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The Amelia Ramirez Murder Case
Broadway is My Beat · July 17, 1950 · 29 min · 4,031 words
The transcript of “The Amelia Ramirez Murder Case”, an episode of Broadway is My Beat first broadcast July 17, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Broadway Is My Beat plays Broadway is My Beat free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Rigley's Spearman chewing gum, the refreshing, delicious treat that gives you chewing enjoyment, presents for your listening enjoyment. Broadway's My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesome-less mile in the world.
Broadway's My Beat, the thrilling drama of murder and mystery and the people who walk the great white way, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. To make every day more enjoyable, treat yourself often to refreshing, delicious, Friggly, Spearman chewing gum.
Here's a taste treat you can enjoy indoors, outdoors at work or at play. The cool, long-lasting mint flavor refreshes you. The smooth, steady chewing helps keep you fresh and alert, adds enjoyment to whatever you're doing.
And in that moment in a scalpel light of dusk, Broadway stands revealed. The languid training, the slow, smoothing away of the day's wrinkles, the invitation, not whispered, not spoken.
At headquarters the image blurs because a slip of paper has been laid on your desk, This is how violent death announces itself. In the Barrio it says, in Spanish Harlem a man knifed. And through the window you can see Broadway smiles.
In the Barrio death is no stranger, it calls often. But this time it danced a variation. It chose to perform in a storefront in a place of worship. There are many such in the Barrio.
The rented store, the rented wooden chairs, the bare platform draped in black banners, lighted with candles of many colors. And this is the altar. Here women in Black Muntia's kneel with their men in supplication.
In the music of their prayer, primitive. But now it's a lament for the man lying dead in their midst. They kneel in a circle about him in the light of the candles caresses his face.
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