CBS Radio Mystery Theater

Share on social media:

In this thrilling episode of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, hosted by EG Marshall, we delve into the complex world of wealth, power, and the dark secrets that accompany them. Senator Henry Chalmers Winstead, a prominent political figure with aspirations for the presidency, finds himself entangled in a dangerous web when his daughter, Lynn, becomes involved with a notorious criminal, Vittorio Tedesco. The senator's trusted aide, Bill Desmond, is called upon to navigate this perilous situation, as they receive a gruesome package from Naples, Italy, containing a severed finger belonging to a close friend. As the mystery unfolds, Bill must race against time to save Lynn and protect the senator's career from scandal.

Amidst the tension and intrigue, Bill embarks on a daring mission to Italy, where he confronts the charming yet sinister Tedesco, who holds Lynn and another ally, Jake Muldoon, captive. With the senator's political future hanging in the balance, Bill devises a risky plan to rescue Lynn and Jake, while also ensuring Tedesco faces justice. As the plot thickens, listeners are taken on a suspenseful journey filled with unexpected twists and turns, culminating in a dramatic showdown that tests the limits of loyalty, love, and courage.

 Listen to our radio station Old Time Radio https://link.radioking.com/otradio
Listen to other Shows at My Classic Radio https://www.myclassicradio.net/
Entertainment Radio | Broadcasting Classic Radio Shows | Patreon

Remember that times have changed, and some shows might not reflect the standards of today’s politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Entertainment Radio 

[00:00:00] Unknown:

Every year, compliance regulations change thousands of times. And every year, ADP makes thousands of seamless platform updates so businesses can focus on everything else, like running their business.   Grow stronger with ADP, HR talent, time, and payroll.  

[00:00:17] Unknown:

The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents   Come in.   Welcome.   I'm EG Marshall.   It's only human I expect to envy the wealthy,   the successful,   the newsworthy.   Yes.   All these advantages   are something to be a little jealous of,   but only up to a point.   Beyond that, a host of problems,   very different from ours and far more disturbing and deadly,   haunt the fabulously rich, the superstar,  

[00:01:10] Unknown:

the headline maker. Could you imagine, for example, this happening to you or your  

[00:01:14] Unknown:

example, this happening to you   or your sister  

[00:01:19] Unknown:

or your daughter? Go ahead in, Bill.  

[00:01:22] Unknown:

Ask for you, senator.   Have a look at this package.  

[00:01:25] Unknown:

I found it waiting with the mail when I got home. Italy.  

[00:01:29] Unknown:

Postmarked Naples.   You want me to open the box?  

[00:01:34] Unknown:

You're younger and tougher than I am.   I don't think it'll make you throw up.  

[00:01:41] Unknown:

Co   a finger   with a ring on it.   Jake's ring.   Jake's finger.   We can check the print, but I know it's his. But this came from Naples. Your daughter Lynn's supposed to be in Rome. Why would   you think Jake is dead?  

[00:02:00] Unknown:

I don't know.   I don't even know if Lynn is still alive.  

[00:02:13] Unknown:

Our mystery drama, see Naples and die,   was written especially for the mystery theater by Ian Martin   and stars Michael Wager.   It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated,   brewers of Budweiser.   I'll be back shortly  

[00:02:32] Unknown:

with act one. When you buy a mid sized car, you expect certain things from it.   Mainly, a reasonable   combination of comfort and economy.   Well, friend, Buick has a midsize to meet your expectations.   The 1975   century Regal.   It's a joy to look at, a joy to ride in. And Buick's new v six engine makes it a joy to drive,   especially past gas stations.  

[00:02:58] Unknown:

Buick Century Regal, dedicated to the free spirit in just about everyone.  

[00:03:03] Unknown:

Hi. This is Pearl Bailey. Today, I'm not gonna try and entertain you. Instead, I'm gonna put before you the distressing story of the needy children of the world. They need your help. The bright side is that you can give them all of this by working with Save the Children Federation.   Together, you can forge a better world, one in which children can have hope instead of despair.   To find out how, you write today to Save The Children Federation Box 1 20 Grand Central Station, New York, New York 1 0 0 1 7. Please help these children.  

[00:03:37] Unknown:

How many things can your family do together?  

[00:03:40] Unknown:

Go to a movie?  

[00:03:41] Unknown:

Go to a circus? Go on a picnic?   Go on a vacation?   Face it. In today's America,   family fun is hard to come by.   And with busy schedules,   just getting the family together is not an easy thing to do.   How would you like to have a little family fun fun every week? How would you like to learn together?   How would you like to grow together?   And how would you like to help your son get an edge on growing up?   Cub scouting is helping families like yours be a family. It's your helped hours.   Today's Cub Scout program is just as much for families   as it is for boys.  

So when your son wants to join a Cub Scout pack, remember to take along the whole family.   That's what Cub Scouting is all about.   For the Cub Scout pack near us, you call the Boy Scouts of America. They're in the white pages of your phone book.  

[00:04:46] Unknown:

Senator Henry Chalmers Winstead,   born 1918,   of a wealthy and distinguished family, which contained in its history   one secretary of the treasury,   eight congressmen,   several judges.   Senator Winstead,   chairman of the senate judiciary committee, and certainly his party's nominee to run for the next president of The United States.   A man to be envied?   Let's find that out from someone who knows him perhaps best of all,   Bill Desmond.  

[00:05:21] Unknown:

When the senator calls,   I jump.   He's that kind of man.   He never orders, just asks.   You never refuse.   Not out of fear or ambition, out of respect,   admiration.   And if you accept the word in its proper context,   churning stomach at that grizzly present from Naples   and   listening   to   the phone ring.   I  

[00:05:49] Unknown:

want you to listen in on this, Bill. Take it in my study. But don't let her know she's being monitored. Senator,  

[00:05:54] Unknown:

if it's Lynn, I don't Please, Bill.  

[00:05:57] Unknown:

Everything I have in the world may be at stake.  

[00:06:00] Unknown:

Okay, sir. I'm I'm with you.  

[00:06:02] Unknown:

This is senator Winstead.   I wanna talk to miss Beth Chalmers.   If there's any question,   tell her that her father insists on talking to her.  

[00:06:14] Unknown:

I hurried into the senator's study and picked up his extension   quietly without any telltale click.   You learn a lot about that sort of thing these days in Washington.  

[00:06:23] Unknown:

They just started to talk.   Lynn?  

[00:06:26] Unknown:

Yes, daddy?   There really isn't anything funny about this, Lynn. Why did you refuse to take my call? Well, I thought you might be some smart aleck reporter that it's   was the phrase of choice today, crack my cover,   blown it. Oh, is that all? What else?   Where are you, dad? In Washington.  

[00:06:47] Unknown:

Was something wrong?   You can tell me that in person.   I want you home on the next plane.   Lynn,   did you hear me?  

[00:06:58] Unknown:

How could I miss? So did most of Rome.   May I ask you why I'm being bullied like a witness before one of your subcommittees?  

[00:07:07] Unknown:

If it hadn't been for special circumstance, I wouldn't have been soft enough to allow you to go barging around Europe alone and,   well, confound it. I really despise the word   incognito.  

[00:07:18] Unknown:

But it's such a lovely word. It's so romantic.   It's my affair.  

[00:07:23] Unknown:

The word I get from my sources is exactly that.   Affair.  

[00:07:28] Unknown:

Daddy,   I'm 25   years old.   Isn't that way beyond the time it's anyone else's business?  

[00:07:35] Unknown:

Vittorio   Tedesco   is a criminal.   Why?   He's been cited by one of my subcommittees for income tax evasion.  

[00:07:43] Unknown:

Oh, isn't these days? Well, now now that's pretty childish for 25, Lynn. And you're pretty damn self  

[00:07:49] Unknown:

righteous. How'd you feel if Vic and I came on home and got married? You do me a favor. Bring him. The moment he sets foot on US soil, he'll be indicted for income tax evasion, and that's only the beginning.  

[00:08:00] Unknown:

You don't know Vic, dad.   I think you've been witch hunting too long. What I'm beginning to feel is that I'm hunting one right now.  

[00:08:09] Unknown:

You get yourself  

[00:08:22] Unknown:

but you can't make me jump like all the disciples anymore. I'm gonna do what you did. I'm gonna make my own life. Don't you hang up on me. Mom left me independent.   You brought me up to be that way.   Nobody knows who I am here, and and I'm about to get out of your way for good. I won't surface till you have everything you want. Ciao.  

[00:08:44] Unknown:

Lynn.   Lynn.   Damn it. Bill, you still on?  

[00:08:50] Unknown:

Yes, sir.  

[00:08:52] Unknown:

Better get in here.  

[00:08:53] Unknown:

What we need is a council of war.  

[00:09:00] Unknown:

Why didn't you tell her?   How about Jake?   She had no idea. I sent Jake off to keep an eye on her. We're not gonna sit here and do nothing. Of course not.  

[00:09:10] Unknown:

There's more to that box than than that obscenity I showed you.  

[00:09:16] Unknown:

Here.   Read this.   I find your daughter irresistible.   Also, fortunately, she feels the same way   about   me. Since I feel I'm a little old for her, I hope we never have to use that levered.   Why don't you let me go right over now and take care of that dirty That's what I want, Bill.  

[00:09:36] Unknown:

But I couldn't be the one to suggest it.  

[00:09:40] Unknown:

Maybe we'd be better off just hollering copper. Finish the note.   What evidence,   what proof do we have?   Well, the note came with a finger, didn't it? No.  

[00:09:50] Unknown:

Completely separately.   Read.  

[00:09:55] Unknown:

I think you might want to reach me after you read this.   Any evening between twelve and 1AM,   Washington time, I will try to reach you at Rose's   Hideaway. The phone is safe.   Marriage, naturally, is not the only option   unless we can make a bargain.   I hope Jake put his finger on that.  

[00:10:21] Unknown:

No signature.   And typed.   And no doubt who it's from.  

[00:10:27] Unknown:

Vittorio Tedesco?   Yes. What's his price?  

[00:10:31] Unknown:

Quash the income tax indictment against him, I suppose.   Could you?  

[00:10:37] Unknown:

I   can't,   in all honesty.   Are you even   considering this proposition?  

[00:10:46] Unknown:

Jake Muldoon   was my sergeant at the invasion of Truk.   If it hadn't been for his hand in the way, a Japanese bayonet would have cut my throat.   My daughter is all I have left from a family that once had a wife and two sons as   well. I lost them all to violence.   Helen to cancer,   Jim and Grant in two wars, Korea and Vietnam.   I have no family left but Lynn   and you and Jake.   What else can I do?  

[00:11:20] Unknown:

Push the button, call on everyone, including the marines. Well, it's a consideration,   except they already have Jake.  

[00:11:28] Unknown:

But not Lynn. You heard the phone call, Bill.   Bill. I can't stop Lynn from marrying that gangster if she wants to. Yeah. It would raise such a smell. Your whole candidacy would go out the window. I can't quash the indictment against him, nor would I even try,   except for Lynn.   Oh, lord.   What am I gonna do, Bill?  

[00:11:53] Unknown:

Stall. What good can that do?  

[00:11:55] Unknown:

Give me time to fly to Italy. Forty Eight Hours.   Risk my last friend.  

[00:12:03] Unknown:

I don't know. Bring it all out in the open is the right way for me. No.  

[00:12:08] Unknown:

Not till you take that phone call.   The witching hour.   Well, let's head for the witch at Rose's hideaway away and check out just what Tedesco really expects to get.   Senator Winstead, in spite of his prominence and enormous know how, is a babe in arms when it comes to the dirty work. That's my department. I was halfway to being a lawyer when my folks hang up with a was   halfway to being a lawyer when my folks hang up with a truck. There was only enough insurance to bury them. And I had   a kid's sister and brother to bring up, so I became a cop.   Eight years later, my kid's sister and brother were independent. And under the police program, I got my lawyer's degree.  

While I was getting it, I met Lynn Winstead and her father.   It was a case of love at first sight all the way around.   What we all should have had was second sight,   to see where it was leading us.  

[00:13:03] Unknown:

Don't be shy, fellas. Just waltz on in. This is a friendly inferno  

[00:13:09] Unknown:

and just super hell for kids.  

[00:13:12] Unknown:

The door on the left of my office. Just head for there.  

[00:13:20] Unknown:

I'm Rose, senator. I was expecting you, not the BF.  

[00:13:25] Unknown:

F. This is my administrative assistant, Bill Desmond. I don't go for counsels.  

[00:13:30] Unknown:

Except on your side. No rods in here. I have a license for it, Rosebud. Oh, don't let my name at the club fool you, Mac. I wanted so I could take it away from you. No need.  

[00:13:40] Unknown:

We're only here for a phone call. Senator. Not you.   Bill is in on all of this. I brought him in. I don't know. It's like  

[00:13:48] Unknown:

hold it.   Just remember, this is my territory. No funny moves. Like otherwise, the morning paper gets a tip. Senator Winstead was frequenting that gay bar. You'll forget it, Bill.   Yeah.   No, that's fine. Put it through. Then switch it on my office phone.   A certain party looking to reach you, senator.   The next time this phone rings, he'll be on the line from overseas.   You wanna tell your bully boy here to join me at the bar for a drink so as you can have some privacy?   Think I'll be safe?   As long as you're under Mother Rosa's wing. Go with him, Bill. I'll take the call.  

[00:14:29] Unknown:

But I want Bill if I need him. Him. Do you hear that?  

[00:14:32] Unknown:

Yes, sir. We'll handle him with TLC.  

[00:14:36] Unknown:

Tend the loving care, sir. It's the,   nurse's credo.  

[00:14:42] Unknown:

But it better be the way you're are   handled.  

[00:14:45] Unknown:

Hello?   A call from Naples?   It's your call, Senator.   Come on, Desmond.  

[00:15:01] Unknown:

Who's talking?  

[00:15:02] Unknown:

I don't have to ask who you are. The voice is enough identification. You really have to ask who I am? No. But can we stop the games?  

[00:15:10] Unknown:

As you've set it up, there's no way this phone call can be monitored. That was the idea. So let's not waste time.  

[00:15:16] Unknown:

Jake, is he alright?   I'd have thought your daughter would be your first concern. He is. If you've got her,   you gave me proof enough you have Jake. Let's cut your worries. I have them both, senator.   Jake against his will, as you can imagine. Your daughter, that's another story.   What do you want, Tedesco? I want back to America. My skirt's clean. That income tax evasion judgment reversed. I wanna be a free citizen, and you can do it. And if I can't?   I'll send you your friend Jake piece by piece. I'll marry a daughter and make sure you couldn't be elected dog catcher.  

[00:15:53] Unknown:

I,   need time.   How do I get in touch with you?  

[00:15:58] Unknown:

I'll call here tomorrow and the day after same time. If you're not there forty eight hours from now,   well, I sent you Jake's finger because I wanted to be sure you understood we weren't playing any games.   I'd hate to get into the same sort of thing with your daughter,   but I,   I have too much at stake to have any scruples.  

[00:16:20] Unknown:

You'll have my answer within forty eight hours.  

[00:16:23] Unknown:

If you feel, you must wait.   But what else can it be?  

[00:16:33] Unknown:

This wouldn't or couldn't happen to you   or me.   Ordinary people are not called upon to make extraordinary   decisions   normally. But how will senator Henry Chalmers Winstead react?   Which of his lives, public or private,   is the more important?   We'll return shortly with act two.  

[00:16:58] Unknown:

Hi. Hi. I'm in,  

[00:17:01] Unknown:

nuclear research. Nuclear research? Uh-huh. Hey. Wow. I took you for a salami. I beg your pardon? A salami salesman. I thought for sure   nuclear research Yeah. And so young. Doesn't that take years and years of college? Not necessarily.  

[00:17:15] Unknown:

Well, today, you can have a college grad's career with only a year or two of technical education.   Look, it's all here in this free book, 25 technical careers in two years or less. It tells you how you can get into programming,   chemistry,   architecture,   community service work, forestry.  

[00:17:31] Unknown:

Forestry? That would be great for this friend of mine. He loves to play in the woods. Play in the woods. Where do you get this free book, 25 technical careers? Just write careers, Washington D C. Two Zero Two Zero Two. Careers, Washington, D. C. Two zero two zero two? Yeah. Send for it. It tells you how you can have a college grad's career without four years of college.  

[00:17:53] Unknown:

A public service message of this station and the advertising council.  

[00:18:02] Unknown:

Who knows how to help you solve your shopping problems?   Your Better Business Bureau Bureau knows.  

[00:18:10] Unknown:

Sam Spud, private investigator.   Oh, Sam. I'm so glad you called. You sound rattled, Angel. I'm frantic, Sam. I went to buy the carpet for the office, and I got so confused. There are too many kinds. I didn't know what to ask or what to buy.  

[00:18:24] Unknown:

I will help you, young lady. Mercy. Who are you? I'm the man from the Better Business Bureau. Now when you're choosing carpet, make sure you pick a long wearing one that'll go with your walls, draperies, and upholstery.   Beware of so called fantastic bargains.   And don't buy a carpet that isn't labeled as the fiber content. Oh, Sam. Now I know what to look for and ask before I buy a carpet. You floor me, Angel. Just another helpful tip from your benefits,   It's been a sleepless night for Bill and the senator,   and seven precious hours are gone before the senator has finally agreed to let Bill fly to Rome. It's   finally agreed   to let Bill fly to Rome. It's a slim chance because Lynn has already checked out of her hotel with no forwarding address. Now waiting at the   airport to catch the first plane out, Bill is joined unexpectedly at the airport. What are you doing here, senator? I threw a little weight around, unexpectedly at the airport. What are you doing here, senator? I threw a little weight around last night and dug up the number the desk I called from.  



[00:19:40] Unknown:

Naples.   Spezia Five Four Three Six Eight. Got it.  

[00:19:46] Unknown:

I should be going myself.   Oh, sure. They'd spot you for sure. And some smart reporter would have a headline like daughter's torch lights fire under Senator Winstead by fiddling around in Rome. You can't afford to lose a nomination with publicity like that. I can't afford to lose a daughter. You're not going to.   And here am I.   Ain't just discovered I'm still carrying my torch.  

[00:20:08] Unknown:

I must really love her when I can even think of forgiving her for falling for a crook like that. Don't underestimate him. He's a very charming man. He's a crook. I talk about his manners, you, his morals. The only thing we ever could get him on was tax fraud. Why didn't we grab him in time?   A lot of mistakes, Bill.   Why didn't you grab Lynn when you could've?   No guts.   My daughter scared you? Enough.  

[00:20:35] Unknown:

But not all the way.   You.   Me? You're a large legend to live up to, senator.   Anyone in your family lives in a glass cage, which isn't much much protection.  

[00:20:49] Unknown:

How do you expect to locate Lynn?  

[00:20:52] Unknown:

I'm heading for that Spetsia telephone number in Naples.   I got some channels of my own. Watch your step, Bill.   He fights dirty.   So do I.   I. I came from the same slums.   The flight was a milk run, but Rome was strictly a washer.   So I took the rapid open Naples.   A spaetzier phone number turned out to be a waterfront join called.   Bingo.   Right off the bat,   Lynn was sitting at a table with Vic. I was headed for them when about two hundred and twenty pounds of muscle and tuxedo got in my way.  

[00:21:37] Unknown:

I am Guillermo.   Dissonor wishes to sit at the bar.  

[00:21:43] Unknown:

Dissonor wishes to join mister Tedesco.   You're a friend of his. I know other ladies.  

[00:21:50] Unknown:

But the evening is warm.   Tonio,   take his coat.   Don't try to move, Amico.   Just a little what? You call a precocious.   A frisk.   Old American custom.   Guillermo.   You can call me, Willie.   Let him go, Toni. He's clean now.  

[00:22:12] Unknown:

The all American type.   Thanks for making me feel at home.   I can find my own worth. Thanks. When Beth Chalmers, imagine bumping into  

[00:22:24] Unknown:

you.  

[00:22:25] Unknown:

Beth Chalmers. Imagine bumping into you.   Bill.   I   hope I'm not breaking up anything or something like that. No. No. Not at all. See you. How how did you  

[00:22:38] Unknown:

oh,   excuse me. Vic. This is an old friend of the family, Bill Desmond,  

[00:22:44] Unknown:

Victor Dusko. How are you, mister Desmond?   Do you,  

[00:22:48] Unknown:

expect to be in Naples long, senor Desmond? Oh, no. I just came here to pick up a couple of packages. I have to get the first train out. Oh. Well, we were just gonna have a brandy. Will you join us? Oh, I don't think that Matter of fact, I was going to ask   Beth to join me in a dance.   Why don't you, Beth?  

[00:23:07] Unknown:

Oh, you sure you don't mind that? No. No. No. Not at all. Alright. As a matter of fact, I have some business very   carefully  

[00:23:26] Unknown:

very carefully.   Bill,  

[00:23:30] Unknown:

I want you to get out of here. Just as soon as you do.   Oh, not leaving.   So be a good little bird dog and stick your tail between your legs and run back to dad   and tell him it's no good. I agree. The whole thing stinks. I don't wanna talk about it. Then why are you dancing with me? I was afraid you'd tell Vic who I really am. Knows knucklehead. He knows. No. He doesn't. He thinks   where are you taking me? But, Terrace,  

[00:23:57] Unknown:

out. I'm not going.   That's what you think.  

[00:24:02] Unknown:

Bill,   you hurt hurt me just now.  

[00:24:06] Unknown:

What do you think you're doing to your father?   Dad?  

[00:24:09] Unknown:

He can take care of himself.   He's above us all in an ivory tower. And don't talk to me about his career.   Twenty five years, that's all I've ever lived. My father's life,   never my own.   I've had to fight off charlatans,   lounge lizards, fortune hunters, and social climbers.   And as for any real man,   the very thought of trying to live up to my father has turned them off.   You ought to know that.   Well,   it didn't turn Vic off because he doesn't know who I am. I'm just the girl he loves.  

[00:24:44] Unknown:

Can't you understand that? For once, I know I'm loved for myself alone. Oh, Lynn. What do you use for a brain? He doesn't love you. He just wants to use you. How? To blackmail your father. Oh, he'll be ridiculous.  

[00:24:56] Unknown:

He doesn't know who my father is.   And Vic doesn't need money. He's got all the money. It isn't the money he wants.  

[00:25:03] Unknown:

Then what? He needs your father's influence.   Just to press the evidence against him on an income tax indictment.   What are you trying to do to me, Bill? I'm just trying to get it through your fat head that if I thought you were dancing,  

[00:25:18] Unknown:

enjoying the view?  

[00:25:20] Unknown:

Not particularly.   Not what I'm looking at anyway. Now that's not very polite.  

[00:25:26] Unknown:

Apparently, mister Desmond doesn't care for me. I suppose he's been trying to you what a monster I am. Oh, it doesn't matter what he's been saying because I don't believe him.  

[00:25:35] Unknown:

You might as well know that that once I gave mister Desmond the gate, and he seems to be suffering from a bad case of sour grapes. Oh, well, Beth, I'm sorry.  

[00:25:45] Unknown:

Don't let him spoil our evening.  

[00:25:47] Unknown:

It's already spoiled.  

[00:25:50] Unknown:

I'd like to go back to my hotel, please. I'll go along with you and see that you get packed. I think you have a train to catch, mister Desmond.   Will take you to the train. Not just a minute. I brought your coat   and the package you checked.   Okay, Willie. Don't crowd me. I know when I'm licked.   Arrivederci,   bass.  

[00:26:18] Unknown:

The word for us in Italian or or any other language is goodbye.  

[00:26:24] Unknown:

Come on, vet. Oh, don't you worry. I won't let you out of my sight again.   In Italian, she meant a dio, mister Desmond.  

[00:26:35] Unknown:

I always wanted a trench coat like they say.   Yeah.   Good all purpose coat and real handy for covering a gunner.   Which is covering you. So,   let's just play it cool. And why not, Willie?   My girl just stood me up. You and me and go steady now. A clown. That's me, Willie. Always good for a laugh.   So which way to the warehouse? You speak Italian,   I know a magazine. Ain't no train.  

[00:27:05] Unknown:

Down the steps to the end of the terrace. And just take it easy.   I wouldn't want a cold turkey.  

[00:27:12] Unknown:

I like the view better from up on the terrace. Yeah. Real pretty town.  

[00:27:16] Unknown:

I was born in Napoli.   You like the place?  

[00:27:20] Unknown:

My most favorite.   What is it they say?   See Naples and die.   Like I said, a clown.  

[00:27:30] Unknown:

Just slide in easy. Under the wheel   and back into the corner.   Okay.   Now cross your hands and put them up there above the dashboard.   Now that's a good boy.   And now   you move one finger,   and I put a bullet in your gut.   Is that what you did with Jake Muldoon?  

[00:27:52] Unknown:

No.  

[00:27:53] Unknown:

With him, we just removed the finger.  

[00:27:58] Unknown:

That's a hot one, ain't it? Funny, Willie. Real funny.   I guess the real clown is you.  

[00:28:13] Unknown:

Bill Desmond.   Well, glory be to God. Ain't you the sight for sore eyes? Jake Muldoon.  

[00:28:20] Unknown:

Okay, Jake. You got company.   Why don't the two of you have a party? See you for breakfast in the morning.  

[00:28:30] Unknown:

What are you doing here?  

[00:28:32] Unknown:

We got your message, Jake. How's the hand?  

[00:28:36] Unknown:

I can get along without the finger.   I won't be able to wear the ring anymore.   It was Sheila's class graduation.   God rest her soul.  

[00:28:45] Unknown:

Don't worry.   The senator has the ring. What about Lynn?   Oh, I'm so ashamed of myself the way I was taken. Right now, I'm more ashamed of Lynn the way she's let herself be taken. Have you seen her?   I have.   Maybe I shook her up a little.  

[00:29:02] Unknown:

How do we get out of this, Jake? What do you mean the room? I don't see no way. We're four floors up, and there's only that skylight I can't reach. And the angle is so steep, you'd never be able to climb to the roof.   This, window?   You see the crossbars   outside?  

[00:29:20] Unknown:

I can see something else. What?   There's a pole for the power lines not so far off. If I could get out the skylight, I might be able to jump to   it. Yeah. It has foot braces all the way down.   We'll try it.  

[00:29:34] Unknown:

We'll need this table.   Me on top   and you on top of me. I may have a bad hand, but I still have a good pair of shoulders. But I'm not gonna leave you behind, Jake. Since I lost my Sheila two years ago, there's only been the senator,  

[00:29:49] Unknown:

you, and his little girl. I'm expendable, Bill, like we used to say in the forces. Well, this isn't the army, Jake. At least they had a kind of decency. There's none here.   And I'm looking to do more than try to rescue Lynn from her own pig headedness.   I wanna nail that oversex godfather at the same time. You think I eat with you on that?   Do you know where Lynn is staying here in Naples? Well, sure. Digging that out was what got me nabbed.  

[00:30:15] Unknown:

Okay.  

[00:30:16] Unknown:

Now if I can just get out of here, I think maybe I could get us all out of this,   including the senator,   if Lynn will cooperate.   She always walked in your footsteps and worshiped the dust blew out of them.   Not for some time. Sure.  

[00:30:32] Unknown:

She was only waiting to be asked back. And when you didn't, what would she do but tempt you a little to get your dander up? Well, maybe you're right.  

[00:30:41] Unknown:

Get up on the table, Jake.   Here. I'll help you. Brace yourself against the wall.  

[00:30:47] Unknown:

Sure. Up against the wall. It's alright. I am.   Can you close your good head over the other wrist?   Okay. Give me a lift up.   I'm going up on your shoulders. Alright.   Hang on. Alright. Let's see.  

[00:31:05] Unknown:

You got it open?  

[00:31:06] Unknown:

Yeah.   I can get up on the frame and jump for the pole. How how are you getting me up there? I'm not.  

[00:31:13] Unknown:

You couldn't make the jump, not with that hand. Anyway, I've gotta come back tonight and be here in the morning,  

[00:31:18] Unknown:

if my scheme weren't.  

[00:31:21] Unknown:

Give me the hotel address and the room number. It's a long jump. Suppose you don't make it.  

[00:31:25] Unknown:

To coin an old Air Force joke, you'll just have to repeat slowly over me, our   father who art in heaven.  

[00:31:38] Unknown:

The classic escape.   Will a hero's desperate leap bring him safety,   or will he smash to death on the cobblestones   40 feet below?   Except that isn't the real question in this story.   What has to be saved   is the career of a senator who aspires to the highest honor his country can offer.   I'll return shortly with act three.  

[00:32:07] Unknown:

Some beer drinkers have funny ideas about beer. They think beer improves with age,   like wine. We'll find a brew master though. You'll find a beer drinker who knows better. The Budweiser brew master says it all depends on how beer is aged. Just letting beer sit in lagering tanks makes it older, not necessarily better.   That even goes for keeping a case around the house for a couple of months.   But there is one kind of aging that's good for beer. The Budweiser   kind, beechwood aging.   In this kind of aging, something happens. It lets all the flavor of the choices, hops, and best barley malt that go into Budweiser   get through to you.  

Sure. It takes more time and trouble to brew Budweiser that way, but   brewing beer right   does   make a difference.   Anheuser Busch,   Saint Louis.  

[00:33:06] Unknown:

Some people think we play ping pong all day. They're wrong. The USO isn't all fun and games. Today, the USO has millions of problems like this one in Germany.  

[00:33:16] Unknown:

My family's going crazy living in a tiny apartment. Where can we live?  

[00:33:21] Unknown:

Today's USO has millions of problems   like this one in Asia. I'm hooked on drugs. Where can I get help? Or this problem in Athens. Our marriage is breaking up. Can you help us? Today's USO has little time for ping pong. We've got serious work to do. We've got lots of new problems here and overseas.   The problems are big. How big? Well, if someone asks you, who needs the USO? Tell them   We   do. Over 5,000,000 American military personnel and their families need today's USO.   And because we get no government funds, we need all your support.   Please give to USO through the United Way or local USO campaign.  



[00:34:17] Unknown:

It's the old analogy of the snowball   or the dominoes,   the chain reaction.   A man with no integrity   uses a lever to force a man of integrity   to give in to his demands.   When he doesn't,   the man with no scruples goes further and further to win what he wants.   While Bill Desmond is risking his life to save the senator's future,   Lynn, the girl he loves, is finding out what risk her headstrong   selfishness has put her in.  

[00:34:48] Unknown:

Vic, if you really love me,   let's pack up right now. Let's go home and get married. Hey. Hey. Hey. Subito  

[00:34:57] Unknown:

pigeon.   What do we do about your your father?   What does that mean? How long do we have to keep up the pretense?   Beth?   Or shall I say the real name?   Lynn   Winstead.  

[00:35:12] Unknown:

So you do know who I am? Your ex Amour gave it away.   That isn't true.   You've known from the beginning, haven't you? Suppose I have.   So Bill was right. You've just been using me. You think my father can quash the indictment against you.  

[00:35:29] Unknown:

Like   that? And I go all dooey eyed on me, Angel. Those things are done every day. A business proposition. Give a little, take a little. Word done, you mean?  

[00:35:38] Unknown:

I'm growing up fast.   I was fool enough to think it was only me you were interested in. I was. I am. Don't sell it short. I'm getting my eyes opened alright,   but I'm not kidding myself anymore.   I'm not gonna marry you, Vic. So?  

[00:35:54] Unknown:

Well, I'll just have to hold you for ransom.  

[00:35:57] Unknown:

You really are what Bill said you were. You're a gangster and a crook   and now a blackmailer.  

[00:36:05] Unknown:

Our names don't faze me, Sugar.   The means the means are all I care about, and I got them to spare.   Your father,   the big   lily white crusader with the next nomination in his pocket and the big, big job dangled in front of him like a carrot on a stick. Well, I'm the stick, baby. I can jerk away that carrot.   If he wouldn't come through for me, I love the idea of hitting back at him with those headlines.   Senator Winstead's daughter, wife of exiled crook. You named me. You'll never be able to do that now. Oh, I got a lot of ways to go.   I got you sewed up seven ways from nowheres,   Mia Amore.  

I'm not gonna outline them all.   Couple you don't even know about, but I'm giving you a night to sleep on   it. Now you get in touch with your old man and close his papers on me, or he's gonna find out he doesn't have a daughter anymore.  

[00:37:04] Unknown:

I didn't know about all this then.   I was too busy making the jump, which turned out to be easier than finding my way back to Naples and Lynn's hotel and   getting into it unnoticed.   It wasn't hard to see that Vic had it well staked out, but   4,000 lira got got me in the trash exit and another odd two up the service elevator to the right floor.   Not bad for a detente flight at American Bucks.  

[00:37:31] Unknown:

Who is it? You alone?  

[00:37:33] Unknown:

Lynn.  

[00:37:34] Unknown:

Yes?  

[00:37:36] Unknown:

Who is it? Bill. Let me in before the house dick picks me up for a peeping tom.  

[00:37:43] Unknown:

Bill,   is you? Oh, wait a minute.   Oh, Bill.  

[00:37:51] Unknown:

Oh, thank God. I mean, you know how glad I am. Sure. How glad I am. You're hey. Listen. Let's close the door before the house clerk raises the room rent.  

[00:38:00] Unknown:

Oh, you're just the most beautiful thing I ever saw.  

[00:38:04] Unknown:

Well,   you still are the same for me.   Maybe you'd better let me in on how you change your mind so fast.   I, won't go into the next fifteen minutes or hour or whatever it was, except that it brought us both up to date on a lot of things.   Nothing new for you on my side and   nothing that really matters from Lynn until a real whopper.   We've got a million things to do, but I happen to get lucky.   I got a friend who's a person on the Majestic with sales tomorrow from Naples, for Barcelona, Lisbon, and Madrid. He's holding two staterooms for us, one for you and one for Jake and me. Now all I've got to do is get Jake out of that warehouse.   I can get by Vic's watchdogs, but we gotta figure out also how to smuggle you out.  

Bill. Bill.  

[00:38:54] Unknown:

What? It's no good.  

[00:38:56] Unknown:

Oh, honey. This is no time to back out. If I can just get us all on board that boat safe and sound, we're all home free. No. You, me, Jake, even  

[00:39:05] Unknown:

even in spite of what they did to him,   but not dad.  

[00:39:10] Unknown:

Why not?  

[00:39:11] Unknown:

Oh, Bill. I'm so ashamed of myself.   I've been such a   a prime jerk. What a fool.  

[00:39:19] Unknown:

Okay. But now you've come to your senses. No. You don't understand.  

[00:39:23] Unknown:

Before I came to my senses, I was in Rome and   and Vic was in Naples.   And and there was some kind of court thing that kept him from going anywhere in Italy but here. Damn good thing. Kept him away from you. No. Except that he kept writing me letters and I You  

[00:39:42] Unknown:

you wrote him back.   What kind of letters?  

[00:39:46] Unknown:

That's what I'm ashamed of. I   I don't know what happened to me, Bill, but I lost a lot more than my heart over here.   Some of the things that   that I said in those letters,   I I wouldn't want anyone   to see again, not even  

[00:40:02] Unknown:

me. And he's threatening to release them to every punk magazine in Yellow Rag in The U. S. If you don't get Papa to come through with clearing him.  

[00:40:09] Unknown:

My papers for his papers. That's his threat.  

[00:40:12] Unknown:

Elaine, you are a dope.   Now, wasn't the name  

[00:40:16] Unknown:

of  

[00:40:18] Unknown:

wait a minute. What is it? Silent Stope.   A genius is at work.   You're sure you understand? Yes. It's your chance to wipe everything out, make up for every half big thing you've done.   Think you can pull it off? I better.  

[00:40:36] Unknown:

Uh-huh. Yes. But how can you trust a dope?  

[00:40:39] Unknown:

Well, because that's what you've got going for you. Oh, good. Vic still has every reason to think you're one. Thanks.   It's okay.   You're my favorite, dope.   So you got Tedesco's number,  

[00:40:52] Unknown:

Yes. It's Spezia   3.   No. No. I'm gonna do it all by myself for once.  

[00:40:57] Unknown:

Now remember,   not till 10:00   tomorrow night.   I've gotta get Jake and me out of the coop and have time to sneak aboard.  

[00:41:06] Unknown:

Aboard. Pronto.  

[00:41:08] Unknown:

Vic,  

[00:41:09] Unknown:

it's Lynn. Oh, hello, Lynn.   Keeping pretty late hours,  

[00:41:13] Unknown:

I just got through calling dad,   and I I told him everything.  

[00:41:18] Unknown:

So what do I expect? The marine landing to rescue you, the CIA, the local politician? No. He's agreed to what you want.   Everything. Only one way, baby.   I want him here. I want a piece of paper from him in his handwriting with witnesses.  

[00:41:33] Unknown:

You can have it tomorrow.   How?   Well, there's some   gossip circulating around Washington about us already.   So dad booked me a passage on the Majestic sailing from here tomorrow night in the name of Beth Chalmers.  

[00:41:48] Unknown:

So   you think I'd let you leave just just like that? No. Dad's flying in secretly  

[00:41:54] Unknown:

later today.   He's hitching a ride with the m a t s. And from the military airport, he'll get down here by helicopter.   He'll be in my cabin by 9PM.   You just bring the letters with you,   and and he'll make the deal.  

[00:42:09] Unknown:

What time does the boat sail?  

[00:42:11] Unknown:

Not till midnight.  

[00:42:13] Unknown:

Why not my place?  

[00:42:15] Unknown:

Oh, Vic, he he can't take a chance.   He's gonna be suppressing evidence.   Uh-huh.  

[00:42:21] Unknown:

Now why should should I take a  

[00:42:23] Unknown:

chance? What chance are you taking?   We're the ones.   Dad and me are caught in the sleeve. We've got to keep this under wraps.  

[00:42:33] Unknown:

Okay, baby. You got a deal. But just remember, I'm not coming alone. I'll be there with plenty of protection.  

[00:42:40] Unknown:

Well, I'll leave visitor's passes for you at the gate.   It's Pier 12,   Cabin 24,   a deck,   10:00.  

[00:42:48] Unknown:

I'll make it four passes,   and I'll be there. Oh, I've  

[00:42:52] Unknown:

I've been so scared.  

[00:42:54] Unknown:

How can I thank you? I'm not coming for you, baby.   I'm coming to watch the senator crawl.  

[00:43:06] Unknown:

He's coming.  

[00:43:07] Unknown:

You brought it all. With three of his gunmen. We'll take care of them and you. Oh, I don't know, Bill. I   I feel  

[00:43:15] Unknown:

somehow so dirty. No. It's a dirty league, and this linen couldn't be washed in public.   Now, I gotta get back to jail before they know I'm on the loose. See you on the boat. Oh,   by the way, you have an extra pair of pantyhose you could lend me?   If the situation hadn't been so tense, I could have laughed out loud at the expression on Lynn's face.   But there wasn't time for anything except what had to be done.   I sneaked out of hotel the same way I got in,   carrying with me the pantyhose,   two oval bars of linz scented soap, and a coil of rope from one of the fire stations.   I spotted what looked like one of Vic's men at the back door,   hid in the shadows,   until he stopped to light a cigarette turning away into the wind.  

And I was around the corner and gone,   back to the warehouse in my career as a prisoner.   Jake.   Jake.   That's you, Bill?   Yeah.   Look out.   There's a rope coming through the skylight. Okay.   Got it.   Pull it tight and hitch it to something solid. I'm coming across some   back   end. After I got in   from Jake's shoulders, I hitched the noose in the rope after a couple of flips from where I had it around one of the foot parts on the power pole.   I headed under one of the beds. I'd need it later to lower Jake with his bad hand.   I'd go out the same way as I had tonight.  

With the soap bar and the legs of the pantyhose, we had two blackjacks.   We hid those safely.   Now all we had to do was wait  

[00:44:58] Unknown:

out   the   day   and  

[00:45:02] Unknown:

act   like   model   prisoners.  

[00:45:05] Unknown:

Well, will you look at the two dukes sleeping like they was babes?   Hey, wake up, you bums. Oh,  

[00:45:13] Unknown:

bueno,   Guillermo.  

[00:45:15] Unknown:

Okay. Cut out the humor.   I bought you both some grub.   And this here's Tonio.   He and a friend will bring you a dinner around six.   Then guess what?   There's a file and a cake you bake. Like I said, a clown.   This time, you ain't beating your gums. Out of the goodness of the boss' heart,   You'll all be on your own tomorrow morning.   Well, in case I shouldn't see you again,   ciao.   Come on, Tony.  

[00:45:46] Unknown:

You may not see me, Willie,   but you'll hear from me.  

[00:45:55] Unknown:

Antonio heard the first bells that night as he bought our food.   A bar of soap in the toe of a sock is as effective as it's safe.   It worked equally well on the two uglies Vic left behind in the dock.   Jake told me later.   By that time, I was already in Lynn's cabin waiting behind the door.  

[00:46:21] Unknown:

Vic.   Oh,  

[00:46:23] Unknown:

I was afraid you wouldn't get here. Wouldn't have missed it. 10 on the nose.  

[00:46:28] Unknown:

You have the letters?  

[00:46:29] Unknown:

Right here.  

[00:46:31] Unknown:

Oh, good. Then come on in. Meet my father.  

[00:46:34] Unknown:

Got your rod, Willie?  

[00:46:35] Unknown:

Yeah. I think we'll just let Willie check things out first. Alright? Go ahead. You can trust him to keep his mouth shut. What?   Okay.   There ain't   Okay. There ain't nobody else here. That's what you think.   Double cross. Don't move toward his gun, Desmond. I got one too.   I'd like to ram it right down your lying little throat, sweetheart.   Alright. Now the three of us are just gonna stroll out real casually.   And this time, no surprises. Oh,  

[00:47:08] Unknown:

Jake. Hi, miss Winstead.   Long time no see.  

[00:47:12] Unknown:

I don't think I hit Willie quite hard enough, Jake. Would you like to do the honors? With pleasure.  

[00:47:19] Unknown:

Didn't I tell you your ugly spout pain you'd be hearing for me again?  

[00:47:29] Unknown:

Oh, Bill.   It feels so fresh and clean.   I feel as if I'd just broken out of a spider  

[00:47:37] Unknown:

web. Nothing like a sea breeze to blow away all kinds of cobwebs.   I wonder how Vic and Willie are enjoying the voyage.   Are they actually under arrest? That was the whole plan.   Beyond the three mile limit, this ship becomes American soil. The grand jury issued the warrant yesterday, and technically, the captain can execute that warrant now.  

[00:47:56] Unknown:

And what about Willie?  

[00:47:58] Unknown:

Well, he's a stowaway,   and he's got a record a mile long. By the time we get home, they'll be rearrested, convicted, and clapped in jail where they belong. Let's   clapped   in   jail where they belong. Let's forget about them. But  

[00:48:09] Unknown:

how could you ever forgive me   or forget?  

[00:48:13] Unknown:

Well, we made up the story that your father was going to be here when he wasn't.   Let's say the letters and all the rest   never happened either.  

[00:48:23] Unknown:

I don't deserve to get out of trouble so easily.  

[00:48:28] Unknown:

Who said you did, lady?   You don't know the trouble you're headed for.  

[00:48:40] Unknown:

Jake, keeping a faithful watch dog's eye on them from behind a ventilator,   turns away.   A nice looking couple, he's thinking.  

[00:48:48] Unknown:

Won't the senator be pleased?  

[00:48:50] Unknown:

And what the hell he says to himself,   it was worth it all to have a finger in the pie.   I'll be back shortly.  

[00:49:02] Unknown:

There's a fresh new spirit sweeping the land. A free spirit that demands good products.   Products that satisfy your sense of good taste and desire for economy.   But above all, products that perform.   Buick has been touched by this spirit. And this year, our crispy designed solidly built Buicks will bring joy even to the most demanding of free spirits.   The nineteen seventy five Buicks,   dedicated to the free spirit in just about everywhere.  

[00:49:30] Unknown:

A variety of assistance is available to the blind.   Rehabilitation   and library services can be had in every part of the nation.   Cash payments for the needy and training and skills and techniques.   You can help.   For information,   contact your local affiliate of the National Federation of the Blind or write me, Kenneth Jernigan,   president, National Federation of the Blind, two eighteen   Randolph Hotel   Building, Des Moines,   Iowa five zero three zero nine.  

[00:50:12] Unknown:

By the time Lynn and Bill had gone below for a nightcap,   Jake had circled around   and taken their place at the rail.   Putting one arm along it, he could almost feel the wraith of his own Sheila,   warm and loving, nestling in it.   The lord taketh away,   but the lord giveth.   Lynn and Bill were his children,   and the senator was his   well, well, why not his father?   Wasn't that the name they gave the first president?   Our cast included Michael Wager, Marion Seltis, Larry Haines, Dan Ako, and Ken Harvey.   The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.   Now a preview of our next tale.  



[00:51:01] Unknown:

She was a priestess   in the Temple Of Apollo   at Delphi,   and she fell in love with me. Hey, Hey, pop pop. You you know the sun's getting hot out here. Maybe you ought to get inside. Anyhow, you you swallow a few grains, and you go into a deep trance. And when you come to or wake up, hundreds of years later.   Oh, Ray Vaughan. Now now make plans to break out, Augie. Quickly before they come for you. Go get your gold. Sure. Get the gold. And then where do I hide? You can hide anywhere.   A secluded spot, a a cave,   a forest,  

[00:51:38] Unknown:

a a desert. Yeah. Great. And what do I do for Chow? I'm trying to explain this, Auggie.  

[00:51:44] Unknown:

You don't eat. You don't drink. You don't have any wants. You you have no needs.   You're oblivious to cold, to heat, to rain, to to snow.  

[00:51:54] Unknown:

And in several hundred years, you come alive again. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated,   brewers of Budweiser,   and Buick Motor Division.   This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure   in the macabre.   Until next time. Pleasant  

[00:52:22] Unknown:

dreams?  

[00:52:33] Unknown:

WHCU FM Ithaca ninety seven point three.  

[00:52:55] Unknown:

For the past five years.  

[00:52:57] Unknown:

Once a month, their luncheon meetings weave social ties. I like people. I like to be with people. I work and  

[00:53:04] Unknown:

enjoy people. Friday afternoons bring a special treat to the senior citizens center in Ithaca. Mildred   gets a chance to pursue a pastime she had liked since she was a girl. I'm not much of a round dancer, but I like to square dance. There are 11 units of senior citizens in Tompkins County.   Total membership reaches 2,400,   and there are many activities to enjoy. Well,  

[00:53:27] Unknown:

I'm   quite a clobber. I belong to quite a few organizations.   In fact, this week, I've had meetings,   day meetings and   four or five night meetings.   And I am alone, so I like to get out and be with people.  

[00:53:45] Unknown:

The senior citizens council and center fill a void in many lives.   The United Way campaigners want to keep it that way.  

[00:53:55] Unknown:

CBS News. After remaining silent on the matter for years, Nelson Rockefeller has admitted that as New York governor, he was aware of a $100,000   payment to the state Republican committee by concessionaire   seeking a racetrack license. I'm Jim Kilpatrick reporting on the CBS Radio Network.   Answering questions submitted by CBS News, Rockefeller said he ordered then New York State Republican committee chairman, Judson Morehouse, to return the money. Rockefeller denies there was any wrongdoing   involved.   The $100,000   was returned on orders from Rockefeller,   but the contributors were allowed to keep the racetrack license, and the entire incident remained secret for six years.  

Rockefeller had refused publicly to confirm or deny knowledge of the $100,000   until just recently.   Former New York State Republican Committee chairman, Judson Morehouse, pleaded the Fifth Amendment when questioned about the payment by a New York grand jury.   Morehouse was convicted in an unrelated case and pardoned by Rockefeller in 1970.   One matter under study by congressional investigators   is a $100,000   loan by Rockefeller to Morehouse  

[00:55:05] Unknown:

one year after the racetrack incident. Rockefeller strongly denies any connection between the loan and the $100,000  

[00:55:16] Unknown:

detailed report on Nelson Rockefeller's income taxes today was given to congressional committees considering his vice presidential nomination.   The report was prepared by the IRS and the congressional joint committee on internal revenue taxation.   More after this.   Time magazine. What's in it for you this week? Harbor Story, Rhoda and Mary, Love and Laughs. A happy look at MTM Enterprises and its brightest stars, Valerie Harper and Mary Tyler Moore. Two beautiful clowns who double handed, says time, are bringing a new sophistication   back to television. Hurricane Rhoda may be the best thing to happen to Monday night since pro football. And Mary, whose life was once a string of situations without comedy, now practically owns Saturday night. Time takes you behind the scenes of a spectacular success to show you why on television,   all that glitters is not old. Also in time this week, three exclusive interviews with Leon Jaworski, Nelson Rockefeller, and Greek premier, Konstantin Karamanlis. In economy and business, the year that the building stopped. A wide ranging survey of the high cost of housing in America. And on the first anniversary of the Arab oil embargo, two new studies of oil imports that strike a surprising note of long range optimism. It's all there this week in time. Pick up a copy. For time makes everything more interesting. Including you.  

President Ford has come under strong criticism for his remarks in Oklahoma City yesterday in which he said heavy Democratic gains next month in congressional elections would threaten bipartisan   foreign policy and that world peace would be in jeopardy.   Criticism came from both Republicans and Democrats.  

[00:56:54] Unknown:

Connecticut Republican senator Lowell Weicker put it this way. Let me make this clear. And so far as this Republican is concerned,   everybody down there that I've talked to, they might have differing views, but gosh knows they want peace in this world. I don't think that's a valid issue, a valid issue at all.   I think we have a lot we can campaign on, but   that type of statement has a familiar ring in The United and I I don't like the ring.  

[00:57:22] Unknown:

Republican senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. Democratic senator Hubert Humphrey called the president's remarks an unfair and regrettable attack on the Democratic party. I recall that in 1970,  

[00:57:34] Unknown:

mister Nixon and mister Agnew tried to use the same scare tactics to help elect Republicans to congress.   And the American people then registered   their disapproval of this campaign technique when they went to the polls.   I think they are going to do the same thing again.  

[00:57:51] Unknown:

Senator Humphrey. White House news secretary Ron Nussin says mister Ford is surprised by the criticism.   Democrats   are a party of war.   FBI director, Clarence Kelly, says today the Bureau of Investigation   remains stumped in its search for Patricia Hearst. The newspaper, Harris, was abducted last February in California.   The Boeing aircraft company has confirmed the delegation of Soviet officials are in Seattle to discuss the possible purchase of Boeing seven forty sevens, but the company will say a little more. Boeing says says the talks are consistent with the June, Nixon, Bosnia of Moscow agreements, which call for a continuing orderly expansion of economic and technical cooperation   between the two countries.  

More after this.  

[00:58:36] Unknown:

At ADP,   we understand the importance of building the right team and offer the data insights to help. Just as importantly,   our AI technology helps you pay the team accurately.   Grow stronger with ADP.   HR talent, time, and payroll.