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The Ideal Vacation Matter (AFRTS)

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · September 22, 1957 · 20 min · 3,099 words

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From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Dollar. That McCrack and Johnny in the rest of the Adjustment Bureau. Oh, hi, Pat. Hey, I thought you were on vacation. I was, I got called back right in the middle.

Grant, the Broadway columnist. That's the one. What's he got to do with your vacation? He's heavily insured by one of the companies around the corner. The exciting adventures of a man with the action-packed expensive car.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly. Johnny Dollar. And now, Act 1 of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Spence account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Connecticut.

Following his kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of the ideal vacation matter, expense account item $1.20 for a taxi from my apartment to the Office of Universal Adjustment Bureau. What Pat McCracken was waiting for me, his face covered with sunburn and worry.

Just when I was beginning to relax and enjoy my vacation. Sit down, Johnny. Thanks. Now, what's the deal about his Ned Grant? When you say you read his column, you know, he prints some pretty blunt stuff sometimes.

Yeah. I've often wondered how he gets away with it. A couple of years ago, he dug up some evidence and a bad boy named Willie Beamus. Beamus? Beamus, yeah. The stuff he printed helped get Beamus convicted, didn't it?

Yeah, but he swore he'd get even with Ned. Oh, well, if I'm on Ned Grant's position, here's that kind of threat all the time. Besides with Beamus and Jey, what's the problem? None at all, Johnny. If he were in jail, he broke out last night.

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