Traffic Cop and Radio Star Crossed Paths in April Night
A narrator driving up Broadway drifts through a red light and meets a policeman who flirts then offers dinner. She recalls teaching piano, hopes for an audition, and muses on a former lover Corporal Charles Brent, now distant after his enlistment, imagining a possible reconnection.
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Broadway
Tom O'Neill
Law and Order
O'Neill
The
Law
Miss Follens Day School
Charlie
Charles Brent
It's the Law by Clarissa Lorenz
A narrator wearing an Easter bonnet drives through a red light and meets a traffic cop who fines her then later helps land a radio job. She learns the cop is Tom O Neill, known as The Singing Cop, and he offers her a studio tryout for The Longshop Hour. The piece blends noir tone with radio era charm.
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O'Neill
Broadway
O’neill
Beryl Thompson
Mr. Burnham
The Genius for Admiration in a Friend
A writer recalls a friend who charmed everyone by an infectious admiration for all things. He contrasts him with a fault finding companion and suggests a one day experiment: stop criticizing, seek and praise positives, and see life brighten like sunlight after a dark room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fane
Pop the Man with the Back Slap Sales Pitch
Pop, an aging advertising salesman at 68, struggles with new high pressure rivals. He clashes with Brown, the office’s top closer, and finally wins a Hereford account after a tense scene. His wife celebrates with pride over his salary boost, joking about his aggressive approach.
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Pop
Mariner
Brown
Reckless
Dad
Hereford
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Studio B
Ial
Torrow
Roy V. Price
Rerefara
Peg
Sewing Circle Needlecraft
W. Mancolph St
Lloyd E. Matthews Jr
North J St
Muskogee
Okla
Studebaker
A. D. Barr
Wagar Ave
Lakeheod
Ohio
Mercury
Margaret Bernhard
Chesterfield Rd
Columbus
J. Marshall Singer
St. Clair Ave
Orpheu
Sioux City, Iowa
Decca Records
Pe Nonin
Cena
Gert
Eer
RED Star
Serenesa
SEACO
Pem
Perries
Beach
Sioux City
Iowa
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