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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - 050860, episode 689 - The Phony Phone Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Jacab R Singer

Fiction, Society & Culture, Drama

5.02.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962. The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a standard private investigator drama.

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0:00.0

Johnny Deller. Art Angles, international life and casually. How you doing, Artie? Hey, listen, Johnny, you take something off? Arthur, my boy, as long as a nice, big, wealthy company like yours, just can't wait to pay my expense account. Now, Johnny... Plus, a sizable fee for my superlative services. Okay, what's it all about? Murder, fraud, arson? No. Okay, then what? I don't know. Oh, you want me, but you don't know what for? That's right, yeah. Well, that's a switch. Actually, Johnny, it's one of our very important clients, want you? Art, that's not a switch. He has demanded that you and only you be sent over to see him. But he hasn't told you why. That's right. Uh-oh. Why matters, I got slugs shot at and thrown off a bridge.

0:41.1

Well, John... But don't care... Only you'll be sent over to see him. But he hasn't told you why. That's right. Uh-oh. Why matters I got slug shot at and thrown off a bridge.

0:40.3

Well, uh, Johnny...

0:41.1

But okay, Art, I'll run on over and see you.

0:47.6

CBS Radio brings you Bob Bailey

0:54.3

in the exciting adventures of the man

0:56.5

with the action-packed expense account,

0:58.5

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigation.

1:00.8

Yours truly investigator Johnny Dollar

1:19.1

to the International Life and Casualty Insurance Company Hartford, Connecticut office.

1:24.1

Following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the phony phone matter.

1:34.6

I don't really go for these vague assignments,

1:37.0

but international has always paid all pretty well.

1:39.3

So expense account item one, a dollar and a quarter

1:41.1

for a taxi over to the office of Art Engels.

1:43.7

He was waiting outside

1:44.5

the building for me in his car we took off and headed back across town again where too art

1:52.6

mr wendell's office is in the clay building wendell j ransom wendell the important client i told you

1:59.5

about who wants to see you right away.

2:01.5

But who hasn't told you why he wants to see me?

2:04.1

He hasn't told me. How important, Artie?

2:07.0

Well, he owns and runs the Crown Lithograph operates.

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