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Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Jack Benny in tonight's presentation of

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Suspense.

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Tonight, Auto Light, following a popular trend, anticipates the strange disappearance of experimental

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rocket ship Y-272B, the time, the year 2053, the place, the planet Mars, the star, Mr.

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Jack Benny.

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Say, Hap, that was quite a speech you made last night.

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You were as dynamic as an Auto Light staple battery.

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Oh, that's flattery, Harlow.

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And what a battery it is, Hap.

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The Auto Light staple is the power-packed pepster that needs water only three times

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a year in normal car use.

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I really don't deserve such praise, Harlow.

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Why not?

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That's the battery with the fiberglass retaining mats protecting every positive plate to reduce

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shedding and flaking and give the Auto Light staple longer life, as proved by tests conducted

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according to accepted life cycle standards.

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That was really good, Hap Harlow.

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No one could do any better than to visit his nearest Auto Light battery dealer, whose services

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all makes of batteries.

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To quickly locate him, just call Western Union by number.

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And ask for operator 25.

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I'll tell you the name of your nearest Auto Light battery dealer, where you can get an

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Auto Light staple.

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The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use.

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And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light.

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And now, Auto Light presents Transcribed Plan X, starring Mr. Jack Benny, hoping once again

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to keep you in suspense.

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The card.

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Do you have the card yet?

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One more run through the machine.

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Toreg, when do you think the Earth rocket is arriving?

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Tomorrow.

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But if the Grand Council wanted the card before now, they should have asked me before now.

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Is that it?

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Let me see it.

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Here.

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23756, Zeno, assembly line worker, atomic escalator factory.

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Toreg, this is the man for the job?

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He has the specifications called for.

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An assembly line worker.

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Why, it's incredible.

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Incredible.

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Yes?

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Yes, right away.

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You may go in now, Zeno.

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The Grand Council is ready for you.

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13756, called Zeno.

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Come forward.

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Yes, sir.

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Zeno, the Grand Council of Mars has a mission for you to perform.

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Me?

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A mission?

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A mission selected because of the qualities shown on your work and identity card, form

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42-A. Set habit patterns, attention to detail, no strong emotional or biological drives, and

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complete suppression of imagination.

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Well, I always pride myself that I...

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Do not speak unless questioned, Zeno.

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The Grand Council has other important matters of state.

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Of course, of course.

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You have heard the telephone broadcast that an armed rocket from the planet Earth is approaching

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Mars.

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Hmm?

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Oh, I did hear something about it, yes.

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Their course has been plotted as bringing them to a landing on the plane outside the

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city at 1014 tomorrow morning.

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1014.

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You know, I wouldn't mind seeing that.

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You will see it, citizen Zeno.

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Me?

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You.

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Well, I'd certainly like to, but I'm due in the atomic escalator factory at eight.

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I'm on stair treads, you know, and...

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We've arranged a leave from your job.

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A leave?

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Well I'm not arguing with the Grand Council, but I've got a pretty important job there

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and...

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One three seven five six, you've been selected to meet and deal with the Earth rocket.

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Me?

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You will put Plan X into operation.

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Plan X?

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Citizen Zeno, every Martian for the last 50 years has been thoroughly grounded in Plan

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X if and when a rocket should come from the Earth.

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Oh.

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Oh, Plan X.

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Oh, you see, I thought you said Plan X, of course.

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Then you understand and accept the responsibility.

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Oh, anything to help out.

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Those assisting you on the mission will be in contact with you.

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Good, good.

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Have the other council members any questions?

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One three seven five six, Colt Zeno.

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You are now officially operating under the provisions of Plan X.

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Well, thank you.

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I took the aerial transmission belt directly home, let them get along without me at the

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escalator factory if they could.

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Besides, it was almost quitting time.

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I went to bed early that night.

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Tomorrow was going to be a big day.

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Plan X. Out of the whole population of Mars, I was picked to carry out Plan X.

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Oh, I'll admit I had my criticisms of the Grand Council in the past, but this restored

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my confidence in them.

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Yes, sir.

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They couldn't have picked a better Martian.

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I think I'll have a second cup of Ostrich, Mother.

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Zeno, you haven't time.

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You'll be late for the factory as it is.

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As I told you, Mother, I'm on leave.

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Orders of the Grand Council.

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Oh, yes, of course, Plan X.

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But will the Grand Council care if you don't get your job back?

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There won't be any trouble.

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They couldn't replace me in stared treads and they know it.

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Pass the Gorat, will you, Mother?

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Here.

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But it's fattening, Zeno.

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Well, I got a hard task coming up, Mother.

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I owe it to myself.

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And you will be careful, Zeno.

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Oh, Mother, if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times.

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It's just an invasion rocket from that stupid planet Earth.

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So will you stop worrying?

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Oh, you're just like your father was, Zeno.

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Too brave for your own good.

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I am?

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Well, it's nothing, really.

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I took my time going over to the field where the Earth rocket was to land.

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I got there ten, with not another soul around.

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Another few minutes and I had my pocket radar screen working.

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Yep, the rocket was coming in right on time.

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Then I could hear it out in space and soon after that I could see it, bearing our first

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visitors from Earth.

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Gee, I was thinking they must be a brave crew.

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I almost felt sorry for them.

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It wasn't a bad landing.

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Not the greatest, but not bad.

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After another ten minutes, a port in the side of the rocket started to swing open and I

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walked over.

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If I do say it myself, I made quite an impression.

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Commander, Commander, look.

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Great Scott, what is it?

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Commander, I think we've met our first Martian.

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All right, keep back everybody.

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Dr. Fielding and I will deal with it.

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Him, whatever it is, hand me the Martian kit, Parker.

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All ready, sir.

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Come on, Fielding.

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Be ready for anything.

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Right, Commander.

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Incredible, absolutely incredible.

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I'll try to talk to him.

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We Earth people, we Martians, we are the Martians.

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We are the Martians.

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We are the Martians.

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We are the Martians.

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We are the Martians.

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We are the Martians.

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We are the Martians.

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We are the Martians.

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We are the Martians.

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We are the Martians.

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We are friends.

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Friends, we come from out there.

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Blast that Fielding, I feel like a fool.

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Let me try, Commander.

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We bring you presents here.

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We bring you beads, cloths of many colors.

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Take them.

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You wouldn't have something a little more conservative?

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Fielding, he speaks Esperanto.

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Incredible, incredible.

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Gentlemen, welcome to Mars.

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It's almost as if he was expecting us.

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Oh yes, for some days now.

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Ever since you left Earth, as a matter of fact.

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You hear that, Fielding?

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Commander, we may very well be in the presence of a superior race.

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Well, thank you.

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You say you expected us?

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Everyone expected us?

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Oh certainly.

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But you're here alone.

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Yes, well unfortunately, all other adult Martians are, shall we say, unavailable.

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For how long?

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Not wishing to pry, but how long are you staying?

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Well, they've taken to the hills, have they?

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No need to be afraid of us.

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No need at all.

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There's no one in your city over there?

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Mainly unavailable.

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But I'll be glad to show you around.

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Even hospitality, you know.

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Amazing.

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Can we go right away, Commander?

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I'll get Connie.

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Well, you can call her Fielding, but we don't want to blunder into a trap.

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All right, men.

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All in.

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Parker, take three men and stay here for rocket guard.

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Yes, sir.

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Ready, Fielding?

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All set, Commander.

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Connie, I want you to meet our first Martian.

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Dr. Fielding, I don't believe it.

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Miss Morrison, this is 13756.

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Call Zeno.

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Miss Morrison, this is Zeno.

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How do you do?

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Well, how do you do?

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Incredible.

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But he's almost handsome in a strange way.

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And he speaks our language.

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Maybe a trick of some kind.

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Expedition force, on to... to...

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It's a little difficult to pronounce.

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On to the city.

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We march into the city, which of course appeared quite deserted.

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Plan X.

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I show them a few of the sites, the canals, the Og Factory, and the hall of the Grand Council.

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I was walking alongside of Connie, Miss Morrison, who was most unlike the women of Mars.

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I caught myself showing off, riding the aerial transmission belt with one hand.

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Finally, I took them all to the art museum.

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Oh, Commander, this place, this civilization, it's fantastic, fantastic.

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Look at this sculpture, Dr. Fielding, the line, the detail.

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I've never seen anything so beautiful.

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It's nothing really.

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Zeno, you don't mean that you...

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Well, no, no, no.

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You see, I work at an atomic escalator factory.

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I'm in stair creds.

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Everybody, over here.

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Look at this.

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Oh, what is it?

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What?

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Wait, isn't that...

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What is it?

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Zeno.

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Yes, is this what I think it is?

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Hmm?

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I'll have to read the nameplate.

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Oh, yes, yes, a flying saucer from 1952, your calendar, 100 years old.

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1952, the year of the flying saucers.

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Then they did come from Mars.

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Oh, yes.

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But none of them ever landed on Earth.

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Why?

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It just didn't seem worthwhile.

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Nothing personal, of course.

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I just can't get over this planet.

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It's so different from anything we imagined.

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Now here's something you might be interested in.

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Right over here.

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What looks like a weapon of some kind.

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Oh, yes.

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Yeah, you see, it's a paralyzer ray.

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It's 300 years old.

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But why do you have it in a museum?

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You don't mean that weapons like this are 300 years obsolete.

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Well, you might say that, yes.

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You see, no adult Martian has carried a weapon for hundreds of years.

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Why not?

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Why should we?

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But to defend yourself.

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Well, we just have no aggressive impulses, that's all.

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If someone struck you, wouldn't you strike back?

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I couldn't.

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But it doesn't matter.

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No one could strike me.

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No Martian, that is.

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Yes.

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We've never had any trouble.

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Zeno, you're in the diplomatic service?

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The escalator game.

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Yet you were delegated to meet us.

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Yes, by the Grand Council.

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You see, we stopped having diplomats handle our important missions years ago.

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Again, nothing personal, of course.

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I see.

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But you are empowered to deal with us.

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Deal with you?

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I certainly am.

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Good.

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Now, it seems logical to me that we should work out a mutual defense pact.

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Not right now, of course.

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Mr. Zeno!

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Mr. Zeno!

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Who's that?

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It looks like children.

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We have to see him, Mr. Zeno!

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Just some little friends of mine.

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Oh, they're darling.

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What's the problem, army?

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We're building something, and we're all out of uranium.

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We need some right away, and...

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Zeno, does he mean real uranium?

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Oh, of course, Dr. Fielding.

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It won't hurt them a bit.

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We have to have it right away, Mr. Zeno.

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We just have to have it.

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This city was deserted.

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Where did these children come from?

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Oh, you know how it is with kids when they get to playing.

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You'll get the uranium for us, won't you, Mr. Zeno?

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Will you?

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Fascinating.

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What are they playing, Zeno?

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Yes, what's the game?

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I don't think you've heard of it, Commander.

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It's called Plan X.

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Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Jack Benny in Plan X, tonight's presentation in Radio's

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outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.

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Say Harlow, do you like to make speeches?

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Sure, Hap, especially about the Auto Light Stayful Battery.

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Friends, Romans, motorists, lend me your ears while I praise the greatest of the great,

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the incomparable Auto Light Stayful.

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The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use.

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The battery that gives longer life is proved by tests conducted according to accepted life

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cycle standards.

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The famous Auto Light Stayful has over three times the liquid reserve of ordinary batteries.

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And because every positive plate is protected by fiberglass retaining mats to reduce shedding

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and flaking, the Auto Light Stayful just naturally gives longer life than ordinary batteries.

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And where can one get this glorious battery?

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Find your nearest Auto Light Battery dealer who services all makes of batteries.

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To quickly locate him, just phone Western Union and ask for Operator 25.

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And I'll tell you where you can get an Auto Light Stayful, the battery that needs water

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only three times a year in normal car use.

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And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light.

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And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Jack Benny in Elliot Lewis's

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production of Plan X, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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For the next week, I showed the Earth expedition around the city, signed a few treaties, and

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had several long conversations with Miss Morrison.

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Well, not too long, but I felt we were building a solid friendship.

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It was too bad it was coming to an end.

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You're not going out again this evening, Zeno.

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Mother, so I've been out two evenings in a row.

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It doesn't have to be fatal, you know.

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This is the time of year you always get that chest cold.

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No chest cold, chest cold.

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Anyway, Mother, I have to go over to the rocket.

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Don't they plan to go back to Earth tomorrow?

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They plan to, yes.

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Miss Morrison promised to take a little farewell walk with me this evening.

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Don't let her keep you out in the moonlight too long, Zeno.

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Mother, why, that's the most ridiculous thing I've...

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You just don't know how attractive you are.

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Now, Mother, Miss Morrison and I are merely friends.

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And to think of anything beyond that is just...

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Mr. Zeno!

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Mr. Zeno!

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We're almost finished the game, Mr. Zeno.

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Good, good.

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All finished, Army?

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Just about.

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It's tomorrow morning at 8.45, isn't it?

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8.45.

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Anything else you need, Army?

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I mean, any more uranium?

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No, I just wanted to make sure it was 8.45.

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Well, see you in the morning, Mr. Zeno.

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Goodbye, Mr. Zeno.

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See you in the morning, Army.

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Such a cute little fellow, Zeno.

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And smart.

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Is he?

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Mother, you have no idea.

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The Earth Expedition was camped beside their rocket getting ready for takeoff the next

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day.

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Connie, Miss Morrison, waved when she saw me coming.

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I waved back and then she smiled at me and I smiled back.

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It was a beautiful evening.

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We walked out over the plane, Connie and I, and then we sat down quite close.

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Connie lit a cigarette and I opened up a package of Gercog.

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Zeno?

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Yes, Connie.

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Miss Morrison.

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Connie.

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How is it you're not married, Zeno?

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Don't Martians believe in it?

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Oh, definitely.

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But there's mother and...

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And what?

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Connie, you don't find me a little bit strange?

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You mean because you're a Martian?

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Not exactly.

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You see, even to Martian girls, I'm a little bit strange.

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I find you very attractive, Zeno.

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Really?

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You're from a superior race?

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Well...

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The Commander may not see it, but Dr. Fielding does and I do.

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Your civilization, your culture, and you.

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Actually, I'm...

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What are the other Martians like?

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You know, I seem to feel there are people all around watching, waiting, and yet we've

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seen only you.

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And the children, of course.

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Yes, and the children.

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They've been playing around the rocket all day.

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Yes, yes.

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Zeno, what'll happen to this planet, this beautiful planet, when the next Earth rocket

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comes and the next one?

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Connie.

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I'd almost like to stay here, or I wish we'd never come.

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None of us.

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Connie, there's something I...

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I...

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What, Zeno?

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What is it?

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It's just that... it's getting cold.

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Maybe we'd better go back.

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I walked with Connie back to the rocket and then I went home.

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There was a message on the autofonapad.

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The Grand Council wanted to see me at once.

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You sent for me, gentlemen?

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13756, called Zeno.

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You are nearing the completion of Plan X.

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I hope my work has been satisfactory.

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You were selected for certain qualifications, Zeno.

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Set habit patterns, attention to detail, no strong emotional drives.

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I remember, yes.

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You have assumed a responsibility based on those qualifications.

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I suppose you might put it that way.

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Are you still prepared to discharge that responsibility?

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Well, I...

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I think you might as well know that it's been my criticism in the past, as well as that

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of a lot of other taxpayers, that the Grand Council interferes entirely too much in the

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private lives of... well...

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Well, what I mean to say...

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Are you prepared to discharge your responsibility?

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00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:04,360
But about Connie, I mean Miss Morrison, isn't there some way...

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You know that there is not.

431
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,280
Well, I...

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I suppose not, no.

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Plan X will then be completed.

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I assure the Grand Council, at 845 tomorrow morning, Plan X will be completed.

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I didn't sleep well that night.

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Mother was worried when I hadn't any appetite in the morning.

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She thought it was the start of one of my chest colds.

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Purposely I didn't go out to the rocket until almost 840.

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They were blasting the motors, getting ready to take off.

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Zeno, I thought you weren't coming.

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I overslept, Connie.

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00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,600
That is, I didn't really oversleep, but...

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The children have been here for an hour.

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We're just about finished playing, Mr. Zeno.

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00:21:58,920 --> 00:21:59,920
Oh, good army.

446
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Did you win the game, Plan X?

447
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I think so.

448
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,640
We'll know in a minute, Mr. Zeno.

449
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,640
They're so intense.

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Are the children on Mars always that way, Zeno?

451
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:10,440
Well, not always, no.

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00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:11,440
Oh, come to see us off, did you, Zeno?

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Good boy, we counted on you.

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Well, thank you.

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Come over here, Fielding.

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Yes, Commander.

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Connie, Fielding, Zeno here has been so helpful to us that I've come to a decision.

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That's very nice of you, but I'm pretty well stocked up on beads right now, and I...

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00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,160
Ah, a different kind of a present.

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Zeno, I have decided to invite you to come with us to Earth.

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How about it, Zeno?

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00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,240
We're taking off in 16 minutes at 9 o'clock.

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How about it?

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00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:43,240
Well, it's not that I don't appreciate your thinking of me, but Mother would worry and...

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You see, we need you, Zeno.

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That's not true.

467
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000
Well, I'm afraid it is.

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You see, I think Zeno is a much more important man than a worker in an elevator factory.

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Escalator.

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I'm in stair trains.

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And if we have Zeno along the next time we come back to Mars, we'd be much less likely

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to run into, well, an ambush.

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I'm afraid he's right, Connie.

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00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:02,320
He's not right.

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How about it, Zeno?

476
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:04,320
Thanks, but no.

477
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:10,320
Commander, those kids, they've got some sort of a ray gun set up.

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Fielding.

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Is it real fielding?

480
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,320
Why, it looks like it, Commander.

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Get Zeno over in front of us, quick.

482
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,320
Now they can't shoot without hitting him.

483
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Get your gun out, Parker.

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00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,320
You mean the kids, Commander?

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If we have to, yes.

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Tell them not to fire on us, Zeno.

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I'm sorry, Connie.

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Really sorry.

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Oh, it's all right, Zeno.

490
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Do what you have to do.

491
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,320
Shall we shoot, Mr. Zeno?

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Have your gun ready, Parker.

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00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,320
It wouldn't do any good, Commander.

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All right, Army.

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Plan X.

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Did you, did you fire, Parker?

497
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,320
Me, sir?

498
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,320
Did you fire a gun?

499
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,320
Why, I couldn't.

500
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,320
I couldn't do a thing like that.

501
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,320
No, no, of course you couldn't.

502
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,320
I, I don't know what made me ask.

503
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,320
The rocket, its motors have stopped.

504
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,320
Its motors have stopped, Commander.

505
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,320
Well, we aren't going anywhere, are we?

506
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,320
Someone said something about going back to Earth.

507
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,320
Back to Earth?

508
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,320
Oh, no.

509
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,320
Of course not, of course not.

510
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,320
Everybody all right?

511
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,320
What happened, Commander?

512
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:34,320
What happened?

513
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Nothing, really.

514
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,320
It's just that Army and his little friends

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built a maturity ray.

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It takes people who are, shall we say, less advanced

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and increases their IQ by several thousand years.

518
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:48,320
That's amazing.

519
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,320
Child's play.

520
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,320
Zeno, do you mean to say...

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00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:55,320
Commander, Dr. Fielding, Parker, Connie,

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00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,320
permit me to congratulate you as fellow Martians.

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00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,320
Utterly amazing.

524
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Connie.

525
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,320
Look, here come the Martians.

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Our fellow Martians, thousands of them.

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They're coming to welcome us.

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Connie.

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Oh, look at them.

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Oh, they look so handsome, so intelligent, so...

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Connie.

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Yeah, excuse me, Zeno.

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I'll be back, Commander.

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I have to go to them.

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I'll be back.

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Well, she did like me for a while before Plan X.

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But she did like me even just for a while.

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That's something, isn't it?

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Suspense presented by Autolight, tonight's star, Mr. Jack Benny.

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This is Harlow Wilcox again, speaking for Autolight,

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world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment.

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Autolight is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry.

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That's why during the early months of 1953, as we did last year,

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the Autolight family will join in saluting the leading car manufacturers

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who install Autolight products as original equipment.

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Our Autolight family is a worldwide family and numbers among its members

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some 30,000 men and women in Autolight plants in the United States, Canada,

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and many foreign countries, and the 18,000 people who have invested

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a portion of their savings in Autolight, as well as thousands of Autolight

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distributors and dealers and the many leading manufacturers

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who use Autolight products as original equipment.

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Our Autolight family will salute the Dodge division of Chrysler Corporation

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on the next Autolight suspense program on television.

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If you live in a television area, check the day and time of suspense

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so that you'll be sure to see this program.

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Music

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Next week, the dramatic report of a man's desperate race for freedom.

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A true story with names and places changed in order to protect the lives of the principles.

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The story is called, The Man Who Cried Wolf.

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Our star, Mr. Jeff Chandler.

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That's next week on Suspense.

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Music

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Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis

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with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Ludgluskin.

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Plan X was written for Suspense by Richard Powell.

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Featured in tonight's cast were Mary Jane Croft, Norma Varden, John McIntyre,

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Trude Amarsson, Howard McNeer, William Conrad, Jack Crouchon, Joseph Kearns, and Stuffy Singer.

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The Jack Benny Show may be heard every Sunday on the CBS Radio Network.

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And remember next week, Mr. Jeff Chandler in The Man Who Cried Wolf.

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Music

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The 1953 March of Dimes has nearly passed by.

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If you haven't given your dime or dollar to help in the crusade against polio, why not do it now?

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Send your contribution to your local March of Dimes headquarters.

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Music

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This is the CBS Radio Network.

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Music