Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel is a situation comedy radio show
starring two of the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, and written
primarily by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman. It was broadcast in the
United States on the Blue Network between November 28, 1932, and May
22, 1933. Episodes were initially broadcast live from NBC's WJZ station
in New York City, then later from Radio Pictures in Los Angeles,
California, before returning to WJZ for the final episodes. The series
depicts the misadventures of a small law firm, with Groucho as attorney
Waldorf T. Flywheel and Chico as Flywheel's assistant, Emmanuel
Ravelli. Many of the episodes' plots were drawn from the Marx Brothers'
films. The show garnered respectable ratings for its early-evening
time-slot though it did not return for a second season. The episodes
were thought not to have been recorded, as was usual at the time,
although the scripts were stored in the Library of Congress. In 1988,
25 of the 26 scripts were rediscovered and published, and a complete
recording of the final episode was later found. Adaptations of the
recovered scripts were performed before modern audiences and broadcast
in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4 in 1990.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1443:
Rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg and his forces
liberated Kruja in Middle Albania and raised the Albanian flag.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skanderbeg>
1520:
Three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan
reached the Pacific Ocean from the now-eponymous Strait of Magellan,
becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the
Pacific.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan>
1660:
At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher
Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known
as the Royal Society.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society>
1919:
Nancy Astor , the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the
British House of Commons, was elected in a by-election.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Astor%2C_Viscountess_Astor>
1979:
Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus,
killing all 257 people on board.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
astrobleme (n):
A pit-like structure created by an impacting meteoroid, asteroid or
comet
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/astrobleme>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing
to recognize — because they set so little store by them — the immense
riches accumulated by the human race on either side of the narrow
furrow on which they keep their eyes fixed; by underrating the
achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to
be accomplished.
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss>