In this gripping episode, we delve into the aftermath of the Jonestown tragedy, where American forces are tasked with the grim responsibility of preparing the bodies of over 400 cult members for return to the United States. The episode highlights the logistical challenges and political tensions between the US and Guyanese governments during the evacuation process. Additionally, we explore the arrest of Larry Layton, a cult member charged with the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan and others, shedding light on the complexities of the Jonestown incident.
We also journey through a series of intriguing stories, including President Carter's diplomatic efforts with Egypt, the economic challenges faced by the US, and a peculiar tale of a Baptist minister's long journey on his knees to the White House. The episode takes a mysterious turn with the introduction of "The Grey Slapper," a woman who confronts a powerful politician, Anthony Pringle, with a slap, leading to a deeper exploration of morality, power, and the haunting presence of one's past self. This narrative weaves together themes of political intrigue, personal redemption, and the enduring struggle between idealism and reality.
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CBS News. American forces are preparing the bodies of more than 400 Jonestown, Guyana cult members for return to The United States. This is Doug Polling reporting on the CBS Radio Network. The Americans are doing their grim work wearing gas masks because of the growing danger of cholera at the jungle commune. From Georgetown, Guyana, CBS News Correspondent Steve Young has a report.
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Since their death by poison Saturday, the victims of the Jonestown suicide pact have been lying in the steamy jungle where they fell. A joint US Guyanese news conference announced tonight that the first forty bodies finally have been processed and helicoptered to the airport outside the Guyanese capital. It's expected that they'll be flown out of the country in the next few hours. Officials were unwilling to be pinned down to how long it will take to evacuate all of the bodies of the remaining victims. Repeatedly, officials came under fire from dozens of reporters convinced that stumbling blocks to unseen coverage have been established in order to cover something up.
US Officials denied that and also denied that less than friendly political relations between The US and Guyanese government have led to less than full Guyanese cooperation with the operation. Many of the questions were openly scornful of what many reporters from around the world judged to be a higher priority given to evacuating the dead and to searching for possible living survivors. Steve Young, CBS News, Georgetown, Guyana.
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Authorities there have arrested Larry Layton, a 32 year old cult member and charged him with the murder of congressman Leo Ryan and four other Americans in the Ryan party. The San Francisco Examiner says an eyewitness has named seven cult members as being in the ambush team that killed Ryan and the others. More news in a moment.
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I know what you're going to say. Here's Tony Randall again with still another commercial for Matusse Rose. Well, yes and no. I discovered something, friends, rather disturbing, and I must share it with you. I found out that many people don't even know there is a white Matusse wine. Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Being something of a wine aficionado myself, I assumed everyone knew about white Matus. The bright imported wine with a captivating charm all its own. But it seems that the Rose is so popular, whenever people hear the name Matus, they automatically think Rose. Imagine all the white wine lovers who thought there was no Matusse for them.
Oh, the rejection they must have felt. Now I know you've already stocked up on Matusse Rose for the holidays, but you're going to have to go out and get a bottle or two of white Matusse for your white wine lovers. For heaven's sake, haven't they suffered enough?
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Well, that's all I have to say on the subject. White Matus imported by Dreyfus Ashby and Company, New York, New York.
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President Carter today placed a telephone call to president Sadat of Egypt to urge Sadat to accept a compromise American proposal for an Egyptian Israeli peace treaty. One report on the call says mister Carter urged Sadat to agree to elections in the Palestinian West Bank and the Gaza Strip within a year and drop the short range election timetable the Israelis have rejected. Officially, the state department is saying The United States expects negotiations between Israel and Egypt to continue. White House inflation fighter Alfred Kahn appeared today before a house banking subcommittee to say that the effort is going to be a long one. Kahn said the entire country will have to cooperate as inflation is hurting everyone. There's nothing in this country today that is doing more to rend the fabric of our society than inflation itself.
And there's no use of our resources, no protection of special interests, however meritorious, that can be exempt from the closest possible examination in our struggle to combat it. Khan, incidentally, appears to have been engaging in an involuntary act of reducing government spending for about three weeks in his new job. He was not being paid. Somebody forgot to put him on the payroll, Khan said. I discovered yesterday my bank account is overdrawn. Senator Edward Kennedy and members of his family went to Arlington National Cemetery today and placed yellow roses on the graves of Kennedy's two slain brothers, John and Robert. It was fifteen years ago today in Dallas that president John Kennedy was assassinated. Now this.
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Our guest today, mister Selwyn Searle, is an advertising agency radio expert. Yes. I still have my original floor model. Mhmm. Is it true the average household has almost six radios? True. The average. That many. Yes. What do you like on radio, mister Searle? Goldfish bowl looks nice. Of course, the fish is dead, then I recommend a bowling program. I mean, what advertising campaigns do you like on radio? Like, oxy Oxy five became the number one skin treatment item in America with a big assist from radio. It's not a fact. Or take mailgram. Yes, take mailgram. Radio was the dominant medium in establishing mailgram as the forerunner of electronic mail. Electronic mail. Mhmm. Or Time Magazine. Time, yes. Mhmm. Since they began their current radio campaign, Time Magazine's advertising and circulation revenue have never been higher. I've heard Time's Yes, sir. They were created by Dick and John. Jane love their books. Yeah. Bert. Shane and Bert love their books too. Yeah. Mister Searle, either a, you're an imposter or b, you know nothing about radio.
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I choose a. What? I'm sorry. What is b again? Oh. To learn how radio can sell for you, ask this station for the radio fact book, furnished by the radio advertising bureau.
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A Baptist minister from Marshall, Texas today ended an unusual feat that lasted for two and a half years. Hans Mulliken crawled on his knees for 1,600 miles to the gates of the White House, where he was turned away in his quest to see president Carter. Mulliken said he just wanted to shake the president's hand and tell him he's praying for him. Asked why he made the long journey by crawling, Mulligan said, I just wanted to show America that we need to get on our knees and repent. He added with a smile, a lot of people think I'm crazy. Doug Colling, CBS News.
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KTV news time, 10:06. The weather forecast for the Pittsburgh area, cloudy tonight right through Friday with occasional rain on Thursday and Thursday night. It's possible the rain may begin late tonight. But not an overnight low tonight in the upper thirties in the Pittsburgh area. High tomorrow near 50 Thanksgiving Day. Low tomorrow night in the low forties. There's a chance of more showers again on Friday. Friday's high in the upper forties. Chance of precipitation 30% tonight, up to 80% tomorrow and tomorrow night. The extended outlook calls for partly cloudy skies on Saturday.
Chance of more showers back again on Sunday. Highs in the forties with lows from the upper twenties to mid thirties each day. Right now in Pittsburgh, the barometer is steady at 30.26 inches of mercury. Winds are from the Northeast at seven miles per hour. Relative humidity, 82%. At the airport, cloudy skies, 39 degrees. In Downtown Pittsburgh, cloudy as well, and we have a temperature of 40. Now CBS Mystery Theater.
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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents
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Come in.
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Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. Has God forgotten all I have done for him? Exclaimed an exasperated king Louis the fourteenth on an unhappy day when his army was defeated in battle. We may smile at such a remark, but we might do better to learn from it because it teaches us that there are people in this world who expect to be paid in full for every kindness they extend, and that there comes a day when they will present the bill to everyone and anyone, whether here below or up above.
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Now, miss, Morrison, what can I do for you? Nothing.
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I've come here to save your life.
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I had no idea it was in danger.
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A man intends to kill you. His name is Anthony Pringle.
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What did you say his name was? Anthony Pringle. But I'm Anthony Pringle. I know,
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but that doesn't change anything.
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Our mystery drama, The Grey Slapper, was written especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dann and stars Carole Teitel and Gordon Heath. It is sponsored in part by Contact, the twelve hour cold capsule. I'll be back shortly with Act One.
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I want that sinus medicine. Headache tablet? No. It relieves headache and congestion, internal sinus pressure, and post nasal drip. And it has added strength. You mean added strength sign off.
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Exactly. Added strength sign off tablets give you pure aspirin plus 50% more sinus drainer. To help sinus pain while you drain. Right. And more sinus dryer for post nasal drip. Added strength sign off. The sinus medicine in the bright red box. Take when needed only as directed. S I n e o f f.
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Sign off.
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You can't beat the clock, and right now, the clock is running again. Every sixty seconds, another American is diagnosed diabetic. Today, ten million Americans have diabetes. A newborn child runs a twenty percent chance of developing diabetes during its lifetime. It's time to cure diabetes, and it's time we all help. Take a minute. Call your local American Diabetes Association. I'm Justin Owen, and I thank you.
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Hi. I'm Casey of of the Sunshine Band for the American Heart Association. You know, when you're young, we learn a lot of things, a lot of good things and some things that aren't so good. What's important is to be able to tell the difference. I'll give you an example. Some Some kids, when they're still pretty young, learn how to smoke cigarettes. They see their folks doing it or their friends tell them it's cool. But the fact is, it's not cool at all. It's dumb. Cigarette smoking is dumb. It cuts down on your wind. It spoils the taste of your food. Worst of all, the American Heart Association says it's bad for your heart. So if somebody offers you a cigarette, remember, there's nothing cool about putting a hot stick of tobacco in your mouth. If you want to find out more about cigarette smoking and what's wrong with it, ask your American Heart Association.
They're fighting for your life.
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If you can remember a song that went h a, double r, I g a n spells You're not as young as you used to be. There was also a saloon called Harrigan's, and there still is. Except old John Joseph Harrigan has gone to his reward, but there is a grandson named John Joseph still among us. And this watering place, as he likes to call it, was the home away from home for all the leading politicians in this beautiful town. Indeed, there were cynical people who insisted that every night, the city was for sale in Harrigan. At any rate, not too long ago, on a particular balmy evening, a slim, well dressed lady, neither young nor old, approached the bar.
Of course, ladies have never been exactly encouraged in Harrigan's even in these days. They do play the devil with a man's privacy. Good evening, ma'am. Yes. Good evening.
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Permit me to state, ma'am, that while you are as welcome as the very air we breathe, I must ask you to sit down at a table. Why? As to the why of it, we have a house rule. Unescorted female ladies are not permitted at the bar. Well, I'm only looking for someone.
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Yes? Yes. That, that rather distinguished looking gentleman at the end of the bar with the white hair and the trim meat mustache.
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Oh, mister Pringle.
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Yes. Anthony Edmund Pringle. Do you know mister Pringle? I know him very well indeed. Excuse me, mister Harrigan. Mister Pringle?
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Yes.
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I'm Dolly Morrison. Oh,
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do I know you, missus Morrison? Miss Morrison.
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Oh. You assumed quite naturally Oh.
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You assumed quite naturally that a woman of advanced age must be married. I would hardly say you're of advanced age. Thank you. But
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I am closer to winter than to spring. Shall we say Indian summer? Thank you again.
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And now what may I do for you, miss Morrison? Do for me? Yes. Of course. Oh.
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You think I've approached you for a favor? Well, yes. A political favor.
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All favors are political. Yes. That's the moralist in you speaking. Oh, it's been a long time since anyone called me a moralist. Didn't you say once
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that politics is a matter of morality? Did I ever say that? I remember it so well. You said, those who would separate politics from morality could never hope to truly understand or practice either.
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I think I remember. Do you also remember,
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without morality, the people perish?
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Yes. But how do you remember?
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I never forgot. It's been so many years. And you don't remember Dolly Morrison? Dolly Morrison. The rather pale dark haired girl who sat in the front row? When I was teaching? Yes. When you were teaching political science at the City University.
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Of course. At night? Yes.
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At night.
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I remember.
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You were all such good students. We had to be. We worked during the day. College wasn't much fun for you, was it? Well, at least it was college. And we were ahead of our parents, most of us. They had to go to night school. We were going to night college.
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Miss Morrison. Dolly
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Morrison. We didn't have time to learn leisurely, to savor knowledge. What we needed so desperately were those pieces of paper, those documents which said we could go to law school or become teachers or accountants. Yes. I knew that. It was cut and dried and very intense. And now and then, some of us were lucky enough to encounter a teacher with the the gift to inspire and Oh, miss Morrison.
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You must let me buy you a drink. No. No. Thank you. Then, miss Morrison, ask me. Ask. Say it. Whatever it is, day and night, I am beset by those who seek my favors. Mister Pringle,
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I don't think you understand.
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I understand perfectly. You are a proud woman, and asking a favor does not come without effort, but ask. And if it is within my power, I shall joyfully what is it you want? An introduction? A job? Perhaps a smoothing of her
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path? An easing of her pressure? Is that what you think I want? I am completely at your service. You're not listening to me. Of course, I am. I did not come here to ask for a favor. You didn't. Is that what you thought?
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Of course. What else could I think? What else could you want? What
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else?
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Yes, miss Morrison. What do you want?
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Right now. I want to do just this. So
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what's the idea? Goodbye,
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mister Pringle. Hey. Hey, ma'am. You you can't. Tony, do you want me to call a cop? Dugan's just outside. No.
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No, John. Never mind. Let her go.
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What sort can she be? She come in here and it appeared butter, wouldn't melt in her mouth. What'd she slap you for? Was it, the usual reason?
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John, she didn't slap me for any reason that I know of.
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And now for some jottings from here and there and everywhere. He Who Gets Slapped. Yes. That's the title of a famous Russian play. And it's also descriptive of a little biplay that took place last evening at Harrigan, where you find the movers and shakers of our great city. The receiver of the slap or the slappee was perhaps the fastest mover and the hardest shaker in town, Toni Pringle. The slapper was an attractive lady dressed in gray who disappeared immediately. When pressed for details, Tony Pringle maintained what can be described as either a gallant or a discreet silence.
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Oh, turn him off. That's now funny.
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Have you seen the papers, Tony?
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I've seen the papers.
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The part of the state is having a self a veritable jubilee. Here's Mullins in a tribune. Who is the great slapper?
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A catchy phrase. The gray slapper. Mhmm.
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And be the making of Mullins too. Therefore, he'll be grateful to me? No. He'll be out to put you in prison. Mullins. After all I've done for him. Oh, I'm surprised to hear you say that, Tony. You should know better. Friend Mullins will become all puffed up with his own self importance, and so he'll no longer be satisfied with being just a reporter. Heaven help us. He'll want to become a journalist and win the Pulitzer Prize. He'll start muckraking and whistle blowing and making a general nuisance out of himself. Mullins? It's the first noteworthy thing he's ever reported.
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I cannot imagine why that woman would want to slap my face.
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You're still telling me you do not know who she is?
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It goes back many years. I was teaching school. She was one of my students.
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And did you give her a failing mark?
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As a matter of fact, I gave her the highest mark in the class.
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Ma'am, you know women. I'll tell you what I'll do, Tony. I'll say she just wandered in here drunk. And before I could ask her to leave, she made a spectacle of herself. I I don't know. You don't need this kind of embarrassing situation. Besides, she had to be drunk. How else can you explain it? Yes? Oh. Oh.
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It's you. Yes.
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A gray slapper. I'm not dressed in gray. No.
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Have you decided to become the red slapper? May I come in? If you promise not to slap me again.
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No. I didn't come here for that purpose. For what purpose have you come? I've come here to save your life. Oh? I can see you don't believe me.
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I have an idea. I'm going to hate myself, but alright. Come in.
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Very nice little place you have here. Far from the madding crowds in Noble Strife. How did you know where to find me?
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There are a few people know about this place.
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You told me about it. I told you. An important man like you, constantly surrounded. You need this little hideaway.
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Miss Morrison, you insist on talking in riddles and creating misery. First, you say you've come here to save my life. Second, you say I told you about this little retreat of mine. Now I insist that you illuminate both of these points for me. I shall.
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But first, why did you tell the media I was drunk? I didn't tell them. You permitted a lie to be told.
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There had to be some explanation for your gratuitous actions. But it wasn't true. I was not drunk.
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What's the difference? The difference is you slandered me. You told a lie. Miss Morrison, what do you want of me? You were willing to sell my reputation down the river for your own convenience. Can we come to the point? We've never left it. I am here to discuss what you have become.
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And And what you did to me is very much in character. I would have done nothing to you had you not slapped me. Now, why did you do it? Because I
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I had to come there to try to save you. And you were so blind,
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so deaf. Blind and deaf to what?
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What happened to you, mister Pringle? Stay on the point.
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How are you going to save me?
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It will be very difficult. And from what shall you save me? From whom?
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From yourself.
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Alright. What is it that I intend to do? Kill yourself. I see. That would be suicide. Technically, I suppose. Miss Morrison, I have absolutely no desire, no thought of doing away with myself. That isn't true. Now I remember you. You were very intense and very attractive. You haven't changed a bit.
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I have never met a man like you, that is in real life. Well, I I did meet men like you in books, brilliant men, men who could capture the soul and release the spirit. Are you saying that you fell in love with me? Yes. No schoolgirl crush? I was hardly a schoolgirl. I was out in the world and supporting myself.
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I'm without false modesty, miss Morrison. I knew I was good looking, smart. I had style. I knew most of the girls in my classes would fall in love with me, and most of them would get over it. I never did. I'm sorry, but I couldn't help it. I I never flirted with any of you. I never tried to lead any of you on. That's true, isn't it? Yes.
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But you you awaken me to the world. I'm still miss Morrison. You ruined all other men for me.
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I'm sorry.
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I believed in you.
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And then you made the inevitable discovery. Your idol has feet of clay. Yes. If you examine them closely,
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all of them do. I believe you stated the case. Idol. I never saw you as a lover. I always thought of you as an idol, a god. And so perhaps it wasn't love, but worship. Women as a ruler, very susceptible to this kind of thing.
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You must let me offer you some refreshment. I'm so happy you came. Are you? You realize what's happening to me? I am actually having a discussion with a civilized literate human being. Quite a change. From what? We haven't said one word about who's going to get the contract or the nomination or the judgeship.
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It's quite a change for you, isn't it?
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We are in the midst of a philosophical conversation which began with theology and shall range through morality and ethics. Since we've already discussed poetry, I'm sure we shall treat with literature, art, and music. Yes.
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You still have the old sparkle. Perhaps the basic instincts can somehow be revived. I said there was hope for you. He, of course, wouldn't hear of it. He? Yes. He claimed the change was irreversible.
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You say he,
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but who is he? The man who intends to kill you.
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But didn't you say, just before, that I'm going to kill myself? Exactly.
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That's why I'm here, to see if you can help me talk him out of it.
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At first blush, assuming, of course, that these days there are still people who actually blush, what she is saying doesn't seem to make any sense at all.
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However, if you think about it, you may divine a certain meaning.
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Like all mysteries, all you need is a key. The key here is a number, and the number is two. And that's all the hints you get until I return with the second act.
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I know what you're going to say. Here's Tony Randall again with still another commercial for Matusse Rose. Well, yes and no. I discovered something, friends, rather disturbing, and I must share it with you. I found out that many people don't even know there is a white Matus wine. Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Being something of a wine aficionado myself, I assumed everyone knew about white Matus. The bright imported wine with a captivating charm all its own. But it seems that the Rose is so popular, whenever people hear the name Matus, they automatically think Rose. Imagine all the white wine lovers who thought there was no Matus for them.
Oh, the rejection they must have felt. Now I know you've already stocked up on Matusse Rose for the holidays, but you're going to have to go out and get a bottle or two of white Matusse for your white wine lovers. For heaven's sake, haven't they suffered enough?
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Well, that's all I have to say on the subject. White Matusse imported by Dreyfus Ashby and Company, New York, New York.
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This is Irma Bombeck. What if I told you Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck lived in your neighborhood? What if I told you you could get a handyman who made house calls, free entertainment for your children, or check out Paul Newman for seven days? Trust me. All these things are possible at your public library. It houses one of the most complete lines of interest you'll find anywhere. Check out a how to book for your husband on making minor repairs around the house. Or if he doesn't like fiction, select one of his favorite sports. For the children, there are story hours and bike repair lessons and concerts.
If you're one of those women who is still trying to plow away through Guadalcanal diary, maybe you could use a master speed reading course. Your library could be the most important card in your billfold. I love it. My husband was at the library just last night. And when he came home, he said, hey, Irma. I was at the library, and all your books are in. That was so cruel.
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A public service message from the American Library Association. We look at some people and we say they never change, but that isn't true. Everybody changes even if it doesn't seem that way. After all, the scientists say that every six months, ninety percent of all the atoms in our body are completely replaced. Or is it after ninety months, six percent of us is brand new? What's the difference? The fact is that inside, things are happening. There's action, conflict. Nobody, nothing is ever really standing still.
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Let me see if I can sort this out, miss Morrison. What you're saying is that you've been having conversations with me. Yes.
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I, of course, am unaware of these conversations. The you that is in this room is unaware of the conversations.
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I shall try to follow this. There are times when I am not in this room, and I am talking to you. Yes. However, I don't know that this is happening. Therefore, there can only be one explanation. Yes. I am a synambulist. I walk in my sleep. I seek you out, and we talk. That is not the explanation. You mean there's another? Yes.
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I said the you that is in this room is unaware. The you that frequents Harrigan's saloon. The you that stalks the city hall, the state house, the national councils of the party, the you that is the mover, the shaker, the king maker. You flatter me. I merely describe you. I describe the you that is unaware. But there's another you. Is there? A 30 year old you who is eager, idealistic,
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honest, decent, hopeful. You are now describing the symptoms of a disease called youth. That's the you I speak with constantly.
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Oh. I caught that inflection. You think I'm crazy. Well, Admit it.
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Crazy? Normal. These are political definitions.
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I speak to him quite often.
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Him?
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Anthony Edmund Pringle. You probably do. You intend to sound sympathetic, but there is just the tiniest
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patronizing edge to your voice. Miss Morrison, I sympathize with you, and let me be truthful. This may seem like arrogant boasting. However, when I was young, attractive, I had almost unlimited idealism. I believed in justice, brotherhood, fairness. And you no longer do. I realize that these are not simple cut and dried affairs. I know now that men must give to get. That accommodation is the basic rule of life, that we only pass this way once. But, we digress. You fell in love with me. And with what you stood for? What you thought I stood for.
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And then I went into politics. I was so happy. I thought you would be the first of a new breed. And I disappointed you. Yes.
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I made excuses for you. I I tried to justify some of the things you did. And after a while, you could do that no longer. After a long while. You had a considerable investment in me, didn't you, miss Morrison? An investment of hope and emotion. Yes. And now it was lost. All of it. Yes. And so since you could no longer tolerate what I had become, a cheap cynical politician, you conjured up what I had been, the young idealist. This is what you believe. The 30 year old Anthony Edmund Pringle, lecturer in the humanities at the City University, actually exists for you.
You believe you see him and speak to him. How glibly you can spout the mail or the do it yourself instant
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psychology. So popular and so meaningless. If the young Tony still exists,
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if it's true that you see him and talk with him, tell him he cannot complain. If he doesn't like what he has become today, he himself chose the path. Only because you fooled him. You lied
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to him. Miss Morrison. Yes?
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I don't wish to be rude, but I must ask you to leave. Of course.
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I realize this has been difficult for you, but Tony is desperate. Please, miss Morrison. Listen to me. Tony intends to kill you unless Unless
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what?
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Unless I can convince him not to. I'm powerless without your help. You must make him believe that you can actually change. Tony despises what he has become in you. Let me tell him things will be different.
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Alright. Do that. Don't.
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Don't make the mistake of humoring me, of patronizing me. Tony is serious. And the latest piece of, of sheer, what what can I say, devil tree you propose? Devil tree? Yes. Deviltry. This monstrous betrayal of the public trust. What else can be can it be called if not deviltry?
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There are any number of words you might have used. Why deviltry?
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And what are you talking about?
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Please consider what I said. It's not too late.
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Welcome, stranger.
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Nice, quiet evening, John.
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I must say you're not looking well, Tony. What have you been doing? Thinking. Dangerous pastime.
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When you were young, John, what did you want to become?
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When I was young,
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no one ever asked me. What did you want for yourself?
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As soon as I could walk, I had to assist my old gentleman in the running of this year, Oasis.
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Is that what the young John Joseph Harrigan wanted? To attend bar and saloon?
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Yes. That's what the young John Joseph wanted.
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Then today, if he confronted you, he would have no quarrel with what you are.
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None. Is this leading to where I may safely assume it is? Yes. I see. Well, is the young Anthony Edmund Friel disturbing the peace of mind of the older one who stands here before me?
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In the confidentiality of this bar, I confess that the young Tony and I, not at peace with each other.
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What's the trouble, Tony? Who said there was any trouble? You're a thinking man, and thinking has been the ruination of many a politician. I remember you and you coming to this place for the first time thirty years ago. You had the common touch. You'll go far, I said. And you did. Did I? You know you did. What were you, a teacher? You've been just fine for the party, Tony. And unlike a lot of them, you haven't been too bad for the people. You haven't done any real harm to the country as far as I can see. But what have I been for me? Each man answers
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that question for himself. If he dares.
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Tony, what's wrong?
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Why do you ask?
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It has something to do with that woman, doesn't it? What woman? Now you're pretending not to know.
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The Grey Slapper. Oh, what would she have to do with anything?
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You tell me. Well, of course, you don't have to. But, ever since that incident, something seems different about you. Different? In what way? Well, you're kinda moody. And sometimes you seem to be in another world. Some of the boys was remarking about it. Why did she slap you? Why?
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Because she was disappointed in me.
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Does she have a right to be? She thinks she does. Have you read Mullen in today's Tribune? Mullen's been bitten by the bog, pain or heed? Promise betrayed,
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the story of Anthony Edmund Pringle.
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Tony, when you can quote these things by heart, it's a bad sign. What has become of the eager, dewy eyed Anthony Edmund Pringle,
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who thirty years ago entered the lists? A Saint George to slay the dragon of corruption that strangles the life from the city. Has he become the dragon?
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And by the same token, we might inquire, what has become of young Jimmy Mullins, who is going to write the great American novel? Why is he only a reporter on a second rate newspaper?
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That's unfair. Fairness
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is a matter of postpositions at the racetrack. Donnie, you're a successful man. You've worked very hard. That's true. You haven't done everything you wanted, but who has? And there's an empty place in your heart. Yes. You played the game. You were interested in nothing else. And now you're 60, and all you have is the game. No wife. No kids. You're lonely. Yes. But that's the normal way to feel. Don't make more of it. I suppose you're right. It's easy for a man to feel down, to question, but then the thing to do is just go straight ahead. Straight ahead? That's been you all your life, Tony. You can't change your style now.
No. Millions of people know about Tony Pringle. Millions of people will give anything to be where Tony Pringle is. This is an invention of the devil. Hello? Is mister Pringle there? Who is this that wishes to speak with him? Tell him it's miss Morrison. Please hold the telephone. You want to speak with a miss Morrison? No. I'm very sorry, ma'am, but he's not here. This is very important.
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Tell him, please, that under no conditions is he to be part of the deal with mister Dahlgren.
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What? What is that you said? My my, what did you say? Hello? Hello?
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John, what's wrong? I, I don't know. This miss Morrison, what did she want?
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Tony, who is she? Who is miss Morrison? She's just some lady. Tony, do you know whose name she just spoke? No. The name, Tony. The name.
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What do you mean, a name?
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She said it. How could she?
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How would she know about it? Tell me exactly what she said.
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She said, and these are her exact words, tell him that under no conditions is he to be part of a deal with and then she spoke the name. Hey, Tony. Where are you going?
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It seems there's a name, and it seems there's a deal. And it also seems that there is great concern about various people finding out about it. And since this seems to be a story about politicians, it would appear that this is only more politics as usual, or is it? Well, that's why we have third acts.
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Take your contact. Take it now. Take your cold Yes. To contact. I'm gonna change your mind about nighttime cold medicine. You see, of all major medicines, only one works up to twelve hours against the cloggy virus symptoms that keep you awake. Only contact. One capsule's release stays with you all through a long night's sleep no matter what cold virus attacks you. Only contact. Take off me as directed.
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Love to go Christmas shopping even after a full day at the office. Office. Thing is, I hate carrying all that cash. Sometimes I think I need an armored car. Not this Christmas. I'm shopping differently. Thanks to Master Charge. It's so easy when all you have to carry is your
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Secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart keeps open house. My doors are widely flung. Yes. That's the attitude of the poet. The politician is another case, however. His secrets must be silent. His door closed. His window shuttered. His theme is expressed in a word that poets have absolutely no use for, discretion.
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It's you. We have to talk. About what? About a certain name you mentioned. We better not talk here. Why not? Because
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I'm expecting him. Expecting who? You know who.
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Let's end this trade. I'm coming in.
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He'll kill you if he finds you here.
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Answer this question. Who told you about Dahlgren? I'm trying to help you. Get away from here. Who told you? Does it matter? Tell me who told you. You did. I did. He did. What's the difference? Tell me that truth. Tell me your what? What do you know about Dahlgren?
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He's,
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a senator. Yes. What else do you know? I know
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that you and he have been on opposite sides for years. You've been bitter enemies. What else do you know?
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Now,
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I suppose I know everything.
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What's everything?
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You are going to support him for the nomination.
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Yes.
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He won't let you do it. Anthony Edmund Pringle won't let you do it. I've had enough.
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I am Anthony Edmund Pringle. Somehow,
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you got this information. No. There's an Anthony Edmund Pringle who is 30 years old and he'll kill you before you bring him to this ultimate disgrace.
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What ultimate disgrace? What's wrong with what I'm doing? Dahlgren is a scoundrel. He's not the only one. But he's the worst And for you to back him is the most cynical Well, do you know about it? Please.
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I want to help you. I have a very, very angry young man to pacify. But you have to help me. You just disavow this this Dahlgren person. I can't. Why?
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Because when you get to be where I am, you can't stand still. You must go forward. You have to be with the winner. Dahlgren will be the winner. Who's that?
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It's probably Anthony Edmund Pringle. Hello? Yes? No. He's he's not here. I don't know where he is. Yes. As soon as I find out. Goodbye. He knows about Dahlgren. What? Everybody knows about Dahlgren. It's in the papers. It's on the news. It's impossible. Would you like to hear it?
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Gentlemen, we are still with our special newscast concerning the greatest political bombshell of the decade, the Pringle Dahlgren Alliance. It all came to the surface as a result of a story in the Tribune by veteran reporter James Mullen. Mullen. These two former sworn enemies prove that anything is possible in the political arena. And as a team, now they are virtually unbeatable. As Mullen notes, there is, of course, a little matter of morality, but that won't bother too many people. Sorry, though. In the
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Have you heard enough? Mullen. It's the truth.
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Of course. Why should Dahlgren and I destroy each other? Doesn't it make sense to join forces? But how did Mullen find out? This wasn't supposed to break for another month. Call the broadcasting
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stations, the press. Hold a conference. Say it isn't true. In that way, he'll forgive you.
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You claim I told you? Yes. You did. Whatever it is, whatever game you're trying to play, it's not going to work. You know, you're an interesting lady. Oh, no.
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No. Not that. Not now. Years ago, there would have been a a point to it. A home, children, a whole life we might have made together. Now it's too late. And I don't like your newest friends.
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You're a very positive woman. That's your problem. And you're very convincing. That's my problem. You have a way of talking. It can almost make a man believe anything. Even this nonsense you've tried to peddle me about a young addition of myself that is still making the rounds. He intends to kill you. I confess. I I let it get to me somewhat. But it's because I've been under restrain. Well, it has been extremely interesting. And now if you don't mind, I must leave. Fight Dahlgren. Fight him. We have just become blood brothers. That should cement our relationship for at least this one campaign. It's the only way Anthony Edmund Pringle
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can be made to respect you. Good night, miss Morrison.
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When I think of what might have been
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Well, the words out. Did the Earth shake? Briefly. And then? And then people said words like master stroke. Brilliant strategy. Terrific tactics. Natural allies. Ah, you see? It has now become the normal and accepted
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state of affairs. And what do you think?
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As a friend,
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I would not have done it. I needed that big dramatic move. Of course.
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But you could have done better than Dahlgren. He was available. Time was not on my side. Well, what's done is done. Tony. Yes? There was a fellow in here looking for you. So what was his name? Well, he didn't say. Lots of folks are looking for me all the time. Yes. There is something different about this one. In what way? This may be a somewhat, delicate question, Tony. Did you ever have a son?
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John, I've never been married.
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You understand that is not a direct answer.
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The direct answer is no.
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The reason I say this, the fellow was about 25 or 30, and he was a dead ringer for you. He was? A carbon copy in every respect. The difference, he's half a lifetime younger and thinner, but he was you as you looked at the time,
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and I remember. He asked for me?
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Yes. Wanted to know if you were here. What did you tell him? What could I tell him? You're working. Then what did he do? I don't know. Try to remember. He well, he just disappeared into the crowd. He's never been in before. No. Donnie, is something wrong? He looked just like me. The image to the line. And he's looking for me. Yes. I just said he was. Tony, there's something wrong. I know it. I have to
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I should get away for a bit. I would certainly say so. I know I need a rest. You do. Where it's quiet. Where nobody knows me. Where nobody could find me. But where is such a place? Well,
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I have a little lodge up on the coast of Maine. Nobody's using it right now. John, I couldn't, You want to go where no one can find you? Here. I'll give you the keys.
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Don't go. You? What What are you doing here? Don't go. Don't go where? To Maine. How do you know I'm going to? He told me. Let's see. He's already gone there. He's waiting for you. Don't go yet.
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Let me talk to you first. What is there we can talk about? Besides we we can't talk here. Too many people will recognize me. You have to listen to me.
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Alright.
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Let's go to your place. Break the alliance with Dahlgren. I told you that's impossible. Why? Because I'm committed. I had to cut some throats to do this. I suppose you did. They would just as quickly have cut mine. Anyhow, there are certain breaches that cannot be healed at this time. Then
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I cannot help you. You must tell him. What can I tell him?
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Tell him how hard it was for me to just be a school teacher. Yes. Tell him that one morning you wake up and you suddenly realize you can have everything.
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I'll tell him. Tell him it's a drug. A drug.
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Power. It's the deadliest drug of all. The more you have of it, the more you need, and you can't give any of it up. You can't.
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I'll tell him.
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I know how he feels. I was like him once. You weren't
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like him. You were him. I can't change. I can't go back. I know it, and he knows it. And that's why he has to kill you. No. Please don't start that again. Because you have made nothing of his life. Nothing.
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I'm one of the most powerful people in this country. What have you done with his life?
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You filled it with with with tobacco smoke and tinsel. You've packed it with broken promises, with with greed and corruption. You have become prosperous by bringing out the worst in other men. No.
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No. You will have to die. Oh, no. Do you think I'll stand by and let him kill me? Who's that? You know who it is. Do you think I'll just stand still and let him kill me? I'm armed. I have a gun. See? Look. It won't help you. Let him in. Who does he think he is? Let him in. This insufferable two bit philosopher. He would have been different. He would have been able to withstand temptation. Did anyone ever tempt him? Let him in. I'm not afraid. Come on in. Let's look at you, Tony. You dare to look down on me. I've played golf with billionaires. I played poker with presidents.
Look at you in your threadbare trousers, patches on your corduroy sleeves. Look at me. Look at what I did for you. Thank me. Thank me. Wait. No. Don't look at me like that. Don't give away. I'll shoot. I swear I'll shoot.
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And now for the news. We know who the gray slapper is. She's miss Dolly Morrison. This evening, Anthony Edmund Pringle, companion of presidents, confidant of kings, and counselor to billionaires, was shot to death by her hand in her apartment. Evidently, it was a romance of long standing. The place is filled with his pictures, stories, and books about his long career. These things happened. He tired of her. She slapped him in public and later killed him. They say, and in this case, we found her.
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You want to know what I think? I would say there was more here than meets the eye. But exactly what it is, I cannot tell you. How about another? On the house?
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As usual in these affairs, we give a multitude of possibilities. The first is the story we tell you that his own youth killed him. Of course, it's possible that Dolly could have been playing a game or even John Harrigan or Tony's political enemies, or have you been inspired to come up with a solution of your own? This is all to the good, and we shall talk about it shortly.
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reservations.
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When I have a sore throat, I don't feel like myself. My throat feels raw and irritated. That's when I use Chloroseptic. Chloroseptic helps me feel better because it helps block the pain of a sore throat. So when you get a sore throat, don't let it slow you down. Get relief with chloroceptive, and feel like yourself again, fast.
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Do you have a sight problem that prevents you from reading? Hi. This is Max Morath with news about Choice Magazine listening, a free service of the nonprofit Lucerna Fund. Six times yearly, Choice Magazine listening brings you eight hours of selections from leading publications on phonograph records. For information about a free subscription, write Listening Box 10, Port Washington, New York 11050. Remember, it's free. So write listening. Box 10, Port Washington, New York 11050.
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Consider some basic premises. If you are 50, what became of the you that was 25? You say, he grew older. But how can you prove it? Are we one person who ages, or are we an infinite multitude of people who live for a day or a week or a year and are then replaced? Impossible? Really? How many times have you said of somebody, why he's simply not the same person? Our cast included Carol Teitel, Gordon Heath, and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre.
Until next time. Pleasant dreams?
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In the time before AT and T fiber Internet.
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Shame. Shame. Shame.
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What did you do, love? I ran out of Internet data. And they're making you shame walk. No. It's just how I feel. Shame. Shame.
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In the time after AT and T fiber Internet. Nice to have unlimited Internet data. Right? Right. The dawn of a better Internet era with AT and T Fiber. Limited availability in select areas. Check eligibility at att.com/getfiber.
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CBS News. American forces are preparing the bodies of more than 400 Jonestown, Guyana cult members for return to The United States. This is Doug Polling reporting on the CBS Radio Network. The Americans are doing their grim work wearing gas masks because of the growing danger of cholera at the jungle commune. From Georgetown, Guyana, CBS News Correspondent Steve Young has a report.
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Since their death by poison Saturday, the victims of the Jonestown suicide pact have been lying in the steamy jungle where they fell. A joint US Guyanese news conference announced tonight that the first forty bodies finally have been processed and helicoptered to the airport outside the Guyanese capital. It's expected that they'll be flown out of the country in the next few hours. Officials were unwilling to be pinned down to how long it will take to evacuate all of the bodies of the remaining victims. Repeatedly, officials came under fire from dozens of reporters convinced that stumbling blocks to unseen coverage have been established in order to cover something up.
US Officials denied that and also denied that less than friendly political relations between The US and Guyanese government have led to less than full Guyanese cooperation with the operation. Many of the questions were openly scornful of what many reporters from around the world judged to be a higher priority given to evacuating the dead and to searching for possible living survivors. Steve Young, CBS News, Georgetown, Guyana.
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Authorities there have arrested Larry Layton, a 32 year old cult member and charged him with the murder of congressman Leo Ryan and four other Americans in the Ryan party. The San Francisco Examiner says an eyewitness has named seven cult members as being in the ambush team that killed Ryan and the others. More news in a moment.
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I know what you're going to say. Here's Tony Randall again with still another commercial for Matusse Rose. Well, yes and no. I discovered something, friends, rather disturbing, and I must share it with you. I found out that many people don't even know there is a white Matusse wine. Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Being something of a wine aficionado myself, I assumed everyone knew about white Matus. The bright imported wine with a captivating charm all its own. But it seems that the Rose is so popular, whenever people hear the name Matus, they automatically think Rose. Imagine all the white wine lovers who thought there was no Matusse for them.
Oh, the rejection they must have felt. Now I know you've already stocked up on Matusse Rose for the holidays, but you're going to have to go out and get a bottle or two of white Matusse for your white wine lovers. For heaven's sake, haven't they suffered enough?
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Well, that's all I have to say on the subject. White Matus imported by Dreyfus Ashby and Company, New York, New York.
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President Carter today placed a telephone call to president Sadat of Egypt to urge Sadat to accept a compromise American proposal for an Egyptian Israeli peace treaty. One report on the call says mister Carter urged Sadat to agree to elections in the Palestinian West Bank and the Gaza Strip within a year and drop the short range election timetable the Israelis have rejected. Officially, the state department is saying The United States expects negotiations between Israel and Egypt to continue. White House inflation fighter Alfred Kahn appeared today before a house banking subcommittee to say that the effort is going to be a long one. Kahn said the entire country will have to cooperate as inflation is hurting everyone. There's nothing in this country today that is doing more to rend the fabric of our society than inflation itself.
And there's no use of our resources, no protection of special interests, however meritorious, that can be exempt from the closest possible examination in our struggle to combat it. Khan, incidentally, appears to have been engaging in an involuntary act of reducing government spending for about three weeks in his new job. He was not being paid. Somebody forgot to put him on the payroll, Khan said. I discovered yesterday my bank account is overdrawn. Senator Edward Kennedy and members of his family went to Arlington National Cemetery today and placed yellow roses on the graves of Kennedy's two slain brothers, John and Robert. It was fifteen years ago today in Dallas that president John Kennedy was assassinated. Now this.
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Our guest today, mister Selwyn Searle, is an advertising agency radio expert. Yes. I still have my original floor model. Mhmm. Is it true the average household has almost six radios? True. The average. That many. Yes. What do you like on radio, mister Searle? Goldfish bowl looks nice. Of course, the fish is dead, then I recommend a bowling program. I mean, what advertising campaigns do you like on radio? Like, oxy Oxy five became the number one skin treatment item in America with a big assist from radio. It's not a fact. Or take mailgram. Yes, take mailgram. Radio was the dominant medium in establishing mailgram as the forerunner of electronic mail. Electronic mail. Mhmm. Or Time Magazine. Time, yes. Mhmm. Since they began their current radio campaign, Time Magazine's advertising and circulation revenue have never been higher. I've heard Time's Yes, sir. They were created by Dick and John. Jane love their books. Yeah. Bert. Shane and Bert love their books too. Yeah. Mister Searle, either a, you're an imposter or b, you know nothing about radio.
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I choose a. What? I'm sorry. What is b again? Oh. To learn how radio can sell for you, ask this station for the radio fact book, furnished by the radio advertising bureau.
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A Baptist minister from Marshall, Texas today ended an unusual feat that lasted for two and a half years. Hans Mulliken crawled on his knees for 1,600 miles to the gates of the White House, where he was turned away in his quest to see president Carter. Mulliken said he just wanted to shake the president's hand and tell him he's praying for him. Asked why he made the long journey by crawling, Mulligan said, I just wanted to show America that we need to get on our knees and repent. He added with a smile, a lot of people think I'm crazy. Doug Colling, CBS News.
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KTV news time, 10:06. The weather forecast for the Pittsburgh area, cloudy tonight right through Friday with occasional rain on Thursday and Thursday night. It's possible the rain may begin late tonight. But not an overnight low tonight in the upper thirties in the Pittsburgh area. High tomorrow near 50 Thanksgiving Day. Low tomorrow night in the low forties. There's a chance of more showers again on Friday. Friday's high in the upper forties. Chance of precipitation 30% tonight, up to 80% tomorrow and tomorrow night. The extended outlook calls for partly cloudy skies on Saturday.
Chance of more showers back again on Sunday. Highs in the forties with lows from the upper twenties to mid thirties each day. Right now in Pittsburgh, the barometer is steady at 30.26 inches of mercury. Winds are from the Northeast at seven miles per hour. Relative humidity, 82%. At the airport, cloudy skies, 39 degrees. In Downtown Pittsburgh, cloudy as well, and we have a temperature of 40. Now CBS Mystery Theater.
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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents
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Come in.
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Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. Has God forgotten all I have done for him? Exclaimed an exasperated king Louis the fourteenth on an unhappy day when his army was defeated in battle. We may smile at such a remark, but we might do better to learn from it because it teaches us that there are people in this world who expect to be paid in full for every kindness they extend, and that there comes a day when they will present the bill to everyone and anyone, whether here below or up above.
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Now, miss, Morrison, what can I do for you? Nothing.
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I've come here to save your life.
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I had no idea it was in danger.
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A man intends to kill you. His name is Anthony Pringle.
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What did you say his name was? Anthony Pringle. But I'm Anthony Pringle. I know,
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but that doesn't change anything.
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Our mystery drama, The Grey Slapper, was written especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dann and stars Carole Teitel and Gordon Heath. It is sponsored in part by Contact, the twelve hour cold capsule. I'll be back shortly with Act One.
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I want that sinus medicine. Headache tablet? No. It relieves headache and congestion, internal sinus pressure, and post nasal drip. And it has added strength. You mean added strength sign off.
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Exactly. Added strength sign off tablets give you pure aspirin plus 50% more sinus drainer. To help sinus pain while you drain. Right. And more sinus dryer for post nasal drip. Added strength sign off. The sinus medicine in the bright red box. Take when needed only as directed. S I n e o f f.
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You can't beat the clock, and right now, the clock is running again. Every sixty seconds, another American is diagnosed diabetic. Today, ten million Americans have diabetes. A newborn child runs a twenty percent chance of developing diabetes during its lifetime. It's time to cure diabetes, and it's time we all help. Take a minute. Call your local American Diabetes Association. I'm Justin Owen, and I thank you.
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Hi. I'm Casey of of the Sunshine Band for the American Heart Association. You know, when you're young, we learn a lot of things, a lot of good things and some things that aren't so good. What's important is to be able to tell the difference. I'll give you an example. Some Some kids, when they're still pretty young, learn how to smoke cigarettes. They see their folks doing it or their friends tell them it's cool. But the fact is, it's not cool at all. It's dumb. Cigarette smoking is dumb. It cuts down on your wind. It spoils the taste of your food. Worst of all, the American Heart Association says it's bad for your heart. So if somebody offers you a cigarette, remember, there's nothing cool about putting a hot stick of tobacco in your mouth. If you want to find out more about cigarette smoking and what's wrong with it, ask your American Heart Association.
They're fighting for your life.
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If you can remember a song that went h a, double r, I g a n spells You're not as young as you used to be. There was also a saloon called Harrigan's, and there still is. Except old John Joseph Harrigan has gone to his reward, but there is a grandson named John Joseph still among us. And this watering place, as he likes to call it, was the home away from home for all the leading politicians in this beautiful town. Indeed, there were cynical people who insisted that every night, the city was for sale in Harrigan. At any rate, not too long ago, on a particular balmy evening, a slim, well dressed lady, neither young nor old, approached the bar.
Of course, ladies have never been exactly encouraged in Harrigan's even in these days. They do play the devil with a man's privacy. Good evening, ma'am. Yes. Good evening.
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Permit me to state, ma'am, that while you are as welcome as the very air we breathe, I must ask you to sit down at a table. Why? As to the why of it, we have a house rule. Unescorted female ladies are not permitted at the bar. Well, I'm only looking for someone.
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Yes? Yes. That, that rather distinguished looking gentleman at the end of the bar with the white hair and the trim meat mustache.
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Oh, mister Pringle.
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Yes. Anthony Edmund Pringle. Do you know mister Pringle? I know him very well indeed. Excuse me, mister Harrigan. Mister Pringle?
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Yes.
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I'm Dolly Morrison. Oh,
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do I know you, missus Morrison? Miss Morrison.
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Oh. You assumed quite naturally Oh.
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You assumed quite naturally that a woman of advanced age must be married. I would hardly say you're of advanced age. Thank you. But
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I am closer to winter than to spring. Shall we say Indian summer? Thank you again.
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And now what may I do for you, miss Morrison? Do for me? Yes. Of course. Oh.
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You think I've approached you for a favor? Well, yes. A political favor.
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All favors are political. Yes. That's the moralist in you speaking. Oh, it's been a long time since anyone called me a moralist. Didn't you say once
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that politics is a matter of morality? Did I ever say that? I remember it so well. You said, those who would separate politics from morality could never hope to truly understand or practice either.
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I think I remember. Do you also remember,
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without morality, the people perish?
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Yes. But how do you remember?
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I never forgot. It's been so many years. And you don't remember Dolly Morrison? Dolly Morrison. The rather pale dark haired girl who sat in the front row? When I was teaching? Yes. When you were teaching political science at the City University.
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Of course. At night? Yes.
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At night.
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I remember.
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You were all such good students. We had to be. We worked during the day. College wasn't much fun for you, was it? Well, at least it was college. And we were ahead of our parents, most of us. They had to go to night school. We were going to night college.
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Miss Morrison. Dolly
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Morrison. We didn't have time to learn leisurely, to savor knowledge. What we needed so desperately were those pieces of paper, those documents which said we could go to law school or become teachers or accountants. Yes. I knew that. It was cut and dried and very intense. And now and then, some of us were lucky enough to encounter a teacher with the the gift to inspire and Oh, miss Morrison.
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You must let me buy you a drink. No. No. Thank you. Then, miss Morrison, ask me. Ask. Say it. Whatever it is, day and night, I am beset by those who seek my favors. Mister Pringle,
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I don't think you understand.
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I understand perfectly. You are a proud woman, and asking a favor does not come without effort, but ask. And if it is within my power, I shall joyfully what is it you want? An introduction? A job? Perhaps a smoothing of her
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path? An easing of her pressure? Is that what you think I want? I am completely at your service. You're not listening to me. Of course, I am. I did not come here to ask for a favor. You didn't. Is that what you thought?
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Of course. What else could I think? What else could you want? What
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else?
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Yes, miss Morrison. What do you want?
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Right now. I want to do just this. So
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what's the idea? Goodbye,
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mister Pringle. Hey. Hey, ma'am. You you can't. Tony, do you want me to call a cop? Dugan's just outside. No.
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No, John. Never mind. Let her go.
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What sort can she be? She come in here and it appeared butter, wouldn't melt in her mouth. What'd she slap you for? Was it, the usual reason?
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John, she didn't slap me for any reason that I know of.
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And now for some jottings from here and there and everywhere. He Who Gets Slapped. Yes. That's the title of a famous Russian play. And it's also descriptive of a little biplay that took place last evening at Harrigan, where you find the movers and shakers of our great city. The receiver of the slap or the slappee was perhaps the fastest mover and the hardest shaker in town, Toni Pringle. The slapper was an attractive lady dressed in gray who disappeared immediately. When pressed for details, Tony Pringle maintained what can be described as either a gallant or a discreet silence.
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Oh, turn him off. That's now funny.
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Have you seen the papers, Tony?
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I've seen the papers.
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The part of the state is having a self a veritable jubilee. Here's Mullins in a tribune. Who is the great slapper?
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A catchy phrase. The gray slapper. Mhmm.
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And be the making of Mullins too. Therefore, he'll be grateful to me? No. He'll be out to put you in prison. Mullins. After all I've done for him. Oh, I'm surprised to hear you say that, Tony. You should know better. Friend Mullins will become all puffed up with his own self importance, and so he'll no longer be satisfied with being just a reporter. Heaven help us. He'll want to become a journalist and win the Pulitzer Prize. He'll start muckraking and whistle blowing and making a general nuisance out of himself. Mullins? It's the first noteworthy thing he's ever reported.
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I cannot imagine why that woman would want to slap my face.
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You're still telling me you do not know who she is?
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It goes back many years. I was teaching school. She was one of my students.
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And did you give her a failing mark?
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As a matter of fact, I gave her the highest mark in the class.
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Ma'am, you know women. I'll tell you what I'll do, Tony. I'll say she just wandered in here drunk. And before I could ask her to leave, she made a spectacle of herself. I I don't know. You don't need this kind of embarrassing situation. Besides, she had to be drunk. How else can you explain it? Yes? Oh. Oh.
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It's you. Yes.
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A gray slapper. I'm not dressed in gray. No.
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Have you decided to become the red slapper? May I come in? If you promise not to slap me again.
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No. I didn't come here for that purpose. For what purpose have you come? I've come here to save your life. Oh? I can see you don't believe me.
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I have an idea. I'm going to hate myself, but alright. Come in.
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Very nice little place you have here. Far from the madding crowds in Noble Strife. How did you know where to find me?
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There are a few people know about this place.
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You told me about it. I told you. An important man like you, constantly surrounded. You need this little hideaway.
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Miss Morrison, you insist on talking in riddles and creating misery. First, you say you've come here to save my life. Second, you say I told you about this little retreat of mine. Now I insist that you illuminate both of these points for me. I shall.
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But first, why did you tell the media I was drunk? I didn't tell them. You permitted a lie to be told.
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There had to be some explanation for your gratuitous actions. But it wasn't true. I was not drunk.
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What's the difference? The difference is you slandered me. You told a lie. Miss Morrison, what do you want of me? You were willing to sell my reputation down the river for your own convenience. Can we come to the point? We've never left it. I am here to discuss what you have become.
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And And what you did to me is very much in character. I would have done nothing to you had you not slapped me. Now, why did you do it? Because I
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I had to come there to try to save you. And you were so blind,
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so deaf. Blind and deaf to what?
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What happened to you, mister Pringle? Stay on the point.
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How are you going to save me?
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It will be very difficult. And from what shall you save me? From whom?
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From yourself.
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Alright. What is it that I intend to do? Kill yourself. I see. That would be suicide. Technically, I suppose. Miss Morrison, I have absolutely no desire, no thought of doing away with myself. That isn't true. Now I remember you. You were very intense and very attractive. You haven't changed a bit.
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I have never met a man like you, that is in real life. Well, I I did meet men like you in books, brilliant men, men who could capture the soul and release the spirit. Are you saying that you fell in love with me? Yes. No schoolgirl crush? I was hardly a schoolgirl. I was out in the world and supporting myself.
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I'm without false modesty, miss Morrison. I knew I was good looking, smart. I had style. I knew most of the girls in my classes would fall in love with me, and most of them would get over it. I never did. I'm sorry, but I couldn't help it. I I never flirted with any of you. I never tried to lead any of you on. That's true, isn't it? Yes.
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But you you awaken me to the world. I'm still miss Morrison. You ruined all other men for me.
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I'm sorry.
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I believed in you.
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And then you made the inevitable discovery. Your idol has feet of clay. Yes. If you examine them closely,
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all of them do. I believe you stated the case. Idol. I never saw you as a lover. I always thought of you as an idol, a god. And so perhaps it wasn't love, but worship. Women as a ruler, very susceptible to this kind of thing.
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You must let me offer you some refreshment. I'm so happy you came. Are you? You realize what's happening to me? I am actually having a discussion with a civilized literate human being. Quite a change. From what? We haven't said one word about who's going to get the contract or the nomination or the judgeship.
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It's quite a change for you, isn't it?
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We are in the midst of a philosophical conversation which began with theology and shall range through morality and ethics. Since we've already discussed poetry, I'm sure we shall treat with literature, art, and music. Yes.
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You still have the old sparkle. Perhaps the basic instincts can somehow be revived. I said there was hope for you. He, of course, wouldn't hear of it. He? Yes. He claimed the change was irreversible.
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You say he,
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but who is he? The man who intends to kill you.
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But didn't you say, just before, that I'm going to kill myself? Exactly.
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That's why I'm here, to see if you can help me talk him out of it.
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At first blush, assuming, of course, that these days there are still people who actually blush, what she is saying doesn't seem to make any sense at all.
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However, if you think about it, you may divine a certain meaning.
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Like all mysteries, all you need is a key. The key here is a number, and the number is two. And that's all the hints you get until I return with the second act.
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I know what you're going to say. Here's Tony Randall again with still another commercial for Matusse Rose. Well, yes and no. I discovered something, friends, rather disturbing, and I must share it with you. I found out that many people don't even know there is a white Matus wine. Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Being something of a wine aficionado myself, I assumed everyone knew about white Matus. The bright imported wine with a captivating charm all its own. But it seems that the Rose is so popular, whenever people hear the name Matus, they automatically think Rose. Imagine all the white wine lovers who thought there was no Matus for them.
Oh, the rejection they must have felt. Now I know you've already stocked up on Matusse Rose for the holidays, but you're going to have to go out and get a bottle or two of white Matusse for your white wine lovers. For heaven's sake, haven't they suffered enough?
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Well, that's all I have to say on the subject. White Matusse imported by Dreyfus Ashby and Company, New York, New York.
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This is Irma Bombeck. What if I told you Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck lived in your neighborhood? What if I told you you could get a handyman who made house calls, free entertainment for your children, or check out Paul Newman for seven days? Trust me. All these things are possible at your public library. It houses one of the most complete lines of interest you'll find anywhere. Check out a how to book for your husband on making minor repairs around the house. Or if he doesn't like fiction, select one of his favorite sports. For the children, there are story hours and bike repair lessons and concerts.
If you're one of those women who is still trying to plow away through Guadalcanal diary, maybe you could use a master speed reading course. Your library could be the most important card in your billfold. I love it. My husband was at the library just last night. And when he came home, he said, hey, Irma. I was at the library, and all your books are in. That was so cruel.
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A public service message from the American Library Association. We look at some people and we say they never change, but that isn't true. Everybody changes even if it doesn't seem that way. After all, the scientists say that every six months, ninety percent of all the atoms in our body are completely replaced. Or is it after ninety months, six percent of us is brand new? What's the difference? The fact is that inside, things are happening. There's action, conflict. Nobody, nothing is ever really standing still.
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Let me see if I can sort this out, miss Morrison. What you're saying is that you've been having conversations with me. Yes.
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I, of course, am unaware of these conversations. The you that is in this room is unaware of the conversations.
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I shall try to follow this. There are times when I am not in this room, and I am talking to you. Yes. However, I don't know that this is happening. Therefore, there can only be one explanation. Yes. I am a synambulist. I walk in my sleep. I seek you out, and we talk. That is not the explanation. You mean there's another? Yes.
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I said the you that is in this room is unaware. The you that frequents Harrigan's saloon. The you that stalks the city hall, the state house, the national councils of the party, the you that is the mover, the shaker, the king maker. You flatter me. I merely describe you. I describe the you that is unaware. But there's another you. Is there? A 30 year old you who is eager, idealistic,
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honest, decent, hopeful. You are now describing the symptoms of a disease called youth. That's the you I speak with constantly.
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Oh. I caught that inflection. You think I'm crazy. Well, Admit it.
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Crazy? Normal. These are political definitions.
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I speak to him quite often.
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Him?
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Anthony Edmund Pringle. You probably do. You intend to sound sympathetic, but there is just the tiniest
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patronizing edge to your voice. Miss Morrison, I sympathize with you, and let me be truthful. This may seem like arrogant boasting. However, when I was young, attractive, I had almost unlimited idealism. I believed in justice, brotherhood, fairness. And you no longer do. I realize that these are not simple cut and dried affairs. I know now that men must give to get. That accommodation is the basic rule of life, that we only pass this way once. But, we digress. You fell in love with me. And with what you stood for? What you thought I stood for.
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And then I went into politics. I was so happy. I thought you would be the first of a new breed. And I disappointed you. Yes.
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I made excuses for you. I I tried to justify some of the things you did. And after a while, you could do that no longer. After a long while. You had a considerable investment in me, didn't you, miss Morrison? An investment of hope and emotion. Yes. And now it was lost. All of it. Yes. And so since you could no longer tolerate what I had become, a cheap cynical politician, you conjured up what I had been, the young idealist. This is what you believe. The 30 year old Anthony Edmund Pringle, lecturer in the humanities at the City University, actually exists for you.
You believe you see him and speak to him. How glibly you can spout the mail or the do it yourself instant
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psychology. So popular and so meaningless. If the young Tony still exists,
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if it's true that you see him and talk with him, tell him he cannot complain. If he doesn't like what he has become today, he himself chose the path. Only because you fooled him. You lied
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to him. Miss Morrison. Yes?
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I don't wish to be rude, but I must ask you to leave. Of course.
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I realize this has been difficult for you, but Tony is desperate. Please, miss Morrison. Listen to me. Tony intends to kill you unless Unless
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what?
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Unless I can convince him not to. I'm powerless without your help. You must make him believe that you can actually change. Tony despises what he has become in you. Let me tell him things will be different.
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Alright. Do that. Don't.
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Don't make the mistake of humoring me, of patronizing me. Tony is serious. And the latest piece of, of sheer, what what can I say, devil tree you propose? Devil tree? Yes. Deviltry. This monstrous betrayal of the public trust. What else can be can it be called if not deviltry?
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There are any number of words you might have used. Why deviltry?
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And what are you talking about?
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Please consider what I said. It's not too late.
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Welcome, stranger.
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Nice, quiet evening, John.
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I must say you're not looking well, Tony. What have you been doing? Thinking. Dangerous pastime.
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When you were young, John, what did you want to become?
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When I was young,
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no one ever asked me. What did you want for yourself?
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As soon as I could walk, I had to assist my old gentleman in the running of this year, Oasis.
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Is that what the young John Joseph Harrigan wanted? To attend bar and saloon?
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Yes. That's what the young John Joseph wanted.
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Then today, if he confronted you, he would have no quarrel with what you are.
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None. Is this leading to where I may safely assume it is? Yes. I see. Well, is the young Anthony Edmund Friel disturbing the peace of mind of the older one who stands here before me?
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In the confidentiality of this bar, I confess that the young Tony and I, not at peace with each other.
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What's the trouble, Tony? Who said there was any trouble? You're a thinking man, and thinking has been the ruination of many a politician. I remember you and you coming to this place for the first time thirty years ago. You had the common touch. You'll go far, I said. And you did. Did I? You know you did. What were you, a teacher? You've been just fine for the party, Tony. And unlike a lot of them, you haven't been too bad for the people. You haven't done any real harm to the country as far as I can see. But what have I been for me? Each man answers
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that question for himself. If he dares.
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Tony, what's wrong?
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Why do you ask?
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It has something to do with that woman, doesn't it? What woman? Now you're pretending not to know.
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The Grey Slapper. Oh, what would she have to do with anything?
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You tell me. Well, of course, you don't have to. But, ever since that incident, something seems different about you. Different? In what way? Well, you're kinda moody. And sometimes you seem to be in another world. Some of the boys was remarking about it. Why did she slap you? Why?
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Because she was disappointed in me.
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Does she have a right to be? She thinks she does. Have you read Mullen in today's Tribune? Mullen's been bitten by the bog, pain or heed? Promise betrayed,
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the story of Anthony Edmund Pringle.
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Tony, when you can quote these things by heart, it's a bad sign. What has become of the eager, dewy eyed Anthony Edmund Pringle,
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who thirty years ago entered the lists? A Saint George to slay the dragon of corruption that strangles the life from the city. Has he become the dragon?
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And by the same token, we might inquire, what has become of young Jimmy Mullins, who is going to write the great American novel? Why is he only a reporter on a second rate newspaper?
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That's unfair. Fairness
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is a matter of postpositions at the racetrack. Donnie, you're a successful man. You've worked very hard. That's true. You haven't done everything you wanted, but who has? And there's an empty place in your heart. Yes. You played the game. You were interested in nothing else. And now you're 60, and all you have is the game. No wife. No kids. You're lonely. Yes. But that's the normal way to feel. Don't make more of it. I suppose you're right. It's easy for a man to feel down, to question, but then the thing to do is just go straight ahead. Straight ahead? That's been you all your life, Tony. You can't change your style now.
No. Millions of people know about Tony Pringle. Millions of people will give anything to be where Tony Pringle is. This is an invention of the devil. Hello? Is mister Pringle there? Who is this that wishes to speak with him? Tell him it's miss Morrison. Please hold the telephone. You want to speak with a miss Morrison? No. I'm very sorry, ma'am, but he's not here. This is very important.
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Tell him, please, that under no conditions is he to be part of the deal with mister Dahlgren.
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What? What is that you said? My my, what did you say? Hello? Hello?
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John, what's wrong? I, I don't know. This miss Morrison, what did she want?
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Tony, who is she? Who is miss Morrison? She's just some lady. Tony, do you know whose name she just spoke? No. The name, Tony. The name.
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What do you mean, a name?
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She said it. How could she?
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How would she know about it? Tell me exactly what she said.
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She said, and these are her exact words, tell him that under no conditions is he to be part of a deal with and then she spoke the name. Hey, Tony. Where are you going?
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It seems there's a name, and it seems there's a deal. And it also seems that there is great concern about various people finding out about it. And since this seems to be a story about politicians, it would appear that this is only more politics as usual, or is it? Well, that's why we have third acts.
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Take your contact. Take it now. Take your cold Yes. To contact. I'm gonna change your mind about nighttime cold medicine. You see, of all major medicines, only one works up to twelve hours against the cloggy virus symptoms that keep you awake. Only contact. One capsule's release stays with you all through a long night's sleep no matter what cold virus attacks you. Only contact. Take off me as directed.
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Love to go Christmas shopping even after a full day at the office. Office. Thing is, I hate carrying all that cash. Sometimes I think I need an armored car. Not this Christmas. I'm shopping differently. Thanks to Master Charge. It's so easy when all you have to carry is your
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Secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart keeps open house. My doors are widely flung. Yes. That's the attitude of the poet. The politician is another case, however. His secrets must be silent. His door closed. His window shuttered. His theme is expressed in a word that poets have absolutely no use for, discretion.
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It's you. We have to talk. About what? About a certain name you mentioned. We better not talk here. Why not? Because
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I'm expecting him. Expecting who? You know who.
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Let's end this trade. I'm coming in.
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He'll kill you if he finds you here.
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Answer this question. Who told you about Dahlgren? I'm trying to help you. Get away from here. Who told you? Does it matter? Tell me who told you. You did. I did. He did. What's the difference? Tell me that truth. Tell me your what? What do you know about Dahlgren?
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He's,
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a senator. Yes. What else do you know? I know
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that you and he have been on opposite sides for years. You've been bitter enemies. What else do you know?
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Now,
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I suppose I know everything.
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What's everything?
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You are going to support him for the nomination.
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Yes.
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He won't let you do it. Anthony Edmund Pringle won't let you do it. I've had enough.
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I am Anthony Edmund Pringle. Somehow,
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you got this information. No. There's an Anthony Edmund Pringle who is 30 years old and he'll kill you before you bring him to this ultimate disgrace.
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What ultimate disgrace? What's wrong with what I'm doing? Dahlgren is a scoundrel. He's not the only one. But he's the worst And for you to back him is the most cynical Well, do you know about it? Please.
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I want to help you. I have a very, very angry young man to pacify. But you have to help me. You just disavow this this Dahlgren person. I can't. Why?
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Because when you get to be where I am, you can't stand still. You must go forward. You have to be with the winner. Dahlgren will be the winner. Who's that?
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It's probably Anthony Edmund Pringle. Hello? Yes? No. He's he's not here. I don't know where he is. Yes. As soon as I find out. Goodbye. He knows about Dahlgren. What? Everybody knows about Dahlgren. It's in the papers. It's on the news. It's impossible. Would you like to hear it?
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Gentlemen, we are still with our special newscast concerning the greatest political bombshell of the decade, the Pringle Dahlgren Alliance. It all came to the surface as a result of a story in the Tribune by veteran reporter James Mullen. Mullen. These two former sworn enemies prove that anything is possible in the political arena. And as a team, now they are virtually unbeatable. As Mullen notes, there is, of course, a little matter of morality, but that won't bother too many people. Sorry, though. In the
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Have you heard enough? Mullen. It's the truth.
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Of course. Why should Dahlgren and I destroy each other? Doesn't it make sense to join forces? But how did Mullen find out? This wasn't supposed to break for another month. Call the broadcasting
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stations, the press. Hold a conference. Say it isn't true. In that way, he'll forgive you.
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You claim I told you? Yes. You did. Whatever it is, whatever game you're trying to play, it's not going to work. You know, you're an interesting lady. Oh, no.
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No. Not that. Not now. Years ago, there would have been a a point to it. A home, children, a whole life we might have made together. Now it's too late. And I don't like your newest friends.
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You're a very positive woman. That's your problem. And you're very convincing. That's my problem. You have a way of talking. It can almost make a man believe anything. Even this nonsense you've tried to peddle me about a young addition of myself that is still making the rounds. He intends to kill you. I confess. I I let it get to me somewhat. But it's because I've been under restrain. Well, it has been extremely interesting. And now if you don't mind, I must leave. Fight Dahlgren. Fight him. We have just become blood brothers. That should cement our relationship for at least this one campaign. It's the only way Anthony Edmund Pringle
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can be made to respect you. Good night, miss Morrison.
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When I think of what might have been
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Well, the words out. Did the Earth shake? Briefly. And then? And then people said words like master stroke. Brilliant strategy. Terrific tactics. Natural allies. Ah, you see? It has now become the normal and accepted
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state of affairs. And what do you think?
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As a friend,
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I would not have done it. I needed that big dramatic move. Of course.
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But you could have done better than Dahlgren. He was available. Time was not on my side. Well, what's done is done. Tony. Yes? There was a fellow in here looking for you. So what was his name? Well, he didn't say. Lots of folks are looking for me all the time. Yes. There is something different about this one. In what way? This may be a somewhat, delicate question, Tony. Did you ever have a son?
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John, I've never been married.
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You understand that is not a direct answer.
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The direct answer is no.
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The reason I say this, the fellow was about 25 or 30, and he was a dead ringer for you. He was? A carbon copy in every respect. The difference, he's half a lifetime younger and thinner, but he was you as you looked at the time,
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and I remember. He asked for me?
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Yes. Wanted to know if you were here. What did you tell him? What could I tell him? You're working. Then what did he do? I don't know. Try to remember. He well, he just disappeared into the crowd. He's never been in before. No. Donnie, is something wrong? He looked just like me. The image to the line. And he's looking for me. Yes. I just said he was. Tony, there's something wrong. I know it. I have to
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I should get away for a bit. I would certainly say so. I know I need a rest. You do. Where it's quiet. Where nobody knows me. Where nobody could find me. But where is such a place? Well,
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I have a little lodge up on the coast of Maine. Nobody's using it right now. John, I couldn't, You want to go where no one can find you? Here. I'll give you the keys.
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Don't go. You? What What are you doing here? Don't go. Don't go where? To Maine. How do you know I'm going to? He told me. Let's see. He's already gone there. He's waiting for you. Don't go yet.
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Let me talk to you first. What is there we can talk about? Besides we we can't talk here. Too many people will recognize me. You have to listen to me.
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Alright.
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Let's go to your place. Break the alliance with Dahlgren. I told you that's impossible. Why? Because I'm committed. I had to cut some throats to do this. I suppose you did. They would just as quickly have cut mine. Anyhow, there are certain breaches that cannot be healed at this time. Then
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I cannot help you. You must tell him. What can I tell him?
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Tell him how hard it was for me to just be a school teacher. Yes. Tell him that one morning you wake up and you suddenly realize you can have everything.
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I'll tell him. Tell him it's a drug. A drug.
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Power. It's the deadliest drug of all. The more you have of it, the more you need, and you can't give any of it up. You can't.
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I'll tell him.
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I know how he feels. I was like him once. You weren't
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like him. You were him. I can't change. I can't go back. I know it, and he knows it. And that's why he has to kill you. No. Please don't start that again. Because you have made nothing of his life. Nothing.
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I'm one of the most powerful people in this country. What have you done with his life?
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You filled it with with with tobacco smoke and tinsel. You've packed it with broken promises, with with greed and corruption. You have become prosperous by bringing out the worst in other men. No.
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No. You will have to die. Oh, no. Do you think I'll stand by and let him kill me? Who's that? You know who it is. Do you think I'll just stand still and let him kill me? I'm armed. I have a gun. See? Look. It won't help you. Let him in. Who does he think he is? Let him in. This insufferable two bit philosopher. He would have been different. He would have been able to withstand temptation. Did anyone ever tempt him? Let him in. I'm not afraid. Come on in. Let's look at you, Tony. You dare to look down on me. I've played golf with billionaires. I played poker with presidents.
Look at you in your threadbare trousers, patches on your corduroy sleeves. Look at me. Look at what I did for you. Thank me. Thank me. Wait. No. Don't look at me like that. Don't give away. I'll shoot. I swear I'll shoot.
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And now for the news. We know who the gray slapper is. She's miss Dolly Morrison. This evening, Anthony Edmund Pringle, companion of presidents, confidant of kings, and counselor to billionaires, was shot to death by her hand in her apartment. Evidently, it was a romance of long standing. The place is filled with his pictures, stories, and books about his long career. These things happened. He tired of her. She slapped him in public and later killed him. They say, and in this case, we found her.
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You want to know what I think? I would say there was more here than meets the eye. But exactly what it is, I cannot tell you. How about another? On the house?
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As usual in these affairs, we give a multitude of possibilities. The first is the story we tell you that his own youth killed him. Of course, it's possible that Dolly could have been playing a game or even John Harrigan or Tony's political enemies, or have you been inspired to come up with a solution of your own? This is all to the good, and we shall talk about it shortly.
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