1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,720 Tonight, the story of a murder in which no gun was used, nor knife, nor blunt instrument, 3 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,960 nor poison, nor suffocation, nor force of any kind. 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:25,440 And yet, a man was murdered. 5 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:41,440 So now, with Lawrence Dobkin as Joe Porter, here is tonight's Suspense play, Destruction. 6 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:42,440 Okay, doctor. 7 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:43,440 Okay. 8 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:44,440 Okay, doctor. 9 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:45,440 Okay. 10 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:46,440 Call her. 11 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:53,440 You're going to be all right, Mr. Porter. 12 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,440 You're brought here to emergency by ambulance and you're going to be all right. 13 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:58,440 Color? 14 00:00:58,440 --> 00:00:59,440 As good as new. 15 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:00,440 Cyanotic at all? 16 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,440 Don't worry about a thing, Mr. Porter. 17 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:09,440 Inject intravenously, Lantoside C, being a digitalis derivative and highly recommended 18 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,440 in cases of near death. 19 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,440 You won't die, Mr. Porter. 20 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:18,440 As, for example, when a man collapses in the streets, coronary seizure on the streets, 21 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,440 blood plasma by intravenous drip, as, for example. 22 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,440 So as to restore the blood volume. 23 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:25,440 Doctor? 24 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:26,440 Yes, doctor. 25 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:27,440 Cyanotic doctor? 26 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,440 His color is poor, doctor. 27 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:36,440 The will to live is a remarkable thing. 28 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:55,440 Every cell in the body musters its own peculiar chemistry, its own soul, if you wish. 29 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,440 Joe. 30 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:07,440 Why don't you come in and get your breakfast, Joe? 31 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,440 As long as I've got to get up and get your food before the maid comes, you'll be in here 32 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:11,440 when it's ready. 33 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,440 Don't shatter me so early in the morning, girl. 34 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,440 Don't shatter him so early in the morning. 35 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:16,440 Who do you think you are? 36 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,440 Well, who do you think you are? 37 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:19,440 Oh, stop it. 38 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,440 You ever stop and think of anybody else? 39 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:23,440 You'd only do that once in a while. 40 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,440 You'd ever wonder how it is for the people around you? 41 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:26,440 The people around me? 42 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:27,440 There's always... 43 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:28,440 Just don't cry, that's all. 44 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:29,440 Why not? 45 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:30,440 Why shouldn't I cry? 46 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:31,440 Can't you listen to a joke? 47 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:32,440 No. 48 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,440 Don't tell me it breaks your heart or something like that. 49 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,440 It terrifies me. 50 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:37,440 Why? 51 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:39,440 When you cry, Vera. 52 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:40,440 Well? 53 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,440 It's another failure I've created, that's all. 54 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:44,440 Well, listen to him. 55 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,440 I walked into the kitchen this morning, my wife looked at me and she began to cry. 56 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,440 Your coffee, you want juice or something, what do you want? 57 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,440 Why did you cry, Vera? 58 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,440 Oh. 59 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,440 Please, tell me. 60 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:58,440 Some juice. 61 00:02:58,440 --> 00:02:59,440 Please tell me why you... 62 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,440 You want to know what happened to me this morning? 63 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:02,440 Yes. 64 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:06,440 All of a sudden you turned into a small man in an undershirt. 65 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,440 Well, it's hot. 66 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,440 You wouldn't understand if I told you. 67 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:11,440 Yes, I would. 68 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:17,440 Small man in an undershirt like somebody I'd never seen before, a stranger. 69 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,440 And I know you're not a stranger, you're what my life is up to now. 70 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:21,440 Oh, no. 71 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:22,440 Oh, no it isn't. 72 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:23,440 Oh, no it isn't. 73 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:27,440 The fact that I loved you and this is what it's gotten me, little man, little failure in an undershirt. 74 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:28,440 Did you hear what I said? 75 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:29,440 I said, oh, no it isn't. 76 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:30,440 What are you talking about? 77 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:31,440 Don't you think I know? 78 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:32,440 What are you talking about? 79 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:33,440 Stupid or something. 80 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:34,440 What are you talking about? 81 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,440 The guy, the guy, the guy that comes around. 82 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:38,440 Stupid or something. 83 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,440 What do you think, I don't know or something? 84 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:41,440 So? 85 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:42,440 So. 86 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,440 Yeah, so what? 87 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,440 You don't care that I know? 88 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,440 I said so what, didn't I? 89 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,440 Yeah, yeah you did. 90 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,440 You want to leave me? 91 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,440 I don't know. 92 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,440 I got to keep seeing him, Joe. 93 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,440 I don't love you anymore, I don't care a thing for you. 94 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,440 Nothing, huh? 95 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,440 Joe, just not a thing. 96 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,440 After ten years now I'm like dirt. 97 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,440 I worked my head off. 98 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,440 I worked my head off so you can have a mate I can't even get my socks darned. 99 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:19,440 You sit around all day and I... 100 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,440 You want to whip yourself with it, yeah, just like dirt, let's. 101 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:23,440 Okay, okay. 102 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,440 That's Joe, to let you know where you stand. 103 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:26,440 You want me to tell you some things about yourself. 104 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,440 You want me to... 105 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:39,440 You're a very little man, Joe. 106 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:41,440 I started to die then. 107 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:46,440 I know it's been building up for a long time, but this morning I felt it for the first time. 108 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,440 While I was talking to Billy. 109 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:54,440 Something all at once slipped away and something in me tried to grab out after it, but it was gone. 110 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,440 And I had a little pain then. 111 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:04,440 Once, a long time ago, on a summer's night, on a moonlighted night, 112 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:09,440 I stood on a lonely street corner and stretched my arms out for the world. 113 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,440 And Vera stood close to me. 114 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,440 I love you, Joe. 115 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,440 You're not small, Joe. 116 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:19,440 I love you. 117 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:25,440 This morning there was a small pain and I started to die. 118 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:26,440 Hey, Joe. 119 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:27,440 Oh, hi, Herb. 120 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,440 Hiya. 121 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,440 How's tricks? 122 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:31,440 Fine. 123 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:32,440 Fine. 124 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,440 Everything great, huh? 125 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:35,440 Yeah. 126 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,440 Excuse me. 127 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,440 Everything great, huh? 128 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:41,440 What's the matter with you? 129 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:42,440 With me? 130 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:43,440 With me? 131 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,440 Yeah, something funny? 132 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:47,440 I'll tell you. 133 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:52,440 Don't worry. 134 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,440 What's funny, huh? 135 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:55,440 You are. 136 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,440 You're a funny man. 137 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:58,440 What do you mean? 138 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,440 How can anybody be as miserable as you, huh? 139 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:02,440 Now, look. 140 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,440 Where's the five for the picnic, Joe? 141 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,440 Everybody in the office but Joe Turner. 142 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,440 Last year the picnic committee had to wait until September to park you from five bucks. 143 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,440 Look, I don't have it. 144 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,440 That's all. 145 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,440 I have been delegated to tell you something, Joe. 146 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:18,440 Now, wait a minute. 147 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,440 Tonight is the poker game, yeah? 148 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:21,440 What about it? 149 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:22,440 Don't come. 150 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:23,440 What? 151 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,440 I have been delegated to tell you that the boys don't want you. 152 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,440 The boys say you can't pay your just and honest debts. 153 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,440 You can't afford to play poker. 154 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:32,440 Herb. 155 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:33,440 For your own protection, kid. 156 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:34,440 Herb. 157 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:35,440 What? 158 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:36,440 Oh, Herb. 159 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,440 What's the matter with you? 160 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,440 I look forward so much to the... 161 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:41,440 Hi. 162 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:42,440 Hi, Herb. 163 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:43,440 Joe. 164 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:44,440 Good morrow, fair one. 165 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,440 Would you drink from the bubbling brook of a watercool? 166 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:48,440 I would. 167 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,440 Well, then be my guest. 168 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,440 You're carrying me. 169 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:53,440 Drink. 170 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,440 Drink you. 171 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,440 Crazy, huh? 172 00:06:58,440 --> 00:06:59,440 Joe. 173 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:00,440 Yeah? 174 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,440 I heard something, Joe. 175 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:03,440 What? 176 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:04,440 Herb, you go away. 177 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,440 This is between Joe and me. 178 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:07,440 Now, come on. 179 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:08,440 I mean it. 180 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:09,440 Now, go away. 181 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,440 This is between my little shortstop and me. 182 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,440 Okay, but you'll tell me later. 183 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:14,440 No, I won't either. 184 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:15,440 Nostradu. 185 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:20,440 Hello, Joe. 186 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,440 What are you looking at me like that for? 187 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,440 You're just lucky you don't have kids, that's all. 188 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:26,440 What are you talking about? 189 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:27,440 I've always wanted kids. 190 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:30,440 What makes me so lucky I don't have any? 191 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:31,440 Are you kidding? 192 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:32,440 What's the new... 193 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,440 I can't tell you my source. 194 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,440 But my source says your wife's running around. 195 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:39,440 My source... 196 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:40,440 Shut up. 197 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,440 Joey, my source never lies. 198 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,440 Oh, Joe. 199 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,440 I don't know who told you, but she's lying. 200 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,440 It's not a she, it's a he. 201 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:57,440 And Joey, there isn't a better source alive. 202 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,440 I know because I've got a lady friend 203 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,440 who knows this party we're discussing. 204 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,440 And what she's told me, he's told her about. 205 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:08,440 Ellis. 206 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:09,440 Yeah? 207 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,440 Don't say anything to anybody, not to anybody. 208 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:13,440 Why should I say anything? 209 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,440 Because it's something that my wife... 210 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,440 My wife and I will straighten out. 211 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,440 Just please don't tell anybody. 212 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,440 Little shortstop. 213 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,440 Little Joey. 214 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,440 And died the small deaths. 215 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,440 Phyllis' face wavered and lost focus and dissolved into the day 216 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,440 of columns and posts and plus signs and minuses and ciphers 217 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,440 and Herb coming over just before lunch. 218 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:47,440 Hey, man. 219 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:48,440 Tough about your wife. 220 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,440 Heard she's running around. 221 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,440 I had no good. 222 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:53,440 It was strange. 223 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,440 It was a kind of surrender bits of me seemed to be making. 224 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,440 As if I were drowning. 225 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,440 Submerging only so far and getting used to it 226 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,440 and then sinking a little more. 227 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:09,440 There was a time, a bright spring day when a girl laughed 228 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,440 at a very wonderful thing I had said and touched my hand. 229 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,440 There were days. 230 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,440 Turner, see you. 231 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:20,440 Oh, sure, Mr. Collins. 232 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:21,440 Right away, my office. 233 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:22,440 Sure, Mr. Collins. 234 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:25,440 Thor. 235 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:26,440 Yes, sir. 236 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:30,440 Have a seat. 237 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:31,440 Thank you. 238 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,440 This is not a depression we're in, Turner. 239 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:35,440 No, sir, far from it. 240 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,440 Lovingly off, I'd call it. 241 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:38,440 It's a good sign. 242 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,440 Anybody who invests in a false economy, now mind you, 243 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,440 I'm not saying at this stage we just pass it over 244 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,440 with anything but healthy, but now you've got to do 245 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,440 a little bit more retrenching here, you agree? 246 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,440 Oh, yes, sir, yes, sir. 247 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:50,440 You're fired, Turner. 248 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,440 Economists all over the country agree that a strong inventory 249 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,440 that's fluid is the soundest investment and that any company 250 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,440 that carries too much of a load as far as personnel is concerned 251 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:01,440 is foolish. 252 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,440 Now I only appeal to your intelligence. 253 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,440 You can see for yourself that we must cut down on our expenses. 254 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,440 Please, please. 255 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,440 Are you crying, Turner? 256 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:12,440 Yes. 257 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:14,440 Mr. Collins. 258 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:15,440 We've got to level off. 259 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,440 Now I have charge to show that there's no time like now 260 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:19,440 to undertake minimum... 261 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:20,440 Mr. Collins. 262 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:22,440 Yes, what is it? 263 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,440 I'll work for less money. 264 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,440 Please, please don't fire me. 265 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:28,440 Well... 266 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,440 I'll take a cut. 267 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,440 Figure out how much I'm worth to you. 268 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:33,440 Why don't you do that? 269 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,440 Figure out how much I'm worth to you. 270 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:36,440 I'll take a cut. 271 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,440 You're forcing me to say we don't need you. 272 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:44,440 We don't want people like you in our organization. 273 00:10:44,440 --> 00:11:04,440 You're fired. 274 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:06,440 You are listening to Destruction, 275 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,440 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 276 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:20,440 theater of thrills, Suspense. 277 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,440 Later tonight on most of these stations, 278 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,440 CBS radio continues Mr. Keen's latest serial thriller, 279 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,440 The Ice Queen Murder Case. 280 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,440 The old investigator finds himself skating on thin ice 281 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,440 in his efforts to find clues. 282 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,440 Tonight through Friday of this week, 283 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,440 continue with Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons. 284 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,440 Now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, 285 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:45,440 Lawrence Dabkin, in tonight's production of Destruction, 286 00:11:45,440 --> 00:12:09,440 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 287 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,440 Dr. Landis. 288 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,440 Yes? 289 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,440 Mr. Turner's cyanotic, the bluish color 290 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,440 indicating lack of oxygen. 291 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:19,440 Yes. 292 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,440 It seems to me only a thought, 293 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,440 but it seems to me... 294 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,440 You had a thought, doctor? 295 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,440 Is it Mr. Turner had no will to live, 296 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:36,440 or the want, or the desire? 297 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,440 I don't know. 298 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,440 I wouldn't. 299 00:12:41,440 --> 00:13:06,440 I'll prepare the syringe. 300 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,440 What Mrs. Porter said for me to do, 301 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,440 see that you got your dinner, serve it to you, 302 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:11,440 and then you'll be home for the day. 303 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:12,440 Where is Mrs. Porter? 304 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:13,440 Out. 305 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:14,440 Did she tell you where she was going? 306 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:15,440 What? 307 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,440 Did Mrs. Porter tell you where she was going? 308 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:18,440 She said out. 309 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:19,440 That's all she told me. 310 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:20,440 She said out. 311 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:21,440 Why, don't you know? 312 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,440 Didn't she call you up at the office? 313 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,440 This keeps you overtime, doesn't it, Thelma, 314 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:26,440 staying on to serve my dinner? 315 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,440 Mrs. Porter talked to somebody on the telephone. 316 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:29,440 I thought sure it was you. 317 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,440 The way I was ironing her things in the kitchen, 318 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:32,440 I didn't hear the words. 319 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,440 Just that kind of soft laugh Mrs. Porter has sometimes 320 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:36,440 when she's talking on the phone. 321 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,440 I didn't hear the words, 322 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,440 but I sure thought it must be you she was talking to. 323 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:42,440 It was. 324 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,440 Then she went into the bedroom and called out to me 325 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,440 to iron that silk blouse first. 326 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,440 That frilly one cut low off the shoulder. 327 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:50,440 Yes, yes. 328 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,440 Oh, you sure got an attractive wife, Mr. Porter. 329 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,440 And we two get along real fine. 330 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:56,440 Thelma. 331 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:57,440 It was around four she went out, 332 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,440 smelling pretty and looking real nice. 333 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,440 I said, you have a nice time now, Mrs. Porter. 334 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:04,440 Didn't tell you where she was going, 335 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:05,440 huh, and talked to you on the phone? 336 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:06,440 Thelma. 337 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:07,440 Well, I guess I'll be going. 338 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:08,440 Nothing more. 339 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,440 No, why don't you stay a little while? 340 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,440 We'll talk. 341 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,440 I hate to eat alone. 342 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:17,440 I'll be through eating in just a few minutes. 343 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:19,440 You could clear the table and maybe wash the dishes 344 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,440 and by then Mrs. Porter will be home. 345 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:22,440 Not me, Mr. Porter. 346 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,440 She's already paid you the extra. 347 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:25,440 Not me. 348 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:26,440 Besides. 349 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:27,440 Besides what? 350 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:29,440 If I was you, I'd go to a movie or something. 351 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,440 Mrs. Porter's not liable to get home until real late. 352 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,440 That's what she said to me, she said. 353 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:48,440 Tell him not to wait up. 354 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,440 It was moving in on me. 355 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,440 All the dying that had happened to me during the day 356 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,440 moving in, adding up. 357 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:57,440 Very close now. 358 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,440 The emptiness, the stillness left behind 359 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:03,440 when she walked out of the house. 360 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,440 And the quick dark of nightfall speeding through the rooms 361 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,440 and moving in on me. 362 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:11,440 And the sigh of wind close to my ear. 363 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:15,440 And farther away the silence somehow quivering, 364 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,440 trembling somehow through the grass and on the leaves 365 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,440 in the yard outside. 366 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,440 And it was close to me as I went into another room 367 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,440 to the closet that held Vera's clothes, 368 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,440 that held the perfume she wore and the scent of seasons, 369 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:34,440 long dead, season dying, even now. 370 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,440 And back into the room. 371 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:43,440 A room where a long time ago. 372 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,440 Oh, Joey baby, look what you've done. 373 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:54,440 You made me drop my mirror. 374 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,440 Yeah, tricks, sonny. 375 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,440 Tricks that just wouldn't work for me. 376 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,440 But it's going to. 377 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,440 Hey, bar, set me up another row of wine glasses. 378 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,440 Got to show my friend here there's tricks. 379 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,440 Who's twisting your arm? 380 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,440 What did you say, friend? 381 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:10,440 You said something? 382 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,440 I said don't bother. 383 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,440 You don't care if I ever do this trick? 384 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:15,440 No. 385 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,440 If not ever in my whole life I ever do this trick? 386 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,440 Look, I don't. 387 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,440 You're not a true friend. 388 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,440 Why, any true buddy would forget it. 389 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:25,440 You show somebody else, I'll move. 390 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,440 Where are you going, Fred? 391 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:28,440 Get your paws off of me. 392 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,440 Get my. 393 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,440 Oh, get my paw. 394 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,440 I like you. 395 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,440 You're my friend. 396 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,440 I'm going to show you my trick. 397 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,440 I told you, get your hands off of me. 398 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,440 You didn't tell me a thing. 399 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,440 Because you're going to sit right there where you were sitting. 400 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,440 And you're going to be friendly and watch a trick. 401 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,440 Or else I'm going to smash your face in, little one. 402 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,440 Make you drink beer right off the bar room floor. 403 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,440 Sit down, little one. 404 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,440 I like you, little one. 405 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,440 I like how you pay attention. 406 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:07,440 I like the... 407 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:08,440 What will these two, Mr. Stevens? 408 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:10,440 These the kind of class? 409 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,440 You're a lad, a fine upcoming lad you are. 410 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,440 Hey, look, I'll... 411 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,440 Don't worry about it, Mr. Stevens. 412 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,440 Do all the tricks you want. 413 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,440 An old customer like you, who's going to mind? 414 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,440 You hear that, little one? 415 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:24,440 This lad's a friend. 416 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,440 He likes to see me do tricks. 417 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:27,440 Sure. 418 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,440 I'm a barrel of fun, Mr. Stevens. 419 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:34,440 Now, this trick I'm going to show you... 420 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,440 What's your name, little one? 421 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,440 Come on, what's your name? 422 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:39,440 Joe Porter. 423 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:40,440 You don't look good, Joe. 424 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:41,440 No? 425 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:42,440 You look sick. 426 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:43,440 Pale and sick. 427 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:44,440 You sick? 428 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:45,440 No. 429 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:46,440 You're sick. 430 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,440 Oh, look. 431 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:48,440 Look, mister, please, just... 432 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:50,440 You want to tell me something, Joe? 433 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:51,440 Because I'm listening. 434 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,440 It's like you said. 435 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:55,440 I don't feel too great. 436 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,440 All I want to do, mister, is sit here and have a quiet drink. 437 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:00,440 What eats you, Joey? 438 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,440 Nothing. It's not any... 439 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:04,440 Girlfriend? 440 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:05,440 No. 441 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:06,440 Wife? 442 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:07,440 You're the type who's got a wife, little one. 443 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:08,440 If you've got a thing going... 444 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:09,440 Leave me alone! 445 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:10,440 Joey! 446 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:11,440 Joey! 447 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,440 I tell you what. 448 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,440 I'm going to do this trick I do with a row of glasses. 449 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,440 And it's going to take your mind off whatever it is that's eating away on you. 450 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,440 A man like you, a little one like you, 451 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:26,440 he's bound to have something going for him with his women, folks. 452 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,440 Now, don't tell me nothing about that, because I know. 453 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,440 And Stevie's got a trick with a row of wine glasses. 454 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:34,440 No! 455 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:35,440 Hey! 456 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,440 Now, why did you go and do a thing like that, little one? 457 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,440 Why you go and spoil my trick? 458 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,440 Because I had enough of you. 459 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:48,440 I had enough of your talking. 460 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:49,440 Now, shut your mouth! 461 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,440 You're a slob! You're a fat, overdrawn slob! 462 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,440 I said to you to shut your mouth! 463 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:55,440 That's what I said! 464 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:56,440 Oh, you! 465 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,440 You come on outside, I'll have you! 466 00:18:58,440 --> 00:18:59,440 What's wrong, Mr. Stevens? 467 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,440 Come around the side of the bar, lad. 468 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,440 We got ourselves a drunk here. 469 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,440 That's what's wrong, lad. 470 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,440 Smashed your nice glasses and everything. 471 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:08,440 He kept at me. That's what. 472 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,440 He kept bothering me. He kept digging at me. 473 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,440 You got yourself a real drunk, lad. A lush. 474 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,440 A man can hardly find peace in a little fun anymore. 475 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:19,440 Get out, mister. 476 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,440 We don't want any trouble. 477 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,440 I wasn't making any trouble. It's him. 478 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:25,440 It's this fat slob. 479 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,440 Maybe he didn't understand you, lad! 480 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,440 Only way to make a drunk understand is to kick their teeth. 481 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:39,440 Throw him away, lad. 482 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,440 Sure, Mr. Stevens. 483 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,440 Come on. You can't walk, but I've got a way. 484 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:46,440 Drag him along. 485 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:02,440 He dragged me out. Threw me into the gutter. 486 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:07,440 A man and a young woman walked by, arm in arm. 487 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,440 A girl, really, with a nighttime soft on her face. 488 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,440 She tugged at his sleeve and stopped him. 489 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,440 And they looked at me. 490 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:18,440 Look what I found, Dicky. A drunk. 491 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:19,440 Yeah. 492 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,440 A drunk in the gutter. 493 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,440 That's where the wine leads. Straight to the gutter. 494 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:25,440 Is that what he is? A wino? 495 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:29,440 Boozer. A wino. Guy in the gutter. 496 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,440 Well, Mr. Wino. 497 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,440 Hello, down there. Mr. Boozer? 498 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,440 Let's go, baby. There's sights in sight. 499 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:39,440 I want to see sights in sight. 500 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,440 Good night, Mr. Wino. Sleep tight, Mr. Boozer. 501 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,440 Sleep tight. Wake up bright. 502 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,440 Come on. 503 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,440 And they walked on. 504 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,440 And it had a kind of warmth to it, this dying. 505 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,440 And the hurt with the man who'd hit me and the humiliation. 506 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,440 Part of it. 507 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:07,440 A manner of dying that had begun a long time ago, far off time ago. 508 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,440 And became the man of the tricks and the girl with sights to see. 509 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,440 And along the gutter the question ran how much longer now. 510 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,440 How much further to die. 511 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,440 Wonder and a warmth to it. 512 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,440 Mister? You hurt, mister? 513 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:30,440 Aw, you hurt your face, baby. 514 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,440 Poor baby, poor baby. 515 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,440 And a gentle touch on the hurt. 516 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,440 You've been in a fight. You've been drinking and getting in a fight. 517 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,440 You shouldn't, not a fellow like you. 518 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,440 Nice looking fellow like you. 519 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,440 Let me help you. I want to. Honestly, I want to. 520 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,440 She helped me? 521 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,440 Maybe you ought to wash up a little, dust yourself off. 522 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,440 A fellow like you oughtn't to go home looking like a wall hit him. 523 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,440 A man like you. 524 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,440 There. There you're going to be new as pie. 525 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,440 What's your name? 526 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,440 Ellie. It's Ellen, but you say Ellie. 527 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:24,440 I don't know why you should. 528 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,440 Feels nice, huh? Ellie's doing nice, huh? 529 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,440 Yes, but I don't... 530 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,440 Now, you're new as pie. 531 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,440 I'll get this stuff out of the way. 532 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,440 What's yours? 533 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:42,440 What? 534 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,440 What's your name, foolish? 535 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:45,440 Joe. 536 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,440 Hi, Joe. 537 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,440 Hi. 538 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,440 Mind if I sit next to the patient? 539 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,440 Why are you doing all this? 540 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:55,440 What? 541 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,440 Pick me out of the gutter. 542 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,440 Bring me here. Take care of me. 543 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:00,440 You mean that? 544 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,440 Yes. 545 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,440 The drunk in the gutter's face bashed him. 546 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:05,440 Foolish. 547 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,440 No, no, no, I'm not. I'm asking a simple question. 548 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:13,440 Why one human being will do a thing like that, do something nice like that, 549 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:14,440 and another one will do... 550 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,440 You really are, aren't you? 551 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:17,440 Or what? 552 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,440 Foolish. You really are. 553 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,440 Sit a couple of minutes if you want, Joe. 554 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:23,440 Ellie. 555 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,440 You sit. Just the way you are. 556 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:26,440 What are you doing? 557 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,440 Watch me. I do it well. 558 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,440 You want to do that good? 559 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,440 Every light in the room goes on just in this one switch. 560 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,440 I had an electrician come up once and see... 561 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,440 Why did you do that? 562 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,440 Ask me again. 563 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,440 Why? Why did you turn on all the lights? 564 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,440 So I could get a good look at you, Joe. 565 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,440 A real close look. 566 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:51,440 Ellie, all I want... 567 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:55,440 Get out of here, Joe. 568 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:56,440 Why? 569 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,440 Don't make me let out a yell about it. Just get out. 570 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,440 Before you were nice to me, kind. 571 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:03,440 No more. 572 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,440 Why? 573 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,440 It's not much to ask. Just why. Tell me. 574 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,440 You got some place to go? Some place far from here? 575 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,440 Yes, I have. I have a home. 576 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,440 Wife? 577 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,440 Where? 578 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,440 I saw it once. 579 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,440 I was a kid and I saw it once. 580 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:21,440 Never forgot. 581 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:22,440 What are you talking about? 582 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,440 I saw it. I was a kid. 583 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,440 This man fell flat on the street. 584 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,440 I came up close and I saw his face. 585 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:31,440 Close as I am to you. 586 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:32,440 What's that got to do... 587 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,440 Do it somewhere else. 588 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:44,440 Die somewhere else. 589 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:11,440 Landis, quickly. 590 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,440 Nor a pinaforene should have. 591 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,440 Normally it would have, but it didn't. 592 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,440 No response to it. 593 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,440 The blood volume. 594 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,440 No longer a question of that. 595 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,440 I'm sorry. 596 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,440 I'm sorry. 597 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,440 I'm sorry. 598 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,440 I'm sorry. 599 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,440 I'm sorry. 600 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,440 The blood volume. 601 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,440 No longer a question of that. 602 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,440 Tell me. 603 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,440 Landis had C, plasma, nor a pinaforene, 604 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,440 and the one medication we cannot give, 605 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,440 beyond our power to give. 606 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:55,440 But his body seems to have lost the will to live. 607 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,440 There's a chemistry that kills 608 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:13,440 and we know nothing about. 609 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:42,440 He's dead. 610 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,440 Suspense. 611 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,440 In which Lawrence Dobkin was starred in Morton Fine 612 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,440 and David Friedkin's story, Destruction. 613 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,440 This Thursday night on CBS radio, 614 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,440 Kathy and Elliot Lewis will be on stage 615 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,440 with an original thriller titled The Telegram. 616 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,440 The Lewises paint a startling, 617 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,440 believable picture of a young married couple 618 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,440 spending a harrowing night with an unopened telegram. 619 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,440 Listen for it. Thursday night. 620 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,440 Next week, the story of a woman, 621 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,440 a most attractive woman who learns to her discomfort 622 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,440 that even the smallest of arguments could lead to her death. 623 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:29,440 That's next week on Suspense. 624 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,440 Suspense is directed by Norman MacDonald 625 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,440 with music composed by Lucian Morrowick 626 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,440 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 627 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,440 Destruction was written for Suspense 628 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,440 by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 629 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,440 Featured in tonight's cast were John Dana, 630 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,440 Michael Ann Barrett, Jack Crouchon, 631 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,440 Charlotte Lawrence, Jerry Hausner, 632 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,440 Virginia Gregg, Clayton Post, 633 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,440 Frank Gerstel, Georgia Ellis, and Farley Bear. 634 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,440 And remember, next week, 635 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,440 Ben S. Hunter's Suspense Story. 636 00:27:55,440 --> 00:28:02,440 Good night, Mrs. Russell. 637 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:03,440 Listen while you work. 638 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,440 Enjoy Wendy Warren every Monday through Friday 639 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,440 in the daytime on the CBS Radio Network.