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Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. March and the young winds of spring begin their reconnaissance of Broadway, the probing action for places to set up shop, a push cart of the flower vendor, for instance, whose numbed fingers wrapped clusters of frost-burned buds in yesterday's newspaper, February's newspaper, and in stray of…

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In Spring Death Is 'Round the Corner, Detective Danny Clover finds himself in the heart of Broadway, a place filled with vibrant life yet shadowed by despair. The episode opens with Clover investigating a disturbing scene in a rooming house where Harry Carson, an elderly man, is discovered rocking silently in a chair, clutching a fired gun. His landlady, driven to distraction by his behavior, calls for help, prompting Clover's arrival. As he tries to reach Carson, it becomes clear that the man is trapped in his own world, unable to articulate the turmoil within.

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BIMB 53-03-07 (155) Spring Death Is `Round the Corner.mp3

Broadway Is My Beat, Episode 155

Spring Death Is `Round the Corner

Saturday, March 7, 1953 · 29:05

Broadway Is My Beat, Episode 155

Spring Death Is `Round the Corner

Saturday, March 7, 1953 · 29:05

Summary

Detective Danny Clover investigates the mysterious behavior of Harry Carson, an elderly man found in a state of shock with a fired gun tucked in his belt. As Clover delves deeper, he uncovers dark family secrets that threaten to unravel everything.

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