Radio: Hackensack's Shame

'Brian! Naughty!" scolded Mrs. Ralph Bell, wagging a finger at her 2½-year-old son. She went to .the radio and snapped it off. "How many times must I tell you, you must never listen to your father on the radio!"

The next moment, listeners all over the U.S. heard father's voice. Father said: "I'm going to let you have it in the belly, see, so you can bleed to death nice and slow."

Father's flat, sinister voice is probably the most familiar and vicious in radio's rogues' gallery. It seems that scarcely a crime is committed...

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