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The Alder Matter - Ep 1

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · August 6, 1956 · 14 min · 2,269 words

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From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Deller. Vic Kelly, Johnny, worldwide mutual. How's your Spanish? C.C., senior. Oh, mother told me to be days like this. One egg in your beer? I got to be a linguist yet?

You may have to be a lot more than that to unscramble this one. Tell me about it. Oh, price is still the same, though. Get on over here, will you? Sure, but give me a little hint. I like to start worrying early.

All right. Try this. William Billy Alder. The promoter. World's number one salesman. I'll begin down again, Alder. The same. And at this point he's up, up to his ears and vents a well in oil.

We're carrying a quarter of a million life on him. Ooh, I'd settle for the premiums, Vic. How come you're worrying? You'd worry too carrying coverage that size. Especially with all the behaving like he is.

Like? Like changing his beneficiary five times in a month. What would you say that means? Means I'll be right over. Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Oh, it's truly Johnny Dollar. From special investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office worldwide mutual insurance company Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditure is during my investigation of the older matter. Expense account item one, $1.35, the price of being taxi to Vick Kelly's office at worldwide mutual.

For a normally easygoing fellow, Mr. K had a bad case of how did I ever get into this? $250,000. That's a big policy, big. You look like the claims already been filed, smile a little, daddy.

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