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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 130


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Re: Sgt. Preston's Square Inch
	 Re: Sgt. Persont's Square Inch
	 Yukon Real Estate (1" variety)
	 Sgt Preston land deed
	 One square inch
	 Mae West
	 Re: GUNSMOKE 
	 Lum and Abner
	 ADMINISTRIVIA: WWW Page Update
	 Corwin Half-hours

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 08:52:46 -0400
From: Matthew561@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Re: Sgt. Preston's Square Inch
Message-ID: <960409085245_465656261@mail06>

On 8 April 1996 Joelsiegel@[removed] said:

 > will spend a week in canada. and i will actually travel
 > into the far reaches of the yukon to seek out my exact
 > square inch of land.

Lotsa luck :-).  Working from memory here, but sometime last year the 
NARA journal did a piece on the Klondike inches.  The holding company 
that was formed for the land has been long dissolved and the "deeded" 
land, I believe, is now a golf course.  

I have sometime like 20+ of the deeds myself and a resultant loathing 
for Puffed Wheat.  I was really bummed when I learned that my "deeds" 
are now "worthless" I wouldn't be able to go up there and pan for gold.

Matthew Mark Drew
matthew561@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 08:59:56 -0400
From: Michael Carraher <carraher@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Sgt. Persont's Square Inch
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

The offer was from 1954 when the program was broadcast on Mutual -- with
Brace Beemer (the Lone Ranger ended production the prior season) in the
title role.  Sponsor was Quaker Oats.
For more information I'd contact:
Quaker's advertising department.
WXYT (formerly WXYZ) in Detroit -- talk to some old timers.
Special Recordings in Detroit (company started by Fred Flowerday who
directed many of the Trendle dramas and has an archive of recordings).

I understand the Wrather Corp sold the rights to the Lone Ranger.  Who
owns the character now?  Also who owns Sgt. Preston and The Green
Hornet?

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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 09:49:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: JSEXTON@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Yukon Real Estate (1" variety)
Message-id: <01I3BZYMM4JM8WW9KY@[removed]>

   I can well remember those wonderful deeds to a square inch of Yukon
[removed] used to have one but down through the years it has gone the way
of so many of those precious radio premiums-to oblivion.
   I sure wish I could obtain another copy,a Captain Midnight Decoder ring
circa-1950's,and a Captain Video Board game.

   Alas,I no longer own any part of the Yukon,cannot decode any messages
from Captain Midnight,and have no great games to play with my friends.
If you've retained any of those special treasures-consider yourself
lucky!!! Best,John Sexton (JSEXTON@[removed])

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:58:31 -0400
From: FabFicBks@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Sgt Preston land deed
Message-ID: <960409115830_509293704@[removed]>

Hi Everybody,
     Joe Siegel made mention of the Sgt. Preston one square inch of land
offer and that he still have his original deed, framed.  For Joe and anybody
else, I wrote a long article on this and its ramifications, (including
covering the Uncle Scrooge story that parodied the fad) which was published
in the newsletter of the Radio Collectors of America a few years ago.  The
article is titled "The Worst Radio Promotions of All Time".  This gimick
turned out to be not such a great idea for the Quaker people.
     The article is also scheduled to be reprinted in Comic Buyers Guide
sometime before I drop dead of old age, and will be a chapter in a book I am
still writing about old radio and its programs.
     If Joe, or anybody else is interested in this I will zerox copies of the
article (which is also profusely illusrated) for a couple of bucks to cover
postage & copying charges.  Contact me at:
          Bob Jennings
          Fabulous Fiction Book Store
          984 Main St.
          Worcester, MA
                                01603
     WWII had its share of isolationists and shadow sympathesizers in
Congress.  I think a majority of people knew the war had to come, there was
no avoiding it, but hoped that somehow the USA would not be drawn into it.
 When  the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor that ended any chance of letting
the rest of the world fight it's war without US involvement.
     There is a great political cartoon making the rounds now, shows the GOP
Elephant with the Demo. donkey in the background nodding his head, and the
word baloon says (aprox) "Sure, we adhore the violence, the atrocities, the
grabbing of territory, the mass murders and liquidations, but this is a
European problem, not our own.  We must rely on Europe to deal with Hitler"
 The caption at the bottom says "If the 77th Congress in 1941 handled their
problem the way the current Congress handles the Bosnian problem.  Luckily
the 77th Congress decided that doing sonthing about Hitler ad Tojo was our
problem after all.
     To "Rad B Lee", I would be very interested in learning about the
wscripts and relics (as it were) of your family's radio career.  I urge you
NOT to donate this material to the Museum of Radio Broadcasting or other
museum.  Donating such stuff to museums insures that nobody will ever have a
chance to see it again, forever.  Museums are terriffic at warehousing
material, unsorted, uncataloged, unattended, and they won;t let anybody else
examine them either, even for legitimate research purposes.
     If I sound a little bitter, it's because I am.  I've done many research
and wrting projects over the years and generally speaking museums and even
many libraries are absolutely uncooperative at providing access to their
holdings.  There is some sort of weird territorial imperative that museum
personnal establish, and they defend it not only against all "outsiders", but
even against other members of their own organization.
     If you want the work your parents did to be remembered, share it with
those in the hobby dedicated to preserving this heritage, not some damn
museum.

---Bob Jennings

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:49:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mark Kinsler <kinsler@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Cc: joelsiegel@[removed]
Subject: One square inch
Message-Id: <[removed]@bobcat>

A few years ago, The Wall Street Journal ran what seemed to be a fairly 
definitive article about the famous Quaker Oats promotion wherein a deed 
to a square inch of the Yukon came with the purchase of a box of cereal.  
I'm afraid that what I recall of the article stated that none of the 
claims were valid.

  Uncle Scrooge did indeed get a similar deed and, being Uncle Scrooge, 
mounted an expedition with Donald and the nephews to find his particular 
square inch.  Guided to the spot by directions from a harried land agent, 
they finally located Uncle Scrooge's land.  (A nephew's comment: "He 
could grow carrots--one a year!")
  The bad news: there was a gopher hole there instead of land.
  The good news: the gopher appeared, and was covered with OIL!
  The bad news: there was no way to drill for oil without encroaching on 
   the neighboring claims.
  The good news: Scrooge was able, through great effort, to buy the 
    neighboring claims.  (I seem to recall that this involved the purchase
    of a great deal of cereal, but I'm not sure.)  The excavation began.
  At this point, memory fails, but I believe that the final panels showed 
  the exhumation of the source of the oil, which turned out to be a buried 
  farm tractor.  

All in all, this was one of the finest of the Uncle Scrooge stories, and 
it complemented one of the cleverest product promotions of all time.

                                 Mark Kinsler

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 17:26:28 -0400
From: ALanset@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Mae West
Message-ID: <960409172626_187834548@mail06>

I am trying to locate a copy of a program I believe was sponsored by Chase
and Sanborn.  It involved Mae West and is sometimes referred to as the "Adam
and Eve Show"  It was aired December 12, 1937.  Any help would be most
appreciated.  Thanks. Andy Lanset (alanset@[removed])

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 21:14:36 -0400
From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: GUNSMOKE 
Message-ID: <960409211426_466167357@[removed]>

Yes, I agree, GUNSMOKE with Conrad was a great show!  Some pepople have
 called
it an "adult western" to distinguish it from  the more juvenile-oriented
shows like the
LONE RANGER.
Send a SASE for listings I currently have in VG-EX digitally re-mastered
sound.
HERITAGE RADIO
'PO 16
BOSTON, MA  02167

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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 96 11:54:00 PDT
From: "Litsey, Alan" <alitsey@[removed]>
To: rrb@[removed]
Subject: Lum and Abner
Message-Id: <316AB2BB@panther>

     I am a new subscriber to OTR, and have certainly enjoyed it. Thanks re 
the information on Corwin. I'm still trying to locate a station in the 
Birmingham, AL area that is carrying the series. If I find one, I will 
report it on OTR.     
     If anyone knows of any good sources for Lum and Abner recordings, or of 
discussion of the program in articles, or books, I would sure appreciate 
hearing from you. Thank you [removed] Stewart for sharing your wonderful log of 
the series online. 

     Alan Litsey
     E-Mail: alitsey@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 21:50:54 -0500
From: Lou Genco <lgenco@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: WWW Page Update
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Recent additions to my WWW page include:
     Frank Passage's most recent logs
     Ed Carr's February reel & cassette catalog update
     An "OTR Motifs" page in which soundbytes of even more programs
(classified by motif or program type) will be included.
     

Lou
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 01:18:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Daniel A. Gediman" <danged@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: otr@[removed]
Subject: Corwin Half-hours
Message-ID: <[removed]@iglou>

Max is right on the money in a previous post about editing within NPR
Corwin series. The new 13 part series, 13 BY CORWIN, is in glorious mono
as you suspected, and also, as you surmised, there has been some editing
done in each of the shows to allow the new celebrity introductions, which
range from 1-1:30 apiece. All the editing was done according to Mr.
Corwin's express directions and usuall was accomplished by lopping off the
original introductions and opening music. There have been very few
internal edits within the shows unless absolutely necessary, and then only
as Mr. Corwin has suggested them to be made. This was a trade off we
didn't enter into lightly. It is precisely because of the cache of these
celebrity introductions that so many stations have agreed to run these
shows. We felt it was a small price to pay to turn a few new generations
on to the magic of Norman Corwin.

If you folks would like the complete, original versions of the 13 BY
CORWIN shows as they have been No-Noised and remastered, call
1-800-411-MIND. These versions _do not_ have the celebrity introductions.

Hope this answers your questions.

************************************************
* Dan Gediman, Milestone Productions           *
* [removed] Box 4962 Louisville, KY 40204           *
* [removed] (voice) [removed] (fax)      *
* danged@[removed] (email)                      *
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