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Date: 1/8/2014 9:31 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2014 : Issue 2
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      WHISTLER                              [ Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed]; ]
      1943 Christmas Show                   [ Robert Everest <erest@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 5-11 Janu  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:08:41 -0500
    From: Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WHISTLER

    Can anyone help me identify the Whistler episode (by date or title)
    where a man must kill a doctor he doesn't know to get out of his
    predicament.
    He waits outside the doctor's house and when a couple emerges, he
    shoots the man. It turns out the doctor is the woman.
    Thanks, and Happy New Year to all,
    Dick Backus

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    Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:13:12 -0500
    From: Robert Everest <erest@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1943 Christmas Show

    Interesting story in the Baltimore Sun this week.  The paper produced a
    program from England back home to the mid-atlantic area for Christmas in
    1943.  Many local area flyers and ground crew member wished the folks back
    home  a season greeting along with some singing by the men.  This was
    rebroadcasted  over a local radio station, the first time since the original.
    Well one woman reported hearing her father for the first time and he greeted
    her by name.  She was only a few months old when her dad was sent oversea.  A
    nice Christmas present.

      Rob

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    Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:13:18 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 5-11 January

     From Those Were The Days

    1/5

    1935   We proudly remind you that Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra was
    featured on CBS this day on the program, The Hour of Charm.  (ed -- And
    who can ever forget Evelyn and her magic violin?)

    1940   The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first
    demonstration of FM radio. The new medium, free of interference, static,
    and noise in thunderstorms, was developed by Major [removed] Armstrong. The
    first FM transmitter was put in operation in 1941.

    1/6

    1941   A young actor appeared for the first time in a new program on CBS
    titled, The Home of the Brave. Along with others in the cast, this was
    Richard Widmark's radio debut.

    1950   Ronald Coleman starred as the president of Ivy College in The
    Halls of Ivy.

    1974   CBS radio returned to dramatic programming at night with the
    first broadcast of Radio Mystery Theatre, hosted by [removed] Marshall. The
    program debuted on 218 CBS network stations.

    1/7

    1926   A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this
    day. It's the wedding anniversary of George Burns and Gracie Allen who
    were married by a Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, Ohio.

    1940   The gate to Gene Autry's Melody Ranch opened.  "The singing
    cowboy" would entertain on CBS radio for the next 16 years, other than
    1942-45 when he was in the Army Air Corps.

    1941   The NBC Blue network presented the first installment of Inner
    Sanctum.

    1950   Ernest Tubb made his first appearance at The Grand Ole Opry in
    Nashville, TN. Ernest also did a 15 minute radio program each day that
    became very popular in West Texas. So popular, in fact, that he bought
    the radio station that had aired the program for years and years: KGKL
    in San Angelo, Texas.

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    1943   The quiz show, The Better Half, was first heard on Mutual this
    day. The program brought four married couples to compete in stunts
    involving traditional concepts of "manhood" and "womanhood".

    1/11

    1947   Amazing Mr. Malone (aka Murder and Mr. Malone) starring Frank
    Lovejoy, debuted on ABC.

    Joe

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