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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 366
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Two Great Friends Of FOTR ( I Know I  [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
      Don MacLaughlin                       [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
      Benny birthplace                      [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
      Dick Cavett NYT Column                [ seandd@[removed] ]
      The Affairs of Peter Salem revisited  [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      12-31 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: Battle of the Mythical Junk Food  [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]

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    Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:07:14 -0500
    From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
    To: Time Radio Digest Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Two Great Friends Of FOTR ( I Know It Is
     Redundant)

    Ditto to Charlie's remarks about how wonderful Arthur
    Anderson and his wife are.  (I regret that I forgot
    her name, but I never called her by her first name,
    anyway.)  I had first met Arthur at SPERDVAC a few
    years back and had a great conversation with him and
    others at the coffee shop.  He is so forthcoming on
    any information that he can share.  I have been to
    FOTR only twice (2005 and 2007), and both times not
    only did Arthur remember me, but he and his wife are
    just so friendly and so willing to participate in
    activities which make for better conventions.  We are
    so fortunate in this hobby to still have both of them,
    and I hope, for many years to come.

    Stuart

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Alice. --cfs3]

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    Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:36:19 -0500
    From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
    To: Time Radio Digest Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Don MacLaughlin

    Perhaps someone who is versed on early TV and late OTR
    can help me in this dilemma:  I just read that the
    last year of "Road Of Life" was 1959, and I know that
    "As the World Turns" debuted on TV in 1956. Was Don
    MacLaughlin on radio during the first three years of
    "As the World Turns", while he was doing TV?  During
    that "overlap" period, was it common practice for
    radio actors---I don't mean stars, like Milty and
    Benny---to cross over and do some TV?

    Thanks! I know I can always get answers here on the
    Digest.  Happy New Year to all of you!

    Stuart

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    Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:45:22 -0500
    From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Benny birthplace

    Ron Sayles sez:

>     Why do so many references say that Jack Benny was born in Waukegan
>     when he was actually born in Chicago? I just watched a Jack Benny
>     special on PBS and ever Tom Smothers said he was born in Waukegan.
>     NOT SO! He was born in Chicago.

    True, and at Mercy Hospital in Chicago to be specific.  I've heard a few
    theories on why this was so.  One is that Jack's mother supposedly felt it
    was "an honor to be born in a big city" (understandable since the family
    came from the shetls of Lithuania).  Another is that Naomi (aka Emma, Jack's
    mother) wanted to be nearer to her family.  Another is that the more
    advanced medical treatment of a big city hospital assured a higher chance of
    survival for both mother and baby.  In any event, Chicago air provided
    Jack's first breaths (which may or may not have been a good [removed]
    Upton Sinclair).

    But the family did live in Waukegan at the time, and certainly Waukegan air
    provided Jack's breaths very soon thereafter, likely even for Jack's
    circumcision 8 days later which I'd wager Mayer would have wanted done in
    his newly co-founded synagogue of Am Echod (although that's pure theory on
    my part).  I doubt that Jack absorbed a whole lot of culture during his
    Chicago birth, but his Waukegan raising certainly made an impact.  So
    Chicago becomes a footnote.

    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
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    Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:09:43 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Dick Cavett NYT Column
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    Dick Cavett mentions both Jack Benny and Fred Foy in this New York Times
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    ders-like-yall/?ref=opinion

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    Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:56:31 -0500
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Affairs of Peter Salem revisited

    Back in early November, the intrepid researcher and editor of the Metro
    Washington Old Time Radio Club, Jack French, reported that a fifteen
    minute episode of the Affairs of Peter Salem, a radio detective series
    starring Santos Ortega from 1949 through 1953 was unearthed. Discovered
    by radio producer and host of a classic radio show at WRVO-FM in upstate
    New York, Mark Lavonier, the recording was a first half of an episode
    called "The Affair of the Horrible Hitch" from December 14th, 1949.

    Mark has generously shared that clip now with the old time radio
    community via my web page on The Affairs of Peter Salem at
    [removed]. Besides the original 5 minute episode
    piece which I have had posted there since 2003, this new clip is
    available for download in mp3 format. Mark also contributed information
    on how he came across the clip.

    This is one of the rare detective series that until 2003 had never been
    heard since its original broadcast and now a total of 20 minutes have
    been unearthed over the last few years.

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:56:42 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-31 births/deaths

    December 31st births

    12-31-1892 - Jason Robards, Sr. - Hillsdale, MI - d. 4-4-1963
    actor: Chandu "Chandu, the Magician"
    12-31-1894 - Vance Archer - d. 12-xx-1962
    sportscaster: KNEX McPherson, Kansas
    12-31-1897 - Orry-Kelly - Kiama, New South Wales, Australia - d.
    2-27-1964
    costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-31-1897 - Paula Hemminghous - Columbus, OH - d. 11-22-1997
    singer: "Philco Hour"; "National Radio Pulpit"; "Highlights of the
    Bible"
    12-31-1904 - Buzz Adlam - Chelmsford, England - d. 11-xx-1974
    orchestra leader: "Your Star Time"; "Guest Star"
    12-31-1904 - Nathan Milstein - Odessa, Russia - d. 12-21-1992
    violinist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Concert Hall"
    12-31-1905 - Dick Chevillat - NYC - d. 5-10-1984
    writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
    12-31-1905 - Jule Styne - London, England - d. 9-28-1994
    songwriter: "I Don't Wan to Walk Without You"; "I've Heard That Song
    Before"
    12-31-1908 - John Kirby - Baltimore, MD - d. 6-14-1952
    jazz musician: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"
    12-31-1908 - Jonah Jones - Louisville, KY - d. 4-30-2000
    jazz trumpeter: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "Army Bandstand";
    "Manhattan Melodies"
    12-31-1910 - Richard Kollmar - Ridgewood, NJ - d. 1-7-1971
    actor: John Perry "John's Other Wife"; Boston Blackie "Boston Blackie"
    12-31-1913 - Ted Meyers - d. 11-25-1996
    announcer: "People Are Funny"; "Yarns for Yanks"; "Calling All Cars"
    12-31-1914 - Pat Brady - Toledo, OH - d. 2-27-1972
    sidekick, stooge: "Roy Rogers Show"
    12-31-1917 - Evelyn Knight - Reedville, VA - d. 9-28-2007
    singer: "Philco Summer Hour"; "Ed Wynn Show"
    12-31-1921 - Rex Allen - Wilcox, AZ - d. 12-17-1999
    country/western singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"
    12-31-1930 - Odetta - Birmingham, AL
    singer: "Voices of Vista"

    December 31st deaths

    01-07-1900 - Mary Lewis - Hot Springs, AR - d. 12-31-1941
    soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    01-12-1908 - Joan Burroughs - Chicago, IL - d. 12-31-1972
    actor: (Daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs) Jane "Tarzan"
    01-23-1894 - Clara Acuff Adams - d. 12-31-1950
    soprano: KOA Denver, Colorado
    02-13-1912 - Art Rollini - d. 12-31-1993
    saxophone: (The Benny Goodman Orchestra) "Let's Dance"
    03-11-1887 - Raoul Walsh - NYC - d. 12-31-1980
    film director: "Jack Benny Program"
    03-29-1919 - Eileen Heckart - Columbus, OH - d. 12-31-2001
    actor: "Cloak and Dagger"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    04-11-1910 - Jim Britt - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-31-1980
    sports commentator: "Dateline Boston"
    05-08-1940 - Ricky Nelson - Teaneck, NJ - d. 12-31-1985
    actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
    05-12-1927 - Suzanne Dalbert - Paris, France - d. 12-31-1970
    actor: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"; "Command Performance"
    07-13-1919 - Dirk Fredericks - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-31-1976
    announcer: "Music Tent"
    07-27-1919 - David Swift - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-31-2001
    writer: "Opie Cates Show"
    08-04-1913 - Wesley Addy - Omaha, NB - d. 12-31-1996
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Great Plays"
    08-16-1927 - Neil Strawser - Rittman, OH - d. 12-31-2005
    newscaster: "CBS World News Roundup"
    08-18-1934 - Roberto Clemente - Carolina, Puerto Rico - d. 12-31-1972
    baseball great: "Tops In Sport"
    08-24-1905 - Don Douglas - Kinleyside, Scotland - d. 12-31-1945
    actor: "Good News of 1939"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Did Justice
    Triumph?"
    09-27-1921 - Carol Thurston - Forsyth, MT - d. 12-31-1969
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-14-1932 - Enrico Di Giuseppi - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-31-2005
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    10-27-1933 - Floyd Cramer - Samti, LA - d. 12-31-1997
    country pianist: "Country Music Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
    12-01-1896 - Ray Henderson - Buffalo, NY - d. 12-31-1970
    composer: "Music for Millions"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"
    xx-xx-1891 - Clarence J. Ingram - Jersey City, NJ - d. 12-31-1955
    interviewer: "Stardust"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:57:11 -0500
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Battle of the Mythical Junk [removed]

    You know,  I can remember when Les Crane had the audacity to call the
    Lucky Charms Leprechaun "A midget."

    And look what happened to Les' [removed]

    (And do you know not know of the Keebler curse on Oprah?)

    It's little person, friend, or little [removed]

    Or so's I'm told.

    ;-)

    Your Friend, Darby

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