A good story about an old man who writes in the sand at night the date people are ging to die. Kate Smith makes an appeal for the Third War Loan (she's been on the air all day). Arch Oboler announces that next week's show will be the last of the series and that he plans to kill himself off! The script was used previously on "Arch Oboler Presents" on April 13, 1939, November 25, 1939 (see cat. #104505) and subsequently on September 5, 1945 (cat. #65739) and December 19, 1964 (cat. #16887).
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