To Please a Lady Page #7

with a well-known coffee king.

Now his wife's really got grounds.

"The very rich, very social...

...and not too young

Mrs. Theodore Crampton Coburg...

...who just gave birth

amidst much fanfare...

...had a $20,000 layette,

five doctors in attendance...

...and members of the press waiting

with baited breath.

The baby is quite normal after all.

It only had one head. "

Now to bring you up-to-date

on our old friend, Barrington.

Get me long distance.

"He was indicted yesterday

on 14 counts of fraud.

His gold-plated battery

of high-pressure lawyers...

...have sprung him under $ 100,000 bail,

but his freedom is only temporary.

Today they warned him he'll be lucky

if they can get him off with 25 years.

You've got away with it before...

...but you can't Sing Sing your way

out of this one.

And to all men, never forget,

the sweet things you don't say to her...

...will be said by someone else.

Good night. "

"Listen to Regina Forbes every week,

same time, same station.

And remember,

there's no oil like Magnum Oil...

...the oil that's easy on your engine. "

We're off.

- We ran long. Did I come over all right?

- You're always wonderful.

- There's a long-distance call for you.

- Can't you take care of it?

I will if you like. It's Mike Brannan.

Hello? Yes, it is.

You won again today, didn't you?

Congratulations.

Thanks. That winds up the season.

Haven't we got a date now?

If we have, I'll come to New York.

If not, I'll go on to Toledo.

I wouldn't go to Toledo.

Shall we make it tomorrow night at 8?

I'll pick you up.

How do I find your apartment?

Why don't you try the phone book?

Nice to hear from you again. Goodbye.

- That sounded like a neat brushoff.

- Yes.

I thought I did very well.

Thanks.

How many times have I seen you?

Oh, three or four, I don't know.

You look better each time.

You do too.

- What was that for?

- I just wanted to do it.

You're quite a guy, aren't you?

There's nobody like you.

What do you mean by that?

Oh, you're not just any dame.

- Did you think I was?

- Sure. I told you, remember?

Most dames, you're out for a few laughs,

a couple of drinks.

Spend a little time with them

and then forget them.

Doesn't work that way with you.

Doesn't it?

Stick around you long enough

and something could happen.

It happened a long time ago, Mike.

- You know that as well as I do.

- I know it.

I beg your pardon, Miss Forbes,

your office is on the line.

I don't wanna talk to them now.

Thank you.

Oh, that might be important.

It can't be as important as this.

You mean I'm important to you?

More than you know.

Oh, but you've got a big job, baby.

A wonderful way of living.

You're somebody.

Mike, don't you know?

You're nobody until somebody loves you.

I know it now.

- I never thought about that before.

- I hadn't either.

We don't, you know.

Not people like you and me.

We're alike in a lot of ways.

But not in others.

Well, that's what makes it good.

Maybe it can keep us apart.

You know...

...there are some things about you

I can't figure.

One has always bothered me.

- Yeah? What's that?

- You won't like it.

It's something you said that night

at Newark:

"It's happened before,

it will happen again. "

You still believe I killed that guy,

don't you?

I didn't say that.

Of course not, but it's on your mind.

It keeps coming up.

Where you're concerned, I'll always be

like a man acquitted of murder.

You look at him and you wonder...

...did he or didn't he?

You can never be sure, absolutely sure.

I'd be sure if it never happened again.

If it happened again,

I'd do the same thing again.

- You'd deliberately ride a man into a wreck?

- That's what you believe I did, isn't it?

It isn't what I believe, it's what I saw.

It's what you did.

What do you want me to do,

kill myself to please you?

Well, now you see the thing

that can keep us apart.

Yes, you thought I was a heel.

Well, give it time.

Maybe I'll prove you're right.

You should have gone to Toledo.

I couldn't stay away from you.

Miss Forbes, your office is on

the line again. It's Mr. Gregg.

I'll take it now.

Yes, Gregg?

I'll be right over. Thank you.

I have to go back to the office.

Something I have to take care of.

I'm sorry, but maybe it's just as well.

- I'll take you. Check, please.

- Yes, sir.

Could we say goodbye here?

Sure.

Mike, it looks like

everything stops right here.

Some things don't stop so easy.

Don't ever forget...

...you're still quite a guy.

Goodbye.

You couldn't have

taken care of this yourself, I suppose?

I don't okay the column anymore...

...not since that blow-off

about your boyfriend. Your own orders.

Oh, did the two of you

have a pleasant evening?

You told me there was nothing in that.

I don't think that's

any business of yours.

I think it is. Anything that interferes

with the column is my business.

Ask the City Room to send up a copy boy

right away, please. Thank you.

You know, I've been watching

all this adolescent by-play...

...this double talk on the telephone.

Cheering him on.

So I cheered, who wouldn't?

He deserved it after what I did.

You did nothing to him. You called

him a killer, exactly what he is.

He had to be to drive a tank,

to do the things he got medals for doing.

Oh, I wouldn't bring up his war record

if I were you.

That man has to have

an extra dose of viciousness in him.

- It comes over him in a race.

- That's guts, not viciousness.

It's more than that.

He was involved in two fatal crackups.

Be a third and fourth

if he doesn't kill himself.

There's a deadly instinct in him.

Kill or be killed. Him or me.

Win. A man like that

doesn't realize it's in him.

- A man can change.

- He can't change. He'll never change.

And if you have any idea

you can change him, forget it.

Stay away from him, Reggie.

That will be easy. He's on his way to Toledo

getting his car ready for Indianapolis.

Indianapolis? He'll go all out to win.

There's where you'll see

what I've been trying to tell you.

I won't see anything.

I don't plan on being there.

This is Ted Husing bringing you the fifth day

of the qualifying trials here at Indianapolis.

Sixty-eight cars entered for the famous

500-mile classic on Decoration Day...

...but only the 33 fastest cars can start.

Tomorrow is the last day of qualifying

and everything is at high pitch here.

Everybody is under tension.

But the weather's pretty bad.

Storm clouds have blown up

and I think it's going to rain.

That'll end the qualifying trials

for the day.

On the track, Neuhouser is on his last lap,

burning up the track at 129 miles per hour.

And here he is, finishing very fast.

Thunderclouds over north look very mean.

- Any messages?

- They're on the desk.

And another car waiting to go out.

The Brannan Special, Number 17,

driven by Mike Brannan.

Officials are warning

if he doesn't get on the track now...

...rain will stop him going out at all.

He's stalling. Gambling on the weather.

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