Here is a little addition to our Yesteryear Listening Guide. We've looked at all our radio shows, and have grouped them into the day of the year they were broadcast. As a little bit fun we've also added some small snippets. See what was on the airwaves on your birthday, or other memorable dates in your year. Happy Listening!
On This Day:
1st talking Mickey Mouse 'The Karnival Kid' released (1929) BORN: Carolus Linnaeus botanist (1707) DIED: Heinrich Himmler Nazi (1945)
Quote:
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Fact:
The length of a day on Jupiter is only 9 hours, 50 minutes.
Word:
penetralia (noun) 1: Innermost parts of a building especially the sanctuary of a temple 2: The most private or secret parts; recesses
Fortune Cookie:
Enjoy life! It is better to be happy than wise
Poem:
Chilling autumn rain... / The moon, too bright for showers, / Slips from their fingers / (Haiku by Tokuku)
Joke:
Why do men want to marry virgins? They can't stand criticism.
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A gang of conmen are selling machines that can create $1 bills from plain paper. It's a neat scam, but it leads to murder! How did the traveling monogram illusion work?
Rabb is a dishonest lawyer who tries to cheat John Asper out of his ranch. Lawyer Rabb is found shot four days later, it looks as if one of Asper's son's did the shooting.
Commander Corry and Cadet Happy, in their space battlecruiser Terra V, are headed toward Jupiter where Buzz is to hold a conference with the Governor of that giant planet, but they've just received a message concerning a wanted bandit ship reported in the area, ...
Diamonds are being smuggled into the country, hidden inside a series of dolls. A woman in desperate need of money comes to have one of the dolls, but wants more!
A curse goes with the Wendover name ... wherever it goes!
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