Dateline - Lisbon
Suspense · October 5, 1944 · 29 min · 4,897 words
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Now, Roma wines present, suspense. Night, date line, Lisbon, starring John Horiac. Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma wines. That's R-O-M-A Roma wines.
Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. To your happiness and entertaining guests. to your enjoyment of everyday meals. Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant.
As Roma wines bring you... SUSPENSE! This is the man in black, here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California, who tonight from Hollywood bring you a star, the rising new film personality whose performance you admired in Lifeboat, and whom you will soon be seeing co-starring with Lana Turner in MGM's GM's marriage is a private affair. Mr. John Horryack. For our suspense play this evening,
we ask you to project time into the not-too-distant future. And so with Dateline, Lisbon, and with the performance of John Horryack as William Baldwin, we again hope to keep you in suspense. Your name? William Baldwin. Occupation? I was a foreign correspondent. At the time that of the murder which you were charged? Around that time, yes. I see. Now, Mr. Baldwin,
would you be good enough to tell the court where you were in October 5, 1944? I was in Lisbon, Portugal. Can't you be more specific? Look, when you say I was in Lisbon during the invasion, you've told most of your story right there. You know the place. Yes, we know it.
I should say that at one time or another during the course of the war, most of us here had occasion to pass through that port. That was the big way station, all right? The neutral terminal for the boys who worked for the allies, those lined up with the Axis.
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