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["Dio e Zingaro"]

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Broadway's My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle.

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The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

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["Dio e Zingaro"]

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Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Grover.

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["Dio e Zingaro"]

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They squeeze the Christmas carol through sequined loudspeakers on Broadway to get all the happy out.

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And the crowd walks in holiday cadence, conditioned by age, measurements, and the size of the pocketbook.

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And it's all there in the shop windows.

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Mechanical clown, thin man dancing a jig on a tin box.

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And boy army, precisely to scale, mechanized, some with parkas and skis for the difficult terrain over the raw cotton battlefront.

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And eyes are bright with hope and desire, and the wish made on a neon star.

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["Dio e Zingaro"]

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But in the place where I was, holidays coming is marked only by the rise of empty liquor bottles in trash cans.

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Alley off of Third Avenue, and this winter's late night marked by horn of moon stuck through clump of cloud.

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And this, a boy lying unconscious, a Detective Muggerman.

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Name's James Barton, Danny.

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Here, his wallet. Lots of identification here.

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Address lives on East 58th, 1212.

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Hold your flash over here, Muggerman.

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Nineteen years old.

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Whoever did it to him was pretty systematic, Danny. Worked him over real good.

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Who reported it?

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Officer Palm called it in walking his beat.

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Danny.

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Yeah?

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Christmas season, a kid 19, beaten in an alley.

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What's on your mind, Muggerman?

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Well, whoever did it wasn't a mugger.

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The kid's got maybe 60 bucks in his wallet. He wasn't beaten for money.

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What happens when a kid this age gets dragged into a sewer like this and worked over?

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Nice looking boy, why is that?

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Yeah.

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Sure.

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Ambulance ought to be here in a second, Danny.

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Think the kid'll live?

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Boy, it's cold.

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["Dio e Zingaro"]

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Scene, the winter-spilled city and chill splay of wavering, reflective night lights.

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And a boy's part of it, beaten, flung against alley litter.

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Skyward, the fleet curve and fall of a December star.

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The sounds of night fury are muted now in the soft keening and whirl of river winds.

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And not too distant, clack of a woman's heels on pavement.

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Slow walking.

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Then running.

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Then lost in a sudden cry of wind.

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["Dio e Zingaro"]

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And violence is called for, laid gently on the stretcher.

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Received into drifting night, carried away.

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So leave there.

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["Dio e Zingaro"]

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The furnished room, the remnants of sleep, the half dream.

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And in the morning, they call the headquarters, the report on the boy.

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Jimmy Barton's still in shock.

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You'll be notified when it's all right to talk to him.

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So go to a place, the boy's address on East 58th.

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Show a badge, get a door open, walk in.

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And Jimmy Barton's apartment is early December sunlight on ceramic vases of cut flowers.

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His bed, neatly folded down and arranged for sleep.

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Is this a basket of fruit?

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An open box of candy on nightstand.

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Another unopened and shelf below.

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And in bureau drawers, knitted things.

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Heavy woolen sweater complete with design of stag with antlers.

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Woolen socks, argyle, arranged neatly as the pattern and color.

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Shirts, monograms, handkerchiefs, linens, hand rolls.

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Naughty.

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Terribly naughty what you're doing.

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What?

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Jimmy's such a neat type.

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He'll have a spell when I tell him a thief must up his things.

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A child of flip.

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Who are you?

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A girl who leans against doorways, languidly, like this.

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And chats brightly with thieves.

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Don't you tell?

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I'm from police.

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I, uh, also chat brightly with policemen.

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Try me.

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Who are you?

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This girl across the hall type.

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Will stick my nose into any of my neighbor's affairs, lately mostly Jimmy.

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My name is Ina Small.

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And the German fellows, kick I was once on, used to call me Ina Kleiner, like a knight in

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the...

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Cute, huh?

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How long have you known Jimmy?

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Long enough to be concerned about the child.

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Jimmy did a prank, which you must consider the boy's night team.

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We found him in an alley last night, beaten, unconscious.

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It'll take me a minute to get out of this.

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How shall I dress to call on Jimmy, policeman?

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Black?

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He's badly hurt.

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We don't know for a while.

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Tell me how long you've known him.

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He moved into this apartment maybe five months ago, July.

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I was neighborly.

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I brought him bread and salt for his new home.

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He lives here alone?

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No, alone and across the hall, me.

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His clothes, his things, they're nice, expensive looking.

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Well, he's a nice boy.

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He deserves expensive things.

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Know where he works?

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Where?

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Jimmy, where?

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Not everyone my time.

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Other times I wouldn't know.

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Anything else you can tell me about him, like who hated him enough to beat him up like that?

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Jimmy was hurt before, you know.

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I didn't know.

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Yeah, some automobile accident in March, I think he told me.

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Something to his leg.

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So while we had to sit out dancing.

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Look, if Jimmy's dying, I want to be there.

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He won't...

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We'll let you know, Miss Small.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Nichols?

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Officer Nichols?

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There's a bench to rest your troubles on, lad, Obi.

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Oh, you, Danny Lad.

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By the name of the Lieutenant, you're beautiful and you, Danny?

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Okay.

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There's something you ought to know, Danny Lad.

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What?

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There was a debate here amongst the boys in record should we put lieutenants with their

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pay and all on our Christmas list.

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It was touch and go, I can tell you.

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Also, I took the affirmative side of the bitter controversy.

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Thanks.

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I thought it was something you'd want to remember.

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Now, what else can I do for you, Danny Lad?

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A report on an automobile accident last March involved a boy named James Barton.

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Barton, last March of an automobile.

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Anything you want, Lieutenant.

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Just as you said, Lieutenant.

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Let me see it, huh?

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Accident, intersection, 93rd and Lexington, 1.29 a.m., 8th March, 1951.

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James Barton, 19, hit by club coupé, compound fracture of both legs, possible internal injuries,

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coupé driven by a Charles Roussen of 1840, 60, 62.

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Is this the one you want to look at, Lieutenant?

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All right, Nichols, I'll take it with me.

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Anything you want, Lieutenant Lad.

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Hello?

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Mrs. Ralston?

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I'm from the police.

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My name's Clover.

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Yes?

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May we talk inside?

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If you believe we should, of course.

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Please come in.

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Thanks.

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Now, what is it?

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Got a boy named James Barton.

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Oh, please.

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What?

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I just refuse to talk about it anymore.

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Oh?

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For months after it happened, newspaper reporters, insurance adjusters, traffic safety engineers, now you.

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Now there's a difference.

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James Barton's been hurt all over again.

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Well, what do you want me to do?

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I don't want you to do anything, Mrs. Ralston.

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Boy's been hurt, we're trying to find out why.

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The way we do things like this is to...

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Take up the edge of his life and hunt for clues.

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I know, I know.

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I'm glad you do.

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Let's get on with it, huh?

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As if you already don't know.

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All I'm asking you is your version of that expert.

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My husband and I were coming home from the evening.

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My husband was driving slowly but fast enough to break that boy's legs when he stepped in front of our car.

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We took him to a hospital, he admitted that he was at fault, and absolved us.

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I haven't heard from him since.

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Now what?

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How about your husband?

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What about him?

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Do you know whether he's seen or heard from James Barton since the accident?

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Well, let's call him at work and find out, shall we?

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Never mind, I can come back to it.

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No, no, no, let's call him.

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Let's get rid of that boy's name around here once and for all.

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Charles?

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No, no, I'm all right.

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Listen, Charles, there's a policeman here.

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About that boy James Barton again.

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Well, he's had another accident or something.

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Anyhow, the policeman wants to know whether you've seen or heard from that boy since.

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That's what I told him.

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Yes, well, goodbye honey.

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See you tonight.

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Huh?

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All right.

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Well, does that answer your question, Mr. Clover?

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All right, thanks a lot, Mr. Charleston.

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I'm back to headquarters now, through the time when afternoon stands still for two hours.

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And when you get to where you're going, it's suddenly dark.

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I'm to the office for the details and paperwork and the cigarette on the edge of the desk.

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Coffee sent out for and drank, reports to make, and the quiet policeman talk at day's end.

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Latest report from the hospital, Danny.

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James Barton might not die.

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Uh, Danny.

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Yeah?

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All that loot in that kid's room.

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What do you mean, his clothes?

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Such expensive stuff, and as far as we can find out, the kid didn't have a job.

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That makes it loot.

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Thanks, Muggerman, now I know him.

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You think maybe the kid's a thief? A young hoodl-

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Danny!

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Here, report just came in, communication.

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Thanks, do you know?

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Charles Rolston, I know.

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Who?

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The man who was driving the car that ran into the Barton boy last March, Charles Rolston.

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Where about him?

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Around the corner from his office in the alley.

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That's where he was just found, shot to death.

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You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin,

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and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Klover.

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Until December wins, the year moves swiftly to the place of its dying,

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and Broadway arranges its emotions for the occasion.

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On Translux, the current emotion, suitable for Christmas past, Christmas present, Christmas future.

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And this, in high places, strategies are being shaped so that Santa will not bypass the boys.

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And Broadway walks by, glances up, hurries to buy the last-minute gift for the last-minute girl.

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The time is short, kid, think fast.

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There must be something no one else has thought to give her.

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And at headquarters, new winter day, the patter of tired feet,

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the sound of manly giggles as ribbon packages are stashed away in lockers.

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In my office, Sergeant Geno Tataglia with a suggestion for the holiday season.

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Take off your shoes, Danny.

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Don't fight me in this, Danny.

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Simply do as I say.

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One shoe off will be sufficient, if modesty insists.

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I have tape measured ahead.

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What is this, Geno?

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Please, Geno, tell me.

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My eldest, Christina Tataglia.

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She made me promise I would get your foot size unbeknownst to you.

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I chose this method.

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Tell Christina size 11 and a half, Geno.

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I know, I know, Danny, but we must take into consideration the Christmas present

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my eldest is knitting for you is a pair of space socks.

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Space socks?

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Therefore, in revealing to her your size foot, I must also take into consideration

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the layer of air which must be knitted in to offset the forces of cosmic energies

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with their nutrients and protons.

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Geno.

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Such were the instructions I received from Space Cadetus 3ZXL Tataglia.

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Danny, I must...

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Later, huh, Geno?

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Well, if you wish to fork the progress of the scientific mind,

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well, to work, shall we, Danny?

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You may measure me, Geno, but later, huh?

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Perhaps later.

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Now, to work.

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In the matter of Charles Walton, deceased of a.38 caliber bullet

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in an alley back of his office, these items and sundry investigations to wit.

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Go on, Geno.

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That he was a man respected in his line of business machine tools.

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That his bank account was commensurate with his type income,

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neither too large nor too small, but tidy.

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That his life insurance was placed with the firm Adler Insurance Brokers on Madison.

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That he...

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Danny Clover speaking.

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Muggleman, Danny, two things.

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Just got work in the hospital.

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The kid Jimmy Barton's fine.

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He's setting up.

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And the other thing, that girl, fine as small, you know, lives across the hall from Jimmy...

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Geno, what about her?

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She's down at the emergency hospital visiting the beat-up boy.

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I thought maybe...

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Yeah, right away.

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Anything else, Geno?

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Nothing. I'm finished.

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I may go now.

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Well, don't pout, Geno.

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I'll be back and you can measure my foot.

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We shall see what we shall see.

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Don't forget your muffler, lieutenant.

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Just let me set this pillow a second.

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There we are.

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Now you just lie back, Geno.

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Your boy looks boyish, doesn't he, Mr. Clover?

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How do you feel, Jimmy?

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Don't take your fingers away from my cheek, Anna.

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Real good. That's how I feel, Clover.

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Who beat you up?

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Well, don't you make him think of it.

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Pleasant thoughts is what my Jimmy needs.

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Yeah.

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Who beat you up?

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I'd better tell him, honey.

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Then you go away.

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I guess.

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I don't know who beat me up.

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I was attacked from behind. I never saw.

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Poor Jimmy.

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It was awful.

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You remember a man named Charles Ralston, Jimmy?

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Sure.

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What about him?

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Once he hit me with a car,

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it was my fault.

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Wet night all over, I stumbled into his car.

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What are you building?

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Since the accident. Have you seen him?

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No.

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Did you know Mr. Ralston was dead?

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Dead?

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Last night he was murdered.

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What about it, Jimmy?

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I know.

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Yeah, baby?

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Peel me one of those oranges you brought.

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Sure, honey.

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Mr. Ralston murdered him.

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And you beat him up.

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And once the two of us had an accident together.

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Now look at us.

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That's what I mean, Jimmy.

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Another thing.

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What do you do for a living?

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Well, he saw the pretty stuff in your room, baby.

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Don't worry about me, Clover.

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How long has it been since you've had a job?

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Well, since that car accident last March.

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Used to work in a filling station before that.

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Now I can't face it.

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Here, Jimmy.

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Thanks, baby.

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I really need an orange or something.

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This fellow's upsetting me terribly.

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The girl twirls his hand gently through the boy's hair,

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bites her lips, muses over his problem,

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then comes up with a solution.

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The box of candy she had brought opens it,

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makes a decision, bites into it,

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takes the orange out of his hands,

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feeds the candy to the boy.

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You're a blast, honey.

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Believe the happy convalescence.

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And into December Street, walk it.

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And against background of wind-fraid tinsel,

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wind-fraid crowd, pose the violence.

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The murdered man, Charles Ralston,

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a man who in March of last year had run down a boy,

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boy Jimmy Barton, who used to work at a filling station

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but couldn't face the thought anymore.

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A 19-year-old boy with nice apartments,

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expensive things to wear, to touch.

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Boy found beaten and $60 in his pocket.

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Boy with girl, Ina, boy without job,

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run down nine months ago by Charles Ralston,

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beaten two nights ago, assailant unknown,

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and enjoying every minute of it.

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So go now to a place to ask a question.

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Adler, insurance brokers in Madison.

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Mr. Adler is highly pleased to meet you,

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and won't you have a seat?

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His face will only take another minute.

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These savers, electric and all, a-boom, a-boom,

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Mr. Clover, to the male civilization.

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I must relay to the runnington people

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my thoughts on this, have you?

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Here, see this.

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Come on over here and see him like he's...

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Look, Mr. Adler, I didn't move.

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Move, I can tell you.

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When I get through with her, Mrs. Crumman

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will tell you the same thing I did.

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What?

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Adler Crumman, our newest widow.

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Husband tripped in the shower bath this morning,

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died on the way to the hospital.

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That's why I'm pimping my face.

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I'm on my way right now to tell Adler,

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poor Mrs. Crumman, husband's insurance all hers.

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It'll perk her up.

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Oh, well.

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That's face forward to newly rich widows,

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huh, Mr. Clover?

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You're through now?

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Mmm, just like a baby.

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Yeah.

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What's your problem, Mr. Clover?

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Charles Ralston.

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Fine fellow.

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Murdered, I read.

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You want to check on his insurance, huh?

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See, I'm way ahead of you.

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All right, tell me.

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Well, my opinion is you should mark up

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another trillion, Mr. Clover.

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All Ralston carried was 10,000.

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20-year life.

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These days, 10 grand is hardly worth coming for, is it?

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Money, taxes, court costs, et cetera, et cetera.

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His wife was a beneficiary?

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Why are you saying about that?

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Tell me.

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A year ago she wasn't.

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Four months ago she wasn't.

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Now she is.

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Go on.

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The Ralston's had a boy, 18, Charles Jr.

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He was a beneficiary.

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A year ago it happened to him in Korea.

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Right away, Mr. Ralston wanted to change the beneficiary to his wife.

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She wouldn't hear of it.

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She said keep it for his son.

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Why?

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Mothers in my business do that sometimes.

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They don't believe their boys are really killed

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and they're just lost, not dead.

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Three months ago, Mrs. Ralston came around

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to the War Department's way of thinking and the husband.

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So she let her husband make her beneficiary.

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Ralston carry accident insurance, liability?

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Oh, you mean about when he ran down the kid James Barton?

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That's right.

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Yeah, he carried.

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We didn't pay a red cent.

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Mrs. Ralston wanted us to pay, but I outlined to her

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how the boy swore up and down it was his fault.

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So she was just being foolish.

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It didn't really penetrate them.

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No?

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No.

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I knew she paid off all the boy's hospital bills,

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sent him books, California food, things like that.

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Hey, look, Mr. Culver, if you knew how anxious the widow gets,

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she hates to be kept away.

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Yeah, you told me.

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Have fun, Mr. Adler.

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Dr. Kaspinski?

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Come in, Danny, come in.

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I have a chair.

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What can I do for you this evening?

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How long has it been since you were at the hospital

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to see Jimmy Barton?

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Five this afternoon.

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He told me you were in this morning.

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He said you upset him.

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Upset him?

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I have a theory about that boy.

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What?

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Someone could beat him over the head with a baseball bat

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and he would become unconscious.

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But as far as beating him over the emotions,

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he would only grin at you.

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The layman phrase for it is tough cookie.

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A real hard boy, Danny.

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How badly was he hurt?

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Contusion.

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A bruise.

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He'll be released tomorrow.

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Could it be done tonight?

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I think so.

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Well, think about it right now, doctor, and tell me.

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All right, I'll release him.

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Good.

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Use your phone, doctor.

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All right.

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Have a good dinner.

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Welcome, hall.

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Done.

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Up you go.

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Thank you.

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иться obtenido.

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Thank you, doctor.

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Kiwi, Brian, appoint me Mr. Morris.

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No, please.

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That'll be Estpsh automatically released by the emergency

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hospital.

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The ace along the mile.

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appro Yang will increase畫온

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Not found B timer.

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Right now.

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It's packed already, man.

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Dan Beter

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Now that last hot会

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Oh, what's that supposed to think about Us seventy three

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sq'l

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What say er Web

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What would that have been?

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ete

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So the word was warm, the office, to look through a window out on the word was cold.

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Cities seen through beads of moisture, crowds fleeing to a thousand places, winter lights

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that speckle winter sky with colors and pleasing shapes, winter building gray and stark, all

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of it framed in a patina of wet.

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Look at it, wait for it, wait, and it happens.

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Hey Clover, you can come out now Danny, the ladies apartment.

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Be right there.

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Over here Danny.

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Kid left the hospital, made a phone call, came out over here.

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Hello.

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Hello Mrs. Ralston, might I ever come in?

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Yes I do.

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Oh that's too bad, we want to tell Jimmy how glad we are he's up and about your apartment.

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What are you talking about?

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You got another way of saying it Danny?

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Just let's go inside Mrs. Ralston.

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Who was it Claire?

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The men, they're here, please.

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Hi fellas, make yourself at home.

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How you feel Jimmy?

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Claire says I look awful.

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He does.

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Claire was going to make me a poultice.

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Isn't that what you thought Claire, a poultice?

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Mr. Clover.

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Yeah?

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He's been through so much.

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Yeah we were worried.

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That's right Jimmy, worried why a 19 year old boy gets beaten up, lands in a hospital.

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Civilization for you isn't it?

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What are you doing here Jimmy?

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I'm going to tell you something, I really don't know.

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Honest.

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Jimmy.

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Honest Claire, I got out of the hospital and I figured it was what you'd like me to do.

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Call you and come over here.

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But I got to tell you too.

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I don't know why.

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The presents Jimmy, the monogrammed shirts, the knitted sweaters.

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I think part of it, not all.

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Jimmy, I think you better go home.

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Why?

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Just go.

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Stick around son.

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Why do you want me to go home Claire?

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Boy.

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She doesn't want you to be hurt.

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I'm not going to be hurt, that's all over.

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You want to tell us who beat you up now?

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Keeps eating you guys don't it?

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Not especially Jimmy, we know.

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Well huh?

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Listen you two.

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It's got to end now Mrs. Ralph, you can't protect him anymore.

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And it started ending when your husband beat him up.

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Claire.

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What?

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They figured it out themselves, I didn't tell them.

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That's what worries us son.

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A kid gets beaten up by an older man, normal procedures to come running.

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Why didn't you?

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It would have spoiled a good thing.

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What are you talking about?

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I'm old enough to be.

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His mother.

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Hmm.

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His mother.

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Is that what it is Claire?

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His mother.

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Substitute this boy for your son who was killed in Korea.

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What is this?

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You lied to us Jimmy when you said you hadn't seen the Ralphsons after you walked into their

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car.

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After all, well I figured I owe this lady something.

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This lady?

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This lady?

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You got a blast giving me presents, taking care of me.

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Why shouldn't I do something you ask me?

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Like lie to cops.

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Even when it had murder in it.

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I didn't kill anybody.

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She did.

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I still got presents.

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And that's all that counted?

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Sure.

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Well I'll just see what happens Jimmy.

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All I know is Claire gave me an allowance that made her happy.

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But not her husband.

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He got sick of it.

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He beat you up, told you to stay away.

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Claire.

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What Jimmy?

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Is that what you wanted?

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To be my mother?

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Yes.

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That's a fresh one.

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Jimmy.

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Are you sorry for me?

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What happens to that insurance you're supposed to get now?

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You think you'll get it?

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Knocking over Mr. Rawson and me?

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I could sure you will.

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Jimmy.

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I just thought I'd ask.

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Forget it.

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It's quiet now on Broadway.

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The hour without color.

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The six o'clock hour.

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The time of going home.

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But in a while the night will dip down and touch the street.

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And there'll be fury again.

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Rack and roar.

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And growl.

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The puppet dance into the furnace of light.

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It's Broadway.

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The gaudiest.

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The most violent.

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The loneliest smile in the world.

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Broadway.

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My Beats.

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Broadway's My Beats stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,

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with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia, and Jack Crouchin as Muggerman.

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The program is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis.

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The musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage.

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In tonight's story, Paula Winslow was heard as Claire Ralston,

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and Sam Edwards as Jimmy Barton.

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Featured in the cast were Alvina Temple, Steve Dunn, and Tom Holland.

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Bill Anders speaking.

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Music