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On stereo on the air at nine thirty tonight. Quiet, please. Quiet, please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet, Please for today is called A Time to Be Born and A Time to Die. To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heaven, a time to be born and a time to die. Begin. I am afraid. Begin, I say. I am born. I am a man, and the world lies…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

A

Athena Lorde

E

Edgar Stehli

E

Ernest Chappell

H

Helen Choate

J

Joyce Gordon

Network›

A

ABC net

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Quiet, Please, Episode 93

A Time to Be Born, and a Time to Die

Sunday, March 27, 1949 · 27:28

Quiet, Please, Episode 93

A Time to Be Born, and a Time to Die

Sunday, March 27, 1949 · 27:28

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