Heir for G-String

Most Saturdays at this time we spend an exciting half hour of adventure and action with America's public hero number one, Hop Along Cassidy. Well, even two fisted carboys take summer vacations when they can and Hoppy is no exception.

But Hop Along and Topper will be back with us riding the CBS air trails again four weeks from tonight, September 22nd. Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road. And those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prism of the grave.

There's no other end, but they never learn. From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of Crime Fiction, comes his most famous character in... The Adventures of Philip Marlow. Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlow, we bring you tonight's transcribed story, Air for G-string.

There's nothing really wrong with a hot summer. But if some sadist really wanted to bring out the worst in anybody, particularly me after a steaming day, all they asked to do was expose me to air conditioning.

Take for instance the Broadview Hotel which was on Olive Street in downtown LA. It ground out alternating currents of cold air from what could laughingly be called the lobby. I'd revolve through the usual doors and stood squinting into the icy darkness.

When my eyes leveled off again I made my way to the elevators, sinking into the deep pile carpeting up to my hot and cold ankles. By the time I reached room 972 I was in the first stages of a chill.

Yeah, conditioning is a marvelous invention. It guarantees the summer cold for life. Oh. You're Mr. Marlow? That's right. That makes you Mr. Almond, huh? Oh, come in. Martin Almond? Come in. Sure. Yeah, you know, I think like I pictured you, Mr. Almond.