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Subway Stop

Suspense · May 11, 1958 · 24 min · 3,107 words

The transcript of “Subway Stop”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast May 11, 1958. 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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Thus Spence, and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. It is relatively easy to tell a tale of terror and suspense against an exotic faraway background.

India say, with its decoys and fakirs, or China with its death of a thousand exquisite tortures, or Paris with its appache sleeping under the bridges. Since few of us have ever been there, the author, who probably hasn't been there either, can speak freely.

But it is an infinitely more difficult task to take the everyday environment with which we are all familiar and tell against it a tale of terror that could happen to any one of us. Such a task has been brilliantly accomplished by Arthur Zagluris in the story of suspense you are about to hear.

Listen, listen then, skip home IR stars in Subway Stop, which begins in exactly one minute. What are some of the symbols for heroism? One outstanding example is a cross of bronze, with the design of a four-bladed propeller superimposed.

In the background is a chaste square. This is the Distinguished Flying Cross, authorized by Act of Congress in July 1926, and the only identical metal awarded under similar conditions by both the army and navy departments.

This coveted decoration is suspended from a plain straight link attached to a blue ribbon with vertical white stripes on each side and a narrow center stripe of red boarded with white. It is awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight.

the famous men receiving this outstanding symbol have been Captain Charles A. Lindberg and Admiral Richard E. Byrd. The distinguished flying crosses a proud award bestowed by a grateful nation on those dedicated men and women who serve gallantly and with extra measure.

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