Save the Tiger

... ten years of combat and more than

1,000 holes from enemy fire...

Patches, the ancient C-123...

used for spraying chemical defoliants

in Vietnam is being retired.

Patches will leave Saigon

and is destined for exhibition...

at the Air Force Museum at Wright-

Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

The plane's last pilot,

Captain Orin Smith stated:

"We'll miss her. She was a tough old bird."

Preliminary reports on last night's tragedy...

at Glendale Boulevard indicate

a 16-foot section of the main gas line...

had been damaged in the recent tremor.

The structural weakening

in the three foot wide pipe...

had evidently escaped detection.

Eight bodies have been recovered

as of 2:
00 a.m. Fires continue.

On the local weather scene...

we can expect temperatures

in the low to mid 70s.

The Los Angeles County Air Pollution

District reports heavy smog...

in the Basin today

with light eye irritation predicted.

Carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide

will be.30 parts per million.

The APCD again cautions against

strenuous activity for school children.

Now, let me show you something

for man's best friend.

Any dog will lick his chops

for Granny's Grenadine Beef.

- Why, it'll make your dog sit up and...

- Sh*t.

- You don't want any toast?

- Nada, nothing.

When's the funeral?

Thursday.

Sorry about the airport thing.

Hard to believe Uncle Bernie's dead.

God, what a bastard.

Screwed everybody.

How long are you gonna be gone?

A week, 10 days.

Do we have to?

You screamed in your sleep.

That's the second time this week.

Yeah.

See Dr. Frankfurter.

He'd tell me it's repressed sex.

Maybe it is.

- It's Willie.

- Who?

Willie. The guy downtown

that parks my car is Willie.

- Kamu died.

- He died a long time ago.

No, not him. Kamu the whale.

Been swimming against the current

for three years.

- What current?

- And it damaged...

The current in the tank at Pacific World

and the friction damaged his dorsal fin.

It's a shame,

a beautiful animal like that dead.

I took Audrey to see him once

on her birthday, remember?

I don't know how old she was,

Harry, you insulted Dr. Sorrel last night.

Insulted? What insult?

Drinking my booze

and climbing all over my wife.

- It's insecurity. He's insecure.

- Insecure.

He's got everything up front

except trumpets.

He happens to be a very fine doctor.

A lot of people are using him.

A lot of people are using him.

I still like Doc Fisher.

Fisher still uses leeches. He's an old man.

Yeah, old and smart. He can diagnose

hemorrhoids through a suit of armor.

Those things look worse than ever.

Wouldn't hurt to have them checked again.

Yeah. That nine year old kid, Judy Miller...

they're gonna let her play baseball

with the boys. How'd you like that.

Father had to go to court but they're

gonna let her play, I think it's terrific.

Who the hell notices at that age?

If the kid's a good ball player,

what's the difference if she's a girl?

Father must be a hell of a guy,

he took it all the way to court, huh?

You used to love baseball. Why don't

you go to a game once in a while?

They play but they don't play

on dirt anymore, they play on plastic.

Ballplayers are a bunch of antiseptic kids.

They don't chew tobacco.

Don't use their spikes. In the old days

they'd slide in high, man...

those spikes'd take your face right off.

The pitchers don't wind up any more.

My God, they used to wind up.

Johnny Vander Meer, remember that

crazy mad Dutchman?

Oh, my God, was that pitching!

Course he was a southpaw. Casey!

Jesus, Hugh Casey. Lumbering out from

that bullpen, chewing on his tobacco.

Cool.

He'd get out there under pressure...

he'd throw a sinker

that would just fall right off a cliff.

Ran out of his stuff, he'd throw

his balls up to the plate.

God damn, they were something!

They were really something.

Harry?

What?

See Dr. Frankfurter.

Frankfurter couldn't throw a strike

from two feet.

- Hypnosis, hypnosis is the thing.

- Bullshit.

They can tell a lot from dreams.

- You're worried.

- Cuban Pete never worries.

- You're worried.

- I don't know why.

It only costs me $200

a day to get out of bed.

- $200 a day?

- That's what the accountant tells me...

with everything, $200 a day.

There's the taxes, insurance...

automobiles and a gardener

and a pool man...

and a tree surgeon, for Christ's sake.

And Carmela, and house payments

and a Swiss school...

$200 a day.

And downtown, that's another story.

Got to finance the new line

and money's tight.

Textile mills to pay, payroll to meet.

And we may be audited.

- Audited for what?

- Last year, we...

did a little ballet with the books.

- What does Phil say?

- He's worried.

He's always worried.

Listen, when you get back from New York...

why don't we fly over to Geneva

and see the kid?

Harry, she's better off over there.

Europe is civilized.

Things are too crazy in this country.

A man came out of Mario's Restaurant...

someone walked up and shot him to death.

They didn't even know each other.

That's just a few blocks away.

Maybe we could get a brigade of

Cambodians to patrol Beverly Hills.

Mexican maids could cook their rice.

- She's better off in Switzerland.

- I miss her, I miss the kid.

Keep hearing that song from Babar...

The Elephant's Song.

Harry, they are shooting horse

in the toilets at the high school!

Cuban Pete's daughter doesn't shoot horse.

It's funny, every time one of us leaves,

I wish we'd made it.

I'm not going to Mars.

Yeah, I know that but you know,

all these hijackings.

Those monster jets, I don't know how

the hell they get up and down.

In the old days you could see

the propellers spinning...

out there on the wings,

you knew what kept it up.

That's a happy thought.

I really need that before I...

I just meant that I wish

we'd made it last night.

You left me with the company. By the

time I got to bed you were out cold.

We still should've.

You could've woke me up,

what would I have missed? A nightmare.

Every time one of us goes to the airport

you start getting romantic.

Promise me you'll see Dr. Frankfurter.

Harry?

- I'm serious about Frankfurter.

- Yeah.

I should've been a ballplayer.

With my arm, I could've made Brooklyn.

Chicago, anyway.

First base:
Dolph Camilli.

Second base:
Pete Coscarart.

Durocher at short, Cookie Lavagetto at third.

God, that was something, really something.

... Soviet poet has been re-committed...

to the state mental institution in Leningrad...

Children learning American history...

only a few feet from a mortuary.

Strange? Perhaps.

But Pleasant Heaven believes

in life as well as death.

Take your...

Oh, yeah.

Come on.

- Thanks a lot, mister.

- Okay.

- Where are you going?

- Nowhere.

What does that mean?

I stay on the Strip. I ride back and forth.

- All day?

- All day.

I didn't know people still did that.

Well, I'm just an old-fashioned girl.

- How old are you?

- Twenty.

Nobody's 20.

- I get off at Crescent Heights, all right?

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