 This is Bob broadcasting from Topeka, Kansas Hope and thanking the sponsor of your regularly scheduled program for this two-minute interruption Ladies and gentlemen in the last ten years. I visited many dramatic spots in this world But just a few minutes ago. I returned from a tour of what was once North Topeka, Kansas I've just seen block after block of total destruction Streets caved in buildings undermined and flattened Entire new housing developments are shambles with the houses jammed together like battered boxes as We toured this sickening area. I thought of the heroics that must have accompanied this disaster as it happened The emergency operations of the Red Cross Salvation Army Air Force Coast Guard Veterans organizations and the thousands of civilian volunteers all striving to hold this hungry call River within its banks Then the complete frustration when it crashed into the streets But the excitement of that time has passed Today, it's a dismal task of dirty drudgery Imagine the heartbreak of returning to what was once your home and finding three feet of dried mud in the front porch After scraping and digging for hours you finally get the door open only to find dried drifted mud Bank throughout the house with everything in it destroyed beyond repair Countless of the heartbreaking stories of human despair. There's a great flood of 1951 has written But you and I neighbors of these call Valley folks of Kansas can help and I mean help with dimes and dollars The Red Cross and other agencies have done a magnificent job Taking emergency care of 10 to 15,000 refugees and they're still doing great work in helping the needy with rehabilitation But that's a far cry from the tremendous job that lies ahead in to peek alone The loss is a hundred million that amounts to a thousand dollars for each and every person in this city I'm appealing to that great heart that has made America. It's never failed before Won't you send your contribution larger small to flood to peek at Kansas? That's all the address you need flood to peek at Kansas and join me Bob Hope and bring in new hope to thousands of Unfortunate American folks. Thank you William Wrigley company has donated the time for this message from Bob Hope Now after a short pause we switched to Hollywood for your regular program Broadway is my beat Wrigley's Spearman chewing gum the refreshing delicious treat that gives you chewing enjoyment Presents for your listening enjoyment In Times Square to Columbus Circle the goddess the most violent the lonesomest mile in the world Broadway's my beat the exciting drama of mystery and murder and the people who walk the great white way with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover For refreshment while you work for enjoyment any time chew a stick of Wrigley Spearman gum The delicious long-lasting real mint flavor of Wrigley Spearman cools your mouth and freshens your taste The good smooth chewing helps keep you feeling fresh and alert adds enjoyment to whatever you're doing So indoors outdoors at Worker play enjoy chewing Wrigley Spearman gum Wrigley Spearman refreshing delicious When the summer becomes August Broadway pauses for a while considers What happened to the springtime dreams to be fulfilled in the middle of July at the very latest and what at the blonde on last month? Snapshots the one with sunny legs the one you tried with poetry and she touched your cheek the fawn of camp never care Jewel of the Catskills She's back in the Bronx shoe store kid and the last time you walked by she didn't look so good and Walk the streets furious with people and heat and feel your throat tighten when it suddenly comes to you Another summer's rushing away Maybe next year kid maybe And uptown east of Broadway where I was in the outdoor swimming pool catering also to the seekers after something or other The crowd was divided into swimmers non-swimmers sand sitters ukulele players miscellaneous And the man the swimming trunks lying on the concrete walk the man who had drowned The police emergency crew working over him with a respirator The man from headquarters who had gotten there before me they've been working on it for quite a while Danny Why'd you call me to come down my woman asked the same question a patrolman Kenny? It's like this Danny Kenny was flagged off his beat when this man was dragged out of the pool took off the man's locker check went to the Locker, you know for identification the locker was empty horse. Uh-huh Now those locks answered with dime star skeleton key robbery gets a dozen calls a day from these pools So you figure that man's drowning and his lockers being robbed had something maybe a coincidence Danny Maybe something else. I don't know. I wanted you to be here. Okay Yeah, let's take a look One of you men call the mortgage a lifeguard to pull them out is that one Danny? You want to talk to him? Uh-huh? I'm from the police Danny Clover. Russ Gaby. What happened here? Hello's on my stand Hear me started the yell I went in after that you get those scratches on your shoulder you fought me Had to take him out of the break his hold and when he stopped struggling I got him out by that time and he did that official respiration I gave it to him until your man came all right Did detective muggerman here tell you this man's clothes are gone? That is going to be pretty Difficult to identify him now. Yeah, he told me any ideas about it. Nope Back to the office at headquarters and sit with it a man had been drowned in a public pool From a policeman's point of view worth only a quarter page form and triplicate However, the fact of his lockers being robbed may be something else again probably not More forms than a couple of hours later when the office gathers up its private shadows a door opens a man walks in Danny you're busy. Come in dr. Sinski Sit down. Thank you I just came from the autopsy room Danny and Has that man brought in from the swimming pool to drown them? Has he been identified Danny? Not yet What's in your mind? He was murdered Murdered how? Whoever administered artificial respiration to that man killed him as surely as if he had driven a knife into his heart Not your sense kid. Gently Danny gently. I'll explain Inside of the chest Danny is a delicate system of balances balances, which cannot be upset Else a man's heart will be affected in this lung. What's that got to do with murder? Simply that the autopsy I just performed on the drowned man revealed small internal hemorrhages Bruises of the muscles and bones of the chest from too active a manipulation. You mean that lifeguard didn't do I mean He did a very bad job of artificial respiration. That's why you call it murder Not premeditated of course doctor. This is not the question in your mind You wanted to ask if it was premeditated. Didn't you Danny? And let the question take over the room add the weight of its violence to the oppressive night heat The stifling remembrance of other such questions posed in the same room quietly Fearfully because a policeman too reacts to the touch of death It fills the room and against its pressure you lift the phone Make the call to the department of public works have them check personnel files come up with an address for russ gavey lifeguard Go there to the hall bedroom furnished in the style of brownstone east 20s Find it empty of russ gavey be told on the way out by the woman spread wide on the stoop You should have asked before russ was across the street in the park on that bench fighting for his share of the night air Walk up to russ. Let him chew the last fiber of a matchstick And taking my well earned rest You want to help mr. Clover? Sure Mind if I sit down russ Yeah, sit down You were almost a hero today russ. You're kidding That's how I make my daily summer bread 50 bucks a week Ogle a girl save a life long you've been a lifeguard russ Oh six maybe seven summers time out for a frolic on anzio beach Then you've had a lot of experience saving people from drowning A mile out of cheer the medical examiner donner headquarters says that man you try to say I remember our medical examiner says he was murdered Oh How come our man says it was murdered because artificial respiration wasn't applied properly Well, your man is a smart man But a four-bit a week lifeguard does the best he can he studies in classes. He follows the first aid manual You call him a murderer because he didn't make out with one poor slap. You tell me russ You murdered the man Considering the percentage of lives that are saved and not saved by such as we that's a question. You may never be able to answer Okay, I'll keep trying russ. You won't mind Danny, why don't you never turn on a light You sit like this in the dark by yourself. It's I got one of the tagliate kids to home does the same thing. You both make me feel the same way You've got your problems, aren't you? Yeah, I could do without them You in the mood Danny. Sure for whatever. What have you got nothing No progress and identification of the drowned man. No progress on a connection between him and that lifeguard russ gave He reports on gave his state. He has looked up to at the pool by girls and lady-sized swimmers Occasionally he buys for one or the other a beer at the concession stand Occasionally escorts one or the other type to her home deposits it goes to the newsstand buy super type magazines goes to his room Healthy normal muscle boy. Maybe a murderer. Gino. Uh, pardon me, Danny, but I mistake Sergeant our tagliate speaking Yes Yeah, I got it. Hanson's pawn shop east 34th I told you I got it They bother us with such such watch, you know Man with a pawn shop got the nudges in the midst of a nice conversation because somebody who works in a pool Hock the suit of clothes valuables Look to this mr. Hanson like stolen goods an east 34th. Yeah, do I body yourself with it Danny? Because maybe it'll give me the name of a murdered man You might ask me why I called the police mr. Clover after so many months of Stemiously staying away from your fellas. All right, mr. Hanson. Why? because There was something fishy about it this time This suit this watch ring money clip was brought me by a boy Who's an attendant at a public pool pool on upper Broadway Inevitably that pool where that unidentified man was drowned his things stolen you read about it, of course Who brought these to you a boy? Know him well If had dealings with him intermittently, who's the boy bobby kent He's got a room in one of those crates on east 37th the uh 1654 east 37th just ask for bobby. We all know him and you think these things belong to the drowned man The man was robbed where bobby works died where bobby works bobby pawns things that obviously don't belong to him What is there left for a decent man to think mr. Clover? Then the three walk to the language summer night the city bound and the dream bound people in the sandstone steps Who find their delights in a pop bottle or by taking possession of a star in the sky Or by cooling themselves with a fan courtesy of swanson's chicken frequency Pass them and mind the kitties at their nighttime play the patter of little feet up on alley And arrive at the address on 37th street And over one of the bells see a name bobby kent apartment three And the sound you hear is the far-off thunder made of heat and air currents and stratosphere And the lightning through the window at the end of the corridor lights up the number three on a door briefly Then again bobby bobby kent This is the police bobby open up I'm coming in bobby bobby was in His shirt was ripped his face bloody hands tied behind his back belt around his neck And the belt was strung over a pipe near the ceiling got over a chair to stand on there was lightning again And the whole room was stark white for an instant It took a while to get bobby down, but it didn't matter bobby had been dead when i got there bobby had been murdered refreshment while you work for enjoyment any time chew a stick of wriggly spearmint gum When your mouth feels dry when you're warm or tired wriggly spearmint is really refreshing The lively full-bodied real mint flavor cools your mouth moistened your throat freshens your taste And the chewing itself gives you a little lift helps you feel your best and do your best So for chewing enjoyment plus pleasant refreshment chew delicious wriggly spearmint gum We now continue with broadways my beat written by morten fine and david fritkin and starring larry thore as detective danie clover Broadway leans against a doorway flips a coin and makes odds on the 31 days of august This month kid it'll come in the filly in the third the dream boat the oil on that little piece of property At least in the texas badlands gotta come in otherwise, what have you been building kid gotta come in So you can indulge the whim of the hour enjoy it own it All that neon yours to turn on or off that music of the dance calling to you from basement dance lands Yours to play soft or loud or cut off like that dance in dark and in stillness if you want The traffic signals pushing back the people yours to make say stop go You're a king man with headlines at your feet Boy murdered hung by belt in tenement room Unknown man drowned in public pool all yours kid clean shuffle a minute of luck and it's all yours And the next morning at headquarters consider your share of it yours and detective mugovans You still stick with that danie that the man in the pool was murdered. Yeah, you don't like it Oh, it's not that danie. It's only so many people drowned so many can't be saved You're gonna go back and call everyone that wasn't the murder victim Russ gave he is a trained lifeguard. He told me the man fought him had to be pushed under Happens that way sometimes danie could have been the other way around Could have been russ wanted the man dead It could have been he fought the man drowned him finished him with his own brand of artificial respiration Could have been but where's the string that knots at danie? What connection that kid that was hung bobby can't the attendant at the pool That could be a connection because he stole a man's clothes out of a crummy locker We're not even sure they belong to the drowned man What do we know about the mugovan? Well from the cleaners marks. They belong to a man named Howard Crawford married. I checked his wife Should be at the morgue to identify in a half hour Would have come sooner want to go out and buy a dress first my letter. Oh, go down a meter You get whatever you can on bobby can't friends people he stole from whoever wanted and working on it Put a tail on gavey every breath he breathes. I want to report got it anything else danie. Yeah Yeah, why does a woman need a new dress to look at a dead man? I don't know ask her when you see her Are you ready mrs. Crawford waiting for you all right just look at this man and tell me if he's okay, okay Put him back he's mine Can we get out of this place now of course And through this door Want to sit down on this bench for a minute or else, huh? Sure, I'll sit What do you think of my husband mr. clover can you imagine it? Howard getting himself a piece of marble in a police morgue. When did you see him last? I got out of a warm bed yesterday morning on account of the phone ringing was for Howard He pinched my cheek said goodbye honey. I'm going out of town This happened often is going out of town in his line salesman and you didn't see him after that Look boyfriend. I was in the middle of a beauty exercise bend overs for the figure I was grabbing my ankle. So I looked back There he was going out of the house doesn't it seem strange to you that he didn't go out of town that he was Strange to me. He's dead But i'm going to get used to it Who do you know had a reason for murdering him? Murder thought you said he drowned Do you like to swim mrs. Crawford you see this sunburn you think I got it standing under a hot iron Look at it. See how you like it. Did you get it at that swimming pool uptown? Coney I know a part of cony where they carry a pretty good crowd. That's where this burn came from There's a lifeguard at that pool. I go to cony where they carry a million on a weekend I don't confine me to public pools uptown Did you have anything to do with your husband's death mrs. Crawford? Now i'm a girl who's going to tell you the truth boyfriend Every time I've thought of it. I've wished Howard dead every hour on the hour I've wished him dead on the half hour too, but that's when the race results come over the radio Howard Things have come true. I've wished for them. That's all mrs. Crawford You can get out of here now Watch her reapply the lipstick and readjust her clothes Walk away from her dead to a summer rhythm that no longer held any part of him A woman starting the new day fresh the memory she had submitted to now happily dead on a marble slab And at the end of the corridor the street sunlight touching her face for an instant darting away leaving only pallor And the smear of scarlet on her lips Back in the office order a shadow for mrs. Crawford Then a telephone report from muggleman He had found a girl who was the girlfriend of bobby kent a box office girl in an all day all night movie on east 125th Lucille lang on duty for the rest of the day and night How many police miss lang? Take back your badge. You don't buy you nothing. You were a friend of bobby kent's Look you you want to lose me my job all we want miss lang is all you want is to mark me lousy with a management A sweaty cop snooping around where I live. I know my girlfriend called me Tell me he had his nose in my affairs asked questions She had to tell him I was cozy with bobby all we want is something that'll give us bobby's killer Search me up and down. You won't find bobby's killer. Then maybe someone who wanted him dead All the kid ever did was steal a buck here and there so we could make an impression on me on my girlfriend Boy has to die for that. He was a thief Ain't everybody kiddo one way or another To sweep out the locker room in a public pool to empty the foot bath scrub him out You think that's the end of the rainbow for a kid. Did you know about the clothes? He stole from the pool to watch the ring the money clip Sure. I know he told me I even know about the 500 bucks that was in the suit 500 We were gonna take it and go off to faraway places Do you know something kiddo? What? Bobby's dead from hanging and I'm cooped up in a cage So I ain't gonna make it am I? Come on in muggin What do you want an opinion about what about how soon we should pick up Russ Gaby for the murder of Crawford and that pool attendant If we pick him up, how long do you think we can hold him a killer Danny? He's how you're going to prove premeditated murder by artificial respiration No, maybe we shouldn't start from there Danny. Maybe we should start from the attendant Now you killed Bobby Kent because Bobby stole the clothes because Bobby would learn that the clothes belong to Howard Crawford Bobby was a sneak thief From there to blackmail him one easy lesson. So we get back to Howard Crawford You know what we need. Yeah Motive we gotta find our way Danny. We got something Gino Officer Ratchey just called from a gas station on Queens highway Mrs. Crawford just registered that the Ritz large motel about 10 miles out of the city. Thanks, Gino Mugglin, yeah, Danny that shadow you got on russ gave you get him off. I don't want him followed All right Where you going to find out why our widow wonders far from home Like him too lover You like him that's your going away dress mrs. Crawford. It could be for that too. You've got a home in Manhattan, mrs. Crawford What are you doing here? Where is your home boyfriend? And what are you doing here? I wanted to talk to you Me and my son burn made an impression, huh? So you got a flunky to follow me. You could have done it yourself. No uproar would have happened Well, here we are you still haven't answered my question. What are you doing here? Girl likes to get away sometimes you'd be surprised how many phone calls I've gotten since Howard drank all that water Here's a dime throw it in the radio No Then I'll throw it a dime Phone calls all day long Now it's your turn just to talk kill some time Ah that canton Yeah, oh, what'd you say lover nothing. I didn't say any look be a doll. Will you go away come back another day? I'll be here. Let's pick a tuesday make a death Why don't you go right now out the back way through a window just get up Hi Russ Got a little trouble. I mean Russ close the door I'll bet the lady told you to get out of here, mr. Clover. Uh-huh. You two know each other pretty well, don't you? Yeah swimming pool romance. I saw him in those california feet flippers and it twisted my heart You're too planning on going away together I only asked because the back of Russ's car is loaded with suitcases. We're going to get married in maryland Is there a law? Yes, there is There's a whole section in the penal code about murder back to that I could have picked you up before us, but I needed a motive. I had to find out why you murdered howard crofford There she is How did I kill him by drowning him? You made sure the resuscitator squad wouldn't revive him You crushed out whatever life that was in him. Listen to me. Yeah, listen You killed bobby kent. He was a petty thief. He took the clothes you'd stolen from crofford Sooner or later. He'd put two and two together probably would have blackmailed you you couldn't afford to let that happen You're ready edith. I'm ready Only one thing russ. What? I'm a happy girl russ. I like to live happy From just now on you're gonna be a burden as long as lover here's got you. I don't want you both of you You're an accessory mrs crofford Well, that changes things right away Russ. Yeah, don't be a fool Okay, your way russ you'll never be the same You're ready to go back to town mrs crofford It's the time on broadway when the crowd gives up goes home Then it's the street of the dim moonlight and the dark whispers The wind of the night the wind that scatters everything Yesterday's headlines yesterday's dreams yesterday's people It's broadway The gaudiest the most violent The lonesomest mile in the world broadway my beat Remember friends for refreshment while you work for enjoyment anytime chew a stick of wriggly spearmint gum There's lots of lively real mint flavor in it to cool your mouth fresh and your taste and sweeten your breath And chewing wriggly spearmint helps keep you fresh and alert You feel better work better get more fun out of doing things So indoors outdoors at worker play always keep delicious wriggly spearmint chewing gum handy For refreshment while you work for enjoyment anytime chew a stick of wriggly spearmint gum The makers of wriggly spearmint chewing gum hope you've enjoyed tonight's story And that you're enjoying wriggly spearmint gum every day We invite you to join us next week at the same time when detective danny clover returns again with broadway's my beat broadway's my beat brought to you by wriggly spearmint gum is produced and directed by elliott lewis with music composed and conducted by alexander courage Program is written by morten fine and david friedkin and stars larry thor as detective danny clover with charles calvert as tartaglia And jack crucian is mug of it in tonight's cast mary jane croft was heard as edith crofford High ever back as ross gavey stan waxman as mr. hansom and michael ann barrett as lucille lang Bob stevensson speaking. 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