Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #268
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Date: 11/23/2008 10:16 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 268
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      In the midst of [removed]               [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      11-22 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Moon Over Africa & etc.           [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
      Paging Miss Pinkerton                 [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      This week in radio history 23-29 Nov  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Save now on Dunning's book            [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      One Man's Family                      [ "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@sbcglob ]
      Canonization to the left of [removed]     [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      11-23 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:52:06 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  In the midst of [removed]

     From: Jordan Young _jordanyoung50@[removed]_

>     (mailto:jordanyoung50@[removed])
>     Regret  to report I just received a call that Irving Brecher has left
>     us at  94

    A life well-lived, approaching the century mark, is an occasion for
    celebration rather than regret.

    Rest, Irving; peace, friends & family.
    -Craig W.

    Dell.  Shop Deals

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:53:15 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-22 births/deaths

    November 22nd births

    11-22-1875 - Elizabeth Patterson - Savannah, TN - d. 1-31-1966
    actor: Maid "Halls of Ivy"
    11-22-1882 - Clarence K. Bawden - d. 10-xx-1972
    organist: WOO Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    11-22-1887 - Charles E. Mack - White Cloud, KS - d. 1-11-1934
    comedian, actor: (Two Black Crows) "The Eveready Hour"
    11-22-1895 - Alexander Laszlo - Budapest, Hungary - d. 11-17-1970
    orchestra leader: "This Is Your Life"
    11-22-1897 - Madge Tucker - d- 3-5-1996
    actor: Lady Next Door "Coast to Coast on a Bus"
    11-22-1899 - Hoagy Carmichael - Bloomington, IN - d. 12-27-1981
    singer, composer: "Hoagy Carmichael Show"; "King's Men"
    11-22-1900 - Alan Cameron - Anderson, IN - d. 3-28-1972
    writer: "Suspense"
    11-22-1904 - Roland Winters - Boston, MA - d. 10-22-1989
    actor: Russell Bartlett "My Best Girls"; "Milton Berle Show";
    "Highways in Melody"
    11-22-1906 - Howard Petrie - Beverly, MA - d. 3-24-1968
    announcer: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Judy Canova Show"
    11-22-1906 - Trezzvant W. Anderson - Charlotte, NC - d. 3-25-1963
    newscaster: "Pittsburgh Courier News"
    11-22-1906 - Wallace Beavers - d. 8-xx-1985
    newscaster: WCOL Columbus, Ohio
    11-22-1910 - Ethel Smith - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 5-10-1996
    organist: "Your Hit Parade"
    11-22-1910 - John Carter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-22-1988
    singer: "Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Voice of Firestone"
    11-22-1911 - Ernie Caceres - Rockport, TX - d. 1-10-1971
    clarinet, saxophone: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    11-22-1911 - Frank Graham - Detroit MI - d. 9-2-1950
    actor: Diogenes Smith "Lum and Abner"; Jeff Regan "The Lion's Eye"
    11-22-1913 - Alfred J. Colaiaco - Rome, Italy - d. 7-20-2006
    staff arranger WOR: "Mutual Melody Hour"
    11-22-1913 - Benjamin Britten - Lowestoft, Suffolk, England - d.
    12-4-1976
    composer: "Columbia Workshop"; "An American in England"
    11-22-1919 - H. Leslie Atlass, Jr. - d. 7-10-2003
    involved in Chicago radio
    11-22-1919 - Steve Alex - d. 10-22-1998
    newscaster: KSIL Silver City, New Mexico
    11-22-1921 - Rodney Dangerfield - Babylon, Long Island, NY - d.
    10-5-2004
    comedian: "Voices of Vista"
    11-22-1922 - Lynn(e) Roberts - El Paso, TX - d. 4-1-1978
    vocalist: "Dorsey Brothers Orchestra"; "Benny Goodman Orchestra"
    11-22-1923 - Guy Doleman - Hamilton, New Zealand - d. 1-30-1996
    charactor actor, announcer: New Zealand radio
    11-22-1924 - Geraldine Page - Kirksville, MO - d. 6-13-1987
    actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"
    11-22-1932 - Robert Vaughn - NYC
    actor: (Son of Walter Vaughn) "Monitor"
    11-22-1935 - Hugh C. Rae - Glasgow, Scotland
    writer: "The Freezer"
    11-22-1944 - Tony Nicholls - Chigwell, England
    writer: "They Came to Join Us"
    11-22-1946 - Roger Baron - Chicago, IL
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    November 22nd deaths

    01-04-1905 - Sterling Holloway - Cedartown, GA - d. 11-22-1992
    actor: "Railroad Hour"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    02-28-1911 - Gene O'Donnell - Iowa - d. 11-22-1993
    actor: " I Want A Divorce"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-03-1895 - Zez Confrey - Peru, IL - d. 11-22-1971
    pianist, composer: "The Hour Of St. Francis"
    05-02-1895 - Lorenz Hart - NYC - d. 11-22-1943
    lyricist: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour";
    "Railroad Hour"
    05-13-1842 - Arthur Sullivan - London, England - d. 11-22-1900
    composer: (Gilbert and Sullivan) Several of his works were adapted for
    radio
    05-29-1917 - John F. Kennedy - Brookline, MA - d. 11-22-1963
    [removed] president: "Kennedy-Nixon Debates"; "American Forum of the Air"
    07-26-1894 - Aldous Huxley - Godalming, Surrey, England - d. 11-22-1963
    writer: "CBS Radio Workshop"
    08-01-1898 - Caesar Petrillo - Chicago, IL - d. 11-22-1963
    orchestra leader: (Brother of James C. Petrillo) "First Nighter"
    08-05-1914 - Parley Baer - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 11-22-2002
    actor: Chester Wesley Proudfoot "Gunsmoke"; Doc Clemmens "Rogers of
    the Gazette"
    08-17-1893 - Mae West - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-22-1980
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show" (Famous Adam and Eve Skit)
    09-21-1913 - Janet Ertel - Sheboygan, WI - d. 11-22-1988
    singer: (The Chordettes) "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    11-26-1917 - Adele Jergens - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-22-2002
    actor: Carol Curtis "Stand By For Crime"
    11-29-1898 - [removed] Lewis - Belfast, Northern Ireland - d. 11-22-1963
    author, lecturer: "Right and Wrong"; "Christian Behavior"
    12-02-1900 - Joe Rosenfield - Tennessee - d. 11-22-1987
    talkshow host: "Happiness Exchange"
    12-20-1912 - Ken Lane - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-22-1996
    singer: (Ken Lane Singers) "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Carnation Contented
    Hour"
    12-31-1897 - Paula Hemminghous - Columbus, OH - d. 11-22-1997
    singer: "Philco Hour"; "National Radio Pulpit"; "Highlights of the
    Bible"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:53:34 -0500
    From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Moon Over Africa & etc.

    On 11/20/2008 Harry Machin, Jr. wrote:

>     I would really appreciate it if you could tell me where I can
>     get:  Jungle Jim, Moon Over Africa, and Flash Gordon.

>     Also, a question.  I listened to Moon Over Africa a couple of years
>     ago, maybe more, and my recollection is that this program was
>     something done recently, meaning not an OTR show.  Is my memory
>     correct about that?

    All of those programs as well as "Speed Gibson" are available at -

    [removed]

    Some collections are incomplete, some are kept in multiple directories.

    The original "Moon Over Africa" is OTR from the 1930's.

    Programs with titles beginning with "The" are usually listed under
    the "T" directory such as "The Adventures of Superman".

    Don

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    Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:07:59 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Paging Miss Pinkerton

    Although clearing up confusion on radio's lady detectives was one of
    my primary reasons for writing "Private Eyelashes," it seems the
    identity of NBC's "MIss Pinkerton" still eludes Kenneth Clarke, who
    wonders if her name was Hilda Adams or Mary Vance. Randy Riddle was
    kind enough to point out to him that radio's "MIss Pinkerton" was
    Mary Vance.

    Let's review the [removed] my book makes imminently clear, there
    were three Miss Pinkerton's: one in the novels and short stories of
    Mary Roberts Rinehart, a second one in a movie, and the third on
    radio. Joan Blondell portrayed Pinkerton in the latter two.

    Rinehart's character, Hilda Adams, appeared in two novels and two
    short stories, beginning in 1914. She was a nurse (like Rinehart), a
    spinster, and a part-time undercover operative for a detective
    agency. In 1932 the occasional nickname of Adams became the title of
    her mystery-adventure, "MIss Pinkerton."  Warner Brothers bought the
    rights to this novel and cast Blondell in the lead of the film titled
    "MIss Pinkerton," released in 1932.

    In the summer of 1941, Blondell and then-husband, Dick Powell, were
    formulating a new series for themselves and their writers settled on
    a lady detective, Mary Vance, who inherits her uncle's detective firm
    and thus is drawn into the business. Did Blondell, recalling her
    movie of nine years prior, suggest the title of the radio show?
    Probably, but I can't prove it. Of course Vance bore no resemblance
    to Adams; she was a law student not a nurse, she was young and sexy
    not an elderly spinster, and she owned her own detective agency.

    As my fellow OTR historians, including Jim Cox and Martin Grams, Jr.,
    know well, one can never discover every factual item about any given
    radio series so new data continues to surface. Since my book was
    published in 2004, additional research has reflected that NBC might
    not have ever aired this series. While I suspected it was a summer
    replacement for another series, Jay Hickerson's recent research seems
    to indicate the sole audio copy we have was just the audition and the
    series was never actually launched.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:08:24 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 23-29 November

     From Those Were The Days --

    11/23

    1929 - Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth
    was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we remember
    when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on Duffy's Tavern.

    1958 - One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual
    in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel
    was broadcast on CBS and starred John Dehner as Paladin.

    11/24

    1937 - Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was
    beamed coast to coast on NBC. The special guests during this broadcast
    were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.

    11/24

    1920 - The first play-by-play coverage of a football game was broadcast
    by WTAW in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of
    Texas A&M, 7-3.

    1944 - CBS presented The FBI in Peace and War for the first time. It
    became one of the longest-running crime shows on radio -- lasting 14 years.

    1945 - A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, [removed] Pinafore, was
    broadcast on The Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn
    Pinafore. Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great
    Leo 'The Lip' Durocher.

    1960 - Radio actors were put out of work when CBS axed five serials
    (soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The Second Mrs.
    Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering Streets (after
    8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma Perkins (after 27
    wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs,
    there were as many as 45 on the air each day!

    11/26

    1945 - The program, Bride and Groom, debuted on the NBC Blue network. It
    is estimated that 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the
    program before it left the airwaves in 1950.

    11/27

    1930 - Broadcasting from "...the little theatre off Times Square,"
    according to the shows introduction, The First Nighter was first heard.
    The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from
    Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.

    11/28

    1932 - Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.

    11/29

    1950 - "I Fly Anything", starring singer Dick Haymes in the role of
    cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC. With a title like that, is
    it any wonder the show only lasted one season? Haymes went back to
    singing and did very well, thank you.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:08:48 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Save now on Dunning's book

    This has been mentioned before on the Digest, but the enormity of
    this OTR bargain bears repeating.

    John Dunning's great book, ON THE AIR, is a large 840 page
    encyclopedia and if you only have one OTR reference book, this has to
    be it! When it came out in 1998, Oxford University Press charged $ 75
    and I gratefully bought my first copy. Years later they reduced it to
    $ 60, and two years later to $ 50 at which time I bought my second
    copy. (The first had developed a cracked binding from overuse.)

    For this holiday season, Oxford has slashed the price to $ [removed],
    making it the greatest bargain in OTR history. (And shipping and
    handling is only $ [removed]) This may be a close-out sale, so don't miss
    it.  You can get it on-line at <[removed]> or call
    them at toll-free 800-451-7556.

    DISCLAIMER:  John consulted me for his entries on Bobby Benson, Candy
    Matson (and other lady detectives) and some of the RCMP heroes of the
    airwaves. He also thanked me, as well as dozens of other OTR
    researchers, in his "Credits" section.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:09:25 -0500
    From: "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  One Man's Family

    I've been listening to "One Man's Family," which is a departure for me as I
    don't usually go for this type of show. I've now heard about 20 episodes and
    find them rather interesting/amusing but I have a couple of questions I hope
    someone here can answer.

    What are these books and chapters they keep talking about? The 1947 show I
    last heard claimed to be "Book 65, Chapter 3." Book 65? What's that all
    about? According to Dunning, the show first aired in 1932. How was this show
    broken down into books and chapters?

    Another thing: Dunning says the theme song was "Destiny Waltz" from 1932-41,
    then changed to "Waltz Patrice" for the rest of the run. I have a record
    album called "Radio's Famous Theme Songs" and on that record, One Man's
    Family theme is listed as "Journey Into Melody," a very dramatic orchestral
    piece, very different from the organ thing I hear on the show. What's with
    that?

    One more thing: One of the things I find amusing about the show is the
    formal language these supposedly ordinary people used. Did anyone even back
    in the 1930s refer to the head of the family as "Father Nelson" or "Father
    Jones" as the characters here refer to "Father Barbour"? And did anyone ever
    address their family as "family" as Betty does in one of the shows I heard
    the other day: "Oh, family, wait till you hear what happened!" Did listeners
    really accept this kind of dialog?

    Any insight into any of this will be appreciated.

    Mike Leannah
    Sheboygan, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:10:06 -0500
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Canonization to the left of [removed]
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

    I read with interest Bill Abbott's posting about how "Family Theatre's" Father
    Patrick Payton;

>     has entered the Roman Catholic Church's investigative
>     stage for possible elevation to Sainthood this morning. in the
>     Archdiocese Of Baltimore.  It is a long slow process, but still, it has
>     got to be an OTR first.

    As a laspsed Roman Catholic, I checked a patron saints website and found that
    the Archangel Gabriel was the patron saint of radio. In a way, this makes
    sense being that Gabriel was, after all, a messenger; however, Gabriel -
    unless you count his namesake Heatter -- never sat behind a radio microphone.
    I do sincerely hope that if Father Peyton makes it to the Calendar of Saints
    that the [removed] Church might consider him to be a modern-day patron saint of
    radio.

    Yours in the wonders of ionospheric ether,

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:10:14 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-23 births/deaths

    November 23rd births

    11-23-1887 - Boris Karloff - London, England - d. 2-2-1969
    actor, host: "Starring Boris Karloff"; "Creeps by Night"
    11-23-1888 - Al Bernard - New Orleans, LA - d. 3-6-1949
    singer: "Dutch Masters Minstrels"; "Molle Merry Minstrels"
    11-23-1888 - Harpo Marx - NYC - d. 9-28-1964
    comedian: (First Marx Brother to speak on radio) Occasional guest spots
    11-23-1888 - Nana Bryant - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-24-1955
    actor: Miss Tilsey "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
    11-23-1894 - Andrew Schoeppel - Chaflin, KS - d. 1-21-1962
    governor kansas: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    11-23-1894 - Ken Christy - Pennsylvania - d. 7-23-1962
    actor: Police Chief Gates "Great Gildersleeve"
    11-23-1894 - Rosetta Duncan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-4-1959
    singer: (Topsy and Eva) "Wireless Vaudeville"
    11-23-1896 - Ruth Etting - David City, NE - d. 9-24-1978
    singer: "Music That Satisfies"; "Oldsmobile Show"; "Kellogg College
    Prom"
    11-23-1900 - Julian Atkins - Oklahoma - d. 7-30-1984
    guitar: "The Radio Cowboys"
    11-23-1903 - Victor Jory - Dawson City, AK - d. 2-11-1982
    actor: "Matinee Theatre"; "Crisis in War Town"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    11-23-1908 - Nelson Bond - Scranton, PA - d. 11-4-2006
    writer: "Hot Copy"; "Suspense"; "Dr. Christian"
    11-23-1911 - Edward Breuder - Hoboken, NJ - d. 10-15-1989
    director of CBS radio network music division
    11-23-1912 - George O'Hanlon - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-11-1989
    actor: Husband "George O'Hanlon Show; Me and Janie"
    11-23-1912 - Tyree Glenn - Corsicana, TX - d. 5-18-1974
    trombonist, vibraphonist: "Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concert"
    11-23-1913 - Maurice Zolotow - NYC - d. 3-14-1991
    writer: "Information Please"
    11-23-1915 - Ellen Drew - Kansas City, MO - d. 12-6-2003
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
    11-23-1915 - John Dehner - Staten Island, NY - d. 2-4-1992
    actor: Paladin "Have Gun, Will Travel"; [removed] Kendall "Frontier
    Gentleman"; "Gunsmoke"
    11-23-1915 - Natalie Park Masters - San Francisco, CA - d. 2-9-1986
    actor: Candy Matson "Candy Matson
    11-23-1916 - Julie Stevens - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-26-1984
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"; Kitty Foyle "Kitty Foyle"
    11-23-1917 - John Newland - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-10-2000
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
    11-23-1919 - Andrew Ackers - d. 10-20-1978
    orchestra leader: "The National Guard Show"
    11-23-1922 - Maze Jackson - North Carolina - d. 5-16-1996
    evangelist: "The Truck Drivers Special"
    11-23-1923 - Malcolm "Mel" Arter - d. 10-16-1998
    disk jockey: WKOK Sunbury, Pennsylvania
    11-23-1929 - Sybil Jason - Capetown, South Africa
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    11-23-1930 - Bob Easton - Milwaukee, WI
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    11-23-1949 - Tom Joyner - Tuskagee, Alabama
    host: "The Tom Joyner Morning Show"
    11-23-1962 - Andrew Bovell - Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
    writer: "After Dinner"

    November 23rd deaths

    02-08-1925 - Francis Webb - Adelaide, Australia - d. 11-23-1973
    writer: "Birthday"
    02-19-1911 - Merle Oberon - Tasmania, Australia - d. 11-23-1979
    actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Stars Over Hollywood"
    02-22-1910 - Gene Hamilton - Toledo, OH - d. 11-23-2000
    announcer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin
    Street"
    02-23-1918 - Linwood McCarthy - Norfolk, VA - d. 11-23-2002
    actor: "Son of Erin"
    03-05-1925 - Lucy Gilman - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-2006
    actor: "(Sister of Toni Gilman) "I Love A Mystery"; Welcome Valley"
    03-15-1887 - Billy Jones - NYC - d. 11-23-1940
    singer: (The Happiness Boys)
    05-03-1919 - Betty Comden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-23-2006
    writer, actor: "Revuers"
    05-15-1910 - Constance Cummings - Seattle, WA - d. 11-23-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-05-1920 - Cornelius Ryan - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-23-1974
    d-dat war correspondent, novelist: "Hearing Highlights"
    06-10-1889 - Sessue Hayakawa - Chiba, Japan - d. 11-23-1973
    actor: Freelance NHK Tokyo, Japan
    06-21-1932 - O. C. Smith - Mansfield, LA - d. 11-23-2001
    singer: "Voices of Vista"
    07-05-1928 - Beverly Tyler - Scranton, PA - d. 11-23-2005
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-23-1915 - Frances Chaney - Odessa, Ukraine - d. 11-23-2004
    actor: (One of Hollywood Ten) Marion Kirby "Advs. of Topper"; Burma
    "Terry and the Pirates"
    07-26-1924 - Ann Howard Bailey - Memphis, TN - d. 11-23-2006
    writer: "Suspense"
    08-19-1916 - Marie Wilson - Anaheim, CA - d. 11-23-1972
    actor: Irma Peterson "My Friend Irma"
    08-24-1933 - Bobby Ellis - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-1973
    actor: Henry Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Chester A. Riley, Jr. "Life of
    Riley"
    09-13-1916 - Roald Dahl - Llandaff, Wales - d. 11-23-1990
    writer: "Escape"
    09-15-1903 - Roy Acuff - Maynardsville, TN - d. 11-23-1992
    singer: (The King of Country Music) "Grand Ole Opry"
    09-19-1922 - Willie Pep - Middletown, CT - d. 11-23-2006
    boxer: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
    10-01-1911 - Irwin Kostal - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-1994
    staff arranger for nbc: "Design for Listening"
    10-07-1905 - Jean Ellyn - NYC - d. 11-23-1989
    actor: Margie 'Cookie' Cook "Valiant Lady"; Dr. Watson "Strange Dr.
    Karnac"
    10-18-1919 - Anita O'Day - Kansas City, MO - d. 11-23-2006
    jazz singer: "One Night Stand"; "Command Performance"
    11-03-1909 - Bennie Anthony Azzara - Newark, NJ - d. 11-23-2001
    pianist: played for Jackie Gleason
    12-03-1923 - Frank Guarrera - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-23-2007
    operatic baritone: "Metropolitan Opera Audition of the Air"
    12-17-1910 - Spade Cooley - Oklahoma Territory - d. 11-23-1969
    western singer: (Rider's of the Purple Sage) "Spade Cooley Show"

    Ron

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