 16:53.680 Maybe it would be smarter, Lefty, if you gave up my contract on the surface. 16:53.680 --> 16:57.840 Then you could hold off Chuck while my new manager signed me for that match. 16:57.840 --> 16:58.840 I... 16:58.840 --> 16:59.840 I can't, Johnny. 16:59.840 --> 17:00.840 No, why not? 17:00.840 --> 17:01.840 Now, now, don't get mad. 17:01.840 --> 17:06.120 But I had to give Barr 50% of your contract or he wouldn't back Chuck originally. 17:06.120 --> 17:07.120 But I got it fixed... 17:07.120 --> 17:08.120 Well, you dumb stupid... 17:08.120 --> 17:12.240 I spun around and saw a canoe floating bottoms up. 17:12.240 --> 17:15.320 Chuck was ripping off his clothes, but I got out of mine fast, too. 17:15.320 --> 17:20.440 Me and Chuck hit the water together. 17:20.440 --> 17:21.440 You see him, Johnny? 17:21.440 --> 17:22.440 No. 17:22.440 --> 17:26.400 I saw the kid, but I wasn't telling Chuck. 17:26.400 --> 17:30.040 He'd come up about 20 yards away and he went down in the same spot. 17:30.040 --> 17:32.560 This was going to be publicity for me. 17:32.560 --> 17:35.480 I dove to the kid, grabbed his hair and pulled him up. 17:35.480 --> 17:38.080 When the boat came up alongside, Lefty hauled him in. 17:38.080 --> 17:39.080 That's it, come on now. 17:39.080 --> 17:41.680 When they pulled me into the boat, I saw Lefty point to the landing. 17:41.680 --> 17:45.160 Oh, look at that carload of reporters that just drove up, Chuck. 17:45.160 --> 17:46.440 You and Johnny get on with those wet clothes. 17:46.440 --> 17:47.440 I'll take care of the reporters. 17:47.440 --> 17:48.440 Reporters? 17:48.440 --> 17:49.440 Well, send them along, boys. 17:49.440 --> 17:50.440 Photographers, bring on. 17:50.440 --> 18:04.480 That evening, I was sparring with Chuck, sharpening his footwork when Dania came up with the New 18:04.480 --> 18:05.480 York papers. 18:05.480 --> 18:07.480 Don't you two ever get out of that ring? 18:07.480 --> 18:10.480 Oh, and by the way, congratulations. 18:10.480 --> 18:13.440 Oh, you hear all about the hero stuff on the lake? 18:13.440 --> 18:14.440 Yeah, congratulations. 18:14.440 --> 18:15.440 But she wasn't looking at me. 18:15.440 --> 18:16.440 She was looking at Chuck. 18:16.440 --> 18:20.720 I hopped out of the ring, grabbed the newspapers out of her hand. 18:20.720 --> 18:23.800 The story was there all right in big block headlines. 18:23.800 --> 18:26.880 Chuck Masters saves boy from drowning. 18:26.880 --> 18:29.440 Medal of Honor winner does it again. 18:29.440 --> 18:30.440 Me? 18:30.440 --> 18:32.080 I wasn't even in the comic section. 18:32.080 --> 18:34.720 This is all wrong, Dania. 18:34.720 --> 18:35.720 Johnny saved that kid. 18:35.720 --> 18:37.400 Yeah, Johnny saved that kid. 18:37.400 --> 18:38.880 Now, Johnny's going to save himself. 18:38.880 --> 18:40.320 Where's that Lefty Wilkins? 18:40.320 --> 18:41.920 Oh, that's a dirty trick, Johnny. 18:41.920 --> 18:44.160 Chuck, you're trying to tell me you knew nothing of this. 18:44.160 --> 18:46.160 Your picture and life history on the front page. 18:46.160 --> 18:47.160 I swear I... 18:47.160 --> 18:48.160 Now your eyes open, Johnny. 18:48.160 --> 18:49.160 Look what they've done to Chuck. 18:49.160 --> 18:51.000 How they made him lie just for the sake of publicity. 18:51.000 --> 18:52.000 I didn't lie. 18:52.000 --> 18:53.000 And what publicity? 18:53.000 --> 18:56.920 Your fight with Mike Gruen on the sports page. 18:56.920 --> 18:59.960 The whole double cross opened up like a filthy sunflower. 18:59.960 --> 19:03.120 I was the patsy, the fall guy, the jerk, the dummy. 19:03.120 --> 19:04.600 I was going to be the next champ. 19:04.600 --> 19:07.400 Yeah, the next champ under the dunce cap. 19:07.400 --> 19:10.320 I wanted to pound someone, something, anything. 19:10.320 --> 19:11.680 My eyes focused on Dania. 19:11.680 --> 19:12.920 I'm glad this has happened. 19:12.920 --> 19:13.920 Maybe Johnny now you'll give up. 19:13.920 --> 19:15.960 We'll have a chance to live decent, normal lives. 19:15.960 --> 19:16.960 I'm glad this has happened. 19:16.960 --> 19:20.000 I spark plugged this whole thing so I could get that Gruen about. 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 I fixed it. 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 You're stupid, stupid, stupid. 19:22.000 --> 19:23.000 Shut up! 19:23.000 --> 19:24.000 You will hit me. 19:24.000 --> 19:25.000 You miserable scum. 19:25.000 --> 19:26.000 Come back here. 19:26.000 --> 19:27.000 Let her alone. 19:27.000 --> 19:28.000 Oh, I've been waiting for this, Chuckie boy. 19:28.000 --> 19:29.000 Johnny, take it easy. 19:29.000 --> 19:30.000 Wait a minute. 19:30.000 --> 19:31.000 Oh, Chuck. 19:31.000 --> 19:32.000 Johnny! 19:32.000 --> 19:33.000 Take it easy. 19:33.000 --> 19:34.000 Come on, take it easy. 19:34.000 --> 19:35.000 All right, now. 19:35.000 --> 19:36.000 Throw Wilson off the grounds. 19:36.000 --> 19:37.000 Yeah, yeah, throw the bum out. 19:37.000 --> 19:38.000 Throw the bum out. 19:38.000 --> 19:39.000 Throw the bum out. 19:39.000 --> 19:40.000 Throw the bum out. 19:40.000 --> 19:41.000 Throw the bum out. 19:41.000 --> 19:42.000 Throw the bum out. 19:42.000 --> 19:43.000 Throw the bum out. 19:43.000 --> 19:44.000 Throw the bum out. 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 Throw the bum out. 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 Throw the bum out. 19:46.000 --> 19:47.000 Throw the bum out. 19:47.000 --> 19:48.000 Get out of here. 19:48.000 --> 19:58.360 They threw me out all right, and while they were doing it, I was thinking I was gonna 19:58.360 --> 19:59.360 kill Lefty Wilkins. 19:59.360 --> 20:00.360 That was definite. 20:00.360 --> 20:04.400 And I remembered that all Daniel worried about was Chuck. 20:04.400 --> 20:05.400 Chuck's character. 20:05.400 --> 20:06.400 Chuck's gentle look. 20:06.400 --> 20:09.760 Yeah, I was gonna kill Lefty. 20:09.760 --> 20:14.360 And for Chuckie boy, I was gonna think of something special. 20:14.360 --> 20:22.480 Very special. 20:22.480 --> 20:26.280 Day after day, I'd wake up with a new idea, but none good enough. 20:26.280 --> 20:29.520 Then one night I walked into a bar and saw someone. 20:29.520 --> 20:31.560 Someone who was gonna give me the answer. 20:31.560 --> 20:33.560 It was my old CO, Doc Peterson. 20:33.560 --> 20:35.560 Warped role, Johnny Wilson. 20:35.560 --> 20:36.560 Come on over. 20:36.560 --> 20:38.560 Bring a drink with you. 20:38.560 --> 20:39.560 Thanks, Captain. 20:39.560 --> 20:42.080 Still medicking for the boxing commission? 20:42.080 --> 20:43.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 20:43.840 --> 20:44.840 Still fighting? 20:44.840 --> 20:45.840 Yeah, off and on, off and on. 20:45.840 --> 20:46.840 Glad to see you, Johnny. 20:46.840 --> 20:51.680 Hey, you're the second guy I've seen from our old outfit recently. 20:51.680 --> 20:52.680 Yeah. 20:52.680 --> 20:55.960 You remember that lieutenant in the chemical corps who nearly lost his eyes? 20:55.960 --> 20:57.480 I saw him. 20:57.480 --> 20:58.800 I met his new wife. 20:58.800 --> 21:00.920 A real mess. 21:00.920 --> 21:03.400 I guess we didn't do such a good job on his eyes. 21:03.400 --> 21:04.400 Eyes? 21:04.400 --> 21:05.400 What do you mean, Captain? 21:05.400 --> 21:09.600 You remember, the fool got bicarbide of mercury in him. 21:09.600 --> 21:10.600 Severe corneal lacerations. 21:10.600 --> 21:15.040 The lucky thing we caught him when we did it, he'd have gone permanently blind. 21:15.040 --> 21:19.520 Oh, it's a terrible thing when a man loses his eyesight. 21:19.520 --> 21:20.520 Yep. 21:20.520 --> 21:24.600 Of course it was a man in your profession, huh, Johnny? 21:24.600 --> 21:25.600 Huh? 21:25.600 --> 21:26.600 Yeah, yeah. 21:26.600 --> 21:30.600 A good thing a guy can tell when that stuff gets in his eyes. 21:30.600 --> 21:32.080 And a guy can always tell. 21:32.080 --> 21:33.440 Burns like mad. 21:33.440 --> 21:35.880 Yeah, yeah, I guess it would. 21:35.880 --> 21:38.600 Well, I gotta be on my way, Johnny. 21:38.600 --> 21:39.600 Captain. 21:39.600 --> 21:43.880 How long would that stuff have to be in a guy's eyes to blind him permanently? 21:43.880 --> 21:47.960 Oh, 26 hours, about, if he's in top condition. 21:47.960 --> 21:52.400 The captain left, and me, I walked the streets all night, most of the next morning until 21:52.400 --> 21:54.720 the 42nd Street Library opened. 21:54.720 --> 21:58.480 I went through five medical books before I found what I wanted. 21:58.480 --> 22:09.320 Eye anesthesia, pontiki, causes loss of sensation in the eye without affecting the eyesight. 22:09.320 --> 22:10.320 I went up to the training camp. 22:10.320 --> 22:12.920 The groin bout was in three days. 22:12.920 --> 22:15.720 I had to get back in favor, and I piled it on good. 22:15.720 --> 22:18.760 I played it with hearts and flowers, everything. 22:18.760 --> 22:20.760 Poor Johnny boy. 22:20.760 --> 22:25.600 Oh, I'm sincerely sorry. 22:25.600 --> 22:27.160 That's the way it is, Chuck. 22:27.160 --> 22:29.680 I'm sorry for the hassle I caused. 22:29.680 --> 22:32.960 I'd sure like to be with you for the night of the fight. 22:32.960 --> 22:35.440 Well, okay, Johnny. 22:35.440 --> 22:38.040 It'd be funny fighting a local match without you in my corner. 22:38.040 --> 22:39.760 Don's fishy to me. 22:39.760 --> 22:40.760 You ain't the kind to forgive. 22:40.760 --> 22:41.760 Well, it ain't fishy, Lefty. 22:41.760 --> 22:44.760 Since Daniel left, things have been lousy with me. 22:44.760 --> 22:47.320 I'm out of dough, I gotta eat, I need the job. 22:47.320 --> 22:49.600 He gets the job, Lefty, he writes it. 22:49.600 --> 22:51.360 He taught me everything I know. 22:51.360 --> 22:59.400 I want him in my corner. 22:59.400 --> 23:03.120 When we walked down the aisle in the garden for the ring, I had three things in my bag. 23:03.120 --> 23:08.120 A long, sharp knife for Lefty Wilkins and the ponticane and bichloride of mercury for 23:08.120 --> 23:09.120 Chuckie Boy. 23:09.120 --> 23:24.320 At the end of the fourth round, Chuck was way out in front of the left. 23:24.320 --> 23:27.320 He was beaming all over. 23:27.320 --> 23:33.440 Well, nice going, Chuck. 23:33.440 --> 23:34.440 Hey, the cinch. 23:34.440 --> 23:37.960 Then I reached for the vaseline that every fighter has smeared over his eyebrows to keep 23:37.960 --> 23:39.440 his eyes from getting cut. 23:39.440 --> 23:41.560 I had the vaseline loaded with ponticane. 23:41.560 --> 23:44.280 I smeared it all around those eyes of his. 23:44.280 --> 23:49.280 Now all I had to do was wait until the ponticane took effect. 23:49.280 --> 23:54.280 The next three rounds were a nightmare. 23:54.280 --> 23:57.640 Chuck seemed as good as ever and Groan was weakening fast. 23:57.640 --> 24:04.640 Suppose he got knocked out before I got the bichloride in Chuck's eyes. 24:04.640 --> 24:06.880 Well, everything still okay, Chuck? 24:06.880 --> 24:08.880 He sure must be pooped, Johnny. 24:08.880 --> 24:10.880 He hit me in the eye three times that round. 24:10.880 --> 24:11.880 I didn't even feel it. 24:11.880 --> 24:12.880 Yeah, that's all. 24:12.880 --> 24:13.880 Oh, come on, dummy. 24:13.880 --> 24:14.880 Swat my face. 24:14.880 --> 24:15.880 We'll all call water, boy. 24:15.880 --> 24:16.880 Next round I'll kill him. 24:16.880 --> 24:17.880 He leaned back. 24:17.880 --> 24:18.880 I picked up a sobbing sponge from the outer bucket, the one with the bichloride, and I 24:18.880 --> 24:19.880 swat it. 24:19.880 --> 24:20.880 I swat it. 24:20.880 --> 24:24.520 I picked up a sobbing sponge from the outer bucket, the one with the bichloride, and I 24:24.520 --> 24:28.000 swabbed his face and kept swatting it while the liquid ran over his forehead and down 24:28.000 --> 24:29.000 in his eyes. 24:29.000 --> 24:30.000 That is the best. 24:30.000 --> 24:35.000 He didn't even wince as the poison drained under his lids, into his eyes, and over his 24:35.000 --> 24:36.000 eyeballs. 24:36.000 --> 24:37.000 He started the eighth round strong and cocky. 24:37.000 --> 24:38.000 He pushed Groan all over that ring. 24:38.000 --> 24:39.000 And then all of a sudden it happened. 24:39.000 --> 24:40.000 He stopped and put his gloves to his eyes, trying to rub away the creeping blindness. 24:40.000 --> 24:41.000 Groan played it cagey. 24:41.000 --> 24:42.000 He thought it was a trick, but his gloves were off. 24:42.000 --> 24:44.800 He was just trying to get the 24:44.800 --> 24:51.800 gloves to his eyes, trying to rub away the creeping blindness. 24:51.800 --> 24:52.800 Groan played it cagey. 24:52.800 --> 24:53.800 He thought it was a trick, but as Chuck desperately hunted for him, Groan caught wise and he piled 24:53.800 --> 24:54.800 into Chuck. 24:54.800 --> 24:55.800 Groan tore his head off. 24:55.800 --> 24:56.800 He hit Chuck with everything but the ring post. 24:56.800 --> 24:57.800 Chuck kept going down and coming up for more. 24:57.800 --> 24:58.800 Oh, it was beautiful. 24:58.800 --> 24:59.800 I picked up my bag and left the corner. 24:59.800 --> 25:00.800 On the way out, I stopped for a moment where Lefty Wilkins bent forward agonizing in his 25:00.800 --> 25:01.800 seat as he watched the championship go out the window. 25:01.800 --> 25:02.800 He didn't even move. 25:02.800 --> 25:03.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 25:03.800 --> 25:04.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 25:04.800 --> 25:05.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 25:05.800 --> 25:06.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 25:06.800 --> 25:15.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 25:15.800 --> 25:40.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 25:40.800 --> 25:59.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 25:59.800 --> 26:24.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 26:24.800 --> 26:51.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 26:51.800 --> 27:16.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 27:16.800 --> 27:35.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 27:35.800 --> 28:00.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 28:00.800 --> 28:27.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 28:27.800 --> 28:52.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 28:57.800 --> 29:22.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 29:22.800 --> 29:35.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes. 29:52.800 --> 30:06.800 He was just trying to get the gloves to his eyes.