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Date: 3/3/2004 10:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2004 : Issue 78
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Decoder Ring(s)                       [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
  HORLICKS [removed] HURRAH     [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
  Re: The Phantom of Crestwood          [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
  storage of CD/MP3s and players        [ lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed]; ]
  Harry Bartell                         [ eric hardy <latriv@[removed]; ]
  3-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Have Gun - Will Travel                [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  Holmes habit                          [ kclarke5@[removed] ]
  Harry Bartell                         [ Lee Munsick <leemunsick@[removed] ]
  An old broadcaster calls it quits     [ Art Chimes <achimes@[removed]; ]
  Re: looking for certain shows         [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 01:32:14 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Decoder Ring(s)

Upon request of the editor of Eye Spy, a magazine published in the UK on
espionage and Intelligence (it subtitles itself as "The Covert World of
Espionage"), a short piece of mine is slated to go to press on 4 March.
Titled, The Legendary Decoder Ring," to covers cryptological stuff both
inside and beyond OTR.  A lot of it is from the inside.

I omitted the line from Butler and Keeny's _Secret Messages_ stating the
"Captain Midnight decoder ring" would bring $500 at auction, if in good
condition.  But I did say that the urban legend had seeped into serious
cryptological literature.

For the curious, Eye Spy is sold at some news stands and supermarket
magazine racks un the United States.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 02:27:11 -0500
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  HORLICKS [removed] HURRAH
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        I can't help but respond to the warm blanket of letters that seem to
be coming from all who have been soothed by the Horlicks brothers and their
malted milk product.
     Growing up in Toronto in the late 40s and 50s , it was something that
would appear magically on a cold winter's night thanks to my Mom.
     Then it was gone. Not even a memory.
     The world got hip and fast and cold.
     Cut to 1986 and I am in China, Guangzhou to be exact, on location with
the movie "Taipan" performing at all hours in the chill of late night
recreated
1842 Hong Kong and I have a terrible cold.
     I return to my room that night and call room service for a warm drink of
some kind.
     I don't care.
     A knock on my [removed] smiling young [removed] tray with a steaming cup.
     Moving to my bed, I take a [removed]!!!!!
     It suddenly is the past as well as the present and later to be the
future where just last night, I read all these letters attesting to the sense
memory of this product and I am transported.
     Maybe H. G. Wells was right, there is a time machine.
     Maybe Wells knew about Horlicks.
     Now it is late here in New York.
     Cold too.
      If I could only find that little brown bottle with the recognizable
label, get some milk and spoon some of that malted aroma into this cup and
into
the microwave before the blizzard roars me awake again!!!
     Ahhhhhhhhh.
            Michael C. Gwynne

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:42:02 -0500
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: The Phantom of Crestwood

I just got a movie called The Phantom of Crestwood. It is kind of neat in
that it opens up with a radio broadcast about a contest that took place on
a radio series. I guess there was a contest to write a story. Supposedly,
the film is the winner. I'll have to watch the entire film and see how it
all connects.

Please also note my new email address. fsberney@[removed] This is for
personal mail. If you want to write to me about my radio or TV shows. then
use the business address fred@[removed]

Fred
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:40:21 -0500
From: lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  storage of CD/MP3s and players
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I was courious how are collectors storing thier cd/mp3s discs?  Also has anyone tryed
storing them in 3 ring binders with sheets of 4 to 8 pockets?  I am looking into options
for storage and space savings.  
 
I would also like to know if anyone has found a "boombox" type player that will play
cassette, cds and MP3s all in one?  Any responses will be greatly appreicated!!
 
Many Thanks!!  Lynn Wagar

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:35:24 -0500
From: eric hardy <latriv@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Harry Bartell

Hi all,
I too was saddened to hear about the passing of Harry
Bartell. One of my most prized possesions is a thank
you note Harry sent me for a condolence card I sent
him after the death of his wife. I did'nt know him
personally, but he was obviosly first class. Not just
as an actor but as a person as well.
My prayers are with his family who must miss him more
than any of us can.
Do yourself a favor and listen to a Harry Bartell
radio show today.
Thanks,
Eric Hardy

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:35:32 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-4 births/deaths

March 4th births

03-04-1892 - Helen Van Tuyl - IA - d. 8-22-1964
actress: Ellen Collins "Bachelor's Children"
03-04-1896 - George Shelton - NYC - d. 2-12-1971
comedian: "Sunday Night Party"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
03-04-1907 - Edgar Barrier - NYC - d. 6-20-1964
actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
03-04-1913 - John Garfield - NYC - d. 5-21-1952
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Free Company"; "Treasury Star
Parade"
03-04-1921 - Joan Greenwood - London, England - d. 2-28-1987
actress: "Stagestruck"

March 4th deaths

04-21-1911 - Leonard Warren - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-4-1960
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Telephone Hour"
10-25-1912 - Minnie Pearl - Centerville, TN - d. 3-4-1996
comedienne: (Queen of Country Comedy) "Grand Ole Opry"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:36:55 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Have Gun - Will Travel

Matt asked:

This is a question for those who have seen Have Gun Will Travel on
TV. I have the radio series, and as a blind person, who will not be
benefiting from the video portion, I wonder if there is a lot of dialogue in
the show so I can still follow along while enjoying the voices?

It depends on the episodes.  Some make excellent audio listening such as
"Odds for Big Red," "Saturday Night" and "Campaign for Billy Banjo."  Others
require visual such as "Out at the Old Ballpark" in which a third of the
episode is just scenes of people playing baseball in the middle of main
street and "A Head of Hair" which about a third is nothing more than people
riding horses with background music playing.  The problem with the TV series
compared to the radio series - for people who are visually impaired - is
that the TV series was filmed to show attractive shootouts, extensive
location shots of mountain scenery, and nothing is ever explained verbally
in the show.  When the character of Paladin is in the desert, you see he's
in the desert so no characters made any mention verbally that he was in the
desert.  Some of his dillemmas were also visual.  In one episode that comes
to mind, Paladin is tied to the ground by stakes, with his shirt off, left
to die by the baking sun.  He escapes by whistling to the horse, which
happens to walk close enough for him to grab the reins and as the horse
pulled back, pulled out one of the stakes (thus Paladin had a free hand to
untie himself).  The whole scene featured no dialogue, just a whistle.  The
episode "In An Evil Time" featured a touching eulogy at the end of the
episode, and Richard Boone's delivery was superb.  They did a radio version
of that TV episode but the eulogy didn't come off successfully or as John
Dehner, who was radio's Paladin recalled, "it turned out they [the TV
scripts] were totally inappropriate for radio, and they were forced to write
new and original radio shows."

Martin Grams, Jr.

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:21:15 -0500
From: kclarke5@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Holmes habit

I've been wondering about this myself.  Was the fact that
Holmes occasionally used to smoke cocaine to 'enhance his
deductive reasoning skills' ever brought out in the OTR
version of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"?  I don't
recall that it was, and I'm almost certain that it wasn't
brought out in any of the movies with Basil Rathbone and
Nigel Bruce which most of us are so familiar with.

I've often wondered if Holmes referred to cocaine using a
different term which was more widely used during that era
than the one we're so used to using these days.  Is this
possible?

Kenneth Clarke
OTR Fan

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:29:34 -0500
From: Lee Munsick <leemunsick@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Harry Bartell

I read with sadness Charlie's notice of the passing of Harry Bartell.  A fine
actor and true gentleman.

The first time I met Mr. Bartell was the first year that he came to the
Friends of Old Time Radio in New Jersey, quite some years back.  Invited to a
party after dinner in one of the hotel rooms upstairs, I found myself sitting
next to a nice gentleman on my right.  Had no idea who he was.

We got talking about favorite radio and TV programs (strange for that venue,
what?), and for some reason the TV Dragnet Christmas Show came up.  I said
I'd always admired that program about the missing child figure from the
church nativity scene, and was so happy that Jack Webb and his marvelous cast
repeated it every year.  I noted that I had always especially been taken with
the man who played the priest in that church.  Such a kindly, gentle man and
clearly a fine actor.

The man to my right smiled, and quietly said, "That was me".  Looking much
more closely than before, I finally leaned around in front of him to get the
full face.  I sat back, stunned and embarrassed, probably blushing in shame.
This was not the first time I did something like this, but that didn't lessen
my chagrin.  I apologized as well as I could manage.  Mr. Bartell was most
generous, kindly telling me to think nothing of it, that it happened all the
time.

Every year that he returned, he would come up to me and greet me like we were
old friends from many years.

Since that time I learned that he had done the same role earlier on the radio
Dragnet, and of course appeared on many, many other programs, lots of which I
have in my collection.  It does help to have a face to connect with a voice,
and I shall certainly never forget his!  More importantly, I was fortunate to
connect both with a fine, decent, kindly person.

We have exchanged Emails and holiday greetings, always warm and gracious from
his end, and I can only hope equally so from me to him.

An engaging, true gentle man.  Rest in peace.

Lee Munsick

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:40:49 -0500
From: Art Chimes <achimes@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  An old broadcaster calls it quits

At age 95, Alistair Cooke, who has been explaining the United States to
Britain and the world for an astonishing 58 years, has broadcast his last
Letter from America.

This series of talks, which began in 1946 and ran for 2,869 programs, holds
the English language record, I believe, for longest-running radio
broadcast. (Meet the Press, in overlapping radio and TV versions, is a year
older.)

Letter from America has been a fixture on BBC's domestic broadcasts and on
the World Service. (I used to listen regularly when I lived overseas.)

Cooke is more familiar to most Americans as the host of public
broadcasting's Masterpiece Theater for 22 seasons, from 1971-92.

You can read and listen to some of his weekly 15-minute talks, including
his last one - on the issues in this year's presidential election campaign
- on the BBC's web site at
[removed]. It's
worth your time to check it out.

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:05:20 -0500
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: looking for certain shows

I received this email today and thought that maybe someone here could help
this person.

From: Matt Lewkowicz <matt@[removed];
Hello,
Might you know where I can find old radio clips dealing with any of the
following subject matter:

the stock market
early American finance
Wall St.
JP Morgan
John Rockefeller
Cunard cruise lines

Thanks very much,
Matt Lewkowicz
212-674-7407

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