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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2018 : Issue 74
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

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      Old time digester                     [ DONNA FISHER <dfisher052@[removed] ]

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        ADMINISTRIVIA:

    We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the
    communication below, expressing at the same time our great
    gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends
    of The Sun:

    Dear Editor, I am 8 years old.
    Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
    Papa says "If you see it in The Sun it's so."
    Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?
             Virginia O'Hanlon
             115 West Ninety-fifth St.

    VIRGINIA, Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected
    by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except
    they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible
    by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or
    children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere
    insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world
    about him, as measured by the intelligence of grasping the whole of
    truth and knowledge

    Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love
    and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and
    give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would
    be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as
    if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then,
    no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should
    have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with
    which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

    Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!
    You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on
    Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa
    Claus coming down what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus but
    that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things
    in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you
    ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no
    proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the
    wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

    You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside,
    but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest
    man, not even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever
    lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance,
    can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty
    and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world
    there is nothing else real and abiding.

    No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand
    years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now,
    he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

       -- Editorial page of the New York Sun, September 21, 1897

     From our entire family to yours - Annie, Katie, and yours truly; no
     matter what you are celebrating at this truly amazing time of the
     year, Happy Holidays!

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    Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:08:50 -0500
    From: DONNA FISHER <dfisher052@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Old time digester
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    I can't even remember how long I've been a member of the Digest it's been so
    long, but I've been a fan of OldTime Radio since the 1960's.

    I grew up listening to Radio when I was a kid in the late 30's & 40's. So
    much so that I eventually got into the Radio business.

    I started out as a Page at CBS in New York and eventually became a Radio
    Director at CBS. Allen Ludden gave me my first job as a Director. While their
    I had the pleasure of working with many of the fine talent there. I
    eventually went from CBS to NBC Radio. I decided to give them all a chance at
    my talents (joke) and ended my stint in New York at ABC. After 11 years in
    New York I decided to buy a small station in Vermont where I've been ever
    since. Not at the station, which I sold after 5 years. But I still remained a
    fan of OldTime Radio and amassed a collection of over 5000 shows, first on
    reel to reel, then cassettes and now digital. I don't listen as much as I
    used to, but still enjoy an occasional show and still enjoy the Digest. I do
    miss that it's not sent as often as it used to, but I guess we are starting
    to be a dying breed, just like my fellow Korean War veterans. Thanks for
    listening!

    Don Fisher

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