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Jan Manning is having serious financial problems. She runs a dress shop, but sales are down and she doesn't have her dead husband's knack at purchasing, the end result being that she has too much inventory. One of her suppliers, M...
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"Jan (Nancy Olson) is a widow who runs her own dress shop. While she is very good at this in some ways, her business sense is lacking and her shop is deeply in depth and swamped in inventory. Here friend (Ralph Meeker) has a solution...burn the place to the ground and claim the insurance! Well, after not being able to get any loans and without any good options, she considers his plan. This is a pretty good but not exactly amazing episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and it strongly illustrates the idea that you should keep your mouth shut and say as little as possible when you are ..."
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Although it was referred-to as an "invention", Jan's setup using the appliance outlet on the clock-radio was nothing special in the 1950s. Many clock-radios were sold in the 1940s and 1950s with such outlets, though using one to start an automatic electric percolator was a more typical, and safer, use of the feature. These outlets disappeared from most clock radios in the 1960s, partly because the construction of such radios was getting lighter, but also because of concerns that owners might use this feature to start an appliance (like a hotplate) which should not be left unattended.
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Jan Manning is having serious financial problems. She runs a dress shop, but sales are down and she doesn't have her dead husband's knack at purchasing, the end result being that she has too much inventory. One of her suppliers, M...