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Miracle on 49th Street

The Whistler · December 31, 1945 · 29 min · 3,980 words

The transcript of “Miracle on 49th Street”, an episode of The Whistler first broadcast December 31, 1945. 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, for 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 by independent research the most popular program on the West Coast. Remember, let every traffic signal remind you, with new signal gasoline you do go farther than ever. Look for the familiar big yellow and black circle sign that identifies those

popular signal service stations in seven western states from Canada to Mexico. And And now the Whistler's strange story, Miracle on 49th Street. No one knew better than Eddie Steckold that it would take a miracle to save him this time.

He'd been up on murder counts before, but this was going to be the toughest one he'd ever faced. The prosecution had drawn all the high cards. His old friend district attorney Matthews had sworn to get him.

And Matthews would never let this one slip through his fingers in a million years. Yes, it would take a miracle, and Eddie was smart enough to recognize it. But it was only by grace of luck and a brilliant lawyer that he was out on bail, with only two weeks until the formal indictment.

But Eddie wasn't one to give up easily, even when the odds were a million to one against him. Miracles had happened before, they could happen again, even in a place like Hardy's drugstore on 49th Street, even to a character like his friend Dutch.

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