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The Celia Jordan Murder Case

Broadway is My Beat · July 24, 1950 · 29 min · 4,278 words

The transcript of “The Celia Jordan Murder Case”, an episode of Broadway is My Beat first broadcast July 24, 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. Healthful, refreshing, delicious. In the summer's heat, Broadway is a wasteland, sullen, a place of regret. It's a time when the breeze puffs in from the river, die suddenly before it touches your dampened cheek.

The time when you wake up already exhausted, then pause before your office door and consider arson. Broadway fans itself with a newspaper and finds fascination watching a fat fly crawl against a sweating window. The thing to do is give up, except you've got a job, except you've got to pay the rent, pick up the check, buy the beer, leave the tip, meet the installment.

July or not you've got to make a living kid. For my part, I would rather have been at Jones Beach, but I wasn't. The apartment was expensive, but something had gone wrong. The upended furniture, the torn drapes, the slick paintings abstracted into crazy angles against the wall.

empty liquor bottles. The place was a mess which included the man who nagged at me. You've been doing nothing but walk around. Say something to me. So I'll know you're working. I'm working, Mr. Chelsea. I walk around and observe and jot little things down in this little book. And that's what I get paid for. You don't care, do you? What do you care if

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