Johnny Dollar (Bob Bailey)

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1,032 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 10 Jul

Johnny Dollar (Bob Bailey)’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And even thinking like that is usually for life insurance.

Yes, usually.

You'll find the policy issued by Easton paid off in June of 50... Yeah, it's a chance, Johnny, but let's try it.

And then, suddenly, it all began to look too easy.

In June 1956, the total number of $50,000 benefits paid came out to just exactly one.

On the life of Henry Davidson Pollock, a once-famous sculptor.

Beneficiary, his wife, Sarah Norton Pollock.

And it gave her address in New York City.

So Pollock didn't really die at all, but she collected his insurance.

Now, conscience-tricken, she is paying it back.

That's what it looks like, but it's still fraud, so go to it, Johnny, right?

Expense account item two, eight dollars and a quarter, train to New York in a cab to the apartment house at 614 East 49th Street.

Training to find Mrs. Pollack's name in the mailboxes, I got hold of the building's superintendent.

Mrs. Pollack?

Sure.

Mrs. Pollack lived here for years.

Well, uh, where is she now, do you know?

You trying to be funny?

What do you mean?

I mean she died last fall.

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