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The Marx Brothers and the Beeb: Fans of the Marx Brothers lined up in the rain Tuesday to pack a London studio for the first public performance in almost 60 years of radio scripts written by the American comedy team. The scripts for “Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel,” a series about an unscrupulous lawyer, were believed lost until they were discovered a year ago by a researcher in the Library of Congress in Washington. The British Broadcasting Corp. bought exclusive performance rights.

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