But they owed much of their fame to radio, and a routine called "Who's On First?"

VOA: special.2009.03.09

COSTELLO: "You gonna be the coach,too?" ABBOTT: "Yes." COSTELLO: "And you don't know the fellows' names?" ABBOTT: " Well,I should." COSTELLO: "Well,then, who's on first?"

VOA: special.2009.03.09

ABBOTT: "Who is on first!" COSTELLO: "I'm asking you who's on first."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

ABBOTT: "Yes." COSTELLO: "I mean the fellow's name." ABBOTT: "Who." COSTELLO: "The guy on first." ABBOTT: "Who." COSTELLO: "The first baseman." ABBOTT: "Who." COSTELLO: "The first baseman." ABBOTT: "Who."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

He always puts his right ski boot on first, he touches his helmet and goggles two dozen times before leaving the start house.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

On first impression, Bolt may seem to be a show-off.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Her mouth is set firmly. On December first, nineteen fifty-five, Rosa Parks took a seat on a city bus in Montgomery,Alabama.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Disease-control experts from the United States confirmed the first cases of cholera in Haiti on October twenty-first in the Artibonite area.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

The Griffin was the one of the first sailing vessel on the Great Lakes and also among the first shipwrecks.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

On March thirty-first, President Johnson spoke to Americans about the war in Vietnam and his efforts to limit it.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

He had been on the first exploratory trip to the mountain that had mapped the way up from the southern side.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Seventy-one bird species have disappeared forever since people first arrived on the Hawaiian Islands one thousand seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Jordan was the first stop on a Middle East trip in which he also visited Israel and the Palestinian territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Hillary said his first reaction on reaching the summit was a happy feeling that he had "no more steps to cut."

VOA: special.2010.06.30