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Well now it is time for this week's adventure with Sam Spade. The original

AirDate is February the 9th, 1951, and the title is The Shorthand Caper.

The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

Sam Spade Detective Agency. Measewade Art. Sam, a man named five dollar Frankie

call up and said he's putting two dollars in your name on a sure thing and some track

or other. Well that's nice to hear. I don't think it is at all. You know I don't

approve of your gambling, Sam. Effie you do some things I disapprove of, but do I

snipe at you? Well no, but no, but it's about it and besides I didn't place the bet

it was placed for me. I don't care. It's the principle of the thing I don't lie. Well

suppose I put it this way, Effie. That two dollar bet on a sure thing was more than

just the money bet. It was a gamble on the inherent goodness of the human soul. Oh Sam

you're just trying to confuse me. I am, but I'll straighten everything out to your

satisfaction. I trust when I appear at the office with a highly stylized and rather

charming saga of horse players and the world they live in. What else but the sure thing

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