How Long Is the Night
Suspense · October 13, 1952 · 29 min · 3,568 words
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Auto-light in its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Richard Widmark in tonight's presentation of suspense Tonight auto-light presents the true story of a world of the dead It's the documented account of one man left alone on a tiny Pacific Island a wasteland of no living thing an Island made of a free square miles of fear
The story is called how long is the night our star Richard Widmark? Well, frost my beard and call me Winter if it's not Johnny Plug Check. Yep, I'm here again and you know what that means.
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To quickly learn the location of your nearest AutoLite Sparkplug dealer, phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with AutoLite. And now, auto-light presents transcribed, how long is the night?
A true story starring Mr. Richard with Mark, and hoping once again to keep you in suspense. It was no different than any other night. It was hot. The same warm wind blew up from the south end of the island.
Along the west beach a line of dirty white foam spread out where the breakers came up on the sand. The moon had already gone down. the lagoon there was nothing. No lights, no sounds. It was the same as the day before.
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