Night Man
Suspense · October 23, 1960 · 29 min · 3,071 words
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Now another tale well calculated to keep you in. Most of us live out our lives in quiet desperation. We set by nameless spheres plagued by unconscious guilt. We adjust our neuroses to reality as best we may and somehow stay clear of the loony band.
A fortunate is he who knows what frightens him. but then he can do something about it, as does the young lady in the story you're about to hear. Certainly, there's nothing like action to dispel anxiety.
And any psychiatrist can tell you that if you face up to your peer, it usually disappears. Or does it? Well, we'll find out, as in the moment we listen to Night Man, written for suspense by Lucille Fletcher.
The time, election night, 1956. The place? The B.R. selection headquarters in New York, Robert Frock speaking. This is the way the total popular vote looks to President at 730 Eastern Standard Time. 30 minutes past 7 in New York, Eisenhower, has 222,000 votes.
Stevenson has 196,000 votes. An early tabulation, four years ago election night. That story is history, and once again election year has rolled around. Election night swiftly approaches, and Robert Trock will serve as anchor man for CBS News Election Headquarters.
With him will be a staff of top CBS Newsmen to analyze major trends, Edward R. Murrow, Bull Thomas, and Eric Severai, to relay the overall progress of the vote, Blair Clark. Howard Ted K. Smith will interpret electronic computer data.
Night long, get election story from top ranking CBS News on CBS Radio. At Miss Rose, it's impossible. This is a maximum security prison. We haven't had an escape in years. Well, you have one now, Warden. Tom Nixon.
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