1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,340 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Paul Douglas in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:11,340 --> 00:00:15,340 of Suspense. 3 00:00:15,340 --> 00:00:23,320 Tonight, Auto Light presents the exciting report of one man's efforts to prevent a 4 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,120 national tragedy. 5 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,980 It is based on fact with only names and places changed. 6 00:00:28,980 --> 00:00:35,520 The story is called Man Alive, our star, Mr. Paul Douglas. 7 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,760 Hello, Harlow. 8 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,520 Hi, Hap. 9 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,800 Boy, you're sure loaded down. 10 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,760 Thanksgiving shopping, Harlow. 11 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:47,760 Yeah. 12 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:48,760 Turkey? 13 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:49,760 Check. 14 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:50,760 Cranberries? 15 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:51,760 Check. 16 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:52,760 Spark plugs? 17 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:53,760 Check. 18 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:54,760 What? 19 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:55,760 Check the spark plugs, Hap. 20 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,160 They always have to be in top shape so that your engine will give you smooth and economical 21 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:58,240 performance. 22 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:02,160 And there's no better time than now to have them checked by your nearest auto light spark 23 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:03,160 plug dealer. 24 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,840 And suppose he finds them as gone as Thursday's turkey, Harlow? 25 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,520 Why, Hap, if they're worn out or wrong for your style of driving, your auto light spark 26 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:16,220 plug dealer will replace them with a set of world famous ignition engineered auto light 27 00:01:16,220 --> 00:01:18,760 spark plugs, either standard or resistor type. 28 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,360 Sounds like a great idea, Harlow. 29 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,200 Where do I locate my auto light spark plug dealer? 30 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:29,080 Hap, just phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 31 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,280 She'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest auto light spark plug dealer. 32 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:38,240 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 33 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:46,280 And now, auto light presents Man Alive, starring Mr. Paul Douglas, hoping once again to keep 34 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:51,600 you in suspense. 35 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,200 You may have seen the name, Man Jackson. 36 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,760 I run a column of saucy chat and unimpeachable rumors in the San Francisco Express under 37 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,280 the heading, what else, Man Overboard. 38 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,440 It's got little paragraphs, you know, man among men, that's the sports section, and 39 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:06,960 man's best friend, so forth. 40 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:12,680 Well, beginning today, I've got a new department called Man Alive, just because I'm so lucky 41 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,880 I am. 42 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:21,000 Last night, I let my secretary off at 5.30 so she could go and do some Christmas shopping, 43 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,360 although I've told her repeatedly that all I want this year is money. 44 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:29,000 Well, the fog was rolling in off the bay and it was bitter cold as I came out in the street, 45 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,360 so it seemed like the night for a spaghetti dinner and some pleasant Italian hospitality, 46 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:39,440 down at Mama Caruso's restaurant on the Embarcadero opposite the ferry building. 47 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,480 But Mama Caruso had more than hospitality on her mind when she met me at the door. 48 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,240 Oh, Mr. Jackson, I'm so glad to find you. 49 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,600 I'm just calling your office. 50 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,280 What's the trouble, Mama? 51 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,560 Somebody been stealing ravioli? 52 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:51,560 Please. 53 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:52,560 It's my cousin Tony. 54 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,200 They tried to kill him. 55 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:55,200 Who? 56 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:56,200 What happened, Mama? 57 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,200 Come on, Mr. Jackson. 58 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,200 I'll make Tony tell you. 59 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,560 He does not feel so good, but he can talk all right. 60 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:07,240 You gonna see. 61 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,360 She led me to the back of the restaurant, the table where the family generally sits. 62 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:16,280 The family tonight was a man, small to start with, but even smaller, hunched down in his 63 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:20,680 chair miserably staring, unseeing into a glass of wine. 64 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,680 On the table in front of him was a battered old concertina. 65 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,880 The top of his head was swabbed in a clean new bandage. 66 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,360 Sit down, Mr. Jackson. 67 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,360 Go on, sit down. 68 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,360 This is my cousin, Tony Colucci. 69 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,400 Tony, this is my good friend, Mr. Man Jackson. 70 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:36,400 Hello, Tony. 71 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:37,400 Hello. 72 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:38,400 Go on, Tony. 73 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,880 You tell him, Mr. Jackson, what's happened on you. 74 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,680 Well, I'm on the boat. 75 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,000 Yeah, what boat? 76 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,640 The ferry boat, Oakland ferry boat. 77 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,000 Don't you never hear my music on the boat? 78 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,400 You play the concertina on the ferry ride. 79 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,400 Sure, no more. 80 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,000 Tonight they tried to kill me. 81 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,560 Well, you play pretty well, don't you, Tony? 82 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:00,560 I play perfect. 83 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:01,560 What's the matter? 84 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,960 Some people don't like it, I guess. 85 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,360 Tonight on the six o'clock boat. 86 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,920 Oh, boy. 87 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:11,800 Tonight on the six o'clock boat what? 88 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:16,800 Well, I play inside the first by the sandwich place and everybody say, oh, boy, Tony, you're 89 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,120 good, you play good, play some more. 90 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,880 Ten cents a year, five cents, two quarters even. 91 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,880 Then I go up the stairs. 92 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,880 Oh, boy. 93 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:27,880 Oh, boy. 94 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:28,880 And? 95 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:29,880 Then I go out on a deck. 96 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:34,040 It's very misty and foggy, so black, I can't see nothing. 97 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:35,040 I'm very happy. 98 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,200 I feel like I could play some more. 99 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,360 So I walk way back and open down the deck and I make a music. 100 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,720 Then all of a sudden I hear somebody say something to me. 101 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:47,240 I can't see nobody. 102 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:48,240 I hear him. 103 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,800 And what do you think he said to me? 104 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:51,960 Bravo, Tony. 105 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,240 I have no idea. 106 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:54,240 What did he say? 107 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:55,240 Yeah. 108 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:56,240 What? 109 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,240 He say, Cospadour. 110 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,240 Cospadour, as in bar rooms? 111 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,240 Cospadour. 112 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:03,240 Well. 113 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,120 So I say back on top of him, Cospadour. 114 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:07,720 I still can't see nobody. 115 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,560 So then I hear him say, is that you play Boris? 116 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:12,560 So I get mad. 117 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,040 I say, no, I don't play Boris. 118 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,320 I play Pagliacci, butterfly, Tlatosca, Povatore. 119 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,320 My don't play Boris. 120 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:21,800 That's a foreign stuff. 121 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:22,800 Yeah, I see. 122 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:23,800 Then? 123 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:24,800 Then I'm sorry I say that. 124 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,400 But because of this fellow, he sounds like he's a foreigner. 125 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,280 So I'm just going to say, look, mister. 126 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:32,280 And oh, boy. 127 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:33,280 Yeah, what, Tony? 128 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:34,280 What? 129 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:35,280 Patron! 130 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:37,280 I get a hit on the head. 131 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:38,280 I fall down. 132 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:39,280 I'm bleeding. 133 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:40,280 I drop my concertina. 134 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:43,280 My head got a big hole on the top. 135 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:44,920 I let out a big yell. 136 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,920 Then I black out. 137 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,120 Oh, boy. 138 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,120 People come running around. 139 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:51,120 And good luck. 140 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:52,760 There's a doctor on board. 141 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,960 They carry me down the stairs and he fix me up. 142 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,080 Otherwise, I'm going to die for sure. 143 00:05:58,080 --> 00:05:59,080 Yeah, yeah. 144 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:00,080 And you never saw the guy? 145 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:01,560 No, I never saw him. 146 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:02,800 Well, what did it feel like? 147 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:04,280 I mean, what did he hit you with? 148 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:07,200 Well, it felt just like a baseball bat. 149 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:08,960 But the doctor, he said that... 150 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:09,960 Oh, look, look. 151 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:10,960 He said the doctor now. 152 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:11,960 He just come in. 153 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:12,960 Hey, doctor! 154 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:19,920 The doctor looked in our direction when Tony called and strode over to the table. 155 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:24,760 A big six foot three blonde guy in the Joe McCrae Gary Cooper tradition. 156 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:26,120 You had to like him right away. 157 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:30,440 No bedside manner to this doctor, although he could have had as much of it as he liked, 158 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,280 but he was all business and no kidding. 159 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:34,160 But I told you to go to bed and stay there. 160 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:35,160 Well, Doc, I just... 161 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:36,160 You may have a concussion. 162 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,720 I'll be back in an hour and then we'll take some x-rays. 163 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,320 My name is Man Jackson, doctor. 164 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:41,880 I'm a friend of the family. 165 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:43,360 Ames, Dr. Oscar Ames. 166 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:44,360 How are you? 167 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:45,360 Dr. Ames. 168 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:47,560 Mr. Can I get you something to eat? 169 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:48,560 No, thanks. 170 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:49,560 Smells wonderful, but I haven't time. 171 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,600 I'll have a cup of coffee, maybe. 172 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:52,600 Sure. 173 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:53,600 Mr. Jackson? 174 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:54,600 Yes, please, mama. 175 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,760 Doctor, you want me to make Tony go to bed? 176 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:58,760 Go on now, Tony. 177 00:06:58,760 --> 00:06:59,760 You lie down. 178 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:00,760 I'll be back and we'll check you over. 179 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:01,760 Get some rest in the meantime. 180 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:02,760 But all right, ma'am. 181 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:03,760 I'm Dr. Ames. 182 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:04,760 I don't know. 183 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:05,760 X-rays and the whole thing. 184 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:06,760 How am I going to pay you? 185 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:08,400 Never mind that. 186 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,560 That's why we charge our knob-hill patients a little extra. 187 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,080 So we're able to do something like this once in a while. 188 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,040 This will be on me, Tony. 189 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,040 You're a good kind man, doctor. 190 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:20,040 I don't know what to say. 191 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,760 Look, you go on and lie down, Tony. 192 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:23,360 You're embarrassing the doctor. 193 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:24,360 Okay, okay. 194 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,320 It's a screwy thing, this one, isn't it, doctor? 195 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:28,320 Sure is. 196 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:29,320 Here's your coffee, gentlemen. 197 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:30,320 Oh, thanks. 198 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:31,320 Thank you, mama. 199 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:32,320 Yeah, sure is. 200 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:36,560 I'm a cyber maniac, it looks like, Mr. Jackson. 201 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,720 Man Jackson, are you the columnist, man overboard? 202 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:40,720 That's right. 203 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:42,120 Well, I read you all the time. 204 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,640 Amusing, intelligent, and you've got a heart. 205 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,160 Isn't that a little unusual for a columnist? 206 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:48,160 Well... 207 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,280 Say, what is all this tonight down here? 208 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:51,280 Newspaper men, police? 209 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:52,280 Police? 210 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:53,280 How do you mean police? 211 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,280 Well, I think they were police. 212 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,440 Five or six plain clothes guys. 213 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,720 They were waiting here on the side when the ferry pulled into the slip. 214 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:02,240 They're still there holding the boat. 215 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:03,240 I just left them. 216 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:04,240 What were they doing? 217 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,840 Oh, they're talking to all the passengers as they come off. 218 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:09,560 Asked us for identification. 219 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,080 They took one passenger away with them. 220 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,080 Huh? 221 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,160 Red-haired girl, carrying a package, paper parcel. 222 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,400 What did they think about Tony's little experience, getting knocked on the head? 223 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,680 Oh, they were mighty interested, naturally. 224 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,920 Especially when I told them how I thought the wound had been inflicted. 225 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:26,920 Which was? 226 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:27,920 Gunbutt. 227 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:28,920 Gunbutt, eh? 228 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:29,920 Well... 229 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:30,920 I'd say so. 230 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:32,440 Hey, I gotta go. 231 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,520 Take that dreary ride again. 232 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:35,520 What, the ferry? 233 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:36,960 Yeah, I've got a patient over in Oakland. 234 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,360 Had to come back over here to pick up some serum. 235 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,080 Well, nice to have seen you, Jackson. 236 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:43,800 Tell what's his name, uh, Tony... 237 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:44,800 Oh, wait a minute, Doc. 238 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:45,800 I've got nothing to do. 239 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:54,000 I'll ride over with you. 240 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,480 We crossed the street, went into the ferry building. 241 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,080 Everything was normal enough in the main waiting room where I stopped to buy cigarettes 242 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,480 and a pocket flashlight. 243 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:05,760 But outside on the dock where the Oakland boat was waiting to take off, there were a number 244 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:10,360 of extra characters whom you wouldn't think would have chosen a dismal, chilly night like 245 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,800 this for waterfront lounging. 246 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:18,080 There wasn't anybody I knew, and in any gathering of plainclothesmen, local variety, I generally 247 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:19,760 spot one or two familiar faces. 248 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:24,600 But Dr. Ames and I got aboard, followed by three of these gentlemen. 249 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:29,200 The broadest one, who was built for endurance, exchanged pleasantries with us as the boat 250 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:30,800 moved out into the water. 251 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,840 Hello, Dr. Ames. 252 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:37,840 I say you didn't miss a boat, like he'll say. 253 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:38,840 No. 254 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,080 Oh, you're one of the fellows I talked to before when we landed. 255 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:43,440 That's right. 256 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,240 I don't think I got your name. 257 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,240 Connelly. 258 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,240 Uh, this is Mr. Jackson. 259 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:49,240 Yeah? 260 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,000 Would that be Lieutenant Connelly or Sergeant maybe? 261 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,760 Just Connelly, no special title. 262 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,440 How's the little fellow doing, Dr. Colucci? 263 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:58,480 Tony, he's under care. 264 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:00,560 He, uh, talk anymore? 265 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:03,120 Say anything interesting? 266 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:04,520 I didn't talk to him. 267 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,520 Mr. Jackson here did. 268 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:07,520 Oh? 269 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:08,520 Really? 270 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:09,520 Really. 271 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:10,520 What'd he have to say? 272 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,040 Well, uh, you see, I'm an old friend of his family. 273 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,760 What he told me was in confidence, and I'd really have to know a little more about who 274 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:18,960 I'm telling his secrets to. 275 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:19,960 I see. 276 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:22,960 Jackson, your name is? 277 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:23,960 Still is. 278 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,960 Nice to meet you, Ghost Buddy. 279 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:27,960 Ghost Buddy? 280 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,600 It means nothing to you. 281 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:31,600 It might. 282 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:32,960 Yeah, it might. 283 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,320 Ghost Budean sounds like another word. 284 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,560 Somebody might think you said Cuspidore. 285 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:40,560 That's very funny. 286 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:43,240 Are you going to stay out here on deck? 287 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,000 Well, we haven't made up our minds. 288 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Is that okay? 289 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,200 I ought to go inside, have a little coffee at the snack bar. 290 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,200 Comfortable. 291 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:50,200 Rides over before you know it. 292 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,200 Out here, it's foggy, wet, and miserable. 293 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,640 Well, I'm going in. 294 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:56,640 I'll see you later. 295 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,240 Bye-bye, Doc. 296 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,160 Well, maybe he's right. 297 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:07,560 Although I must say he's not my favorite man in the world, that Mr. Conley. 298 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:09,320 It is strictly pneumonia weather out here on deck. 299 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:10,320 Shall we go in? 300 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:11,320 Not just yet for me. 301 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,720 I think I'll stretch my legs a little. 302 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,880 Dr. Ames, where was it that Tony got conked? 303 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,720 On the upper deck, I know, but which side? 304 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,780 We've turned around now, starboard. 305 00:11:23,780 --> 00:11:25,800 Just about directly above where we're standing. 306 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:26,800 Yes, right about... 307 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,800 Doc, Doc, don't point. 308 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,880 Our friend Conley and his boys are on their way out to see us again. 309 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:33,600 No, they went back in. 310 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,720 You think they're as mysterious as they seem? 311 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,040 Oh, definitely that. 312 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,880 You know what made them turn back just now, decide it wasn't necessary to check whether 313 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:41,880 we were still here? 314 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:42,880 No, what? 315 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:43,880 Our cigarettes. 316 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:45,960 They can't make us out here. 317 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,400 It's too dark, but they can see two lighted cigarettes. 318 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,680 I'd like to get up there on that upper deck. 319 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:53,400 Looking for tomorrow's column, huh? 320 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,680 You want to get up there and know around where Tony was, is that it? 321 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:58,480 Well, that's the idea, but those mugs in there... 322 00:11:58,480 --> 00:11:59,480 I've got it. 323 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,560 Hand me your cigarette. 324 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:03,280 I'll smoke them both a yard apart. 325 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,880 When they check, we'll both still be here. 326 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,520 Masterful thinking, Oscar. 327 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:08,520 Go ahead. 328 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:16,720 I'll be here. 329 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,520 So I tried the slippery stairs to the upper deck. 330 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,080 The fog was as wet as rain. 331 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,560 I couldn't see any more than inches ahead of me with my flashlight. 332 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:28,400 I stopped about a midships and looked down over the rail. 333 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:33,760 Dr. Oscar Ames and his two cigarettes, tiny red dots of light were almost directly beneath 334 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:34,760 me. 335 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:39,200 I turned back from the rail and my foot squashed into something that sounded like an egg shell. 336 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:40,440 I bent and picked it up. 337 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:45,120 It was a mother of pearl ornament like the ones Tony's concertina were covered with. 338 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,040 A sudden noise over my head made me shoot my light up. 339 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,480 A piece of canvas had suddenly ripped loose from the top of the lifeboat. 340 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,320 Well, I got up there somehow and looked. 341 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,760 The canvas had been ripped open with a knife, a hole large enough for a man's body to get 342 00:12:58,760 --> 00:12:59,760 through. 343 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,280 And that's what was in there. 344 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,440 A man's body. 345 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:06,880 He'd been stabbed in the neck. 346 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,640 This was the man who had slugged Tony, or so it seemed, because the gun was still clenched 347 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,440 in his right hand, the barrel reversed. 348 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,840 Well, my flash caught a speck of something white in one of his shoes. 349 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,880 It was a bit of paper with two typewritten lines on it. 350 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:23,320 I let myself down to the deck and prepared to read the note, and that's when my flashlight 351 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:24,480 went dead. 352 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:29,880 I groped about until I found a faint ghostly glimmer of light overhead, out over the edge 353 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,200 of the ship on the outside rail. 354 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,800 I climbed over, steadied myself, and lit a couple of matches. 355 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:43,960 It said International Postcard Shop, Geary Street, SF, reading card for Boris. 356 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,720 I put the bit of paper in my pocket and turned to climb back over the rail, and then something 357 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:49,720 came at me from the back. 358 00:13:49,720 --> 00:14:04,720 It caught me full in the center of the board, and I fell crashing over the side. 359 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:09,000 They tell you a lot about what you remember when you're going down for the third time. 360 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,560 You know what I remembered? 361 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:28,200 I remembered that Gospodin is Russian for comrade. 362 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:34,640 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Paul Douglas in Man Alive, tonight's presentation in radio's 363 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:48,080 outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 364 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,000 Well Hap, let's talk turkey. 365 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,600 Okay Harlow, gobble away. 366 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:57,460 Well I say give the bird two worn out spark plugs and replace them with a set of ignition 367 00:14:57,460 --> 00:15:02,400 engineered auto light spark plugs, like the amazing auto light resistor spark plug for 368 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:03,400 example. 369 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,640 You're really crow about that Harlow. 370 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:10,320 Yes sir Hap, because the auto light resistor spark plug is the greatest advancement in 371 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:14,240 spark plugs for 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Hollywood sound stage, Mr. Paul Douglas in Elliot Lewis's 382 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:14,400 production of Man Alive, a dramatic report well calculated to keep you in suspense. 383 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:20,320 I found myself mechanically keeping afloat somehow and trying to get out of my overcoat. 384 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,560 From out of the misty blanket, from every direction and a dozen different keys, from 385 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,440 near and far, foghorn sounded. 386 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,560 I floated on my back trying to figure where I was. 387 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,440 I was somewhere in San Francisco Bay, and that was all I knew. 388 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:39,440 The water was chilling me, and I turned over and began swimming, just hard enough to keep 389 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:40,880 the blood circulating. 390 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,720 The lights of a boat came into sight suddenly, and I threw back my head and yelled, but the 391 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:50,440 horn crying its warning drowned me out, and the boat went on and the fog closed in behind 392 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:51,440 me. 393 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:59,040 And then I found myself full of a strange, wonderful weariness. 394 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,320 The water wasn't cold anymore. 395 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,640 I was warm, with a comfortable, soothing numbness. 396 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:05,960 My head stopped throbbing. 397 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,120 There was no feeling at all in it now. 398 00:17:08,120 --> 00:17:10,600 There was nothing, nothing anywhere. 399 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:15,040 And then some lights came into my eyes, and I wanted to stay in the dark, and I turned 400 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:23,640 my face down into the embrace of the water. 401 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,920 And then I wasn't where you'd expect at all. 402 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,440 I was lying on a baggage truck that was moving. 403 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,920 People were crowding around, walking beside the truck, staring at me. 404 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:35,200 The guy in uniform, wheeling me, noticed I had opened my eyes. 405 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:36,600 Well, hello, pal. 406 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,080 Welcome back to the United States. 407 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:39,080 Well, hello. 408 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,480 What part of the United States? 409 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:42,800 It's landing in Sausalita, a lace hill. 410 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,160 We're taking you over to the hospital. 411 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,160 Sausalita? 412 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,640 How long before that boat goes back to San Francisco? 413 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:48,640 It leaves right away. 414 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:49,640 Well, I'm going with it. 415 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:50,640 Hey, wait there. 416 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:51,640 You ain't in no condition. 417 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:52,640 Thanks. 418 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:53,640 I'll be okay. 419 00:17:53,640 --> 00:18:03,280 Half an hour later, shivering and shaking in my wet clothes and keeping my mouth clamped 420 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:08,000 tight so my teeth wouldn't sound like a dice game, I climbed into a taxi at the ferry building 421 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,520 and went to my apartment. 422 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:14,960 There, I swallowed a half a pint of whiskey, rubbed myself with a coarse towel until my 423 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:16,400 skin was sore. 424 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,880 Then I looked in the pocket of the soggy suit I'd hung up to dry. 425 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:21,240 It was still there. 426 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,680 The piece of paper from the dead man's shoes, damp but legible. 427 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:31,280 International postcard shop, Geary Street, SF, greeting card for Boris. 428 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:37,880 I got up to put on a dry suit and then I changed my mind and put the wet one back on. 429 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:39,760 Good evening. 430 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:41,840 Good evening. 431 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:50,760 Are you the proprietor here? 432 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:51,760 That's right, sir. 433 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:53,440 Six years at the same location. 434 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:54,440 You... 435 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:55,440 Oh, my goodness. 436 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:56,760 Is it raining out? 437 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:57,760 You really got... 438 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:00,240 Dousing, yes, I did. 439 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,560 Nice collection of postcards. 440 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,520 From all over, South America, every place. 441 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,320 I bribed myself on having the most complete possible selection. 442 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:11,560 Was there something you had especially in mind? 443 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,600 Yes, there was. 444 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,480 I'm looking for a greeting card for Boris. 445 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:17,480 You... 446 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,040 What's the matter? 447 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:21,520 Didn't you hear me? 448 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:22,520 Yes. 449 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,120 Didn't you understand then? 450 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:25,120 Well... 451 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:26,120 Well what? 452 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:31,120 It's only that I didn't exactly expect somebody like you. 453 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:32,120 What did you expect? 454 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:36,880 Somebody slinking around in a false mustache, wearing dark glasses and an invinous cape? 455 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,600 You know, your type of thinking. 456 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,760 You may not be the right man for this job, Gospedin. 457 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,440 Oh, now wait, please, Mr. Lubov. 458 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:48,600 I thought you were dead. 459 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:49,600 You drowned. 460 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,160 Yeah, yeah, who told you that? 461 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,160 Well, you know. 462 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,160 Yes, well, I didn't drown. 463 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:55,880 I jumped in the water when I heard him coming. 464 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,880 You can still see how wet I am. 465 00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,480 Of course. 466 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:00,480 So you escaped. 467 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:01,480 Easily. 468 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:02,480 Well, enough talk. 469 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:03,480 Hand it over. 470 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,160 The greeting card for Boris. 471 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:06,160 Very well. 472 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:07,160 Let's see. 473 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,840 That's San Francisco, of course. 474 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,880 He turned and reached his hand down under the counter and came up with a box marked special. 475 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,520 From this, he extracted something and handed it to me. 476 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:21,520 I took it with a knowing expression on my face, but I didn't know from nothing as to 477 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:22,520 what it meant. 478 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,680 All it was was an ordinary postcard. 479 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:25,680 That's all. 480 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,720 A picture postcard showing the Golden Gate Bridge. 481 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:38,920 Beneath it, the caption, Wonder Cities of the World, number 251235679, San Francisco. 482 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:39,920 Nothing else. 483 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,480 I'm afraid my mouth was open. 484 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:43,480 What's the matter? 485 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:44,480 Matter? 486 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,240 Don't you know how to read the name? 487 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,440 It's so difficult, of course. 488 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:49,440 Idiots. 489 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:50,440 Certainly I know how. 490 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,760 I was just admiring the work. 491 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:53,760 That's all. 492 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,560 Oh, it is excellent, isn't it? 493 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:57,560 You better go now. 494 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:58,760 We've been here an awfully long time. 495 00:20:58,760 --> 00:20:59,760 We don't want... 496 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:00,760 No, of course we don't. 497 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,760 I'll go, Gospedin. 498 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,440 Gospedin, I'm sorry to have been overly cautious. 499 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,360 There is no such thing as over-caution. 500 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:11,840 Oh, thank you. 501 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:12,840 You were so... 502 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,000 Well, you seem like an American. 503 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:21,640 So do you. 504 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:25,920 I strode out into the street, clutching my postcard, but I shoved it inside my sleeve 505 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:31,000 a moment later because who I saw standing under the misty glimmer of a streetlight waiting 506 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,120 for me was my heavyset mysterious friend from the ferryboat, Connelly. 507 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:40,520 I turned my head around and glanced down the other end of the block behind me. 508 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,920 The other two guys were there, sure enough. 509 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:48,180 They advanced slowly toward me with their hands raised, palms out, as if they were showing 510 00:21:48,180 --> 00:21:50,480 me they weren't carrying guns. 511 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:51,480 I waited. 512 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:52,480 Then all of a sudden Connelly rushed me. 513 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,680 I caught him on the chin and he went down clattering into an ash can. 514 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,800 The other two boys grabbed me and held my arms behind me. 515 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,920 Connelly got up rubbing his face. 516 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,200 I waited to get murdered. 517 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,200 But no. 518 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,200 All right, Joe Lewis. 519 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:16,120 Bring him along. 520 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:17,120 And so they did. 521 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:18,400 We didn't go far. 522 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,400 Just around the corner to a little hamburger place that had a sign in the door saying, 523 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,560 closed, although there were lights inside. 524 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,880 Connelly knocked on the door and a fellow with an apron came and opened it and locked 525 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:30,640 it after us. 526 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,160 Connelly gave them a nod and we sat down at the table while he brought us coffee. 527 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:35,920 Well, Jackson, we've checked on you. 528 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:36,920 You seem to be OK. 529 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,440 You stand in good with the department, friend. 530 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,320 What department would that be, friend? 531 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,320 This department. 532 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:45,320 Government? 533 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:46,320 Oh. 534 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:47,320 Maybe you can help. 535 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,520 Anyhow, we don't want you going around making a noise and messing it up for us. 536 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:52,920 So here it is. 537 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:53,920 I'm all ears. 538 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,800 Ever hear of a man called Boris Kargamensky? 539 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:57,800 No. 540 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,280 Not many people have, even in Russia. 541 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,760 Boris Kargamensky is the top Soviet agent of America. 542 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:04,760 He's the head man. 543 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,800 He organizes and runs everything for him here. 544 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:07,800 I see. 545 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,520 Now, he came to this country seven years ago and vanished. 546 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,600 We've been trying to find him ever since. 547 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:13,600 False passport, of course. 548 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:14,600 That didn't help. 549 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,640 There's nothing anywhere on Kargamensky. 550 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,080 No pictures, even in Russia. 551 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,160 No fingerprints, nothing. 552 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,040 Every lead we had, dead end. 553 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:22,960 And then last week... 554 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,880 Well, go ahead, drink your coffee. 555 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:25,880 No, no, it's all right. 556 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:26,880 I'm too interested. 557 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,520 Last week we heard that another agent, an important little guy named Lyubov, was on 558 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,360 his way to San Francisco and that he would definitely have to contact the big gun, something 559 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:38,560 to do with the Chinese war business that only Kargamensky is big enough to handle. 560 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:43,680 Well, our man tailed Lyubov all the way out here and then lost him at the Oakland ferry. 561 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,480 That didn't bother us very much. 562 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,320 He called us and we were waiting on this end. 563 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,600 But in pulls the ferry and no Lyubov. 564 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,440 Lyubov was the dead man in the lifeboat. 565 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:54,440 That's right. 566 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,120 He must have been up there waiting to be contacted. 567 00:23:56,120 --> 00:24:00,160 Then he heard Tony and his concertina, thought that this might be it. 568 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,520 Then when he realized he'd made a mistake and uncovered himself, he conked Tony on 569 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:04,520 the head. 570 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:05,520 Right. 571 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,560 And his Soviet contact got scared and stabbed Lyubov. 572 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,840 So now we're back where we started. 573 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,560 Every passenger on the ferry was OK. 574 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,000 What's that you're looking at? 575 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,480 A picture postcard. 576 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:22,640 I found a message on Lyubov about the international postcard shop and a greeting for, hey, a greeting 577 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,600 for Boris, Boris Kargamensky. 578 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:25,600 Let me see that. 579 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,160 I bulldozed the guy into the shop into letting me have it. 580 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:29,960 It looks like nothing, just a picture. 581 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,840 But he said I could read the name. 582 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:32,840 Golden Gate. 583 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,200 Now, give me it. 584 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,640 Give me these numbers. 585 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:43,480 Wonder cities of the world, number two, five, one, two, three, five, six, seven, nine. 586 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:44,480 Wait a minute. 587 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:45,480 What? 588 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:46,480 What's the guy's name? 589 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:47,480 Boris. 590 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:48,480 B-O-R-I-S. 591 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:49,480 Leave a space. 592 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:50,480 K-A-R-G-A-M-E-N-S-K-Y. 593 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,480 Now, put numbers. 594 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:52,480 Wait a minute. 595 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:53,480 Now, the top number's nine. 596 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:54,480 All right. 597 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,480 Now, put one, two, three, four, five over Boris. 598 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:56,480 Yeah. 599 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:57,480 And start again. 600 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:58,480 One, two, three, up to nine over Kargamensky. 601 00:24:58,480 --> 00:24:59,480 Uh-huh. 602 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,480 Nine. 603 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:01,480 Yeah. 604 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:02,480 All right. 605 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:03,480 Now, let's see the postcard. 606 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:04,480 OK. 607 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:05,480 I'll put it in the postcard. 608 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:06,480 OK. 609 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:07,480 And then I'll put it in the postcard. 610 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:08,480 OK. 611 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,480 And then I'll put it in the postcard. 612 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:10,480 OK. 613 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:15,480 And then I'll put it in the postcard. 614 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,480 OK. 615 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,480 Nine. 616 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:18,480 Yeah. 617 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:19,480 All right. 618 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:20,480 Now, let's see the postcard. 619 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:21,480 Two, five, one, two, three, five, six, seven, nine. 620 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:22,480 OK. 621 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:23,480 What's two? 622 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:24,480 Uh, two is O. 623 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:25,480 Five? 624 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:26,480 S. 625 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:27,480 O-S. 626 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,280 Now, Kargamensky. 627 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:30,280 One. 628 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,280 K. 629 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,280 Two. 630 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:33,280 Three. 631 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:34,280 A-R. 632 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:35,280 O-S-K-A-R. 633 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,280 Oscar! 634 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,280 Well, I guess we know the rest of it. 635 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:39,280 Five, six, seven, nine. 636 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:40,280 A-N-E-S. 637 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:41,280 Aims, correct? 638 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:42,280 Correct. 639 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,280 Oscar Aims. 640 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:44,280 Dr. Oscar Aims. 641 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,280 What? 642 00:25:45,280 --> 00:26:02,200 I was just thinking, he was worried about me catching pneumonia. 643 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,680 I called Mama Caruso, and from what she said, we knew where to go. 644 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,560 We picked him up at the emergency hospital. 645 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,400 He was just finishing the operation on Tony's head. 646 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,920 We watched him through the glass, and the other young doctor standing alongside of us 647 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,240 said he was one of the greatest surgeons they'd ever seen. 648 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:23,120 When he unrolled his gloves and took off his operating mask, he looked up and saw me, alive, 649 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:24,840 and the other boys with me. 650 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,000 His scalp tightened for just a second, and then he smiled. 651 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,400 It was when he reached into his bag that we rushed him before he could get the little 652 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,880 red bottle to his lips. 653 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,000 Well, that's about it. 654 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,800 I made the morning edition okay. 655 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:44,720 On page 18, under my usual slug, Man Overboard by Man Jackson, they did a cute thing. 656 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,920 Under Man Overboard, it said, he really is. 657 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,400 See, page one. 658 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:53,200 And on page one, with a byline, was the story just as above. 659 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,520 Complete with a photograph of Dr. Oscar Aims. 660 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:01,880 A clean-cut, smiling, confident, typically American fellow. 661 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:18,800 The caption said, portrait of a spy. 662 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:35,320 Suspense, presented by Auto Light, tonight's star, Mr. Paul Douglas. 663 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:40,220 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer of 664 00:27:40,220 --> 00:27:42,320 automotive electrical equipment. 665 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,880 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 666 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,920 They are members of the Auto Light family, as well as are the 98,000 Auto Light distributors 667 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:56,280 and dealers in the United States, and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 668 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:01,280 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