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The Care Worn Cuff

New Adventures of Nero Wolfe · October 27, 1950 · 29 min · 4,281 words

The transcript of “The Care Worn Cuff”, an episode of New Adventures of Nero Wolfe first broadcast October 27, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). New Adventures of Nero Wolfe plays New Adventures of Nero Wolfe free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Stay tuned for Nero Wolf. Saturday Night Chimes on NBC mean a full hour of fun with Dennis Day and Judy Canova. Dennis always appears perplexed and bewildered, but one thing that doesn't perplex him is how to make a popular ballad come to life in his thrilling tenor voice.

And there's music also on the Judy Canova show, plus comedy in the mischievous Canova manner. That's Judy Canova and Dennis Day, tomorrow night over most NBC stations. My boss is the smartest and the stubbornest, the fattest and the laziest, the cleverest and the craziest, the most extravagant detective in the world, Nero Wolf.

It's the transcribed adventure of the Case of the Care-Worn Cup, with that brilliant eccentric private detective Orchid fancier and gargantuan gourmet, Nero Wolf, starring Sidney Greenstreet. place is Nero Wolf's office. At the moment, the world's greatest motionless detective is sitting in the chair which was built especially to support his 300 pounds. His eyes are closed

and he's making sounds through his nose. Aji! Aji! Aji! Aji! As Mr. Wolf, what is it? The phone of you, please, Mr. Goodwin. But it's on your desk, only eight and three-quarter inches from your left elbow.

All you have to do is lean forward. Found it, Archie. What do you think I am an athlete? Hello? No. Wrong number, mister. I'm sorry, mister. Wolf, if that old phone awakened you? Wrong number, and I was not asleep.

I was merely concentrating. On what? We're out of work. There's nothing to concentrate on. Me of escape your edent attention, Archie. There are other subjects for thought, besides murder. Mm. Sure, blondes. And blondes. You're right at that, Brunette.

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