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Episode 6 c.1948. Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holliday takes a blackjack on the head and finds himself on the high seas to adventure. Box 13 was a syndicated radio series from Ladd's company Mayfair Productions and sold to radio stations. The series also was heard on Mutual Radio Network. To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holliday ran a classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper where he formerly worked: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything: write Box 13, Star-Times." The stories followed Holliday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him by various victims. NOTE: Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps.
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Episode 6 c.1948. Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holliday takes a blackjack on the head and finds himself on the high seas to adventure. Box 13 was a syndicated radio series from Ladd's company Mayfair Productions and sold to radio stations. The series also was heard on Mutual Radio Network. To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holliday ran a classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper where he formerly worked: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything: write Box 13, Star-Times." The stories followed Holliday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him by various victims. NOTE: Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps.

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