Subways Are for Sleeping

From Hollywood the CBS radio workshop That's clear Journal American of 411 right away Good afternoon, I think oh hello, mr. Shelby any messages for me not since I came on sir May I have my key please? I'm sorry mr. Shelby, but the manager says not to give you your key until your bills paid

Oh, it's 113 bucks and some odd cents I know you and I should call him so you can talk to him about it No. Never mind. Sorry, Mr. Shelby. It's not your fault, Arthur. I'll stop back in a couple of days.

To see if there's any mail. Yes, sir. $14.60, $65.66. Well, I can eat for a week or so, and plenty of people sleep in the subway. CBS Radio presents the CBS Radio Workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind.

Tonight, subways are for sleeping, based upon the Harper's Magazine article by Edmund G. Love, a true story of one man's strange adjustment to mid-century materialism in the largest city in the world. Have you ever gotten fed up with rents and taxes and bills and the clatter of telephones?

With all that a man's large and small that our complicated civilization makes upon us, Henry Shelby finally did. When they locked him out of his hotel room, he stayed out. For the past three years, he has my choice.

Been homeless and without a steady job. Yet, Henry Shelby is no bum. He is as well dressed and as smoothly shaven as the next man you'll meet. He's not stupid. He holds a master's degree in economics and is a former schoolteacher.

teacher. He has never visited a soup kitchen or stood in a bread line or asked for a night's lodging and a bowery mission. Still, he has learned for himself how to maintain his sanity and peace of mind in a confused and confusing society, which takes from a man more than it gives.