Suspense · April 12, 1959 · 23 min · 2,904 words
The transcript of “Too Hot to Live”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast April 12, 1959. 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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expense and the produce for a radio's outstanding theater of thrills the master of mystery and adventure William N. Robeson. Criminologists have long seen the connection between heat, humidity and murder. They can tell you the exact hour, the exact summer day, when the most people are statistically liable to flip their lids. However, in the little prairie town where our story occurs, other
Other factors further help foster violence, the heat of course, but also ignorance and boredom and a woman. Listen, listen then as Mr. Van Hefflin stars in Too Hot to Live, which begins in just a moment.
How long has it been since you've cleaned out your bookshelves? Maybe it's time you took a look at the books you own. While you're cleaning and looking, you can be performing a valuable service to your country.
The United States wants books, lots of them, to send to interested students and readers abroad. Good books are needed to combat the flood of literature being circulated in free countries by the Russians and Chinese Communists.
Each year the Russians alone publish and distribute well over 100 million volumes of all kinds, but each volume is a messenger of mischief full of propaganda and lies about America. These books are sold at ridiculously low prices or give it away free.
You can help counteract communist propaganda with unneeded books. Most desirable are literary classics new or old, up-to-date American histories and geographies. Send all books to Books from America, Box 1960, Washington 13, DC. That address again is Books from America, Box 1960, Washington 13, DC.
And now, too hot to live, starring Mr. Van Hepplin, a tail well calculated to keep you in, suspense. The sun is starting to pucker the tar road leading in the Marcus Junction sweat, getting the squeak through my shirt.
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