The Bet

Now, the Romo Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... Suspense! Tonight, Romo Wines bring you Mr. Lee J. Cobb, a star of The Bet. A suspense play produced, edited and directed for Romo Wines, my William Spare.

The Spence, Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Romo Wines. That's R-O-M-A, Romo Wines. Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, for your happiness and entertaining guests, for your enjoyment of everyday meals.

Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma wines bring you Mr. Lee J. Cobb, in a remarkable tale of... suspense! Haunted. Yes, I'm haunted. It's a year now, and I can't erase the memory of that precipice of a really nearly step from from that darkness into which I almost plunged.

Or maybe I took the plunge and I'm in it now in the dark. It doesn't usually happen in my business, but what's the use of talking about it? You'd only say I'm just susceptible. And I'd say, you're right.

I am susceptible to faces and places, to women's faces, one woman's face, and to lost dark places on what I call the rim of the world. Places like Sierra Leone, Saigon Balsour, places like Trinidad.

What you won't get it from reading atlases and maps. If you read, for instance, that the seasons of Trinidad are regular, wet from May to January, drive from the end of January to May, the average annual rainfall 63 inches, You won't understand how I saw it when I landed at Port of Spain in April, the dry season.

I remember it was a day so clear and bright that it was a world under glance. And I liked it. I liked the harbor, cathedrals, the old streets, the dry, spiced air, and that little shop I wanted into to get away from the glaze of a sun.