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Who can turn the world on with her smile?

Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?

Well, it's you, girl, and you should know it.

With each glance and every little movement you show it, love is all

need to waste it. You can never tell, why don't you take it?

You're gonna make it after all.

You're gonna make it after all.

byways and icy streets.

So we at WJM -TV urge you to do your bit and drive carelessly.

Did I really hear that or was it just my imagination?

I hear what?

Well, no, it must have been my imagination. Did I hear what I just

Yeah, I think you did.

Five, four, three, two.

That'll be for me.

Yes, Sam.

Yes.

I heard that.

No, no.

We're not advocating reckless driving, Sam.

No, no. It's just that Baxter's mouth is accident prone.

Yes, Sam. Yes, I do plan to do something about it.

Yes. Right now.

Yes, Sam.

Good show tonight, guys.

See if you can read this.

You're fried.

You're fired!

What for?

Because you can't even read this!

Seems like a pretty small thing. Did you hear what you said in your sign -off?

Well, I wasn't paying much attention. I'll look and see.

Department of Public Safety expects a record in the coming holiday weekend due

to crowded ice.

Will your WGM urge you to do your bit and drive carelessly? You did it again.

did it again. I could give him ten shots at it, but you'd still say carelessly

every time, wouldn't you?

Well, sure. That's what it says.

If it's wrong, it's not my fault. It's Murray's.

You're hired.

I'm hired?

You're hired.

Not so fast, Lou.

You just fired me.

If you want to hire me, it'll have to be for more money.

More money. That's right.

But first you're going to have to say, I'm sorry, Ted.

I'm sorry, Ted.

All right, now let's talk about money.

How much?

You humiliated me in front of my staff, Lou. You said harsh, uncomplimentary

things which are unfounded and uncalled for. How much? Ten bucks a week be okay?

You got it.

Thanks, Lou.

That worked out pretty good, eh, guys?

I just didn't yawn at you. I tried to yawn away from you. You missed.

Well, I'm sorry, Lou, but... Well, you know what it's like when you feel a yawn

coming on and you don't want to yawn and you try not to yawn. You know what it's

like, don't you?

Yeah, a yawn. You see, you're just kidding yourself.

Maria! Why are we wasting my time talking about your yawns?

I just had to apologize to Ted out there. I don't like to apologize to Ted.

like to chew Ted out.

And I don't like it when I chew Ted out and find out I'm wrong.

Am I boring you?

Will you stop that?

I just told you, when you try to stop, you can't.

If I can stop, you can stop, and I'm stopping.

See? No yawning.

The next time you make a mistake on Baxter's copy, I'll dock you the extra

I had to pay him.

Okay, that's all.

You know, that's terrific, Lou, the way you can just not yawn like that. Just

takes wall power, that's all. Just like that? Just like that.

Everything okay?

Yeah, sure, fine, thanks.

Good night, Mary.

Good night, Mr. Grant. Good night, Lou.

a mistake like that ever got on the air.

It was my fault, Murray. I didn't have a chance to check your copy.

You've been checking my copy?

Well,

I wasn't going to say anything about it, but... Well, okay, now that nobody has

mentioned it, for the last couple of weeks, I can not only see that something

bothering you, Murray, I can read it. You mean you've been covering for me,

Murray? We've all been covering for you, Murray.

Usually I manage to capture typos, but once in a while something slips by me.

perfect, you know.

Don't take it too hard.

You do a good job in other ways.

See you Monday, all.

To have to take that from him and to know he is right.

Hey, Murray, something is bothering you, isn't it?

Why do you say that?

Well, it's not just the mistakes in your copies. I mean, you just don't seem

yourself. You seem tired.

Yeah, well, I guess I am a little tired.

Hey, look, I'm sorry.

I shouldn't be prying like this. I mean, you and I are good friends, and if you

want to tell me something, you will. And in the meantime, it's your problem,

right? Right.

It isn't any, you know, kind of trouble at home, is it? Oh, no.

As a matter of fact, we and I are going to celebrate our 10th wedding

anniversary in two weeks.

How terrific.

When are you going to get her?

Well, I always buy her something big.

But she's so practical, she always returns it and gets something small. So

thought this year I'd just get her something small to begin with. A what?

A compact car.

A car?

Yeah. I've been moonlighting at night to try to come up with a down payment.

Maybe that's why I'm so tired.

Murray, you got another job?

For a month now.

I think it's catching up with me.

I think it's winning.

Yeah, but I guess in a week I'll have the down payment. In two weeks I'll have

a... enough to buy a tank full of gas.

Well, what's the job, anyway?

Uh, what?

I said, what's the new job?

Oh, well, um, teaching, uh, basic news writing, night school.

Hey, Murray, I didn't know you could teach. Well, neither did I, but I always

wanted to try, so... Oh, well, listen, you can count on me to cover for you.

Thanks, Mary.

And I know you can count on Ted.

I'm as good as fried already.

Oh, that's great, yeah.

So, who did you see tonight?

Well, I'll get to that. First, let me tell you about my date.

You remember that computer technician?

The one whose hands were programmed for touching and grabbing?

Yeah, I think so. The one you said you wouldn't go out with again in a million

years? Yeah, well, it's amazing how fast a million years can go by.

So, is that who you're going to tell me you ran into?

No, no, I'm coming to that. First, let me tell you where he took me on the

Get this.

A dry... in movie.

Rhoda, who goes to a drive -in movie in the winter?

He does.

He figures if you get cold enough... Mr.

Subtle. Mary, six times he presses the reclining seat button, I find myself

looking up at the roof of the car instead of the screen.

What'd you do?

I called the cab.

So you took a cab home from a drive -in movie?

Yeah. How about that? Another first for the kid, right?

So listen, I get in the cab, I give the address, and the driver grunts and

stops. off without even glancing around i mean he just looks straight ahead all

i can see are these eyes staring at me in the rearview mirror mary whose eyes

were they uh rhoda whose eyes were they well i'm coming to that so as we're

driving along i quick remember what my mother always told me when you get in a

cab always check the little picture of the driver and memorize his hack number

just in case you have to identify him in a police lineup right yeah which i did

I memorized the picture and the number. Which brings me to who I saw tonight.

Oh, good.

93628. Oh, good.

The driver was Murray.

Murray?

My Murray?

Yeah, from the newsroom.

Would you... Well, that's impossible, Murray. He's teaching at night.

Yeah? Well, tell him the ashtrays are full in his classroom.

The man was embarrassed to have me see him. So I didn't say anything.

Oh, I wonder. I don't know, Mia, but I'll tell you, I feel very bad

about the whole thing. Bad about what? Seeing him? No.

Not tipping him.

What's his habit?

Mary.

How about some coffee?

Oh, no, thanks. It keeps me... Mary, will you get

these revised tickets? Here's the sales.

Yes, sir. Say, Lou, while we're at it, I'd like my dressing room painted.

What do you mean, while we're at it? I mean about last Friday night, you know,

little talk about the apology and the raise.

Well, I've decided I want my dressing room painted.

Now, for me to give you anything else, Murray's going to have to make another

big mistake so that I make a big mistake and fire you for his mistake.

But Murray's not going to make another mistake.

And if I fire you, the next time it's not going to be a mistake.

Did I say good morning, Lou?

Morning, Ted.

Morning, Mary.

Morning, Ted. Morning, Murr.

Speaking of good morning, Murr, where is he?

Start that again.

Mary.

Oh, thanks. Mary, look, I got to talk to you about what happened last night. You

mean about Rhoda recognizing you? Mary, why didn't you tell me you were driving

a cab?

I kept your secret.

Well, I know, but, well, I told Marie I was teaching night school, and it just

seems simpler if I told everybody that so she wouldn't find out by mistake.

Well, boy, you sure picked a tough way to earn extra money. I'll say.

I was robbed last night.

What? Right after Rhoda got out of my cab.

Yeah, and that's not the worst part.

I had to go to the police station to file the report, which made me later

usual getting home. And I couldn't call and tell Marie where I was.

Well, you should have told her anyway.

No. I was afraid she'd get upset and mad because I was trying to make that extra

money for her present, you know, and make me stop.

You know what she's like. She'd be worried I was going to get robbed or

silly thing like that.

Did I just say what I just said? Yes, you did.

Well, anyway, she was worried because I wasn't home on time. She called the

night school and they said they never heard of me. So she found out you were

driving a cab anyway, right? Worse than that.

Marie doesn't believe I was driving a cab at all these nights.

Mary.

Marie is convinced that I am having an affair with someone.

Oh, that is worse.

With you.

Oh, more worse.

You and me having an affair?

Oh, Murray, did you tell Marie how absolutely ridiculous, how unlikely that

Sure.

So I told her I was driving cabs at night to make extra money, and she said,

what do we need the extra money for?

I just couldn't tell her. Well, Murray, I think you should.

No. Then quit that other job. Give her the car when you've saved enough for the

down payment. But, Murray, please tell Marie you and I are not having an

heard the latest scuttlebutt?

No, what is the latest scuttlebutt, Ted?

Mary and Murray.

They're not having an affair.

No kidding.

Two people in this newsroom are not having an affair.

Hmm, got any more bombshells like that?

Call it, call it, call it.

I didn't realize you were busy. I'm not, I'm not. Come in, come in.

Well, Mr.

Grant, I was just wondering if it would be all right if I leave before the show

is over tonight to have something sort of personal to take care of.

But if you say that it's not all right, that will be all right. I don't know,

Lois. A lot of people seem to be taking advantage of you lately.

One of these days, I'm going to ask to leave the show before it's over.

You know, I just may take him up on that.

Go ahead, Murray, and I'll hold down the fort.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Well, it's about the Murray problem.

I don't want to hear there is a Murray problem. But, Mr. Grant... No, no, no.

You handle it, not me. But that's what I'm trying to do. Fine, fine. You just

ahead and do it. As long as it doesn't involve me.

Murray, is he sleeping on his typewriter?

Maybe he's just resting.

Or maybe after all these years of pounding a typewriter, he finally got

and is looking inside it to see what makes him go.

Mr. Grant, he's sleeping.

Mr. Grant, look, I don't usually go trying into people's personal affairs,

before you get mad at Murray, there's something you ought to know.

Murray is working nights driving a cab to earn extra money.

Why didn't he just come and tell me he needed more money?

Then I could have told him why... I can't give it to him.

But see, Mr. Frank, he's trying to earn the money so he can afford to give his

wife a really sensational 10th wedding anniversary present.

I mean, isn't that just the darlingest, the nicest thing you ever heard of?

Mary,

a man shouldn't have to go through what he's going through to buy his wife a

present. Right.

A man shouldn't have to exhaust himself driving a cab.

so that his work suffers and he gets chewed out by a hard -nosed guy like me?

Oh, Mr. Grant, I'm just so glad to hear you feel this way. Oh, I do, I do.

So you tell Murray to either quit that other job or he's had it.

But, Mr. Grant... Mary, I have a newsroom to run here, right?

Murray.

See? Just one little cat nap and I'm fresh as a daisy.

Only six more days of this, Mayor, and I'm home free.

Murray. Yes, Mayor.

Listen, I know you wouldn't have wanted me to, but I told Mr.

Grant about your other job.

You did?

Yeah. See, I figured if he knew why you've been so tired lately, then you

wouldn't be under so much pressure.

Mary, you're a doll. You're terrific to do that for me.

What can I say?

Well,

you could say, Mary, why don't you mind your own business?

What?

Mr. Grant said you've got to quit that other job or you had it. You're kidding.

No.

Why couldn't I just leave bad enough alone?

Mary, it's not your fault. You meant well. Really, it's okay.

Yeah, well, now what are you going to do? I don't know.

Either way, I lose. If I keep going for the car, I lose my job here.

And if I don't go for the car, Marie will never believe that you and I aren't

having an affair.

Hey, Marie, could you answer something for me? Why does she think it's me?

I don't know. Who else is there?

Besides, she said I talk about you all the time.

You know, it must be hard for a wife to understand that her husband and a single

woman can be just friends.

Yeah, but we are.

I know.

Now, how could she think that you would do a thing like that?

Oh, boy, I can't wait till next week when I give her that car and see that

on her face.

Is she gonna feel rotten?

He's home.

Yes, wasn't it?

with anyone especially me because he's not look Mary you might think that I am

just a little naive housewife but I know what goes on in those newsrooms

And you should have seen the looks we got coming out of the movie.

Marie, the thing is, you know, as irresistible as Marie is, there are some

dumb women in this world who don't love Yul Brynner, you know, or even Paul

Newman. And I guess I'm just one of those women.

I told you, so you've got to promise me, yes, you will never tell him, or I

can't tell you, and that's a shame because it's a great secret. You're

love it. I will?

Yes.

Well, okay. I promise.

Okay. Murray has been driving a cab at night so that he can buy you a new car

for your anniversary.

That's why he couldn't tell you.

Promise you'll never tell Murray I told you or it'll ruin his whole surprise.

Oh, right.

I had to quit that other job before I got all the money I needed.

Oh.

So I'm not going to get a car?

No, no, you're going to get a car. You're just not going to get... What I

to say is, remember our second anniversary in 1963?

And I wanted to buy you that new car, but you said, no, you didn't think we

could afford it? Yes.

Well, I finally got you that car.

Just be going, sir.

I can, you know, see myself.

So, you know, goodbye.

On the local scene, a hotly debated Tipler's tax caused considerable

the city council today. The proposed heavy tax on liquor is certain to become

controversial issue during the upcoming election in Champaign.

He did, Mr. Grant. He really did.

Look, here's a copy of the news copy.