Lindsay McCarry presents a short collection of curious facts and anecdotes. He explains that clam chowder comes from the fishing folk of Brittany, France, and that its name derives from a cauldron. He notes that the word eternity appears only once in the Bible, in Isaiah. A brief story follows of a sixteen-year-old runaway, Eugene Roar, who is picked up on the highway by his father, Edward Roar, a truck driver, who has been driving home. The program then traces baseball's origins to earlier English games and a young man named Abner Doubleday. It also tells how kangaroo may have come from a native phrase meaning I don't understand, and closes with a melody from Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor that resembles the song Markita.

With Lindsay McCarry, Edward Roar, Eugene Roar, Jean Roar, Abner Doubleday, Alexander Cartwright, Captain James Cook.

Listen for: The story of Eugene Roar's return home, and the origin of the word kangaroo

First aired in 1950.

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