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It's refreshing and the good easy chewing gives you comfort and satisfaction So chew Wrigley's spearmint gum often every day millions enjoy it and you will do Now Wrigley's spearmint chewing gum brings you Luigi as he writes another letter describing his adventures in America to his mama Vasco in Italy Mamma Mia He went on off of a squally is it still bothering me to marry the fact the daughter Rosa and the answer is He's another stop I'm gonna fall for his a daughter even if he's a gotta push me With a mama, I mean that the girl is so fat 250 pounds You know mama Mia how summer fat the girls that they go out there Well, I would rest it where they go out there. She keeps on a gun When I'm a teleport squally, I don't like a fat the girls. He just laughs Couple of days ago. He slipped a little poem under my daughter Marry my daughter don't worry about the fat the sooner come as the winter. You're gonna thank her for that That's the best rally. He's a never stop or what is the trick say? He says everything is a fair in a love and a war and he's a give me a choice either marry Rosa or join the army Mama Mia funny the drafter board would have taken me A one-time for squally says I should have go with him and Rosa to City Hall for summer dog license When I was lucky here after for squally paid the two dollars I found out that the Rosa was an after Rosa was a cock as many as The man is never gonna stop trying to make him eat trouble. I should have married. He's a doctor But the mama Mia Donna did he's a not so bad. I Am a hundred twenty dollars a rent right now and he says I could have pay him a back even a year from a now with 12 or 14 a percent interest But right now from my antique a shopper window. I can see his arrested and and I see he's a coming over the cost of me Comes to one dollar even right That meal was delicious for squally. I'm glad you enjoyed the one dollar, please I got a hand at you for squally. You make the best spaghetti in town. Look, I don't care if you hate the stuff for pay me the buck Don't get excited Well, come on. I don't like my cash register to stand around with its mouth open slightly catch cold Did I put that 20 dollar bill better hurry up I've got a hundred dishes in the back is just dying to shake your hands with you My unemployment check comes into my hard lock of stories look for squally. I've got a buck see four quarters I trusted you all the time, but Joe just a minute while I bite into these quarters Figured you would One of them eats are good for squally this dirty old one see was a counterfeit sir Yeah, it's a fake. I got it from that bum left you at the pool room But honest, I wouldn't try to pass it on you for squally. We know how tight you are about dough I mean I could get a tin you wrap and ten years in a jail Funny I could make a Luigi pass it is above my quarter whoo-hoo the trouble I could have given you All right Joe all right the scrummo should be that you all paying out for me It's a good to be a mean trick kind of Luigi, but when I lead in my horse at the water and he won't marry I get mad Well, come on a little counterfeit see we got a wicked to do Luigi my friend Today Look your eyes are black and shiny like olives Lips are red like a red tomato's ears are hanging down like a two cabbage leaves Nice to the curly like a rag a mop We see I put a two-swinging doors on you. I got a supermarket I How's the business with you a little pumpkin ahead? Well, I'm looking to cast the register for squally see for yourself Hmm, well at least you ain't aware and out the inside with the money What a business is a pretty bad, but I'm always hoping is it gonna get a little better? Hey, Luigi What what's this on the side of the cash register look it's a quarter. Huh? I'll see you lucky day I'm millionaire I went to Pascuali. Huh? Hey look look on this a quarter. It is says 18 to 27 on the bottom So what? Pascuali don't and only you see 18 to 27 and 1950 It's the quarters 125 years old. Good. Let's put some birthday candles on it You know Pascuali you don't understand that I'm an antique a business and I know a little bit This the quarter must to be worth a lot of money. So might even be worth the 25 cents. Oh, Pascuali That's that's the biggest thing that's happened to me since I'm in America. Hey, this the quarter Maybe it's gonna make me famous. So right away tomorrow They're gonna put you pitch in all the papers with a big headlines Luigi Basko three quarters Italian one quarter America This is my lucky day 1827 American a quarter and Luigi Basko only three years in America. He's a garret This this might be what the maybe hundred dollars right those you're gonna pay that kind of money for a quarter Well, I don't know Pascuali, but and maybe the government Government hey, yes, so why don't you take it to the mint to the cashier? Pascuali I'm a terrible man Here, I'm on a something that's a piece of American history and all I'm I can think about is I'm making the money from it Oh, don't be a doper Luigi take it to someplace to try to cash it in who knows they may give you a thousand dollars for this account of That don't mean nothing. I'm I'm not gonna sell it. What? Hey 1827 I just think of us quality is a possible. Maybe George Washington is the ones on this quarter. No, no, he's a died in a 1799 John Adams. No, no, he's a died by 1826 Thomas Jeffer. No, no, he's also died in 1826. Luigi for fellows only three years in America, you know more dead presidents I Look, you take my advice Take that a quarter down the fort and I said tell him you want to make it even a swap Missy, that's Andrew Jackson Happiest quality Andrew Jackson was 1118 at 27 and maybe he's on this the quarter better still They take a trainer to Ohio. Ask the Columbus if he recognizes this Oh You could use it that much money that's a trooper Scrabble I'm not a male. I'm a later for my night school. And maybe my friends are dead They're gonna make up on my mind for me. Goodbye. Hello. It's your wife. Oh Papa squeaker they tell him it's a fake a quarter my whole scheme ain't a way to plug the nickel Don't worry about it. We're a little late. So I'll skip the roll call Mr. Basko, you have your hand raised already. Yes, I misspelling What do you do if you was a founder 18 at 27 a quarter not was found mr. Basko found found found now repeat the sentence I misspelling. Oh, what do you do if you was a founder founder found that in the 20 And now then mr. Basko, what is this about an 1827 quarter? Oh, I'm a founder to buy my cash legend and I'm a like to keep it misspelling But but squally tells me I'm a gotta sell it. Well, how much is that quarter worth mr. Basko 50 Maybe hundred dollars. I think if I could only age a few loose quarters. I could retire for life Mr. Basko, you'll have to figure out your own problem now class It might be instructive to review some of the events that occurred in America around 1827. Mr. Could you tell us who was president at the time 1827? Let me figure Washington Adams Jefferson Madison Monroe Andrew Jackson. No, you're missing one president No No, no, mr. Schultz kill me. I like I Like mr. Stevenson, Michelle this election. I'm voting for both parties. I want to be on the winning side Trying to find out who was president in 1827 Miss folding I don't have to raise my hand, but you know, I could tell you the name of that precedent Also the members of his cabinet also the important political developments of that period Yeah, but who's asking you just find us the missing president on the down please Mr. Schultz and go on mr. Olson, you're home young Quincy Adams was president at that time 1827 to 1828 Quincy who could remember a name like that Go on Mr. Olson. Tell us something about the election of 1824 certainly The year 1824 found five important candidates for the presidency young Quincy Adams Henry Clay John C. Calhoun WH coffered in Andrew Jackson who was considered the greatest living soldier Quincy go remember a name like that Mr. Olson what happened in the election of 1824 well Andrew Jackson was far ahead in the popular vote But no candidate had a majority of the electoral colleague and how was the president chosen mr. Basko I don't know. Maybe there was a toss a quarter Quarter what quarter is 1827 quarter The choice went to the House of Representatives and they show us young Quincy Adams That's very good. Mr. Olson and it's for you mr. Basko. I do spotting them don't be mad at the me I'm I'm so excited about finding this 18 to 27 a quarter and some except that I what I should have cash it or keep it I'm well, what would you like to do mr. Basko? Keep it Well then keep it better still Luigi. I trade you that 1827 quarter for 1827 salami. I got in my daily Hold on to it, too. What do you think mr. Howard? Don't ask him. He's still trying to figure out another name for Quincy Luigi if keeping that old quarter is gonna make you happy then don't sell it for any price not not even a 450 dollars a shows not even for a hundred two hundred five hundred I Anybody offers you five hundred dollars. 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I'm a clean in the scrubber that the court is so hard I think maybe I rubbed off for Nicholas the word But the mom of me is he's a so wonderful to own a little piece of America like this Only thing Pascuali still about is me. I should have sell it and oh here. He's a coming out Which Maybe those are school chumps. I think they give you good advice, but I just to talk with my lawyer He says you gotta get rid of that quarter quick because you already violated America's biggest law Thanks, I had to what the law the FCC Finding colonial coins Besides why you want to so much I'm sure to sell it well if you must know it's something you should have thought of yourself You owe me three months a rent. Yes. Yes Why you suddenly want to me to pay the rent the money now because of the OPA You just open up with the fish in the season and every landlord is allowed to catch one tenant No, but I wait to wait to please adjust a little while soon of my antique businesses are going to start and a busy Oh, stop you have you busy season this morning when a fellow walk into your store and ask you for the right time This is where's the rent money? I'm a waiter. No, but well, he please it had done to make me sell this Luigi, please don't try to work out of my good nature You know you could do that because when I deal with you I lose my head. I get a soft You so right the Pascuali you got it as soft as a head. I'm ever so Funny thing when I say it is a come out of differing Now I'm gonna go through my night wait a minute to come here I order you to cash in that a quarry with me and if I'm a don't tomorrow morning out of you go Where am I gonna move I just saw a big new project to be in a bit Luigi the rent is free You could try them, but the way where where is it that the pain in Hamilton Park two birds and build it a beautiful nest overlooking the lake Shorts shorts, I leave it up to you this fellows of me three months of rent time as a landlord Am I gotta write to the rent or no Well, my answers got to be a little prejudice Pascuali and I kind of I owe my landlord five months Pascuali money isn't everything in life. There's other things health happiness a good job children a home security money I just dug my own grave After all you brought this little beanie schnitzel to America and he's your country man Can't you anybody who won't marry my daughter is a foreigner spy? So you're giving Luigi the old squeeze play with Rosa. That's right easy to squeeze who would have also paid a rent Wasted no more breath to what are you sure so there's for you, mr. Quarter Pinscher. You better get that a rent of money or else Luigi, huh? Let's pay him off his money now. How much you owe him and a $20 Maybe you better come live with me for a while Not sure about him, but it's thanks. It's just the same as sure I'm sure why not you can come live with me on my happy little family Yeah, that's me my wife Frida the three children Uncle Hugo and Wilhelmina the twins Cosson Wolfgang Cosson Felix grandpa Max his girlfriend Sadie Vacuum cleaner salesman who stayed after a demonstration You miss salesman how long he's a business man Well, you see he sold us a vacuum cleaner with a 90-day guarantee and we are holding him till it expire No, no, I should I know you only got the two rooms We got it all figured out you see me and Frida and the kids we got the bedroom Well, I'm Wilhelmina sleeps on the sofa Uncle Hugo is on the army car. Oh, you got a real army cat No, it's just the playing cat for the way Uncle Hugo snores. It sounds like he's playing taps Then then the cousin they sleep on the floor you down the floor and then grandpa Max sleeps on the roof on the television area I'm the television area Yeah, yeah, he's just trying to figure out how the pictures come down into the house With your choking aside, you know, we got plenty of room That's not gonna end my problem I think I'm making too much trouble about my my 18 and 27 a quarter. I'm not gonna sell it You hate to do that. How do we do? I'm a got no choice. Yeah, well, I know but she up Luigi smile You know like we say in the delicatessen business when a herring has got nothing left to live for he goes out and get But then and now I'm gonna find a place to to cash in in my quarter No, wait, Luigi wait, I pass the plate every day. It's on South Dearborn near Adam. Yeah, uh, Brown Brown That's the name brand brand. Well, I'm gonna go down Yeah, yeah, and even even if they don't give you a lot of money, Luigi, don't worry because in America, you know There's three places you can always eat and sleep for free and nobody asks you for the rent Hey places. Yeah, where is your sir? The army the Navy and the Marine Oh We like me always happy always My rheumatism is killing me Max nice stamps and the coins in this window is a whole lot Sine says it Sam Brown all stamps and the coins are bought in a solder Mummy how he's making money if he's a buy from you and he's still a seller you write the back Well, I'm gonna go in Yes, sir something special sir. I'm a like to sell you a quarter American No, not the yet the soon. I'm gonna get them. I said isn't it purpose? I Mean the quarter. Oh, oh sure. Sure. That's a real American. What year is it sir 18 to 27? And mommy you so pellet. Don't you feel it too good at 18 27 quarter? Are you a new mismetist? I mean are you a coin collector? Oh, yeah, yeah, but I just a collector 18 to 27 a court is it well May I see the coins sir? Oh sure It is 1827 that's right. Hey, you know who was a president and then yes, John Quincy Adams, that's right You know you would be very smart in my night school a class Just a minute while I inspect it under the microscope Mm-hmm, what's it? Maybe I can a look at through the little glass the way to you go right ahead Hey, that eagle is a little too big. He looks like he's gonna eat to me Well, I checked through my catalog for the facts on this coin The head has the bust of liberty check The 1827 is underneath check and these should be 13 stars check please the pay me with a cash in our checks Now the reverse side Says United States of America inside the reef good the American eagle with spread wings face to the left aha and The e pluribus unum mr. Vasco. I can give you one hundred dollars for this coin please And make it a hundred twenty Well, all right, it's a deal. Oh, thank you. Thank you I'm a more American than I ever was to be 40 John the Quincy Adams is a paid three months to rent the for me Have a sculley here. Here's the you rent the money hundred and twenty dollars Luigi what a surprise. Thank you So happens I got a good friend that could tell you all about it Joe what kind of a coin are you gave me before you mean that kind of a corner kind of kind of a quarter Help us quality. Hey, you know, it's all the time It's just the one of my little traps So I had to wait you wanted me to pass it. Oh, no, I'm in the trouble and give me back at the money I'm I'm gonna buy it the back all techniques a calm down a relapse Most of it give you for trying to pass a fake coin is a 90 years at the life And then what important thing and now is that we should have find you a good lawyer who's gonna habeas our corpus So We can get out of trouble. Are you gonna meet we ask it? Sure You pocket in my pocket. That's a one pocket Thank you Now I do you a little favor You do me a little favor You want I'm a sugar I want you should make me a grandpa You want I'm should make a granpa. Mm-hmm. Well, I write the postcard from an honor. You're gonna call me grand son. Oh You want to marry Rossa, mr. Counterfeit, so maybe you want to send me picture poster cards from Alcatraz That's the president arrived. I'm gonna go there if I don't Then I got a marry, but it's only because I want to have a clean that I could in America. That's what I like a real patriot Rosa Rosa Stand behind me Luigi Mr.. The whole thing was a bigger mistake And this fellas are nowhere to Maricada or fake a quarter from a real quarter fake that quarter He gave me is real a genuine collector's item I came down here as quick as I could if you found one you might have another Joe I thought he said it was counterfeit, but quality it wasn't worth a quarter. I never said anything about a hundred and twenty dollars Wait wait wait the whole new horses. I put that a quarter near you cash register Luigi. That's my own money I got back Like you said it before we both to got the one a pocket, right? That's all what's a mine is a mine or what's he yours is yours That's all right. That's all right with the me now stop a change in the subject I wanted you to give up your bachelorhood and a marry my daughter. What do you say my son? 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Benoff J. Carol Nash is starred as Luigi Vasco with Alan Reed as Pasquale Hans Kahn Reed as Jody Gilbert as Rosa Mary Schiff as Miss Faulding Joe Forte as Horowitz Ken Peters as Olsen and Fred Shields as Mr. Brown Music under the direction of Lud Bluster Charles Lyon speaking This is the CVS radio network Up along