 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play of novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself have a coke and now Claudia What are you doing? I said, what are you doing reading? People send the silliest books to their friends in the hospital. Oh, I'm reading You didn't watch me dangle. I watched you the other day You've got feet that dingle dangle dingle tingle But you didn't watch me today. You know, I don't think you're taking me very seriously I watched you today out of the corner of my eye You're supposed to be over dangling. I said tingle my foot went to sleep I wasn't really dangling. I didn't think it was a first rate performance That's why I didn't give it my undivided attention Say did I tell you what mrs. Fegan said this morning? You know, I don't think you are paying much attention. Oh, I said did I tell you what mrs. Fegan said this morning? Mrs. Fegan who who's mrs. Fegan mrs. Fegan is the cleaning lady who does this room up every single morning Oh That mrs. Fegan then you know what she said darling. I didn't know there was a mrs. Fegan So how could I know what she said? You are the most difficult man in the world to pay a compliment to Now I am utterly confused. What is this all about? It's the trade last A what a trade last You tell me something nice about me and I'll tell you what mrs. Fegan said this sounds like a racket Extortion, that's what it is. But what did mrs. Fegan say last last last she did what a very profound observation You give me a compliment first or I'll never tell you what mrs. Fegan said your tongue could be hanging out Well, oh yet the chief floor nurse Told me yesterday that in all of her 35 years experience in the hospital She had never But never known any woman to be so remarkable So efficient in the business of having a baby. She did Well, I guess I just haven't that for it. Now, don't you think that you'd better dangle some more Why I just did well your leg must have gone sleep again I just pulled it almost pulled it off and you didn't seem to be aware of it And the nurse didn't say those things but that I won't tell you what mrs. Fegan said about you Well, if the nurse didn't say it I did and I'm the fellow you get your best compliments from anyway All right. Now my tongue is hanging out Well, mrs. Fegan said What a brave bundle of a baby he was the living spit of his fine handsome daddy with a Istanamon that's set to his jar that would set the world rock in one of these days No, just like his fine Good-looking daddy She said that that she did she did And you didn't dangle before she came in you dangled after she left Yes, why because she was pulling your leg mrs. Fegan you can tell her from david o'shaughnessy noton not only kissed the blarney stone when she was a wee bit of a Last but she bit off a piece of it too mrs. Fegan has never seen this fine handsome husband of yours and that's for our offspring being the living spit of me That is an ill-chosen semily That is ranked defamation and libel. What is he hasn't hardly any hair at all He looks like he's been left out in the sun and par boiled. He makes the most outrageous Spaces and go on and he's forever blowing bubbles Now if that's a portrait of me one or the other of us is being liable pretty bubbles I think you're unjust. He's a beautiful baby. Of course. She's a beautiful baby. Did I say he wasn't well But I don't think he's spitting or any other kind of image of a 30 year old man I will tell him what you said and he won't speak to you. He doesn't speak to me now He just blows bubbles pretty bubbles when he gets them out over his chin pretty well He does most of the time. He's a very dry baby. Oh darling. Don't be silly. There is no such thing as a dry baby A dry baby isn't a macronism a self-contradiction and impossibility As babies go he goes on and on like tennis and brook Vegan Vegan What about mrs. vegan? Nothing about mrs. vegan. It's just the name it slipped my memory You know how it is when something escapes your memory it stands around and bothers you for days Where was that magazine I was looking at yesterday? It's under that pile on the low no the lower shelf of the table. Here we are I'd like to write this editor a letter He's a bad journalist You don't tell the story of a boy cutting down a cherry tree and not mention the name of george washington The world you talking about vegan I don't get it darling. The world has a short memory Here it is the the jarvis bay right here They even have a picture of it and they don't mention the name of a man who did it did what Flung an answer in the teeth of a power hungry nation and Let them know that one single freeborn man could declare a personal war upon evil The Jarvis bay was a dirty little tramp cargo vessel And she slammed banged around the world carrying pig iron and ten pans and clothes pins sounds like a floating department store She was sort of Oh, yes, I forgot to mention it part of her cargo was heroes heroes cargo I don't get it. Yes heroes as in courage Some mad men ran a muck and war swept over the world and the free people of the world were caught unaware and unprepared and the free flow of the things they needed to live by became just a Trickle Even that dried up as submarines prowled the oceans and and the enemy cruisers harried the sea the navy No, there wasn't enough navy to go around for all the oceans of the world and the losses Were terrific by the tens of hundreds ships and their cargoes and their men were Sunk and lost I remember They armed them didn't they yes when they dug up a few guns to spare they armed them They put guns on them and sent them out But it was it was like giving a a boy a slingshot to go out and attack a machine gun It was a boy named david Went forth with the slingshot Miracles are memorable You remember david's name, but the editor of this magazine He had a short memory for names There there's a picture of the jarvis bay look at it Those few glittering hours Title they've put with it It's your blood ring Those few glittering deadly hours of action which rivet the eyes of all the world It all started prosaically 33 ships assembled in a harbor and then the order to adventure without a escort into the north atlantic were a A german battleship harried the sea lanes and u-boats lurked beneath There were too many prayers on men's lips in those days for all of them to be answered On that that november day in 1940 a A german sea raider came coursing up over the horizon toward them. What happened? Well the ship started to disperse in all directions to run for it according to plan But what happened next? No man had ever dared to plan a dream You know nothing can live within the withering firepower of a battleship And the first shell struck them A shell fragment tore through the wheelhouse A man was killed Where the captain's right arm hung there was nothing A few shreds of flesh It had been ripped off The captain finally gave the order to turn his ship The only thing he could do that was what he thought the only thing he could do and he gave the order To turn Toward the battleship and attack attack One glittering hour That riveted the eyes of all the world What happened? What could only happen this this really occurred it isn't out of a storybook The Jarvis bay was sunk And it was all Then nothing oh, yes a great deal was accomplished Souls like the captain of the Jarvis bay and his men are not easily quenched 32 ships escaped over the horizon and out into the night to live And to bear their cargos before the Jarvis bay went down And they didn't die in vain you know Dying isn't an easy business No matter how good the reason No, they didn't die in vain At night the world tightened its belt The odds were heavy and It would be a long war But evil cannot survive so long as the soul of a single man will not be conquered That night a little man with a a mad glint in his eyes covered his silly mustache to Still the nervous twitch that worked there as he pondered Pondered What breathe of men Are these who could love freedom so? Who talk is it the sinking of this one ship marked a turning point in the war? It was one of them History for so immense a thing can turn on so small a point The men who went down on the Jarvis bay and men like them made it possible for for us To continue to live in freedom To bear the sun we've We've just had In a democracy of free men To know a respite in peace In the long struggle against oppression and evil We owe these men too much far too much To allow their deeds and their names to slip away forgotten Turn to page two in that magazine There's a picture of a movie actress and her six husband Now the editor the editor forgot to mention the name of the captain of the Jarvis bay But he didn't forget to spell out her six married names. No, look, they're all right there one two three four five six It's a case of cockeyed values What was the name of the Captain of the Jarvis bay david Fagan No relation i imagine of your mrs. Fagan Though she should be proud to share his name Fogarty Fagan sounds like battle cry battle cry It was just that it was a battle cry Fogarty Fagan captain Fogarty Fagan of the Jarvis bay It's a name to remember When the working folks of the family discuss the office or plant or shop where they spend eight hours a day You'll probably hear them mention the coke cooler every once in a while Those friendly coolers have become a standby because they enable people to work refreshed Why shouldn't you work refreshed at home? All you have to do is keep plenty of coca-cola on ice Then you can reach for an ice cold bottle after you've had a strenuous hour or two of housework It's a mighty sensible idea Try it say jill tell me do you ever take your children walking? Surely I do well tell me how soon after they were born did you start almost immediately? Took them out walking in a uh, what do you call that thing? Uh? Oh perambulator. Oh, you don't say and you'd better practice fun pushing one of those things too david It's not quite as easy as it looks That go on jill go on it's a cinch. I know all right. All right. You can tell me tomorrow if it's a cinch tomorrow Yes, because uh david that's when you'll find out See you then so long jill Every day monday through friday claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is joe king saying or a boar And remember whoever you are whatever you do Wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola For coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes An ice cold coca-cola is everywhere This broadcast of claudia was supervised and directed by william brown maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola