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Vanishing Lady

Suspense · April 7, 1957 · 28 min · 4,049 words

The transcript of “Vanishing Lady”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast April 7, 1957. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Spent. Radio is outstanding theater of thrills. William and Robeson. The story you're about to hear is unique. It is horrible. It is filled with terror. And it may or may not be true. In any case, every time a world's fair is held in Paris, it reappears in the papers and magazines around the globe

as a news story and travels by word of mouth to the ends of the Earth as a true story. True or false, heard for the first time or twice told, We believe this great classic of terror will keep you in suspense.

Listen then, as Miss Vanessa Brown stars in The Vanishing Lady, which begins exactly one minute from now. Sometimes a man can have too high an opinion of himself. Sometimes that opinion can drive him to great deeds.

Here now is one of America's legendary heroes to tell you of some of his unique characteristics. his adjectives seem a bit outlandish, remember that his image was an inspiration to a pioneering people, and he still affects a nation addicted to TV.

I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half horse, half alligator, a leapful touched with the snapping turtle, can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust, can whip my week in wild cats and if a gentleman breezes for a ten dollar bill he may throw in a panther.

I can hug a bear too close for comfort and beat any man opposed to Jackson. Folklore belongs to every nation's legendary past. And I guess we Americans have our share of some tall ones. The story you are about to hear first appeared in the pages of the Detroit Free Press.

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