Lovely Look
The Whistler · November 21, 1948 · 29 min · 4,304 words
The transcript of “Lovely Look”, an episode of The Whistler first broadcast November 21, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Whistler plays The Whistler free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The Signal Oil Program, the Whistler. That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil Program, the Whistler. I am the Whistler, and I know many things before I walk by night. I know many strange tales, hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.
Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. Yes friends, it's time for the Signal Oil program, the Whistler, rated tops in popularity for a longer period of time than any other West Coast program in radio history.
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And now the chrysler strange story. The lovely look. It began quietly, matter of factly. Child Belden would have found it difficult to trace it back to the exact moment when he began to feel as he did toward the girl.
Certainly it wasn't love at first sight. Somehow he could still tell himself that he was beyond that sort of thing. There's a respectable married man and the competent manager of the London importing firm, founded by his wife's father.
He'd accomplished a certain reputation. But he did remember the first time they met. Some of the words they spoke, the way she looked at it. It was a Sunday morning cold, unpleasant. The familiar half fog shrouding the house.
He'd gone outside. He didn't know why, to sniff the damp sea air and speculate on the weather. Or perhaps because there was as much companionship and loneliness as in listening to Helen. After nine years, Helen was so very predictable.
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