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:
Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay (1853) BORN: Ferdinand von Zeppelin inventor (1838) DIED: Christiaan Huygens scientist (1695)
Quote:
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. (Samuel Johnson)
Fact:
Entomology is the study of insects
Word:
adit (noun) 1: Access; entrance; admission 2: An almost nearly horizontal passage leading to a mine
Fortune Cookie:
If you don't have time to live your life now, when will you?
Poem:
O shuts the marigold her leaves At the departure of the sun; So from the honeysuckle sheaves The bee goes when the day is done; (Browne)
Joke:
A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!"
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The start of the adventure at the Happyland Amusement Park. "Midway Martin" threatens Nancy Bardette when she refuses to sell him her new amusement park. The horses seem to go wild during the first big parade! The script was later condensed into a single half-hour ...
Chester Harris attended the meeting of the Derringer Society where a woman by the name of Julia Haze went in to a sort of trance and predicted that he would be killed that night at exactly 11.15.
A trombonist in an all-girl orchestra has disappeared. Two of her fellow "angels" enlist the Saint's help. X-Ray pictures provide the clue to the dead body of Frenchy La Salle.
Two cattlemen slaughter the herd of sheep owned by Gideon Seek, then burn down his house and wagon and finally shoot him. Gideon is a peaceable man who won't even identify his tormentors. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 17, 1959.
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