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Paul Douglas hoping once again to keep you in suspense You may have seen the name man Jackson I run a column of saucy chatting unimpeachable rumors in the San Francisco Express under the heading What else man overboard? It's got little paragraph. You know man among men That's the sports section and man's best friend so forth. Well beginning today. I've got a new department called man alive Just because I'm so lucky. I am Last night I let my secretary off at 5 30 so she could go and do some Christmas shopping Although I've told her repeatedly that all I want this year is money Well the fog was rolling in off the bay and it was bitter cold as I came out in the street So it seemed like the night for a spaghetti dinner and some pleasant Italian hospitality Down at mama Caruso's restaurant on the Embarcadero opposite the ferry building But mama Caruso had more than hospitality on her mind when she met me at the door Mr. Jackson, I'm so glad to find you. I'm just calling you office. Oh, what's the trouble mama? Somebody been stealing ravioli. Please. It's my cousin Tony. They try to kill him. Oh, what happened mama Come on, mr. Jackson. I make a Tony tell you he's not feel so good, but he can talk all right. You're gonna see She led me to the back of the restaurant the table where the family generally sits The family tonight was a man small to start with but even smaller hunched down in his chair miserably staring unseen into a glass of wine On the table in front of him was a battered old concertine the top of his head was swabbed in a clean new Bandage sit down mr. Jackson go on sit down This is my cousin Tony Colucci Tony is my good friend mr. Man Jackson. Hello, Tony. Hello Go on Tony. You tell him mr. Jackson. What's happened on you? Well, I I'm on the boat. Yeah, what boat the ferry boat the Auckland ferry boat Don't you never hear my music on the boat? Oh, you play the concertina on the ferry ride Sure, man or more tonight that's what to kill me. Well, you play pretty well, don't you Tony? I play perfect What's the matter? My some people don't like it. I guess tonight on the six o'clock boat Oh boy Tonight on the six o'clock boat. What well, I play inside the first by the sandwich place and everybody say Oh boy, Tony, you're good. You play good the place some more 10 cents a year five cents two quarters even and then I go upstairs Oh boy Then I go out on a deck. It's a very misty and a foggy so black kind of see nothing I'm very happy. I feel like a place some more So I walk away back and open down the deck and I make a music Then all of a sudden I hear somebody say something to me. I kind of see nobody but I hear him And what do you think he said to me? Uh bravo, Tony. I have no idea. What did he say? Yeah, what? He said cospador Cospador as in bar rooms cospador Well, so I say back and top of him a cospador I still kind of see nobody so then I hear him say is that you play Boris So I get mad. I said no, I don't play Boris. I pay paillaci butterfly Latosca My don't play Boris. That's a foreign stuff. Yeah, I see then then I'm sorry I said that because of this fellow. He sounds like he's a foreign So I'm just gonna say look mister And oh boy, yeah, what Tony what? I'll get a hit on the head thing a tongue a thing I fall down. I'm a bleeding. I drop on my concertina. My head got a bigger hole on the top I let out a big yell and then I black out Oh, boy People are coming running around and a good luck. There's a doctor on the board. They carry me downstairs and they fix me up Otherwise, I'm gonna die for sure. Yeah, yeah, and you never saw the guy No, I never saw well, what does it feel like? I mean what he hits you with Well, it feels just like a baseball bat my the doctor. He said that Oh, look, look, he said the doctor now. He just come in. Hey doctor The doctor looked in our direction when tony call and strode over to the table A big six foot three blond guy and the joe mccray gary cooper tradition You had to like him right away no bedside manner to this doctor Although he could have had as much of it as he liked but he was all business and no kidding But I told you to go to bed and stay there. Well, doc, I just don't you may have a concussion I'll be back in an hour and then we'll take some x-rays. Uh, my name is man jackson doctor I'm a friend of the family aims doctor oscar aims. How are you? A doctor aims mr. Can I get you something to eat? Oh, no, thanks most wonderful, but I haven't time I'll have a cup of coffee. Maybe sure. Uh, mr. Jackson. Oh, yes, please mama Uh, doctor, you want i'm a make tony go to bed. Go on out tony. You lie down I'll be back and we'll check you over get some rest in the meantime. But all right, ma'am I'm a dr. Hems. I don't know x-rays and the whole thing. I don't know how I'm gonna pay you ever mind that That's why we charge our knob hill patients a little extra So we're able to do something like this once in a while This will be on me tony You're good the kind of man the doctor I I don't know what to say. You go on and lie down tony. You're embarrassing the doc Okay, okay There's a screwy thing this one isn't it doctor sure is You see your coffee gentlemen. Oh, thanks. Thank you mama. Yeah, sure is Almost idle maniac. It looks like mr. Jackson Man Jackson, are you the uh colonist man overboard? That's right. Well, I read you all the time I'm using intelligent and you've got a heart Isn't that a little unusual for colonists? Well, uh, say, uh, what is all this tonight down here newspaper man police police How do you mean police? Well, I think they were police Five or six plain clothes guys. They were waiting here on the side when the ferry pulled into the slip They're still there holding the boat. I just left the boat. What were they doing? Oh, they're Talking to all the passengers as they come off Asked us for identification They took one passenger away with them. Uh-huh red-haired girl Pairing a package of paper parcel. Uh, what did they think about tony's little experience getting knocked on the head? Oh, they were mighty interested naturally Especially when I told them how I thought the wound had been inflicted which was Gun but gun buddy. Well, I'd say so Hey, I gotta go Take that dreary ride again. What the ferry? Yeah, I've got a patient over in oakland. I'd like to come back over here to pick up some serum Well, nice to see you jackson. Uh, tell what's his name, uh, tony. Oh, wait a minute doc. I've got nothing to do I'll ride over with you We crossed the street went into the ferry building Everything was normal enough in the main waiting room where I stopped to buy cigarettes and a pocket flashlight But outside on the dock where the oakland boat was waiting to take off There were a number of extra characters whom you wouldn't think would have chosen a dismal Chilly night like this for waterfront lounging There wasn't anybody I knew and in any gathering of plainclothesmen local variety I generally spot one or two familiar faces But dr. Ames and I got a board followed by three of these gentlemen The broadest one who was built for endurance exchanged pleasantries with us as the boat moved out into the water Hello, dr. Ames. I see you didn't miss a boat Like he'll say no Oh, you're one of the fellows I talked to before when we landed. That's right. I don't think I got your name Connelly, uh, this is mr. Jackson. Yeah, would that be lieutenant connelly or sergeant maybe just connelly no special title I was a little fella doing dr. Colucci. Tony. He's under care. He, uh, talk anymore Say anything interesting. I didn't talk to him Mr. Jackson here did now Really, really What do you have to say? Well, uh, you see I'm an old friend of his family What he told me was in confidence and I'd really have to know a little more about who I'm telling his secrets to I see Jackson your name is there still is Nice to meet you ghost buddy Ghost spadee Means nothing to you. It might Yeah, it might ghost spadee and sounds like another word somebody might think you said cuspidore It's very funny Now you're gonna stay out here on dank well, we haven't made up our minds Is that okay ought to go inside have a little coffee at the snack bar comfortable rides over before you know it Out here. It's foggy wet measurable Oh Well, I'm going in. I'll see you later Goodbye doc. Well, maybe he's right Oh, I must say he's not my favorite man in the world at mr. Conway It is strictly pneumonia weather out here on deck. Shall we go in? No, not just yet for me I think I'll stretch my legs a little dr. Reims, uh, where was it that tony got conch on the upper deck? And I know but which side uh We've turned around now starboard Just about directly above where we're standing Yes, right about the doc doc. Don't don't point our friend connie and his boys are on their way out to see us again No, they went back in you think they're as mysterious as they seem. Oh, definitely that You know what made them turn back just now decide it wasn't necessary to check whether we were still here No, what our cigarettes They can't make us out here. It's too dark, but they can see two lighted cigarettes I'd like to get up there on that upper deck looking for tomorrow's column, huh? You want to get up there and knows around where tony was, isn't that it? Well, that's the idea, but those I've got it Hand me your cigarette. I'll smoke them both the yard apart When they check, we'll both still be here masterful thinking oscar Go ahead. I'll be here So I tried the slippery stairs to the upper deck the fog was as wet as rain I couldn't see any more than inches ahead of me with my flashlight I stopped about I stopped about a midships and looked down over the rail Dr. Oscar aims and his two cigarettes tiny red dots of light were almost directly beneath me I turned back from the rail and my foot squashed into something that sounded like an egg shell I bent and picked it up It was a mother of pearl ornament like the ones. Tony's concertina were covered with A sudden noise over my head made me shoot my light up a piece of canvas It suddenly ripped loose from the top of the lifeboat But I got up there somehow and looked the canvas had been ripped open with a knife a whole large enough for a man's Body to get through and that's what was in there A man's body He'd been stabbed in the neck This was the man who had slugged tony or so it seemed because the gun was still clenched in his right hand The barrel reversed when my flash caught a speck of something white in one of his shoes It was a bit of paper with two typewritten lines on it I let myself down to the deck and prepared to read the note and that's when my flashlight went dead I groped about until I found a faint ghostly glimmer of light overhead Out over the edge of the ship on the outside rail I climbed over steadied myself and lit a couple of matches. It said international postcard shop Geary street sf reading card for boris I put the bit of paper in my pocket and turned to climb back over the rail and then something came at me from the back It caught me full in the center of the board and I fell crashing over the side They tell you a lot about what you remember when you're going down for the third time You know what I remembered? I remembered that gospadin Is russian for comrade Is bringing you mr. paul douglas in man alive tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense Let's talk turkey. Okay harlow gobble away Well, I say give the bird to worn out spark plugs and replace them with a set of ignition engineered auto light spark plugs Like the amazing auto light resistor spark plug for example, you can really crow about that harlow Yes, sir. 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There was nothing nothing anywhere And then some lights came into my eyes and I wanted to stay in the dark and I turned my face down into the embrace of the water And then I wasn't where you'd expect it all I was lying in a baggage truck that was moving people were crowding around walking beside the truck staring at me The guy in uniform willing me noticed I had opened my eyes. Well, hello pal. Welcome back to the united states Hello, what what part of the united states just landing in salsalita or they still were taking over to the hospital salsalita How long before that boat goes back to san francisco leaves right away. Well, I'm going with it. Hey, wait there. You ain't in no condition Thanks. I'll be okay Half an hour later shivering and shaking in my wet clothes and keeping my mouth clamped tight So my teeth wouldn't sound like a dice game I climbed into a taxi at the ferry building and went to my apartment There I swallowed a half a pint of whiskey Rubbed myself for the coarse towel until my skin was sore Then I looked in the pocket of the soggy suit. I'd hung up the dry It was still there the piece of paper from the dead man's shoes damp but legible international postcard shop geary street sf greeting card for boris I got up to put on a dry suit and then I changed my mind and put the wet one back on Super prior to here. That's right, sir six years at the same location. You My goodness is it raining out? You really got a dousing. Yes. I did a nice collection of postcards From all over a south america every place I pride myself on having the most complete possible selection Was there something you had especially in mind? Yes, there was I'm looking for a greeting card for boris you What's the matter? Didn't you hear me? Yes, didn't you understand then? Well, well what? It's only that that I uh I didn't exactly expect somebody like you. I what did you expect somebody slinking around in a false moustache wearing dark glasses and an Invinus cape You know, uh You're a type of thinking you uh, you may not be the right man for this job Um Gaspidine. Oh now wait, please mr. Luboth. I thought you were dead. You you drowned. Yeah. Yeah, who told you that well You know yes. Well, I didn't drown. I jumped in the water when I heard him coming You can still see how wet I am of course So you escaped easily now enough talk handed over the greeting card for boris very well Let's see. That's uh san francisco, of course He turned and reached his hand down under the counter and came up with a box mark special From this he extracted something and handed it to me I took it with a knowing expression on my face, but I didn't know from nothing as to what it meant All it was was an ordinary postcard. That's all a picture postcard showing the golden gate bridge Underneath hit the caption wonder cities of the world number 25 one two three five six seven nine San francisco nothing else. I'm afraid my mouth was open Oh, what's the matter matter. Don't you know how to read the name? It's so difficult, of course Idiots, certainly. I know how I I was just admiring the work. That's all. Oh, it is excellent, isn't Uh, you better go now. You've been in here an awfully long time. We don't want no, of course. We don't I'll uh go Gaspardine Gaspardine I'm sorry to have been overly cautious. There is no such thing as over caution. Oh, thank you You were so uh, well, you seem like an american So do you I stowed out into the street clutching my postcard But I shoved it inside my sleeve a moment later because Who I saw standing under the misty glimmer of a street light waiting for me Was my heavy set mysterious friend from the ferry boat connelly I turned my head around and glanced down the other end of the block behind me The other two guys were there sure enough. They advanced slowly toward me with their hands raised palms out As if they were showing me they weren't carrying guns I waited then all of a sudden connelly rushed me. I caught him on the chin and he went down Try to ring into an ash can the other two boys grabbed me and held my arms behind me Connelly got up rubbing his face. I waited to get murdered, but no All right, joe Lewis Bring him along And so they did we didn't go far just around the corner to a little hamburger place that had a sign in the door Saying closed all of the were lights inside Connelly knocked on the door and a fellow with an apron came and opened it and locked it after us Connelly gave them a nod and we sat down at the table while he brought us coffee Well, jackson, we've checked on you. You seem to be okay. You stand in good with the department friend What department would that be friend? This department Government oh, maybe you can help anyhow. We don't want you going around making a noise and messing it up for us So here it is. I'm all ears Have a hear of a man called Boris kargaminsky No, not many people have even in russia Boris kargaminsky is the top soviet agent of america. He's the head man. He organizes and runs everything for him here I see and we came to this country seven years ago and vanished. We've been trying to find him ever since False passport, of course that didn't help There's nothing anywhere on kargaminsky. No pictures even in russia. No fingerprints. Nothing every lead we had dead end And then last week Well, go ahead drink your coffee. No, no, it's all right. I'm too interested last week We heard that another agent an important little guy and him a lube off was on his way to san francisco And that he would definitely have to contact the big gun something to do with the chinese war business that only kargaminsky is big enough to handle Well, our man tail lube off all the way out here and then lost him at the oakland ferry I didn't bother us very much. He called us and we were waiting on this end but In pulls the ferry and no lube off Lube off was the dead man in the lifeboat. That's right Must have been up there waiting to be contact and he heard tony and his concertina thought that this might be it Then when he realized he'd made a mistake and uncovered himself He conked tony on the head right and the soviet contact got scared and stabbed lube off So now we're back where we started every passenger on the ferry was okay What's that you're looking at now picture postcard I found a message on lube off about the international postcard shop and a greeting for hey A greeting for boris boris kargaminsky. Let me see that I pulled those the guy into the shop into letting me have it. It looks like nothing just a picture But he said I could read the name Now give me it. Give me these numbers wonder cities of the world number two five One two three five six seven nine Wait a minute. What print out the guy's name boris b o r i s believe a space k a r g a m e n s k Now put numbers that wait a minute now the the top numbers nine. All right now put one two three four five over boris Yeah, and start again one two three up to nine over kargaminsky Nine yeah, all right now. Let's see the postcard Two five one two three five six seven nine. Okay. Uh, what's two? Two is oh five s Os now kargaminsky one k two three a r os k a r oscar Well, I guess we know the rest of it five six seven nine a n e s aims correct Correct oscar aims dr oscar aims What I was just thinking he was worried about me catching pneumonia I called mama caruso and from what she said we knew where to go We picked him up at the emergency hospital. He was just finishing the operation on tony's head We watched him through the glass and the other young doctor standing alongside of us said he was one of the greatest surgeons They'd ever seen when he unrolled his gloves and took off his operating mask. He looked up and saw me Alive and the other boys with me his scalp tightened for just a second and then he smiled It was when he reached into his bag that we rushed him before he could get the little red bottle to his lips Well, that's about it I made the morning addition. Okay on page 18 under my usual slug man overboard by man jackson They did a cute thing under man overboard. It said he really is see page one and on page one with a byline Was the story just as above complete with a photograph of dr oscar aims A clean cut smiling confident typically american fellow The caption said portrait of a spy Suspense Scented by auto light the night star mr. 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They also happened to be bank robbers The story is based on fact and is called The big heist our star mr. John hodiac The program will be heard on suspense Suspense is produced and directed by elliot lewis with music composed by lucian marwak Man alive was written for suspense by william spear Featured in tonight's cast were jenette nolan jane novello fred mackay william conrad and joseph curls Paul douglas will soon be seen in the archio radio production never wave at a whack with rosalyn russell Remember next week mr. john hodiac in the big heist This thursday americans give thanks for all our blessings and especially our liberties the auto light family Sincerely wishes you and your family a happy Thanksgiving This is the cbs radio network