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One Way Street

John Steele Adventurer · March 13, 1951 · 29 min · 4,704 words

The transcript of “One Way Street”, an episode of John Steele Adventurer first broadcast March 13, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). John Steele Adventurer plays John Steele Adventurer free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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one man who thought he'd seen everything, add a blind alley, and a ghost from the past. That's our story. One way street, taken from the files of John Steel, adventurer. This is John Steel. I wonder how many of you realize what a wonderful thing you've got in your morning newspaper. Oh, I know, it doesn't seem like much. The paper's thin, the ink rubs

off in your fingers you read it once and throw it away, wrap the garbage in it or maybe mop proof last year suit with it. But how many other countries in this world would give their right arm to have it? Well, this week's story is about a newspaper man, one of the guys who

stay up all night so you can have the world at your doorstep the next morning. It isn't a big story, it isn't an important story, but it's his story and I'm proud to bring him Tom De Rubo. Tom? It's funny how a guy can be about his job. Almost like it was a woman.

You give it everything you got, heart, soul, blood, sweat, and yeah, even tears and for a long time it's worth it. And all of a sudden one day you wake up and say, why? You're 35 years old and when you got to show for it. Head full of gray hair and a set of nerves that

coffee had stopped curing five years ago. Well that's just about what I was with the Morning Journal as a reporter with 15 years under my bell I'd seen it all in a couple of chapters is that nobody's supposed to see people with people on stop caring someone morning I want him to the office it was Tuesday I knew it was Tuesday because it was the

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